Podcasts about murdaugh

In this episode, you will hear excerpts from the most recent Alex Murdaugh status conference as we get closer to his retrial for the murders of Maggie and Paul. Impact unpacks the latest developments in the Murdaugh case, focusing on the discovery process, key testimonies, and legal strategies. Impact explores how the defense aims to discredit investigators and the implications of new evidence and tips. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime, past and present, from the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and YouTube. Please support our sponsors Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day return Never pay full price again. Go to fromrebel.com — F-R-O-M-R-E-B-E-L dot com — home, baby, outdoor, and more, all at up to 70% off the brands you already love. #Murdaugh #legalstrategy, #investigation, #courtroom, #evidence, #witness estimony Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For a limited time, get 40% off your first Hungryroot order plus a free item in every box for life at https://hungryroot.com/LAWNERD with code LAWNERD. Try Gusto online payroll and benefits software for small businesses at https://gusto.com/LAWNERD and get three months free when you run your first payroll. This episode breaks down several high-profile legal updates, beginning with the Las Vegas murder trial of Keffe D regarding the 30-year-old killing of Tupac Shakur, where the defendant's own book and statements are being used against him by the prosecution. She also discusses the recent Bricks & Minifigs private civil settlement involving a vintage Star Wars LEGO collection, noting that corporate claims have been resolved but she is waiting for names to be formally dismissed from the federal docket. Additionally, she covers the unsealing of a grand jury indictment against 14 individuals running a highly profitable cocaine trafficking ring out of two Penn State fraternities that was uncovered through personal Venmo transactions. Finally, she touches on the Alex Murdaugh case, detailing the dismissal of his lawsuit against clerk Becky Hill for lack of standing, a court-approved change of venue for his upcoming retrial, and an apology from defense attorney Dick Harpootlian for making a false statement about an alleged successful polygraph test. RESOURCES Keffe D Trial - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN8ZC_l1jpnc  Courthouse Becky's Motion to Dismiss - https://youtu.be/a2-nRldN-jo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Part Two of Two There's a new Creighton Waters in town… In Part 2 of Episode 161, Investigative journalists⁠ Mandy Matney⁠ and⁠ ⁠Liz Farrell⁠ break down the stunning filing in which the lead prosecutor formally corrected Dick Harpootlian's false claim that Alex Murdaugh passed a polygraph "with flying colors" — complete with a savage citation noting defense co-counsel's incredulous reactions in real time.  Then, Joe McCullough pushes himself into the spotlight while pushing to unseal the Egg Lady records — conveniently trying to pull the in-camera transcripts from view that tell the real story.  Dots Connected: Judge McCaslin's change-of-venue ruling leans on the Beach v. Parker venue order that bashes Liz and Mandy's opinions, the one built on months of purchased lawfare, harassment, and  a landline survey of 333 people, and designed to blame journalists for publicity the villains created themselves.  Shenanigans?  Shenanigans AF… ⁠Vote for Laura Richards and Mandy Matney's SXSW Panel⁠! Let's Dive In…

Part Two of Two There's a new Creighton Waters in town… In Part 2 of Episode 161, Investigative journalists Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell break down the stunning filing in which the lead prosecutor formally corrected Dick Harpootlian's false claim that Alex Murdaugh passed a polygraph "with flying colors" — complete with a savage citation noting defense co-counsel's incredulous reactions in real time.  Then, Joe McCullough pushes himself into the spotlight while pushing to unseal the Egg Lady records — conveniently trying to pull the in-camera transcripts from view that tell the real story.  Dots Connected: Judge McCaslin's change-of-venue ruling leans on the Beach v. Parker venue order that bashes Liz and Mandy's opinions, the one built on months of purchased lawfare, harassment, and  a landline survey of 333 people, and designed to blame journalists for publicity the villains created themselves.  Shenanigans?  Shenanigans AF… Vote for Laura Richards and Mandy Matney's SXSW Panel! Let's Dive In…

In this episode, "The Professor" joined Impact to analyze the recent developments as Alex Murdaugh moves toward the retrial of his overturned murder conviction. Murdaugh's defense attorney, Dick Harpootlian, admits he lied in court about Murdaugh passing a polygraph about the murders. The Professor, Matt Siembieda, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a law professor at Temple University, bringing legal insight and analysis to the discussion. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime, past and present, from the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and YouTube. Please support our sponsors Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns #Murdaugh #polygraph #alexmurdaugh, #legalethics, #court , #defense strategies, #South Carolina law Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's DNA under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails that's never been identified — and an outside lab is about to get a shot at it. Judge Debra McCaslin ordered independent testing on the unknown male genetic material at an August 14 pretrial hearing, siding with defense arguments that SLED's own retesting method risked destroying the sample for good. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break down what happened in that Lexington County courtroom. McCaslin also pulled Alex Murdaugh's retrial entirely outside the 14th Judicial Circuit, pointing to the impossibility of seating an unbiased jury in a county Murdaugh's family effectively ran for three generations. She ruled the state can replay Murdaugh's own 2023 sworn testimony for the new jury, including his admission that he lied about being at the kennels the night his wife and son were killed. In a separate development, the defense told the court that weapons recovered in a recent Allendale County homicide may be ballistically linked to the Moselle murder weapons — a claim prosecutor Creighton Waters said blindsided him despite his daily contact with SLED. McCaslin is now personally overseeing jury selection after questions surfaced about when Becky Hill's interference in the original trial actually started. Murdaugh's team is also asking the judge to void the murder charges over allegations a SLED agent fabricated grand jury evidence. Next hearing: November 14. Retrial: April 5, 2027. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrimeToday #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #PaulMurdaugh 

A South Carolina county of 37,000 people, where the Murdaugh family ran the local prosecutor's office for three generations, will not be hosting Alex Murdaugh's retrial. Judge Debra McCaslin pulled the case entirely outside the 14th Judicial Circuit at an August 14 pretrial hearing, and Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break down everything else that happened in that courtroom. Murdaugh's defense told the court that weapons from a recent Allendale County homicide may be ballistically linked to the Moselle murder weapons — information prosecutor Creighton Waters said he'd never heard, despite daily contact with SLED. McCaslin ordered independent lab testing on unidentified male DNA recovered from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails, siding with the defense's argument that SLED's own retesting process risked destroying the sample. She ruled Murdaugh's 2023 sworn testimony — including his admission that he lied about being at the kennels the night his wife and son died — can be replayed for the new jury. She's also now personally managing jury summons after questions arose about whether court official Becky Hill's interference in the original trial began earlier than previously understood. Murdaugh's team separately wants the murder charges voided outright, alleging a SLED agent fabricated evidence presented to the grand jury; that motion has not been ruled on. The next hearing lands November 14, with the retrial set for April 5, 2027. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #PaulMurdaugh 

Alex Murdaugh's lawyers have accused a SLED agent of fabricating evidence used to charge him with murder in the first place. That motion is now sitting in front of Judge Debra McCaslin, one of several bombshells to come out of an August 14 pretrial hearing. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer cover the full hearing, start to finish. McCaslin pulled the retrial entirely outside the 14th Judicial Circuit, ruling that a county where Murdaugh's family ran the prosecutor's office for three generations can't seat an unbiased jury. She ordered independent lab testing on unidentified male DNA recovered from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails, agreeing with the defense that SLED's own retesting process could destroy the sample. She ruled the state can replay Murdaugh's 2023 sworn testimony for the new jury, including his admission that he lied about being at the kennels the night his wife and son were killed. And in the hearing's final stretch, the defense told the court that weapons tied to a recent Allendale County homicide may be ballistically linked to the Moselle murder weapons — a claim prosecutor Creighton Waters says caught him completely off guard despite talking to SLED every day. McCaslin is now personally overseeing jury selection after questions surfaced about Becky Hill's interference in the original trial. Next court date: November 14. Retrial: April 5, 2027. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #MurdaughTrial #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #CriminalJustice 

Alex Murdaugh's retrial jury may hear him lie to them before they even meet him. Judge Debra McCaslin ruled at an August 14 pretrial hearing that the state can replay Murdaugh's own 2023 sworn testimony for the new jury — including his admission that he wasn't telling the truth about being at the kennels the night his wife and son were killed. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to cover the full hearing. McCaslin also pulled the retrial entirely outside the 14th Judicial Circuit, citing the near impossibility of an unbiased jury in a county where the Murdaugh family ran the prosecutor's office for three generations. Where the case actually lands is still undecided, with the defense pushing for Charleston. The defense also dropped a bombshell claim: weapons from a recent Allendale County homicide may be ballistically connected to the Moselle murder weapons — news that prosecutor Creighton Waters said caught him completely off guard despite his daily contact with SLED. McCaslin cleared independent DNA testing on unidentified male genetic material found under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails, and she's now personally overseeing jury selection after questions emerged about when Becky Hill's interference in the first trial actually began. A separate defense motion asks the judge to void the murder charges outright over allegations that a SLED agent fabricated grand jury evidence. Next court date: November 14. Retrial: April 5, 2027. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillersLive #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #CriminalJustice 

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty, but things are just getting started in the retrial of Alex Murdaugh. We discuss.For early and ad-free access to episodes as well as the opportunity to watch us record episodes live, join our PatreonFor early and ad-free episodes you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts.Get Prosecutors Podcast Merch Join our fan-run Facebook Group: the Gallery on Facebook for case discussions, hot legal topics, and more. Follow us on X, or as we'll always call it: Twitter @prosecutorspodFind us on Instagram or Threads @prosecutorspodCheck out our website for case resourcesHang out with us on TikTok @prosecutorspodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Part One of Two Investigative journalists Mandy Matney and ⁠Liz Farrell break down everything that happened at Alex Murdaugh's most recent hearing.Team Murdaugh came to Friday's retrial hearing armed with a "bombshell" that turned out to be a dud… a rumor from fitsnews claiming Murdaugh murder weapons were tied to a recent Allendale County killing. However, no article existed, prosecutor Creighton Waters had never heard of it, and SLED debunked the claim within minutes.Mandy and Liz break down how the fumble unraveled in real time — and why so much of the media ran with it anyway. Then there's the venue circus: Dick Harpootlian putting his own associate on the stand to testify about budget hotels and Cracker Barrel commutes, insisting on Charleston-only... before pivoting to Richland County in a Monday letter to Judge McCaslin. Plus, the ruling that matters most: Alex's sworn testimony from the first trial — the lies, the kennel video admission, all of it — is allowed into the record in Murdaugh 2.0. Testifying has consequences. So does lying about where you were when your family was murdered.Vote for Laura Richards and Mandy Matney's SXSW Panel!Let's Dive In…

In this episode, we analyze the recent Murdaugh status conference, and Judge McCaslin's rulings. "The Professor", Matt Siembieta, joins Impact to discuss change of venue, prior tesimony and more decisions that were made about Murdaugh's upcoming retrial on double murder conviction. The Professor, Matt Siembieda, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a law professor at Temple University, bringing legal insight and analysis to the discussion. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime, past and present, from the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and YouTube. Please support our sponsors Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Luigi Mangione confessed to murder and was convicted of stalking. Lindsay Clancy had four providers who never spoke to each other. Alex Murdaugh's prosecutor found out about his own evidence from the defense table.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on True Crime Today to cover all three cases.Mangione told a federal judge on August 14 that he shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He posed as a financial manager overseeing billions to get the conference location. The federal murder charge had already been dismissed. His lawyers filed a double jeopardy motion to kill the state murder case within hours. He is twenty-eight and faces sentencing in December with prosecutors seeking life.The Clancy trial at Plymouth Superior Court is three weeks into testimony. Clancy's nurse practitioner had no idea she had seen her psychiatrist fourteen times. She searched "hallucinations" on her phone five days before the killings. Peer-reviewed literature documents a four percent infanticide rate for postpartum psychosis. She broke her spine in a suicide attempt and is permanently paralyzed.At Murdaugh's Lexington County hearing, Judge Debra McCaslin ordered independent DNA testing on Maggie Murdaugh's fingernail evidence and moved the retrial out of the Colleton County circuit. The defense raised a potential connection between Allendale County murder weapons and the Murdaugh case. Creighton Waters, who speaks with SLED daily, said he had never heard of it.Coffindaffer covers what an investigator sees in all three cases and where each one goes from here.Lindsay Clancy and Alex Murdaugh have pleaded not guilty. All individuals are presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #LuigiMangione #AlexMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DoubleJeopardy #SLED #CriminalJustice

Three courtrooms. Three critical moments. One retired FBI agent covering all of them.Lindsay Clancy's trial at Plymouth Superior Court is in week three. The jury has heard that four mental health providers prescribed her thirteen medications and never communicated with each other. Clancy searched "hallucinations" on her phone before the killings. She jumped from a window after and is permanently paralyzed. The published infanticide rate for postpartum psychosis is four percent.Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges on August 14 and confessed to killing Brian Thompson. The federal murder charge had already been dismissed. His lawyers filed a double jeopardy motion to block the state murder trial before he left the courthouse. He has avoided terrorism charges, the death penalty, and a federal murder conviction. He is twenty-eight.Alex Murdaugh's pretrial hearing produced an unexpected development when the defense told the judge about a potential Allendale County weapons connection. Creighton Waters, the lead prosecutor, told the court he had never heard about it. The judge ordered independent DNA testing on evidence from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and relocated the retrial out of the Colleton County circuit.Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI Special Agent, joins Tony Brueski on Hidden Killers Live for the full conversation — what the provider failures mean in Clancy, whether the Mangione defense has outplayed the system, and what the Allendale weapons revelation says about SLED's handling of the Murdaugh evidence.Lindsay Clancy and Alex Murdaugh have pleaded not guilty. All individuals are presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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.#LindsayClancy #LuigiMangione #AlexMurdaugh #JenniferCoffindaffer #HiddenKillersLive #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #DoubleJeopardy #SLED #CriminalJustice

The lead prosecutor in the Alex Murdaugh murder case found out about potential evidence linked to the murder weapons from the defense — in open court. Creighton Waters told the judge on August 14 that he had never heard of the development. He said he communicates with SLED daily.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski on True Crime Today to go through the Lexington County pretrial hearing and what it means for the retrial scheduled for April 2027.Judge Debra McCaslin granted the defense access to fingernail DNA collected from Maggie Murdaugh. SLED's standard method had confirmed unknown male DNA but failed to identify it. The defense had fought to prevent SLED from retesting the sample internally, arguing the process would consume the only material available for independent analysis. McCaslin ruled an outside lab would get access.The retrial has been relocated out of the Colleton County circuit. The first trial was held where the Murdaugh family name carried decades of institutional power. McCaslin is personally overseeing jury selection after the first conviction was thrown out due to jury tampering.The prosecution can play Murdaugh's sworn testimony from 2023, including his admission he lied about being at the kennels. It lost roughly twelve and a half hours of financial crimes evidence the Supreme Court excluded. The defense has separately raised allegations that SLED's case agent provided false testimony about a bloody T-shirt and that the lab halted testing when results did not match.Coffindaffer covers what the hearing reveals about SLED's case management and whether the prosecution is stronger or weaker heading into the second trial.Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #TrueCrimeToday #JenniferCoffindaffer #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #CriminalJustice

