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-[dogs barking] -[Craig] Ellie!
They got names, but I don't know 'em.
[chuckles]
My daughter could tell you.
Well, I found out I became a juror on this trial
when I got a letter in the mail and opened it.
I let my mom look at it and she's, like,
"Oh, my God, you're going to be on the Murdaugh trial."
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[newscaster 1] We begin with a tragedy in the Lowcountry overnight.
Two people, a mother and son, are killed.
And now, investigators are looking for answers about exactly what happened.
[newscaster 2] The victims, part of the Murdaugh family,
a legal and political dynasty.
[newscaster 3] New developments today in the Alex Murdaugh case.
We just learned authorities took Alex Murdaugh into custody.
[newscaster 4] Alex Murdaugh, charged with the double murder of his wife and son.
So much has happened.
This family is basically cursed.
[newscaster 5] Murder mystery that has gripped the nation.
Alex set up a hitman.
We learned some things this morning.
[newscaster 6] More twists in the now growing legal case.
[newscaster 7] Suspicion of stealing millions of dollars
of insurance settlement money.
[newscaster 8] It's just part of this bizarre story.
Prosecutors said that Murdaugh fatally shot both of them
in order to distract from his own financial crimes.
This became a fascinating case and a lot of twists and turns.
What has been dubbed South Carolina's trial of the century.
Breaking news from South Carolina tonight, where the verdict is in.
Alex Murdaugh is found guilty.
-Guilty. -Guilty.
[Craig] I was convinced without a reasonable doubt
that he was guilty, so my verdict was guilty.
I thought this was behind us.
A stunning development
in one of South Carolina's most high-profile murder cases.
Three years after the verdict watched by millions,
Alex Murdaugh will get a new trial.
[newscaster 9] This all centers around the actions
of the county clerk at the time, a woman named Becky Hill.
[newscaster 10] The justices finding shocking jury interference
by the court clerk, Becky Hill.
She was a friendly person. Maybe she was too friendly.
She felt a little bit like the 13th juror.
They got a lot of explaining to do.
And we were all just trying to get through all the lies.
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[Bill] This is Walter Street
and if you look back this way, you can see City Hall.
Of course, you see the palmetto trees here.
Come to South Carolina, you see a lot of palmettoes.
Probably our two largest employers
would be the school district and the hospital.
We have a lot of agriculture here, a lot of tourism here.
It's a very welcoming town.
The kind of place where you would bring people in
and sit on the porch and have a Coca-Cola,
a glass of iced tea and talk.
All of the things that make a small town great.
[interviewer] Do you think people knew of Murdaugh before all this?
[Bill] Well, the Murdaughs did not go to school here.
They did not grow up here.
They were not part of this community.
But because the crime took place just inside county lines,
we had the trial and all of that, so…
But I think that's like saying, "Do you know Joe Biden?"
You know, and everybody would say, "Yes, of course I know Joe Biden,"
but most people don't really know him.
And there'd be the same thing with the Murdaughs.
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[Joe] After nearly a 50-year career in the law,
you run across some interesting people and interesting cases.
Had some folks give me a snake.
I don't even remember why that would be.
I think it had something to do with my personality.
And the ever-present hyena,
which my clients find quite entertaining.
I tell them that that's what happens to you if you don't pay.
South Carolina is a small state.
So, we have a correspondingly small number of lawyers.
And I had occasion to spend time with Buster Murdaugh,
the grandfather of Alex Murdaugh.
He was the solicitor for that circuit.
I knew him fondly because I was one of the prosecutors.
So, we drank liquor and we went to conventions.
And once I went into private practice,
I was down there as a defense lawyer, talking with my old friend, Buster.
They had a powerhouse law firm that's recently been renamed.
It became the predominant law firm in that part of this state.
So, I've grown up as a lawyer with their family
and interacting with them, and I knew Alex, or know Alex.
I went down to Colleton County, thinking that this was a three-week trial.
And it lasted six weeks.
And I was there every moment of every day.
So, I contacted the clerk of court, Becky Hill.
And she made arrangements to save me a seat.
