The Re-Trial Of Alex Murdaugh

The South Carolina Supreme Court just heard Alex Murdaugh's appeal—and the prosecution faced a gauntlet of skeptical questions. February 11, 2026 marked the most significant moment in the Murdaugh case since the 2023 conviction. All five justices convened in Columbia to hear oral arguments on two core issues: whether former Clerk of Court Becky Hill's comments to jurors constituted jury tampering,...

Former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis provides complete legal analysis of two major cases — the Alex Murdaugh Supreme Court oral arguments and the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation. The Murdaugh hearing produced aggressive questioning from the bench, with justices pressing the state on Becky Hill's perjury conviction, the jury tampering standard Toal applied, and the unc...

Today's oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal may have revealed more about the outcome than anyone expected. The South Carolina Supreme Court justices came in with sharp, specific questions — and the overwhelming majority of the pressure went to the prosecution. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis provides a complete breakdown. Justice James immediat...

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Alex Murdaugh's appeal, and the questions from the bench painted a picture the state should be worried about. Justice George James opened the hearing by asking about the egg juror — the dismissed panelist whose affidavit describes Becky Hill telling jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony, and who Justice Toal refused to let te...

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers for a two-case episode that starts with the Murdaugh appeal heading to oral arguments Wednesday and extends into a full breakdown of the Nancy Guthrie investigation — reading both cases through the lens of a defense attorney who sees problems the public does not. On Murdaugh, Becky Hill's perjury conviction is now in the appellate record. Th...

Wednesday is the day. The South Carolina Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Alex Murdaugh's appeal and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta says what comes after a potential reversal is where the real story begins. On this episode, Motta breaks down the retrial scenario from the inside — what both sides are facing, what evidence survives, and whether the state even has the appetite to go again....

The South Carolina Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction. The legal community is focused on whether the court will reverse. But the question that should dominate this conversation is far more unsettling — what does a Murdaugh retrial actually look like, and would the state even pursue one? Alex Murdaugh is already serving 27 years st...

The South Carolina Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal February 11, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. in Columbia. This is the most significant development since his March 2023 conviction for murdering his wife Maggie and son Paul. The appeal centers on two arguments. First, that former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill tampered with the jury by making comments that could have influenced...

February 11th, 2026. That's the date. The South Carolina Supreme Court will finally hear oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction. Nearly three years after a Colleton County jury found him guilty of killing his wife Maggie and son Paul, Murdaugh is asking the state's highest court to throw out the verdict and grant him a new trial. His attorneys have two main argume...

Hulu’s Murdaugh: Death in the Family promised to deliver the full story of South Carolina’s most infamous crime dynasty — but how close does it come to the truth? In this explosive Hidden Killers breakdown, Tony Brueski pulls apart the dramatization and compares it to the real events that toppled a century-old legal empire. From the iconic 911 call and Paul’s kennel video to the financial fraud th...

Alex Murdaugh didn’t commit his crimes alone — and today, one of his most essential enablers is finally facing real consequences. In this explosive Hidden Killers breakdown, Tony Brueski unpacks the downfall of Russell Laffitte, the former CEO of Palmetto State Bank and heir to a century-old Lowcountry dynasty, who has now been sentenced in both state and federal court for bank fraud, wire fraud,...

Long before police lights flashed across Moselle… long before the world knew the Murdaugh name for murder, fraud, and power… one woman saw the truth of that home in its quietest moments. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson, the family’s longtime housekeeper, has finally broken her silence — and her memoir may be the most important firsthand account in the entire case. In this powerful Hidden Killers deep-di...

What does a man sound like moments after discovering his wife and son brutally murdered? That question sits at the heart of this Hidden Killers episode, where Tony Brueski analyzes Alex Murdaugh’s very first recorded interaction with law enforcement — a raw, chaotic police-cruiser interview that became a cornerstone of the investigation. Every breath, every hesitation, every unnecessary detail tel...

