Alex Murdaugh wrote a $5,000 personal check to a Yemassee police chief who was at the Moselle crime scene the night of the murders. According to James Lasdun's new book The Family Man, the check was backdated by months and has never been explained. That's one detail in a book full of them — patterns of manipulation that started years before anyone was killed at Moselle and that most people following this case have never heard. After Alex staged the roadside shooting on himself, he sat down with a sketch artist and helped create a composite of his supposed attacker. According to the book, the portrait looked like Anthony Cook — one of the boat crash survivors. Alex had a bullet wound in his head and was still allegedly trying to point investigators at specific people. Lasdun also uncovered that the accepted narrative of who was driving the boat the night Mallory Beach was killed may have been constructed after the fact. Morgan Doughty's first written statement — given before Alex got to anyone — allegedly said Connor Cook took over driving before the crash. That story changed the next day, after a whispered conversation between survivors at the hospital while Alex was allegedly prowling the hallways trying to get into patients' rooms and telling people what to say. The book also profiles the documented criminal psychology behind what Alex allegedly became — a type researchers call an "anomic" family annihilator, men who see their families as symbols of success and eliminate them when the empire collapses. In every documented case, the people closest to the killer described him the same way: a loving family man. Part 1 of our interview with James Lasdun, author of The Family Man. A Hidden Killers investigation. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #AlexMurdaugh #TheFamilyMan #MurdaughMurders #JamesLasdun #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MalloryBeach #MurdaughTrial #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh