SC - Paul Murdaugh, 22 and mom Margaret, 52, found shot to death, Islandton, 7 June 2021 #9

[Lux et Veritas]

Really good article here. The Unraveling of the Murdaugh Dynasty: Unsolved Murders, Insurance Fraud and Missing Millions

... Maggie was shot multiple times, including in the back, with a different gun, and cases of a type of ammunition known as 300 Blackout were found nearby, according to two people familiar with the situation. The family owned an AR-15 style rifle that can use that type of ammunition but it wasn’t recovered at the scene or turned over for inspection, the people said. ...

.300 AAC Blackout - Wikipedia

300 AAC BLACKOUT(7.62×35mm) gel test, 110-VMAX
Category:7.62 x 35 mm cartridges - Wikimedia Commons

Wicked powerful ammo for serious killing.

 

[MassGuy]

https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article254434378.html


What happened to Gloria Satterfield? Key questions in Murdaugh housekeeper’s death

News of an investigation looking into the 2018 death of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh family housekeeper and nanny, raised questions about the Murdaugh family’s involvement and why this is coming to light now.

On Sept. 15, the S.C. Law Enforcement Division said it was investigating Satterfield’s death after receiving a request from Hampton County Coroner Angie Topper.

Topper said the coroner’s office was never notified of the Feb. 26, 2018, death of Satterfield. Her death certificate said her manner of death was “natural.” No autopsy was done.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO GLORIA SATTERFIELD?

Satterfield died of an “acute subdural hemorrhage” due to a stroke, according to her death certificate obtained by the Island Packet, Beaufort Gazette, and State newspapers.

“If it’s a stroke, it’s considered a natural cause of death,” Gary Watts, executive director of the S.C. Coroner’s Association, said.

The hemorrhage is a brain bleed due to the stroke.

It’s not clear from the document if that meant she had the stroke at the Murdaugh property and fell or had the stroke at the hospital where she died. The distinction is important, experts say.


According to Watts, injuries sustained in an accident causing somebody to go to the hospital, where they later died, still meant the death would be “accidental” and not “natural.”

However, a doctor at the hospital where Satterfield died, Trident Medical Center in Charleston County, may have been unaware of her fall. She died three weeks after the fall, according to documents and news reports.

Satterfield’s death certificate shows a Trident Medical Center doctor certified her death as natural.

The coroner’s office was not notified, it said.


One reason for a doctor determining her death as natural would be “if they’re not aware of the fall, ... not aware of the circumstances,” Watts said.

Rod Whiting, a spokesperson for Trident Medical Center, said “the case is still being investigated by law enforcement and they’ll be your source for your information.”

He declined to comment further.

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WILL SATTERFIELD’S BODY BE EXHUMED FOR AN AUTOPSY?

Satterfield was buried and her grave is in Johnson-St. Paul Cemetery in Hampton, according to her death certificate.

A videographer with the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspapers visited Satterfield’s grave in Hampton Thursday, and the area did not appear disturbed.


Topper declined to comment on whether Satterfield would be exhumed for an autopsy.

Watts said while it depends on how well preserved a body is, there is still more investigators could learn even if a body has been buried for years.

“You’d be able to tell any type of fracture, broken bones anything like that. That’d be the most obvious,” he said. “You have to treat it as a brand new case and look at everything.”

 

[Elley Mae]

https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article254434378.html


What happened to Gloria Satterfield? Key questions in Murdaugh housekeeper’s death

In documents released by Eric Bland, an attorney representing Satterfield’s two sons, Satterfield died after “falling down the front stairs of a Colleton County, South Carolina residence owned by Richard Alexander Murdaugh and Margaret Murdaugh.”

Colleton county- she fell at moselle.

 

[raja]

What an even more mess with GS. Surely the initial admit papers would show if she fell. Some story had do be given at the ER.

 

[owlcatz]

Eric Bland on the: Murdaugh lawsuit: Lawyer for Gloria Satterfield joins Banfield

Edit - Pretty sad... She was also homeless when she worked for them? WTAF

 

[Lux et Veritas]

Re: @MassGuy's WSJ story post above -

AM allegedly took a nap, did not see either MM or PM on the way out the door then went to visit his mother, who has DEMENTIA. Depending on the severity of her disease, would she be considered a "reliable" witness in his timeline defense? She might be of NO assistance as a corroborating material witness to AM if she doesn't remember his visit at all! AM's "ironclad alibi", indeed. The tangled webs we weave.

