Valerie Bauerlein

“That’s when it dawned on the detective why it was taking so long to make a case. All along, as he’d investigated Paul’s and Maggie’s murders, he had been struggling to get the truth from Alex. Now it was clear that others had been withholding key details. The law firm had been searching for the $792,000 since early June. Only hours before Paul and Maggie were gunned down, the firm’s CFO had confronted Alex over the missing check. Weeks later, as more evidence of Alex’s financial crimes was discovered, no one from the firm had shared that with SLED, either. They hadn’t told the authorities about Alex’s opioid habit. Any of these revelations would have helped Owen immensely. Even now, Alex’s brother and the other partner were quibbling over the definition of “missing.” At last Owen realized Alex was not the only one obscuring the truth.”
― Valerie Bauerlein, The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty