# Can Prosecutors Win the Murdaugh Retrial Without 12 Hours of Financial Crimes Evidence? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/can-prosecutors-win-the-murdaugh-retrial-without-12-hours-of-financial-crimes-evidence Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/can-prosecutors-win-the-murdaugh-retrial-without-12-hours-of-financial-crimes-evidence.md Podcast: [Hidden Killers Live! Daily True Crime News & Breakdowns](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841) Published: 2026-05-18T01:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8904192 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8904192.mp3?modified=1778869631&sid=5078367&source=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/episodes/can-prosecutors-win-the-murdaugh-retrial-without-12-hours-of-financial-crimes-evidence Duration seconds: 2975 ## Resource The prosecution spent twelve and a half hours presenting Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes to the jury at his murder trial. The South Carolina Supreme Court just said that was excessive — and any retrial has to cut it down significantly. The question is whether the State can build the same emotional momentum without the parade of individual theft victims who made Murdaugh look terrible but had no direct connection to why he would allegedly commit murder on June 7th, 2021. Defense attorney Eric Faddis breaks down what survives and what doesn't. The State's motive theory rests on a specific exposure timeline: the firm's CFO confronted Murdaugh about missing fees the morning of the killings, and an opposing attorney had a hearing scheduled three days later to force financial disclosure. That timeline can come back at retrial. The testimony about individual victims whose money Murdaugh allegedly stole — the emotional weight that made the jury despise him — likely cannot. Faddis also identifies a strategic fork the defense has to navigate before retrial even begins. Do you fight to keep the financial evidence out entirely and risk the judge letting it all back in? Or do you let it in on your terms and attack the link between financial fraud and murder — arguing that a man stealing money has no reason to kill his wife and son over it? He also addresses evidentiary challenges the Supreme Court left unresolved for retrial: the firearm analysis, the blue raincoat, the gunshot residue testimony, and the iPhone demonstration that placed Murdaugh at the kennels. Faddis identifies which one gives the defense its strongest argument and why. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a vid… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/episodes/can-prosecutors-win-the-murdaugh-retrial-without-12-hours-of-financial-crimes-evidence/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-live-daily-true-crime-news-breakdowns-5650841/can-prosecutors-win-the-murdaugh-retrial-without-12-hours-of-financial-crimes-evidence.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.