Oct. 1, 2026
Christa Pike's Failed Execution: One Doctor, Two Botched Attempts, Murdaugh Says the State Hid a Police Chief's Role, TJ Wiggins Faces Death
Christa Gail Pike remains hospitalized two days after Tennessee failed to execute her, and her attorneys say they still have not been told her condition. Dr. Mark Walton Fowler, the contract physician who publicly confirmed he would oversee her execution, was also the physician involved in Tennessee's halted execution of Tony Carruthers in May; Carruthers's sister has filed a Department of Health complaint alleging malpractice, and no disciplinary action has been announced. The state's written protocol directs a second set of syringes if the first fails but says nothing about what happens if the second fails too. Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center calls it unlike any botched execution in the modern era. Gov. Bill Lee has ordered a third-party review. In Florida, a Polk County jury convicted Tony Lee "TJ" Wiggins Jr. of first-degree murder in the 2020 killings of Damion Tillman, Brandon Rollins and Keven Springfield, and is now hearing whether to recommend death. And Alex Murdaugh's attorneys have moved to compel records, saying the state has held a witness statement since 2023 that a police chief handled the never-recovered murder weapons. Garret Fisher reports.
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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning.
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This is Daily Crime and Justice from Calaroga Media, powered
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by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher. It's Friday, October 2nd, 2026.
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Krista Pike is still alive. She is still in a hospital.
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And as of the last word from her attorneys, nobody
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has told them how she is. Since we talked about
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this yesterday, a great deal more has come out, and
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almost all of it makes the picture worse. The physician
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who oversaw Wednesday night also oversaw Tennessee's other failed execution
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this year. The state's own written protocol, it turns out,
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has no instruction for what to do in the situation
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that occurred. And the director of the Death Penalty Information
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Center says there is simply no precedent for it. In
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Polk County, Florida, a jury convicted Tony Wiggins of murdering
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three friends who had gone fishing. It took them under
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four hours. Now the same 12 people are deciding whether
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he should be executed. And Alex Murdaugh's attorneys have filed
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a motion saying the state has been sitting since 2023
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on a witness statement that a police chief handled the
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murder weapons.
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Let's get into it.
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Colleen Slemmer was 19 years old when she was killed
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in Knoxville in January of 1995. Krista Pike was convicted
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of her murder and sentenced to death in 1996. On
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Wednesday night, Tennessee tried to execute her and could not.
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If you missed yesterday's show, the short version is this.
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Two doses of pentobarbital, which is the maximum the protocol allows.
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A procedure that ran more than two hours. Media witnesses
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who said she was very clearly alive when they were
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escorted out. An ambulance, a hospital, and a legal team
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that still has not been told her condition. Here is
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what has come out since. The first thing is the doctor.
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According to WSMV, the physician who oversaw Pike's execution is Dr.
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Mark Fowler, and he also oversaw Tennessee's other failed execution
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this year. In May, the state attempted to execute Tony Carruthers,
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who was convicted of kidnapping and killing three people in 1994.
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Personnel spent more than an hour trying to establish IV
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access and could not. An ACLU attorney who witnessed it
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described the team trying his arm, his hand, and his
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foot before Fowler attempted to place a central line. The
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governor called it off and granted a one-year reprieve. Carruthers'
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sister has since filed a complaint against Fowler with the
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Tennessee Department of Health. It alleges he suffered a stroke,
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partial paralysis, and excruciating pain. It accuses Fowler of violating
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medical ethics by participating in an execution at all, of
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injecting lidocaine without first establishing Carruthers was not allergic to it,
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of continuing to search for a vein through visible agony
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and distress, and of being unqualified to place a central
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line because he had not done one in more than
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a decade. Fowler told NPR that he does not participate
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in executions except to declare the time of death, and
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had no further comment. I want to flag that carefully.
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That complaint contains allegations. No finding has been made, and
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the state does not normally identify execution personnel So this
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reporting is coming from journalists and lawyers rather than from Tennessee.
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The second thing is the protocol. And this is the
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part that explains everything. Tennessee's written execution protocol says that
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if the inmate is not deceased after the first set
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of syringes, a second set is administered. It does not
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say what happens if the inmate is still alive after
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the second set. There is no third dose. There is
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no stated procedure. There is no contingency. The document simply stops.
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So when two doses failed on Wednesday night, the people
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in that chamber were operating without instructions. And the only
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thing left to do was what they did.
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Which was call an ambulance.