 

[Luna20]

That tells me right there that LE's have known all along who murdered MM and PM - especially the "no threat to the public part". No need to do any of those things if you already know who the killer is. Their near-total silence screams.

The layers of corruption/parties has to be the primary reason we heard ZERO for 3 months. There was literally not a word of follow up mentioned regarding the murders. Im sure the corrupt parties did what they could do to keep it quiet.

I would love to know how SLED logistically maneuvered each step in the investigation. Who did they speak to first, where did they go to get info, what kind of resistance were they met with, etc.

 

[Lux et Veritas]

It seems MM (her family finances audit request / potential divorce?) and PM (felony boat crash / impending criminal trial / Mallory Beach death lawsuit / insurance company payout denials) had become MASSIVE liabilities to AM, which threatened his entire world. So eliminate them, eliminate the threats? Hardly. They're gone but his Machiavellian house of cards is still exploding all around him. All self-inflicted.

 

[MoeInVA]

In documents released by Eric Bland, an attorney representing Satterfield’s two sons, Satterfield died after “falling down the front stairs of a Colleton County, South Carolina residence owned by Richard Alexander Murdaugh and Margaret Murdaugh.”

Colleton county- she fell at moselle.

IF those papers are accurate. The other papers said Hampton County. For all we know, she didn’t fall at all, maybe she just had a stroke and it’s all insurance fraud. Moo

 

[Jamie737]

It’s possible to have a subdural bleed from a minor injury. We usually see this in alcoholics - slow subdural bleeds. But I do wonder if this is reported right. From a stroke haemorrhage one would expect a subarachnoid bleed.

Most strokes are due to blood clots rather than brain bleeds though.

I also wonder if this wasn’t, in fact, a stroke before a minor fall, a natural death and an insurance fraud.

 

[sds71]

WILL THE ALEX MURDAUGH MURDERS FOREVER CHANGE HOW S.C. PICKS JUDGES? MyrtleBeachSC News

 

[Elley Mae]

South Carolina police request assistance from FBI in Murdaugh case

South Carolina police request assistance from FBI in Murdaugh case

 

[Lux et Veritas]

What if Gloria didn’t trip and fall? What if she was privy to something that couldn’t be repeated?

Or PM had one of his "Timmy" rage episodes and violently took it out on Gloria?

That might certainly explain why AM was so determined to keep her mysterious death OUT of the official court processes and well under the public's radar. Added bonus - so damn easy to commit massive insurance fraud under such tight secrecy and the way it looks, via a massive network of official corruption at every level.

However she did or didn't die, AM malevolently exploited her tragic death for $$$$$ and worse, screwed over her two sons. That, in my world, is the epitome of psychotic evil.

 

[RAISINISBACK]

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Medical MJ?

 

[RAISINISBACK]

Alex Murdaugh lawsuits signal possible FBI probe as boat crash passenger alleges silencing: ex-SC prosecutor

Alex Murdaugh lawsuits signal possible FBI probe as boat crash passenger alleges silencing: ex-SC prosecutor

BBM

Harrell also commented on the widespread rumor about an alleged opioid ring related to the Murdaugh family.


"That's a lot of oxy Dick...."

 

[Luna20]

WILL THE ALEX MURDAUGH MURDERS FOREVER CHANGE HOW S.C. PICKS JUDGES? MyrtleBeachSC News

^^^^^
Good article:
“HOW WAS MURDAUGH ABLE TO OPERATE IN SC THIS WAY FOR SO LONG?
One word: THE JMSC
What is the JMSC? The JMSC is South Carolina’s way of screening and, in reality, picking State Judges. Holding a seat on this commission gives select S.C. Senators and Legislatures great power.

Pick the judges, write the laws and bottleneck all power.

The JMSC has maintained several constant members for over a decade. The JMSC is currently headed by Murrell Smith, a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives since 2000 from District 67 (Sumter County)“


THE JMSC PROCESS IS THE CONSISTENT OPPORTUNITY FOR POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN THE STATE

 

[RAISINISBACK]

Really good article here. The Unraveling of the Murdaugh Dynasty: Unsolved Murders, Insurance Fraud and Missing Millions


Unraveling
By the late spring of 2021, Randolph Murdaugh III was sick with cancer and his health was deteriorating, according to people familiar with the family. Buster had been kicked out of law school for plagiarism, according to court records.

