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The Re-Trial Of Alex Murdaugh
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The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions. Unanimously. Now the most-watched criminal case in state history starts over — new judge, new jury, new rules — and this is where you follow every step of it.
From Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski, The Re-Trial of Alex Murdaugh delivers real-time legal analysis, courtroom coverage, and expert interviews as the State decides whether and how to retry the disbarred attorney for the June 2021 killings of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. The Supreme Court didn't just reverse the verdict — it rewrote the playbook. The financial crimes evidence that dominated the first trial has been sharply restricted. The jury tampering by former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill, who pled guilty to perjury, has been laid bare in a devastating 27-page opinion. Everything about this case is different now.
This podcast covers what matters: pretrial motions, venue fights, evidentiary rulings, witness strategy, jury selection, and the legal collisions that will determine whether Murdaugh is convicted again or walks on the murder charges. No filler. No recycled takes. No speculation dressed up as analysis. Just the case, the law, and what it means — explained by someone who has covered every turn of this story from the beginning.
New episodes drop as developments warrant. Subscribe so you don't miss the moment this case breaks open again.
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Why Alex Murdaugh Needed Becky Hill's Text Messages
6d ago00:20:42Tap to summarizeBecky Hill's text messages and emails from the weeks she managed Alex Murdaugh's jury have never been examined by anyone outside the state's closed investigation. Murdaugh's lawyers wanted them, and the federal lawsuit they filed in May 2026 was the only legal instrument that could get them. A civil defendant can be subpoenaed and deposed. A private citizen who took a plea deal cannot be touched by a criminal defendant's discovery at all.Judge Gergel's dismissal on August 5 cut off the records, the deposition, the trace on the anonymous email that removed a juror mid-deliberations, and the chance to put the tampering investigators under oath about why their conclusion and the Supreme Court's landed in different places. The ruling is defensible on the law. Hill didn't indict Murdaugh, and the cost of his defense traces to the murder charges rather than to her conduct.The episode maps each lost tool onto the April 2027 retrial, including how a connection between the tampering and anyone on the state's side could have supported a motion to dismiss the charges outright, and why the SLED depositions would have fed directly into the defense's existing fight over the untested DNA under Maggie's fingernails. The appeal is already at the Fourth Circuit.Hosted by Tony BrueskiJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughLawsuit #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #TrueCrimePodcast #MurdaughMurders
Transcribe →What Murdaugh's Defense Found That Prosecutors Want Blocked
1w ago00:20:38Tap to summarizeAlex Murdaugh's defense team filed a memorandum on July 30th, 2026, demanding that Judge Debra McCaslin allow an independent forensic lab to test DNA evidence recovered from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails — before SLED can run tests that the defense says could consume or degrade the remaining sample. SLED identified the DNA years ago as belonging to an unknown male with no relation to the Murdaugh family. The defense says no further analysis was ever attempted. The lab they want involved is Othram, Inc. — the same forensic genetic genealogy operation whose technology helped put a name to Bryan Kohberger in the Idaho student murders, cracked the Lady of the Dunes cold case after nearly fifty years, and has been used in some of the highest-profile DNA identifications in the country. The prosecution opposed the motion, characterizing the defense's request as aimed at public consumption and arguing that trace DNA under fingernails can result from casual contact. The defense says the state's own method has already failed on this sample and that there is no scientific justification for letting SLED go first. The filing goes further — accusing SLED of acting in bad faith with biological evidence in this investigation, citing the alleged suppression of exculpatory T-shirt test results and the destruction of the shirt itself. The retrial is scheduled for April 5th, 2027. The August 14th pretrial hearing is where the DNA testing question is expected to land.END_LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #Othram #SouthCarolina #ColdOpen #JusticeForMaggie
Transcribe →Alex Murdaugh's Defense Just Exposed WHAT About That Shirt?!
