Becky Hill, accused of tampering with Alex Murdaugh jury, resigns as clerk of court

John Monk, Ted Clifford
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Becky Hill, the beleaguered Colleton County clerk of court who became a celebrity in the aftermath of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial last year, is resigning, according to a source.

Hill, accused by Murdaugh’s attorneys of improperly trying to sway jurors to find their client guilty, is expected to announce her resignation during a news conference Monday morning at the Colleton County courthouse. Check thestate.com for coverage of the news conference.

Hill’s resignation comes nearly three months after she admitted she plagiarized sections of an insider book she published about being clerk of court during the Murdaugh trial. The book, “Behind the Doors of Justice,” was withdrawn from publication.

And it came nearly four months after her son, Jeff Hill, was arrested by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on wiretapping charges and fired from his $90,537-a-year job as Colleton County technology director. The wiretapping charges involve allegations he eavesdropped on other people and used county equipment to do so.

In the aftermath of the Murdaugh murder trial in March 2023, Hill flew to New York with several jurors from the trial and was interviewed on national television. She also was one of the first to publish a book about the trial, using her perch as a court official with access to the jury and behind-the-scenes goings-on to spin a narrative of one of America’s most-watched criminal trials in years.

Hill also appeared as a witness in a nationally-televised Court TV airing of a hearing in January in a bid by Murdaugh to win a new trial. The jury tampering allegatons were the main focus of the hearing. Presiding Judge Jean Toal rejected Murdaugh’s bid, although Toal indicated that she did not believe portions of Hill’s testimony.

Murdaugh’s lawyers, Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian, had claimed Hill tampered with the Murdaugh jury in order to get them to deliver a quick guilty verdict to hype sales of her book, then a work in progress.