{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Alex Murdaugh’s Lawyer Walked In With WHAT?!","description":"Alex Murdaugh’s retrial is officially on the calendar — April 5, 2027 — and the first hearing made one thing immediately clear: the defense is not running the same playbook. Harpootlian walked into a Lexington County courtroom with first-responder transcripts and told the judge the accounts from people who arrived at Moselle the night of the killings don’t match. He said there were other individuals present that night whose presence has never been fully accounted for.\n\nThe prosecution faces a retrial with significantly less room to maneuver. The South Carolina Supreme Court’s ruling limited how much financial crimes evidence the state can present — after prosecutors spent 12.5 hours over ten days on that testimony in the original trial. Attorney General Alan Wilson has put the death penalty on the table, a move the defense calls vindictive prosecution and a campaign sound bite. Wilson, the Republican candidate for governor, says the legal landscape around capital punishment has changed since 2022. The defense fired back: “What does he know today he didn’t know five years ago?”\n\nMeanwhile, DNA from an unknown male recovered from under Maggie Murdaugh’s fingernails sits waiting for a test the defense says didn’t exist when the killings happened. The defense wants it sent to Othram, the forensic genealogy lab behind the Kohberger case. The judge will rule on that motion at the next hearing, August 14. Murdaugh himself appeared in double shackles and an orange jumpsuit. His lawyer told the court he is “not Ted Bundy.” The prosecution’s response: he “thinks he is special. He is not.”\n\nEnd Links:\n\nJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/\nWant to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1\nInstagram\nhttps://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/\nFacebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/\nTik-Tok\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod\nX Twitter\nhttps://x.com/TrueCrimePod\n\nDisclaimer:\n\nThis 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.\n\nHashtags:\n\n#AlexMurdaugh #MaggieMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #MurdaughRetrial #Moselle #MurdaughHearing #DeathPenalty #DickHarpootlian #CreightonWaters #TrueCrime","author_name":"True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5001260-true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43721590/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}