Michael DeWitt JrHampton County native Michael M. DeWitt Jr. is multiple-award-winning journalist and longtime editor of the 143-year-old Hampton County Guardian. DeWitt's boots-on-the-ground coverage of the Murdaugh crime saga has been published in print an online around Gannett's nationwide USAToday network, and he has appeared on ABC's 20/20, CBS's 48 Hours, Dateline NBC and Netflix documentaries to discuss the case. DeWitt is also the author of Hampton County (Images of America series, Arcadia Publishing/The History Press, May 2015), a photo history of the place his family has called home for close to three hundred years.