BREAKING: Alex Murdaugh's Double Murder Convictions OVERTURNED
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In a unanimous decision, the South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned Alex Murdaugh’s 2023 convictions of murdering his wife and son and ordered a new trial. The justices wrote they had no choice but to make their ruling because the county clerk of court, Rebecca Hill improperly influenced the jury at trial, by suggesting they could not trust Murdaugh’s testimony. South Carolina’s attorney general has vowed to aggressively seek to retry Murdaugh as soon as possible. Murdaugh will not be getting out of prison in the meantime, as he is currently serving 40 years for state and federal financial crimes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Wednesday, May 13th, and the double murder conviction of Alex Murda has been thrown out by the State Supreme Court of South Carolina. |
| 0:19.5 | With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. |
| 0:21.8 | This is a breaking story. |
| 0:22.8 | Just getting this news. |
| 0:24.6 | Rope, not sure how many saw this one necessarily coming. |
| 0:28.4 | But how many days a week did we have to cover this story back at GMA when this was happening in 2021, 2021, 2022, 2023? |
| 0:36.1 | Yes. |
| 0:36.3 | When the murders happened in 2021, this captivated the nation because this wasn't, look, |
| 0:44.2 | this is a tragic situation in any community when a mother and her son are murdered, but |
| 0:50.9 | when the suspected gunman is the father and husband of those two and then have it be a |
| 1:00.0 | well-respected, powerful Southern family that was at the pinnacle of law enforcement for |
| 1:08.0 | decades. Yeah, this had all the makings of a unbelievable, |
| 1:14.2 | unthinkable crime story. This is one, this was a family, yes, Alex Murdoch and the Murdof family. |
| 1:20.0 | This had all the makings of really a family and a legacy. You only really see fantasized |
| 1:26.6 | in movies or on TV shows, but they really exist. And this is what |
| 1:30.8 | that family was in that area. Small community, they, what, judges, lawyers. They just, it's a legacy |
| 1:37.0 | generational family there. And they were the ones at the center of this. So yeah, Robes, this was a story. |
| 1:43.8 | I mean, the murders happened in 2021. But arrests didn't come until a year later. So that was a year of people following this case and then following the trial. And now you're telling me, after all that we watched for a couple of years, the damn convictions have been thrown out. Now, we should make clear here. |
| 2:01.6 | It does not mean Alex Murdaugh is walking out of jail today. No, no, no, no, no, because part of |
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