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Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions are gone — and the lawyer who built the financial crimes case the prosecution used as motive says the system just failed the people it was supposed to protect. Eric Bland represented the Satterfield sons. He helped expose the web of financial schemes that became the backbone of the state's argument for why Murdaugh killed his wife and son. The Supreme Court agreed that evidence was relevant to motive. Then the justices said prosecutors spent twelve and a half hours burying the jury in it — and that some of the most emotionally powerful testimony had no legal value at all.Bland sits in a position nobody else in this case occupies. He's not the prosecutor. He's not the defense. He's the attorney who handed the state its motive theory and then watched the court say the state got greedy with it. In this interview, he responds to the ruling with the kind of specificity only someone inside the case can provide. He takes on the Toal decision, the Becky Hill question, Harpootlian's "lone wolf" theory, and the defense's civil rights lawsuit that claims to benefit the very victims Bland represents.If you want to understand what this ruling actually cost — not in legal terms, but in human terms — this is the conversation.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #EricBland #MurdaughRetrial #Satterfield #BeckyHill #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina #HiddenKillers #FinancialCrimes #MurdaughTrial

Former Chief Justice Jean Toal sat individual jurors down and asked them whether Becky Hill's comments changed their votes. The South Carolina Supreme Court said she had no right to do that. Rule 606(b) protects the privacy of jury deliberations — you can ask whether external contact happened, but you cannot ask jurors how they voted or why. Toal crossed that line, and the Supreme Court corrected it by overruling one of its own prior decisions that had allowed broader inquiry.Defense attorney Eric Faddis walks through the legal mechanics of the reversal with Tony Brueski. The court adopted the Fourth Circuit's Cheek test as binding law in South Carolina. Once the defense demonstrated that Hill's comments were more than innocuous — telling jurors not to be fooled by the defense, to watch Murdaugh's body language, that deliberations shouldn't take long — prejudice was presumed automatically. The burden shifted to the State to prove no reasonable possibility the verdict was influenced. The State couldn't do it. Hill pled guilty to perjury in December 2025 and the court found she was driven by a book deal.But the ruling does more than reverse. It restructures the retrial. The prosecution spent twelve and a half hours on financial crimes the first time. The court flagged specific testimony as having zero probative value on motive and ordered any retrial to limit that evidence to material directly supporting the exposure timeline — the CFO confrontation the morning of the killings, the hearing three days later. The emotional weight that helped convict Murdaugh in the first trial is now subject to exclusion.Faddis addresses which unresolved evidentiary issues — the firearm analysis, the raincoat, the gunshot residue, the iPhone demonstration — give the defense its strongest ground at 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 #MurdaughRetrial #JeanToal #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #EricFaddis #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JuryTampering #MurdaughTrial

The South Carolina Supreme Court didn't just reverse Alex Murdaugh's conviction. It overruled one of its own prior decisions to do it. The court formally adopted the Fourth Circuit's three-step Cheek test for evaluating juror tampering claims, replacing the standard Jean Toal relied on when she denied the new trial motion. That's not a routine correction. That's the court deciding its own precedent was wrong — and the Murdaugh case was significant enough to rewrite the law.Defense attorney Eric Faddis walks through what the Cheek test actually requires. Once the defense showed that Becky Hill's comments to jurors were more than innocuous, prejudice was presumed automatically. The burden then shifted to the State to prove there was no reasonable possibility the verdict was influenced. The court found the State couldn't meet it. Hill told jurors not to be fooled by the defense, to watch Murdaugh's body language, and that deliberations shouldn't take long. She pled guilty to perjury in December 2025 for lying about her conduct under oath. The court found she was motivated by a book deal.Toal also violated Rule 606(b) by questioning individual jurors about whether the Clerk's comments changed their votes — a direct invasion of jury deliberation privacy. The Supreme Court said the proper inquiry stops at whether external contact occurred and whether it was prejudicial. You don't ask jurors how they voted or why.Faddis also addresses the retrial landscape. The court flagged specific financial crimes testimony as having zero probative value on motive and ordered prosecutors to limit that evidence significantly. The State's motive theory survives only if it stays tethered to the exposure timeline — the CFO confrontation the morning of the murders, the hearing three days later. Everything else is subject to challenge.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 #MurdaughRetrial #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #EricFaddis #CheekTest #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #JuryTampering #MurdaughTrial

Before the retrial even starts, the Murdaugh defense has to make a decision that could determine the outcome. Do they fight to exclude financial crimes evidence entirely — and risk the judge letting it all back in under the motive exception? Or do they let it in on their terms and attack the connection between a man stealing money and a man allegedly killing his wife and son? Defense attorney Eric Faddis says that strategic fork is the first and most consequential call the defense team has to make.The South Carolina Supreme Court ordered prosecutors to limit financial evidence at retrial to material directly supporting the motive theory. They flagged specific testimony from the first trial as having zero probative value — details about individual theft victims that made Murdaugh look like a monster but had no connection to why he would allegedly commit murder on June 7th, 2021. The State's motive theory survives only through the exposure timeline: the CFO confrontation the morning of the killings and the hearing scheduled three days later that would have forced financial disclosure.Faddis also walks through the evidentiary challenges the Supreme Court left unresolved. The firearm analysis. The blue raincoat. The gunshot residue testimony. The iPhone demonstration that placed Murdaugh at the kennels. He identifies which one gives the defense its strongest argument and explains why the prosecution may face a fundamentally different case the second time — one where the emotional leverage that drove the first conviction is no longer available.The reversal itself was unanimous. Five justices found Becky Hill tampered with the jury, Toal applied the wrong legal standard, and the court overruled its own precedent to adopt the Cheek test. AG Wilson confirmed the State will retry. Murdaugh remains incarcerated on financial convictions.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 #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughEvidence #EricFaddis #SCSupremeCourt #FinancialCrimes #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MotiveEvidence #MurdaughTrial

Former Chief Justice Jean Toal denied Alex Murdaugh's motion for a new trial by requiring him to prove the Clerk's comments actually harmed his case. The South Carolina Supreme Court just ruled unanimously that she had it backwards. Under federal law, the burden falls on the State to prove there is no reasonable possibility the verdict was influenced. All five justices found the State couldn't meet that standard. Toal also improperly questioned jurors about whether the comments changed their individual votes — violating the protections around jury deliberation privacy.The Clerk in question is Becky Hill, who the court found made unprecedented improper statements to jurors during the trial. She told them not to be fooled by the defense evidence, to watch Murdaugh's body language closely, and that deliberations shouldn't take long. The court determined her conduct was driven by a book deal that depended on a guilty verdict. Hill pled guilty to perjury in December 2025 for lying under oath about what she did.With retrial confirmed by AG Alan Wilson, the Supreme Court also drew a line: prosecutors presented over twelve hours of financial crimes evidence at the first trial. The court called that excessive and restricted any retrial to financial evidence directly supporting the motive theory. Murdaugh remains incarcerated on financial convictions.And while the courts sort through the wreckage, Blanca Simpson — the Murdaughs' housekeeper for fifteen years — is detailing what she found inside the house after the murders. Staged pajamas. A misplaced wedding ring. An unidentified truck at the property. Alex trying to establish a false detail about his clothing. And an investigator who allegedly told her to stop obsessing when she tried to report it. The system failed at more than one level in this case.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/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BeckyHill #JeanToal #SCSupremeCourt #BlancaSimpson #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurdaughTrial #ColletonCounty

