Two of the jurors in the blockbuster murder trial of Alex Murdaugh speak out for the first time to share their doubts about the guilty verdict.
Myra Crosby, the infamous ‘egg juror’, and Mandy Pearce, ‘juror Z’, relived the trial in The Fall of House Murdaugha new documentary airing today on Fox Nation.
Pearce was the only juror to say her guilty verdict was influenced by court clerk Becky Hill.
He said his doubts initially arose from the lack of a murder weapon.
As the trial progressed, he became concerned that police “had it in their mind that he was guilty” and “didn’t try to find anyone else” during the investigation.
Two of the jurors in the blockbuster murder trial of Alex Murdaugh speak out for the first time to share their doubts about the guilty verdict.
Mandy Pearce has identified herself as Juror Z, the only juror who says her guilty verdict was influenced by court clerk Becky Hill.
Myra Crosby has revealed that she is the “Egg Juror” who infamously asked if she could pick up her eggs and purse when she was dismissed from the case.
“She made it seem like he was already guilty,” Pearce said. “What Becky did was not right.”
“She came into the jury room and was talking and interacting with all of us.”
But Pearce said she did not realize the behavior would be considered inappropriate until Murdaugh’s lawyers contacted her.
The documentary, hosted by Fox News host Martha MacCallum, includes sensational claims of jury tampering and outside pressure to reach a guilty plea, casting doubt on the final verdict.
MacCallum asked Pearce if he would have ever expressed concern about Hill’s actions if it had not been for his argument with Murdaugh’s lawyers.
“Probably not,” she agreed.
Murdaugh is serving two life sentences for the deaths of his wife and son on a family farm in 2021.
The 56-year-old has maintained his innocence and his lawyers have since accused court clerk Becky Hill of telling jurors “not to be fooled by him” in an attempt to secure his conviction so she could make money from a book about the case.
Even if Murdaugh is ultimately granted a new murder trial, he is still serving 40 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients of his law firm.
She denies any wrongdoing but has since left her job amid an ongoing investigation.
The South Carolina patriarch scored a small victory in court just two weeks ago, when the justices agreed to consider whether Hill interfered in the case and whether that influenced the jury.
As a result, the Supreme Court will now consider whether Murdaugh has a case for a new trial.
Even if Murdaugh is ultimately granted a new murder trial, he would still be serving 40 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients of his law firm.
This punishment is being served concurrently with his 27-year sentence for his various state fraud convictions.
While Pearce is so far the only juror who deliberated in the case to express concerns about Hill, Crosby has also detailed feeling as though she was “targeted” by her because she was undecided for much of the trial.
She said she thought the decision to remove her from the jury was a mistake.
The South Carolina patriarch scored a small victory in court just two weeks ago, when the justices agreed to consider whether Hill interfered in the case and whether that influenced the jury.
During his six-week trial, it emerged that both his wife and son were shot in the head after initially being wounded near the kennels on the family’s rural estate in Islandton.
Paul was shot twice with a shotgun, each bullet loaded with a different size, while his mother, apparently running toward her son as he was being massacred, was shot multiple times with a .300-caliber Blackout semi-automatic rifle.
The murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh shocked South Carolina, where the family was known as a political and legal dynasty.
Family members had served as attorneys and district attorneys for the Low Country region for 85 consecutive years.
Murdaugh claimed he found the bodies of his wife and son after returning home from a visit to his parents, but prosecutors based their case on damning cellphone evidence that showed him at the crime scene near the time of the killings.