# How The Murdaugh Boat Crash Story Changed After Alex Got Involved

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426)
Published: 2026-05-16T22:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8903582
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Morgan Doughty's first written statement — given before Alex Murdaugh got to anyone — allegedly said Connor Cook took over driving the boat before the crash that killed Mallory Beach. By the next day, the story had changed. According to James Lasdun's new book The Family Man, a whispered conversation between survivors at the hospital happened while Alex was prowling the hallways, allegedly trying to force his way into patients' rooms and telling people what to say. The accepted narrative of who was behind the wheel may have been constructed after the fact. That's the kind of detail The Family Man is built on — patterns of manipulation that predate the murders by years and that have never been fully reported. After the staged roadside shooting, Alex sat with a sketch artist and created a composite of his supposed attacker. According to the book, the portrait looked like Anthony Cook, a boat crash survivor. With a bullet wound in his head, Alex was still allegedly pointing investigators toward specific people. Lasdun also uncovered a $5,000 personal check Alex wrote to a Yemassee police chief who was at the Moselle crime scene the night of the murders — backdated by months, never explained. And connections between Alex and a jellyfish-processing operation near Moselle, whose lawyer was convicted decades earlier of laundering drug money through offshore accounts. The book goes further into the psychology. Researchers have identified a type of family annihilator called "anomic" — men who see their families as extensions of their own success. When the empire falls, the family becomes obsolete. The documented cases that mirror Alex's profile share one constant: the people closest to the killer always described him as a loving family man. The first officer at Moselle said Ale…

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