The first jury convicted Alex Murdaugh in under three hours. But they had twelve hours of stolen-money testimony doing the heavy lifting. The South Carolina Supreme Court stripped that away. Now the actual investigation has to carry the case — and it may not be strong enough. SLED's crime scene work is about to face scrutiny it avoided the first time. The scene sat in the rain. Family members walked through it. No weapon was ever recovered. No DNA was found on the defendant. And a key housekeeper, Blanca Simpson, says she flagged a suspicious white vehicle near the property — parked close to where Paul kept firearms — and SLED dismissed it. Jennifer Coffindaffer ran federal cases for nearly three decades, and she doesn't let that discrepancy slide. When a witness hands you a vehicle near a weapon storage area hours before a double homicide and it doesn't get tracked down, that's a question a defense attorney will hammer in front of a new jury. Then the political layer. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson reportedly said all options are on the table for the retrial — including the death penalty. The death penalty was never pursued at trial one. So why now? Wilson isn't just prosecuting a murder case. He's running for governor. Every candidate running for attorney general has already promised to retry Alex Murdaugh. One reportedly said he'd do it in two weeks. The race to replace Wilson is turning into a competition over who can go hardest against the most notorious defendant in South Carolina history. Robin Dreeke and Coffindaffer break down the two-shooter theory SLED couldn't rule out, the contradictions in Blanca Simpson's evolving accounts, whether the kennel video lie still carries the same weight without financial crimes behind it, and what happens when a defendant becomes a political prop in a campaign season that overlaps with jury selection. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #AlexMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #DeathPenalty #AlanWilson #SLED #JenniferCoffindaffer #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SouthCarolina