Murdaugh Murders Podcast - MMP #18 - How Many Crimes Will Alex Murdaugh Be Charged With? Part One

Episode Date: November 16, 2021

There are currently seven criminal investigations related to Alex Murdaugh and we'll review the salient points in each to capture a bird's eye view of this heinous saga. The Murdaugh name appears rep...eatedly in police interviews during the investigation of Stephen Smith's murder, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. In this episode, Investigative Journalist Mandy Matney reviews the funds Alex is alleged to have stolen from the Satterfield estate by false pretense, an obstruction of justice allegation stemming from the criminal investigation of Mallory Beach's death, his identification as a person of interest in the brutal murders of his wife and son, the alleged "suicide for hire" plot and resulting criminal charges, and the new reports of alleged ties to drug gangs, smugglers and perhaps beyond. Mandy also chats with attorney Eric Bland, representing the Satterfield family, share highlights from the ongoing investigations into Murdaugh's actions.  To date, the Satterfield family has recovered over $6.5 million in settlements, with Murdaugh as the last remaining defendant at this time. Stay Tuned, Stay Pesky and Stay in the Sunlight...☀️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Premium Members ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠also get access to ad-free listening, searchable case files, written articles with documents, case photos, episode videos and exclusive live experiences with our hosts on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠lunasharkmedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ all in one place. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BdUtOE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out our LUNASHARK Merch 👕⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ What We're Buying... ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/4cJ0eVn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** ALERT: If you ever notice audio errors in the pod, email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠info@lunasharkmedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and we'll send fun merch to the first listener that finds something that needs to be adjusted! *** For current & accurate updates: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bsky.app/profile/mandy-matney.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bsky.app/profile/elizfarrell.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TrueSunlight.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠instagram.com/mandy_matney⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/TrueSunlightPodcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.com/TrueSunlightPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠instagram.com/elizfarrell⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@LunaSharkMedia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tiktok.com/@lunasharkmedia⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is Alec Murdoch. I need police and an ambulance immediately. Murdoch, Death in the Family Official Podcast, is here. I'm joining Patricia Arquette, Jason Clark, and the cast to uncover all things Murdoch. Family first. To unravel the story piece by piece was really surprising because you don't want to believe it. Murdoch, Death in the Family Official Podcast, Wednesdays. And stream Murdoch, Death in the Family on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers.
Starting point is 00:00:29 Terms apply. don't know how many crimes Elyke Murdoch will be charged in. But a South Carolina judge ruled again that he is a danger to himself and the community and he was denied Bond for a second time. My name is Mandy Matney and I've been investigating the Murdoch family
Starting point is 00:00:47 for more than two and a half years now and this is the Murdoch Murdoch Murders podcast. This week, Elyke Murdoch was denied bond for the second time after Judge Clifton Newman received Murdoch's psychiatric evaluation following his bond hearing on charges related to the botched glorious Satterfield settlement. Newman ruled that Elyke Murdoch was a danger to both himself and others. I'll read apart from his ruling. Following the initial denial of bond, the court received
Starting point is 00:01:28 a psychiatric evaluation of the defendant dated on October 22nd, 2021. After considering the arguments of counsel, the evaluation submitted, pending charges and other individuals. investigations and the apparent character and mental condition of the defendant, the court finds the defendant is a danger to both himself and the community. This was the third time in just three weeks that a South Carolina judge ruled against the disgrace attorney whose father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all served as a solicitor over a five-county region in the low country. And that is a big deal. To recap, Eleg Murdoch was arrested at a rehab center in Orlando, Florida, charged with two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses related to the
Starting point is 00:02:18 glorious Satterfield case. He's been behind bars for a month now. Now, after Judge Newman made his ruling this week, I spoke with Eric Bland, who is an attorney representing the Satterfield family and who has been a key figure in uncovering evidence that led to Alex's arrest. Blan said it's clear to him that Judge Newman was looking beyond Ehrlich's two charges when making his decision to determine that ELEC is a danger to the community. The key point, he says in Newman's ruling, is the part where he talks about pending charges and other investigations. I think it's very telling the way Judge Newman operates here.
