So you want to access juror interviews from the Murdaugh trial
I spent a couple months trying to compile every post-trial interview where Murdaugh jurors spoke publicly. It is not as straightforward as it sounds because the information gets scattered across multiple networks, podcasts, and legal databases. The main issue is that ABC did an exclusive interview with one of the jurors, and that content lives in different places depending on how you are looking for it. The most well-known one is the ABC News interview with juror Jessica Ragan. She sat down with David Muir and talked extensively about deliberations, the dynamics inside the jury room, and how the team handled the pressure. The full segment aired and is available on abcnews.go.com. You can also find clips on YouTube through the official ABC News channel. The interview came out in April 2023, a few weeks after the conviction. What people usually miss is that there were actually multiple juror interactions with media, not just the ABC one. WCBD in Charleston did their own coverage. A few jurors participated in a panel discussion at the South Carolina Conference of Court Reporters. There is also a Spotify podcast called "Murdaugh Murder Podcast" where they brought on people connected to the trial, though not the jurors directly.
If you are building a timeline or researching the trial, the practical workflow I used was this: start with the ABC interview transcript, then cross-reference anything she mentioned about specific deliberation moments with the actual trial transcript available through thecourtx.com or the official South Carolina First Judicial Circuit records. The juror interview sometimes glosses over dates or sequence details, so having the primary record matters. I ran into a specific problem when I was compiling this. The ABC interview references "day seven" of deliberations, but the official court docket does not label deliberation days in a way that maps cleanly to the interview timeline. I had to dig through the daily court broadcast logs from May 2023 to figure out exactly which calendar day corresponded to what the juror was describing. Once I matched it up, I realized she was talking about a specific break in deliberations where the judge sent a supplemental instruction. Without that cross-reference, you could easily misattribute what happened on which day. The workaround was straightforward. I pulled the court hearing transcripts from May 21 through May 24, 2023, and matched the judge's instructions to the moments the juror described. It took about forty-five minutes but it saved me from making an error that would have been hard to catch later.
Here is something most people do not know about accessing this material. ABC News occasionally pulls or edits their online video content without notice. The current page on abcnews.go.com may not always have the same footage that aired originally. If you need the complete unedited version for research purposes, your best bet is the ABC News YouTube channel, which tends to keep the full segment archived longer. I have seen links go dead on the main site within weeks while the YouTube copy stays up. There are also limitations you should be aware of. Juror interviews are voluntary and selective. The jurors who agreed to speak were not necessarily representative of every perspective in the room. Jessica Ragan spoke at length, but other jurors remained completely private. Any analysis you build from these interviews alone will have blind spots. You should treat them as supplementary material, not as the definitive record of what occurred behind closed doors. If you are looking for the raw interview itself, go to abcnews.go.com and search for "Murdaugh juror interview." The direct link changes occasionally, but searching by name and date gets you there. For clips and highlights, the ABC News YouTube channel has them organized in playlists. For the complete picture, combine the interviews with the court transcripts and the daily broadcasting records from the Charleston courthouse.
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