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Robin Marr, who runs the Death Penalty Information Center, told
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the New York Times, this is the worst botched execution
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we have seen, unlike any other in the modern era,
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and that there is no precedent. Now, the politics, because
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they arrived immediately. Governor Bill Lee has ordered a comprehensive
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third-party review to determine exactly what occurred and has said
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the remaining execution scheduled this year will not take place.
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He told reporters Thursday morning that he did not know
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Pike's condition and that he was disappointed. And Senator Marsha Blackburn,
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who is running to replace him, has called for Tennessee
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to bring back the electric chair. She said the situation
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is tragic. that Pike should have been executed long ago,
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and that the botched process is extending the pain for
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Colleen Slemmer's family. She said there should be a review,
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but that the answer is simple. I want to be
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fair to the first half of that. She is right
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that this is extending the pain for that family. May
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Martinez waited 30 years, traveled to that prison, and went
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home with nothing resolved. That is real and it matters.
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The second half is where I would push back, and
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not on policy grounds. Tennessee has now failed twice this year.
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Before that, it paused executions for three years after an
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investigation found officials had not properly tested the drugs they
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were using.
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The state switched to a single drug.
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Protocol in 2024 after all of that. The through line
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is not which method is used. It is competence and
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oversight and whether anyone outside the system is permitted to
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check the work. Changing the instrument without fixing that gets
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you a differently botched execution. And here's the question nobody
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has answered. Krista Pike survived. She is being treated by
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doctors right now so that the state can, at some point,
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attempt this again. There is no settled law on what
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that means. It has essentially never happened. Colleen Slemmer was
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19 years old. Someone has to say her name. When
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we come back, 12 people in Polk County decide whether
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a man lives. Damian Tillman was 23. Kevin Springfield was 30.
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Brandon Rollins was 28. On the night of July 17th, 2020,
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the three friends met on Lake Streety Road near Frost Proof,
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Florida to go night fishing. They were ambushed and shot.
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All three died. On Tuesday, after two weeks of testimony,
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a jury of five men and seven women took less
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than four hours to find Tony Lee Wiggins Jr.
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Guilty on all counts. Three counts of first-degree murder, Unanimous.
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He is 32. The state's theory was a grudge over
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a truck engine. We have covered this case twice, and
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both times it was about the same problem. How do
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you prove a case when your central witness takes it
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all back? Wiggins's younger brother William told detectives he watched
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his brother shoot all three men. He said it again
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to a grand jury under oath. He took a plea
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deal to testify. Then on the stand, he said none
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of it was true, that they were never there. and
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that he had just told investigators whatever they wanted to hear.
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The state never called him in its case, and it
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did not matter. Prosecutors put on surveillance video placing Wiggins
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in a Dollar General at the same time as one
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victim and following him out. Blood matching a victim's DNA
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in a vehicle, a missing 12-minute window. And in closing,
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Assistant State Attorney Ralph Guerra pointed to letters from Wiggins'
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jail cell, one of which he said instructed his brother
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to stop snitching, and to tattoos Wiggins later had put
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on his body, including a rat hanging from a noose
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and a highway sign wrapped in crime scene tape. Under
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four hours. There was one more moment worth telling you about.
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During closing arguments on Monday, Brandon Rollins' father interrupted the proceedings,
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shouted that his son had identified Wiggins as the killer,
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and walked out of the courtroom. The defense asked for
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a mistrial, then withdrew the request. The judge instructed the
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jurors to disregard it. I have thought about that a lot.
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A father sat through two weeks of a trial about
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his son being shot on a fishing trip, and for
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a few seconds, he could not hold it. The system's
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answer is to tell 12 people to pretend they did
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not hear a human being break. And they probably mostly can,
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and the trial went on, and his son is still dead.
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Brandon Rollins' mother, Dottie Payton, said after the verdict that
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they waited six years for it. The penalty phase began
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Thursday morning. The same jury now hears aggravating and mitigating
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evidence and recommends either life without parole or death. And
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that is the third capital sentencing proceeding we have covered
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in two weeks. In Lake County, a jury heard about
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Vicki Lynn Williams' schizophrenia and recommended life. In Pinellas County,
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Tomasz Kosawski has refused to present any mitigation at all,
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and a judge will decide alone this month. And now
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Polk County, three juries, three different processes, one punishment. And
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500 miles north of all of it, a woman is
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in a hospital bed because the state that sentenced her
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could not carry it out. Damien Tillman was 23. Kevin
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Springfield was 30. Brandon Rollins was 28. They were going fishing.
