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74 Subpoenas & $6 Million Missing In Murdaugh Money: Inside Operation Lowcountry Boil (172pt1)
12/11/2026 | 56 mins.Note: Eve Fleming and Jean Fowlkes have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Liz is on a much-deserved vacation, so it's Mandy and David — just like the early MMP days — digging into the juiciest exhibit Dick and Jim never should have filed: the unredacted Operation Lowcountry Boil subpoena log.
On Part One of True Sunlight #172, Investigative Journalist Mandy Matney explores 74 subpoenas between October 2021 and October 2022, starting the day after Alex was denied bond — and now we can finally see who investigators were looking at in the hunt for the missing Murdaugh millions: Bank accounts of PMPED's founder John E. Parker. Co-conspirator Cory Fleming. Yemassee police chief Greg Alexander. A Hampton doctor named Vega we’ve mentioned before. Murdaugh’s late business partner Barrett T. Boulware (the Lowcountry drug smuggler), and beyond….
Then: the flurry of LLCs — at least 20 — created by Murdaugh affiliates while the subpoenas flew. (Making an LLC is not a crime. The timing, though? Hmm...) Barely anyone on this list was ever charged, and more than $6 million is still missing. Watch Friday's hearing with us as Premium Members because it’s more fun that way!Let's Dive In… 🥽 🦈Share the LUNASHARK® Premium Community now on Patreon - Together we go further ☀️
Lawyers & judges: email your insights or offer your expertise to legal@lunasharkmedia.comEpisode References“Latest twists in Murdaugh murder mystery: ‘More like ‘Ozark’ every day’” - New York Post, Sept 10, 2022 📰Creating your own LLC in South Carolina . . . easy as 1, 2, 3 📁
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09/11/2026 | 35 mins.In Part Two, Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell break down Team Murdaugh's three big accusations: that Agent David Owen lied to the grand juries, that the AG's office misused the state grand jury to investigate a murder, and that the state leaked the T-shirt evidence to world-renowned journalists.
We don't think Owen lied (according to Dick Harpootlian’s understanding of “conflating facts”) — but his imprecise testimony about the shotgun loads, and his "I'm allowed to use trickery" answer on the stand, have apparently painted him into a corner.
Then we explain the high-velocity impact spatter saga, the second test that made the shirt useless, and the "leak" accusation that lands on our doorstep. Hi, it's us — nobody leaked anything; that was Journalism.
Next week: Creighton's 177-page reply analysis, and the Friday the 13th hearing we'll stream live. And what happened to the money?
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Read the actual State Grand Jury law Dick & Jim don't want you to read in full (S.C. Code Title 14, Ch. 7) ⚖️
Frazier v. Cupp — the 1969 Supreme Court case that made "I'm allowed to use trickery" true 🕵️
How bloodstain pattern analysis actually works — and why it's under scientific scrutiny (NIST) 🔬
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05/11/2026 | 1h 5 mins.While I breathe, I freaking hope: South Carolina just elected its first woman to the U.S. Senate — and Mandy’s got her spark back.
A much needed spark at that, because on the eve of Halloween, attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin filed their spookiest brief yet ahead of Alex Murdaugh’s pretrial hearing on Friday November 13th in the do-over of his double-murder trial. Now they’re straight-up claiming prosecutorial misconduct by SLED and the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office!
Team Murdaugh’s memo supporting their motion to dismiss the indictments was full of the usual soundbite-grabbing lines, indignance and accusations — but this time they went further, attaching some VERY INTERESTING exhibits.
On Part One of True Sunlight #171, Investigative Journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell share what they’ve learned from three of the juiciest attachments: SLED Special Agent David Owen’s daily notes — including signs that Alex was so rattled by his final interview, when Owen asked outright if he killed Maggie and Paul, that he appears to have had his mother-in-law call SLED… and mentions of Stephen Smith.
In Part Two: the State Grand Jury’s subpoena list and the story it tells about both investigations… plus so much more.