A juror in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial had questions about his guilt. She voted to convict anyway — after the Clerk of Court told the jury not to be fooled by the defense. All five South Carolina Supreme Court justices just ruled unanimously that Becky Hill's conduct was unprecedented in the state's history and that her comments tainted the verdict. The court found Hill was motivated by a book deal that depended on a guilty verdict. She pled guilty to perjury in December 2025.The ruling dismantled the earlier decision by former Chief Justice Jean Toal, who denied Murdaugh's motion for a new trial using the wrong legal standard. Toal required Murdaugh to prove harm. The law requires the State to prove no reasonable possibility of influence. The court said the State couldn't do that. The justices also found Toal improperly questioned jurors about whether the Clerk's comments affected their votes, violating deliberation protections.For retrial, the court ordered prosecutors to limit financial crimes evidence to material directly supporting the motive theory — calling the twelve-plus hours of financial testimony at the first trial excessive. AG Alan Wilson confirmed the State will retry. Murdaugh remains behind bars on financial convictions.And while the legal system continues to reckon with itself, the Murdaugh family's longtime housekeeper is filling in the gaps the investigation left open. Blanca Simpson walked into the Moselle house twelve hours after the murders and found staged pajamas, a misplaced wedding ring, and a pattern of evidence that pointed to help — people she calls "the cleaners." She also saw an unidentified white truck at the property the day of the murders that was never accounted for. When she tried to report it to SLED, she says they told her to stop obsessing.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/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #BlancaSimpson #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurdaughTrial #NewTrial #ColletonCounty

AG Alan Wilson confirmed the State will retry Alex Murdaugh for the murders of Maggie and Paul. But the South Carolina Supreme Court attached a condition that could reshape the entire case. Prosecutors spent over twelve hours presenting financial crimes evidence at the first trial. The court called that excessive and ordered any retrial to limit financial testimony to evidence that directly supports the motive theory — no more lengthy, inflammatory detail designed to make the defendant look bad rather than prove the charge.The reversal itself was unanimous. All five justices found that Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill made improper comments to jurors during the original trial, telling them not to be fooled by the defense, to watch Murdaugh's body language, and that deliberations shouldn't take long. The court found Hill was driven by a book deal that a guilty verdict would help sell. She pled guilty to perjury in December 2025.The justices also found that former Chief Justice Jean Toal applied the wrong legal standard when she denied Murdaugh's new trial motion. Toal required Murdaugh to prove harm. The law requires the State to prove no reasonable possibility the verdict was influenced — and the court said the State couldn't do it. Toal also violated jury deliberation protections by questioning individual jurors about whether the Clerk's comments changed their votes. Murdaugh remains incarcerated on financial convictions while retrial proceedings move forward.While the legal fight resets, our interview with Blanca Simpson — fifteen years as the Murdaugh family's housekeeper — is raising questions the investigation never answered. She walked into the house twelve hours after the murders and found evidence of staging, an unidentified vehicle at the property, and a pattern she believes points to accomplices she calls "the cleaners." SLED allegedly told her to get help when she tried to report what she saw.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/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #BlancaSimpson #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurdaughTrial #AlanWilson #ColletonCounty

The South Carolina Supreme Court didn't split on this. All five justices agreed — Becky Hill's comments to the jury during Alex Murdaugh's murder trial were improper enough to reverse the conviction. The court found Hill told jurors not to be fooled by defense evidence, to watch Murdaugh's body language, and that deliberations shouldn't take long. Her motive, according to the ruling: a book deal that needed a guilty verdict to sell. Hill pled guilty to perjury in December 2025 for lying about her actions under oath.The justices also took apart former Chief Justice Jean Toal's handling of the new trial motion. Toal applied the wrong legal standard, putting the burden on Murdaugh instead of requiring the State to prove the comments couldn't have influenced the verdict. The court said the State failed that test. Toal also improperly questioned individual jurors about whether the Clerk's statements changed their votes — a direct violation of jury deliberation protections.The ruling sets boundaries for retrial. Prosecutors spent twelve-plus hours on financial crimes evidence the first time around. The court called it excessive and ordered any future trial to limit that material to evidence directly tied to the motive theory. AG Alan Wilson says the State will retry. Murdaugh remains incarcerated on his financial convictions.At the same time, our ongoing interview with Blanca Simpson — the Murdaugh family's housekeeper for fifteen years — continues to surface details the first investigation apparently had no interest in pursuing. An unidentified truck at the property. A tractor with a digging bucket heading toward the fields. Alex asking Blanca to confirm a shirt she knew he wasn't wearing. And SLED allegedly telling her to get professional help when she tried to share what she saw.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/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #BlancaSimpson #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurdaughTrial #NewTrial #ColletonCounty

The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, restricted the evidence that dominated his first trial, and rewrote the legal standard for jury tampering claims in the state. Eric Faddis — a former prosecutor who now practices defense — provides the full analysis.The ruling: Toal placed the burden on Murdaugh, violated evidence rules by questioning jurors about their mental processes, and relied on testimony that was inadmissible. The court adopted the Cheek framework, making it the governing standard in South Carolina, and found the State could not prove the verdict was unaffected by Hill's comments.The evidence: twelve and a half hours of financial crimes testimony flagged as excessive. The motive timeline survives. The inflammatory details do not. The defense also has unresolved challenges to forensic evidence the court declined to address.The retrial: Murdaugh's prior testimony locked in as a prosecution asset. Hill's conviction as a potential defense narrative. A venue fight with no obvious answer. And Faddis' answer to the question every trial lawyer in the country is asking — which side would you rather be on?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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #TrueCrimeToday #MurdaughRetrial #EricFaddis #SCSupremeCourt #TrueCrime #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #MurdaughEvidence #NewTrial

A former Chief Justice of South Carolina evaluated Becky Hill's jury conduct and concluded Alex Murdaugh wasn't prejudiced. Five sitting Supreme Court justices looked at the same record and said she applied the wrong legal standard entirely. The conviction is gone.Eric Fadds brings his experience as both a former prosecutor and current defense attorney to the question of how that happened. The court found Toal committed multiple errors: she placed the burden of proof on Murdaugh instead of the State, she questioned jurors about whether Hill's comments changed their votes in violation of Rule 606(b), and she relied on those improper answers to deny the new trial motion. The Supreme Court overruled one of its own prior decisions to reinforce that juror mental processes are off-limits.Fadds breaks down the Remmer presumption the court formally adopted, explains how Toal's handling of Juror Z's contradictory testimony gave the Supreme Court an opening to reject her credibility findings, and addresses how unusual it is for an appellate court to credit witness testimony that the lower court tried to limit from the record.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #TrueCrimeToday #BeckyHill #MurdaughRetrial #JuryTampering #SCSupremeCourt #TrueCrime #EricFadds #JeanToal #MurdaughTrial

The conviction is reversed. The retrial is coming. And the case Alex Murdaugh faces the second time around is fundamentally different from the one that produced a guilty verdict in March 2023. Eric Faddis — who has tried cases from both the prosecution and defense side — provides the complete legal analysis.Faddis dissects the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling, from Toal's reversed burden of proof to the Rule 606(b) violation to the court's independent crediting of witness testimony that Toal tried to limit from the record. He maps the evidence landscape for retrial — identifying which financial crimes testimony survives the court's restriction and which gets cut, and flagging the unresolved evidentiary challenges from the direct appeal that the defense will press.The conversation covers the full retrial picture: Murdaugh's locked-in prior testimony, Hill's perjury conviction as a potential narrative weapon, the venue and jury selection challenge, and the strategic advantages each side carries into a courtroom where the rules have been rewritten.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #EricFaddis #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SCSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #MurdaughCase #JuryTampering #NewTrial

The Colleton County Clerk of Court told jurors not to be fooled by the defense. She told them to watch Alex Murdaugh's movements. She signaled that deliberations should be quick. The South Carolina Supreme Court found every one of those comments credible and ruled unanimously that they destroyed the integrity of the verdict.Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Fadds dissects the legal framework the court used to reach that conclusion. Former Chief Justice Jean Toal denied Murdaugh's motion for a new trial by placing the burden of proof on the defense — requiring Murdaugh to demonstrate he was harmed by Hill's conduct. The Supreme Court said that was backwards. Under the Remmer presumption, which the court formally adopted through the Fourth Circuit's Cheek test, prejudice is presumed automatically once the defendant shows the contact was more than innocuous. The burden then shifts entirely to the State to prove the verdict wasn't affected.Fadds explains how Toal's questioning of jurors about their deliberative mental processes violated Rule 606(b), why the court went so far as to overrule its own precedent to close that door, and what Hill's subsequent perjury conviction meant for the Supreme Court's assessment of the entire evidentiary record.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #MurdaughNewTrial #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #SCSupremeCourt #EricFadds #MurdaughCase #Justice

The most comprehensive legal analysis of the Murdaugh reversal and retrial. Eric Faddis covers every layer — from the Supreme Court's dismantling of Toal's ruling to the evidence restrictions that will reshape the prosecution's case to the strategic realities both sides face walking into a second trial.The ruling adopted a new legal framework for South Carolina, found Hill's comments far more extensive than Toal acknowledged, and held that the State could not overcome the presumption of prejudice. Faddis explains each of Toal's errors and why Hill's perjury conviction may have been the decisive factor.The evidence fight centers on twelve and a half hours of financial testimony the court called excessive. Faddis identifies what survives, what gets cut, and which unresolved evidentiary challenges from the direct appeal give the defense the most leverage. He addresses the defense's strategic fork — exclude all financial evidence or concede the conduct and sever the link to murder.The retrial landscape covers Murdaugh's locked-in testimony, Hill as a potential defense narrative weapon, the venue nightmare, whether the State has new forensic material, and the bottom-line question: prosecution or defense — which side would a former prosecutor choose?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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #EricFaddis #MurdaughCase #SCSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #JuryTampering #NewTrial

Juror Z had doubts about guilt. She said so under oath. She said the Clerk of Court's comments made her feel like Murdaugh was already guilty before deliberations started. Former Chief Justice Toal heard that testimony and found it not credible. The Supreme Court disagreed — and reversed everything.Eric Fadds provides a detailed legal breakdown of the unanimous ruling. The court adopted the Fourth Circuit's three-step Cheek framework, making it the governing standard for jury tampering claims in South Carolina. Under that framework, once Murdaugh cleared the low bar of showing Hill's comments were more than innocuous, prejudice was presumed and the State bore the heavy burden of proving the verdict wasn't affected. The court found the State failed.Fadds explains Toal's specific errors — the reversed burden, the Rule 606(b) violation, the selective credibility findings — and addresses how the court went around Toal's evidentiary limitations by independently crediting testimony from Juror 785 and the alternate juror that Toal had either excluded or ignored.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #MurdaughNewTrial #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #SCSupremeCourt #EricFadds #MurdaughCase #ColletonCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

Before Alex Murdaugh ever took the stand in his own defense, the woman managing his trial had already told the jury what to think. The South Carolina Supreme Court found those comments went to the heart of the case and reversed his murder convictions unanimously.Eric Fadds — a defense attorney who previously served as a prosecutor — walks through the three-step legal test the court adopted to reach its decision. The framework, drawn from the Fourth Circuit's Cheek ruling, requires the defendant to show the outside contact was more than harmless, then automatically presumes prejudice and shifts the burden to the State. Former Chief Justice Toal never applied this framework. She required Murdaugh to prove harm. She asked jurors whether Hill's comments changed their minds — a question the Supreme Court said violated evidence rules protecting the sanctity of jury deliberations.Fadds analyzes where the line falls between comments that are merely improper and those that functionally direct a verdict, how the court expanded the evidentiary record beyond what Toal allowed, and why Hill's perjury guilty plea may have sealed the outcome.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #MurdaughCase #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #JuryTampering #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #EricFadds #MurdaughRetrial #ColletonCounty

How did the conviction fall? What evidence survives? And what does a second trial actually look like? Eric Faddis answers all three in a comprehensive legal analysis of the Murdaugh reversal and retrial.The ruling came down unanimously. Five justices found that Becky Hill's comments to jurors destroyed the integrity of the verdict and that former Chief Justice Toal applied the wrong legal framework in denying the new trial motion. Faddis explains each of Toal's errors and why the court went so far as to overrule its own precedent to close the door on improper juror questioning.The evidence restrictions reshape the prosecution's case. Twelve and a half hours of financial testimony must be cut to a fraction. The motive timeline survives. The emotional victim narratives likely do not. Meanwhile, the defense has unresolved challenges to forensic evidence that the Supreme Court left for the retrial court to decide.Faddis then maps the changed landscape: Murdaugh's prior testimony as a prosecution weapon, Hill's conviction as a potential defense narrative, the jury selection challenge in a state saturated by coverage, and whether the prosecution or defense holds the stronger hand going into round two.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #MurdaughCase #MurdaughRetrial #EricFaddis #SCSupremeCourt #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #NewTrial

She was supposed to be neutral. Instead, she told jurors not to be fooled by the defense, coached them to scrutinize the defendant's body language, and wanted a guilty verdict to sell her book. The South Carolina Supreme Court has unanimously reversed Alex Murdaugh's convictions for killing his wife Maggie and son Paul, finding that former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill's interference denied him a fair trial.The court's language is extraordinary. They called Hill's conduct “breathtaking and disgraceful” and “unprecedented in South Carolina.” They found she was “attracted by the siren call of celebrity” and prioritized personal attention over her duty to the court. Testimony from her own colleague revealed Hill repeatedly discussed her plan to write a book and said a guilty verdict was the best path to selling it. Hill's December 2025 guilty plea to perjury — for lying under oath about showing sealed exhibits to the press — further undermined her credibility.The five justices found that former Chief Justice Jean Toal made critical legal errors when she denied Murdaugh's new trial motion. Toal required the defense to prove prejudice instead of requiring the State to disprove it. She asked jurors whether the comments changed their minds, violating evidence rules that protect deliberation privacy. The Supreme Court formally adopted a federal framework that shifts the burden squarely onto the prosecution once improper outside contact is established.The opinion also restricts what the State can present at retrial. The first trial featured over twelve hours of financial crimes testimony the court found excessive and unfairly inflammatory. Any second trial must be leaner. AG Alan Wilson says the State will retry. Murdaugh remains imprisoned on financial convictions while the murder case starts fresh.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #TrueCrimeToday #BeckyHill #MurdaughRetrial #JuryTampering #SCSupremeCourt #TrueCrime #MurdaughTrial #SouthCarolina #Justice

Juror Z had questions about Alex Murdaugh's guilt. She swore to that in an affidavit. But before deliberations, Becky Hill had already told the jury not to believe the defense. When it came time to vote, Juror Z felt the outcome was predetermined. She convicted. The South Carolina Supreme Court just ruled she never should have been in that position — and reversed every murder conviction.The per curiam opinion is unanimous and devastating. The court found Hill made far more improper comments than Toal's post-trial order acknowledged, including telling jurors not to be fooled or confused by the defense, instructing them to watch Murdaugh's actions and movements closely, and signaling through staff that deliberations should be quick. The alternate juror testified Hill stood in the doorway and told jurors the defense would try to confuse them. The court credited all of it, finding Hill's denials lacked credibility — a conclusion reinforced by her subsequent guilty plea to perjury.The ruling identifies three distinct legal errors by former Chief Justice Toal: wrong burden of proof, improper questioning of jurors about their mental processes, and reliance on testimony that violated Rule 606(b). The court overruled its own precedent in Ethier to make clear that juror deliberation testimony is inadmissible for this purpose. It formally adopted the Fourth Circuit's Cheek framework as binding South Carolina law.Critically for a retrial, the court found the first trial's twelve-and-a-half-hour financial crimes presentation was excessive and ordered it sharply curtailed. Some financial evidence supporting the motive theory may be admitted, but the inflammatory details that dominated the first trial cannot be repeated. The AG's office has confirmed a retrial. Murdaugh remains incarcerated on financial sentences. The murder case resets entirely.LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #SCSupremeCourt #MurdaughMurders #ColletonCounty #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurdaughAppeal

The woman in charge of protecting Alex Murdaugh's jury was the one who corrupted it. That is the finding of the South Carolina Supreme Court, which has unanimously reversed Murdaugh's double murder convictions and ordered a new trial.Former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill made repeated comments to jurors urging them to reject the defense — to watch Murdaugh closely, not to be fooled, not to be confused or thrown off by his attorneys. She told them the day he testified was “epic.” Someone from her staff told the jury deliberations shouldn't take long. One juror — Juror Z — submitted a sworn affidavit saying Hill's remarks made her feel like Murdaugh was already guilty before deliberations began. She had doubts about his guilt but voted to convict under pressure.The five-justice panel found that former Chief Justice Jean Toal committed multiple legal errors in denying Murdaugh's new trial motion. Toal placed the burden on the wrong party, questioned jurors about their internal deliberations in violation of evidence rules, and relied on those improper answers. The Supreme Court overruled one of its own prior decisions to reinforce that juror mental processes are off-limits in these proceedings.The ruling also takes aim at the prosecution's financial crimes presentation, which consumed over twelve hours of jury testimony across ten trial days. The court said the State went far too deep into inflammatory details with no connection to the motive theory and ordered any retrial to limit that evidence significantly. Hill pled guilty to perjury in December 2025. The Attorney General has confirmed a retrial is coming. Murdaugh stays incarcerated on financial sentences while the murder case begins again.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX 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 #MurdaughCase #BeckyHill #SCSupremeCourt #JuryTampering #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughMurders #ColletonCounty

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The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal today. The justices asked sharp, pointed questions — and nearly all of them were aimed at the prosecution. The hearing covered both tracks of the appeal: Becky Hill's alleged jury tampering and whether the trial court committed reversible evidentiary errors. On both, the state was on its heels. Justice James opened by raising the egg juror affidavit Justice Toal excluded. Chief Justice Kittredge pointed out that Toal's written order never addressed the allegation that Hill instructed jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony. He called the corroboration between juror accounts and independent witnesses "striking." Hill has since been convicted of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct — a development that wasn't part of the record when Toal ruled. Justice Few challenged Waters: how do you characterize someone as "not completely credible" when her own guilty plea proves she's a perjurer? The defense argued Toal used the wrong legal standard entirely. Harpootlian told the court the question isn't whether Hill changed the verdict — it's whether she violated Murdaugh's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. That distinction changes everything about how the court evaluates the evidence. On the trial record, Kittredge told Waters that 404(b) is a rule of exclusion and said the gate was left wide open — he couldn't find a single financial evidence ruling that went the defense's way. He questioned why emotionally charged victim testimony from Murdaugh's financial crimes was admitted in a murder trial. Waters tried a Fargo reference. Justice Few ended it. Jim Griffin argued the state's underlying case has no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological transfer evidence from a close-range shotgun blast. If the financial testimony is stripped, the case changes shape. Eric Faddis, criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor, dissects the hearing moment by moment — what each justice's questions signal, where the state failed to hold ground, and which of the three possible outcomes the arguments most strongly pointed toward. He also addresses whether a federal Sixth Amendment challenge is viable regardless of how this court rules. Decision expected within sixty days.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHill #SupremeCourtSC #EricFaddis #CreightonWaters #Rule404b #JuryTampering #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal today, and the state walked into a courtroom that wasn't friendly. The justices pressed prosecutor Creighton Waters on both tracks of the appeal — Becky Hill's jury tampering and the evidentiary errors at trial — and the exchanges revealed a bench that has serious doubts about what happened below. Justice James opened by asking about the egg juror affidavit that Justice Toal excluded from the evidentiary hearing. Chief Justice Kittredge went further, pointing out that Toal's order never addressed the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony. He described the corroboration between multiple juror accounts and independent witnesses as "striking." Becky Hill is now a convicted perjurer, and that conviction didn't exist when Toal issued her ruling. Justice Few asked Waters directly: how do you call someone "not completely credible" when her guilty plea proves she lied under oath? Dick Harpootlian framed the defense argument around the Sixth Amendment — not whether Hill changed the verdict, but whether she compromised the constitutional right to an impartial jury. That distinction in legal standard may be the most consequential issue the court decides. On evidence, Kittredge told Waters that Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion and that he couldn't find a single piece of financial evidence the trial court kept out. He questioned why emotionally charged testimony from victims of Murdaugh's financial crimes was presented in a murder trial. Waters attempted a Fargo analogy. Justice Few cut him off. Jim Griffin argued the core weakness: no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer evidence from a close-range shotgun blast. If the financial testimony is ruled improperly admitted, what's left narrows considerably. Eric Faddis, criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor, analyzes every critical moment from the bench — what the questions reveal about each justice's thinking, where the state's arguments failed to land, and which of the three possible outcomes today's hearing most strongly favored. He also addresses whether a federal Sixth Amendment challenge remains an option regardless of the state court's ruling. Decision expected within sixty days.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHill #SupremeCourtSC #EricFaddis #CreightonWaters #JuryTampering #Rule404b #TrueCrime #HiddenKillersJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal today — and the justices came prepared to challenge the state. Across ninety minutes of oral arguments covering jury tampering and evidentiary errors, the bench directed its hardest questions at prosecutor Creighton Waters and gave the defense room to build its case. The jury tampering track opened with Justice James asking whether the court could consider the egg juror's affidavit — testimony Justice Toal excluded during the 2024 hearing. Chief Justice Kittredge escalated, noting that Toal's order failed to address the specific allegation that Becky Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony. He described the corroboration between juror accounts and independent witnesses as "striking." Hill is now a convicted perjurer — guilty of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct in charges that weren't part of the record when Toal ruled. Justice Few went straight at Waters: how do you call someone "not completely credible" when her guilty plea is proof she lied under oath? Dick Harpootlian framed the central argument: Justice Toal asked the wrong question. She evaluated whether Hill changed the verdict. The constitutional standard is whether she compromised the right to an impartial jury. Harpootlian argued those are fundamentally different inquiries — and the wrong one was applied. That legal standard dispute may be the fulcrum of the entire appeal. On evidence, Chief Justice Kittredge told Waters that Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion, not inclusion, and that the trial court left the gate wide open. He said he couldn't identify a single piece of financial evidence the trial judge excluded. He pressed on why emotionally charged testimony from victims of Murdaugh's financial crimes — people who lost life savings — was placed before a murder jury. Waters attempted to compare the case to the movie Fargo. Justice Few shut the analogy down. Jim Griffin argued what the state's case looks like without the financial testimony: no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological transfer evidence despite a close-range shotgun blast. If the court rules the 404(b) evidence was improperly admitted, the trial record fundamentally changes. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis provides a full breakdown of the hearing — the specific exchanges that revealed the justices' thinking, the moments Waters struggled to hold ground, and the body language from the bench that tells its own story. He analyzes the three possible outcomes: conviction affirmed, new trial on jury tampering, or new trial on evidentiary grounds. He explains which outcome today's hearing most clearly pointed toward, what the timeline looks like, and whether Murdaugh retains a viable federal Sixth Amendment claim regardless of the state court's ruling. The court took the case under advisement. A decision is expected within sixty days. What happened in that courtroom today suggests this conviction is no longer the certainty it once appeared to be.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHill #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #CreightonWaters #DickHarpootlian #EricFaddis #JimGriffin #JuryTampering #HiddenKillersJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction — and the questions from the bench landed almost entirely on the state. The hearing covered jury tampering and evidentiary errors, and on both fronts, prosecutor Creighton Waters faced sustained pressure he struggled to answer. On jury tampering, Justice James immediately asked about the egg juror affidavit that Justice Toal blocked from the evidentiary hearing. Chief Justice Kittredge noted Toal's order never addressed the claim that Becky Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony and called the corroboration across multiple juror accounts "striking." Hill is now convicted of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct — a conviction that didn't exist when Toal ruled. Justice Few pressed Waters on how you describe someone as "not completely credible" when she's pled guilty to lying under oath. Harpootlian argued the legal standard itself was wrong — that Toal asked whether Hill changed the outcome instead of whether she violated Murdaugh's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. That's the constitutional question the justices will have to resolve. On the evidence, Kittredge told Waters that 404(b) is a rule of exclusion and said he couldn't identify a single piece of financial evidence the trial court excluded. He pressed on why emotional testimony from financial crime victims was put before a murder jury. Waters referenced the movie Fargo. Justice Few shut it down. Griffin reminded the court the state has no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological transfer evidence from a close-range shotgun blast. Strip the financial testimony, and the evidentiary foundation shrinks fast. Criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down the hearing exchange by exchange — the tone from the bench, the moments the state lost ground, and what the justices' questions telegraph about the three possible outcomes. He assesses which result today's arguments most clearly favored and whether a federal Sixth Amendment appeal remains viable no matter what the state court decides. The court took the case under advisement. Sixty days.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHill #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #CreightonWaters #DickHarpootlian #JuryTampering #EricFaddis #MurdaughTrial #HiddenKillersJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.

