Buster Murdaugh, son of Alex Murdaugh, to break silence on Fox Nation docuseries. What to know.

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Editor's Note: This docuseries is not affiliated with the January 2022 ABC 20/20 news special titled "Fall of the House of Murdaugh," nor is it affiliated with the upcoming book by Gannett journalist Michael M. DeWitt Jr.

The Murdaugh crime saga in rural South Carolina has inspired another nationally broadcast documentary.

FOX Nation, FOX News Media’s subscription-based streaming service, said in a release on Tuesday it will present a new docuseries, The Fall of the House of Murdaugh, on Tuesday, Sept. 12.

According to the release, the three-part limited series features "exclusive access" to the family, friends and defense team of Alex Murdaugh, the once prominent South Carolina attorney who was convicted earlier this year of murdering his wife and son after a decade-long financial crime spree.

"FOX News Channel anchor Martha MacCallum fronts the series and sat down with Murdaugh’s surviving son, Richard Alexander “Buster” Murdaugh Jr., for his first television interview since being thrust into the spotlight," says Fox.

Buster Murdaugh, second from right, son of defendant Alex Murdaugh, looks to his father after Judge Clifton Newman charged the jury and begin deliberation in Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse, Thursday, March 2, 2023, in Walterboro, S.C. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021.

“The Fall of the House of Murdaugh features a comprehensive look inside the case that many have tried to tackle since the day the difficult story unfolded," said FOX Nation President Jason Klarman. "Through a firsthand account from Buster Murdaugh and access to key players, including friends and family, this series puts forward several missing elements that have not been brought to light.”

The three-hour docuseries explores the trial, crimes and complicated life of Alex Murdaugh, who was found guilty earlier this year of murdering his wife, Margaret “Maggie,” and son, Paul, at their sprawling estate known as Moselle in Islandton, S.C.

The docuseries includes interviews with Murdaugh’s defense team Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin, behind-the-scenes footage before and during the trial, never-before-seen home movies, as well as intimate prison revelations from Alex himself, says Fox Nation.

"These unique assets will take viewers behind the veil of the Murdaugh's legal strategy as it happened in real time and will be interwoven with sit-down interviews with the same legal team, as well as the lead prosecutor on the case, Creighton Waters, and Attorney General Alan Wilson, who discuss their current strategy," states the release.

In addition to the legal component, the series aims to dive into the fraught life of Alex, Maggie, Paul and Buster and their own scandals as a family, including a string of crimes, deaths and mysteries that continued to weave the Murdaugh’s tangled web, the Fox Nation release adds.

Also included are interviews with Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill, local attorney Joe McCulloch, Moselle dog kennel manager Roger Dale Davis Jr., Walterboro Mayor William T. Young Jr., the prosecution’s forensic expert Dr. Kenneth Kinsey and more.

The Fall of the House of Murdaugh is produced by Texas Crew Productions alongside Executive Producers David Karabinas, Jamie Lustberg and Brad Bernstein.

This article originally appeared on Greenville News: Fox Nation docuseries lands exclusive interviews with Buster Murdaugh