Law&Crime Sidebar - Alex Murdaugh’s Lies and The Death of Housekeeper Gloria Satterfield

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

Convicted family killer Alex Murdaugh recently admitted to lying about his family dogs knocking over his housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, causing her death in February 2018. The lawyers for the Satterfield family blasted Murdaugh in a recent presser, detailing where the money went and how the Satterfields shouldn’t be sued by Nautilus. “It’s very convenient that the three people who could support or contradict Alex are all dead,” attorney Eric Bland said. The Law&Crime Network’s Angenette Levy breaks it down.SUBSCRIBE TO OUR OTHER PODCASTS:Court JunkieObjectionsThey Walk Among AmericaDevil In The DormThe Disturbing TruthSpeaking FreelyLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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2018. This insurance payout came up in Murdoch's double murder trial when Gloria's son Tony Satterfield testified that Murdoch approached him about suing his insurance company. After she passed, did you have any conversation with Alec about what to do about him? I did. And what was the conversation you had with Elick? What are you saying? Go ahead. I Bailey remember, but it was like, you know, let me go out to my insurance company for this or whatever, you know, kind of get his medical bills and stuff paid. Okay. So he said he was going to go after his insurance company?

Yes. And get medical bills for your mom paid? Yes. The Satterfields didn't see any of that money until after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdoch in 2020. The Satterfield sued and recovered far more than the $3.8 million that Alec Murdoch collected, according to their lawyers, Eric Bland and Ronnie Richter. We recovered more than $7.5 million. from sources other than Nautilus Insurance Company.

Nautilus Insurance Company has never paid one cent to the Satterfields, nothing. The answer says that they gave the money to Alex Murdole and Trust. They didn't give the money to Alex Murdole and Trust. It went to Corey Fleming, who was also the lawyer for the Satterfields. We recovered from PMPED, from Palmeta State Bank, from Bank of America, from Chad Westendorf, from Corey Fleming, and from Moss Coon and Fleming for claims of briefs of duty, of aiding and abetting Alex, claims that are separate apart for whatever Alex did to the Satterfields. Last week, Alec Murdoch's lawyers filed paperwork in the Nautilus Insurance lawsuit, saying

that no dogs were involved in the fall of Gloria Satterfield at Moselle back in 2018. The lawyers also wrote that Murdoch invented Ms. Satterfield's purported statements that dogs caused her to fall to force the insurer to make the payout. Listen to what Alec Murdoch told an insurance investigator in March of 2018 about what happened. Sure, I asked her what happened. I mean, the first thing I was making sure that Gloria, I was trying to assess her mental capability at the time. Did she know where she was? Did she know what was going on, that type of thing? And, you know, asking her if she knew me, did she know Maggie, did she know Paul?

Did she know Ronnie? Did she know where she was. How was she responding to those things? She knew where she was. She knew who I was. I mean, she obviously was not functioned in that full capacity, but she did. I mean, she knew those things. So Alec Murdoch is now essentially claiming

that he made all of this stuff up about the dogs, so the insurance company would pay out the claim. He's also suggesting that if Nautilus Insurance wants its money back, they should go to people that have money, that being the Satterfields, who collected more than $7 million from other parties. So why does the cause of Gloria Satterfield's fall matter so much to anyone? Listen to their attorneys, explain. People can trip and fall on your property, and that does not make you liable as a landowner. If they tripped and fell going down the stairs and your stairs were defective where they were not built according to code, then yes, you could be held liable. But if I was exiting your house, John, and I walked down the stairs and because of my own neglect, I didn't watch

what I was doing. I tripped and fell. I couldn't sue you. But if you have four dogs that you know are unruly and are misbehaving and they greet people and you look at those stairs at Mazzell and you know how dangerous they are, how steep they are, and the brick-pointed stairs, then that puts a duty on you that if you're going to have visitors to your house to make sure that your dogs are properly restrained. So if the dogs didn't cause Gloria Satterfield to fall, does the entire story fall apart? And does that make that insurance claim against Nautilus Nullin Void? Also, does that endanger any other settlement money that was collected? The Satterfell Fields attorney suggests the answer to that question is no.

They made decisions to settle the case that maybe had nothing at all to do with Gloria's death, but that they didn't want to be associated with Alex Murdoch. You know what isn't in Alex Murdoch's pleading? A confession of judgment to say, you're right, Nautilus Insurance Company. I stole $3.8 million from you. Here's where it is. Here's where you can find it. What he says is, I get to keep the $3.8 million, and you can look to the Satterfields.

This is completely not founded in law. It's not founded in fact. And in response to the suggestion by Murdoch that Nautilus recover any money from the Satterfields? And by the way, if they do bring us in, people are going to be countersued for frivolous litigation. I don't believe Judge Gurgle is going to let anybody bringing the Satterfields in, but we recovered our money for breaches of duty from others, not from Nautilus. So Bland and Richter say that because the Satterfields didn't receive any money that was directly tied to Nautilus insurance, they shouldn't have to pay anything.

They've also revealed some documents that haven't been seen by the public so far that say that there were no witnesses to Gloria Satterfield's fall. Maggie Murdoch was quoted in these documents as saying that Satterfield's relatives told her the dogs tripped Gloria up. The records indicate that Paul Murdoch said Gloria Satterfield told Alec that day something about the dogs when he asked her what had happened. The report called Satterfield falling because of the dogs probable based on circumstantial evidence, but it also called the investigation incomplete.

So what does the Satterfield family believe happened to the dogs? Gloria. But they feel like they have their answers. There's, there's going to be nothing about these injuries that are going to point to one cause versus another. She fell down the stairs. She struck her head and that was her cause of death. So the Satterfields do not believe there was any foul play when it comes to Gloria's death. Slead has opened an investigation into the death of Gloria Satterfield. Nothing's changed with that. They say the investigation is ongoing. I also reached out to Alec Murdoch's attorneys for a comment on this segment and this information. So far, I have not heard back. And that's it for this edition of Law and Crime's Sidebar podcast. You can listen to and

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