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Former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Eric Faddis provides complete legal analysis of two major cases — the Alex Murdaugh Supreme Court oral arguments and the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation.The Murdaugh hearing produced aggressive questioning from the bench, with justices pressing the state on Becky Hill's perjury conviction, the jury tampering standard Toal applied, and the unchecked admission of financial crime evidence under Rule 404(b). Chief Justice Kittredge called the corroboration of tampering allegations "striking." Justice Few challenged the state's ability to defend Hill's credibility. Griffin argued there's no direct evidence — no eyewitnesses, no weapons, no biological transfer. Faddis weighs the three possible outcomes and explains why a federal appeal may follow regardless.In the Guthrie case, Faddis breaks down eleven days of documented investigative failures by the Pima County Sheriff's Department — the premature crime scene release, the grounded thermal imaging aircraft, the ten-day gap on footage the FBI ultimately recovered, and the family's decision to communicate with alleged kidnappers through Instagram. On the prosecution side, the forty-one-minute pacemaker window anchors the forensic timeline, but the path from timeline to defendant remains unclear. Faddis identifies what needs to happen next for both cases.#AlexMurdaugh #NancyGuthrie #MurdaughSupremeCourt #EricFaddis #BeckyHillPerjury #GuthrieKidnapping #SheriffNanos #Rule404b #MurdaughCase #TrueCrimeAnalysisJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal today, and Creighton Waters had a rough morning. From the opening moments, the five justices made clear they had serious questions about both the jury tampering ruling and the evidentiary decisions at trial. Justice George James immediately asked whether the court could consider the egg juror's affidavit — the juror Justice Toal refused to let testify in 2024. Harpootlian told the court he couldn't explain why she was excluded. On the Becky Hill issue, Chief Justice Kittredge pointed out that Toal's order didn't even mention the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony, and that corroboration between juror accounts and an independent witness was striking. Justice Few asked Waters how you call someone not completely credible when she's now a convicted perjurer. The second phase turned to evidentiary errors, where Jim Griffin argued five categories of trial court mistakes. Kittredge told Waters that South Carolina's Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion, not inclusion, and that the gate was left wide open for financial crimes evidence — he couldn't find a single piece that was kept out. Waters tried to use a Fargo movie reference to illustrate financial motive and Justice Few shut him down. Defense attorney Phillip Barber argued in rebuttal that the financial evidence was used to paint Murdaugh as a person capable of anything rather than to prove motive. The court took the case under advisement. A decision could come within 60 days. The three possible outcomes: affirm the conviction, order a new trial, or remand for further proceedings. Today's hearing laid bare the fault lines in this case.#MurdaughTrial #AlexMurdaugh #OralArguments #BeckyHill #CreightonWaters #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #JuryTampering #TrueCrimeToday #NewTrial #TrueCrimeJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

Did the South Carolina Supreme Court just tip its hand in Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal? During oral arguments, the justices came armed with pointed, highly specific questions — and most of the heat was directed at the prosecution. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down what stood out and what it could signal.Justice James immediately focused on the “egg juror” affidavit that Justice Toal excluded from the evidentiary hearing. Chief Justice Kittredge described the corroboration between jurors and independent witnesses regarding Becky Hill's alleged conduct as “striking,” noting that Toal's order never addressed claims Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh. The defense maintains Toal applied the wrong legal standard — and based on today's exchange, several justices appeared open to that argument.Hill's subsequent perjury conviction, which occurred after Toal's ruling, loomed large over the discussion. Justice Few challenged the state's characterization of Hill as “not completely credible,” pointing out the obvious tension in relying on a convicted perjurer. On evidentiary issues, Kittredge pushed back on the state's use of Rule 404(b), emphasizing that the rule is designed to limit other-acts evidence, not automatically admit it. He suggested the trial court may have allowed sweeping financial crime testimony without meaningful boundaries.Defense attorney Jim Griffin reiterated that the state's case lacked direct evidence — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer linking Murdaugh to the killings. If the financial evidence is ultimately deemed improperly admitted, the prosecution's case could narrow significantly. Faddis outlines three possible outcomes and explains why, regardless of the state court's decision, a federal appeal may be next. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughHearing #SupremeCourt #BeckyHillPerjury #EricFaddis #JusticeKittredge #CreightonWaters #404bEvidence #MurdaughCase #NewTrialMurdaugh 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

When Justice Toal denied Alex Murdaugh a new trial in January 2024, Becky Hill hadn't been convicted of perjury yet. Now she has — and the South Carolina Supreme Court justices made it clear today that fact matters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down today's oral arguments and what the bench's aggressive questioning of the state signals about the likely outcome.Justice Few asked Creighton Waters directly how you can label someone "not completely credible" when her own guilty plea proves she's a liar. Chief Justice Kittredge pointed out that Toal's order never addressed the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony. He called the corroboration between juror accounts and independent witnesses "striking." The defense argues the wrong legal standard was applied — and from the bench, it appeared multiple justices agreed.Kittredge also pressed hard on the financial evidence, telling Waters that Rule 404(b) is a rule of exclusion and that the trial court couldn't seem to find a reason to keep anything out. Jim Griffin argued this case has no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological transfer evidence. If the financial testimony falls, the state's case gets very thin.Faddis reads the room and explains which of the three possible outcomes — affirm, new trial, or remand — today's hearing most strongly pointed toward.#AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHillPerjury #MurdaughSupremeCourt #JuryTampering #EricFaddis #JusticeKittredge #Rule404b #JimGriffin #HiddenKillersPodcast #MurdaughNewTrialJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

