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\nAlex Murdaugh\u2019s bizarre fall from grace gave the public a crime story too strange to look away from, and at times, too twisted to keep up with. Even by recent standards of true crime consumption, where appetite for morbid and procedural play-by-plays has felt all but bottomless, the rapidly developing story\u2019s many tentacles prompted a voracious true-crime feeding frenzy. Murdaugh\u2019s murder trial, his family\u2019s influence in their rural South Carolina county, and several deaths associated with them have prompted the release of dozens of adaptations, including at least three docuseries, a scripted Hulu show, a two-part Lifetime movie, and three Dateline<\/em> episodes, as well as other TV specials, podcasts, and books, all within the past five years, since Murdaugh\u2019s stranger-than-fiction behavior first began capturing national attention.<\/p>\n

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\n\tMaggie Murdaugh, 52, and her son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found shot to death in June 2021 on the grounds of the Murdaugh family\u2019s hunting estate in the South Carolina lowcountry. Maggie\u2019s husband and Paul\u2019s father, Alex, called 911. The case went quiet for several months, but Murdaugh was charged with dozens of financial crimes in the meantime, many of which he later pleaded guilty to. He was charged with Maggie and Paul\u2019s murders in 2022 and, following a six-week trial, convicted in March of 2023.<\/p>\n

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\n\tNow, Murdaugh\u2019s convictions for the murders of his wife and son have been tossed out, and the case will be retried, thanks in part, the state\u2019s highest court has ruled,\u00a0to the moneymaking ambitions of one woman who got a little too close to the story. The state Supreme Court reviewed juror testimony and found Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill made comments to the jury about Murdaugh\u2019s body language and the evidence presented by the defense, pushing for a guilty verdict to help sell the book she would go onto write from her front row seat at what might have been the conclusion of this yearslong saga. Now, the revelation of her behavior has opened a new chapter in the story of Murdaugh\u2019s fate, and brought back into question the search for justice in the deaths of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Hill resigned from her job in 2024, and her attorney in a civil suit brought by Murdaugh against her did not respond to a request for comment. Murdaugh remains in prison, because he\u2019s also serving 40 years for stealing millions from former clients of his law firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tMurdaugh lead prosecutor Creighton Waters believes Hill\u2019s interference was inappropriate, but tells Rolling Stone<\/em> it was not enough to sway the verdict. \u201cWe argued to the Supreme Court that it\u2019s ridiculous to conclude that after six weeks of trial, 75 witnesses, 556 exhibits\u2026 some juror was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know what I was going to do,\u2019 but then Becky said something, and that carried the day,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDefense attorney Dick Harpootlian says Murdaugh maintains his innocence and will not consider a plea deal ahead of the index trial. He is excited about the new trial, but surprised by the key player in this reversal. \u201cYou never, ever, ever<\/em> suspect that something untoward is happening with the clerk,\u201d he says, lending this latest development an air of cinematic plot twist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sordid tale of the Murdaughs unfolded in the public eye during a boom in true crime media, when actual instances of death and deception could hardly keep up with the demand for packaging and repackaging sinister stories of shocking human behavior. Between documentaries rolled out before charges were even filed to dramatized renderings of family tragedies, the many adaptations of the Murdaugh case challenged the public to separate the facts of a horrifying real-life saga from the stories we tell about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tMURDAUGH, A PERSONAL INJURY ATTORNEY and descendent of three generations of elected circuit solicitors (prosecuting attorneys) in the area, first gained national attention in 2021, after he asked a friend to shoot him in a botched insurance-fraud scheme. On Sept. 4, Murdaugh called the police to report that he had been shot while changing a flat tire by the side of the road, before confessing that he had actually asked a friend, former client, and distant cousin to kill him in the hopes that his older son, Buster, could collect on his $10 million life insurance policy. The incident occurred shortly after Murdaugh had been pushed out of the law firm his family founded more than a century ago for misappropriating funds.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat strange, headline-grabbing ordeal soon gave way to a backdrop of much darker recent violence in Murdaugh\u2019s family. Earlier that same year, Murdaugh\u2019s son Paul and wife, Maggie had been found shot dead on the grounds of the family 1,700-acre hunting estate, Moselle. Murdaugh had called 911 and said he\u2019d found them when he returned home from visiting his ailing mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time of his death, Paul had been facing felony charges for allegedy drunkenly crashing a boat in 2019 and killing 19-year-old Mallory Beach. Murdaugh claimed that his family had received anonymous threats following the horrific accident, and that he\u2019d fallen into opioid addiction while grieving the deaths of his wife and son, the combination of which led him to attempt suicide-by-hitman.