re: Investigators When they KNEW Murdaugh lied (Page 112)

I think I got interested in this convoluted case because I felt so very, very sorry for the wife and mother.

As I see it, she thought, for quite a while, that her life was going well. Her husband may have been an a-hole to live with, but they liked their life together.

Then, one day she was at a charity lunch and wrote a check. Just as she had countless times before. And a day or two later, a friend had the horrid task of calling her and telling her that the check bounced.
I don't know how much the check was for, but if the check couldn't be covered in a normal working checking account, AND if whoever was their bank officer didn't step in and work out the problem, there was something really wrong.

I expect he talked his way out of it. As I understood, it happened a second time. And 'fool me once, shame on you, foot me twice, shame on me." And she started looking and saw her world crumbling.

That misery, and then to be shot dead.