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-[dogs barking]
-[Craig] Ellie!

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They got names,
but I don't know 'em.

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[chuckles]

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My daughter could tell you.

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Well, I found out
I became a juror on this trial

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when I got a letter in the mail
and opened it.

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I let my mom look at it and she's, like,

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"Oh, my God, you're going
to be on the Murdaugh trial."

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[dramatic string music plays]

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[newscaster 1] We begin with a tragedy
in the Lowcountry overnight.

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Two people, a mother and son, are killed.

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And now, investigators are looking
for answers about exactly what happened.

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[newscaster 2] The victims,
part of the Murdaugh family,

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a legal and political dynasty.

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[newscaster 3] New developments today
in the Alex Murdaugh case.

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We just learned authorities
took Alex Murdaugh into custody.

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[newscaster 4] Alex Murdaugh, charged with
the double murder of his wife and son.

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So much has happened.

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This family is basically cursed.

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[newscaster 5] Murder mystery
that has gripped the nation.

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Alex set up a hitman.

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We learned some things this morning.

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[newscaster 6]
More twists in the now growing legal case.

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[newscaster 7]
Suspicion of stealing millions of dollars

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of insurance settlement money.

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[newscaster 8]
It's just part of this bizarre story.

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Prosecutors said
that Murdaugh fatally shot both of them

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in order to distract
from his own financial crimes.

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This became a fascinating case
and a lot of twists and turns.

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What has been dubbed
South Carolina's trial of the century.

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Breaking news from South Carolina tonight,
where the verdict is in.

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Alex Murdaugh is found guilty.

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-Guilty.
-Guilty.

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[Craig] I was convinced
without a reasonable doubt

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that he was guilty,
so my verdict was guilty.

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I thought this was behind us.

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A stunning development

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in one of South Carolina's
most high-profile murder cases.

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Three years
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Alex Murdaugh will get a new trial.

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[newscaster 9]
This all centers around the actions

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of the county clerk at the time,
a woman named Becky Hill.

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[newscaster 10] The justices finding
shocking jury interference

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by the court clerk, Becky Hill.

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She was a friendly person.
Maybe she was too friendly.

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She felt a little bit like the 13th juror.

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They got a lot of explaining to do.

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And we were all just trying
to get through all the lies.

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[Bill] This is Walter Street

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and if you look back this way,
you can see City Hall.

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Of course, you see
the palmetto trees here.

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Come to South Carolina,
you see a lot of palmettoes.

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Probably our two largest employers

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would be the school district
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We have a lot of agriculture here,
a lot of tourism here.

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It's a very welcoming town.

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The kind of place
where you would bring people in

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and sit on the porch
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a glass of iced tea and talk.

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All of the things
that make a small town great.

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[interviewer] Do you think people knew
of Murdaugh before all this?

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[Bill] Well, the Murdaughs
did not go to school here.

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They did not grow up here.

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They were not part of this community.

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But because the crime took place
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we had the trial and all of that, so…

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But I think that's like saying,
"Do you know Joe Biden?"

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You know, and everybody would say,
"Yes, of course I know Joe Biden,"

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but most people don't really know him.

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And there'd be the same thing
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[Joe] After nearly a 50-year career
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you run across some interesting people
and interesting cases.

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Had some folks give me a snake.

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I don't even remember why that would be.

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I think it had something
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And the ever-present hyena,

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which my clients find quite entertaining.

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I tell them that that's what happens
to you if you don't pay.

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South Carolina is a small state.

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So, we have a correspondingly
small number of lawyers.

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And I had occasion to spend time
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the grandfather of Alex Murdaugh.

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He was the solicitor for that circuit.

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I knew him fondly
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So, we drank liquor
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And once I went into private practice,

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I was down there as a defense lawyer,
talking with my old friend, Buster.

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They had a powerhouse law firm
that's recently been renamed.

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It became the predominant law firm
in that part of this state.

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So, I've grown up
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and interacting with them,
and I knew Alex, or know Alex.

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I went down to Colleton County,
thinking that this was a three-week trial.

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And it lasted six weeks.

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And I was there every moment of every day.

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So, I contacted the clerk
of court, Becky Hill.

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And she made arrangements
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Becky Hill was the clerk of court,
and their job is to run the courthouse.

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But most importantly,
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to accommodate jurors
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and to protect them
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[sighs]

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I don't have a lot to say
about Becky Hill.

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I think Becky Hill
has said a lot for herself.

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My name is Rebecca "Becky" Hill

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and I am a native of Walterboro.

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I love my county and I love my job.

