The Murdaugh Murders, Money & Mystery | Criminally Obsessed

(Originally published January 13, 2022) *WARNING: This episode contains strong, uncensored adult language. * The family of Mallory Beach has spent years searching — first quite literally searching the Lowcountry rivers and marshes for their daughter's body after the infamous crash on Alex Murdaugh's boat. Agonizing years have passed as the Beach family continues searching for justice and accountab...

(Originally published December 16, 2021) *WARNING: This episode contains strong, uncensored adult language. * It's now past 2 a.m. on a foggy February morning in the coastal waters Paul Murdaugh's boat has just crashed into a bridge at a high rate of speed along Archers Creek, near the Marine Corps training base on Parris Island. Paul, Anthony Cook and Mallory Beach have been thrown into the...

(Originally published December 9, 2021) This is the story of what happened leading up to a fatal 2019 boat crash that claimed the life of Mallory Beach, and introduced many across South Carolina to the Murdaugh family through then 19-year-old Paul Murdaugh.  Paul was reportedly driving a group of friends around on his father's boat amid a night of underage drinking at parties and bars. The fr...

(Originally published November 24, 2021) This is the story of Gloria Satterfield. She died after a fall at the Murdaugh's family home on Groundhog Day, 2018. Since then, her family has lived an unending winter of abuse and manipulation that lawsuits and criminal indictments say were part of cold, calculated scheme by Alex Murdaugh. Authorities accuse Alex Murdaugh of stealing over $3 million...

In part two of our look into the unsolved death of Stephen Smith, we drill into the persistent rumors of the Murdaughs being somehow involved. Questions we attempt to answer this week include:  How did the Murdaugh name get brought into Stephen Smith's death investigation? How far did law enforcement go down that rumor trail after Stephen's death?  What brought investigators back to that angle of...

Stephen Smith was found dead along a rural Hampton County road in the pre-dawn hours of July 8, 2015. His death came under mysterious circumstances, and remains unsolved.  Stephen Smith's death ultimately was ruled a hit-and-run by a medical examiner, despite law enforcement saying there was no solid evidence to prove that's what actually happened.  Instead, law enforcement treated Stephen's death...

Meet Curtis "Eddie" Smith, the man police say shot Alex Murdaugh in the head along a rural stretch of Hampton County highway — but not out of malice. Eddie maintains he and Alex were longtime friends, like brothers.  Authorities say Eddie also  was (allegedly) a personal drug dealer to Alex. State investigators say Alex asked Eddie to kill him as part of an assisted suicide plot and insurance frau...

Episode 2: A look into the history of the Murdaugh family and their rise to prominence in the legal profession as adept personal injury attorneys and also the top prosecutors in South Carolina's 14th Judicial Circuit, which includes Hampton County and four other surrounding counties.    Randolph Murdaugh Sr., the Murdaugh family patriarch, founded what would become today's Peters Murdaugh Parker E...

Episode 1: Connecting the dots of mysterious deaths and alleged crimes related to the Murdaugh family.  Read more on the Murdaughs at this link: https://abcnews4.com/news/murdaugh-murders ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsolved South Carolina is a production of ABC News 4 in Charleston, South Carolina. Anne Emerson - Host, Producer Drew Tripp - Executive Producer, Social Media, Graphic Design Daniel Michene...

In June 2021, Alex Murdaugh (pron. mer-dock) called 9-1-1 to report he'd found his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, dead outside their home in rural Colleton County, South Carolina. Both Maggie and Paul had been brutally shot to death. As months have passed, what began as a criminal investigation into Maggie and Paul Murdaugh's murders has broadened into several additional criminal probes of...