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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. 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.

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    1 min
  2. Why Maggie Murdaugh Was in More Danger the Moment She Decided to Leave Alex

    1H AGO

    Why Maggie Murdaugh Was in More Danger the Moment She Decided to Leave Alex

    A divorce filing in the Murdaugh case would have triggered financial discovery. Depositions. Forensic accounting. Every stolen settlement, every fabricated claim, every opioid pill — all of it exposed. Alex was not losing a wife. He was losing the architecture that kept decades of fraud from collapsing. According to reports, Maggie had consulted an attorney. She was living at the Edisto beach house. On June 7, she did not want to go to Moselle. The housekeeper and her own sister both testified to that. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the final part of a three-part series and explains why separation is the inflection point — the moment an abuser’s threat calculus shifts from maintaining control to preventing escape. Scott recently wrote about this on her Substack, Spotlight on Psychology. This conversation extends well beyond the Murdaugh case into the universal mechanics of what makes leaving dangerous and what women standing in that window need to know. 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. #MaggieMurdaugh #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughTrial #DomesticViolence #LeavingIsTheDangerousPart #ShavaunScott #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Moselle #SpotlightOnPsychology

    20 min
  3. Alex Murdaugh: "Almost Certainly Guilty" May Be the Honest Answer

    19H AGO

    Alex Murdaugh: "Almost Certainly Guilty" May Be the Honest Answer

    The final part of our interview with The Family Man author James Lasdun tackles the question everyone asks and nobody can fully answer: How does a father kill his own son? The book draws on criminal psychology research going back decades and finds specific, documented cases that parallel Alex Murdaugh's almost exactly. Jean-Claude Romand — eighteen years of fabricated success, financial fraud funded by the trust of loved ones, and the killing of his entire family when the truth was about to surface. Researchers have a name for this type: "anomic" annihilators. Men who see family as proof of status. When the status dies, so does the family. The book pushes into territory the trial couldn't reach. It asks whether the murders were calculated or impulsive — and argues the research says both can exist in the same person. It examines the contradiction of Alex appearing genuinely grief-stricken while simultaneously deceiving every investigator in the room. And it ends with the lead SLED agent's own words to Alex: "I have to put my beliefs aside and go with the facts." After everything in this book — the patterns, the parallels, the unanswered questions — is "almost certainly guilty" the most honest conclusion anyone can reach? 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. #AlexMurdaugh #FamilyAnnihilator #TheFamilyMan #MurdaughMurders #TrueCrime #CriminalPsychology #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughTrial #Moselle

    17 min
  4. Alex Murdaugh Murder Conviction Reversed: The Unanimous Ruling and What Comes Next

    1D AGO

    Alex Murdaugh Murder Conviction Reversed: The Unanimous Ruling and What Comes Next

    Juror Z had questions about Alex Murdaugh’s guilt. She swore to that in an affidavit. But before deliberations, Becky Hill had already told the jury not to believe the defense. When it came time to vote, Juror Z felt the outcome was predetermined. She convicted. The South Carolina Supreme Court just ruled she never should have been in that position — and reversed every murder conviction. The per curiam opinion is unanimous and devastating. The court found Hill made far more improper comments than Toal’s post-trial order acknowledged, including telling jurors not to be fooled or confused by the defense, instructing them to watch Murdaugh’s actions and movements closely, and signaling through staff that deliberations should be quick. The alternate juror testified Hill stood in the doorway and told jurors the defense would try to confuse them. The court credited all of it, finding Hill’s denials lacked credibility — a conclusion reinforced by her subsequent guilty plea to perjury. The ruling identifies three distinct legal errors by former Chief Justice Toal: wrong burden of proof, improper questioning of jurors about their mental processes, and reliance on testimony that violated Rule 606(b). The court overruled its own precedent in Ethier to make clear that juror deliberation testimony is inadmissible for this purpose. It formally adopted the Fourth Circuit’s Cheek framework as binding South Carolina law. Critically for a retrial, the court found the first trial’s twelve-and-a-half-hour financial crimes presentation was excessive and ordered it sharply curtailed. Some financial evidence supporting the motive theory may be admitted, but the inflammatory details that dominated the first trial cannot be repeated. The AG’s office has confirmed a retrial. Murdaugh remains incarcerated on financial sentences. The murder case resets entirely. 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/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMERThis 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 #MurdaughRetrial #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #SCSupremeCourt #MurdaughMurders #ColletonCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurdaughAppeal

    25 min
  5. Alex Murdaugh: Maggie's Car Seat Was in the Wrong Position

    1D AGO

    Alex Murdaugh: Maggie's Car Seat Was in the Wrong Position

    Part 2 of our interview with The Family Man author James Lasdun gets into what happened the night of the murders — and what was deliberately kept from the jury. The full SLED timeline included communications between Alex and men with criminal records on the day of the killings. Prosecutors removed those names from the condensed version. Alex had deleted his entire phone log from that week. Cousin Eddie texted him three cryptic words the next morning. None of it was presented at trial. The defense had a plan to present Eddie as an alternative suspect. Eddie failed a polygraph about the murders and told SLED an obviously fabricated story about what happened at Moselle. Jim Griffin told the author that Eddie on the stand would have been their best shot at reasonable doubt. Prosecutors made sure it never happened by pulling Eddie from the witness list. Then there's the physical evidence that doesn't fit cleanly. Maggie's car with the seat position wrong. Tire tracks near the bodies that were never run down. Paul's phone being picked up by Alex moments after finding the bodies. And the theory no one has explored publicly — built around a phrase Alex allegedly used: "things just got all f****d up." Was the night at Moselle a staged attack that was never supposed to end in real violence? The same con Alex tried three months later with Eddie on the Old Salkehatchie Road? 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. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughMurders #TheFamilyMan #MurdaughEvidence #CousinEddie #TrueCrime #SLED #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #Moselle