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Someone has to say their name. When we come back,
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Alex Murdaugh's lawyers say the state has been sitting on
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something since 2023. Segment 3. The weapons nobody ever found.
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Maggie Murdaugh was 52. Her son Paul was 22. They
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were shot to death at the family's hunting property in
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Colleton County, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh,
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her husband and his father, was convicted of both murders
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in 2023. That conviction has since been set aside and
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he is awaiting a retrial currently scheduled for April of 2027.
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And on Wednesday, his attorneys filed a motion that, if
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the underlying reporting is accurate, is a serious problem for
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the state. Here is the background you need. The weapons
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used in those killings have never been found. At the
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first trial, prosecutors argued Murdaugh hid them and told the
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jury he had stashed them at his mother's house.
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No weapon was ever recovered.
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The absence of the murder weapons has always been the
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hole in the center of this case. Now, according to
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reporting from South Carolina outlets, A state grand jury has
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been hearing allegations that officers from the Yemesee Police Department handled, moved,
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or concealed weapons and clothing after the murders. Multiple sources
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have told Fitznews that witnesses described seeing the murder weapons
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in the possession of Yemesee Police Chief Greg Alexander immediately
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after the killings. Greg Alexander is a friend of Alex Murdaugh's.
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At the first trial, Murdaugh's brother testified that the police chief,
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whom he called a good friend, accompanied him to the scene.
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Witnesses have also said Alexander arrived early before the scene
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was secured and gave Murdaugh a change of clothes. Alexander's
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attorney has called the allegations absurd. The defense motion attaches
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a grand jury subpoena issued to Alexander on August 31st
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at the request of the lead prosecutor.
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And the argument the defense makes is the one that matters.
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They say that if the reports are accurate, the state
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has held since 2023 a witness statement that a police
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officer handled the murder weapons and the clothing Murdahl was
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said to have worn and never disclosed it.
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That is a Brady claim. Under Brady v.
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Maryland, prosecutors are constitutionally required to turn over evidence favorable
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to the defense. It is not optional, it does not
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depend on whether they think it is important, and it
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is one of the few things that reliably overturns convictions.
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And the defense frames the consequences precisely. They argue it
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bears on the integrity of the crime scene itself, and
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therefore on every piece of physical evidence taken from it.
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And they argue it supports a defense that more than
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one person was involved, which they say the state's own
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investigation now appears to credit. Then they put the state
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in a box. If the prosecution intends to change its
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theory at retrial, the defense says it is entitled to no.
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If it does not, then the evidence is exculpatory and
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the defense is entitled to use it. Either way, they argue,
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it has to be produced. Their motion ends with a
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line I expect to hear again. The defense should not
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have to learn the state's evidence from the press. Now,
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every bit of this is unproven. These are allegations in
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a defense filing, built partly on news reports about secret
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grand jury proceedings. Greg Alexander has not been charged with
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anything and denies it through counsel. prosecutors have not responded
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in court. But if a witness did tell investigators in
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2023 that a police chief was holding the murder weapons
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and that statement never reached the defense, that is not
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a technicality. That is the kind of thing that produces
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a third trial. Maggie Murdahl was 52, Paul Murdahl was 22.
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Five years on, the fight is about a weapon nobody
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has ever found and who was standing at that scene
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before anybody secured it. Someone has to say their names.
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That's the show for Friday, October 2nd. The state's protocol
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says what to do if the first dose fails. It
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says nothing about what to do if the second one does.
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How does a document like that get approved? We will
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stay on Tennessee because Krista Pike's condition has still not
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been disclosed and the governor's review is just starting. The
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Polk County jury could return a death penalty recommendation at
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any time. And jury selection begins Monday in Boston in
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the federal trial over the killing of Sandra Birchmore.
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I'm Garrett Fisher. Do better. A few notes on sourcing.
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On the Tennessee case, this episode was recorded Friday morning
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and the situation was still developing. Krista Pike's condition had
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not been publicly disclosed. The identification of the physician involved
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comes from local news reporting. Tennessee does not publicly identify
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execution personnel and has not confirmed it. The complaint filed
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over the Carruthers' execution contains allegations that have not been adjudicated,
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and the physician has denied participating beyond declaring time of death.
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No court or regulator has made any finding about what
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went wrong in either execution. On the Polk County case,
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Tony Wiggins was convicted on all counts, and the penalty
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