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Civil Litigation

Nov. 15, 2023

Murdaugh Murder Movie: Mistake?

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By Camron Dowlatshahi Mills Sadat Dowlat LLP

Camron Dowlatshahi

Founding partner
Mills Sadat Dowlat LLP

On Oct. 14 and 15, 2023, Lifetime TV premiered "Murdaugh Murders: The Movie." The two-part series was a dramatization of the sensational true-life story of Alex Murdaugh, the scion of a well-established South Carolina legal dynasty, who was convicted of killing his wife and son and sentenced to life in prison.

That the movie played a mere seven weeks after the conviction was due as much to the imminence of a Hollywood writers' strike, as i...

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