Murdaugh: Death in the Family - Did they really go to the Bahamas? Here’s what happened in real life

Murdaugh: Death in the Family unravels the series of events that ended with the deaths of a 19-year-old and the influential lawyer Alex Murdaugh being sentenced guilty of his wife and son's murder.

One of the more shocking parts of the Hulu show was the family going on a lavish vacation to the Bahamas after the death of the 19-year-old Mallory Beach. A death for which Alex's son Paul was on trial with multiple counts of driving under the influence. However, in reality, there was no such Bahamas trip after the boating accident, and the family was indeed focused on the legal case.

While Murdaugh: Death in the Family is based on the real-life events of the case, most of them on the record, being a show, it did take artistic liberties with the story. So keep reading to find out what happened in real life after Paul Murdaugh was charged with multiple counts of death and boating under the influence.

Who were the Murdaughs as seen on the Hulu true-crime series

The Murdaugh family was a powerful legal dynasty in South Carolina for decades. Generations of lawyers had been carrying the family's legal dynasty and connections until Alex Murdaugh was indicted for various crimes. The biggest of these crimes was the murders of his wife and youngest son, Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.

The Hulu crime series documents the fall of the Murdaughs in the latest Murdaugh: Death in the Family, starting with the fatal boat crash, which brought the public eye on him, his family, and his business. This scrutiny brought to light multiple crimes that were being hidden by the patriarch, Alex Murdaugh, leading to the subsequent unraveling of his family's century-old legacy.

Murdaugh: Death in the Family begins at the fatal boat crash

Murdaugh: Death in the Family is in part inspired by the Murdaugh Murders Podcast by journalist Mandy Matney. Series co-creator Michael D. Fuller has previously stated that the series takes artistic liberties, combining the "truth truth" and the "emotional truth" in their storytelling.

The Hulu series finds its starting point on the 2019 fatal boat crash, where Paul Murdaugh slammed a boat into the Archers Creek Bridge. This boat crash resulted in the death of the 19-year-old Mallory Beach and severely injured others who were aboard.

Two months after the incident, Paul was charged with multiple counts of boating under the influence, leading to death and great bodily injury. Paul was on trial for a death, but, according to the Hulu series, the family went on vacation to the Bahamas right after this ordeal, where he even got into another physical altercation.

How much of the Bahamas track, as shown on Murdaugh: Death in the Family, was actually true

According to Murdaugh: Death in the Family, the Murdaughs went on a vacation to the Bahamas after Paul was charged with multiple counts of driving under the influence, leading to bodily injury and death. But did the Murdaughs really go to the Bahamas?

In real life, no such lavish trip to the Bahamas was undertaken in 2019 after the boat crash. The family did vacation in the Bahamas, but the trip being referred to took place in 2017, two years before the accident, which was the beginning of the end for the Murdaugh legacy.

Therefore, the Bahamas vacation and the physical altercation between Paul and some other travelers were an artistic liberty and dramatization on Murdaugh: Death in the Family's part.

In reality, the Murdaughs focused on the legal case, seeking help from their family to put the case behind them. We know now that this did not happen, and the boating accident with the subsequent legal case became the first of many legal troubles that the family would face.

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