Natalie Joy

Can't believe it.

It's just been surreal and awesome.

Yeah.

So in 2019, I was just a pesky local news reporter at a small newspaper in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

And there was something that everybody knows as the boat crash that happened under my watch on a Saturday night.

I remember waking up one morning on a Sunday and hearing all of these things about a 19-year-old girl missing.

And I

The driver of the boat was a drunken teenager from a family full of powerful lawyers.

And I was really, really into true crime, not going to lie, before that.

And I was always kind of like, I always wanted to have a podcast about something.

And then when that happened, and I started hearing all these rumors about the Murdochs and how much power that they had in people.

And basically from day one, people were like, if you guys don't cover this, they will cover it up.

So me and my reporting partner, Liz, just dug in and could not stop.

The family never threatened me personally, but people that knew them did.

And less than threats, it was a lot of just like people from the very beginning when I first started writing about Paul Murdoch and his father and all the power and money that they had.

And

It took a really long time for Paul to get charged in the boat crash, too.

So I was just cranking out all these stories.

During that time, I started getting just a lot of weird emails from people from Hampton, which is the area that the Murdochs are from, saying, nobody talks about this family like this.

Nobody reports on this family the way that you are.