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by WILL FOLKS
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Our news team was grinding this week, covering several major updates in the case of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh. This action was officially remanded back to the South Carolina circuit courts this week after the office of attorney general Alan Wilson declined to challenge the state supreme court’s recent reversal of Murdaugh’s March 2023 convictions for the murders of his wife and younger son.
With a new trial officially on tap, prosecutors moved this week to unseal files related to the controversial, eleventh hour dismissal of Myra Crosby, also known as the “egg juror.” Crosby was kicked off the first Murdaugh jury at a pivotal moment in his internationally watched double homicide trial three years ago – paving the way for the hard-won guilty verdicts that were unanimously overturned last month by the S.C. supreme court.
Research director Jenn Wood and I discuss what full transparency looks like in this potential unsealing of the “egg juror” files – as well as potential conflicts of interest to keep in mind in assessing the validity of the information provided. Additionally, we revisited a pending motion for sanctions against the state related to evidence fabricated ahead of the first trial.
In addition to the latest Murdaugh news, I discussed our recent reporting on the saga of South Carolina political consultant Chris Slick – who died in Belize last week. Slick’s death has raised numerous questions – especially in light of a revelation I discussed for the first time on this program.

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Jenn and I also recapped ‘Crossroads 2026,’ one of the craziest partisan primary election cycles the Palmetto State has ever seen… which, trust us, is saying something.
From S.C. lieutenant governor Pamela Evette‘s botched endorsement from U.S. president Donald Trump to some serious drama involving the current governor’s son, it was a wild week in South Carolina politics as we prepare for Tuesday’s elections.
I was in rare form breaking everything down… including an somewhat unhinged rant against Evette’s home state of Ohio.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…

Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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7 of 14 trending stories on FITSNews have my comments on them!
So, no reason to not paste this reply of mine to recurring accusations that I am somehow privately connected to the Murdaughs:
? @marthalisk303 , I have ZERO contact with Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) and ALL members of his family and know NOTHING about their lives, public or private OTHER than OFFICIAL court events and records.
What I am “privy to” is how this gang of prosecutors try to frame the innocent because they did it to me but, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, I first succeeded in preventing a jury, presided over by none other than Judge Clifton Newman, from returning a wrongful conviction of me; and I later, always thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, succeeded in getting the false criminal charges brought against me dismissed WITH PREJUDICE by another judge.
You would think this gang of frame-the-innocent prosecutors would apologize or mend their ways when exposed.
THE OPPOSITE is the sad reality. They continue to demonize and punish the innocent they tried but failed to frame, as if those prosecutors had some divine dispensation to pick an innocent and cruelly toy with him/her; and if I thwarted the evil prosecutors, then I am the bad guy for having spoiled their perverted fun.
Please respect my proven innocence and my pain at my life having been stolen.
7 of 14 trending stories on FITSNews have my comments on them!
So, no reason to not paste this reply of mine to recurring accusations that I am somehow privately connected to the Murdaughs:
? @marthalisk303 , I have ZERO contact with Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) and ALL members of his family and know NOTHING about their lives, public or private OTHER than OFFICIAL court events and records.
What I am “privy to” is how this gang of prosecutors try to frame the innocent because they did it to me but, thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, I first succeeded in preventing a jury, presided over by none other than Judge Clifton Newman, from returning a wrongful conviction of me; and I later, always thank God and WITHOUT A LAWYER, succeeded in getting the false criminal charges brought against me dismissed WITH PREJUDICE by another judge.
You would think this gang of frame-the-innocent prosecutors would apologize or mend their ways when exposed.
THE OPPOSITE is the sad reality. They continue to demonize and punish the innocent they tried but failed to frame, as if those prosecutors had some divine dispensation to pick an innocent and cruelly toy with him/her; and if I thwarted the evil prosecutors, then I am the bad guy for having spoiled their perverted fun.
Please respect my proven innocence and my pain at my life having been stolen.
Since this story is trending, and I need to maintain my score of comments on 7 of the 14 trending stories on FITSNews, I shall, God willing and FITS permitting, post here an important comment on an important story which FITS totally ignored for reasons unknown to me.
That important story is the nationally-covered trial AND ACQUITTAL of Professor Chow in the defense-of-others shooting death of 14-year old LOADED-gun-toting Cyrus Carmack-Belton.
In national coverage of a South Carolina crime trial, it is perhaps second only to the Murdaugh case, or third behind that and Susan Smith’s drowning of her own two children to hang on to her rich once-boyfriend, or fourth behind those and Dylan roof.
