The Alex Murdaugh murder trial has fueled a cottage industry, including a beneficial relationship between live trial coverage and feuding docuseries.
From ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ to ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,’ true crime is ubiquitous on TV. But it may not be as impactful as its cultural footprint suggests.To a casual observer, this glut of coverage might seem excessive. But Will Folks, founding editor of FITSNews, a South Carolina news and politics site that has risen to national attention through its Murdaugh scoops, sees it another way.
A few months later, Murdaugh was forced to resign from his family firm amid allegations he misused funds. A day later, he called 911 to say he’d been shot in the head in a botched roadside assassination attempt. The story quickly fell apart: Murdaugh eventually admitted he’d hired a distant cousin, Curtis “Eddie” Smith, to kill him in an attempt to secure a life insurance payout for his surviving son, Buster. He also claimed to be struggling with opioid addiction.
The trial, which began in late January, has brought a throng of journalists to the Colleton County Courthouse. The testimony has ranged from harrowing to colorfully mundane . As the prosecution’s case has stretched out for weeks, the audience for the network’s livestream on YouTube has grown, now drawing about 100,000 viewers at any given moment, many of whom share their real-time reactions in a chat sidebar.
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