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James Lasdun’s The Family Man is the Truman Capote version of the Murdaugh story.

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May 05, 2026 5:40 AM

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images.

The saga of South Carolina’s Murdaugh family and their crimes—both actual and rumored—has provided fodder for scads of documentaries and dramatizations in the past five years, from Netflix’s Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal and HBO Max’s Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty to Hulu’s Murdaugh: Death in the Family miniseries (starring Patricia Arquette and Jason Clarke) and, inevitably, a Lifetime movie (starring Bill Pullman).…