Murdaugh Reversal Explained!

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]file that launched this channel might be getting overturned. Y'all, I am beside myself. Good morning, true crime friends. How y'all doing? Listen, I'm Kathy. This is Gossip, Rumor, and Inuendo, and we need to talk about every single thing. But first, you know what you need to do. Please like this video, subscribe to the channel, share it out, and hype this video if the hype button still exists. Child, it's been playing hideand-seek. I don't know where it went. Regardless, me and you, we're going to get to 50,000 subscribers together. So, look, this case feels very, very personal to me. This channel, Gossip, Rumor, and Innuendo, is named after something that one of Alex Murdoch's lawyers said during the course of his trial. One of the lawyers is like, "We are not here for the gossip, the rumor, and the innuendo." And I was like, "Wait, that's the only reason I'm here." I'm about to tell you every single thing about Alex Murdoch truncated. I have an entire playlist that covers all things Alex Murdoch. the trials, the people, every single thing.

[00:01:02]But let me give you the broadstrokes.

[00:01:04]Rumor out of South Carolina is that Alex Murdoch's conviction for the murder of his wife and son will be overturned.

[00:01:13]This is a rumor at this point. Today is May 6th, 2026.

[00:01:20]No official ruling has come down from the state of South Carolina. Okay, I need to take a breath. I'm kind of beside myself. Please hold.

[00:01:33]Gossip rumoring in your window. Summer collection is out here in these streets.

[00:01:36]Get yourself a little tumbler or a beach towel. Okay, so look, Alex Murdoch was a prominent South Carolina attorney. His daddy had been an attorney. His granddaddy had been an attorney. Oh, honey. They ran this small small small little hamlet down there in South Carolina, right? and everybody in the community loved, tolerated, appreciated them. Also probably a little bit scared of them, right? But this is just like a lot. They have a long history out there.

[00:02:06]Oh, they had judges and they had lawyers and they had like the big law firm in town. Problem was um young Alex Child a little bit of a chaos muppet. A lot of a chaos muppet, right? And so when the chips were down, uh, he unfortunately unalived his wife and child. He was also stealing money from everybody. Let's start with the money side of Alex's crimes. Okay, Alex would get these giant settlements from like insurance companies and big corporations. And then he would be like, "Hey, small towns people, I'm going to help you out. I got you this big settlement in your lawsuit and um, I'mma help you structure it because you know you're not used to having money and I am. So, I'mma set you up with this other firm over here and they will help you with your financial needs. Also, I'm gonna take a little piece of it. He would he would say to them like, you know, I'm going to take my fee, but I'm going to take care of you and make sure you were okay. Turns out he was taking his fee. He was taking money from the little financial advisors. He was taking money from the bank. Honey, there was nobody Alex Murdoch would not steal from. As far as we can tell, he stole his during his entire legal career, 20 some odd years.

[00:03:21]What's worse is that he stole from his most needy clients, the poor people, underserved people, people with physical, mental handicaps. He stole from his police friends. He stole from his housekeeper family. That housekeeper had been with them for many, many, many years. Gloria Satderfield was like family to them. Well, Gloria thought she was family. Alex just saw her as a mark.

[00:03:46]When she fell and bonked her head at his house, Alex stole all the insurance money and was like, "I'mma get you your money. I'mma let I'mma get you your money. Just keep waiting." Meanwhile, he's over here on lavish vacations. He even stole from his legal business partners. You going to steal from everybody, you know, like every everybody. He was no respector of persons. Alex Murdoch had two sons.

[00:04:09]Those two sons are Buster Murdoch.

[00:04:12]Buster we will refer to as the order muppet because Buster had his whole act right, fully installed. He was going to law school and mostly doing the things he was supposed to do. Child, Buster is another story for another day. Then there was Paul, who was the chaos muppet of the family. Oh, Paul was running a muck. Mhm. He was just out there doing every single thing, drinking too much, wrecking cars, wrecking boats, going crazy. Well, one time he wrecked a boat.

[00:04:38]Um, and a girl, Mallalerie Beach, who was on the boat that he wrecked, flew off the boat and drowned and died. It was a terrible situation. And Mallerie's family was like, "Well, no. What you're not going to do is take our baby and just sit here and look in our faces and be like, "Oh, I'm so so sorry." No, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to make sure Paul gets prosecuted. Also, I'm suing you. So, Maller's family was like, "We are bringing a lawsuit. We need justice for our child." And Alex was like, you know, his butt got tight. He was just like, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. A lawsuit means that I'mma have to like reveal all of my financial books and everything. People might find out I've been stealing." Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Additionally, because Paul's crimes were so bad in the death of Mallalerie Beach, there was real fear that he might go to prison for some period of time for this boat rack. And Alex was just like, "Oh no, this could be terrible. My chaos muppet son might go to jail. My financial crimes might be uncovered child." The jig was up. And Alex was like, "I need to solve a problem. I'm used to solving problems. I know how to solve problems. Let me solve this problem the way I solve all my problems in a crooked and ridiculous way." So, um, to solve his problem, Alex unfortunately unal alived his son Paul and his wife Maggie. Maggie did not know about the financial crimes. Maggie was about to find out. Word on the street when she was this close to divorcing Alex. Also, I'm hearing out of South Carolina that Alex might have felt like he did Paul a favor by sending him off to the endless heaven buffet cuz he was just like, "I can't imagine my sweet boy going to prison. Let me send him to heaven instead."

[00:06:26]Y'all, the mess. Additionally, with this crime now, see, Alex acted like somebody else unall alive his wife and child. He was just like, "It's terrible. Don't you feel sorry for me?" Oh my god. He wanted to divert attention from the lawsuit, from his financial crimes, and gain sympathy and buy himself some time to figure out what to do next. Right. The way um Alex accomplished this crime is that he lured his son Paul and wife Maggie out to their property way, way, way out in the country. And it's like, um, okay. They have dinner. Everything is going good. And they're like, "We gonna go down to the kennels to see the dogs." This was a giant sprawling property. There was the house at one spot and the kennels were all the dogs and other things were kept at another spot, a considerable distance away from the house. Paul and Maggie go down to the kennels. Now, what happens next is purely speculation based on a whole bunch of evidence. Alex said, "I stayed in the house and took a nap. I just was sleeping because my belly was full and I'm so wholesome, not stealing people's money or plotting murders at all."

[00:07:40]Right. Paul and Maggie are down at the kennels. Paul is filming a little Snapchat video of his friend's dog, right? Where both Maggie and Paul are shot down at the kennels and sent off to the Endless Heaven buffet. It's terrible. Alex, according to Alex, rolled up on the scene and was like, "Oh, this is terrible. I was taking a nap. I don't know who could have unfortunately unal alive my wife and child because I was not at the kennels at all. I never would have gone down there because I was not there. Hello, police. I was not there and they got shot. Police, this is terrible. I'm real real sad I was not here. I don't know who shot them." On and on and on. He tells everybody who will listen he was not there while having a whole bunch of super duper suspicious behavior. The police of course come and investigate and he's just like, "I tried to find my son's phone. I couldn't find it because I was not here. I was at the house taking a nap and I don't know what happened cuz I was taking a nap." So the police are like, "Oh, look. We found Paul's phone. Let's see if we can't unlock his phone." So they try and try.

[00:08:45]They can't get the phone unlocked. When they unlocked the phone, they discovered that Paul, seconds before he was shot, was recording a Snapchat video, just like kids are all the time. In the Snapchat video, you can hear Alex Murdoch's voice in the background. Sir, what you mean you was not at the kennels? You were at the house taking a nap. H, according to your son, Paul, you, my man, were at the kennels at the time of the crime. And Alex was like, "Um, see what had happened was I lightly lied because um I um look a bird." Anyway, he was trying to He came up with all these lies and excuses that like he was there, but he wasn't like there there, you know what I mean? Um he was like, "I was there for like a hot minute and then I left." That's probably true. He was there for a hot minute, pew pew them people up and then he left. But he was just like, "See, um, what had happened was, um, lawyers, can you can you please come in and do a little song and dance and stuff so people forget that I, um, I lied about being at the kennels, but I didn't lie about stealing that money or unfortunately I'm aliveing my wife and child. Please believe me." So, Alex goes to trial, right? It's supposed to be like a four-week trial. Child turns into a six-w weekek trial. I was like, "The trial of the century, you say?" Yes. I need to know every single thing. So, the trial is held in a small little town down there in South Carolina. Honey, it was a circus. There was food trucks.

