Sam Koslowski

He admitted to all the financial crimes, but he maintains that he did not kill his wife and son.

The jury did not believe him.

They took three hours of deliberations.

Three hours of deliberations.

They found him guilty on all counts, and he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

Well, we need to talk about Becky Hill.

So Becky Hill was the clerk of the court.

She basically oversaw the administration of the trial.

She managed the evidence.

She managed the relationship with the jury.

And a few months after the verdict, she published a book about the proceedings.

This is a famous case, and if someone's that close, they might be inclined to want to have a tell-all, non-fiction, best-selling hit.

Defence lawyers, though, started reading the book, and they...

No.

Three months later, basically a book saying I ran the back end of this trial in court.

Here was my observations.

And defence lawyers started to read this book and it had a lot of detail of what was said and done during the trial and that actually made them want to appeal.

On what grounds?

Well, partly that it got them to check in with the jurors about how Hill behaved around them.

And it turns out the jurors signed affidavits to the defence saying that Hill had told them to, quote, watch Murdoch closely and not to be fooled by the defence.