Just when the world thought the Alex Murdaugh saga had reached its final chapter, the legal firestorm roars back to life. In this explosive Hidden Killers segment, Tony Brueski unpacks the opening shots in the battle for Murdaugh’s appeal — a fight that may determine whether the disgraced attorney gets a second chance at freedom, or whether the original verdict stands as one of the most infamous c...

The Alex Murdaugh case is entering one of its most explosive phases yet. South Carolina prosecutors have filed a massive 182-page brief urging the state supreme court to deny Murdaugh’s push for a new trial — even as jury-tampering allegations against former court clerk Becky Hill continue to shake public confidence. In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski breaks down how the State is fram...

The woman who announced Alex Murdaugh’s guilty verdict is now wearing handcuffs herself. In one of the most shocking reversals in recent courtroom history, former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill has been charged with obstruction of justice, misconduct in office, and perjury—casting a dark cloud over one of America’s most watched murder trials. In this explosive Hidden Killers breakdown,...

The Alex Murdaugh story is not finished — in fact, the most consequential chapter may be the one unfolding right now. Three final filings have landed before the South Carolina Supreme Court, and they paint two radically different versions of justice. Prosecutors insist the evidence against Murdaugh was overwhelming: the kennel video timeline, the lies about his whereabouts, the destroyed credibili...

Alex Murdaugh’s name has become shorthand for corruption, greed, and generational deception. But does that make him a murderer? In this episode of Hidden Killers, Tony Brueski confronts the question few dare to ask: Did the jury convict Murdaugh for the murders of Maggie and Paul — or for the decades of betrayal that made him one of the most despised men in America? With no murder weapon, no direc...

She was inside the Murdaugh family's world for over fifteen years. She cleaned their homes, ran their errands, and became part of their inner circle. And on June 7th, 2021, she was one of the last people to see Alex Murdaugh before his wife Maggie and son Paul were shot to death at the family's Moselle property. Now, in this exclusive full-length interview, Blanca Simpson holds nothing back. She r...

In Part Three of our exclusive interview, the Murdaugh family’s longtime housekeeper, Blanca Simpson, reveals the details she says SLED investigators never wanted to hear — details she believes could change the timeline of the murders at Moselle. Blanca tells us she saw a white Ford F-150 on the property the day of the killings. She assumed it was Paul’s, but Paul’s truck was in the shop. She also...

After fifteen years inside the Murdaugh family's world, after walking through that house twelve hours after the murders, after being dismissed by investigators and watching the trial unfold — Blanca Simpson has reached her own conclusion. "Do you think Alex Murdaugh pulled the trigger?" "I do. I do." In the fifth and final part of this exclusive interview series, the Murdaugh family's longtime hou...

Twelve hours after Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were gunned down at the Moselle kennels, their housekeeper Blanca Simpson walked through the front door of the family home. What she found inside would haunt her — and raise questions that the official investigation never answered. In part four of this exclusive interview — the longest and most intense segment of the series — Blanca describes receiving t...

Becky Hill, the former Colleton County Clerk of Court who oversaw Alex Murdaugh's murder trial, pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice, perjury, and two counts of misconduct in office. She received probation and walked out of court without serving any jail time. Hill was in charge of managing the jury, handling exhibits, and assisting the judge during Murdaugh's six-week trial in 2023. His...

She saw a white Ford F-150 at the Murdaugh property on the day of the murders. She assumed it was Paul's truck — but Paul's truck was in the shop. She saw a tractor moving across the old landing strip toward the back fields. And she has a theory about what someone may have been preparing for that evening. But when Blanca Simpson tried to share these observations with SLED investigators, they didn'...

Weeks before she was murdered, Maggie Murdaugh pulled her housekeeper into a room, closed the door, and shared something that had been eating at her — a thirty million dollar lawsuit and a husband who refused to tell her the whole truth. In part two of this exclusive five-part interview, Blanca Simpson reveals what Maggie confided in her during those final months. The financial pressure. The commu...