Alex Murdaugh ‘Egg Lady’ Juror Tells All: ‘I Was Targeted’

I just got tired of listening to the lies that were being spewed about me that's Myra Crosby the dismissed juror from Alec Murdoch's double murder trial who became known as the egg lady she's speaking about the case do you believe the state met its burden I do not Myra Crosby is telling all in a new book and to me about her removal from the jury and why she says she doesn't believe the trial was fair the way that I was dismissed was very sketchy welcome to cry viix I'm Anette Levy it's been more than a year since a jury in citton County South Carolina found Alec Murdoch guilty of murdering his wife Maggie and his son Paul it was South Carolina's trial of the century the jury deliberated for three hours after hearing six weeks of testimony and since then a whole lot has happened there have been allegations of jury tampering made by Murdoch's defense against Clerk of Court Becky Hill you asked her questions before she was even been examined by the judge did you not your honor I I did not ask her any questions now that was from a hearing on the jury tampering claims earlier this year with retired Supreme Court Justice Jean tol questioning Becky Hill and the jurors who deliberated and won alternate juror despite some jurors saying they heard Hill make comments about Alec Murdoch during the trial they said it didn't impact their verdict at least one said that she thought it did impact her verdict I find that the clerk of court is not completely credible as a witness Miss Hill was attracted by the siren Call of celebrity and I find the defendant's motion for a new trial on the factual record before me must be denied now one juror who was not questioned during that hearing in January juror 785 she was removed from the jury after the state's closing argument I have reviewed everything including um statements given by individuals and recorded interviews and concluded that uh despite my order to not discuss the case with anyone uh that intentionally or unintentionally you've had some discussions with uh some folks not on the jury and uh which was is going to require me me to remove you from the jury um you have been a a by all accounts great juror and smiled consistently and have seemingly um um been attentive to the case and performed well and I'm sure that with all the time you've invested in it you probably hate not to continue or maybe you're ready to go I don't know uh but um I certainly want to thank you for for your service uh I'm not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong judge Newman said he determined that the juror had discussed the case in violation of his order against doing so juror 785 famously became known as the egg lady I even called her the egg lady after this happened what do you have in there dozen eggs say again a dozen eggs a dozen eggs so Mr Bale can you retrieve from the Jury Room her dozen eggs uh her purse and what else and a bottle of water now Murdoch's lawyers contend that Clerk of Court Becky Hill who has since resigned and is under criminal investigation and faces a long list of Ethics complaints launched a campaign to remove the egg lady from the jury Murdoch's appeal is now with the South Carolina Supreme Court which will consider the jury tampering issue joining me is the juror who became known as only the egg lady that's what we know knew her as for many months and now we can tell you her name is Myra Crosby uh Myra thanks for coming on first of all uh tell us why are you speaking out now you've decided to reveal yourself to the world that's a tough decision I I wanted to be left alone in the beginning but it just it never stopped and people continued to say that I I had done wrong and all I've ever said said from day one is I wanted Alex Murdoch to have a fair trial and the way that this trial went it was far from fair and I just got tired of listening to the lies that were being spewed about me why do you think the trial was not fair well the way that I was dismissed was very sketchy the fact that the clerk came into the Jury Room on on multiple occasions and basically gave us her opinion I don't think that was fair at all but I just I don't think that should have been part of the what's the word part of the trial I think that the clerk had a job to do and I think she overstepped her boundaries and I don't think that it was investigated enough as what was done to me Myra Crosby when we spoke said that Becky Hill first asked her about a Facebook post that Hill claimed was posted by Crosby's ex-husband that said that she had been talking about the trial our BFF came into the Jury Room and told me that the clerk the clerk needed to speak with me and she he came in got me and took me into an office and that would be where the fake Facebook post came in and she questioned me about having an ex-husband and had I been drinking with him because she was made aware of a Facebook post that I was supposedly drinking with him and offered an opinion on the trial and I told her that did not happen I haven't seen him in over 10 years so I wanted to see the post she couldn't show me the post but she said she would have one of her techy clerks look into it and she would get back with me so you were confronted about a Facebook post that was allegedly from your ex-husband who you hadn't seen in years but then you were never shown the post she couldn't or I don't know if she couldn't find it or didn't have it or what but she never showed me a post and then she asked me well do you have an opinion on the trial and I told her I hadn't heard enough you know I wasn't decided I mean we weren't even you know into all of the trial yet the Murdoch case is of course full of lawyers even the egg lady Myra Crosby has a lawyer and you never know when you might need one Morgan and Morgan has more than 1,000 attorneys that you may want in your corner if you are ever injured Morgan and Morgan has won several multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements recently for victims who 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thing I told Becky is I haven't seen my ex-husband in years you know I don't talk to him I don't drink with him if he posts on Facebook I never saw it he was blocked on my page and at the time my Facebook page had I was in Facebook jail so nobody would question why I wasn't you know posting because generally I post something positive daily and I didn't during the time of the trial because I didn't want anybody questioning that Becky Hill would later say that that Facebook post was deleted Myra Crosby's ex-husband signed a sworn affidavit months after the trial denying that he ever wrote The Post in question your ex-husband said that he didn't post that post he did not and apparently they have went through his phone his laptop and the post was never made and it's pretty convenient that she found an apology post that was dated prior to her saying she saw the original post the questioning of Myra Crosby didn't end with that Facebook post the court also received