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFrom there, one eyebrow-raising development emerged after the next. In October of 2021, Murdaugh was charged with stealing insurance settlement money from the family of their housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who had died in 2018 after a fall at the Murdaughs\u2019 home and whose surviving family Murdaugh had approached with a recommendation that they file a claim against his homeowner\u2019s insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThen there was the unsolved 2015 death of 19-year-old Stephen Smith, found dead in the road 10 miles from the Murdaugh home. The Murdaugh name was reportedly mentioned \u201cdozens of times\u201d by witnesses and investigators in the highway patrol case file on Smith\u2019s death, according to CNN. The case drew renewed attention after the deaths of Maggie and Paul, as authorities announced plans to reinvestigate Smith\u2019s death as a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBy the end of the year, Murdaugh faced dozens more financial charges, many related to taking money from personal injury clients. Murdaugh would later admit to stealing $4.3 million from the Satterfield family and pleaded guilty to 22 financial crimes. In 2023, law enforcement said they would exhume the bodies of both Satterfield and Smith as part of renewed investigations into both deaths. Waters, the lead prosecutor, would not comment on the status of those cases, citing ongoing investigations. \u201cI will say that cold cases are hard,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of the hitman-suicide indicent broke amid the recent wave of modern true crime enthusiasm. Dirty John<\/em>, a podcast about serial scammer and abuser John Meehan, had recently completed its circuit from 2017 LA Times<\/em> investigation and partner podcast to Netflix documentary to TV drama starring Connie Britton and Christian Slater. Audiences had binged Tiger King<\/em> in 2020, following the lead-up to Joe Exotic\u2019s conviction for hiring someone to kill Carole Baskin, his competitor in the big cat world. A proliferation of crime chat and recap podcasts found a loyal listener base as they dissected cases alongside equally common investigative programs competing to be the next Serial<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt didn\u2019t take long for the Murdaugh saga to take off in the true crime world. Just two weeks after the 2021 double-homicide of Paul and Maggie, local reporter Mandy Matney launched The<\/em> Murdaugh Murders Podcast<\/em>, taking listeners through the details of the 2019 boat accident and the Murdaugh family\u2019s power and influence in their community. By November, it ranked among the top 10 most-popular new podcasts that year. The podcast would eventually be developed into a successful Hulu scripted series starring Patricia Arquette. Today, it\u2019s one of about a dozen Murdaugh series on the Apple podcasts app, along with titles including Murdaugh on my Mind<\/em> and Murdaugh, She Recapped.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\tBy July 2022, when Murdaugh was charged with the murders of Maggie and Paul, the story of the deaths and the family\u2019s history had generated Dateline<\/em> and 20\/20<\/em> episodes and documentaries on Oxygen and Investigation Discovery. In the lead-up to the trial, HBO Max premiered the docuseries Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty<\/em>, and the Murdaugh family was the subject of a CNN Special Report<\/em> and two episodes of American Greed<\/em> on CNBC. In February 2023, while the trial was underway, Netflix premiered the docuseries Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal<\/em>, which quickly climbed to the top of the platform\u2019s viewing charts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMurdaugh\u2019s trial lasted nearly six weeks, during which dozens of witnesses took the stand, including Murdaugh himself. In one of the trial\u2019s most memorable moments, he testified through tears to lying about his whereabouts on the night of the murders. He was caught on a cell phone recording with Maggie and Paul the night of the murders, near the dog kennels where their bodies were later found. He admitted that he\u2019d lied but maintained he did not kill his wife and son.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn closing arguments, Waters described a \u201cgathering storm\u201d of financial wrongdoing that he said had led Murdaugh to murder his family in an effort to protect his reputation and money. Jim Griffin, an attorney for Murdaugh\u2019s defense, said authorities had focused on Murdaugh too early and had failed to adequately investigate the killings. On March 2, 2023, the jury deliberated for less than three hours before reaching a guilty verdict, which clerk Becky Hill read aloud. Murdaugh was convicted of killing Maggie and Paul, and he received two life sentences without parole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED the verdict, Netflix released Season 2 of its docuseries, Lifetime released a two-part movie starring Bill Pullman, and Hill, the Colleton County clerk, published her book, Behind the Doors of Justice: The Murdaugh Murders.