Alex Murdaugh's pretrial hearing on August 14 produced a moment prosecutors did not expect. The defense told Judge Debra McCaslin that weapons from a recent Allendale County murder may be connected to the Murdaugh murder weapons. Creighton Waters, the lead prosecutor, said in open court he had never heard of it — despite speaking with SLED on a daily basis.Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins Tony Brueski to analyze what happened in the Lexington County courtroom and what it says about the integrity of the case SLED built.McCaslin ordered that fingernail DNA from Maggie Murdaugh be released to the defense for independent testing. The existing SLED analysis identified an unknown male profile under her fingernails but could not establish whose it was. The defense had fought for months against SLED conducting its own retesting, arguing the process would consume the remaining sample.The venue has been moved out of the entire judicial circuit that includes Colleton County, where the Murdaugh family held the local prosecutor's seat for three generations. McCaslin will oversee jury selection directly — a decision the defense pushed for after the first trial was overturned due to jury tampering by the clerk of court.Murdaugh's sworn testimony from 2023 will be played for the new jury. That includes his admission that he lied about being at the kennels. The prosecution lost twelve and a half hours of financial crimes evidence the Supreme Court said should not have been allowed.Coffindaffer examines what the Allendale weapons revelation tells an investigator and how much of the prosecution's current position traces back to how SLED built this case.Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #JenniferCoffindaffer #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #CriminalJustice

Alex Murdaugh's defense raised something in the Lexington County courtroom on August 14 that Creighton Waters did not see coming. The defense told Judge Debra McCaslin that weapons from a recent Allendale County murder may connect to the Murdaugh murder weapons. Waters told the court he had never heard a word about it, despite daily communication with SLED.Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI Special Agent, joins Tony Brueski to cover the August 14 hearing and what it tells an investigator about how SLED managed the evidence in this case.McCaslin ordered SLED to release fingernail DNA from Maggie Murdaugh to the defense for outside testing. The standard SLED analysis detected unknown male DNA under her fingernails but could not identify whose it was. The defense argued SLED's retesting protocol would destroy the remaining sample.The venue was moved entirely out of the Colleton County circuit. McCaslin said she will personally oversee how jurors are selected. The first trial conviction was reversed after the clerk of court was found to have improperly influenced the jury.The court ruled Murdaugh's 2023 testimony will be played in the retrial. That includes his admission he lied about being at the kennels. The Supreme Court previously excluded roughly twelve and a half hours of financial crimes evidence it said went too far, and the prosecution will not have that material in the second trial.The defense has separately alleged that SLED's lead case agent testified about blood on a T-shirt that the agent himself acknowledged was not there, and that SLED's forensic division stopped testing the shirt after the first result came back negative for human blood.Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #CreightonWaters #JenniferCoffindaffer #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CriminalJustice #MaggieMurdaugh

Creighton Waters told Judge Debra McCaslin on August 14 that he talks to SLED every day. Minutes earlier, the defense told the same judge about a potential link between weapons from an Allendale County murder and the Murdaugh case. Waters said he was hearing it for the first time.Jennifer Coffindaffer, a retired FBI Special Agent, joins Tony Brueski on Hidden Killers Live to cover the pretrial hearing and what it means for the April 2027 retrial.The judge ordered independent DNA testing on material collected from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails. SLED had confirmed the presence of unknown male DNA but could not identify its source. The defense wanted an outside lab to run the analysis and argued SLED's internal retesting would destroy the sample.McCaslin moved the retrial out of Colleton County and the entire circuit. She will personally oversee jury selection. The first trial conviction was overturned after the clerk of court was found to have tampered with the jury.Murdaugh's 2023 testimony is coming in — his admission about lying and his presence at the kennels. The prosecution lost a significant block of financial crimes evidence the Supreme Court excluded. The defense alleges SLED's lead agent testified falsely about blood on a T-shirt and that the forensic lab stopped testing after results came back negative.Coffindaffer covers whether a prosecutor who learns about evidence from the defense can still credibly lead this case, and how the retrial is shaping up compared to what the first jury saw.Alex Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent.Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis 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 #HiddenKillersLive #JenniferCoffindaffer #MurdaughRetrial #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #CreightonWaters #CriminalJustice

What do the Alamo, the Murdaugh family and the federal case against former New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell tell us about the South today? Investigative journalist Jed Lipinski spent years reporting for The Times-Picayune, and now his Edward R. Murrow Award-winning podcast "Gone South" is expanding beyond true crime to examine the myths, power structures and complicated legacies that still shape this region.

Creighton Waters communicates with SLED daily. On August 14, he stood in a Lexington courtroom and admitted he had never heard of a possible connection between weapons from an Allendale County homicide and the firearms tied to the Murdaugh murders. The claim came from Murdaugh's defense team, not from the state's own investigators. McCaslin told the defense the claim raised her eyebrows.That admission followed a hearing stacked with prosecution setbacks. Judge McCaslin pulled the retrial out of Colleton County and the surrounding judicial circuit, where three generations of Murdaughs ran the local prosecutor's office. She gave the defense access to fingernail DNA from Maggie Murdaugh for its own lab analysis, overruling the state's argument that the evidence contained nothing new. She allowed conditional use of Murdaugh's prior testimony but restricted it to his statements about the night Maggie and Paul were killed.McCaslin assumed personal responsibility for building the jury pool after defense attorney Dick Harpootlian asked when Becky Hill's tampering influence on the first jury actually began. Hill, the former Colleton County clerk, pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction.Murdaugh, who has pleaded not guilty, appeared unshackled and in a suit for the first time since his November 2023 financial crimes sentencing. His defense has a pending motion asking McCaslin to dismiss the murder indictments based on alleged fabrication of blood evidence by SLED's lead case agent. The prosecution has not yet responded. The next hearing is November 14 and the retrial is set for April 5, 2027.Links:Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDisclaimer: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 #CreightonWaters #MurdaughRetrial #TrueCrimeToday #SLED #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughTrial

Alex Murdaugh walked into a Lexington courtroom on August 14 wearing a dark blue suit and striped tie. It was the first time he appeared in civilian clothes since being sentenced for stealing twelve million dollars in November 2023. Judge McCaslin had ordered the change days earlier, ruling that showing a defendant in prison clothes and shackles for convictions not before her court risks prejudicing potential jurors. Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to the murders of his wife Maggie and their son Paul.His defense team then won on nearly every front. McCaslin granted a venue change out of the 14th Judicial Circuit, where the Murdaugh family's ancestors served as chief prosecutors for most of the last century. She allowed independent testing of unknown male DNA found under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails and placed conditions on how prosecutors can use Murdaugh's sworn testimony from 2023, limiting it to testimony about the killings.McCaslin personally assumed control of jury selection after Dick Harpootlian raised concerns about when former clerk Becky Hill's interference with the original jury started. Hill pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction after the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned Murdaugh's conviction.Near the end of the hearing, the defense claimed weapons from a recent Allendale County homicide may be connected to the Murdaugh murder case. Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters said he had never heard of it. A motion to throw out the murder indictments over alleged evidence fabrication by SLED's lead case agent is still pending. Next hearing: November 14. Retrial: April 5, 2027.Links:Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDisclaimer: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 #SLED #MurdaughRetrial #CreightonWaters #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #BeckyHill #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh

A motion filed on August 10 asks Judge Debra McCaslin to dismiss Alex Murdaugh's murder indictments entirely. The defense alleges SLED's lead case agent gave false testimony and presented fabricated blood evidence on a T-shirt to the Colleton County grand jury that charged Murdaugh in 2022. No prosecution response has been filed and McCaslin has not ruled.That pending motion was the backdrop for an August 14 hearing where the defense gained ground on every other contested issue. McCaslin granted a change of venue out of the 14th Judicial Circuit, citing the high rate of jurors disqualified in the original trial and the Murdaugh family's generations-long role in the local legal establishment.She ordered the release of unknown male DNA recovered from Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails for independent defense testing. She ruled Murdaugh's 2023 testimony conditionally admissible, limited to statements about the deaths of Maggie and Paul, rejecting the defense argument that his decision to testify was compelled by improperly admitted financial crimes evidence.McCaslin took personal control of jury selection, responding to Dick Harpootlian's concerns about when former clerk Becky Hill began shaping the original pool. The hearing ended with the defense raising a potential ballistics link between the murder weapons and a recent Allendale County homicide. Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters told the court he had never heard of the connection despite daily contact with SLED. Murdaugh has pleaded not guilty. The retrial remains set for April 5, 2027.Links:Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodDisclaimer: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 #SLED #CreightonWaters #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughTrial #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #DickHarpootlian

Alex Murdaugh's defense filed a new motion demanding prosecutors search again for evidence and witness credibility material generated since the first trial, and certify in writing, within thirty days, that nothing favorable was missed. It names no witness. It alleges no specific missing document. Tony Brueski breaks down why that might be the point. The supplemental Brady and Giglio motion lists ten categories: plea and cooperation agreements, new witness statements, updated personnel and internal affairs files, testing methodology and proficiency records, additional search warrants, and anything post-trial bearing on the verdict's integrity. Prosecutors haven't responded yet, and a sanctions motion tied to an earlier suppression claim from the first trial is still outstanding. The filing lands alongside a separate move from the state: prosecutors want a new jury to hear Murdaugh's own 2023 testimony, including his admission that he lied to investigators for about eighteen months about being at the kennels the night Maggie and Paul were killed. The state is also renewing motions to keep third-party guilt evidence from the jury and to bar any mention of a polygraph, after Murdaugh's attorneys once claimed Curtis Eddie Smith failed one on the murders. Prosecutors are pushing for a fresh review of digital evidence while opposing independent DNA testing sought by the defense. Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027. Murdaugh is presumed innocent, has denied the killings since 2021, and remains imprisoned on unrelated financial crimes. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #BradyMotion #DebraMcCaslin #DickHarpootlian 

For about eighteen months, Alex Murdaugh told investigators he was never at the kennels the night Maggie and Paul were killed. He later admitted, under oath, that wasn't true. Prosecutors now want a brand new jury to hear that admission directly from his own 2023 testimony. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke break down what the state's filing is actually asking for. Alongside the testimony, prosecutors are renewing two pretrial wins from the first trial: keeping third-party guilt evidence from the jury, and barring any mention of a polygraph, a rule that matters because Murdaugh's own attorneys once told a court Curtis Eddie Smith failed one when asked about the murders. Prosecutors are also seeking a fresh review of digital evidence and fighting the defense's request for independent DNA testing. The defense has its own move on the table. A supplemental Brady and Giglio motion demands prosecutors search again for favorable evidence and witness credibility material generated since the first trial, and certify in writing within thirty days that the search was thorough. Ten categories are listed, from plea deals to personnel files to testing methodology, and the motion names no specific witness or missing document. A sanctions motion from the first trial remains unresolved, and prosecutors haven't responded. Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027. Alex Murdaugh is presumed innocent, has denied the killings since 2021, and remains imprisoned on unrelated financial crimes. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #BradyMotion #DebraMcCaslin #DickHarpootlian 

Alex Murdaugh's defense wants independent DNA testing ahead of his retrial. Prosecutors are fighting that request. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke dig into why the state doesn't want a second lab involved, and what it's asking for instead. Prosecutors are also seeking a fresh review of digital evidence and moving to admit Murdaugh's own 2023 testimony at the retrial, including his admission that he lied to investigators for about eighteen months about being at the kennels the night Maggie and Paul were killed, and his denial of the killings themselves. The state is renewing two pretrial wins: keeping third-party guilt evidence from the jury, and barring any reference to a polygraph, after Murdaugh's own attorneys once told a court that Curtis Eddie Smith failed one when asked about the murders. Murdaugh's defense has filed its own countermove, a supplemental Brady and Giglio motion demanding prosecutors search again for favorable evidence generated since the first trial and certify in writing, within thirty days, that nothing was missed. Ten categories are listed, from plea deals to lab proficiency testing, and the motion names no specific witness or document. A sanctions motion from the first trial is still outstanding, and prosecutors haven't responded. Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027. Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions were overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court over the clerk of court's conduct with the jury. He is presumed innocent and remains imprisoned on unrelated financial crimes. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #BradyMotion #DebraMcCaslin #DickHarpootlian 

Polygraph results can't be used as evidence in court. That hasn't stopped them from becoming a flashpoint heading into Alex Murdaugh's retrial, after his own attorneys once told a court that Curtis Eddie Smith failed one when asked about the murders of Maggie and Paul. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke take listener questions on why prosecutors are moving to bar the subject entirely. That motion is part of a larger filing. Prosecutors want a new jury to hear Murdaugh's own 2023 testimony, including his admission that he lied to investigators for roughly eighteen months about being at the kennels the night his wife and son were killed, and his denial of the killings themselves. The state is also renewing a motion to keep third-party guilt evidence from the jury, pushing for a fresh review of digital evidence, and opposing the defense's request for independent DNA testing. Murdaugh's defense has answered with its own filing: a supplemental Brady and Giglio motion demanding prosecutors search again for favorable evidence generated since the first trial and certify in writing, within thirty days, that the search was complete. Ten categories are listed, covering everything from plea deals to lab proficiency testing, and the motion doesn't name a single witness or document. Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027. Dreeke weighs what the polygraph fight and the certification demand both say about where this case stands. Murdaugh is presumed innocent. 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 #MaggieMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #BradyMotion #DebraMcCaslin #DickHarpootlian 

