Alex Murdaugh Wrote a Cop a $5,000 Check After the Murders — and Backdated It

Alex Murdaugh Wrote a Cop a $5,000 Check After the Murders — and Backdated It

Published: May 8, 2026

Duration: 20:41

A Yemassee police chief named Greg Alexander was at the Moselle crime scene the night Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were killed. One month later, Alex Murdaugh wrote him a personal check for $5,000 and backdated it to March. The chief said it was a loan for his parents. He never explained the backdating. He did post on his reelection Facebook page: "I'm not a cat. I don't cover up no doo-doo." That's one of dozens of findings in James Lasdun's new book The Family Man that never made it into the trial — and nobody has been able to explain.

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