Murdaugh Juror Myra Crosby Presses to Unseal Becky Hill Probe After 2023 Tampering Claims
Updated
Updated · Fox News · Jul 30
Murdaugh Juror Myra Crosby Presses to Unseal Becky Hill Probe After 2023 Tampering Claims
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 30
Summary
Myra Crosby, the dismissed "egg juror," filed new court papers seeking public release of South Carolina’s investigation into former clerk Becky Hill’s alleged jury tampering in Alex Murdaugh’s 2023 murder trial.
A May FOIA request already sought the same records, but the attorney general’s office said videos could not be released immediately because jurors’ identities might need to be blurred or otherwise redacted.
Crosby argues those privacy concerns no longer justify delay because jurors spoke in open court and some later appeared in television interviews and documentaries; she says any limited redactions should not block broader disclosure.
Hill is accused of telling jurors not to be fooled by Murdaugh’s defense, conduct the South Carolina Supreme Court said compromised the verdict and helped overturn his murder conviction, setting up a retrial.