Ryan Kelly told Alex Murdaugh's jury that nothing tied alternate suspect Eddie Smith to the murders of Maggie and Paul. In June 2026, he was fired from a Charleston County internal affairs job. The records don't describe the allegations, and nothing currently links the firing to his SLED work or the Murdaugh case. Tony Brueski lays out exactly what's known and what isn't. The timing matters because of what else surfaced the same week. On August 5, 2026, Murdaugh's defense filed a Brady motion demanding prosecutors search every file, agency, and personnel record connected to the case and swear in writing that nothing favorable to Murdaugh is being withheld. It leans heavily on lead investigator David Owen's record: a 2015 murder case where a judge later quashed the indictment because the state sat on favorable evidence for nearly a decade, including a mother's account that Owen denied under oath. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins to weigh whether the defense's demand is a fishing expedition or something this investigation has earned. She also addresses the white shirt Murdaugh wore the night of the murders, which tested negative for human blood before a chemical used in SLED's own testing left it permanently unusable for any further analysis. The same day the motion was filed, a federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against former clerk Becky Hill, whose jury tampering overturned his original convictions. Hill has pleaded guilty to obstruction, perjury, and misconduct and received no prison time. Judge Debra McCaslin hears arguments on the Brady motion August 14, 2026. Murdaugh is presumed innocent ahead of his 2027 retrial. 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 #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #DavidOwen #SLED #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul 

David Owen led the SLED investigation that put Alex Murdaugh behind bars. Years earlier he led another murder investigation that a judge later threw out entirely, and on the stand in that case, Owen denied something a grieving mother says she told him directly. Tony Brueski lays out what that denial was and why it's surfacing again now. In June 2025, a South Carolina judge quashed the indictment in State v. Colucci after ruling the state sat on favorable evidence for nearly a decade. The victim's mother testified she told Owen in 2015 that her daughter had spoken about ending her own life, testimony directly relevant to the case and something Owen said under oath never happened. That history now sits at the center of a Brady motion Murdaugh's defense filed on August 5, 2026, demanding prosecutors search every file, agency, and personnel record tied to the case and confirm in writing that nothing favorable to Murdaugh remains hidden. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer weighs whether the motion is a fishing expedition or something this investigation has genuinely earned. She also addresses agent Ryan Kelly, who told Murdaugh's jury nothing connected alternate suspect Eddie Smith to the murders and was fired from an unrelated Charleston County job in June 2026. The episode also covers the physical evidence fight over the shirt Murdaugh wore the night Maggie and Paul were killed, tested negative for blood and then rendered permanently untestable, and the recent dismissal of Murdaugh's lawsuit against Becky Hill, the clerk whose jury tampering overturned his original convictions. Judge Debra McCaslin hears arguments on the motion August 14, 2026. Murdaugh is presumed innocent ahead of his 2027 retrial. 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 #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #DavidOwen #SLED #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul 

Alex Murdaugh's defense wants a South Carolina judge to order something rare: a full search of every file, agency, and personnel record connected to his case, across ten categories, with prosecutors swearing in writing that nothing favorable to Murdaugh remains hidden. Judge Debra McCaslin hears arguments on that motion August 14, 2026. Tony Brueski breaks down what's actually being asked for, and why. The motion leans on the record of lead investigator David Owen, who led the Murdaugh case and, years earlier, a separate 2015 murder investigation a judge later quashed after ruling the state withheld favorable evidence for nearly a decade, including a mother's account Owen denied under oath. It also notes agent Ryan Kelly, who told Murdaugh's jury nothing tied alternate suspect Eddie Smith to the murders before being fired from an unrelated Charleston County job in June 2026. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer joins to weigh whether the demand is a fishing expedition or something this investigation has genuinely earned, and covers the fight over the white shirt Murdaugh wore the night Maggie and Paul were killed, tested negative for human blood, then rendered permanently untestable by a chemical used in SLED's own analysis. All of this comes days after a federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against former clerk Becky Hill, whose jury tampering overturned his original convictions. Hill has pleaded guilty to obstruction, perjury, and misconduct and received no prison time. Murdaugh is presumed innocent heading into his April 2027 retrial, and this motion may decide what the jury does or doesn't get to see. 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 #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #DavidOwen #SLED #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul

The white shirt Alex Murdaugh wore the night Maggie and Paul were killed was supposed to settle the question of blood spatter. SLED's own testing came back negative for human blood, then a chemical applied during that testing destroyed the shirt's usability for good. No retest. No second lab. Ever. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer tells Tony Brueski straight whether she buys that as an accident. That single piece of evidence sits inside a much bigger picture this episode lays out in full. A federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against former clerk Becky Hill on August 5, 2026, ruling he'd have paid for his defense regardless of her jury tampering. Hill has pleaded guilty to obstruction, perjury, and misconduct tied to a book photo, self-paid bonuses, and lying about sealed exhibits, and walked away with no prison time. The same day, Murdaugh's defense filed a Brady motion demanding prosecutors search every file, agency, and personnel record connected to the case and swear in writing that nothing favorable remains hidden. The motion leans on lead investigator David Owen's history: a separate 2015 murder case where a judge quashed the indictment after the state withheld evidence for nearly a decade, and where Owen denied under oath something the victim's mother says she told him directly. Coffindaffer also addresses agent Ryan Kelly, who told Murdaugh's jury nothing tied alternate suspect Eddie Smith to the murders before he was fired from an unrelated job this year. Judge Debra McCaslin hears arguments August 14, 2026. Murdaugh is presumed innocent heading into his 2027 retrial, and this episode asks whether the investigation deserves that same presumption. 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 #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #DavidOwen #SLED #SouthCarolina #MurdaughMurders #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul 

President Donald Trump dismissed and downplayed concerns raised by sailors' families regarding conditions on a US aircraft carrier. Alex Murdaugh's defense team secured a win today ahead of his double-murder retrial. Record heat in Europe will barely loosen its grip this weekend. Federal authorities are pursuing another alleged vandalism case in Washington, DC. Plus, an American missionary held captive for nine months is on his way home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is presented by Create A Video – Another pre-trial hearing in the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh where his defense team is trying to get the trial moved out of Colleton County, evidence ruled inadmissable, and even the murder charges dropped. Matt Harris was at the hearing this morning and brings us the latest. Harris is a co-host (along with Seton Tucker) of the “Impact of Influence” podcast on YouTube & Facebook and all the podcasting platforms. Plus, the former CFO at the Southern Poverty Law Center is arrested on fraud charges.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-kaliner-show--6946691/support.Subscribe to the podcast My preferred podcast platform: SpreakerAll the links to Pete's Prep are free!Get exclusive content here!Media Bias Check: GroundNews promo code!Advertising and Booking inquiries: Pete@ThePeteKalinerShow.com  

In this episode, IOI delves into the latest developments in the Murdaugh case, including legal motions, venue transfers, and forensic evidence. The Professor, Matt Siembieda, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a law professor at Temple University, bringing legal insight and analysis to the discussion. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime, past and present, from the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and YouTube. Please support our sponsors Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Set the Lindsay Clancy trial beside the Alex Murdaugh retrial and the witness lists start to rhyme. Tony Brueski takes the mail across all three segments with Robin Dreeke, a retired FBI Special Agent who spent his career in behavioral analysis.Clancy's psychiatrists testified for the prosecution that they saw no signs of psychosis. One of them, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, told jurors she did not have or seek Clancy's records from other providers and relied on her patient to disclose what mattered. The other, Dr. Alia Goodheart of McLean Hospital, testified the hospital did not obtain those records either. Neither knew about the two crisis line calls Clancy's civil suit describes.In South Carolina, Murdaugh's defense is demanding updated personnel files, disciplinary records and internal affairs materials on the investigators and forensic analysts who built the case. The state is moving the other way, seeking to admit Murdaugh's 2023 testimony and to keep third-party guilt away from the jury.One structure, two jurisdictions. A record assembled by people who were not looking for the thing the defense now says was sitting there.Prosecutors in Massachusetts argue Clancy's providers are not to blame and that she acted intentionally. Prosecutors in South Carolina argue the evidence against Murdaugh is overwhelming and that speculation about other suspects is not evidence.Clancy's trial is expected to run six to eight weeks with more than a hundred and eighty witnesses. Murdaugh's retrial is tentatively set for April 5, 2027.Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent. Alex Murdaugh awaits retrial after his convictions were overturned and is presumed innocent.Robin Dreeke handles all of it, including what a witness leaves out and how you hear it. 988 is answered around the clock.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#LindsayClancy #AlexMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #SLED #TrueCrime #ExpertTestimony #RobinDreeke