[00:10:14]There was people, there was media from around the world. Everybody was talking about this trial, including me, cuz you know the way I love to mind other people's business. And I was minding this boy's business. I was minding his trial. Day by day, I reported on this trial. And I have an entire Murdoch murders playlist that breaks down the crime, all the the characters involved.

[00:10:38]And every single day I did a video that told what happened in the trial that day. It was a circus. The ring master of that circus was none other than court clerk, Miss Becky Hill. Oh, Becky was down there being the hostess with the mostess. This is a lady who's in her 50s. She's never seen this kind of mayhem in her town. And she's like, "This is my moment. I am here for South Carolina's trial of the century. And I'mma write myself a book. And if he gets convicted, that's going to be good for sales." And so I'mma get myself a lakehouse. Oh, I'm gonna do all the things. I'm going to be super duper rich. And everybody was like, "Okay, Becky, but can you just like refill these sodas and make sure the jurors have snacks and stuff?" And she's like, "Yes, yes. I'mma keep my pinkies out.

[00:11:23]I'm going to do all the things I'm supposed to do." There was also Judge Newman who was overseeing the trial and Judge Newman was just like, "I'm calm.

[00:11:32]I'm cool. I'm collected. Everything is going to be fine. Nobody panic. No matter what happens, I'm going to remain a consmate gentleman. After this whole mess, I'm going to retire and go on off to my nice, peaceful, quiet life." One of the decisions that Judge Newman made was that Alex Murdoch's financial crimes can come in to his murder trial because it sort of ties in. He was in financial trouble and that's why he committed this crime according to the prosecution, right? So, the trial goes off kind of without a hitch, but with a couple of little hiccups. Nothing major as far as I could tell. Alex gets convicted and lwed. He gets life without the possibility of parole. After he's convicted of murdering his wife and child, he takes a plea in um the financial case. So, he gets a very, very long sentence for the financial crimes, which means whether or not the murder trial gets overturned, Alex Murdoch will remain in prison for the financial crimes. Right? The trials wrap up, things die down, and Becky, courthouse, Becky was like, "Look, here's my book.

[00:12:46]You want to buy my book? Everybody, come and look at my book. See, I wrote a book. I wrote a book. I wrote a book.

[00:12:52]Please buy a copy. I'm about to get me a lakehouse." In the course of writing this book, she mentioned something about one of the jurors, and one of the jurors is like, "No, I need you to not have my name in your mouth. That's what not what you going to do." And the juror was like, "Excuse me, anybody who will listen?" Um, Becky tampered with me. She was tampering all over the place. And so, Alex, lawyers were like, "Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hm. She tampered." You say, "Oh, we we gonna have to run a complete investigation."

[00:13:21]Now, you know, anytime anybody gets convicted of anything, they automatically appeal. Standard. I didn't think a thing about it. Most people didn't think a thing about it. And then the lawyers were just like, "Uh, we got to talk to all these jurors. Did Did um did Becky influence you? Is Becky the reason that you found um our client guilty of the pupuation of the red rum?

[00:13:43]I mean, we know he confessed to the financial crimes. Alex is fine being a thief. He don't want to be an unaliviver according to him. So, he files an appeal and it goes up for oral arguments only on the murder charge. Enter Judge Jean Tol, who is a a retired Supreme Court Justice. Judge Tol stands up there.

