Was Becky Hill Acting Alone — Or Did Someone Help Rig Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Trial?
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
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Becky Hill didn’t just make careless comments to Murdaugh’s jury — the Supreme Court found she fabricated evidence to remove a juror she believed favored the defense. But was she the only one pulling strings?I’ve been digging into the financial trail and the network of connections that surrounded this verdict, and the lone-wolf explanation is getting harder to defend. Hill was planning a book deal before the trial started. A colleague testified Hill said a guilty verdict would sell more copies. The anonymous email that triggered the removal of the jury’s apparent holdout allegedly came from someone connected to the Murdaugh Murders podcast network and a trial attorney with a financial stake in the outcome. The Facebook post cited as grounds for the removal was, according to a sworn affidavit from the man supposedly behind it, completely fabricated.And here’s what keeps nagging at me: investigators said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Hill with tampering. Five months later, the Supreme Court said there was enough to overturn the conviction entirely. Either the investigation missed what five justices found obvious, or it was never designed to look past Hill. The sealed files could answer that. But every attempt to unseal them has been blocked — until now. A new motion and a federal lawsuit with subpoena power are about to force the question into the open.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.4 | The South Carolina Supreme Court just told us the Alec Murdov verdict was tainted. |
| 0:11.9 | Five justices, five justices, zero dissent. |
| 0:16.2 | They said former Colleton County Clerk of Court, Becky Hill, placed her fingers on the scales of justice. |
| 0:21.2 | They called her conduct breathtaking, disgraceful, and unprecedented in South Carolina. |
| 0:26.6 | They overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial, and everybody moved on to the next question. |
| 0:32.5 | Will the state retry him? |
| 0:35.9 | When's it happening? |
| 0:37.0 | It was a death penalty on the table. |
| 0:38.9 | But there's a question that keeps getting buried under the noise, and it's the one that |
| 0:44.4 | matters most. |
| 0:46.2 | Was Becky Hill acting alone? |
| 0:48.5 | Because when you follow the money, the connections and the files that nobody in a position of authority seemed to want you to see the |
| 0:58.9 | story of one rogue clerk who got carried away with the book deal starts to look like the story |
| 1:04.9 | they want you to believe not the story that actually happened before we go further, I want to say this every time, |
| 1:14.8 | because it matters every time. Alec Murdo is a convicted financial criminal. He stole millions |
| 1:20.5 | of dollars from clients, from his own law firm, from people who trusted him with the worst |
| 1:26.0 | moments of their lives. He pled guilty. He's serving |
| 1:30.0 | decades in federal and state prison for the financial crimes, regardless of what happens with |
| 1:36.0 | the murder charges. Nobody is arguing he's a sympathetic figure. But the question of whether he got a |
| 1:42.6 | fair trial when a jury convicted him of murdering his |
| 1:45.9 | wife Maggie and his son Paul, that's a separate question. The Supreme Court just answered it. |
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