The Re-Trial Of Alex Murdaugh

The Supreme Court gave prosecutors a clear signal: scale back the financial crimes evidence. The first trial spent twelve and a half hours on stolen money, defrauded clients, and broken lives. The justices called it excessive and said the state could have made its case in a fraction of that time. That changes the entire architecture of round two. And it elevates one witness above almost every othe...

Blanca Simpson has said it publicly: she believes Alex Murdaugh killed Maggie and Paul. She wrote it in her book. She said it on camera. She reached that conclusion after years of processing what she saw inside that house — the wet towel, the folded pajamas, the shirt that vanished, the moment Alex tried to rewrite her memory months after the murders. And when the South Carolina Supreme Court unan...

It's easy to forget, with all the legal noise, that this case has two victims with names: Maggie Murdaugh and her son Paul. They were killed at the family's dog kennels in June of 2021, and for the people who've followed this story closely, the news that Alex Murdaugh's convictions were overturned landed hard — because it means the question of who answers for their deaths is open all over again. F...

Alex Murdaugh is 57. He's serving 40 years federal. He's never getting out. So why spend millions on a retrial? Because Maggie Murdaugh was 52. Paul Murdaugh was 22. They were shot to death on their family's property. And right now, nobody stands convicted of killing them. The guilty verdicts are erased. The life sentences are vacated. Not because the evidence wasn't there — because an elected cou...

Unknown male DNA was found under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails. It was never run through CODIS. Jim Griffin said it at the press conference like he'd been waiting to — physical evidence from the person who was fatally shot, collected by investigators, documented in the case file, and never matched through the federal database. The defense has plans for it. They're not hiding that. But untested DNA...

Alex Murdaugh's defense team just filed a federal lawsuit against Becky Hill — and the point isn't money. It's answers. The Section 1983 civil rights claim alleges Hill deprived Murdaugh of a fair trial before an untampered jury. The Supreme Court already found her conduct warranted throwing out the conviction. Now the defense wants to use civil discovery — depositions, subpoenas, sworn testimony...

The first jury had twelve hours of stolen-money testimony making Alex Murdaugh look like a desperate man capable of anything. The Supreme Court stripped that away. Now the case has to stand on what SLED actually found at Moselle — and what they didn't bother to chase. Blanca Simpson, the Murdaugh housekeeper, told investigators about a suspicious white vehicle parked near the property close to whe...

Buster Murdaugh sat behind his father every single day of that first trial. He took the stand and told a jury Alex wasn't capable of this. Then Alex got convicted — and Buster disappeared. Three years of barely any prison calls. A quiet marriage. A life built as far from the Murdaugh name as he could manage. Now the convictions have been reversed and the retrial is coming, and sources say Buster i...

Two conversations about Alex Murdaugh, and both of them keep coming back to what Maggie was carrying in those final months. She had reportedly retained a divorce attorney. She was living apart from Alex. On June 7, 2021, she did not want to go to Moselle. Two witnesses testified to that. She went anyway. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott — who writes about separation danger on her Substack, Spotlight...

Myra Crosby sat through six weeks of testimony. The judge praised her as an excellent juror. She was undecided. And on the morning deliberations were set to begin, she was removed based on allegations that now appear to have been fabricated. Three years later, the Supreme Court confirmed what Crosby has been saying all along: Becky Hill misrepresented information to the court to get her off the pa...

Here's what doesn't add up. The state prosecutor who handled Becky Hill's criminal case told the court there wasn't enough evidence to charge her with jury tampering. Four months later, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Hill engaged in "shocking jury interference" and placed "her fingers on the scales of justice." She'd already pleaded guilty to misconduct, obstruction, and p...

Alex Murdaugh is 57 years old serving 40 years in federal prison. He’s never getting out. So the question people keep asking is: why bother with a murder retrial? This episode of the Murdaugh channel answers that question, and the answer starts with two names: Maggie and Paul. Maggie Murdaugh was 52. Paul was 22. They were killed on their family’s property. The Supreme Court’s ruling erased the mu...

