{"podcast":{"title":"True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews","slug":"true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948","podcast_index_feed_id":568948,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5001260.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5001260","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/42359005.jpg","author":"Tony Brueski","episode_count":500,"summary":"🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast , bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries . Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases , we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates . 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts , we uncover the psychology of killers, forensic breakthroughs, police investigations, and courtroom drama —giving you the full story behind the headlines . From notorious cases to little-known crimes that deserve attention , we break down what really happened and why . If you're obsessed with true crime podcasts , criminal psychology, and investigative reporting, subscribe to True Crime Today on Apple Podcasts now! 🎧 New episodes daily.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T12:17:47.477723+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948"},"episode":{"title":"How Did Alex Murdaugh Go From 'A Loving Family Man' To Evil Incarnate?","slug":"how-did-alex-murdaugh-go-from-a-loving-family-man-to-evil-incarnate","published_at":"2026-05-16T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/how-did-alex-murdaugh-go-from-a-loving-family-man-to-evil-incarnate","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8903587","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8903587.mp3?modified=1778772786&sid=5001260&source=rss","summary":"Researchers have identified a type of family annihilator called \"anomic\" — men who see their families as symbols of their own success and destroy them when the facade collapses. James Lasdun's new book The Family Man places Alex Murdaugh alongside documented cases that mirror his almost exactly. The most disturbing constant: in every single one, the people closest to the killer described him as a loving family man. Nobody saw it coming. Nobody believed it was possible. The book profiles Jean-Claude Romand, a Frenchman who faked being a doctor for eighteen years, stole money from everyone who trusted him, and killed his wife, both children, and his parents when the lies started to fall apart. The financial fraud, the decades of deception, the moment of exposure — the parallels to the Murdaugh case are specific and documented. Co-prosecutor John Meadors went off-script during closing arguments and suggested maybe Alex \"just lost it\" — that the murders weren't calculated. The book argues both could be true. The research on psychopathy lists planning and impulsivity as traits of the same condition. The first officer at Moselle described Alex's eyes as wrong — low blink rate, staring off as if reading from a script. Hours later, Alex was sobbing in a SLED agent's car and it looked completely real. The book suggests the grief and the deception were happening simultaneously. That both were genuine. But the manipulation went back years. Morgan Doughty's first statement allegedly said someone else was driving the boat the night Mallory Beach was killed. The story changed after Alex showed up at the hospital. He sat with a sketch artist and drew a composite of his \"attacker\" after the staged shooting — it allegedly looked like a boat crash survivor. He wrote a $5,000 backdated c…","meta_description":"Researchers have identified a type of family annihilator called \"anomic\" — men who see their families as symbols of their own success and destroy them whe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2913,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/episodes/how-did-alex-murdaugh-go-from-a-loving-family-man-to-evil-incarnate/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/how-did-alex-murdaugh-go-from-a-loving-family-man-to-evil-incarnate.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}