Murdaugh Murders Podcast - MMP Remastered #10 - What Happened To Gloria Satterfield? Part One

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Starting point is 00:01:35 or click the link in the description for extended audio episodes of the official podcast. This 10th episode of the Murdoch Murders podcast was a reach goal for Mandy. This was supposed to be the end of our limited series as she was inundated with press inquiries and had a very emotionally taxing day job at a news outlet that we don't give energy to anymore. This episode marked the first time Mandy connected Elyke Murdoch's pattern of deceit to the death of someone who had been close to his family for decades. Gloria Satterfield's story humanized the corruption. Gloria was a woman who worked, sacrificed, and trusted the Murdoch family. Mandy realized Ehrlich and his circle seemed to have stolen her son's settlement money.

Starting point is 00:02:24 It became clear that this wasn't just about power. it was about the exploitation of the vulnerable. This episode reframed the podcast from true crime storytelling into an opportunity to bring systematic accountability. Episode 10 of MMP is a framework for exploring the theme of betrayal within trust. You'll see that in Murdoch Death in the Family when glorious character is portrayed not as a victim of circumstance, but as a person whose kindness was weaponized, by those in power. At the time of this episode's publication, September 2021, Mandy was chasing

Starting point is 00:03:05 leads that felt almost too outrageous to believe. Forged bank accounts, missing settlements, judges signing off in secret. Now, after Alex's convictions and plea deals and his two life sentences for murdering his family, every red flag Mandy spotted has been validated. What stands out most is how small-town loyalty and unchecked privilege enabled this behavior for so long. Mandy didn't just uncover a crime. She exposed a culture that normalized it. Gloria's case revealed how power distorts empathy and how sunlight can restore it. Her pursuit of answers is what keeps this work meaningful, even to this day. For Mandy and me, episode 10 was more than a podcast. It's the moment the

Starting point is 00:03:57 the world stopped seeing the Murdox as a mystery and started seeing them as a mirror. A theme, the Hulu series, returns to again and again. As we discuss in the first and fourth episodes of the official companion podcast to the Hulu series, Gloria's role in the family dynamics had to be showcased with a living three-dimensional character. Though Gloria passed away in 2018, adjusting the series timeline allowed the creators an opportunity to show her warmth, fondness for her employers, and her bright love for her own sons, Brian and Tony, and, of course, her commitment to faith, all of which were leveraged by Ehrlich for evil purposes. But this podcast was one of those lightning strike moments in journalism. Mandy was

Starting point is 00:04:47 scanning records late one night when she found a $500,000 wrongful death settlement amidst the public index. And Alex, Elek, whatever you want to call him, was listed as the sole defendant. We didn't know it yet, but that single document exposed the first cracks in an empire of lies and a litter of suspicious deaths. My immediate reaction was disbelief. How could something so significant be sitting in plain sight amidst all of these ethical attorneys for years? And no one did anything about it. But it also showed Mandy something deeper. The Murdoch power structure relied on secrecy, not sophistication. Mandy's discovery proved that sunlight, persistence, and a willingness to look, to pry, to be pesky, could be decades of institutional silence.

Starting point is 00:05:41 So without further ado or blubbering in admiration of my amazing wife Mandy, here's our Murdoch Murdo's podcast number 10. What happened to Gloria Satterfield, part one. I don't know if anyone killed Gloria Satterfield, but I've learned a lot recently about what happened in the aftermath of her death, and I'm disturbed and disgusted by what I'm hearing that Elyke Murdoch allegedly did to her family who deserved the money in her settlement. My name is Mandy Matney, and I've been investigating the Murdoch family for more

Starting point is 00:06:21 than two and a half years now. And this is the Murdoch Murdoers podcast. So I mean it when I say that the last few weeks have been the strangest, busiest time of my entire life. And I'm not saying that to get any sort of sympathy or whatever. I'm just being straight with you. The last few weeks have been hard. And I say that because I know what it would be like if I was another journalist following somebody like me on this case and wondering how is she doing all these things? And what I'm doing is not healthy. What I'm doing is not sustainable. Being a breaking news reporter and an investigative reporter and a podcaster all at the same time is absolutely exhausting. And this case is extremely emotionally at taxing.

