Janice Harayda
Mar 17, 2023

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Yes. He also stole money from his best friend (and others I couldn’t list in such a short story).

You often hear people say that a criminal had “a broken moral compass.” But Murdaugh seems to have had no moral compass at all. His crimes were extraordinarily cruel, systematic, and enduring (in that he perpetrated them over many years).

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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