Hunter Ingram Directors Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason were never short on angles through which to investigate the crimes, casualties and collusions of the powerful Murdaugh family of South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
The most obvious one would have been to tell the story through Alex Murdaugh, a former solicitor who’s currently on trial for the 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.
Thanks to dozens of live feeds on YouTube, the ongoing courtroom drama has emerged as the trial of the year. But once they were on the ground in the Lowcountry, the directors behind Netflix’s new docuseries “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal” were told there was only one place to start –– the 2019 boat crash that had killed Mallory Beach. “I think what people don’t understand is that had there not been a boat crash years prior, and had Mallory Beach not died the way she did in this tragic accident at the hands of Paul Murdaugh, there wouldn’t have been a double homicide,” Furst tells Variety.
The Emmy-nominated directing duo have a history of covering high-profile subjects at the centers of their documentaries, including recent projects “LuLaRich” (Prime Video), “The Pharmacist” (Netflix), “Fyre Fraud” (Hulu) and “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” (Paramount Network).
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