Sarah Firth
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335 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Sarah Firth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
So they're looking right now at the fact that she had made these comments during her work as the court clerk to the jurors who she'd had contact with throughout the trial, talking about his credibility, asking them to look at his body language.
interference that only came to light fully once the case had been trialed and the decision reached.
And then jurors started speaking out about the influence.
And you know what's interesting, Clarice, you're right.
You know, there have been so many podcasts, the documentaries on this.
And as I was sort of going back through the case, because, you know, it's as famous here as it is around the world.
It sort of stood out that Maggie Murdoch is barely mentioned.
She was the 52-year-old wife of Alec.
And I found her obituary, she has one surviving son, that described her as having a heart of pure generosity.
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