The trial that keeps the US fascinated: money, power, assassinations…

For the past two weeks, the United States has been avidly following the trial of Alex Murdaugh, a powerful lawyer from the south of the country accused of having killed his wife and son, a true chronicle of the surprising fall from grace of a public figure. As in an Agatha Christie novel, members of high society, domestic workers and deluded friends parade on the stand,…