    17 min
  6. Alex Murdaugh's Connections to Convicted Drug Launderers Exposed

    2D AGO

    Alex Murdaugh's Connections to Convicted Drug Launderers Exposed

    James Lasdun covered the Murdaugh case for The New Yorker — and his article became the magazine's most-read story of the year. Now his book The Family Man goes further than any previous reporting, with original interviews and evidence that reframe who Alex Murdaugh actually was. This isn't a man who lost control one night. The book traces a pattern of staging, manipulation, and control going back years. The night Mallory Beach was killed in the boat crash, Alex was already working hospital hallways, trying to get into survivors' rooms, telling people what to say. Morgan Doughty's first statement that night said Connor Cook was driving — a version that disappeared after a whispered conversation between survivors the next day. After the staged roadside shooting, Alex helped create a composite sketch of his supposed attacker that resembled one of the boat crash survivors. From a hospital bed. With a bullet wound. Still framing people. The book also reveals a $5,000 backdated check Alex wrote to a police chief who showed up at the Moselle crime scene, business connections tied to convicted drug launderers, and evidence that SLED gave Alex's own brother conflicting stories about where a key piece of physical evidence was found. Part 1 of our three-part interview goes deep on the patterns nobody was watching — the ones that tell you exactly who Alex Murdaugh was long before anyone was killed at Moselle. 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. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughMurders #TheFamilyMan #JamesLasdun #MurdaughTrial #TrueCrime #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #Moselle #SouthCarolina

    32 min
  7. Alex Murdaugh: The Phone Calls Prosecutors Cut From the Jury's Timeline

    6D AGO

    Alex Murdaugh: The Phone Calls Prosecutors Cut From the Jury's Timeline

    SLED built a full timeline of Alex Murdaugh's phone activity on the day of the murders. The version the jury saw had names missing. James Lasdun's The Family Man reveals that the complete version included calls and texts between Alex and two men with criminal records — Kenneth Singleton and Demetrick Manigo — hours before Maggie and Paul were killed. Singleton texted asking Alex to call. Alex replied telling him to come by for a loan. Those names were stripped before the timeline was presented. Alex had deleted his entire call log from that week. Eddie texted him the next morning. An unknown individual referenced a prearranged meeting spot. The jury heard none of it. That's just the beginning. SLED didn't search the property Alex drove to that night for the missing weapons for three months. They told Alex's brother the blue jacket was found in two different locations. Unidentified tire tracks near the bodies were never investigated. Maggie's car was found with the seat pushed back — not matching her as the last driver. A police chief at the crime scene received a $5,000 backdated check from Alex a month later that has never been explained. Eddie told the author — twice, in person — that Alex described the night at Moselle with a phrase that sounds like a man describing a plan that went wrong, not a man denying involvement. Lasdun built an original theory around those words: that the murders were a staged attack gone sideways. The same play Alex tried on the roadside three months later. Under South Carolina law, Alex would be equally guilty either way — no incentive to ever admit it. The most unsettling finding is psychological. The book argues Alex knew his grief would be genuine — and weaponized that. He counted on his own real devastation as proof of innocence. The questions in this book don't disappear just because the verdict came back guilty. 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. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughMurders #TheFamilyMan #CousinEddie #MurdaughEvidence #TrueCrime #SLED #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughTrial

    21 min
  8. Alex Murdaugh: The Name That Protected Him — and the Double Life That Finally Didn't

    MAR 23

    Alex Murdaugh: The Name That Protected Him — and the Double Life That Finally Didn't

    For eighty-six years, the Murdaugh name meant something specific in South Carolina's lowcountry. It meant problems got handled. It meant consequences were optional. It meant that three generations of family power could insulate whoever carried the name from the accountability that applied to everyone else. This week in Hidden Killers' Week in Review, the series that examines how all of that produced Alex Murdaugh begins. Part 1 of The Name goes back to the beginning — 1920, the first Murdaugh solicitor, and the institutional machinery that was still running nearly a century later when Alex was raised inside it. The psychology of what that environment creates is not complicated once you map it: a person who genuinely does not process consequences as real, who has never had to, whose entire relational and professional identity was built on the premise that the family name makes ordinary accountability inapplicable. For Maggie and Paul, that psychology was not academic. It was the home they lived in. Part 2 examines what Alex was running inside that protection. The charming attorney. The devoted family man. The beloved member of the community. Underneath all of it: millions stolen from clients, a serious opioid addiction sustained over years, a financial fraud operation requiring constant new crimes to keep from collapsing. Maggie was quietly consulting divorce attorneys. The Mallory Beach boat crash — a young woman dead, a family cover-up — was the first moment the name was genuinely tested. Part 2 examines covert narcissism as the behavioral framework underneath the performance: how it hides, what it requires to maintain, and what it does when the control begins to fracture. Maggie and Paul Murdaugh deserved better than the name they married and were born into. This series is the accounting that name has always owed. 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. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughFamily #MurdaughDynasty #MaggieAndPaul #MurdaughFraud #CovertNarcissist #MalloryBeach #MurdaughTrial #TrueCrime #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul

    27 min
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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. 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.

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