Jul 1100:35:12Tap to summarizeAlex Murdaugh's retrial finally has a date, April 5, 2027, and a stack of defense motions that go straight at the evidence that convicted him the first time. Start with the shirt. Blood-spatter analyst Tom Bevel's original report reportedly described the marks on Murdaugh's white T-shirt as transfer stains, not gunshot spatter, before that finding changed following what defense filings describe as color adjustments made in Photoshop. The state never called Bevel to testify. Then there's the DNA. Investigators recovered an unknown male's genetic material from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails the night she and Paul were killed, and that sample was cataloged but never run through a genealogy database. The defense wants it sent to Othram, the same lab whose work helped identify Bryan Kohberger, and attorney Jim Griffin told the court the technology to trace it simply wasn't available when SLED first collected it. On top of that, attorney Dick Harpootlian says first-responder statements from the night of the killings contradict one another, and that tips forwarded to SLED may never have been followed up on. Judge Debra McCaslin, newly assigned to the case, has already made clear continuances won't be granted, while Attorney General Alan Wilson is keeping the death penalty in play against a man already serving multiple life sentences. This episode lays out all three motions side by side, weighs them against the David Camm wrongful-conviction case the defense cites as precedent, and gives the honest counterargument prosecutors are likely to raise. Two people are still dead at those kennels, and pieces of evidence tied directly to their deaths sat untested for years. The next hearing lands August 14. Both sides know how much rides on the next few hearings. Here is everything filed so far, in order. SOCIAL LINKS & LEGAL FOOTER Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #MurdaughRetrial #AlexMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughTrial #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #Othram #TomBevel #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime
Transcribe →Alex Murdaugh’s retrial is officially on the calendar — April 5, 2027 — and the first hearing made one thing immediately clear: the defense is not running the same playbook. Harpootlian walked into a Lexington County courtroom with first-responder transcr
Jul 100:20:16Tap to summarizeThe first retrial hearing in the Murdaugh case produced a moment that deserves more attention than it received. Dick Harpootlian presented the court with transcripts from interviews conducted with the first people to arrive at the Moselle property after Maggie and Paul were found dead. He told Judge McCaslin the accounts contain conflicting information about who was present at the property that night — and that the defense has received tips from people claiming to have case information that were forwarded to SLED with no confirmation they were ever investigated.That revelation came alongside a barrage of defense moves at the June 29 hearing. The team has eight new expert witnesses who need six months to prepare. They want Othram — the forensic genetic genealogy lab that worked the Kohberger case — to analyze the unknown male DNA recovered from under Maggie’s left-hand fingernails, designated as Item No. 70. Jim Griffin told the judge the DNA was catalogued by SLED and never further analyzed. He cited the David Camm case from Indiana, where untested crime scene DNA ultimately identified the actual killer and led to the defendant’s acquittal at a third trial.Judge McCaslin set the retrial for April 5, 2027. She denied Murdaugh a laptop in prison but arranged a conference room compromise. She deferred the DNA ruling to the next hearing on August 14 after ordering both sides’ experts to confer. The venue motion is unresolved. And the death penalty — never sought in the first trial — is now allegedly on the table. Everything about this retrial is different from the first.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitterhttps://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #Moselle #MurdaughHearing #ItemNo70 #OthramDNA #DavidCamm #DickHarpootlian #TrueCrime
Transcribe →Alex Murdaugh’s Prosecution Has WHAT Missing This Time?!
Jul 100:15:31Tap to summarizeFor case followers tracking every strategic detail: the prosecution’s position heading into the April retrial is fundamentally different from 2023. The 12.5 hours of financial crimes testimony that defined how the first jury understood Alex Murdaugh — before they heard any murder evidence — has been restricted by the Supreme Court. The motive theory faces a jury that knows Murdaugh already pleaded guilty to the financial crimes and is serving concurrent state and federal sentences.Bob Motta examines whether the death penalty threat is genuine or leverage, whether Creighton Waters can present a streamlined motive case that still lands, and what the Becky Hill federal lawsuit’s parallel timeline means for both sides. The defense has the prosecution’s entire playbook. The prosecution has to win with less. The question is whether “less” is still enough. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitterhttps://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #CreightonWaters #DeathPenalty #Motive #BeckyHill #TrueCrime
Transcribe →Alex Murdaugh Can’t Access His Own Evidence Before April
Jul 100:14:37Tap to summarizeThe first retrial hearing produced a ruling that goes directly to the defense’s ability to prepare. Judge McCaslin denied Murdaugh a laptop after the prison warden refused. The conference room compromise means every discovery review session requires his attorneys to physically visit the facility with their own equipment. Harpootlian warned the court that without better access, preparation could take longer than the April 5 deadline allows.For case followers: the defense revealed its hand at this hearing in ways that hadn’t been public before. Transcripts from first responders with conflicting accounts about who was present at Moselle. Confirmation that eight new experts are being brought in. A public acknowledgment that whether Murdaugh takes the stand again is undecided. And the DNA motion — Item No. 70, the unknown male DNA from under Maggie’s fingernails — deferred to August 14.Bob Motta evaluates what the defense showed and what they clearly held back. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitterhttps://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #JudgeMcCaslin #KennelVideo #ItemNo70 #DickHarpootlian #TrueCrime