Starting point is 00:07:17 And it's okay to talk about these things. I will talk about these things. Being open about what's going on with your mental health is something that I will always advocate for. I wanted to start out this episode and say thank you to everyone who has supported us in the last few weeks. To those who defended me, to the trolls on Twitter, those who gave us a five-star review and shared the podcast, those who sent flowers and messages of encouragement, those who bought me so many mimosas on buy me a coffee.com. those who help make this podcast the number one podcast on Apple and Amazon which is absolutely insane by the way these last few weeks have been tough

Starting point is 00:07:59 I won't lie but every little bit has given me the fuel to keep going when parts of me wanted to stop so thank you so much so much has gone down in the last two weeks with the unraveling of Alec Murdoch.

Starting point is 00:08:22 But we want to focus this episode on Gloria Satterfield because she deserves the spotlight and people need to know what happened to her and her family. I first reported about the Gloria Satterfield settlement in 2019 as I was investigating the deaths of Mallory Beach and Stephen Smith. Several of my sources in Hampton County made comments along the lines of, but did you hear about the housekeeper?

Starting point is 00:08:46 There were rumors that the Murdox were involved, in the death of their housekeeper. I'll be honest, it sounded like an insane rumor that to me was just too weird to be true. Then one day, I was looking through court records and found a $500,000 wrongful death settlement for Gloria Satterfield, where Ehrlich Murdoch was listed as the only defendant. Gloria Satterfield was the Murdoch's housekeeper and nanny for more than two decades. I found that this settlement was odd for a couple of reasons. And again, this was way back in 2000.

Starting point is 00:09:19 Ehrlich Murdoch's best friend, Corey Fleming, was the lawyer representing the Satterfield family, which would be Corey suing his best friend. Remember Corey Fleming? He's the attorney who's connected to all three of these death investigations, Gloria Satterfield, Stephen Smith, and Mallory Beach. In the Stephen Smith case, his client, Patrick Wilson, was suspiciously injected into the investigation. And in the 2019 boat crash, Ehrlich allegedly told him. Connor Cook essentially the same thing he told the Satterfield Sons, that Corey Fleming would have

Starting point is 00:09:54 his back, but he would be a good lawyer who could be trusted. Now, Connor Cook is suing Fleming and Elyke Murdoch for essentially conspiring to frame him in the boat crash investigation. We will get into all of that in another episode. So the Corey Fleming part of that is weird, but all of us gets so much weirder. Another thing was neither one of Gloria Satterfield's sons were named as personal representatives of her estate, which again, I thought was weird. The third thing, which a lot of lawyers told me, was the settlement seemed very low, for somebody admitting to wrongful death on their property and only getting $500,000 seemed weird to a lot of people. Later, I realized that Judge Perry Buckner, who was a well-known friend of the Murdoch family,

Starting point is 00:10:40 who also recused himself from the boat crash just a few months after this, approved the settlement. I wrote about the settlement when I worked for another local newspaper back in 2019. And I believe I wrote about it again in 2020 and then I wrote about it again after the double homicide of Maggie and Paul Murdoch when I was the first reporter to connect the three mysterious deaths to the Murdoch family. Now, we'll fast forward to last week, September 14th, 2021. Attorney Eric Blan first told me that he was represented. in Gloria Satterfield's two sons who say they never received any settlement money. So when I wrote this story last week, the only public document associated with this case

Starting point is 00:11:26 stated that Elyke Murdoch's insurance provider agreed to a petition for $505,000 for personal liability and Satterfield's wrongful death. In this clip where I'm talking to Eric Bland, I'm typing because, again, I'm a journalist before I'm a podcaster and I can't help but take notes. the housekeeper there for, you know, almost 25 years, you know, very close to the family, raise the kids, any settlement that may have existed, the boys maintain that they have not received any distribution from any settlement proceeds. And our goal is to get answers for them and to make sure that people who have, you know,

Starting point is 00:12:13 represented them and owed fiduciary duties to them have done what they're supposed to do for these boys. That's our goal. Eric Bland said that the family was told Satterfield tripped on the steps of the Murdoch's former home on Holly Street in Hampton, South Carolina, in February 2018. They were told that the Murdoch's dogs caused her to trip, causing a fall which resulted in her sustaining a traumatic brain injury.