Today the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal of his double murder conviction — and the justices came loaded. The very first question from Justice George James cut straight to a wound the defense has been pressing for two years: why wasn't the egg juror allowed to testify at the 2024 evidentiary hearing? From there, the hearing split into two phases that each delivered major moments. On the jury tampering issue, Dick Harpootlian argued that Becky Hill — the former Colleton County Clerk of Court now convicted of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct — had a financial motive to push for a guilty verdict. Chief Justice Kittredge told the state that Toal's ruling didn't even address the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled. Justice Few challenged Creighton Waters on the absurdity of calling Hill not completely credible while ignoring her perjury conviction. On the evidentiary side, Jim Griffin argued this was never an overwhelming evidence case — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer evidence on Murdaugh. Kittredge hammered Waters on Rule 404(b), saying the gate to financial crimes evidence was left wide open and he couldn't find a single example of anything that was excluded. When Waters tried to reference the movie Fargo, Justice Few told him to get to the point. The court took the case under advisement. No decision today. Three possible outcomes remain: affirm, new trial, or remand. But what unfolded in that courtroom didn't look like a court preparing to uphold the status quo. This episode covers every key exchange and what it means going forward.#MurdaughAppeal #AlexMurdaugh #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #JuryTampering #404b #CreightonWaters #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #OralArgumentsJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

Today's oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's double murder appeal may have revealed more about the outcome than anyone expected. The South Carolina Supreme Court justices came in with sharp, specific questions — and the overwhelming majority of the pressure went to the prosecution. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis provides a complete breakdown.Justice James immediately asked about the egg juror affidavit that Justice Toal blocked from the evidentiary hearing. Chief Justice Kittredge called the corroboration between juror accounts and independent witnesses about Becky Hill's conduct "striking" — and noted that Toal's order never even addressed the allegation that Hill told jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh. The defense argues Toal applied the wrong standard. From the bench today, it looked like the justices may agree.Hill's perjury conviction — which didn't exist when Toal ruled — fundamentally changes the landscape. Justice Few pressed Waters on the absurdity of calling a convicted perjurer "not completely credible." On the evidence side, Kittredge told the state that Rule 404(b) is supposed to exclude evidence, not rubber-stamp it, and that the trial court let every piece of financial crime testimony in without apparent limitation.Jim Griffin argued there's no direct evidence — no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, no biological transfer evidence. If the financial testimony is ruled improperly admitted, the state's case shrinks considerably. Faddis assesses the three paths forward and explains why a federal appeal may be coming regardless of the state court's decision.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughHearing #SupremeCourt #BeckyHillPerjury #EricFaddis #JusticeKittredge #CreightonWaters #404bEvidence #MurdaughCase #NewTrialMurdaughJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Alex Murdaugh's appeal, and the questions from the bench painted a picture the state should be worried about. Justice George James opened the hearing by asking about the egg juror — the dismissed panelist whose affidavit describes Becky Hill telling jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh's testimony, and who Justice Toal refused to let testify at the 2024 evidentiary hearing. From there, the justices spent the morning pressing Creighton Waters on a series of uncomfortable questions. Chief Justice Kittredge noted that Toal's order didn't even address the "don't be fooled" allegation. He called the corroboration between juror accounts and Barnwell Clerk Rhonda McElveen's testimony striking. Justice Few challenged the state's position that Hill was merely not completely credible, pointing to her perjury conviction as proof she's a liar. On the evidentiary side, Kittredge told Waters that the 404(b) gate for financial crimes evidence was left wide open — he couldn't find a single piece the trial court excluded. He pressed Waters on why jurors needed to hear emotionally charged testimony about victims of Murdaugh's financial crimes when the case was about murder. Jim Griffin argued this was a circumstantial case with no eyewitnesses, no murder weapons, and no biological evidence on Murdaugh. Phillip Barber argued in rebuttal that the financial evidence was used to brand Murdaugh as a person capable of anything. The court took the case under advisement. A written decision is expected within roughly 60 days. Three outcomes are possible: affirm, new trial, or remand. This episode provides a complete breakdown of today's hearing and analysis of what comes next for Alex Murdaugh.J#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughAppeal #MurdaughTrial #BeckyHill #SouthCarolinaSupremeCourt #OralArguments #JuryTampering #CreightonWaters #NewTrial #MurdaughCaseJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard Alex Murdaugh's appeal today and the bench came loaded. Most of the hardest questions went straight at prosecutor Creighton Waters. Criminal defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Hidden Killers Live to break down the key exchanges and what they reveal about the court's thinking.The hearing opened with Justice James asking about the egg juror affidavit that Toal refused to admit. Chief Justice Kittredge went after the jury tampering issue, pointing out that Toal's order skipped the allegation that Becky Hill directly told jurors not to believe Murdaugh. With Hill now a convicted perjurer — something that wasn't true when Toal ruled — Justice Few pressed Waters on how the state can defend her credibility at all.On the evidence front, Kittredge told Waters the trial court let every piece of financial crime evidence in and excluded nothing, calling Rule 404(b) a rule of exclusion that wasn't treated as one. Griffin argued there's no direct evidence connecting Murdaugh to the murders — no eyewitnesses, no weapons, no transfer evidence from a close-range shotgun blast.Faddis reads the justices' questions as a roadmap and explains what outcome they're most likely driving toward — and what happens next regardless of which way they rule.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughOralArguments #SCSupremeCourt #BeckyHill #CreightonWaters #EricFaddis #EggJuror #HiddenKillersLive #MurdaughAppeal #JuryTamperingJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers for a two-case episode that starts with the Murdaugh appeal heading to oral arguments Wednesday and extends into a full breakdown of the Nancy Guthrie investigation — reading both cases through the lens of a defense attorney who sees problems the public does not.On Murdaugh, Becky Hill's perjury conviction is now in the appellate record. Three jurors corroborated the tampering allegations. The state chose not to charge tampering. The defense argues Toal applied the wrong legal standard. If the conviction is reversed, the retrial landscape is treacherous for the prosecution — the defense has the full transcript, the financial crimes motive evidence may be excluded, and the forensic case has significant gaps. No DNA, no fingerprints, no blood linking Murdaugh to the killings. The prosecution retains Maggie's DNA on a shotgun receiver and the kennel video. Motta explains how three years of preparation changes the defense approach to both. And with 67 combined years on financial crimes already locked in, Motta walks through whether the AG's office has the appetite to go again.On Guthrie, Motta breaks down a crime scene that was released and re-entered four times, digital evidence with no video support, a ransom situation contaminated by confirmed imposters, a family posting desperate pleas with no response, and a president previewing an arrest from Air Force One. Two cases that expose what happens when the official story does not match the evidence.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughAppeal #BobMotta #NancyGuthrie #BeckyHill #MurdaughRetrial #DefenseDiaries #KennelVideo #GuthrieCase #HiddenKillersJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

