The Re-Trial Of Alex Murdaugh

Alex Murdaugh's retrial has opened a new battle over evidence that never made it into the first trial. His defense is demanding records tied to allegations that local law-enforcement officers may have handled the missing guns used to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. The State has not adopted those allegations, and the officer most prominently named in the reporting denies them.The September 30 motion asks for grand-jury material, witness interviews and investigative files concerning the alleged movement or concealment of weapons and clothing. It focuses in part on Yemassee Police Chief Greg Alexander, a Murdaugh family friend who was at Moselle the night of the killings. No murder weapon has ever been recovered.At the same time, prosecutors are rejecting the defense's claim that it lacks crucial cellphone evidence. The State says it already produced the cellphone material in its possession during discovery before the 2023 trial. The defense says it needs the underlying extraction files so its own experts can independently test the timeline rather than rely on the State's summaries.There are also established forensic disputes that do not depend on any new allegation. Defense appellate filings say Maggie's phone lost location data after it was recovered. Trial testimony showed confirmatory testing found no human blood on the tested stains from Alex's white T-shirt. Analysts identified a small amount of male DNA under Maggie's fingernails that excluded Alex and Paul, and a judge has now allowed additional testing.Murdaugh's original murder convictions were overturned in May 2026. His new trial is set for April 5, 2027, in Sumter County. Before that jury hears a word, the court must decide which evidence disputes are real discovery failures, which are newly testable facts, and which remain allegations.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughMurders #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #GregAlexander #SLED #AlexMurdaughTrial #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime

At Alex Murdaugh's trial, prosecutors said he hid both murder weapons at his parents' home in Almeda and moved them in a blue raincoat. Police searched three months after the killings. The guns weren't there. A grand jury is investigating whether the weapons went to a different location entirely — into the possession of Police Chief Greg Alexander, a Murdaugh family friend who was at the Moselle crime scene the night of the murders. Alexander was acquitted of misconduct charges with the Murdaugh family's backing. Alex paid him $5,000 by check after the killings. Alexander gave conflicting accounts of when the check was written. He denies everything. On September 30, the defense filed a Brady motion alleging the state hid a witness statement about Alexander since 2023 — and asking whether prosecutors plan to change their theory before the April 5 retrial.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughMurders #MurdaughTrial #GregAlexander #CrimeSceneCoverup #MurdaughRetrial #MissingWeapons #GrandJury #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime

On June 7, 2021, somebody used a 12-gauge shotgun and a .300 Blackout rifle to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh at the family’s Moselle hunting estate in Colleton County. Both weapons disappeared that night. Alex Murdaugh was convicted of both murders in March 2023 without either gun in evidence. He was granted a retrial, now scheduled for April 2027.FITSNews reported on September 25, 2026, that the missing weapons are now at the center of a statewide grand jury investigation. SLED investigators and prosecutors are looking into allegations that Greg Alexander — the police chief of Yemassee, South Carolina, and a close friend of Alex Murdaugh — helped dispose of the firearms.Witnesses have allegedly testified before the grand jury that they saw the weapons in Alexander’s possession in the immediate aftermath of the killings. The Post and Courier reported that a second Yemassee town policeman is also under investigation. Both officers are accused of transporting weapons and bloody clothing into the Yemassee police department the morning after the murders.Alexander’s attorney acknowledged his client was at the Moselle crime scene that night — a property outside his jurisdiction. About one month after the killings, Alex wrote Alexander a check for $5,000. Alexander told FITSNews the money was a loan for his parents. He didn’t say whether it was repaid.When Alexander ran for Hampton County sheriff, Murdaugh family members contributed $5,500 to his campaign. At Alex’s first trial, Nathan Tuten testified that Alexander was present in Alex’s office when Tuten delivered envelopes of cash.In 2012, Alexander was indicted for stealing nearly $11,000 in seizure money. He was acquitted in Hampton County with the Murdaugh family’s support and eventually made chief of police.Alexander has not been charged with any crime. His attorney, Joe McCulloch, calls the allegations absurd. Neither SLED nor the attorney general’s office has confirmed the investigation.Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod?sub_confirmation=1Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!:https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitterhttps://x.com/tonybpodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #GregAlexander #HiddenKillers #MurdaughMurderWeapons #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #SLED #MurdaughRetrial #GrandJury #SouthCarolina

Becky Hill's text messages and emails from the weeks she managed Alex Murdaugh's jury have never been examined by anyone outside the state's closed investigation. Murdaugh's lawyers wanted them, and the federal lawsuit they filed in May 2026 was the only legal instrument that could get them. A civil defendant can be subpoenaed and deposed. A private citizen who took a plea deal cannot be touched by a criminal defendant's discovery at all.Judge Gergel's dismissal on August 5 cut off the records, the deposition, the trace on the anonymous email that removed a juror mid-deliberations, and the chance to put the tampering investigators under oath about why their conclusion and the Supreme Court's landed in different places. The ruling is defensible on the law. Hill didn't indict Murdaugh, and the cost of his defense traces to the murder charges rather than to her conduct.The episode maps each lost tool onto the April 2027 retrial, including how a connection between the tampering and anyone on the state's side could have supported a motion to dismiss the charges outright, and why the SLED depositions would have fed directly into the defense's existing fight over the untested DNA under Maggie's fingernails. The appeal is already at the Fourth Circuit.Hosted by Tony BrueskiJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #BeckyHill #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughLawsuit #JuryTampering #SouthCarolina #TrueCrimePodcast #MurdaughMurders