Starting point is 00:12:41 It is not known of any member of the Murdox's, Murdoch family called 911 after the incident, nor is it clear how Satterfield was transported to the hospital, where she stayed for several weeks before she died on February 26, 2018. This woman worked for the Murdoch Castle for 25 years. She was in the hospital for three weeks after apparently the dog, you know, caused her to fall down the stairs and, you know, have a closed head traumatic brain injury, you know, the family's a little bit disappointed because there wasn't a lot of visitation from the family when she was in the hospital only the mother visited, not the boys who she raised. You know, the Murdox didn't pay for her funeral,

Starting point is 00:13:29 which is, you know, it just tells me a lot about them as a family. noted that she loved Ehrlich, Maggie, and Elyke's parents Randolph and Libby Murdoch as family. Although, we don't know who wrote her obituary. So after I wrote that story, things started developing in this case very rapidly. Here's why. Again, this is Eric Bland talking to me on the phone. You know, lawyers are coming clean. Different lawyers are coming clean. And, you know, because there's this intense sunlight scrutiny on this case, everybody's being cautious not to do lawyers spin or obfuscate. But the truth ended up being very ugly. We immediately started

Starting point is 00:14:33 receiving texts from sources that said that the Satterfield settlement was much, much, much higher, in the millions. It appeared that a lot of lawyers knew about that, and no one said anything until the dismantling of the good old boy system started to take place. The next day, September 15, 2021, Eric Bland and his law partner, Ronald Richter, filed a lawsuit alleging civil conspiracy and stolen funds and connections with the 2018 Gloria Satterfield settlement. The lawsuit was filed against Elyke Murdoch, Corey Flumman.

Starting point is 00:15:08 and others involved in the settlement, including Fleming's law firm Moss, Coon, and Fleming, Chad Westendorf, who was the banker listed as the representative of Satterfield's estate in the Palmetto State Bank, which is a financial institution or Westendorf worked. The lawsuit revealed further details in this alleged conspiracy to steal money from Gloria's family. Hours after the lawsuit was filed in this case, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, which is also known as Sledge, the same agency investigating the double homicide of Maggie and Paul Murdoch and the Stephen Smith case

Starting point is 00:15:44 confirmed they were opening an investigation into the death of Gloria Satterfield. That is a big deal. SLED not only opened an investigation into her death, but also possible financial crimes related to her wrongful death settlement. SLED officials said they opened the investigation based on information gathered during the course of other investigations involving Elyke Murdoch. A couple things about this that were shocking. The Hampton County coroner said that Satterfield's death was not reported to the other

Starting point is 00:16:19 Hampton County coroner at the time, nor did officials perform an autopsy. In another thing, on Satterfield's death certificate, the manner of death said natural, which does not line up with the story that she fell. The manner of death would be accident. Again, Gloria's family was told that she died in a tributtal incident on the front steps of the murder home. That's annoying. What? You're a muffler.

