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03941aam a2200433 i 4500 001 DCDADF06084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 230622t20242024nyuabf b 000 0ceng d 020 $a 1639365672 020 $a 9781639365678 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1384412579 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCO $d OJ4 $d GZD $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IMD $d SILO 043 $a n-us-sc 050 4 $a F277.H3 $b R93 2024 082 04 $a 975.7/970922 $2 23/eng/20240228 100 1 $a Ryan, Jason $c (Journalist), $e author. 245 10 $a Swamp kings : $b the story of the Murdaugh family of South Carolina & a century of backwoods power / $c Jason Ryan. 246 30 $a Story of the Murdaugh family of South Carolina and a century of backwoods power 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 260 $a New York : $b Pegasus Crime, $c 2024. 300 $a 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious Lowcountry clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity--by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the place. The most famous man in South Carolina lives in prison. He stands convicted of a staggering amount of wrongdoing--more than 100 crimes and counting. Once a high-flying, smooth-talking, pedigreed Southern lawyer, Alex Murdaugh is now disbarred and disgraced. For more than a decade, prosecutors asserted that Alex was secretly a fraud, a thief, a drug trafficker, and an all-around phony. On the night of June 7, 2021, they claimed, he also became a killer, shooting dead his wife and son in a desperate bid to escape accountability. The many crimes of Alex Murdaugh, exposed piecemeal over the last two years, have appalled the general public. Yet his implosion--the spectacular manner in which he has turned his vaunted family name to mud--has also proved mesmerizing. With every revelation, Alex Murdaugh has been shown to be a man without bottom, though he insists he never harmed his family. Remarkably, all of his misdeeds have precedent. In Swamp Kings, Jason Ryan reveals Alex's evil actions are only the tip of the iceberg. When it comes to the Murdaugh family of Hampton County, history has a way of repeating itself. For every alleged, headline-grabbing crime associated with Alex Murdaugh, mirror-image incidents have played out within his family's past, including parallel instances of fraud, theft, illicit trafficking of babies and booze, calamitous boat crashes, and even alleged murder. There were some crimes committed by Alex's kin that even he would not dare mimic. Covering a century of depravity in an impoverished and isolated stretch of the Deep South, Swamp Kings weaves together the jaw-dropping narratives of generations of Murdaughs before culminating in the telling of a murder trial for the ages. Page after page the family's legacy is laid bare as a spotlight is finally trained on the Murdaugh men who have long lorded over the South Carolina Lowcountry. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 30 $a Murdaugh family. 600 10 $a Murdaugh, Randolph, $c Sr., $d 1887-1940 $x Family. 600 10 $a Murdaugh, Alex $q (Richard Alexander), $d 1968- 650 0 $a Lawyers $z Hampton County $z Hampton County $v Biography. 650 0 $a Murder $z South Carolina $x History. 650 0 $a Murderers $z South Carolina $v Biography. 651 0 $a Hampton County (S.C.) $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Hampton County (S.C.) $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Hampton County (S.C.) $x History $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Hampton County (S.C.) $v Biography. 700 1 $a Thorp, Gene, $e cartographer. 941 $a 2 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010506.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012332.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DCDADF06084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search