Starting point is 00:02:58 Obviously, he's presiding over all the criminal matters being designated by the Supreme Court. But he's hearing things and being exposed to different things from long. enforcement officers seeking warrants whether they're search warrants or people to appear before the grand jury. He's hearing and seeing things that we're not seeing. And obviously
Starting point is 00:03:21 it has caused him almost unilaterally without a hearing here to make a decision that Alex is not only a clear of present danger, but he's a flight risk. And he's making assessments on
Starting point is 00:03:37 potential crimes that go way beyond the Satterfield matter. There are seven ongoing criminal investigations involving Elyke Murdoch and his family right now. And it's important to note that the South Carolina Chief Justice appointed Judge Newman to oversee all of those criminal proceedings. He fully analyzed it, heard all the facts, looked at the submission, looked at the report by the psychiatrist. But again, it's much bigger than the six. crime. He is looking at the totality of what is coming
Starting point is 00:04:13 before him by way of search warrants by way of grand jury witnesses and testimony. And he's hearing and seeing things that none of us know about and whether it's related to drugs that Harputin is talking about or it's related to the Cowboys
Starting point is 00:04:29 like some of the articles last week said. We don't know. But he did say to the public it's not just based on Satterfield, It's based on other investigations. He is a danger. And he doesn't see an ending.
Starting point is 00:04:52 As this case keeps expanding, it's difficult to keep track of all the investigations going on that are related to the Murdoch family. So we're going to do a quick recap, starting back in 2015 and working our way up to a couple weeks ago. People associated with this name have been going around kind of threatening or putting the heat on people saying, you know, keep your mouth closed if you heard something, whatever.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Huster was on our radar long before you were, you know? Yes, sir. The Murdox know that. They know that he's on our radar. I don't have anything against them, but if it happened, like you said, I mean, if it happened. The first investigation tied to the Murdoch family is the Stephen Smith case. Stephen Smith was a gay 19-year-old man from Hampton County, South Carolina, who was brutally murdered in 2015. His death was initially misclassified as a vehicular hit and run, even though information from the crime scene was inconsistent with that conclusion.
Starting point is 00:06:01 The Murdoch name came up more than 40 times in the investigation. However, there were never any suspects named in the case. On June 22nd, 2021, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division officially opened an investigation into Stephen Smith's death, and that was based on information gathered during the course of the double-harmament. homicide investigation of Maggie and Paul Murdoch. So far, no arrest have been made in the new Stephen Smith investigation, and SLED has not updated the public on the status of Stevens case. The second investigation is the inquiry into both Gloria Satterfield's death and wrongful death settlement. SLED officially opened a criminal investigation into the suspicious 2018 death
Starting point is 00:06:46 of Murdoch family housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, who died of a traumatic brain injury, allegedly following a trip-and-fall incident caused by dogs while working at the Murdoch's home at Moselle. According to Sled, the investigation into Satterfield's death was opened based on a request from the Hampton County Coroner, as well as information gathered during the course of Slud's other investigations involving Ehrlich Murdoch. When they opened the investigation, authorities initially believed that Satterfield died at the Murdoch's Hampton County home. However, it was later discovered that the incident that led
Starting point is 00:07:23 to her death happened at Moselle, which is the same place where the double homicide of Maggie and Paul occurred. Sled is also looking into the botched Gloria Satterfield settlement that happened after her death. In the Satterfield case, Murdoch and others are accused of making off with millions from her wrongful death settlement. Elick Murdoch's latest charges stemmed from an investigation by South Carolina attorneys Eric Lan and Ronald Richter, who uncovered a shocking paper trail showing how Ehrlich Murdoch allegedly stole more than $3.6 million from Satterfield settlement. Think about the type of courage it finally took for them to go see a lawyer and pursue a possible