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Clerk, what do you have to tell?

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[Myra] I met her during jury selection.

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She was chipper and happy
and asked us to make a list

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of drinks or anything, kind of pastries,
that we would want in the mornings,

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and thought she was a friendly person.

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Maybe she was too friendly.

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Always tried to be extra helpful.

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[Clifton] Your purpose as jurors

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will be to decide the facts of this case.

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Well, I thought it was
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that somebody would actually
murder their wife and their son.

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There's always two sides to a case,
so you got to see it through.

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I was in that jury room daily,
longer than I would have been at work.

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[Clifton] You cannot discuss the case
with family, friends, or anyone else.

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[Myra] You could see people
in the audience that you knew.

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You see people from news media.

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You see politicians,
and you're just like, "Holy shit."

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[reporter 1] Did the weapon
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belong to her family?

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[reporter 2] The gun used to kill Maggie
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nor has Paul Murdaugh's rifle.

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Seeing all the pictures
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it's not something
anybody would really want to go through.

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[Myra] I can still close my eyes
and see those pictures.

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It's horrendous.

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[reporter 3] Tonight,
Alex Murdaugh's alibi

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potentially destroyed
by his son's own video.

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Before the Snapchat video,
I wasn't sure if he did it or not.

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[reporter 4] Prosecutors revealing
a 58-second cell phone video,

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directly contradicting
Alex Murdaugh's story.

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[Craig] That puts him
in the place of the murder.

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I pretty much knew it was him.

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[indistinct chatter]

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If you listen to the video,
they were laughing, they were joking.

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It gave me a little bit of pause.

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[indistinct chatter over video recording]

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How is this video proof
that he killed them?

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[camera shutters clicking]

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[reporter 5]
This coverage is wall-to-wall.

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[reporter 6] They haven't seen
this much media attention in the area

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since the filming
of Forrest Gump back in 1994.

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[Bill] The world came to Walterboro.
We had media here from everywhere.

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During the trial, this whole area
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And as the trial progressed,
the line got longer and longer.

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And as people
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they started coming here
from all over the place.

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And if you can see
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a lot of the news media was lined up.

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They had tents,
15, 20 satellite trucks here.

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We had food trucks.

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We had porta potties.

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We have someone here that rents those,
and they're really nice.

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They're called Taj Ma-Stalls.

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And so, we had
some Taj Ma-Stalls over there.

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-[siren wails]
-[indistinct chatter]

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Up until we got into the issue
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we walked away
feeling really good about what we'd done

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and that we had done a good job.
So we were proud.

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And what do those two records indicate?

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[Myra] During the trial, I was undecided.

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I really didn't have
a "He's guilty, he's not guilty."

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I had a lot of questions.

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And if I'm gonna convict a man of murder,

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I need a little bit more
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I mean, there's just a lot of "ifs."

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[Clifton] Mr. Murdaugh,
if you'll come forward

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and stand in front of me,
and Madam Clerk, if you can swear him in.

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[Myra] The day that Alex
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Becky came through the courtroom,
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You could see it in her face.

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[Clifton] Have you made a decision
as to whether you're gonna testify?

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I am going to testify. I want to testify.

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She said, "Oh, my God, y'all,
this is gonna be an epic day."

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"Alex is gonna take the stand."

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She told us that
we were all gonna be famous.

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And she said,
"But I want y'all to listen carefully."

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"You need to pay very close attention
to Alex's body movement, his motions."

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"And you know, don't be fooled
by what the defense says."

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"You're gonna hear a lot of things."

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And when she said that,
I just kind of questioned to myself,

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"Did she just tell me
that they're gonna lie?"

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Good morning.

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[Joe] Unheard of.
That is so inappropriate. It's…

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I mean, it's even hard for me to conceive
that anybody could think

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that that was not gonna be
a problem for them.

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[Mr. Griffin] Mr. Murdaugh…

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on June 7th…

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2021, did you take this gun,
or any gun like it,

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and fire it into your wife, Maggie,
causing her death?

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Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot
my wife or my son anytime.

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Ever.

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[reporter 6] Now, to breaking news
in the Murdaugh murder trial.

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[reporter 7] After six weeks
in this Colleton County courtroom,

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jurors are weighing the fate
of disbarred attorney, Alex Murdaugh.

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[reporter 8] Jury's prepared to work
through the weekend.

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[reporter 9] I'd be stunned
if they came back

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with a verdict within a day,
because this is a complicated case.

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[Myra] The day of deliberation,

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I had a phone call conversation
with Becky.

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She asked me, "Well, have you made up
your mind about the verdict?"

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And I said, "No."

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I wanted to hear,
you know, everything to the end

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before I, you know, started to deliberate.

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And she asked me what made me think
that he was innocent.

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And I said, "Well,
there's no murder weapons, you know."

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"There's-- Guns are still missing."

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And she told me that I needed
to put them out of my head.

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They would never be seen again.

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I can't honestly say
how I would have voted.

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That was the morning I was dismissed.

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First off this morning,
we have to deal with the issue involving…

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the removal of a juror.

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They said there was an anonymous email
from the public that stated

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that I was speaking about the trial
outside of court.

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-[interviewer] And were you?
-No.

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I spoke to nobody about the trial.

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Thank you for your service. I'm not…

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suggesting that you intentionally did
anything wrong,

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but that in order to preserve
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and in fairness
to all the parties involved,

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we're going to replace you
with one of the other jurors.

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Have you brought everything
that you have?

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Have you left some stuff in there?
What do you have in there?

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-[Myra] A dozen eggs.
-Say that again.

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-[Myra] A dozen eggs.
-"A dozen eggs"?

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[Myra] Yeah.

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When I was dismissed from court,
I was known as juror 785,

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or more publicly as the "Egg Juror."

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[Clifton]
Three-five-four will become part of the…

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That was an extraordinary thing to happen,
to excuse a juror…

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an hour before the case
would otherwise have been handed

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to she and the other 11 jurors
that had sat there

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listening to the entire trial.

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So, everyone wondered
what in the world was going on.

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[Craig] We walked into deliberations
and everybody was excited.

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You know, we took an initial vote
and nine of us said guilty.

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Two of us said not guilty,
and one of us were undecided.

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So, we gotta deliberate some more.

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We had to look at more evidence.

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We looked at the guns.
We looked at the Snapchat video.

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-[woman 1] Come here, Bubba!
-[woman 2] Catch, quick.

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[Craig] Everybody was shocked.

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And I think they really could
hear it better in the jury room,

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so they could actually pay attention
a little better.

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And I think the Snapchat video swayed…

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their vote.

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In the term of 2022, July,

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the state versus
Richard Alexander Murdaugh, defendant,

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indictment for murder, guilty verdict,

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signed by the forelady, 3-2-23.

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[reporter 10]
How could you kill your wife and son?

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[reporter 11]
What do you think of the verdict, Alex?

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-[reporter 12] Why did you lie?
-[newscaster 11] There is breaking news.

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Alex Murdaugh is found guilty
of murdering his wife and 22-year-old son.

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[newscaster 12]
Good evening, we begin with breaking news.

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After just about three hours
of deliberation…

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[newscaster 13] Three hours.

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Three hours to find disgraced lawyer,
Alex Murdaugh, guilty.

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Today's verdict proves that no one,
no matter who you are in society,

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is above the law.

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Thank you.

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[Joe] Shortly after the jury verdict,

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public interest went from,
you know, 70 to 200.

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There are so many loose ends
with this one.

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I still actually think that
there was not enough to convict him.

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I hope he rots in jail.

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Anyone else feel like your entire life

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is revolved around
the Murdaugh trial right now?

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After trial, I got contacted
by a whole slew of people.

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I got in with Dr. Phil.

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We've been analyzing
the body language from Alex Murdaugh.

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[Craig] And Good Morning America.

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[newscaster 14]
Juror Craig Moyer breaking his silence.

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Joining us now are jurors James McDowell,
Gwen Generette, and Amie Williams.

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Good morning to all of you.

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By the way, guess who's spoken out?
OJ Simpson even weighed in.

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I went to the Murdaugh auction,
and this is what I bought.

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One lady paid so much money for a vacuum

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that was, like, still full of dirt
from their home.

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Oh, my gosh.

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I mean, it just went, "Boom."

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[pensive music ends]

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[Myra] After the trial,
it kind of blew up with…

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what happened,
and everybody had, you know…

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they wanted to do a story,
and I just didn't want any part of it.

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[pensive music plays]

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[Myra] It got me to a point
that I had to go see the counselor

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who helped me to deal with

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some of the social media posts
that had been put out about me.

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Stupid comments that I don't even know
where they would come up with this stuff.

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But it was kind of hilarious.

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I read so much about myself
I didn't even know who I was.

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She wanted to reclaim her life
and her privacy.

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So, my first responsibility for her

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and ultimately
for the second juror, Juror Z…

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was to get the press off of their back.
And then, as we talked,

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I learned more about
what had gone on backstage.

