‘He was gaslighting everybody’: reporter Mandy Matney on exposing Alex Murdaugh

The leading chronicler of a dynasty's collapse calls it a huge wake-up call to people who have been abusing the system'

Mandy Matney was at her home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, video-chatting with true-crime fans when a Colleton county jury found Alex Murdaugh guilty of killing his wife and son on Thursday.

I wasn't mentally prepared for this to happen today!" exclaimed the foremost chronicler of the Murdaugh dynasty's collapse.