Starting point is 00:08:04 claim against the Murdox. Now they want answers, which they wanted from the start about the money. Now they want answers about their mother. And, you know, right now until Alice has proven otherwise, she died because of the dogs. But they also want justice now. Justice comes in many forms. You know, it comes in getting the money, like you said, that they deserve. But if somebody, you know, if a 57-year-old woman died prematurely at somebody's hands,
Starting point is 00:08:38 well, then justice has to be served for that too. The third criminal investigation involving the Murdoch family is the obstruction of justice investigation into the 2019 boat crash that killed Mallory Beach. In February 2019, a highly intoxicated Paul Murdoch was allegedly driving his father's boat when 19-year-old Mallory Beach was killed in a horrific crash near Paris Island, South Carolina. Please fire a minute. Hello? Hello? We're in a boat crash on Ars Street. Okay. And then who's that in the background? There's six of us and one is missing. In July 2021, attorneys representing Connor Cook, who was the survivor of the 2019 boat crash, dropped a petition alleging that law enforcement conspired to shift the focus of the investigation
Starting point is 00:09:31 away from Paul Murdoch prior to him being charged with three felonies in connection with the crash. Paul's father, Eleg Murdoch, and his grandfather, who was former solicitor, Randolph Murdoch III, appeared at the hospital 10 minutes after Paul Murdoch did, according to witness statements. In fact, multiple victims and hospital employees told police that Ehrlich Murdoch appeared to be more concerned with orchestrating a plan in the criminal investigation than he was about finding Mallory Beach, and this was in the early morning hours February 24 in 2019 right after Mallory Beach was ejected into the dark water only to be found dead a week later. A security guard overheard Elyke Murdoch on the phone saying
Starting point is 00:10:19 she's gone, don't worry about her, when Mallory had only been missing for a few hours. And on scene, Mallory Beach's boyfriend Anthony Cook told police multiple times that Paul Murdoch was the one driving when they crashed. But only one officer wrote that down. And that one officer was later fired from the Beaver County Sheriff's Office. You all know, Helic Murdoch? I have, I know, name. That's his son. That's so grabbing, well. Good luck. So that brings us to number four, the double homicide investigation. The case that shoved the Murdoch family into the international spotlight this summer. Elick Murdoch claimed to have discovered the bodies of his wife, Maggie Murdoch and his youngest son, Paul Murdoch, on his family's 1,700-acre hunting property, known as Mozel, on June 7, 2021.
Starting point is 00:11:19 Paul Murdoch Paul Murdoch at 41.47 Mosel Road I think the police just happens immediately my wife and Tom to stop badly Paul Murdoch was killed
Starting point is 00:11:35 by a pair of shotgun blast to the head and to the chest while Maggie Murdoch was reportedly killed by a semi-automatic rifle at or around the same time that her son was killed. Her cell phone was discovered the following day along a South Carolina rural road near where the killings took place.
Starting point is 00:11:54 In just a couple weeks ago, Jim Griffin, who was one of Alec Murdoch's bulldog attorneys, admitted to reporters that his high-profile client is a person of interest in the double homicide in that the South Carolina law enforcement division has not eliminated ELEC from its investigation. And that is a big deal. That brings us to the alleged shooting slash assisted suicide on Labor. day weekend, which would be the fifth investigation involving the Murdoch family. On September 4th, 2021, Elyke Murdoch called 911 to claim that he had been shot in the head while on the side of a rural Hampton County road in broad daylight.
Starting point is 00:12:37 I stopped, I got a flat tire, and I stopped, and somebody stopped to help me. And when I turned my back, they tried to shoot me. Oh, okay, will you shot? Yes. Okay, I'm okay. You shot where? Where were you shot at? Huh?
Starting point is 00:12:58 Did they actually shoot you or they tried to shoot you? They shot me. Where part of your body? I'm not sure. Somewhere on my head. Many question if he was actually shot due to the fact that he appeared in a bond hearing just two weeks later without a scratch on his head. After evidence started piling up against him,
Starting point is 00:13:19 Elyke Murdoch told police that he paid a man named him. Eddie Smith to shoot him in the head on a side of the road so his son, Buster Murdoch, could collect a $10 million insurance payout. Just last week, Ehrlich Murdoch was indicted on three charges of conspiracy, filing a false police report, and a new charge of presenting a false claim for insurance payment of more than 10 grand. So now we were at the sixth investigation into Elyke Murdoch and his family, which would be about the PMPED money.
