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A pre-trial hearing in the boat crash case, which had been scheduled to take place just three days after the murders, would have exposed Murdaugh’s criminal financial dealings, prosecutors said.

During an interview with “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday, Griffin blasted that motive as “manufactured” and “ludicrous” – and insisted again that the defense is sitting on “multiple alternative theories” about the murders.

Another member of Murdaugh’s defense team, Dick Harpootlian, insisted Hill, as well as the amount of time prosecutors focused on his client’s financial crimes, were solely responsible for the outcome of the first trial.

“If you strip all that away, what do [prosecutors] have? They don’t have any forensics tying [Murdaugh] to the murder scene. No DNA, no blood, no fingerprints. They have no weapons. They have no ballistics…matter of fact, there is technical evidence that would indicate he wasn’t there,” Harpootlian said.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told “Fox and Friends” Thursday that his office has “credible evidence that supports the conclusions that we came to the first time, and we intend to pursue those again.”

By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News Published May 14, 2026, 11:47 a.m. ET On Thursday, 30-year-old Buster Murdaugh, Alex’s son, was spotted by Fox News Digital on the porch of his Bluffton, South Carolina home one day after the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that misconduct by a court official tainted the 2023 trial that sent his father away for life.

“But he’s glad to get that moniker off of him as a convicted murderer of his wife and son. No doubt about that,” Griffin added.

Murdaugh’s defense team said it “respected” the Supreme Court justices’ decision Wednesday to also limit the amount of testimony about Murdaugh’s financial crimes that the prosecution will be allowed to introduce during the double-murder retrial.

In their unanimous ruling, the state’s top court said Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca “Becky” Hill denied Murdaugh his right to a fair trial when she “placed her fingers on the scales of justice” and “egregiously attacked” his credibility by suggesting to the 12-person jury that his testimony could not be trusted.

Hill pleaded guilty in December to obstruction of justice, perjury, and two counts of misconduct in office after admitting she showed sealed crime scene photos to a reporter, lied about it and improperly promoted her book about the trial through her public office. She was sentenced to probation.

Murdaugh, 57, will remain in prison, however, after being sentenced on dozens of state and federal charges for bilking millions from his former law firm and clients for more than a decade. Prosecutors say they plan to retry Murdaugh “as soon as possible” and have not yet closed the door on appealing the state court’s decision.

“While we respectfully disagree with the Court’s decision, my Office will aggressively seek to retry Alex Murdaugh for the murders of Maggie and Paul as soon as possible,” state Attorney General Alan Wilson said in a statement after the court’s bombshell decision.