The rank in national coverage is less important than race, hypocrisy about race, and appeasement which ignores the underlying problems until they re-explode.
Immediately after the martyrdom of the Charleston nine saints, the story became about the confederate flag. It later became about whether Mother Emmanuel Church hoarded the donations or distributed them to the victims’ families.
Few, if any, had the courage to address how a white teenager got in his head the idea that blacks want to rule the world and that he had to go shoot nine of them in a church to thwart that conspiracy.
Fewer still had the courage to explore how easy it was for Susan Smith to go on national television and plead with the imaginary black man (who, according to her lies, had taken her children with her hijacked Mazda Protegee) to return them.
And now, perhaps none other than I has the courage to explore why so many blacks insist that Asian immigrants open convenience stores to take the money of black customers and mistreat them to the point of shooting them for no reason.
But I put that aside for now because something as important is left unexplored; and things said by Cyrus’ parents seized my attention. Cyrus’ father said they have other children and that Cyrus (and his siblings?) was in Catholic school. Cyrus’ mother said that Cyrus’ “expensive black shoes” were missing and that the school principal had told Cyrus’ mother that Cyrus had given them to another student who did not have shoes.
I find that story naive and hard to believe, specially if the context is in a Catholic school.
Was that supposed beneficiary of Cyrus’ charity previously going to school bare-footed? And if it was indeed a Catholic school which required “expensive” black shoes as part of a disciplined uniform, where was the charity of the school itself in supplying the needy student with the necessary part of a disciplined uniform?
Not cynically but realistically, if Cyrus did indeed give his own “expensive black shoes” to another student, it was LIKELY not charity but one of three things: (1) in barter for the gun OR (2) in submission to a bullying bigger and meaner student OR (3) a rite of initiation into a gang which has infiltrated even a Catholic school; OR a combination of all three.
And I write that with fear and trepidation BUT with a sense of duty to alert parents and schools alike: do NOT shirk to the other the responsibility to know what your children/students are REALLY doing.
Do NOT sugar-coat your observations or suspicions.
And do NOT think that gangs and bullies cannot infiltrate gated communities or private schools. They likely already have.
We need a cultural revolution which says guns are not cool, abstinence is. The books you read and understood, not your well-shined “expensive black shoes,” should not be the real proof of your discipline. Your simplicity and sincere smiles, not your tattoos or your piercings, should be your beauty.
Yes! I said a revolution and I mean it.
If you have to choose between your children and capitalism (versus Christ saying the love of money is the root of all evils), which will you choose? Your children or money?
If you want to post the Holy Commandments in schools, emphasize “though shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ….”
And remember Jesus Christ’s answer with the Good Samaritan parable to the question: “Who is my neighbor?”
Guns are not the problem only the symptom. The real problem you and so many black leaders fail to address is the glorification of ghetto culture and all that goes along with it. It is nothing less than a culture of failure.
How on earth are you putting me among “so many black leaders”?
I am NOT involved in politics or race movements AT ALl.
How on earth are you putting me among “so many black leaders”?
I am NOT involved in politics or race movements AT ALL.
I want to spread education, critical thinking, and love.
How on earth are you putting me among “so many black leaders”?
I am NOT involved in politics or race movements AT ALL.
I want to spread education, critical thinking, and love.
Did you address the culture of failure or like so many others, blame the gun?
I do not think there is a “culture of failure” in the overall black community.
I think there is a culture of reliance on verbal violence and physical violence instead of self-examination, critical thinking, and love, in the modern world IN GENERAL.
Remember? Jesus Christ equated verbal violence with murder and equated lust in one’s heart with adultery.
And before that, the Holy Commandments focus on thoughts as well as acts “thou shalt not covet …” as well as “thou shalt not steal” and “thou shalt not commit adultery” and verbal sins “thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain” and “thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” and command love and charity “love thy neighbor as thyself” and “fulfil thy vows unto the Lord.”
Jesus Christ also commanded naturalism and bio-mimicry: “examine the lilies of the field” with pacifism and wisdom “be meek as doves and wise as snakes.”
What this all means to me is again education, self-examination, and pre-hearted love.
I will NOT be recruited into the demonization of one racial or religious or political group or another.
That the gun is a symptom, not the cause, of so many failures does NOT mean that the answer to every problem is covering the land with guns and prisons.
“pure-hearted” not “pre-hearted”