Alex Murdaugh's retrial finally has a date, April 5, 2027, and a stack of defense motions that go straight at the evidence that convicted him the first time. Start with the shirt. Blood-spatter analyst Tom Bevel's original report reportedly described the marks on Murdaugh's white T-shirt as transfer stains, not gunshot spatter, before that finding changed following what defense filings describe as color adjustments made in Photoshop. The state never called Bevel to testify. Then there's the DNA. Investigators recovered an unknown male's genetic material from under Maggie Murdaugh's fingernails the night she and Paul were killed, and that sample was cataloged but never run through a genealogy database. The defense wants it sent to Othram, the same lab whose work helped identify Bryan Kohberger, and attorney Jim Griffin told the court the technology to trace it simply wasn't available when SLED first collected it. On top of that, attorney Dick Harpootlian says first-responder statements from the night of the killings contradict one another, and that tips forwarded to SLED may never have been followed up on. Judge Debra McCaslin, newly assigned to the case, has already made clear continuances won't be granted, while Attorney General Alan Wilson is keeping the death penalty in play against a man already serving multiple life sentences. This episode lays out all three motions side by side, weighs them against the David Camm wrongful-conviction case the defense cites as precedent, and gives the honest counterargument prosecutors are likely to raise. Two people are still dead at those kennels, and pieces of evidence tied directly to their deaths sat untested for years. The next hearing lands August 14. Both sides know how much rides on the next few hearings. Here is everything filed so far, in order. SOCIAL LINKS & LEGAL FOOTER Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #MurdaughRetrial #AlexMurdaugh #HiddenKillers #MurdaughTrial #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #Othram #TomBevel #SouthCarolina #TrueCrime

For case followers tracking every strategic detail: the prosecution’s position heading into the April retrial is fundamentally different from 2023. The 12.5 hours of financial crimes testimony that defined how the first jury understood Alex Murdaugh — before they heard any murder evidence — has been restricted by the Supreme Court. The motive theory faces a jury that knows Murdaugh already pleaded guilty to the financial crimes and is serving concurrent state and federal sentences.Bob Motta examines whether the death penalty threat is genuine or leverage, whether Creighton Waters can present a streamlined motive case that still lands, and what the Becky Hill federal lawsuit’s parallel timeline means for both sides. The defense has the prosecution’s entire playbook. The prosecution has to win with less. The question is whether “less” is still enough. Tony Brueski and Bob Motta.End Links:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitterhttps://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.Hashtags:#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #CreightonWaters #DeathPenalty #Motive #BeckyHill #TrueCrime

The defense is building Alex Murdaugh’s retrial around evidence SLED collected and never fully analyzed: DNA from an unknown male found under Maggie Murdaugh’s left-hand fingernails. They want Othram — the lab behind the Kohberger identification — to run an independent analysis on a rush order.Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke take the audience’s hardest questions head on. Is a proven liar’s denial worth anything? Does his voice on Paul’s phone at the kennels prove he’s the killer, or just that he was concealing something? The first trial stayed in his home county, and he was convicted. Now his lawyers want out. What went wrong with his read on that room?From prison, he’s filed a federal suit against Becky Hill. Listeners smell a fishing trip through discovery to drag others down. Tony and Robin work through whether that’s desperation or instinct — and whether a clean jury can even exist after three years of wall-to-wall coverage. A Hidden Killers investigation.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #RobinDreeke #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #SLED #SouthCarolina #DNA

When the Supreme Court erased Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions, Blanca drove straight to Maggie’s grave. Twenty years inside that household. Not staff — family. The person Maggie cried to behind closed doors. Blanca fixed Alex’s collar the morning of June 7th. She found the wet towel the next day. She gave every detail to a jury that convicted in three hours. Then Becky Hill destroyed the verdict.In her most revealing interview since the reversal, Blanca goes where the trial never went. She describes what the house looked like the morning after. The things that were moved. The things that were missing. And she delivers a reading of the murders that nobody in the defense camp wants to hear — twenty years of watching Alex use other people for everything is exactly why these killings fit his pattern.Five days after the reversal, Murdaugh’s own defense team sued Becky Hill in federal court. Not for the money. For the subpoenas. For the depositions. For the ability to drag people under oath. Nobody else — not the state, not the attorney general — is investigating the woman who corrupted the first trial. Only the man she helped convict.A look back at the most compelling stories of the week.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughCase #BeckyHill #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #Moselle #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers