Alex Murdaugh’s Murder Conviction Thrown Out — SC Supreme Court Orders New Trial

All five justices found Becky Hill corrupted the jury from inside the courthouse — and the State couldn’t prove it didn’t matter.

Hidden Killers w/ Tony Brueski

May 13, 2026

A juror had doubts. Let that sit for a second. A woman who sat through six weeks of testimony, who listened to every witness, who looked at every piece of evidence the State of South Carolina put in front of her — she had questions about whether Alex Murdaugh actually killed his wife and son. She said so in a sworn affidavit. She said so under oath. But before she ever walked into that deliberation room, before she ever cast a vote, the Colleton County Clerk of Court — the person whose entire job was to protect the integrity of that trial — had already whispered in her ear. Don’t be fooled by the defense. Watch him closely. Look at his actions. Look at his movements. And when deliberations started, someone told the jury it shouldn’t take long.

Juror Z voted guilty. She says she felt pressured — first by those comments, then by the other jurors once she was behind closed doors. The South Carolina Supreme Court just ruled, unanimously, that she never should have been put in that position. All five justices. No dissent. No partial concurrence. One voice. Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions have been reversed. His life sentences have been vacated. The case has been remanded for a new trial.

And the language the court used to get there is unlike anything I have ever read in a judicial opinion.

This is a per curiam decision — Opinion No. 28329 — meaning the entire court speaks as one. And they did not hold back. The justices wrote that former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill “placed her fingers on the scales of justice, thereby denying Murdaugh his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.” They described her conduct as “breathtaking and disgraceful” and “unprecedented in South Carolina.” They said she was “attracted by the siren call of celebrity” and that she let her hunger for public attention override every obligation she swore to uphold. The court even took a shot at Hill’s book — the one she wrote about the trial and then had pulled from shelves after her co-author accused her of plagiarism. They referenced her December 2025 guilty plea to perjury, which came from lying under oath at the very hearing where former Chief Justice Jean Toal was supposed to evaluate whether Hill had tampered with the jury.

Think about that sequence. Hill allegedly interferes with the jury during trial. Murdaugh’s team files a motion for a new trial based on that interference. Toal holds an evidentiary hearing to evaluate the claim. Hill takes the stand at that hearing and lies — lies so clearly that she later pleads guilty to perjury for what she said under oath that day. And Toal, relying in part on Hill’s testimony...

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