Becky Hill was the clerk of court, and their job is to run the courthouse.
But most importantly, once a trial begins,
to accommodate jurors with meals and privacy
and to protect them from any outside interference.
[sighs]
I don't have a lot to say about Becky Hill.
I think Becky Hill has said a lot for herself.
My name is Rebecca "Becky" Hill
and I am a native of Walterboro.
I love my county and I love my job.
Clerk, what do you have to tell?
[Myra] I met her during jury selection.
She was chipper and happy and asked us to make a list
of drinks or anything, kind of pastries, that we would want in the mornings,
and thought she was a friendly person.
Maybe she was too friendly.
Always tried to be extra helpful.
[Clifton] Your purpose as jurors
will be to decide the facts of this case.
Well, I thought it was interesting and crazy
that somebody would actually murder their wife and their son.
There's always two sides to a case, so you got to see it through.
I was in that jury room daily, longer than I would have been at work.
[Clifton] You cannot discuss the case with family, friends, or anyone else.
[Myra] You could see people in the audience that you knew.
You see people from news media.
You see politicians, and you're just like, "Holy shit."
[reporter 1] Did the weapon used to kill Maggie Murdaugh
belong to her family?
[reporter 2] The gun used to kill Maggie still has not been recovered,
nor has Paul Murdaugh's rifle.
Seeing all the pictures and all the evidence,
it's not something anybody would really want to go through.
[Myra] I can still close my eyes and see those pictures.
It's horrendous.
[reporter 3] Tonight, Alex Murdaugh's alibi
potentially destroyed by his son's own video.
Before the Snapchat video, I wasn't sure if he did it or not.
[reporter 4] Prosecutors revealing a 58-second cell phone video,
directly contradicting Alex Murdaugh's story.
[Craig] That puts him in the place of the murder.
I pretty much knew it was him.
[indistinct chatter]
If you listen to the video, they were laughing, they were joking.
It gave me a little bit of pause.
[indistinct chatter over video recording]
How is this video proof that he killed them?
[camera shutters clicking]
[reporter 5] This coverage is wall-to-wall.
[reporter 6] They haven't seen this much media attention in the area
since the filming of Forrest Gump back in 1994.
[Bill] The world came to Walterboro. We had media here from everywhere.
During the trial, this whole area was covered with people.
And as the trial progressed, the line got longer and longer.
And as people were watching it on television,
they started coming here from all over the place.
And if you can see this cleared area over there,
a lot of the news media was lined up.
They had tents, 15, 20 satellite trucks here.
We had food trucks.
We had porta potties.
We have someone here that rents those, and they're really nice.
They're called Taj Ma-Stalls.
And so, we had some Taj Ma-Stalls over there.
-[siren wails] -[indistinct chatter]
Up until we got into the issue with the clerk of court…
we walked away feeling really good about what we'd done
and that we had done a good job. So we were proud.
And what do those two records indicate?
[Myra] During the trial, I was undecided.
I really didn't have a "He's guilty, he's not guilty."
I had a lot of questions.
And if I'm gonna convict a man of murder,
I need a little bit more than thoughts and theories.
I mean, there's just a lot of "ifs."
[Clifton] Mr. Murdaugh, if you'll come forward
and stand in front of me, and Madam Clerk, if you can swear him in.
[Myra] The day that Alex was gonna take the stand,
Becky came through the courtroom, and she was excited.
You could see it in her face.
[Clifton] Have you made a decision as to whether you're gonna testify?
I am going to testify. I want to testify.
She said, "Oh, my God, y'all, this is gonna be an epic day."
"Alex is gonna take the stand."
She told us that we were all gonna be famous.
And she said, "But I want y'all to listen carefully."
"You need to pay very close attention to Alex's body movement, his motions."
"And you know, don't be fooled by what the defense says."
"You're gonna hear a lot of things."
And when she said that, I just kind of questioned to myself,
"Did she just tell me that they're gonna lie?"
Good morning.
[Joe] Unheard of. That is so inappropriate. It's…
I mean, it's even hard for me to conceive that anybody could think
that that was not gonna be a problem for them.