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Starting point is 00:17:27 We'd love to talk, business. A few days after the law, lawsuit was filed and SLED opened up their investigation into Satterfield's death. Attorney Eric Bland received shocking information in the Gloria Satterfield settlement. I'm going to go ahead and let him explain most of this. So Gloria dies February 26, 2018, after falling February 2nd, 2018, right? At the funeral, Alex says to the aunts, uncles and the kids, I'm going to take you to go see a lawyer, and that lawyer I know is going to bring a claim against me because I am going to admit that I was negligent responsible for your mother's death

Starting point is 00:18:21 because my dogs tripped her and she fell down the stairs. And he's going to bring a wrongful death claim, and I'm going to turn it over to my insurance carriers, and then I'm going to tell them I'm at fault and they're going to pay money and you guys are going to make money you guys are going to get money as a result of your mother's death

Starting point is 00:18:42 but you can't tell anybody that I'm kind of organizing this because I can get in trouble so he takes him to Corey Fleming he doesn't tell him that Corey's the kids that he's Paul's godfather that they were college roommates, best friends and that they work together

Starting point is 00:19:00 Corey signs him up and names Tony as the PR. So a PR is a personal representative that is the person that is in charge of an estate. Okay, we are now in December 2018 in the Gloria Satterfield case. Here is Eric Bland. Brian renounces his right to be a PR because he's a vulnerable adult, okay? So Tony is the personal representative. of the estate, which means Corey Fleming

Starting point is 00:19:34 represents the personal representative of the estate. He doesn't represent the heirs. He represents the personal representative of the estate. And so they make a claim against Alex. They didn't file a lawsuit. They made

Starting point is 00:19:50 a demand. You write a demand letter and you say, look, Alex, you cause this, yada yada he turns it over to insurance companies. And he's telling the insurance companies, I am that fall, which really puts the insurance companies in a tough spot because ordinarily, just because somebody

Starting point is 00:20:06 dies at your house, doesn't mean you're automatically liable. I mean, I could beat your house, Mandy, and trip over my feet coming down your stairs, and it's my fault. If I hit my head and I die. But because he was admitting fall, admitting that he was

Starting point is 00:20:21 responsible, the insurance companies knew that if Corey Fleming actually filed a lawsuit and Alex was to go into a court in Hampton County where he's loved and say this is my fault the jury would live over return a big verdict

Starting point is 00:20:38 but Corey is not telling Tony what's going on Tony's just a normal late 20s guy that works for a hospital and like delivery so around December when that petition

Starting point is 00:20:56 for $505,000 was filed with the court Corey calls up Tony on December 13th and says, you know what, I don't think you should be the PR anymore. There's going to be a lot of business issues in this case as it progresses. And I think it's better suited that there be a banked officer that I know to be the PR. So, of course, Tony, who trusts Corey, says, okay, if that's what you think, and so they name Tony renounces his right to be a PR

Starting point is 00:21:35 and they name Chad Westendorf in the bank Poundemate Estate Bank and by doing that now Corey's duty is to Chad Westendorf he no longer has to communicate and can communicate with my clients because they aren't his clients

Starting point is 00:21:54 it's the personal representative of the estate so basically Fleming convinced Gloria's sons that they needed to have a banker work as their personal representative of their mother's estate. He's saying here that Fleming and Murdoch did this in their scheme so that Fleming would only be legally obligated to communicate with Westendorf. They did not have to tell Gloria's sons about what was happening with the settlement money. And so on December 18th, Westendorf was approved to be the PR. The very next day on December 19th, they filed that petition for a $505,000 settlement.

Starting point is 00:22:37 My clients were never aware of that. So as soon as the Satterfield Boys were no longer entitled to communications with Corey Fleming, his petition for a $505,000 settlement was filed. Who was the judge involved in all of this? That would be South Carolina Circuit Judge Perry Buckner, who recused himself from the 2019 boat crash just months. later because of his ties to the Murdoch family. Two months goes by.

Starting point is 00:23:05 Obviously, the boating accident happened in February of 2019. Let me be clear here. The 2019 fatal boat crash that killed Mallory Beach changed everything about the Murdoch family. They were able to do things under the table and under the radar before the boating accident, which pushed them into the media spotlight. In March, they have a mediation. and they settle with a mediator from Charleston named John Austin, all the insurance carriers, Nautical and Lloyds of London,

Starting point is 00:23:39 and they were represented by John Grantland and Scott Wellinger, and Corey's representing the estate, and obviously Alex isn't defended, and they go before the mediator and they compromise or whatever, and they agree the total claims are going to settle for $4,35,000,000,000,000. $5,000. So are you following this? That is a big deal. The money is going to be paid to the PR to Chad Westendorf. It's not going to be paid to Corey Fleming, the lawyer. The check is going to be made out to the personal representative of the estate of Gloria Satterfield. But here is where it gets weird and complicated.