Transcribe →The Untested DNA in the Alex Murdaugh Case Could Rewrite Everything at Retrial
Jun 3000:16:49Tap to summarizeThe defense is building Alex Murdaugh’s retrial around evidence SLED collected and never fully analyzed: DNA from an unknown male found under Maggie Murdaugh’s left-hand fingernails. They want Othram — the lab behind the Kohberger identification — to run an independent analysis on a rush order.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke take the audience’s hardest questions head on. Is a proven liar’s denial worth anything? Does his voice on Paul’s phone at the kennels prove he’s the killer, or just that he was concealing something? The first trial stayed in his home county, and he was convicted. Now his lawyers want out. What went wrong with his read on that room?From prison, he’s filed a federal suit against Becky Hill. Listeners smell a fishing trip through discovery to drag others down. Tony and Robin work through whether that’s desperation or instinct — and whether a clean jury can even exist after three years of wall-to-wall coverage. A Hidden Killers investigation.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #SLED #SouthCarolina #DNA
Transcribe →What Alex Murdaugh's Defense Found Under Maggie's Nails
Jun 2900:14:46Tap to summarizeAlex Murdaugh's murder convictions were overturned, and the retrial is now moving forward in front of a newly assigned judge. Before the first hearing, his defense team made its opening moves — and they tell you a lot about how this second trial is going to be fought.There are three motions. The defense wants the trial moved out of the five-county circuit where the Murdaugh name dominated the courts for generations. They want Murdaugh given a secure laptop to work through a mountain of sealed discovery. And they want the court to release DNA recovered from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails for independent testing.That last one is the headline. When Maggie was killed in June 2021, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division recovered DNA from beneath her left-hand fingernails, determined it came from an unknown, unrelated male, and — the defense says — never tested it any further. Murdaugh's lawyers want it sent to Othram, the genetic genealogy lab known for putting names to people other labs couldn't identify.In the same filing, the defense reaches for David Camm — a former officer wrongly convicted on blood-spatter evidence, later cleared after DNA pointed to someone else. It's a pointed comparison, because the blood-spatter analyst from the Camm case is the same one who examined Alex Murdaugh's shirt.None of this means the DNA is the answer. A trace under a fingernail can come from anywhere, and the state has strong evidence of its own. But the defense's argument is simple: the state never bothered to find out whose DNA it was. This breakdown covers all three motions, the lab and the case the defense cite, and what it could mean as Murdaugh heads toward his second trial.END_LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS (10)#MurdaughRetrial #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrime #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughCase #BeckyHill #DNAEvidence #SouthCarolina #ColdCase
Transcribe →Who Is the Only One Still Looking Into Becky Hill?!
Jun 2800:34:24Tap to summarizeWhen the Supreme Court erased Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions, Blanca drove straight to Maggie’s grave. Twenty years inside that household. Not staff — family. The person Maggie cried to behind closed doors. Blanca fixed Alex’s collar the morning of June 7th. She found the wet towel the next day. She gave every detail to a jury that convicted in three hours. Then Becky Hill destroyed the verdict.In her most revealing interview since the reversal, Blanca goes where the trial never went. She describes what the house looked like the morning after. The things that were moved. The things that were missing. And she delivers a reading of the murders that nobody in the defense camp wants to hear — twenty years of watching Alex use other people for everything is exactly why these killings fit his pattern.Five days after the reversal, Murdaugh’s own defense team sued Becky Hill in federal court. Not for the money. For the subpoenas. For the depositions. For the ability to drag people under oath. Nobody else — not the state, not the attorney general — is investigating the woman who corrupted the first trial. Only the man she helped convict.A look back at the most compelling stories of the week.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughCase #BeckyHill #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #Moselle #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
Transcribe →The Evidence Under Maggie Murdaugh’s Nails That Nobody Ever Identified
Jun 2800:43:47Tap to summarizeThe kennel video convicted Alex Murdaugh the first time. His voice at the dog kennels minutes before Maggie and Paul were shot. Multiple people identified that voice under oath. He admitted he lied about being there. The jury came back in three hours. Now Dick Harpootlian says his team has a counter. He won’t say what it is. But he said it on national television, which means he wants the potential jury pool to know it’s coming.On the other side, Creighton Waters just lost the narrative that told the first jury why. The Supreme Court said twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony was too much. The stolen money, the defrauded clients, the insurance fraud — the story of a man whose professional life was a lie — has to be compressed into whatever the new judge allows. The defense also claims untested DNA under Maggie’s fingernails and has filed a lawsuit against Becky Hill that opens sworn deposition channels the murder case never had.Both sides are rebuilding. This episode maps exactly what each side kept and what each side lost.A look back at the most compelling stories of the week.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughCase #DickHarpootlian #KennelVideo #CreightonWaters #BeckyHill #MaggieMurdaugh #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers
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