Alex Murdaugh appeared at a pre-trial hearing in his retrial on October 15 and did not speak. The defense says unknown male DNA is under both of Maggie Murdaugh's hands and on her phone, with twice as much under the untested hand as under item 70. Ryan Spencer North's statement, given three days before the first trial, ties Eddie Smith to a $165,000 drug debt. The state says SLED has entered 720 300 Blackout cartridge cases into IBIS since January 2021, including evidence from this case, and the judge said Murdaugh failed his polygraph on financial matters and was never polygraphed about the murders. The judge let the defense test the DNA without automatically sharing results, and that testing uses…