The Murdaugh Murders: Conviction Overturned
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On May 13, 2026, the Supreme Court of South Carolina overturned Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anya, and today we are going to be talking about the latest development in the so-called Murdoch murders. |
| 0:08.8 | Content warning, this episode contains discussion of murder, violence, and attempted suicide. |
| 0:15.1 | So today is May 13th, 2026, and we are going to be talking about a pretty seismic event in a well-known |
| 0:26.4 | murder case, double homicide case out of South Carolina. And this involves the conviction of |
| 0:33.3 | Alec Murdoch. He is a former prominent lawyer from South Carolina who was convicted of murdering |
| 0:43.6 | his wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7, 2021. And this was a case that a lot of people followed. Kevin and I did a couple of episodes on it, |
| 0:59.0 | I think, two here and there. It was something we certainly followed, but we didn't cover it |
| 1:06.0 | with a lot of depth. But it was definitely like the trial of the century, at least for South Carolina, |
| 1:13.0 | perhaps for the country. I mean, it was a huge deal. But now there's been a pretty big development. |
| 1:20.9 | So the state Supreme Court of South Carolina today has overturned the murder convictions against murder. And this is due to jury |
| 1:32.2 | interference. So we are going to discuss it, discuss what happened, why the court made their |
| 1:37.9 | ruling it did, and what we think about it all. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. |
| 1:45.4 | And I'm Kevin Greenlee. |
| 1:46.6 | I'm an attorney. |
| 1:47.8 | And this is The Murder Sheet. |
| 1:49.6 | We're a true crime podcast focused on original reporting, interviews, and deep dives into murder cases. |
| 1:56.0 | We're The Murder Sheet. |
| 1:57.4 | And this is The Murdoch Murders. |
| 1:59.5 | Conviction overturned. The |
| 2:20.3 | The This is truly a wild case with many twists and turns. Before we get started on today's events and the opinion |
| 2:53.0 | issued by the court, I do want to just go over briefly a quick, very, very, very, very, |
| 3:01.1 | perfunctory timeline of what happened in this case, in just the sense of like the crimes. So I'm going to do that now. |
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