Killer Thriller: Alex Murdaugh Gets a New Trial and Mandy Matney Is Furious
Legally Brunette
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Just when it seemed like the Murdaugh saga might finally be slowing down, the case exploded again. Alex Murdaugh’s murder conviction has been overturned, but investigative journalist Mandy Matney says that does not change what she believes: Alex killed Maggie and Paul.
Mandy joins Elisa Donovan to break down the shocking South Carolina Supreme Court ruling, the Becky Hill jury controversy, why she believes the kennel video and Alex’s lies still point straight to guilt, and why this retrial may force witnesses, victims, and South Carolina itself to relive the trauma all over again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.6 | Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes present. |
| 0:13.5 | Killer Thriller with your host, Alisa Donovan. |
| 0:19.1 | Hey, everyone. Elisa Donovan here, and this is killer thriller. |
| 0:22.6 | For years, the Alec Murdoch case has felt less like one crime story and more like a Southern Gothic nightmare, |
| 0:30.6 | a powerful legal dynasty, financial fraud, addiction, mysterious deaths, a fatal boat crash, a staged roadside shooting, |
| 0:41.2 | and ultimately the shocking murders of Maggie and Paul Murdoch at the family's hunting estate in South Carolina. |
| 0:48.8 | In 2023, Alec Murdoch was convicted of murdering his wife and son and sentenced to life in prison. |
| 0:55.9 | But now, in a stunning twist, the South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned those murder convictions, |
| 1:04.3 | ruling that former Colton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill improperly influenced the jury and denied Murdoch a fair trial. |
| 1:14.4 | At the same time, journalist and podcaster Mandy Matney has been pulled into a separate |
| 1:19.7 | contempt fight connected to a deposition dispute. Today, Mandy returns to killer thriller |
| 1:26.5 | to help us break down the latest bombshell developments |
| 1:29.4 | and one of the most complicated and bizarre true crime sagas in America. |
| 1:35.1 | Oh, Mandy, welcome back to Killer Thriller. |
| 1:38.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:39.5 | Let me just say, first of all, when you are our very first guest on this podcast you and |
| 1:46.7 | Liz and when I said we are going to have you back and we all said yay I in no way shape or form |
| 1:54.5 | thought this would be the circumstances under which you would be back here so I, I mean, we all have a lot to cover here, |
| 2:02.9 | but first, when Alec Murdoch's murder conviction was overturned, what was your immediate reaction? |
| 2:10.6 | Well, I knew about it a few weeks ago. We had source, I did. And we reported it on our podcast |
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