{"podcast":{"title":"The Re-Trial Of Alex Murdaugh","slug":"the-re-trial-of-alex-murdaugh-5989088","podcast_index_feed_id":5989088,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5097527.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5097527","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43644379/s=1400x1400/el=1/rt=fill.png","author":"Tony Brueski","episode_count":500,"summary":"The South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions. Unanimously. Now the most-watched criminal case in state history starts over — new judge, new jury, new rules — and this is where you follow every step of it. From Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski, The Re-Trial of Alex Murdaugh delivers real-time legal analysis, courtroom coverage, and expert interviews as the State decides whether and how to retry the disbarred attorney for the June 2021 killings of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul. The Supreme Court didn't just reverse the verdict — it rewrote the playbook. The financial crimes evidence that dominated the first trial has been sharply restricted. The jury tampering by former Colleton County Clerk Becky Hill, who pled guilty to perjury, has been laid bare in a devastating 27-page opinion. Everything about this case is different now. This podcast covers what matters: pretrial motions, venue fights, evidentiary rulings, witness strategy, jury selection, and the legal collisions that will determine whether Murdaugh is convicted again or walks on the murder charges. No filler. No recycled takes. No speculation dressed up as analysis. Just the case, the law,…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T10:17:19.370813+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-re-trial-of-alex-murdaugh-5989088"},"episode":{"title":"What Does Alex Murdaugh’s Defense Have Now That They Didn’t Have At The First Trial?","slug":"what-does-alex-murdaugh-s-defense-have-now-that-they-didn-t-have-at-the-first-trial","published_at":"2026-05-21T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-re-trial-of-alex-murdaugh-5989088/what-does-alex-murdaugh-s-defense-have-now-that-they-didn-t-have-at-the-first-trial","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-re-trial-of-alex-murdaugh-5989088","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8905390","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8905390.mp3?modified=1779202927&sid=5097527&source=rss","summary":"The Murdaugh retrial isn’t going to look anything like the first one. The defense now holds weapons they didn’t have before, and the prosecution just lost something it can never get back. That shift changes everything about what happens next. Eight thousand pages of sworn testimony from every state witness now sit in the defense’s hands. That’s a full impeachment roadmap — every inconsistency, every contradiction, every place where what somebody said on the stand doesn’t line up with the evidence. The prosecution can’t take it back and can’t un-say it. In the first trial, the defense was reacting in real time. In the retrial, they’ll know where every question is going before it’s asked. The financial crime testimony that Harpootlian says buried Alex with the first jury may be handled very differently by a new judge. And the defense just filed a federal lawsuit against Becky Hill that doubles as a discovery engine for the criminal case — subpoenas and depositions before the retrial even begins. The press conference also revealed the defense’s hand on several fronts. They’re pushing for the unknown male DNA found under Maggie’s fingernails to be submitted to CODIS. They believe they didn’t get everything from the prosecution during the first round of discovery. They hinted at new evidence they won’t discuss publicly yet. And the death penalty threat from the AG, if actually pursued, would trigger the individual jury screening process the defense was already demanding — a potential strategic backfire the prosecution may not have seen coming. No plea deal. That was emphatic and absolute. Alex Murdaugh will never admit to something he says he didn’t do. The defense wants a trial. They’re broke, they’re in the hole, and they’re not walking away. The retrial is coming. It wil…","meta_description":"The Murdaugh retrial isn’t going to look anything like the first one. 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