Books James Lasdun’s The Family Man is the Truman Capote version of the Murdaugh story. By Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Laura Miller ? May 05, 2026 5:40 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images. The saga of South Carolina’s Murdaugh family and their crimes—both actual and rumored—has provided fodder for scads of documentaries and dramatizations in the past five years, from Netflix’s  Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal  and HBO Max’s  Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty  to Hulu’s  Murdaugh: Death in the Family   miniseries   (starring Patricia Arquette and Jason Clarke) and, inevitably, a Lifetime movie (starring Bill Pullman).…