[Mr. Griffin] Mr. Murdaugh…
on June 7th…
2021, did you take this gun, or any gun like it,
and fire it into your wife, Maggie, causing her death?
Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot my wife or my son anytime.
Ever.
[reporter 6] Now, to breaking news in the Murdaugh murder trial.
[reporter 7] After six weeks in this Colleton County courtroom,
jurors are weighing the fate of disbarred attorney, Alex Murdaugh.
[reporter 8] Jury's prepared to work through the weekend.
[reporter 9] I'd be stunned if they came back
with a verdict within a day, because this is a complicated case.
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[Myra] The day of deliberation,
I had a phone call conversation with Becky.
She asked me, "Well, have you made up your mind about the verdict?"
And I said, "No."
I wanted to hear, you know, everything to the end
before I, you know, started to deliberate.
And she asked me what made me think that he was innocent.
And I said, "Well, there's no murder weapons, you know."
"There's-- Guns are still missing."
And she told me that I needed to put them out of my head.
They would never be seen again.
I can't honestly say how I would have voted.
That was the morning I was dismissed.
First off this morning, we have to deal with the issue involving…
the removal of a juror.
They said there was an anonymous email from the public that stated
that I was speaking about the trial outside of court.
-[interviewer] And were you? -No.
I spoke to nobody about the trial.
Thank you for your service. I'm not…
suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong,
but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process,
and in fairness to all the parties involved,
we're going to replace you with one of the other jurors.
Have you brought everything that you have?
Have you left some stuff in there? What do you have in there?
-[Myra] A dozen eggs. -Say that again.
-[Myra] A dozen eggs. -"A dozen eggs"?
[Myra] Yeah.
When I was dismissed from court, I was known as juror 785,
or more publicly as the "Egg Juror."
[Clifton] Three-five-four will become part of the…
That was an extraordinary thing to happen, to excuse a juror…
an hour before the case would otherwise have been handed
to she and the other 11 jurors that had sat there
listening to the entire trial.
So, everyone wondered what in the world was going on.
[Craig] We walked into deliberations and everybody was excited.
You know, we took an initial vote and nine of us said guilty.
Two of us said not guilty, and one of us were undecided.
So, we gotta deliberate some more.
We had to look at more evidence.
We looked at the guns. We looked at the Snapchat video.
-[woman 1] Come here, Bubba! -[woman 2] Catch, quick.
[Craig] Everybody was shocked.
And I think they really could hear it better in the jury room,
so they could actually pay attention a little better.
And I think the Snapchat video swayed…
their vote.
In the term of 2022, July,
the state versus Richard Alexander Murdaugh, defendant,
indictment for murder, guilty verdict,
signed by the forelady, 3-2-23.
[reporter 10] How could you kill your wife and son?
[reporter 11] What do you think of the verdict, Alex?
-[reporter 12] Why did you lie? -[newscaster 11] There is breaking news.
Alex Murdaugh is found guilty of murdering his wife and 22-year-old son.
[newscaster 12] Good evening, we begin with breaking news.
After just about three hours of deliberation…
[newscaster 13] Three hours.
Three hours to find disgraced lawyer, Alex Murdaugh, guilty.
Today's verdict proves that no one, no matter who you are in society,
is above the law.
Thank you.
[Joe] Shortly after the jury verdict,
public interest went from, you know, 70 to 200.
There are so many loose ends with this one.
I still actually think that there was not enough to convict him.
I hope he rots in jail.
Anyone else feel like your entire life
is revolved around the Murdaugh trial right now?
After trial, I got contacted by a whole slew of people.
I got in with Dr. Phil.
We've been analyzing the body language from Alex Murdaugh.
[Craig] And Good Morning America.
[newscaster 14] Juror Craig Moyer breaking his silence.
Joining us now are jurors James McDowell, Gwen Generette, and Amie Williams.
Good morning to all of you.
By the way, guess who's spoken out? OJ Simpson even weighed in.
I went to the Murdaugh auction, and this is what I bought.
One lady paid so much money for a vacuum
that was, like, still full of dirt from their home.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, it just went, "Boom."