an email from someone who wanted to remain anonymous that claimed Crosby had spoken to her husband's tenants about the case did you discuss the case with your tenants I did not what happened then supposedly there was an email from a co-worker of one of my tenants um I believe it was like 10 11 days after I supposedly I delivered a refrigerator my husband has tenants he had property when I met him and he still does but we delivered a a refrigerator on a Saturday and I want to say it was before President stay because we were going out of town for the weekend we delivered the refrigerator her the female tenant and I discussed pizza and our new jobs because she had been in a different position than where she was when we had seen each other last and I was working at a different job than I where I was working at before so I mean we never discussed a trial I told her no I didn't even tell her my husband told them that I was a juror so that they wouldn't ask questions because at the time that trial was the Talk of the Town so that he my husband let him know quick you know she can't discuss that we were there all of maybe 30 minutes and we didn't even talk about the trial we talked about pizza we talked about our jobs we talked about family had to do with anything at the trial other than food so you guys did not talk you and the tenants did not discuss the evidence or the case you're you're telling me that right now I did not the prosecution team has disputed Myra Crosby's claims and court documents transcripts of hearings that were held in judge Newman's Chambers during the trial regarding information the court was receiving about Crosby were included in some of their filings judge Newman questioned Crosby according to the state asking so has she discussed the case with any of the jurors meaning Becky Hill has the clerk discussed anything about the case with anyone on that jury prosecutors say that Crosby responded not that I am aware of Judge Newman and the defense and prosecutors also questioned the tenants about any conversations they had with her when she and her husband delivered a refrigerator to them the male tenant according to prosecutors said she hadn't decided either way because it was you know it was kind of early in the case I guess you know that she made no decisions if he was guilty or if he wasn't the female tenant was also questioned and asked by Murdoch's lawyer dick harutan about what Crosby said the female tenant recalled juror 785 said that she could not without you know a doubt or whatever say he was guilty I can't discuss what's in their transcripts because it's under seal but I can tell you that I spoke with both tenants afterwards and they both adamantly said that they told them I didn't talk about the trial I only even saw the mail when we got there because him and my husband were taking a refrigerator in and taking a refrigerator out I pretty much sat with the female and we talked about different things that had changed with us it didn't have anything to do with the trial judge Newman made the decision to remove Crosby from the jury when I got home that day I talked to my husband and told him that they had dismissed me or whatever I was a little confused I spoke with both tenants that day and when they told me what they said I was like well that doesn't make sense then why did the judge say this I didn't know anything about my ex-husband until two weeks after the trial and I was very angry with him when he called me I asked him what was wrong with him and he was confused and then he told me that he never posted anything on Facebook so that just kind of blew my mind so I kind of felt like why was I targeted is it because I constantly told Becky I was undecided was she asking other drawers about their feelings or as far as you know was she only asking you I don't know what she asked other jurors can I say that I saw her talk to other jurors privately yes but what she was asking them I can't I can't attested that because I wasn't with her now judge Newman had said that Crosby's ex-husband wasn't a factor in his decision to remove her from the jury but Justice tol took an interest in this interaction between Crosby and Becky hill during the evidentiary hearing last January and questioned Hill about it extensively well she says in this testimony that she didn't know about the Facebook until m Becky told me was she was that incorrect I'm not say some kind of some kind of conversation went between the two of her for her to know about that post correct that's true and I'm thinking that it could have been someone um it wasn't me I just know that it's not me that she talked to about that well even in her sled investigation she admitted that she thought I might vote not guilty based on her conversations with the four lady and how do you know that I've read it so that kind of confuses me because I watched the eviden she here hearing I watched her say that she didn't know who talked to me but it just was not her I know who I talked to I know the officer that I asked to have her come down and talk to me and she did it wasn't another clerk staff it was her Myra Crosby has now written a tellal book with crime and Cask entitled because enough is enough she also still has that dozen eggs you've now written a book why have you written this book because I think the courts could have done a lot more I think when judge Newman discovered that Becky talked to me privately he could have looked into that when she turned in the fake apology post he could have looked at the dates on that I think more could have been done and the courts didn't do what they were supposed to do having sat through the trial do you believe that Alec Murdoch was guilty do you believe the state met its burden I do not I think they prove I I think that they proved he's a liar he's a thief but there wasn't any evidence to prove that he murdered them you had no murder weapon you had no motive you had no witness you had no confession Crosby is also speaking out in a Fox Nation special The Fall of the House of Murdoch from egg toe along Ong with another juror juror Z whose name is Mandy Pierce so at the um evidentiary hearing 11 of the 12 said that they weren't influenced by Becky Hill and you testified that you were influenced by her was your verdict influenced in any way by the communications of the clerk of court in this case no ma'am it was not absolutely not no ma'am no no no ma'am it was not no ma'am no ma'am no ma'am it was not no yes ma'am how do you feel about that now I still feel that way who do you think persuaded you to a guilty verdict a little bit of what Becky said um and then also some of the drawers would you put a percentage on that how much of it was the jurors how much of it was what Becky said it's probably 50/50 5050 yeah yeah the investigation into Becky Hill is ongoing and as I mentioned earlier the South Carolina Supreme Court has taken Alec Murdoch's appeal and that's it for this episode of crime fix I'm Anette Levy thanks so much for being with me I'll see you back here next time