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Alex Murdaugh's Murder Appeal Explodes After Key Court Official Admits to Lying Under Oath| Crime Alert 6AM 12.11.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crimes now. The former
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina Colleton County Clerk of Court on the murder
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  Speaker 1: trial of Alex Murdog Becky Hill, pleads guilty to showing
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  Speaker 1: sealed court exhibits to a photographer and lying about it
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  Speaker 1: in court. Judge Heath Taylor sentences Hill to three years probation,
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  Speaker 1: explaining our sentence would be much harsher if it were
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  Speaker 1: ever proof she tampered with the jury. That has not
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  Speaker 1: been proven. Jennifer Gould has the details.
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  Speaker 2: Nancy, the woman whose distinctive trembling voice delivered the guilty
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  Speaker 2: verdict that sealed Alex Murdall's fate, stood before a circuit
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  Speaker 2: judge admitting she secretly handed a photographer the sealed, blood
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  Speaker 2: soaked photos of his slaughtered wife and son, then lied
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  Speaker 2: about it under oath. Former Collection County Clerk of Court,
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  Speaker 2: Becky Hill, fifty eight, tearfully pleaded guilty to four felonies,
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  Speaker 2: two counts of misconduct in office, obstruction of justice, and
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  Speaker 2: perjury for slipping the graphic kennel crime scene images to
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  Speaker 2: media in twenty twenty three and swearing she never did
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  Speaker 2: it during Murda's failed bid for a new trial.
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  Speaker 1: Circuit.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Heath Taylor spared her a single day though behind bars,
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  Speaker 2: sentencing her instead to three years probation and one hundred
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  Speaker 2: hours of community service, stating, quote, your sentence would have
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  Speaker 2: been much harsher if we had found jury tampering end quote.
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  Speaker 2: Confirming the investigation cleared Hill of swaying the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: three jury that convicted Murda of murdering Maggie fifty two
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  Speaker 2: and Paul twenty two. The disgraced clerk's misconduct extended beyond
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  Speaker 2: the courthouse secrets. Hill also admitted to pocketing eleven thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars in unauthorized county bonuses and exploiting her position to
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  Speaker 2: profit from her rushed out book on the case called
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  Speaker 2: Behind the Doors of Justice. Reading the guilty verdict made
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  Speaker 2: her famous. Leaking the photos and lying about it just
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  Speaker 2: made her a convicted felon. Flanked by her husband and lawyer,
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  Speaker 2: Hill spoke to the court, Listen, there is.
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  Speaker 1: No excuse for my mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: I am ashamed of them, and I will carry that shame.
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  Speaker 1: With me for the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 2: The conviction immediately drew fire from Murdoch's defense team. Attorney
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  Speaker 2: Dick Harpoutlian fired off a statement questioning the integrity of
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  Speaker 2: the jury tampering hearing, saying, quote, if Becky admittedly committed
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  Speaker 2: perjury in the jury tampering hearing, what else did she
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  Speaker 2: lie about? End quote? The disgraced legal sigh On fifty
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  Speaker 2: six is already serving life without parole for the murders
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  Speaker 2: and another twenty seven years for stealing millions from clients.
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  Speaker 2: His appeal reaches the South Carolina Supreme Court in February,
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  Speaker 2: and Hill's newly minted felony conviction is fresh potent ammunition
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  Speaker 2: for his defense. Hill walked out of the Calhoun County
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  Speaker 2: court room of felon but a free woman as Murdochs
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  Speaker 2: fight rages on. For the latest crime and Justice news,
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  Speaker 2: Fox one and YouTube. Nancy, Thanks Jennifer. More Crime and
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  Speaker 2: Justice news. After this, a world renowned opera singer's voice
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  Speaker 2: that once filled grand halls with spiritual grace fell silent
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  Speaker 2: forever in a shocking family bloodbath. Grammy nominated opera baritone
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  Speaker 2: Jubilant Sykes was found butchered inside his own California home,
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  Speaker 2: allegedly by his own son. Family friend Sammy Murphy spoke
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  Speaker 2: to Fox eleven News.
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  Speaker 1: And it's sad. It's really sad. It's sad for both party,
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  Speaker 1: especially his sign.
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  Speaker 2: How why would you shoot your dad? Matt, the seventy
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  Speaker 2: one year old musical icon who earned a Grammy nomination
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  Speaker 2: for his role in Leonard Bernstein's Mass and gracefully commanded
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  Speaker 2: the stages of the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall, was
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  Speaker 2: discovered by police with multiple stab wounds following a desperate
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  Speaker 2: nine one one call reporting an assault in progress. Sikes's
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  Speaker 2: wife alerted authorities around nine to nineteen pm to the
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  Speaker 2: family home on Delaware Avenue in the usually tranquiled Pico
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood of Santa Monica. What officers encountered was a blood
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  Speaker 2: soaked nightmare. Sikes gravely injured and pronounced dead at the
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  Speaker 2: scene by the Santa Monica Fire Department personnel. The suspected perpetrator,
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  Speaker 2: thirty one year old Micah Sikes, was found inside the
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  Speaker 2: home and was taken into custody without incident. This immediate
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  Speaker 2: arrest has done little to quell the profound shock rippling
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  Speaker 2: through the artistic community and the Cavalry Baptist Church, where
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  Speaker 2: Sykes remained deeply connected despite his international acclaim having collaborated
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  Speaker 2: with legends like Josh Groban and Carlos Santana. A weapon
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  Speaker 2: was recovered at the scene, and police have classified the
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  Speaker 2: homicide as an isolated domestic incident. Neighbors told local media
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  Speaker 2: that Micah, who lived with his parents, allegedly struggled with
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  Speaker 2: severe mental health issues. No prior calls to police to
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  Speaker 2: the address have surfaced in public records. The events leading
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  Speaker 2: up to the vicious fatal stabbing remain unclear. Micah Sikes
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  Speaker 2: has been booked for homicide, The accused killer remains locked
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  Speaker 2: up on a two million dollar bail. And finally, someone's
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  Speaker 2: about to be in hot water after cops intercepted a
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  Speaker 2: drone loaded with the makings of an insane crab boil
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  Speaker 2: feast and a side of serious contraband over lee Correctional
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  Speaker 2: Institution in South Carolina. The high flying delivery was packed
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  Speaker 2: with King crab legs, steak, old bas seasonings, two big
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  Speaker 2: bags of weed, and two cartons of cigarettes. A true
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  Speaker 2: surf and turf smuggling operation. If you will officers were
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  Speaker 2: ready and waiting, grounding the aerial delivery just before the
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  Speaker 2: inmates could catch a break with their black market dinner.
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  Speaker 2: The prison equipped the inmates were probably a little bit
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  Speaker 2: crabby after the bust. This illegal air mail service tried
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  Speaker 2: to give the jailbirds a holiday feast, but instead the
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  Speaker 2: drone and its illicit fixens are now simply on ice Nancy.
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