Robin Dreeke spent a career at the FBI working out what people are not saying. That is the exact skill this combined cut needs. Tony Brueski runs listener questions on two very different cases past him in one sitting.The Lindsay Clancy material is medical. Her outpatient psychiatrist finished residency in July 2022 and joined a private practice the month before Clancy became a patient. The McLean physician who cleared her to go home said she does not think she has treated a case of the condition at issue. Neither knew about two calls Clancy made to a crisis line.The Alex Murdaugh material is paper. The state wants his own prior testimony read to a new jury. The defense wants a signed certification that the files have been searched again, and it wants DNA from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails sent to an outside lab before the state's analysts touch what is left.Underneath both sits one behavioral question. When a professional testifies they saw nothing, how do you tell an absence from a blind spot?Dreeke spent years assessing exactly that in counterintelligence interviews, where the useful signal was rarely in what a subject volunteered.On all three first-degree murder counts, Clancy pleaded not guilty and is presumed innocent. Murdaugh's verdicts fell over what a court clerk said to jurors, and with them vacated he is presumed innocent at the retrial. Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set that trial for April 5, 2027.Three segments, one conversation, and listeners running the agenda. If the mental health material is close to home for you, 988 connects you to someone trained.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#LindsayClancy #AlexMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #SLED #TrueCrime #ExpertTestimony #RobinDreeke

Alex Murdaugh's defense is asking a judge to move the retrial out of the entire fourteenth judicial circuit, and it is the motion people argue about most. Tony Brueski takes listener questions with Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.The filing calls the case among the most heavily publicized criminal prosecutions in South Carolina history. It asks the court to move the trial outside the circuit where Murdaugh's family operated for generations. His great-grandfather, grandfather and father served consecutively as the region's elected solicitor from 1920 to 2006. The circuit covers five counties: Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper.Judge Debra McCaslin has left it to the state and the defense to discuss possible locations and bring her options. Pretrial proceedings are running out of her home court in Lexington County.The listener objection is a fair one. Documentaries, books and streaming series about this family reached the whole country, not five counties. Moving the trial also means the community where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh lived and died does not get to sit in judgment.The counterargument holds that saturation is not uniform. Jurors drawn from counties the family ran for a century carry associations jurors elsewhere do not. That is the standard a venue motion is measured against.The defense's other pending filings include a demand for a fresh Brady and Giglio search with written certification inside thirty days, plus a bid for independent DNA testing. McCaslin has also ruled Murdaugh will appear before the new jury in street clothes and without restraints, over the state's objection.Murdaugh's convictions were overturned, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #SLED #BradyMotion #MaggieMurdaugh #DickHarpootlian #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #SouthCarolina

There is a pretrial hearing coming in the Alex Murdaugh retrial, and a stack of new filings landed in front of Judge Debra McCaslin ahead of it. Tony Brueski works through the listener mail with Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.Not every motion matters equally, and separating the two is most of the work here. Pretrial practice in a case this size runs for months. A hearing can end with nothing settled and still tell you where a judge is leaning.The filing with real reach is the one seeking to put Murdaugh's own sworn words in front of the second jury. He chose to take the stand in 2023. Nobody compelled him. If those words come in, his lawyers are building a defense around explaining them, whether or not he ever testifies again.The rest tighten the edges. Two of them close doors the state already closed once, one asks for another look at the digital material, and one blocks a defense testing request.Judge McCaslin has told the attorneys she knows nothing about the first trial and expects them to be thorough when they explain it. She tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027.The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Murdaugh's convictions over what the clerk of court told jurors. He is presumed innocent at the retrial and has denied the killings throughout. He stays behind bars either way, serving concurrent state and federal financial crime sentences of twenty-seven and forty years.Robin Dreeke takes the mailbag on what is procedural, what is decisive, and how to tell the two apart before April.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

The part of Alex Murdaugh's new defense filing that matters most is the part about personnel files. Tony Brueski works the listener mail with Robin Dreeke, a retired FBI Special Agent who spent his career in behavioral analysis.The motion asks the court to order prosecutors to produce updated disciplinary records and internal affairs materials. It covers misconduct findings on any officer or forensic analyst tied to the investigation, arrest or prosecution. It names no one. The language is broad enough to reach several people.One of them is former SLED senior special agent Ryan Kelly. He led the investigation into the September 2021 roadside shooting involving Murdaugh and Curtis Eddie Smith. Kelly testified at the 2023 murder trial. He told jurors investigators had found nothing whatsoever connecting Smith to the killings of Maggie and Paul. Kelly left SLED in 2025 and joined the Charleston County Sheriff's Office as chief inspector of internal affairs. He was fired from that job in June 2026 after an administrative investigation into allegations of harassment, conduct unbecoming, improper procedures and unsatisfactory performance.That termination has not been linked to anything Kelly did while at SLED, and there is no indication the allegations involved any Murdaugh-related investigation. Whether any of it would be admissible is a question for the court. Publicly available records do not describe the underlying conduct.That is exactly the kind of post-trial development the motion appears built to capture, and it is why listeners keep asking how exposed the state's witness list actually is.His convictions no longer stand, and Murdaugh is presumed innocent heading into April. Robin Dreeke handles the mailbag on credibility files, impeachment, and what a jury never sees.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #SLED #BradyMotion #MaggieMurdaugh #DickHarpootlian #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #SouthCarolina

Two of the motions prosecutors just renewed in the Alex Murdaugh retrial are about what the jury will never hear. Tony Brueski takes the listener mail on them with Robin Dreeke, a retired FBI Special Agent who spent his career in behavioral analysis.The first would exclude evidence of third-party guilt. The state won that fight before the 2023 trial. Winning it again means Murdaugh's lawyers cannot stand up and point at another person as the killer without clearing a bar the court sets.The second would exclude any mention of a polygraph. That one has a history. In an October filing before the first trial, Murdaugh's own attorneys wrote that Curtis Eddie Smith failed a polygraph when he was questioned about whether he murdered Maggie and Paul. Smith has denied wrongdoing in the murders. Prosecutors argued then, and are arguing again, that juries give polygraphers more weight than the science supports.Prosecutors are also asking the court to admit Murdaugh's 2023 testimony at the retrial, seeking a fresh review of digital evidence, and opposing the defense's bid for outside DNA testing.The question listeners keep raising is worth taking seriously. An office that calls its evidence overwhelming is asking a judge to close two doors it already closed once. Prosecutors would say that is standard practice and that speculation is not evidence.Maggie Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh were killed at the family's Colleton County property on June 7, 2021. Paul was twenty-two. Murdaugh has said he found their bodies.Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027, and is handling pretrial proceedings in Lexington County.With the verdicts vacated, Murdaugh stands as an untried defendant again, presumed innocent. Robin Dreeke takes the mailbag on what gets kept out and who it actually protects.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