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAll the attention on the case turned courtroom figures into minor celebrities themselves. Hill wrote in her book about taking her first plane ride ever to travel with some of the jurors after the verdict to New York, courtesy of NBC, according to South Carolina\u2019s The State<\/em> newspaper. In September, Murdaugh\u2019s attorneys appeared at CrimeCon in Orlando. The defense and the state spoke at separate panel discussions to hundreds of attendees \u2014 thousands, in Waters\u2019 case. \u201cCreighton was clearly the favorite, because they like the prosecutors better,\u201d Harpootlian says, laughing. He recalls the event as \u201cbizarre.\u201d Waters played guitar with his band during a kickoff party for the event. \u201cI joked that\u2019s the closest I\u2019ll ever get to feeling like a Beatle,\u201d Waters says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tMeanwhile, Hill\u2019s book was getting her some attention, but not the kind she might have hoped for. In fact, the publication of Behind the Doors of Justice<\/em> had prompted some jurors to come forward with allegations that Hill had influenced the jury, according to a lawsuit filed by Murdaugh against Hill. Harpootlian also says that shortly after the trial was over, his team got some information that led them to seek out jurors to ask them about their experiences with Hill, known to them as Ms. Becky. He recalls an early visit one afternoon to the mobile home of an alternate juror: \u201cShe let us in, and she was cooking collards,\u201d he says. \u201cShe said Ms. Becky was talking about how you shouldn\u2019t believe Mr. Murdaugh, and don\u2019t trust the defendant\u2019s lawyers.\u201d Harpootlian tells me they spent the summer driving the back roads of Colleton County, where trees drip with Spanish moss, taking statements from more jurors. \u201cIt was a process,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m proud that we did not just walk away from it once he was found guilty. We didn\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat fall, Murdaugh\u2019s team accused Hill of influencing the jury, and filed a motion for a retrial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAt a January 2024 evidentiary hearing, one juror testified that when deliberations began, Hill had told the jury that \u201c[T]his shouldn\u2019t take us long.\u201d Another submitted an affidavit claiming Hill had told the jury, \u201c\u2019not to be fooled\u201d by evidence presented by the defense, and \u201cto watch him closely,\u201d \u201clook at his actions,\u201d and \u201clook at his movements.\u201d This juror said they understood that to mean Murdaugh was guilty. Furthermore, a colleague of Hill\u2019s testified that Hill had told her repeatedly that she wanted to write a book on the case so she could buy a lake house. That colleague also testified that Hill had told her that a guilty verdict would be the best way to sell books.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a post-trial court found that while Hill had behaved inappropriately, her comments had not affected the verdict, Murdaugh appealed and the state Supreme Court reversed the decision, saying that Hill had \u201cegregiously attacked Murdaugh\u2019s credibility and his defense,\u201d and the state had been unable to prove there was \u201cno reasonable possibility\u201d that Hill\u2019s comments influenced the verdict.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMurdaugh is also suing Hill, claiming she violated his constitutional right to a fair trial by an impartial jury. Harpootlian hopes the suit will help to recoup some of the $600,000 he says the first trial cost. It will also give them a chance to depose Hill and others. \u201cThe civil suit we have brought will allow us to drill down,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat was going on there, and was there anybody else involved?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHarpootlian aims to move the proceedings to a different county in order to seat a jury less familiar with the case, and to have the court exclude Murdaugh\u2019s financial crimes from evidence in the second trial. He says the immense amount of public interest in the case is helpful to the defense. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten to know the \u2018true crime community\u2019 pretty well, and their appetite for this was, I thought, satiated until we got a new trial, and it was revealed Becky had tried to fix the jury,\u201d he says. \u201cI think we\u2019re changing the narrative that the jury was fixed and that evidence came in that should not have come in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWaters declined to comment on the venue for the next trial, but he thinks it\u2019s unlikely that any juror won\u2019t have heard of Murdaugh. \u201cFrankly, if somebody says they don\u2019t know anything about it, they\u2019re either probably lying, and I wouldn\u2019t want them as a juror, or they\u2019ve been living under a rock, and shows they\u2019re not engaged with their community,\u201d he says, adding that the state is preparing to present its case again. \u201cWe prosecutors don\u2019t make facts, we find the facts and present them to a jury, so we will do that again,\u201d he says. As for the swirl of stories being told about the Murdaugh family, he says he believes in the integrity of jurors to be discerning. \u201cI think people can separate the difference between what they may hear on a podcast and watch in a fictional movie, and what\u2019s the truth of evidence from the witness stand,\u201d he says. \u201cA defendant can\u2019t just get away with what he allegedly did because it happens to be sensational.\u201d<\/p>\n

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