South Carolina murder mystery deepens with body to be exhumed

The sprawling saga of prominent local family took an important step this week - what next for Alex Murdaugh?

It is more than a year since the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, the wife and son of Alex Murdaugh, the jailed South Carolina lawyer making headlines via a complex embezzlement case as hard to navigate as the state's low country swamp.

The story has captured the imagination of much of America as a true crime murder mystery that appears to mix violent shootings and other deaths with financial shenanigans - all served up with a hefty dose of southern Gothic drama.