Alex Murdaugh is getting a second trial because of a court clerk. That is the whole reason any of these new filings exist, and it is worth keeping in front of you. Tony Brueski takes listener questions with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.The South Carolina Supreme Court vacated Murdaugh's 2023 murder convictions after jurors said Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill told them to watch his body language and not be fooled by his testimony. The justices ruled that amounted to a suggestion he was guilty. Hill later pleaded guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office, and was sentenced to probation.Now prosecutors have moved to put the very testimony Hill commented on in front of a new jury. Their filing asks Judge Debra McCaslin to admit Murdaugh's 2023 trial testimony at the retrial, including his admission that he lied to investigators for roughly eighteen months about being at the kennels the night Maggie and Paul were killed.The same filings renew the state's motions to exclude polygraph evidence and third-party guilt, seek a fresh review of digital evidence, and oppose the defense's request for independent DNA testing.The listener question landing hardest is the circular one. The verdict fell because of what a clerk said about him testifying. The state's answer is to make sure the next jury hears him testify anyway.McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027. Lead prosecutor Creighton Waters told the court the state could have been ready before the end of 2026. Dick Harpootlian said the defense has eight new expert witnesses and that DNA work alone could take six months.Murdaugh's convictions were overturned, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent. He has denied the killings since 2021 and remains in prison on financial crime convictions.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

Alex Murdaugh's lawyers want a signature from the prosecution, and the reason sits in a case most people have never heard of. Tony Brueski takes the listener mail with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.The defense filed a supplemental motion under Brady and Giglio. It asks the court to order prosecutors to search again for favorable and impeachment material generated since the 2023 trial, then certify in writing that the search was diligent and current. Thirty days.Now the case that gets a fraction of the coverage. Last spring a circuit court judge quashed the murder indictment in the Michael Colucci prosecution after concluding potentially exculpatory evidence had not been properly disclosed. Former SLED special agent David Owen, the lead investigator in the Moselle murders, faced renewed credibility scrutiny in connection with that matter. Owen retired in June 2024 after twenty-eight years of service.At Murdaugh's first trial, Owen acknowledged under cross-examination that SLED waited roughly three months to search the family's Almeda property, even though investigators later theorized Murdaugh may have taken weapons or evidence there. Asked whether that was an opportunity missed, he answered that it probably was.The current motion names neither Owen nor anyone else. It asks the state to repeat the entire discovery process against everything that has happened since.Prosecutors have not yet filed a response. Judge Debra McCaslin has tentatively set the retrial for April 5, 2027, with pretrial proceedings in Lexington County.Maggie Murdaugh and Paul Murdaugh were killed at the family's Colleton County hunting property on June 7, 2021.Murdaugh's convictions were overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent. He has denied the killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh throughout.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #SLED #BradyMotion #MaggieMurdaugh #DickHarpootlian #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #SouthCarolina

There is a limited amount of DNA left from under Maggie Murdaugh's left hand, and both sides want to test it first. Tony Brueski takes your questions on that fight with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.SLED previously determined the material belonged to an unknown, unrelated male, but did not identify him. The state uses STR analysis, which checks samples against law enforcement databases and cannot name someone who is not already in the system. The defense wants the reserve samples sent first to Othram, a Texas laboratory that runs SNP testing and forensic genetic genealogy, the approach that can build out a family tree from an unknown contributor.In a July filing, Murdaugh's attorneys told the court something new. Prosecutors had just disclosed that reserve samples from two evidence items remain unprocessed, and that SLED wants to run repeat testing on them. Every test consumes material. The defense argues a retest risks exhausting the only sample capable of producing a name. Othram, they say, could finish in sixty to ninety days.The same filing accuses SLED of mishandling the white T-shirt Murdaugh wore the night of the killings. Testing returned negative for human blood on the stained areas, and the shirt was later rendered unavailable for additional testing after a chemical enhancement agent was applied. The defense calls that a reason to doubt the agency's good faith. That is their allegation, not a court finding.Prosecutors oppose the defense's access request. Judge Debra McCaslin decides the sequence. A July conference on the testing brought defense attorneys, prosecutors, SLED forensic scientists and Othram's chief executive into the same call.The verdicts against him were reversed on appeal, and Murdaugh returns to trial presumed innocent. Robin Dreeke takes the mail on what a name under those fingernails would and would not prove.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #SLED #BradyMotion #MaggieMurdaugh #DickHarpootlian #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #SouthCarolina

The South Carolina Supreme Court did not only fault the clerk of court when it threw out Alex Murdaugh's convictions. The justices also flagged how much of the 2023 trial was spent on the money he stole. Tony Brueski takes your questions on what that means for the retrial with retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke.Prosecutors spent close to two weeks of the first trial on Murdaugh's financial crimes. That evidence was not tied to the murder charges directly. It was offered to establish motive: his thefts were about to be exposed, and the state argued the killings bought him sympathy and time.Judge Debra McCaslin now decides how much of that comes in the second time. She has told the attorneys she knows nothing about the first trial and wants them complete when they explain it to her.The state's newest filings run the other direction. Prosecutors moved to admit Murdaugh's own 2023 testimony at the retrial, renewed motions to exclude polygraph evidence and third-party guilt, requested a fresh review of digital evidence, and opposed the defense's push for independent DNA analysis.Listeners are asking a sharp question about the arithmetic. If the financial evidence gets trimmed and the third-party door stays shut, what is the state walking into April 2027 with, and is it enough for twelve people who have never heard any of this.Murdaugh has denied the killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh since 2021. His convictions were vacated, he awaits retrial, and he is presumed innocent. He pleaded guilty to dozens of financial crimes and remains in prison on those sentences.Robin Dreeke handles the mail on motive, money, and what a jury actually does with a man's finances.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#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #DebraMcCaslin #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughMurders #CreightonWaters

What do the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Alex Murdaugh retrial, and the Lindsay Clancy murder trial have in common? In every one of them, the referee is also playing the game. That's the spine of this True Crime Today triple with Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, a career federal investigator grading the investigations everyone else takes on faith.In Tucson, the sheriff's office running the Guthrie case accidentally published the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address. Coffindaffer's trace of that wallet shows no ransom was ever paid, just a single three-hundred-dollar FBI deposit sitting untouched. Direct messages to the wallet went unanswered for six months. Sheriff Nanos marked the half-year point by calling the FBI relationship great and admitting thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed.In South Carolina, SLED investigated Becky Hill — the clerk whose verdict SLED's biggest conviction depended on. Her guilty plea skipped the jury tampering entirely, she served no prison time, and a federal judge just dismissed Alex Murdaugh's lawsuit against her. Now Murdaugh's defense demands SLED search its own files and certify in writing that nothing favorable stays buried. The demand lands on a lead investigator already tied to a separate case dismissed over undisclosed evidence, and a shirt that tested negative for human blood before the lab's own chemical made retesting impossible.In Massachusetts, the Lindsay Clancy trial narrowed to one question when the defense stipulated to the forensics: was her mind her own the night Cora, Dawson, and Callan died? Coffindaffer calls which of the state's mind-reading evidence will land with the jury and which is already backfiring.Murdaugh and Clancy are presumed innocent. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Three cases, one standard. Coffindaffer applies it without flinching.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#NancyGuthrie #AlexMurdaugh #LindsayClancy #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FBI #MurdaughRetrial #ClancyTrial #JenniferCoffindaffer