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[Myra] After the trial, it kind of blew up with…
what happened, and everybody had, you know…
they wanted to do a story, and I just didn't want any part of it.
[pensive music plays]
[Myra] It got me to a point that I had to go see the counselor
who helped me to deal with
some of the social media posts that had been put out about me.
Stupid comments that I don't even know where they would come up with this stuff.
But it was kind of hilarious.
I read so much about myself I didn't even know who I was.
She wanted to reclaim her life and her privacy.
So, my first responsibility for her
and ultimately for the second juror, Juror Z…
was to get the press off of their back. And then, as we talked,
I learned more about what had gone on backstage.
And it caused me great concern, and I knew…
uh, that…
the defense lawyers were talking about interviewing jurors.
Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh are demanding a new trial
and a federal investigation, citing allegations
that a court clerk engaged in jury tampering.
They then filed a motion for a new trial based upon jury tampering.
And that led to an extraordinary hearing.
[Jean] Please be seated.
Juror Z, did you hear Ms. Becky Hill
make any comment about this case before your verdict?
-[Juror Z] Yes, ma'am. -What did Ms. Hill say?
[Juror Z] To watch his actions.
[Jean] To watch his actions.
What else?
-[Juror Z] To watch him closely. -[Jean] To watch him closely.
Was your verdict…
influenced in any way by the communications
of the clerk of court in this case?
[Juror Z] Yes, ma'am.
She made it seem like he was already guilty.
Thank you, Your Honor. The state calls Rebecca Hill.
[clears throat]
[lawyer] Did you…
interact with any juror in an attempt to influence their view
of the facts in the State v Murdaugh case?
No.
At any time, did you tell the jury "not to be fooled"
by evidence presented by Mr. Murdaugh's attorneys?
I did not.
At any time did you instruct the jury
to watch him closely and look at his actions?
I did not.
At any time did you instruct the jury or tell the jury to look at his movements?
No.
Anything along those lines that was meant to influence
-the jurors against Mr. Murdaugh? -No.
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[Myra] I wish she would come out and tell the truth and say why.
I wish more than anything that she would tell the truth.
Among the reasons that have been posited out there are the--
She did it all because she has some problem with the Murdaughs.
Another theory is that this was all about the book she was writing,
that she figured the only ending that would sell books is a conviction.
[tense music plays]
[Neil] So, this is trialwatchers.com,
and we try to celebrate true crime fans from all over the country.
And we decided to focus on the Murdaugh trial.
[Melissa] I first heard the name Becky
when I was standing in line at the courthouse.
Well, she said, I want to write a book.
And I said, "I should connect you with my husband. He's a former newscaster.
She had already had the title of the book in mind.
She already knew what she wanted the focus to be,
which is to take somebody, kind of, behind the curtain
during what was known as the trial of the century.
They wanted autographs from us. They wanted autographs from the bailiffs.
Becky and I probably communicated every other day.
We would do a Zoom call.
I'd be laying back with my neck pillow like I'm on an airplane or something,
and I would ask her a number of different questions,
gather all the information, and then I would basically do a rough draft.
Like, do they recognize you as the person that read the verdict?
Oh, yeah.
They'll say, "You're the one who read the verdict." Yeah. Yeah.
[both laughing]
So we ended up publishing it in a span of about four months.
Becky Hill had a front row seat every single day during that trial.
There will be a book tour that I'm going to be on,
and that's coming up in the next 14 days, so stay tuned for where I'll be.
A book event got set up, and there was a line around the building.
And every morning, Alex would walk in and say, "Good morning, Miss Becky."
[Neil] We sold 250 books within three hours
and she autographed every single one
and talked to people. She was one of them. That's her people.
That's why we feel like she just really naturally got caught up.
There were things along the way, looking back…
um, that maybe…
were oversharing sometimes and it gave me a pause.
Everybody that we've encountered is 100 percent that he's guilty.
Really?
So we haven't met anybody who thinks he didn't do it.
[Neil] At the crime scene, when all the jurors and Becky
and all the attorneys went out there and actually walked around
and she explained how eerie it was.
