Murdaugh Murders: How Alex Murdaugh Allegedly Took Millions From His Dead Housekeeper’s Family
* I snipped a few good parts, but you really need to read the whole thing. It's amazing.
"Eric Bland, a South Carolina attorney representing Satterfield’s two sons, said Mullen should not have even heard the settlement proposal considering that the case didn’t have a number and was never in the system.
The documents — which were secretly filed in April and May of 2019 as the Murdaughs had just emerged into the media spotlight following the
fatal boat crash that killed Mallory Beach — also mysteriously did not list Alex Murdaugh’s name as the defendant. It appears that he convinced the court to take his name off of it — a luxury most South Carolina citizens do not have when they admit fault in the wrongful death of another human being.
Around the same time Mullen signed the secret settlement, she also recused herself from the boat crash case due to her relationship with the Murdaugh family.
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Bland, who is representing Satterfield’s sons in a lawsuit against the Murdaughs and co-conspirators, told FITSNews that this settlement was done in an elaborate scheme that began soon after Satterfield’s death in February 2018.
The Satterfield family was told that Gloria tripped on the steps at the Murdaugh’s former home on Holly Street in Hampton, S.C. on February 2, 2018. They were told the Murdaughs’ dogs caused her to trip – causing a fall which resulted in her sustaining a traumatic brain injury.
Gloria was the Murdaughs’ housekeeper and nanny for more than two decades.
“She helped raise their children,” Bland said.
Gloria’s family were provided very few details about her death.
Last week, Hampton County Coroner
Angela Topper requested that SLED — the same agency investigating the double homicide of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh — open an
investigation into Gloria Satterfield’s death due to “inconsistencies” surrounding her death.
Satterfield’s death was not reported to the coroner at the time — nor did officials perform an autopsy, according to a letter Topper sent SLED.
On Satterfield’s death certificate, the manner of death said “natural,” which Topper said was not consistent with her injuries from a trip-and-fall incident.
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At Gloria’s funeral, Alex allegedly started railroading her sons and convinced them to hire his friend Cory Fleming to get money for their mother’s death, according to Bland.
However, Satterfield’s sons did not know that Fleming was Murdaugh’s former college roommate, best friend and Paul Murdaugh’s godfather.
He also convinced Gloria’s sons that they needed to have a banker (Westendorf) work as their personal representative of Gloria’s estate.
Bland told FITSNews that Fleming and Murdaugh did this so that Fleming would only be legally obligated to communicate with Westendorf about what was going on and did not have to tell Gloria’s sons about settlement money.
Days later, in December 2018, one of Murdaugh’s insurance providers agreed to a petition for $
505,000 for personal liability in Satterfield’s wrongful death, according to the only public documents available in her case. Alex Murdaugh admitted fault in her death.
S.C. circuit court judge
Perry Buckner — who recused himself from the 2019 boat crash case because of his ties to the Murdaugh family — approved the $505,000 settlement petition in December 2018, according to online court documents.