Court prepares to hear oral arguments Wednesday on Alex Murdaugh's appeal. Motta is walking through the scenario nobody is preparing for — what a retrial actually looks like when the defense has the full transcript, Becky Hill's perjury is in the record, and the prosecution's motive theory may be excluded.Becky Hill was convicted of perjury, obstruction, and misconduct — but the state chose not to charge jury tampering despite three jurors corroborating the allegations. Motta explains what that tells him about the state's confidence in this verdict. The defense argues Toal applied the wrong legal standard at the post-trial hearing, requiring them to prove a juror changed their vote instead of applying the Remmer presumption of prejudice. Motta breaks down whether that distinction alone justifies reversal.If the conviction falls, round two is a completely different fight. The defense knows everything. The prosecution faces potential exclusion of weeks of financial crimes evidence. The forensic case has gaps Harpootlian has loudly highlighted — no DNA, no prints, no blood linking Murdaugh to the killings. The prosecution has Maggie's DNA on a shotgun receiver and the kennel video. Motta explains how both of those pillars get attacked with three years of preparation.And the biggest question: Murdaugh is already serving 27 state and 40 federal. Even a reversal does not mean freedom. Does the AG actually retry this case — or does a second trial risk exposing more problems than the first?#AlexMurdaugh #HiddenKillersLive #BobMotta #MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHillPerjury #MurdaughRetrial #SouthCarolina #KennelVideo #DefenseDiaries #LiveTrueCrimeJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

The South Carolina Supreme Court hears Alex Murdaugh's appeal February 11, 2026. The ground has shifted — because the woman who oversaw his jury just admitted to lying under oath about her conduct during the trial.Becky Hill, former Colleton County Clerk of Court, pleaded guilty in December 2025 to obstruction of justice, perjury, and two counts of misconduct. The perjury conviction stems from false testimony at a January 2024 hearing before retired Chief Justice Jean Toal. Toal was evaluating whether Hill tampered with Murdaugh's jury. She asked Hill directly if she let media view sealed exhibits. Hill said no. According to prosecutors, that was a lie.Murdaugh's defense successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to add Hill's conviction to the appellate record. The justices will now evaluate jury tampering claims knowing the court official at the center is a convicted perjurer.The state's response called Hill's conduct "foolish and fleeting" and insisted Murdaugh was "obviously guilty." That was filed before Hill's guilty plea. The state's position depends on trusting a woman who has proven she cannot be trusted.Defense attorneys Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin argue Hill's conduct is structural error — that jury tampering by a state actor is presumptively prejudicial under federal precedent. They also challenge the week of financial crimes testimony they say turned the murder trial into character assassination.The court can affirm, reverse for a new trial, or remand. The ruling comes later, in writing. But the person the state relied on to dismiss these concerns can no longer be believed.#MurdaughAppeal #BeckyHill #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrime #JuryTampering #HiddenKillers #SupremeCourt #CriminalJustice #MurdaughTrial #SouthCarolinaJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

It's the desert after the main course as John is here to look ahead to Sunday's game against Celtic in the company of Tam Spraggans, Donald Trump look alike and Pint & Two Shots host, Chris Toal.Chris gives his thoughts on the season for the Hoops so far and sits the 'How Well Do You Know Your Team' Quiz but will he beat Stephen Purdon?Plus all the club news.Expect the Unexpected.Behind the Wall – Behind the Bairns since 1985Falkirk's best selection of fine wines lagers, craft and cask ales, fantastic value food and great service.Check out what's on www.behindthewall.co.ukJoin the FFIT T8shttps://www.facebook.com/groups/1803421196843918Get the new Falkirk Daft t-shirt's:https://pintsnprints.co.uk/collections/falkirk-collectionAnd Remember sign up for our Discord and Social Media: Discord - https://discord.com/invite/sVYbRzzusK Twitter/Insta/Facebook - @Falkirkdaft Get Merch: merch.falkirkdaft.co.ukFor any sponsorship enquiries email sales@falkirkdaft.co.ukSubscribe to our YouTube channel and remember to leave a review where you get your podcasts.youtube.com/@falkirkdaft

It's official. The South Carolina Supreme Court has set February 11th, 2026, as the date for oral arguments in Alex Murdaugh's appeal. And the timing couldn't be more significant.Just two months ago, former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill pled guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice, and two counts of misconduct in office. She admitted to lying under oath at the very hearing that denied Murdaugh a new trial. Now his attorneys are asking the Supreme Court to add her guilty plea to the appeal record — arguing that if she lied about one thing under oath, her denials about jury tampering can't be trusted either.Today we break down what's actually at stake on February 11th. The defense is running two consolidated appeals: one challenging alleged jury tampering by Becky Hill, and another challenging Judge Clifton Newman's decision to allow extensive financial crimes testimony as motive evidence. The prosecution says the evidence was overwhelming and the jury convicted Murdaugh because he was "obviously guilty."We walk through the critical legal question: Does South Carolina apply the federal standard for jury tampering — where any attempt to influence a jury is presumed prejudicial — or the state standard that Toal applied, requiring proof that tampering actually changed a vote?We also explain why this appeal matters even though Murdaugh will never get out of prison regardless. He's already serving 27 years for financial crimes. His attorneys say this is about the integrity of fair trials in South Carolina.The hearing will be livestreamed and open to the public. A decision could take weeks or months. And if Murdaugh loses, he's already signaled federal court is next. #TrueCrimeToday #AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHill #MurdaughAppeal #SupremeCourt #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime #MurdaughTrial #BreakingNewsJoin 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/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This 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.

This week Amanda is joined by Marketing & Branding Consultant Lauren Toal who shares insights and tools in building your own personal and professional brand to get further ahead in your career or business. It's a lovely conversation on using your own values and skills to stand out in meaningful ways. Lauren also shares how she built her own career and then launched her own business in a really organic way using her own good reputation that she had developed over the years.Connect with Lauren:https://laurentoal.comhttps://www.instagram.com/laurentoalmarketing?WORK WITH AMANDA:ALIGN & THRIVE 1 Day Goal Setting Event 11th Jan 2025 - EARLYBIRD Price until 30th Novhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/align-thrive-tickets-1968808125101?JOIN The High Vibe Tribe Monthly Membership NOW:A Mindset & Manifesting Community for High Achieving Heart and Soul Centred Women.https://amandastjohn.lpages.co/high-vibe-tribe-monthly-womens-membership/**1:1 COACHING - Transformational support to achieve a business or personal goalBook in for 1:1 Coaching - https://amandastjohn.lpages.co/transformational-11-coaching/Other ways of WORKING with Me:https://linktr.ee/acreatedlife_coachAmanda St John/A Created Life is a professional Singer-Songwriter, Music Mentor, Motivational Coach & TEDx Speaker from Ireland. She has coached/mentored for over 15 years as well as having a successful music career with 2 albums, UK/Irish & USA tours, worldwide airplay (including BBC Radio 6 and RTE Radio 1) and she even sang for the US President in Washington DC. But she only committed to her music career in her mid 30's after a near death experience in a car accident inspired her to reassess her life and finally follow her dreams.Email: acreatedlifecoach@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Melbourne-based not-for-profit DPV Health has replaced its annual penetration tests with bimonthly automated attack simulations, aiming to strengthen its vulnerability management through more frequent and proactive threat assessments.Former chief information officer of DPV Health, Noel Toal, began exploring simulations after becoming disenchanted with traditional annual tests conducted by an external organisation.