Time is a weapon in Alex Murdaugh’s retrial, and both sides know exactly how to use it. The AG promised speed — retry aggressively, as soon as possible. That urgency is strategic. Wilson’s office built the first case and has institutional knowledge of every witness and every vulnerability. That asset expires when Wilson leaves office in January 2027. This Murdaugh channel episode maps the pre-tria...

The Murdaugh retrial isn’t going to look anything like the first one. The defense now holds weapons they didn’t have before, and the prosecution just lost something it can never get back. That shift changes everything about what happens next. Eight thousand pages of sworn testimony from every state witness now sit in the defense’s hands. That’s a full impeachment roadmap — every inconsistency, eve...

The defense team covered more ground in one press conference than most legal teams cover in a month. Here is everything they revealed — the federal lawsuit, the confrontation with the Attorney General, and the retrial roadmap that changes the picture of this case. They filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Becky Hill under Section 1983. The claim: she deprived Murdaugh of his right to a fai...

The defense did not hedge. They did not leave room for interpretation. There will never be a plea deal in the Alex Murdaugh case. Not under any circumstances. The question was asked, and the answer was absolute. Understanding why they are so certain requires understanding what they revealed about the retrial itself. Start with the DNA. Unknown male DNA was found under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails...

The SC Supreme Court gave Alex Murdaugh’s defense team something rare in criminal law — a ruling that identifies exactly where the prosecution crossed the line and signals to the next judge how to prevent it from happening again. Harpootlian and Griffin don’t walk into Trial 2 hoping for a different outcome. They walk in with a specific plan built on advantages the court created for them. This Mur...

Dick Harpootlian looked into the cameras and sent a message directly to Attorney General Alan Wilson: stop playing politics with this case and do your job. It was the most pointed moment of the entire press conference. The context is the death penalty. Wilson announced his intent to seek it against Alex Murdaugh at the retrial — something he did not do the first time around. Harpootlian called the...

Jim Griffin stood at the podium and asked the question that has been hanging over this case since the Supreme Court ruling: did Becky Hill act alone? The defense is not leaving it to speculation. They filed a federal civil rights lawsuit — a Section 1983 claim — against the former Colleton County Clerk, alleging she stripped Alex Murdaugh of his right to a fair trial. The court already agreed the...

One week after the Supreme Court overturned his conviction, Alex Murdaugh’s retrial is already surrounded by more chaos than the first trial. The AG is threatening the death penalty while running for governor. His own son reportedly won’t speak to him. And his lawyers just told the country they have leads on “third parties.” Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke combine every thread from their listener-dr...

The defense went on national television and said they have information about “third parties and potential motives.” They said the Supreme Court reversal gives them subpoena power. They wouldn’t elaborate. And they haven’t filed a single motion about any of it. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke answer the listener question that connects the dots: If Harpootlian and Griffin have genuine evidence of anot...

The SC Supreme Court used language it has never applied to a South Carolina court official: unprecedented, breathtaking, disgraceful. All directed at Becky Hill, the elected Clerk of Court in Colleton County who was supposed to protect the integrity of Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial. Instead, she weaponized her authority over the jury to push toward a guilty verdict — because she was writing...

Three years ago, Buster Murdaugh looked a jury in the eye and said he didn’t believe his father could hurt Maggie and Paul. That testimony mattered. It put a human face on the defense. Now sources say Buster is furious about the retrial, hasn’t been to see his father, and someone in his circle has called Alex selfish for pursuing a second trial. The question for the defense isn’t whether they want...

The death penalty was never part of trial one. Creighton Waters didn’t ask for it. The state didn’t seek it. The jury was never given that option. Now Alan Wilson says everything is on the table for round two—and he’s saying it while campaigning for governor. Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke answer listener questions about the practical impact of the AG’s statement. A death-penalty-eligible case chan...

The SC Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling didn’t just overturn Alex Murdaugh’s double murder conviction — it imposed constraints on the retrial that fundamentally change the prosecution’s approach. The court said the state spent far too long on financial crimes testimony and could have established motive with a fraction of the evidence it presented. That’s not a suggestion. That’s the state’s highes...