# Mandy Matney

Mandy Matney is an independent and celebrated journalist originally from Shawnee, Kansas. Matney graduated from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School in 2008. She graduated with a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Kansas in 2012. Matney has worked for newspapers in Missouri, Illinois, and South Carolina before launching Luna Shark Media that includes three chart topping podcasts: Murdaugh Murders Podcast, True Sunlight podcast, and Cup of Justice podcast.
Matney’s first #1 global hit, Murdaugh Murders Podcast, sparked a global analysis of the “Good Old Boy System” in South Carolina, the different set of rules for the privileged, laid bare. Matney’s approach exposed a system that illuminates the substantially different applications of justice for families without connections to the highest reaches of power.
Mandy is the CEO of Luna Shark Media with millions of members, listeners and viewers across the globe, a best-selling author of Blood on their Hands, speaks regularly around the country about the impact of independent media, and a recognized voice for victims' rights.

## Podcasts
#### Murdaugh Murders Podcast

After investigating the Murdaugh family for more than two years, the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh was the tipping point, pushing Matney to create her first podcast, Murdaugh Murders Podcast (MMP). Through her investigations, she also reported on the 2019 boat crash, the unsolved death of Stephen Smith, mysterious death of Murdaugh housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, and a whole host of financial crimes. MMP is a scripted podcast written by Matney and who was later joined by fellow journalist, Liz Farrell.
Hulu announced that it's developing a scripted show based on Matney's podcast.

#### Cup of Justice

Matney hosts a roundtable-type podcast, Cup of Justice (COJ) along with Farrell and attorney Eric Bland discussing South Carolina's legal system, Murdaugh-associated cases, and beyond. Bland brings an easy-to-understand style of legal analysis for listeners. COJ started as bonus episodes on MMP, but launched on its own feed in January 2023.

#### True Sunlight

In the summer of 2022, MMP was rebranded into True Sunlight podcast. The format did not change, but Matney and team expanded their reporting beyond the Murdaugh orbit into include other cases such as Sara Lynn Colucci's murder and Mica Miller's death. The ultimate goal is to expose crime and corruption all over the United States.

## Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Matney wrote Blood on Their Hands with Carolyn Murnick as a memoir retelling her start in journalism through the double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh. She writes about the institutional sexism she faced, corruption in South Carolina Lowcountry, and threats to her personal safety and mental well-being. Matney tells her story along with highlighting important relationships in her life: her husband, David Moses and her journalist partner, Liz Farrell. Starting with the boat crash that killed Mallory Beach in 2019 to learning about Stephen Smith's death and finding court documents about an unknown settlement for Gloria Satterfield's family, Matney and Farrell dig deep finding threads of lie and corruption.