[Becky] There were several of us women all together,
and we walked over to where Maggie would have been laying.
We all looked at one another and spoke very softly.
This is where she was. This was her final moments.
What must she have been thinking to see her son with his head blown off,
because she had to have seen that before it turned on her,
and then knowing who had done that.
Becky wrote, "As a clerk of court, we're supposed to be Switzerland."
But as we were riding back on the way to the courthouse,
when there were a few court officials in the vehicle,
they actually discussed what they witnessed.
"And as a regular person," she said, "we all felt Alex was guilty."
-[Melissa] And that's what she told us. -Yeah. And that's in the book. Yeah.
She was the clerk of court, but I almost got the impression
that she felt a little bit like the 13th juror
and that she was listening to the testimony
and she was kind of making up her own mind as she went along.
[birds chirping]
[indistinct chatter]
[pensive music plays]
-[photographer] Bill. -[Bill] How you doing, buddy?
Okay.
Today, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of Richard Alexander Murdaugh Senior
versus Rebecca Hill.
With the South Carolina Supreme Court's ruling,
it has been adjudged that she deprived him
of a right to a fair trial.
We have a lot of questions that we would like answered.
Was she a lone wolf?
I'll tell you this removal of the egg lady juror is very suspicious.
The way she was targeted, it just…
it's very curious.
And we hope to get to the bottom of that.
[Alan] The defense's job is to muddy the waters,
to throw out a thousand conspiracy theories
and get people thinking about everything else
except about the facts of the case.
I was involved in the Murdaugh trial as the state Attorney General.
I believe we did it right the first time.
It was not our fault this thing was reversed.
The Supreme Court themselves says
this falls solely on the shoulders of one person.
That was the Colleton County Clerk of Court, Becky Hill.
Obviously none of us knew about it.
When we became aware, I sent that case to an independent prosecutor
who came to the conclusion that Ms. Hill's conduct was inappropriate,
but it was harmless error as it related to the conviction.
But the Supreme Court went in another direction,
and we're going to act accordingly.
[Richard] Over the weekend, we learned that the Attorney General
has announced he's considering the death penalty in this case.
He's probably talking to his political consultants
who thought that was a good soundbite for his governor's campaign.
And then we've seen this process since the beginning of this case
where Alan Wilson plays politics as opposed to playing prosecutor.
They got a lot of explaining to do.
Yes, I am a candidate for governor, but my role as the attorney general
is to set the stage for the next trial.
The Supreme Court reversing a case like this
is obviously going to affect everyone's trial strategies
because it's a movie we've all seen before.
It's like the jump scares, you know when they're coming.
And if we're starting over at ground zero, um,
then we're going to consider and evaluate everything.
People believe this that if you have money and power,
you have one justice system.
If you don't have money and power, you have a different justice system.
People said there's no way someone like that
will be convicted in South Carolina.
We did that the first trial,
and I believe we'll do that on the second trial.
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[Bill] One thing I was thinking about is how many victims there are
in all of this.
It's not just Alex's family.
There were so many other people who were impacted.
[Myra] My husband got worried about me because I was starting to break down.
And I could talk to him, but it wasn't the same
as getting somebody that actually could break it down
and explain it to me how to get past it.
-[interviewer] Do you need a moment? -I'm good.
It was a lot.
[ominous music continues]
I feel very relieved that I have nothing to do with the second trial.
[ominous music ends]
I don't know. I think they're blowing it all out of proportion
is what they're doing.
I don't remember anybody talking about tampering
or influencing anybody or anything.
There was times I wish I never was involved in this.
I'm like, "Oh, Lord, they're still talking about it."
[newscaster 15] The saga continues…
[newscaster 16] A second chance to face…
[newscaster 17] But they'll get a brand-new jury.
Now, this will not be the same jury…
[newscaster 18] Will disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh be acquitted
of murdering his wife and son in a retrial?
I would blame, I guess, Murdaugh. I mean…
Nobody else to blame except for him.
Especially if he's guilty, which I sincerely believe he is,
but we'll see.
[rifle fires]
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