Sealed Exhibits & The Murdaugh Trial: What Becky Hill Report Reveals

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.0 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In December of 2025, Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill pleaded guilty to multiple charges but avoided prison time. Becky Hill admitted to obstruction of justice, perjury, and two counts of misconduct in office. The Hill investigation was released and there are questions about the media and their relationship with Hill. In this in-depth interview, Will Folks from FITSNews discusses the controversial handling of sealed court documents, allegations of jury rigging, judicial corruption, and the broader implications for justice and media integrity in high-profile cases like the Murdaugh trial. For more from Will, FITSNews.com Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime past and present from the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and Youtube. Please support our sponsors Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns. KeywordsFITSNews, Will Folks, Murdaugh trial, sealed court documents, jury tampering, judicial corruption, media ethics, South Carolina justice, court transparency, investigative journalismKey Topics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Impact of influence.
0:03.5	Covering true crime throughout the southeast.
0:09.1	I immediately contacted the agent on the case and say, hey, I will sit down and talk with you without my lawyer.
0:14.3	I got nothing to hide.
0:15.5	I said, I'm not going to tell you information regarding specific sources that I'm not comfortable sharing.
0:21.5	I'm not going to tell you the names of other media outlets that were involved in this because I'm not going to get anybody
0:25.0	in trouble. I said, but I'll tell you, other than that, I'll tell you what you want to know.
0:29.1	That's the voice of founding editor of Fitznews, Will Fulks. More with him in a moment. Hello,
0:36.0	friend, Matt Harris, and Seton Tucker, Seton. How do they get a hold of us?
0:41.5	You can find us on Facebook at Impact of Influen, also on our YouTube channel.
0:45.5	YouTube channel, hit subscribe. That would be cool. Give us some comments. Give us some stars,
0:49.2	no matter how you're listening or viewing this podcast. So in this episode, we're going to dig into the connection between
0:54.8	Becky Hill, the former Colleton County clerk of court and journalists that were involved with
1:01.2	the Murdoch trial and what Becky did with documents that were sealed. When were they sealed?
1:07.1	When were they not sealed? We'll get into that, too. That all happened coinciding with
1:11.9	the Eleg Murdoch trial. So before we dig into that, let's give you a short synopsis of what
1:16.3	happened with Hill and the charges against her. In December of 2025, former Colleton County
1:21.5	clerk of court, Becky Hill, pled guilty to multiple charges, but avoided prison time. Those charges
1:26.9	were not for jury tampering,
1:29.3	but they included obstruction of justice, perjury, and counts of misconduct in office.
1:36.1	She pled to. She pled. Yep. So Judge Heath Taylor sentenced to three years of probation,
1:41.9	suspending her prison sentence on the condition she complies with probation terms,
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