Why Is Every Politician in South Carolina Trying To Out-Tough Each Other on Murdaugh?
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
David Pascoe says he’d convict Murdaugh in two weeks. Stephen Goldfinch took a swipe at Pascoe’s ties to the defense while pledging his own retrial. Alan Wilson is leading the governor’s race and just said the death penalty is on the table. South Carolina’s entire political class is building their campaigns around one defendant.
Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke work through the listener questions that cut to the bone: What happens to a retrial when every politician in the state is competing over who’s toughest on the guy awaiting trial? Robin examines the behavioral dynamics of political escalation—when one candidate says retrial, the next says speedy retrial, and the next says death penalty, the ratchet only turns one direction.
The conversation maps the specific ways political pressure changes a prosecution. Jury pool contamination from constant media coverage. Prosecution decisions driven by what sounds strongest, not what the evidence supports. Defense motions for change of venue that suddenly have teeth. And a death penalty threat that changes everything about how the case gets tried—from jury selection to sentencing structure.
Robin’s conclusion about what this political environment means for Murdaugh’s chances at a fair trial is worth the listen alone.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree. |
| 0:08.8 | Well, we're going to have Blanca Simpson on this morning, but she's MIA. |
| 0:13.3 | So that's where we're at. |
| 0:15.2 | So this morning, what we're going to do is get your questions, |
| 0:18.3 | and we're going to talk about what is happening here as Alec Murdois is going to be getting a new trial, |
| 0:25.0 | unless something crazy happens between now and then, which, you know, in this case, I guess anything is truly possible. |
| 0:32.4 | So go ahead, drop your questions and your thoughts on this as we kind of work our way through what the future now holds |
| 0:40.7 | in the world of Alec Murdo. Because I think to really fully understand this, we have to grasp, |
| 0:46.1 | it's not just here's a retrial and we're going back in and everything that was known in the first |
| 0:51.4 | trial is going to be known in the second. That's not at all where this is. |
| 0:55.7 | What's actually happening here is it's been set back to square one, |
| 1:01.0 | as if Alec Murdoch had just been charged. |
| 1:05.8 | That is key. |
| 1:07.6 | Because there's so many things that are now on the table. |
| 1:12.9 | And the AG in South Carolina, who was also running for governor, made a statement last week |
| 1:20.7 | to believe it was Fox News Digital. |
| 1:22.3 | I could be wrong in the way he made the claim. |
| 1:24.0 | But it was essentially saying all options are on the table when asked about the |
| 1:29.5 | possibility of the death penalty for Alec Murdo. |
| 1:34.1 | Now, it's not, there's a big difference here in saying pursuing death penalty and on the |
| 1:38.8 | table. |
| 1:39.5 | Two totally different things. |
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