Starting point is 00:13:54 It was uncovered that he had perhaps, well, not perhaps. He had converted some client and law firm money to his own use to, and again, spent most of that on opioids. Yes, you just heard from Murdoch's attorney Dick Harpulian on The Today Show claiming that his own client committed a crime. So on September 13th, Sled launched an investigation to determine whether Ellick Murdoch misappropriated funds in connection to his, position as a former lawyer at the law firm started by his great-grandfather PMPED. In the aftermath of the roadside shooting on September 4th, PMPED, all of a sudden accused Elic of misappropriating more than $10 million from the farm and its clients. But the weird thing is PMPED never requested the SLED conduct this investigation.
Starting point is 00:14:50 So SLED without PMPED's request launched its own. It's important to note here that PMPED filed a lawsuit against Ehrlich Murdoch for the alleged missing funds. On Friday, Ehrlich, who is now being represented by his criminal defense attorneys, Griffin and Harputlian, pleaded the Fifth Amendment when he responded to this lawsuit. The implication there is that he is avoiding incriminating himself in the case. And that brings us to the seventh investigation, the drugs. On the day of Ehrlich's hearing about his assets, McClatchy, newspapers published a report that said a grand jury investigation was specifically targeting a low country gang based in the Walterboro area, believed to be named the Cowboys.
Starting point is 00:15:37 Both the posting courier and McClatchy, which are mainstream media who have tended to side with the Murdoch family, cited anonymous sources in referencing the grand jury investigation, which appears to stem from checks written by Alec Murdoch to a drug courier, a However, my sources have said nothing about this Cowboys investigation. Since the assisted suicide situation, the defense has repeatedly pushed ELEC's alleged drug addiction to the media. However, it's important to note other drug pipelines with alleged connections to the Murdoch family, particularly deep connections between the Murdox and alleged drug smuggler Barrett
Starting point is 00:16:20 Boller, his name is spelled like Bullware, but apparently pronounced like Bolwer. Mardock was Boller's legal representative and business partner prior to Boller's death in September 2018, following a brief battle with cancer. Boller was widely believed to be involved in the drug trade. In fact, at one point during the early stages of the war on drugs, he and his father faced charges in Florida in connection with a South Carolina drug smuggling operation. Elyke Mardock and Barrett Bollware were co-owners of multiple properties in the low country. Actually, Barrett was the former owner of Moselle, which we all know as the Murdoch family hunting
Starting point is 00:17:00 lodge that became infamous as the site of the brutal double homicide in June of this year. Colleton County property records state that Murdoch paid Barrett Bowler's wife $5 for Moselle. But as my boss Will Folks has reported, the transfer deed dated back to April 10, 2013, referenced the exchange of like-kind replacement property totaling $730,000, which is part of a multi-property, non-simultaneous, tax-free exchange transaction. And what's also interesting about Moselle, it has a landing strip and a barn with doors that can fit an airplane according to multiple sources who have seen it and pictures that I've seen from the property. And that's just what we know so far.