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And it caused me great concern,
and I knew…

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uh, that…

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the defense lawyers
were talking about interviewing jurors.

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Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh
are demanding a new trial

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and a federal investigation,
citing allegations

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that a court clerk
engaged in jury tampering.

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They then filed a motion for a new trial
based upon jury tampering.

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And that led to an extraordinary hearing.

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[Jean] Please be seated.

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Juror Z, did you hear Ms. Becky Hill

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make any comment about this case
before your verdict?

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-[Juror Z] Yes, ma'am.
-What did Ms. Hill say?

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[Juror Z] To watch his actions.

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[Jean] To watch his actions.

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What else?

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-[Juror Z] To watch him closely.
-[Jean] To watch him closely.

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Was your verdict…

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influenced in any way
by the communications

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of the clerk of court in this case?

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[Juror Z] Yes, ma'am.

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She made it seem like
he was already guilty.

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Thank you, Your Honor.
The state calls Rebecca Hill.

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[clears throat]

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[lawyer] Did you…

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interact with any juror
in an attempt to influence their view

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of the facts in the State v Murdaugh case?

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No.

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At any time, did you tell the jury
"not to be fooled"

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by evidence presented
by Mr. Murdaugh's attorneys?

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I did not.

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At any time did you instruct the jury

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to watch him closely
and look at his actions?

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I did not.

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At any time did you instruct the jury
or tell the jury to look at his movements?

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No.

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Anything along those lines
that was meant to influence

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-the jurors against Mr. Murdaugh?
-No.

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[dramatic music plays]

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[Myra] I wish she would come out
and tell the truth and say why.

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I wish more than anything
that she would tell the truth.

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Among the reasons that have
been posited out there are the--

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She did it all because she has
some problem with the Murdaughs.

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Another theory is that this was all
about the book she was writing,

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that she figured the only ending
that would sell books is a conviction.

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[tense music plays]

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[Neil] So, this is trialwatchers.com,

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and we try to celebrate true crime fans
from all over the country.

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And we decided to focus
on the Murdaugh trial.

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[Melissa] I first heard the name Becky

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when I was standing
in line at the courthouse.

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Well, she said, I want to write a book.

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And I said, "I should connect you
with my husband. He's a former newscaster.

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She had already had the title
of the book in mind.

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She already knew
what she wanted the focus to be,

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which is to take somebody,
kind of, behind the curtain

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during what was known
as the trial of the century.

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They wanted autographs from us.
They wanted autographs from the bailiffs.

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Becky and I probably communicated
every other day.

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We would do a Zoom call.

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I'd be laying back with my neck pillow
like I'm on an airplane or something,

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and I would ask her
a number of different questions,

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gather all the information, and then
I would basically do a rough draft.

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Like, do they recognize you
as the person that read the verdict?

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Oh, yeah.

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They'll say, "You're the one
who read the verdict." Yeah. Yeah.

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[both laughing]

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So we ended up publishing it
in a span of about four months.

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Becky Hill had a front row seat
every single day during that trial.

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There will be a book tour
that I'm going to be on,

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and that's coming up in the next 14 days,
so stay tuned for where I'll be.

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A book event got set up,
and there was a line around the building.

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And every morning, Alex would walk in
and say, "Good morning, Miss Becky."

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[Neil] We sold 250 books
within three hours

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and she autographed every single one

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and talked to people.
She was one of them. That's her people.

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That's why we feel like she just
really naturally got caught up.

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There were things along the way,
looking back…

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um, that maybe…

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were oversharing sometimes
and it gave me a pause.

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Everybody that we've encountered
is 100 percent that he's guilty.

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Really?

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So we haven't met anybody
who thinks he didn't do it.

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[Neil] At the crime scene,
when all the jurors and Becky

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and all the attorneys went out there
and actually walked around

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and she explained how eerie it was.

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[Becky] There were several
of us women all together,

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and we walked over
to where Maggie would have been laying.

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We all looked at one another
and spoke very softly.

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This is where she was.
This was her final moments.

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What must she have been thinking
to see her son with his head blown off,

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because she had to have seen that
before it turned on her,

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and then knowing who had done that.

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Becky wrote, "As a clerk of court,
we're supposed to be Switzerland."

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But as we were riding back
on the way to the courthouse,

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when there were a few court officials
in the vehicle,

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they actually discussed
what they witnessed.

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"And as a regular person," she said,
"we all felt Alex was guilty."

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-[Melissa] And that's what she told us.
-Yeah. And that's in the book. Yeah.

