The juror dismissed from the Alex Murdaugh homicide trial who grew to become often known as the “Egg Juror” may be seen in an unique photograph obtained by Fox Information Digital as she leaves the courthouse after her dismissal with a plastic purchasing bag containing the grocery merchandise for which she is nicknamed.
Fox Information Digital is publishing the photograph after the “Egg Juror,” whose actual identify is Myra Crosby, selected to talk out publicly for the primary time to Fox Information’ Martha MacCallum in an unique interview that was launched Tuesday on Fox Nation.
Crosby earned the “Egg Juror” moniker after she went viral throughout a second in court docket when Decide Clifton Newman dismissed her from the case. Crosby requested if she might get her dozen eggs and purse earlier than leaving, eliciting laughter from the courtroom. One other panelist had introduced within the eggs to present away, and Crosby defined that she didn’t wish to go away them behind.
“At the time, you have to remember, we were just coming to where groceries were ungodly and a dozen eggs was $8. I wanted my farm-fresh eggs. I’m sorry, I’m a country girl. I like eggs,” she stated.
Through the interview on Fox Nation, Crosby stated she believes the presiding decide made a mistake by dismissing her from the double homicide case. She claims the clerk of the court docket, Becky Hill, focused her for elimination from the jury as a result of she was not agency on Murdaugh’s guilt.
Myra Crosby, aka the “Egg Juror,” exits the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., March 2, 2023. Crosby was dismissed for misconduct from the double homicide trial of Alex Murdaugh by Decide Clifton Newman. (Larry Paci for Fox Information Digital)
Showing with Crosby for the sit-down interview was the juror often known as “Juror Z,” whose actual identify is Mandy Pearce.
Crosby claims the decide made a mistake by dismissing her from the case. (Larry Paci for Fox Information Digital)
The jurors’ interview comes simply weeks after the South Carolina Supreme Court docket agreed to tackle Murdaugh’s attraction based mostly on jury tampering allegations.
Alex Murdaugh talks with protection legal professional Jim Griffin throughout a jury-tampering listening to on the Richland County Judicial Heart Jan. 29, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Submit And Courier through AP, Pool)
Murdaugh, 56, was convicted in 2023 for killing his spouse and son on a household searching property in 2021 to allegedly distract from his ever-growing checklist of economic crimes and purchase time and sympathy as he tried to cowl it up. He’s serving two life sentences for the murders.
Jurors Myra Crosby, left, and Mandy Pearce, proper, spoke out publicly for the primary time in an unique interview with Fox Nation. (Fox Nation)
The jurors’ interview may be seen within the Fox Nation unique “The Fall of the House of Murdaugh: From Egg to Z.”
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Crosby on Tuesday additionally launched her guide chronicling the trial, “Because Enough is Enough, A Tell All Book: How Juror 785 was Wrongly Kicked Off the Jury at the Alex Murdaugh Trial.”
Fox Information’ Bradford Betz and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
