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The Murdaugh family saga: a tangled web of secrets and murder
CNN
A deadly boating accident. Two unsolved murders. A botched hit job. The twists and turns keep coming in the saga of the Murdaughs, a powerful South Carolina family linked to a string of mysterious deaths.
It sounds like someone took a list of sordid elements and stuffed them all into a crime thriller so twisty it could only be fiction.
But the tortuous tale of the Murdaughs, a prominent South Carolina family with shadowy secrets, is real. And it's far from over.
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