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Send Senator-elect Annie Andrews your Congrats 🎉 on Facebook and Instagram 💙
“...Annie Andrews wins South Carolina Senate race in major upset” - NPR, Nov 3, 2026 📰
Mandy celebrates Dr. Annie Andrews’ senate race win! 💙
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29/10/2026 | 1hPart One of One (👻Because🧙Happy Halloween! 🎃)Investigative journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell give massive update on the Christa Bauer Gilley case and Lee Gilley’s Big 'Flee' to Italy. On today’s episode, Mandy and Liz start by breaking down the big change implemented in Harris County, Texas, in response to Lee being able to cut off his ankle monitor this past May, pedal a bike to somewhere (!?), get himself to Memphis, take a private jet to Canada and then hop aboard a commercial airline to Milan, Italy.Instead of tracking their ankle-monitored defendants from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday — as it was when Lee made his escape — defendants will now be monitored 24/7. Why didn’t this already exist in the country’s THIRD-LARGEST county by population? What is the point of having a PART TIME ankle-monitoring system?!? Also, Liz and Mandy catch everyone up on the extradition situation in Italy and what happens next, the current custody fight happening in Harris County Family court as Christa Bauer’s parents seek full custody of their grandchildren, as well as details about the wrongful death complaint the Bauers have filed against Lee for allegedly strangling their daughter on the night of Oct. 7, 2024, killing her and her unborn child.GoFundMe: In Loving Memory of Christa: Support for Her FamilyLet's Dive In… 🥽 🦈
Share the LUNASHARK® Premium Community now on Patreon - Together we go further ☀️Lawyers & judges: email your insights or offer your expertise to legal@lunasharkmedia.comEpisode References“Harris County expands ankle monitor oversight after cases of defendants allegedly cutting monitors, fleeing” - ABC 13, Oct 26, 2026 📰Follow Bryce Newberry of KPRC 2 News on Facebook and Instagram 🌐🌐“Ira Einhorn, Counterculture Guru and Murderer, Dies in Prison at 79” - NYT, Updated April 9, 2020 📰“Justice for Our Daughter Christa” - WSJ, Oct 6, 2026 📰“‘Back to normalcy’: Grandparents detail caring for Lee Gilley’s children in custody fight” - Houston Chronicle, Oct 22, 2026 📰
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26/10/2026 | 40 mins.Investigative journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell continue to break down how Dick Harpootlian got admonished for lying to the court — and then, in the same Murdaugh Murders Retrial hearing, he may have done it again.
In Part Two, Mandy and Liz unpack the defense’s pile of motions to compel (a civil-case tool, as Judge McCaslin reminded everyone — the state is already compelled by law), the ruling that lets the defense consume the last of that tiny DNA sample, and the bombshell Dick dropped for the cameras: a man he described as a “drug dealer… doing federal time” who allegedly (according to Dick) said he sold $15,000–$20,000 a week in pills to the Murdaugh family and PMPED.
Then we checked the public record — the prison records, the federal docket, the plea agreement — and it tells a very different story.
Plus: Creighton’s “very, very damning” comment about one of Alec’s ride-or-die friends, and why we’ve reached the point of no return.
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Episode References
Alex Murdaugh’s Fourth Pre-Trial Hearing on Fri, Nov 13, 2026 📅
Judge McCaslin’s “This is a court of justice. And candor with the court is NOT OPTIONAL” speech 🌐
“SC grand jury to look at drug money trail from Alex Murdaugh to Lowcountry gang, sources say” - The Island Packet, Updated Nov 1, 2021 📰
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Previously known as the Murdaugh Murders Podcast,
(which inspired Hulu's Original Series Murdaugh: Death in the Family), True Sunlight is the intersection of True Crime, journalism and systematic corruption.
Celebrated journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell are taking their style of reporting beyond Alex Murdaugh and his co-conspirators. We expose the truth wherever it leads giving voice to victims like Mica Francis, Sara Lynn Colucci, and Christa Bauer Gilley, while still pursuing justice for all the victims you've met so far like Stephen Smith, Dallas Stoller, and others.
True Sunlight is the antithesis of True crime. True Sunlight values accuracy over "access journalism". True Sunlight is shed with empathy — not exploitation. True Sunlight was created as a matter of public service — not just entertainment. While the name of the podcast has changed, our mission, values and team have not. We are simply expanding our horizons while continuing to shine a much needed bright light on crime and corruption wherever it appears.
Ranked #1 and #2 globally in 2021 and 2023 respectively as the Murdaugh Murders Podcast, True Sunlight provides unmatched insight into the crimes and criminals exposed on MMP and dives deep into new instances of where crime meets corruption across the US.
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