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She was the clerk of court,
but I almost got the impression

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that she felt a little bit
like the 13th juror

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and that she was listening
to the testimony

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and she was kind of making up her own mind
as she went along.

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[birds chirping]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[pensive music plays]

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-[photographer] Bill.
-[Bill] How you doing, buddy?

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Okay.

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Today, we filed a lawsuit on behalf
of Richard Alexander Murdaugh Senior

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versus Rebecca Hill.

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With the South Carolina
Supreme Court's ruling,

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it has been adjudged
that she deprived him

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of a right to a fair trial.

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We have a lot of questions
that we would like answered.

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Was she a lone wolf?

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I'll tell you this removal
of the egg lady juror is very suspicious.

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The way she was targeted, it just…

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it's very curious.

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And we hope
to get to the bottom of that.

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[Alan] The defense's job
is to muddy the waters,

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to throw out
a thousand conspiracy theories

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and get people thinking
about everything else

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except about the facts of the case.

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I was involved in the Murdaugh trial
as the state Attorney General.

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I believe we did it right the first time.

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It was not our fault
this thing was reversed.

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The Supreme Court themselves says

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this falls solely
on the shoulders of one person.

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That was the Colleton County
Clerk of Court, Becky Hill.

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Obviously none of us knew about it.

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When we became aware, I sent that case
to an independent prosecutor

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who came to the conclusion
that Ms. Hill's conduct was inappropriate,

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but it was harmless error
as it related to the conviction.

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But the Supreme Court
went in another direction,

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and we're going to act accordingly.

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[Richard] Over the weekend,
we learned that the Attorney General

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has announced he's considering
the death penalty in this case.

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He's probably talking
to his political consultants

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who thought that was a good soundbite
for his governor's campaign.

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And then we've seen this process
since the beginning of this case

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where Alan Wilson plays politics
as opposed to playing prosecutor.

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They got a lot of explaining to do.

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Yes, I am a candidate for governor,
but my role as the attorney general

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is to set the stage for the next trial.

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The Supreme Court
reversing a case like this

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is obviously going to affect
everyone's trial strategies

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00:26:09,693 --> 00:26:11,987
because it's a movie
we've all seen before.

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00:26:12,071 --> 00:26:14,406
It's like the jump scares,
you know when they're coming.

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And if we're starting over
at ground zero, um,

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then we're going to consider
and evaluate everything.

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People believe this
that if you have money and power,

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you have one justice system.

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If you don't have money and power,
you have a different justice system.

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People said
there's no way someone like that

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will be convicted in South Carolina.

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We did that the first trial,

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and I believe we'll do that
on the second trial.

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[pensive music ends]

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[ominous music plays]

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[Bill] One thing I was thinking about
is how many victims there are

472
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in all of this.

473
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It's not just Alex's family.

474
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There were so many
other people who were impacted.

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[Myra] My husband got worried about me
because I was starting to break down.

476
00:27:39,741 --> 00:27:45,289
And I could talk to him,
but it wasn't the same

477
00:27:45,372 --> 00:27:49,835
as getting somebody
that actually could break it down

478
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and explain it to me how to get past it.

479
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-[interviewer] Do you need a moment?
-I'm good.

480
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It was a lot.

481
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[ominous music continues]

482
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I feel very relieved that I have nothing
to do with the second trial.

483
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[ominous music ends]

484
00:28:20,866 --> 00:28:23,619
I don't know. I think they're blowing it
all out of proportion

485
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is what they're doing.

486
00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:30,834
I don't remember anybody
talking about tampering

487
00:28:30,918 --> 00:28:34,087
or influencing anybody or anything.

488
00:28:37,090 --> 00:28:40,219
There was times
I wish I never was involved in this.

489
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I'm like, "Oh, Lord,
they're still talking about it."

490
00:28:43,847 --> 00:28:45,015
[newscaster 15] The saga continues…

491
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[newscaster 16] A second chance to face…

492
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[newscaster 17]
But they'll get a brand-new jury.

493
00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:49,937
Now, this will not be the same jury…

494
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[newscaster 18] Will disgraced attorney
Alex Murdaugh be acquitted

495
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of murdering his wife
and son in a retrial?

496
00:28:57,277 --> 00:29:01,406
I would blame, I guess, Murdaugh.
I mean…

497
00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:04,493
Nobody else to blame except for him.

498
00:29:06,662 --> 00:29:12,042
Especially if he's guilty,
which I sincerely believe he is,

499
00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:15,254
but we'll see.

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[rifle fires]

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[upbeat music plays]

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[upbeat music ends]