Alex Murdaugh: Defense Attorney Dick Harpootlian on Defending One of South Carolina's Most Hated Men
Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He calls the new Hulu series a soap opera on steroids. |
| 0:04.9 | He says newly uncovered evidence could have changed the entire Alec Murdoch trial. |
| 0:10.8 | And tonight, South Carolina's most famous attorney, Dick Harputlian, sits down with |
| 0:16.9 | STS one-on-one to tell you what really happened inside the Eleg Murdoch case and why he believes |
| 0:25.4 | the system got it wrong. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to the global phenomenon, surviving the survivor, where we bring you the best guests |
| 0:33.4 | in all of true crime. |
| 0:35.6 | Here's your host Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waltman. |
| 0:39.9 | What's up, St.S. Nation? |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to Survive and Survivor. |
| 0:42.6 | This is the show, the global phenomenon that brings you the best guests in all of true crime. |
| 0:48.8 | Tonight, we're diving into one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history, at least recent American |
| 0:55.8 | history, the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdoch and the stunning downfall of a once |
| 1:00.9 | untouchable Southern Dynasty. Alec Murdoch wants a powerful South Carolina lawyer. He's currently |
| 1:07.7 | serving two life sentences for those murders, plus 80 years for a maze of financial crimes. |
| 1:14.2 | But the story appears to be nowhere near over. |
| 1:18.4 | His defense team led by the legendary Dick Harputlian has now filed their final appellate briefs with the South Carolina Supreme Court arguing the trial was riddled |
| 1:29.1 | with jury tampering. You remember Becky Hill, of course, undisclosed evidence, forensic failures, |
| 1:35.9 | and that clerk of court who now faces misconduct and perjury charges. At the same time, |
| 1:41.8 | a longtime Murdoch family housekeeper has publishers planning to publish a |
| 1:46.8 | bombshell memoir claiming she saw troubling details at the crime scene and was never ever interviewed |
| 1:53.6 | by authorities. Here he is a legendary politician, one-time solicitor and criminal defense attorney, Dick Harpoolian. |
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