One retired FBI agent, three cases, one theme that will not go away: who checks the people running the investigation? Jennifer Coffindaffer sits down with Tony Brueski on Hidden Killers for a triple episode spanning the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Alex Murdaugh retrial, and the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.Guthrie first. The agency running that case handed the public its best evidence by mistake — a media release with the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet address printed on it. Coffindaffer traced it. No ransom was ever paid; the wallet's lone deposit is roughly three hundred dollars from the FBI, and direct messages to the wallet, including the family's own words about paying, went unanswered for six months. Sheriff Nanos calls the FBI partnership great while thousands of hours of video sit unreviewed.Murdaugh next. Becky Hill's jury interference forced the retrial, yet her guilty plea covered a book photo, bonuses, and sealed exhibits, not the tampering, with no prison time, and a federal judge just dismissed Murdaugh's lawsuit against her. The agency that investigated Hill was SLED, whose biggest conviction depended on her verdict surviving. Now a defense motion demands SLED's files be searched and certified clean in writing, with lead investigator David Owen already connected to a separate case dismissed over undisclosed evidence.Clancy last. Her defense stipulated to the forensics in week two, stripping the trial to a single question: was her mind her own the night Cora, Dawson, and Callan died? The state answered with toxicology in a case that was never about an overdose, and a calm-patient snapshot from six days later.Murdaugh and Clancy are presumed innocent. Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Coffindaffer has worked inside the machine, and this is her honest read on what the machine is doing in all three.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#NancyGuthrie #AlexMurdaugh #LindsayClancy #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #FBI #MurdaughRetrial #ClancyTrial #JenniferCoffindaffer

In 2025, a judge threw out the murder indictment against a man named Michael Colucci after finding that evidence which could have helped him was never properly disclosed. That case is connected to David Owen — the same investigator who ran the Alex Murdaugh murder investigation. Sit with that overlap for a second, because Alex Murdaugh's defense team clearly has. Their new motion demands prosecutors go back through every file SLED touched and certify in writing that nothing favorable to Murdaugh is still sitting in a drawer.On this True Crime Today conversation, Tony Brueski puts the uncomfortable question to retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer: if it happened in the Colucci case, who's checking whether it happened here, besides SLED itself? Coffindaffer spent her career inside federal investigations. She knows what a real evidence audit looks like and what agencies do when one is forced on them. She also knows the difference between a defense attorney who's fishing and one who already knows something is missing.The Owen question is one thread in a week that moved this case twice. A federal judge dismissed Murdaugh's $600,000 lawsuit against Becky Hill, the former clerk whose jury interference forced the retrial, ruling she owes him nothing because he'd have paid his lawyers regardless. Hill's guilty plea covered a book photo, self-paid bonuses, and lying about sealed exhibits. No prison. Nothing for the tampering. Coffindaffer also works through the fired agent whose testimony cleared Eddie Smith, and the white shirt that tested negative for human blood before a lab chemical made it untestable forever.Murdaugh is presumed innocent, and his April retrial will settle what a jury believes. This episode settles something else: whether the file that jury gets handed can be trusted.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#AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #SouthCarolina #SLED #MurdaughMurders #JenniferCoffindaffer #JusticeSystem

In 2015, a mother sat for an interview with a SLED agent investigating her daughter Sara's death. She later testified that she told him something that changed the picture — that Sara had talked about ending her own life, in the place and manner she died. Ten years later, that interview helped sink a murder case. The agent was David Owen, the same investigator who led the case against Alex Murdaugh.Tony Brueski connects the collapse of the Michael Colucci prosecution to the Brady motion Murdaugh's defense filed August 5, 2026. Judge Roger Young threw out Colucci's indictment in June 2025, ruling the state failed to disclose the mother's account for nearly a decade. Owen testified he was never told. The judge sent prosecutors back to the grand jury with instructions to bring a fuller case.Murdaugh's lawyers didn't put Owen's name in their motion. They didn't need names. The filing demands updated personnel files, internal affairs records, and misconduct findings on every officer who touched the investigation — along with new witness deals, changed statements, and a written promise from prosecutors that nothing favorable to Murdaugh sits in a drawer. It also reaches SLED's files on the Eddie Smith roadside shooting and the narcotics investigation.The state will get to answer, and the likely answer is that this is a fishing trip built on cases that aren't this one. Judge Debra McCaslin hears it August 14, 2026. Alex Murdaugh, presumed innocent, goes to retrial in April 2027 for the murders of Maggie and Paul. The question this episode leaves behind is the one the defense is betting on: how much do you trust the file?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#AlexMurdaugh #DavidOwen #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #BradyMotion #SLED #MurdaughMurders #TrueCrimePodcast #SouthCarolina #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul

Who searches SLED's files besides SLED? That question sits under the Brady motion Alex Murdaugh's defense filed on August 5, 2026 — a demand that prosecutors reopen their entire discovery file and prove the retrial jury gets everything the law requires.Tony Brueski takes apart the demand piece by piece. The defense wants every witness deal made or modified since 2023, every new statement, every disciplinary record and internal affairs file attached to the investigators and analysts who built the case against Murdaugh — plus warrants, DNA developments, and anything from the appeal that touches the verdict's integrity. Then it asks for the piece with teeth: written certification that a diligent, current search happened and came up empty.The history driving it is specific. A judge quashed the Michael Colucci murder indictment in June 2025 after ruling the state withheld favorable evidence for nearly a decade — evidence a witness testified she handed to lead investigator David Owen back in 2015, and that Owen denied receiving. Owen ran the Murdaugh investigation too. A second former SLED agent from the case, Ryan Kelly, was fired from the Charleston County Sheriff's Office in June 2026, for allegations records don't detail and with no known connection to his SLED work or to Murdaugh.The state's answer is predictable and not unreasonable to raise: the motion points to no specific hidden document and no specific compromised witness. Attorney General Alan Wilson's office gets its say before Judge Debra McCaslin rules, with a hearing set for August 14 in Lexington County. Murdaugh is presumed innocent and faces retrial in April 2027. This episode is about the file that trial gets built on — and who vouches for it.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#AlexMurdaugh #DavidOwen #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #BradyMotion #SLED #MurdaughMurders #TrueCrimePodcast #SouthCarolina #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part Two of Two  South Carolina fined journalist Mandy Matney $5,000 to “deter similar conduct in the future and promote respect for the law.” It fined Cory Fleming, $0. Becky Hill, $0. Alex Murdaugh — who stole more than $12 million from grieving clients — $0.  Mandy opens Part Two of Episode 158 by laying that math out plainly, and asking what message it sends to every whistleblower in the state trying to change its broken systems. Then journalists⁠ Mandy Matney⁠ and⁠ ⁠Liz Farrell⁠ turn to Murdaugh v. Hill, the federal suit in which Alex demands at least $600,000 from the former clerk of court for what his lawyers call “criminal jury tampering” — a charge prosecutors declined to bring, because the jurors telling the story couldn't keep it straight. Plus: Becky's motion to dismiss, Phil Barber's savage briefs, another sealed discovery order, and why a sourdough starter metaphor explains this entire mess. Join the⁠ LUNASHARK® Premium Community⁠ now on Patreon - Together we go further ☀️