This is Hidden Killers Week in review.

I look back at the most prolific stories of the week.

It wasn't the courtroom testimony or the blood-spattered evidence photos that made the headlines this time.

It was the woman sitting just feet away from the jury box.

The one in the blazer taking notes and smiling politely, while jurors filed in, Becky Hill. the Colleton County Clerk of Court who became a kind

of accidental celebrity during the Alec Murdo Murder trial. She ran the show behind the scenes,

or at least she was supposed to. Now she's been booked and charged like any other defendant,

facing felony accusations that could turn one of the

most publicized trials in recent American history into a judicial cautionary tale.

On May 14, 2025, Becky Hill turned herself in. She was arrested on four criminal counts,

perjury, obstruction of justice, and two counts of misconduct in office.

The charges stem not from some forgotten error in paperwork or a misplaced file,

but from her alleged conduct during and after the Murdoch trial, actions that prosecutors say undermine the integrity of a capital murder proceeding and violated

her oath to the court. This isn't just a slap on the wrist or an ethics fine. This is real deal.

Bond required fingerprints taken criminal prosecution. Let's start with the most immediate

bombshell, the perjury charge.

This one ties directly to Hill's testimony under oath during a retrial hearing for Alec Murdoz back in January, 2024.

During that hearing conducted by former South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Gene Toll,

Hill was asked whether she had ever allowed members of the press or any

unauthorized individuals to view sealed trial evidence. She flatly said no. But according to investigators

with S-L-E-D, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, that wasn't true. In fact, they allege that

on February 28, 2003, in the thick of the Murdoch trial, Hill shared sealed photographic evidence with at least one unauthorized party, evidence that had been explicitly ordered sealed by the judge.

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