The Alex Murdaugh murder case would not surprise my uncle, Mac Secrest, born in 1923. An award-winning Cheraw, South Carolina newspaper editor in the 1950s and 1960s, if still living he would recall how unruly the state was when he lived there.
In his autobiography, Uncle Mac wrote of a Chesterfield County probate judge, Wild Bill Redfearn, who, while r…
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