Did a Clerk Compromise the Verdict? The Murdaugh Appeal Blowback
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In today’s Hidden Killers episode, Tony Brueski and former prosecutor/defense attorney Eric Faddis tackle the most explosive element of the appeal: allegations that Clerk of Court Becky Hill may have influenced the jury, urged a quick verdict, commented on Murdaugh’s body language, and then wrote a book she financially benefited from. One juror claims Hill whispered, “Watch him… don’t be fooled.” The state says it doesn’t matter. The defense says it absolutely does.
Tony and Eric take listeners inside the legal and psychological weight of jury influence: What happens when a court official speaks to a juror about the defendant? Can a juror truly “un-hear” a remark from someone in authority? And how should the justices interpret Hill’s later criminal charges — irrelevant noise, or evidence of a compromised system?
The episode also digs into the evidence battle the appeal now centers on. Was this a murder trial supported by overwhelming proof — or a character trial overloaded with financial-crime testimony unrelated to the shootings? Were missing DNA tests, uncollected fingerprints, and absent gunshot residue analysis harmless mistakes… or constitutional failures?
And when the public already picked a side long before the verdict, how much pressure do the justices feel to either protect the system’s credibility or correct its mistakes?
This appeal isn’t just about Alex Murdaugh’s freedom. It’s about whether the justice system can still be trusted to police itself — or whether the courtroom became a stage where fairness took a back seat to outcome.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:08.0 | And the easiest thing to do when you don't know the answer is to fill in the blanks with who likely could be have something to do with this. |
| 0:14.9 | Well, those family's up to do good on a lot of things. |
| 0:17.1 | So maybe it's them. |
| 0:18.4 | And then that's how you get, you know, the cascade of everything. |
| 0:21.9 | I thought it was interesting how they portrayed it in the, in the new series. Let's talk about |
| 0:26.6 | Becky Hill as we continue to talk with Eric Fattis, defense attorney, former prosecutor, about the |
| 0:31.9 | Alec Murdoch case. And we're getting a step closer to possibly getting a retrial. |
| 0:38.5 | We're in the process right now of, okay, it's going to the Supreme Court, |
| 0:42.5 | and they have to make some decisions, whether they're going to hear oral arguments or not, |
| 0:46.6 | or if it's dead on arrival. |
| 0:47.9 | We're now waiting for that. |
| 0:50.0 | Let's talk about Becky Hill, one of the big reasons for all this. |
| 0:52.9 | The clerk who handled the jury helped coordinate logistics and later wrote a book about the case that was pulled because she plagiarized some of it. |
| 1:01.5 | One jurors swore Hill told them to watch Alex's body language and don't be fooled. |
| 1:07.8 | The defense says that alone destroyed the verdict. |
| 1:09.9 | The state calls it a passing comment that |
| 1:12.4 | changed nothing legally and practically. How big of a problem is that, Eric? |
| 1:17.7 | Jeez. You know, that's the question with which the Supreme Court is going to wrestle. |
| 1:23.0 | Because, you know, one, was it a problem in the trial? It appears from the hearing on and everything else, the transcript, that it was a problem that she did engage in some kind of misconduct. |
| 1:32.4 | So the next question is, how big of a problem in the trial was it? |
| 1:36.7 | Was it what's called harmless error? |
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