Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz. It's Friday the 15th of May. I'm Sam Kozlowski.
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Chapter 2: What recent developments occurred in the Alex Murdaugh case?
It's crazy to me because you're a big streaming show watcher.
I don't watch True Crime. I'm not interested in the slightest. However, today I'm on the edge of my seat to learn more about this because you care deeply.
Yeah, well, for those of us who do keep an eye on true crime over the years, this has been a case that keeps coming up in pop culture and in media. And it is covered a lot in documentaries, podcasts. There's a Hulu miniseries. It's a big case. And I think it's a big case because it really taps into kind of the big fall from grace, you know, the powerful lawyer who then becomes...
convicted or now not so convicted felon. There's a lot to this. I'm keen to get into it with you.
Okay. So I should say when you're saying the name, it sounds like you're saying Murdoch, but you're not saying that.
It's spelled M-U-R-D-A-U-G-H.
Okay. And it's an American name that, yeah, us Aussies saying sounds a bit funny.
Yeah.
What do we need to know about this family and specifically this case?
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Chapter 3: Who is Alex Murdaugh and what is his background?
Not quite. So, I mean, those two life sentences are struck, but Murdoch is still serving two consecutive sentences of 40 years and 27 years for the financial crimes. So he's still behind bars. He does potentially have a release date without these two life sentences. But now South Carolina prosecutors have said they are going to retry the murder case, but no date has been set for that yet.
Does there have to be a jury? Do you know? Because finding, now that there have been all of these Netflix accounts, finding a fair jury in this sort of case feels like it would be quite difficult.
It's a very, very fair question to ask, I think. So in Australia, it would depend on where you would have committed this murder. Some states mandate that it has to be in front of a jury. But you're right in terms of how hard it would be to find an impartial jury.
I don't know, maybe this was a big story for me, the fact that you hadn't seen it meant that if you were called for this jury, then potentially you could have served as an impartial juror. So I'm not sure the rules... Well, I can't now. You can't now.
I know too much.
And no one listening to this can either. But I mean, this is one of the, at least in the true crime doco world, it's one of the defining stories of the last couple of years. Yeah. It's got everything. It's got a family dynasty. It's got financial fraud. It's got multiple suspicious deaths. And now it's got a murder retrial.
Wow. Crazy case, Sam. Thank you for taking me through that. I'll have to go and watch whatever number of series there are about this case and I'll report back.
And I've got a quick tidbit for you. When I was researching this story, it got me thinking, what was the first ever true crime documentary? Like how new is this genre that we just watched?
Is this a rhetorical question? No, no, no.
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