[00:14:06]She's like, "Look, I got a golf game to get to. What y'all not going to do is mess up my afternoon. Let's Everybody come in here. It's going to be a one-day trial, okay? It's going to get stretched." Okay, it'll be a two-day trial, but I'm going to make quick work of all of this. Let me hear what everybody has to say. Juror, did she tamper with you? Did she tamper with you? 11 of the jurors were like, "Nah, Becky was like nice and stuff. She was a little too chatty, but it was fine."

[00:14:30]This one juror was like, um, she tampered with me and she told me, "Look at Alex closely." And it made me feel like, um, Alex was going to lie. And so I was just like, "Ooh." I was pressured by those other jurors um, into voting guilty. And I don't know if I would have vote to voted guilty or not. Did I tell you Becky was terrible? She's absolutely terrible. And Judge Jean Tol was like, "Right, right, right, right, right."

[00:14:55]Okay. Um, look, I decree Becky is terrible. It is official, but what she did did not alter the verdict in this trial. And I was like, "Oh, okay. Good.

[00:15:07]We can stop worrying about Alex Murdoch, right?" Later, Becky pleads guilty to, you know, financial crimes or whatever.

[00:15:14]Is everybody down there in Colton County just stealing stuff, y'all? Anyway, Becky is just like, "Oh, I might have mismanaged some of the money down to the courthouse, but I did not tamper with this jury."

[00:15:27]Alex, who was a lawyer, remember, was not done yet. He was like, "Oh, Judge Tol said that my conviction stands. I'm going to go to the Supremes." Mhm. The South Carolina Supreme Court, which is a five judge panel, and they look at everything. They hear oral arguments.

[00:15:43]The way I was on the edge of my seat for this appeals hearing, Alex was not there. His lawyers came and they argued and the state argued and it was back and forth, back and forth and basically they were saying that Becky tampering with the jury the Alex's team was saying Becky tampering with the juror jury I can't talk today was reversible error which means Alex Murdoch did not get a fair trial. Alex's team also was saying that the all those financial crimes should not have been brought in to this case. For the record, as of today, it's 6:21 in the morning, May 6th, 2026, no decision from the Supreme Court has come down yet. But and however, child, South Carolina leaks like a sie. Word on these true crime streets is that the Supreme Court of South Carolina is coming with a decision sooner rather than later. And rumor is that that five judge panel decided either 4 to one or 5 to zero on reversal, which means Alex Murdoch's murder case is rumored to be overturned. Now, what exactly does this mean? A couple different things could happen. Having the case overturned does not mean that you go see Alex Murdoch down to the Pigglywig. That's not what it means at all. The Supreme Court can say, "Okay, send the the uh case back to Judge Tol and let her decide." Again, she used one standard. She has to use this other standard over here to decide if Becky tampered with the trial.

[00:17:30]Additionally, um the other option they have is to say the whole conviction is thrown out and the whole trial has to be done again. We don't know which one of those things is going to be decided.

[00:17:43]Either way, Alex Murdoch will never be free again. He will live the rest of his life in prison. So, for right now, we wait. Alex Murdoch is fine being a financial criminal. He's just like, "Let me be out here. Everybody say I did a white collar crime. No problem. Cuz I've been stealing since forever. Ever. Ever.

[00:18:05]I don't want to be in here as somebody who took my wife and child off the playing list in my opinion." Oh, he absolutely killed them people. Mhm. He did it. He not only did it, he did it.

[00:18:16]Did it. He super duper did it. He's a so sociopath. He absolutely stole the money. He absolutely killed the people.

[00:18:23]But he deserves a fair trial. So, for right now, we wait. We don't know. As of this moment, tick tock. Look, by the time I get this posted, the the decision may have already come out, but for right now, for today, there is no decision.

[00:18:40]You know what? There is a whole playlist of all things Alec Murdoch on this channel. Oh, honey, I'mma link it in the description box of this video. You know, I will. So, look, Giloins, this decision is coming down soon, and I don't know what's going to happen. Although, the rumor has it, we know what's going to happen. Alex Murdoch's trial, his conviction might get overturned. We wait, we see, and when we have an answer, I will report back. In the meantime, y'all stay safe out there, and I will see you next crime. Bye.