Why Was Alex Murdaugh's Retrial Handed to a Judge Who Says She Ignores the Internet?

The first Alex Murdaugh trial wasn't just decided in a courtroom — it was swallowed by everything around it. A clerk of court writing a book about the case while she was supposed to be guarding the jury. Cameras in every corner of Walterboro. Podcasters, streamers, and true crime creators turning a small South Carolina town into a content farm. And when the dust settled, the state Supreme Court threw the whole verdict out, in part because of what happened to that jury outside the evidence.Now meet the woman in charge of making sure it never happens again. Judge Debra McCaslin wrote on her own judicial questionnaire that she is not a fan of social media and very rarely looks at it. The state of South Carolina just handed the most internet-obsessed criminal case in America to a judge who, by her own account, doesn't engage with any of it. In this Alex Murdaugh retrial breakdown, we ask whether that makes her exactly the wrong person for this moment — or the only kind of judge who can survive it. A jurist who can't be rattled by the noise might be the cure for a case that was poisoned by noise. Or she might be walking into a storm she's never bothered to look at.We also get into who McCaslin is beneath the questionnaire: the self-made path that took her from a senator's office to her own law practice to the bench, her overlooked history with one of the lawyers now defending Murdaugh, and the rulings she'll make on venue, evidence, and a possible death penalty fight that will define trial number two before it starts.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=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis 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.#MurdaughRetrial #AlexMurdaugh #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #MurdaughTrialUpdate #SouthCarolina #MediaCircus #CourtTV #TrueCrimeNews #JusticeForMaggieAndPaul