Starting point is 00:17:46 Who knows how deep this gets and how many other criminal investigations will. begin. Sources have said that Judge Newman can only consider allegations against Murdoch that are on the record when it comes to determining Bond. But essentially he's looking at a man who's clearly unstable, who is dangerous considering all of the factors at play here. Elek Murdoch is a man who allegedly hired another man to shoot him just a couple months ago. He is a person of interest in the double homicide investigation of his wife and son according
Starting point is 00:18:21 to his own attorney. Elyke Murdoch is a person who didn't have a single family member show up at his bond hearing. He has links to multiple drug smugglers. He is accused of stealing millions of dollars from his dead housekeeper's family and other clients. And he has concocted complicated, twisted plans to steal from people and hide the money. He is a person whose assets have recently been locked up by the court and handed over to court-appointed receivers to dig through. And he is a person who's pulled tricks from jail to keep victims. away from his assets. Eric Blan said it's very possible that Newman saw the shady moves a couple
Starting point is 00:18:59 weeks ago from his attorneys when Elyke Murdoch confessed judgment and lawsuits against him that were filed by his brother and his former law partner. Last week after we published our podcast on Elex Money Situation, I highly suggest you going back and listening to Episode 16 if you haven't already, we discussed yet another shocking and shady move by the Murdox, less than 24 hours. After Ehrlich Murdoch was sued by his own brother, Randy Murdoch the fourth, for a total of $90,000 of unpaid debt in money and equipment, the disgrace South Carolina attorney confessed judgment in the lawsuit. And after we found that out, we discovered that E. Murdoch confessed judgment in another lawsuit filed by his former law partner, John E. Parker. And in that case, Murdoch allegedly owes him $477,000. Confessing judgment typically means that a defendant is acknowledging the amount owned as a valid and enforceable debt
Starting point is 00:20:00 in authorizing the South Carolina court system to enroll a judgment against him in that amount. This would essentially prioritize Eleg's debt to Randy and to Johnny Parker ahead of a long line of alleged victims who are currently suing Eleg Murdoch. But when Ehrlich Murdoch attempted his backdoor move to confess judgment totaling in $567,000, thousand dollars to his brother and former law partner, the new receivers John T. Lay and Peter McCoy sprang into action. And a three-page motion submitted earlier this month, which was one day after Ehrlich's latest confession became public, Lay and McCoy asked Judge Hall to issue an emergency order which would essentially block the enforcement of that shady legal maneuver.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Eric Blan told me that these recent moves of confessing judgment just shows that Elic and his family have and will always gain the system. He said that they don't think decency and the rules apply to them. He's a 100% full-blown coward, and he's going to abuse and use the legal system in our state. And he appears to have lawyers willing to help him do it. And speaking of the South Carolina legal system and the law. lawyers willing to help Ehrlich Murdoch. Soon after Judge Newman made his ruling last week to keep Ehrlich behind bars at the Richland County Detention Center, Eleg Murdoch's quote-unquote
Starting point is 00:21:27 bulldog attorneys have filed a habeas corpus petition with South Carolina Supreme Court in an attempt to get the disgraced attorney out of jail. Reporter Avery Wilkes of the Post and Curry newspaper first reported that attorneys Dick R. Pettlian and Jim Griffin petitioned to the Supreme Court to overrule Judge Newman. decision, keeping Murdoch behind bars as the court found that he was a danger to himself and society. According to the Post and Courier, the petition said that Murdoch's psychiatric evaluation concluded that Murdoch was not a danger to the community, but rather it painted him as a recovering opioid addict who needed to get back to rehab. When Judge Newman previously
Starting point is 00:22:07 denied Bond for Alec Murdoch on October 19th, he never guaranteed that he would release him pending the results of a psychiatric evaluation. He just said that he would consider it. Now, multiple attorneys said that that latest move by the Murdoch camp to file the K-Bious Corpus motion shows that Elyke Murdoch is begging to get out of jail. Murdoch's attorneys are arguing that because their client was charged with nonviolent crimes, he's entitled to bond based on the state's constitution. Murdoch, whose father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, all served as the 14th Circuit
Starting point is 00:22:43 solicitor for nearly a hundred years has been behind bars for a month now. Eric Bland told me he didn't think that the South Carolina Supreme Court would rule in the favor of the Murdoch camp. It's a desperate act. They're not going to overturn what Judge Newman is doing since he's the assigned judge on the case. And he's the one who's hearing all the information. And just like we talked about this morning in his order, he said,
Starting point is 00:23:13 other investigations. So he's privy to things that aren't just Saterfield related. And he's making the decision that while, yes, there is a presumption that somebody is entitled to bond, it's not absolute. And it's
Starting point is 00:23:29 discretionary. And he has his finger on the pulse and is privy to a lot of different things that are having to do with the grand jury or whether they're issuing search warrants or different subpoenas. and he's made the calculated decision, you know, after analyzing it and giving it a lot of thought,
