Hey everyone, I am Andrea Canning and we are talking Dateline. And today I'm joined by Dateline

producers Carol Gable and Haley Barber. Thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having us. I feel like we'll never stop talking about this story. No, because we are talking about in the matter of Alec Murdoch.

And ladies, the revelation that has gone around the world about this new trial is just incredible.

Our friend and colleague, Craig Melvin, is the correspondent on this episode, and he did some really great interviews and reporting.

Before we get to that, can you just give us a really quick recap about this case?

It started with a call to 911 with Alec Murdoch, who is a very prominent Hampton County attorney, and he's saying that his

wife and son are dead, and he's found their bodies, and investigators rush in. It starts a very

intensive investigation led by the state law enforcement division.

And we learned that, in fact, it's Alec, who is the chief suspect in this case,

that all of the information from his car put him at the scene.

And then, of course, we get to the trial, and we had the verdict

that was seemingly conclusive.

Alec had been sentenced to back-to-back life sentences and appealed the murder conviction.

Since then, a lot has happened, Andrea.

And a lot of the kind of drama surrounding this case has centered on the clerk of court, Rebecca Hill. And after the trial, there were some allegations that she had maybe done some things with the jury that weren't above board.

Alec appeals his case to the state Supreme Court. They agree to hear it. And ultimately,

that's how we ended up here with this kind of landmark breaking decision. Yeah. Wow. Becky,

Becky, Becky. As the, the justices said, she put her finger on the scales of justice,

which really just threw a grenade in all of this.

So at Dateline, we don't always get to watch every episode because, you know, we are very busy.

I would love to say I watch every single one. Wow. I mean, when I watched this, it was incredible.

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