Alex Murdaugh’s legal team is preparing an alternate-suspect defense and raising new DNA questions as his retrial approaches, the Fox News True Crime newsletter reported. The newsletter said a juror known as the “egg juror” is pushing to unseal records tied to a broader court clerk scandal and that Murdaugh has sued the court clerk after his murder conviction was overturned amid jury-tampering accusations.
Documents cited by Fox News also detailed how comments and book plans involving Becky Hill were described as having helped unravel Murdaugh’s conviction, according to the newsletter.
In a separate matter, the newsletter said retired officers argued New York’s defendant-friendly rules contributed to evidence being tossed in the case against Luigi Mangione. Fox News reported a pending ruling on what evidence jurors will see at Mangione’s September murder trial could be decisive, according to the newsletter.
The newsletter said Tyler Robinson’s defense team has moved to seal evidence and seek sanctions against prosecutors in the case tied to the killing of Charlie Kirk, and that Robinson asked for additional secret hearings after losing a bid to block courtroom cameras, according to Fox News.
Fox News’ roundup also highlighted other developments, including a “wrench attack” theory in the Guthrie case that officials say raises concerns about organized criminals; a DNA breakthrough in a 40-year-old library worker slaying that led to an arrest; a cold-case defendant who allegedly chewed DNA bait now facing survivors and families in court; renewed federal efforts in a decades-old disappearance after a new image and changing loyalties; allegations that an influencer mother and a lawyer father plotted a dark-web murder; the arrest of a Mango clothing heir’s son in the death of a billionaire with a U.S. retail presence; and an Oklahoma woman’s discovery that her husband had faked his death in a barn fire 37 years earlier, the newsletter reported.
Jon Ross Myers is the executive editor and publisher of the Mississippi News Network, Mississippi's largest digital only media company. He can be reached at editor@tippahnews.com
