Sarah Firth

Yes, it's the story that was watched around the world.

And Claire, that's because the Murdochs, they're this legal dynasty in rural South Carolina where the murders happened.

For any listeners who haven't followed every sort of twist of the case, Alec Murdoch was...

accused of killing his wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul.

They were shot dead on the family's hunting estate.

Now, prosecutors argued he'd killed them at a moment his life was collapsing.

He was about to be exposed for financial crimes.

And there was this damning piece of evidence, which was a video his son took that placed Alex at the scene of the crime.

But you have the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturning

his 2023 murder conviction, citing that shocking jury interference by court clerk Rebecca Hill.

They said she had put her fingers on the scales of justice.

She'd had contact reportedly with jurors that had improperly influenced them.

And the court saying that that denied him his constitutional right to a fair trial.

Really important to note though, Claire, this doesn't mean that he is walking free.

It means that those life sentences have been vacated for the guilty verdicts for the murders of his wife and son.

Those have been reversed.

But he remains in prison because he also pled guilty in a separate trial to dozens of state and federal financial crimes.

So he's currently serving a 27 and 40 year sentence for those crimes.

And the prosecutors have said that they are going to be aggressively investigating

seeking to retry Alex for the murders of Maggie and Paul.