Starting point is 00:23:49 that he still represents a danger to the community and to himself. And so just because they submitted an evaluation from a psychiatrist that says that he's an opioid addict and that he was on his way to recovery, that doesn't mean that he gets fine. There are other factors, and those factors are, it could be that he looked at the confessions, the judgment that he was signing, that he's a risk and a flight risk, or it could be, totally unrelated, related to the Cowboys or related to Cousinetti or drugs or whatever. We have no
Starting point is 00:24:19 idea what he's doing. But I don't think the Supreme Court's going to superimpose themselves and now sit like Judge Newman is and say that he's entitled to bond. It's not going to happen. Blant told me that he thinks Judge Newman's decision should stick. And on a broader scale, Eric believes
Starting point is 00:24:35 that Newman's decision shows that the wheels of the South Carolina justice system are now spinning in the right direction. I think our justice system is now working as fully intended. That you have a judge that based on his background
Starting point is 00:24:50 views these crimes seriously to that they're not treating Alex Murdoch or his high-power lawyers any differently than any other charged criminal in this state and that Alex now realizes he's drinking
Starting point is 00:25:06 from the same cup of justice that every other charged criminal in this state must drink from. and that has to scare him because he can't manage his defense from a jail cell and he can't manage his finances anymore because they're now in the hands of a court-appointed receiver who is in real time
Starting point is 00:25:28 taking actions based on what Alex is doing like last Friday they filed a motion to say the enforcement of those confession judgment the noose is tightening around Alex's net that's the news of justice of justice. And finally, we need to update you on the Gloria Satterfield case. On November 11th, attorneys Eric Blan and Ronald Richter announced that Palmetto State Bank settled both glorious two sons, Tony Satterfield, and Brian Harriet for an undisclosed amount.
Starting point is 00:26:00 The action ends the pending lawsuit against Palmetto State Bank and leaves Eleg Murdoch as the only remaining defendant who hasn't agreed to a settlement. Palmetto State Bank is the fifth potentially liable party to have settled or resolved differences with the Satterfield family since Bland and Rector filed their lawsuit in September. The two attorneys have recovered more than $6.5 million in total for the Satterfield family, according to Eric Land. You know, we're proud, obviously. It's just for our clients.
Starting point is 00:26:34 That's what we wanted to do, you know, get them just as quick as we can, not, you know, delay it over time. And so, you know, it's not like we accepted fast quarters against slow dollars because I think we got a lot of dollars. You know, obviously they were only entitled to 2.75 million from the original 4.3 million and we've recovered more and we're not done yet. We feel like we're going to recover more from other parties, including Alex. We just feel like that there was such pressure on these parties that were defendants or target defendants. parties to settle for business reasons and to disassociate themselves from Alex because anybody that I believe that gets within an arm's reach of him is going to suffer a character loss of
Starting point is 00:27:29 their character, loss of their reputation or loss of business and certainly from the business clients we sat settled with they they made that decision that he You know, whether they had legal defenses to our claims or what we're contending, I don't think they had the luxury of time to test them out because Alex is just that toxic. Eric Blan told me that he's also proud to have contributed to a case that ultimately holds bad actors accountable. Blan said that there's something a lot more important that happened with this work, that Mallory Beach and Gloria Satterfield did not die in vain. Their deaths led to major changes in the justice system that are still happening.
Starting point is 00:28:17 They really did end up dying for a purpose, and that is, you know, not only to bring people like Alex to justice and others around him, whether that justice is criminally or through their professional licenses, but I think long term it's going to have a dramatic effect on our system, on how judges deal with lawyers and settlements and how willing they're willing to go. off the record or not have a transcript or do it in chambers. And I think that whether there's another Hampton County in South Carolina where somebody has a little bit of a stronghold or a lot of stronghold on the justice system there, I think that's going to wane.
Starting point is 00:29:00 I think people are not going to tolerate, you know, a single family or a single law firm having a stranglehold on the justice system in that county. So I think that long term, Mallory Beach and Gloria Satterfield will have a dramatic effect on our justices and make it pure and the way it was intended to be. On a really exciting note, I am proud to share big news that I've been sitting on. My best friend, journalistic role model and partner in true crime, Liz Farrell, is joining the Murdoch Murdoch's podcast. Liz taught me everything I know about investigative journalism. And I can't wait for y'all to meet her, and she will be on the next episode. And many more episodes to come, so stay tuned.
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