Paul, who was out on bond, had continued to have minor run-ins with law enforcement, including a speeding ticket and a boating violation.

After more than two years, the wrongful death suit of Ms. Beach was coming to a head, with a hearing scheduled for June 10. A judge was expected to consider a motion by Mr. Tinsley to compel Alex Murdaugh to turn over his financial statements.

Three days before the hearing, Alex Murdaugh was with his father at the hospital. According to a person close to the family, he came back to Moselle, took a nap and when he awoke, he left to check on his mother, who suffers from dementia. He didn’t see Maggie and Paul before he left, according to the person.

At 10:07 p.m. on June 7, Alex Murdaugh called 911 from Moselle, saying he had just arrived back home. “I need the police and ambulance immediately!” he said, according to a recording of the call. “My wife and child have been shot badly!”

Mr. Murdaugh stayed on the line with a dispatcher, who told him not to touch the bodies. He said it was too late. “I already touched them to see if they were breathing,” he said.

Deputies arrived roughly 20 minutes after the 911 call, followed by state law enforcement officers.

Paul was shot in the chest and head, according to his death certificate. He was shot at close range with a shotgun, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Maggie was shot multiple times, including in the back, with a different gun, and cases of a type of ammunition known as 300 Blackout were found nearby, according to two people familiar with the situation. The family owned an AR-15 style rifle that can use that type of ammunition but it wasn’t recovered at the scene or turned over for inspection, the people said.

On June 10, less than 72 hours after the murders, family patriarch Randolph Murdaugh III died at age 81. Law enforcement vehicles from nearly every regional agency filled the funeral procession three days later as a sign of respect.

In the double murder case, investigators have released no suspect sketches, held no news conferences, and said, without explanation, that there is no threat to the public.

Mr. Harpootlian said Mr. Murdaugh had nothing whatsoever to do with the murders of his wife and son. “The only violence he’s ever been involved with is this, which was to have himself executed,” he said in court.

So he is changing his story again? That air tight alibi is starting to spring more than a few holes and I can smell the stink coming out from here.

JMO

 

[RAISINISBACK]

Yes. I've thought for a while this was a murder for hire based on the two weapons, and Alex's supposed alibi.

His whole "suicide" escapade demonstrates his ability to stage, and hired gunmen would bring their own weapons.

I am now strongly leaning towards him doing this himself. I wonder if he was swabbed for gunshot residue.

I have always thought he did.

JMO

 

[RAISINISBACK]

Wow. I had also thought it was a murder for hire based on the 2 weapons and “rock solid” alibi, as well as the fact that Paul was shot in the face and chest at close range with a shotgun (I thought no matter how morally corrupt Alex might be, what parent could do that?). But now I am also wondering if he indeed is the shooter…MOO

I believe AM and MM got into an argument over that audit and AM grabbed the shotgun to kill her, but PM jumped between them. That would explain his anguish at his son's death and that "For God's sake why'd you have to get involved Paul" (Re: involved in his parents argument and AM's attempting to kill MM). MM ran and he grabbed something with an infrared scope to shoot her in the back as she was running away. Just my take on it.

JMO

 

[scapa]

It’s possible to have a subdural bleed from a minor injury. We usually see this in alcoholics - slow subdural bleeds. But I do wonder if this is reported right. From a stroke haemorrhage one would expect a subarachnoid bleed.

Most strokes are due to blood clots rather than brain bleeds though.

I also wonder if this wasn’t, in fact, a stroke before a minor fall, a natural death and an insurance fraud.

Agree. We would generally look to perform a CT/CTA upon completion of bloodwork and a neuro assessment, and/or run an echo or MRI for angiography or venography as required in order to pinpoint the origins of the clot or bleed. She was in hospital for several weeks IIRC -- they must have been working through a set of protocols and data with results that led the doctor who pronounced to conclude as s/he did.

It isn't clear to me just what happened or how, and whether the trip/fall over the family dogs was simply a means to reframe a possible natural death as an accident in order to extra an insurance payout.

But if the claims were fraudulent, then the Murdaugh/Fleming grift is more serious and runs deeper than I'd though, since the family would not be entitled to any funds realized from insurance fraud.

Argh. This case is wheels within lies within swamp, IMO.