The Buck's Bar Hot Wings Challenge is back and we've got a cracker for you as two of Scotland's funniest entertainers take each other in with Tam Cowan and Chris Toal facing the wings of fire!Si Ferry and Slaney provide both the quiz questions for the lads and questions on their life and careers with some great stories shared including Toal hanging about with Snoop Dogg and Tam nearly having a 'Baby Reindeer' moment at The Fringe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Buck's Bar Hot Wings Challenge is back and we've got a cracker for you as two of Scotland's funniest entertainers take each other in with Tam Cowan and Chris Toal facing the wings of fire!Si Ferry and Slaney provide both the quiz questions for the lads and questions on their life and careers with some great stories shared including Toal hanging about with Snoop Dogg and Tam nearly having a 'Baby Reindeer' moment at The Fringe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Warum landen wir immer wieder bei Menschen, die uns nicht guttun? Atze und Leon sprechen über die rosarote Brille im Gehirn, emotionale Muster und die Gründe, warum wir uns oft in genau die Falschen verlieben. Ob klammernd, emotional nicht verfügbar oder einfach toxisch – viele kennen das Gefühl, immer wieder in dieselbe Falle zu tappen. Die beiden schauen hinter die Fassade dieser Entscheidungen, teilen persönliche Erfahrungen und geben Impulse, wie du aus diesem Kreislauf ausbrechen kannst. Denn echte Verbindung beginnt mit Selbstverstehen – und manchmal mit einem klaren „Nein“. Fühlt euch gut betreut Leon & Atze Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leonwindscheid/ https://www.instagram.com/atzeschroeder_offiziell/ Mehr zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://linktr.ee/betreutesfuehlen Tickets: Atze: https://www.atzeschroeder.de/#termine Leon: https://leonwindscheid.de/tour/ VVK Münster 2025: https://betreutes-fuehlen.ticket.io/ Start ins heutige Thema: 08:30 min. Links für die Shownotes Die Tat: https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/stockholm-syndrom-so-entstand-die-bezeichnung-a-1109897.html https://www.nationalgeographic.de/wissenschaft/2023/12/gibt-es-das-stockholm-syndrom-wirklich-psychologie-kriminalitat Übersichtsstudie zum Stockholm-Syndrom: Namnyak, M., Tufton, N., Szekely, R., Toal, M., Worboys, S., & Sampson, E. L. (2008). ‘Stockholm syndrome': psychiatric diagnosis or urban myth?. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 117(1), 4-11. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2007.01112.x Rosarote Brille im Gehirn: Bode, A., & Kavanagh, P. S. (2023). Romantic love and behavioral activation system sensitivity to a loved one. Behavioral Sciences, 13(11), 921. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/11/921 Progression Bias: Joel, S., & MacDonald, G. (2021). We're not that choosy: Emerging evidence of a progression bias in romantic relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 25(4), 317-343. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10888683211025860 Bad Boys-Studie: Schramm, H., & Sartorius, A. (2024). The attraction of evil. An investigation of factors explaining women's romantic parasocial relationships with bad guys in movies and series. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1501809. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1501809/full Umfrage: https://www.parship.de/studien/parship-studie-toxische-beziehung-wenn-die-liebe-giftig-ist/ Redaktion: Andy Hartard Produktion: Murmel Productions

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Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has launched a new bid for freedom, filing an appeal to overturn his convictions for the brutal 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. This latest development, a meticulously crafted 121-page document submitted to the South Carolina Supreme Court, alleges jury tampering by Becky Hill, the former clerk of court for Colleton County. The appeal raises questions about judicial integrity, challenging the fairness of one of the most high-profile trials in recent history. Allegations of Jury Tampering Murdaugh, once a scion of South Carolina's powerful Low Country legal dynasty, is serving two consecutive life sentences for the killings, convictions handed down after a jury deliberated for less than three hours. His legal team now claims that Hill, who resigned earlier this year under a cloud of ethics violations, improperly influenced the jury. Allegations include Hill's private conversations with jurors about Murdaugh's guilt and advice to “watch his body language.” These accusations include claims that Hill entered the jury room during deliberations, a breach of protocol that contradicts judicial procedures meant to ensure impartiality. Hill's actions have drawn further scrutiny due to her decision to publish a book, Behind the Doors of Justice, shortly after the trial. While the book reportedly earned her significant financial gains, it has since been removed from circulation. Critics argue that her financial and public aspirations created a conflict of interest, compromising the sanctity of the trial process. Murdaugh's attorneys argue that Hill's actions should result in a mistrial, emphasizing that interference of this nature cannot stand in a court of law, particularly in such a critical case. The appeal also revives debates about the evidence used during the trial. Central to Murdaugh's conviction was damning cell phone data that placed him at the Moselle estate near the time of the murders. Prosecutors presented a chilling narrative: Murdaugh ambushed his son, Paul, in the kennel area, shooting him twice with a shotgun before using a .300 Blackout semi-automatic rifle on Maggie, firing five times even as she collapsed to her knees. The brutal nature of the killings and the forensic evidence presented were pivotal in securing the guilty verdict. Murdaugh's defense contends that the jury's ability to fairly weigh this evidence was compromised by Hill's alleged misconduct. They argue that her reported comments to jurors introduced bias, undermining the principle of impartiality. Hill's alleged ethical lapses extend beyond the Murdaugh trial. In June, South Carolina officials filed ethics violations against her, citing misuse of county funds, unauthorized bonuses, and orchestrating a photograph of Murdaugh in his holding cell—a move that further sensationalized an already high-profile case. Hill has denied wrongdoing related to the trial, stating that her resignation in March was prompted by public scrutiny and a desire to focus on her family. Nevertheless, these allegations have fueled debates about the integrity of Murdaugh's conviction. Legal experts and the public alike are grappling with the implications of a trial potentially compromised by personal ambition and ethical violations. The murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh shocked South Carolina and drew national attention, partly due to the family's storied history. For nearly a century, the Murdaughs wielded unparalleled influence as solicitors and district attorneys in the Low Country region. That legacy began to unravel with revelations of Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes. Concurrent with his murder convictions, Murdaugh was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for defrauding clients of millions. Prosecutors accused him of exploiting vulnerable clients to fund a lavish lifestyle. At sentencing, Murdaugh expressed remorse but offered little solace to those he'd wronged. The Supreme Court Steps In In January, Murdaugh's defense first raised the issue of jury tampering with former South Carolina Chief Justice Jean Toal, who dismissed the allegations, citing insufficient evidence to prove the comments swayed the verdict. However, in August, the Supreme Court overturned Toal's decision, agreeing to consider whether the alleged tampering merits a retrial. Legal analysts have noted that the court's decision to review the matter reflects the seriousness of the allegations and their potential to undermine public confidence in the justice system. Public opinion remains sharply divided. To some, Murdaugh's appeal is a desperate ploy from a man already convicted of heinous crimes. To others, the allegations against Hill represent a betrayal of judicial ethics that, if proven, could undermine the legitimacy of the verdict. As the Supreme Court prepares to deliberate, the implications are clear: justice must not only be done but be seen to be done. Murdaugh's legal team is also contesting the inclusion of his financial crimes during the murder trial, arguing that the evidence prejudiced the jury by portraying him as morally bankrupt. Prosecutors counter that the financial pressures Murdaugh faced provided a motive for the murders, a theory central to their case. The inclusion of this evidence remains a contentious point that could play a pivotal role in the Supreme Court's decision. Legal experts continue to debate whether admitting financial crimes was necessary to understand Murdaugh's motives or whether it unfairly tainted the jury's perception of him. As South Carolina awaits the court's ruling, the Murdaugh saga continues to captivate and polarize. At its core lies a complex interplay of privilege, power, and justice, with each development adding new layers of intrigue. Whether this appeal will result in a retrial or reaffirm the convictions, one thing is certain: the reverberations of this case will be felt for years to come. The outcome will not only determine Murdaugh's future but also set a precedent for addressing allegations of misconduct in high-stakes trials, ensuring the integrity of the justice system remains uncompromised. Want to listen to ALL of our podcasts AD-FREE? 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