Murdaughs, murder and the birth of TV's newest true-crime sensation

The epic downfall of Alex Murdaugh, the once-mighty South Carolina attorney currently on trial for the brutal double murder of his wife and son and implicated in numerous other crimes, has prompted a slew of literary comparisons — none of which quite capture the full scope of this twisted saga. A Southern Gothic tale of greed and deceit, it has also become the country’s latest true-crime obsession. Hundreds of thousands of people tune in to daily livestreams of the trial, being held in the small town of Walterboro, S.C. The...