Valerie Bauerlein

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Criminal · Why Alex Murdaugh is Getting a Do-Over · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Previous judges who'd looked at it said, yeah, this was wrong.

It's kind of foolhardy to say words to that effect, but it didn't affect the outcome of the trial.

But the Supreme Court said, no, any interference with the jury in any way whatsoever is an error that can't be remedied.

And he got a do-over.

Well, you know, it's a funny thing as a person who's written a book about this case to say this, but, you know, it's because Becky Hill wrote a book about the case.

It was called Behind the Doors of Justice.

And so the trial ended in March of 23, and she wanted to put her book—she wanted to write a memoir about being, you know, the life of a clerk of court, particularly in that high-profile proceeding.

And she put it out pretty quickly in August of 2023.

And the defense—

attorneys, Alex defense attorneys, namely Dick Arputlian and Jim Griffin, got wind of it and drove back down to Walterborough and started going door to door to talk to jurors and sit because they were hearing these rumors that jurors weren't happy.

And in the end,

It really was her undoing.

One of the former chief justices of the South Carolina Supreme Court said that Becky Hill was lured by the siren call of celebrity to write this book.

And in the end, she was pushing too hard for a guilty verdict.

So it's stunning to be having this conversation because of the actions really of one person, and it's not Alec Murdoch.

You know, it's stunning.

And the Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, they said, look, it is the breathtaking and unprecedented actions of one person that require this do-over.

But I agree with you.

I've spent—the homicides of Maggie and Paul Murdoch were June 7th of 2021, so more than five years.

So I've spent the better part of five years doing—

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