Starting point is 00:24:26 He requested that they changed the court caption without court approval to take his name off of it. The next thing you look on at that petition is there's no court term number. There's no live case. Oh, my God. There's no 2020 CP40-032.032.032.0-3-1-2. Oh, my. Yeah, I've never seen that. The next thing you look at on that petition is it's not filed. It's signed by Chad Westendorf, but it's not filed with the court.

Starting point is 00:25:09 Okay, so this is really weird. I have seen hundreds of settlements and lawsuits and all sorts of court documents in South Carolina, but I've never seen this. It appears that Ehrlich convinced the court to take his name off. of the settlement, which is a luxury that most South Carolina citizens do not have when they admit fault in a wrongful death of another human being. But what's interesting about this is that his name was taken off the books right around the time of the fatal boat crash when he was in the spotlight. So another thing about this that is so crazy is there's no docket number. I have never

Starting point is 00:25:51 seen a case like this with no docket number. And also every other case in South Carolina that is processed with the court has numbers and basically a stamp of approval running down the side. It says the county that is processed in. It says the date, et cetera, et cetera. And that's not here. So you can hear me as Eric is explaining what's going on with these documents, how shocked I am because it is absolutely shocking. And I've talked to over a dozen lawyers who've looked at this and they're all very shocked

Starting point is 00:26:24 that this actually came through. Judge Mullen cannot hear a settlement proposal unless there's a motion or petition before her. Because when she comes on the bench, the first thing she's going to say is, or if she's

Starting point is 00:26:40 in chambers and there should be a court reporter there, is what is performing? and somebody's going to say, well, we have a petition for you to approve a settlement. And she's going to open up the court file and she's going to say, no, there's nothing filed here. I can't hear a motion that isn't filed. Nonetheless, she goes forward and hears the motion. So around the same time, the Judge Carmen Mullen signed the secret settlement, she also recused herself from the boat crash.

Starting point is 00:27:16 due to her long-standing relationship with the Murdoch family. So are you hearing this right? The two judges who recused themselves from one Murdoch case, which was a boat crash, appeared to be involved in this one during the same time period. Perhaps that's because Gloria's case did not get media attention at the time. She then signs and order.

Starting point is 00:27:42 That's the third document I sent you. Okay. When you look at that order, the first thing you should say to yourself is, it's a different caption. The second thing you say to yourself is, what's the court term? How would this be filed when there's no number? The third thing you say to yourself is it wasn't filed. The fourth thing you say to yourself is, I'm going to look at that last page. settlement disbursement sheet and you see it's signed by Chad Westendorf and judge that was given

Starting point is 00:28:24 the judge Mullen for her to approve that order and that disbursement sheet shows there's four million three hundred five thousand dollars of money coming in it shows the attorney's fees going out of one point four or five million dollars the next thing that you catch your eye is there's $105,000 even, not 105.13, but $105,000 even of, quote, prosecution expenses. Expenses. What the hell is that? Okay, so $105,000 worth of lawyer expenses when there's not a lawsuit or a trial, over a period of about a few months is absolutely shocking. And from what I know, investigating lots and lots of expenses in the government, et cetera, et cetera, when anything ends in 00000, it's immediately sketchy. In an expense report, if something ever ends in zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, and it means that you're not keeping track of your books.

Starting point is 00:29:37 In this case, there wasn't a lawsuit. What expenses were there? If there was going to be a professional PR fee paid to Chad Wessendorf from the bank, that's got to be set forth itemized. What's the $105,000? Even. How was that approved? The next thing you say to yourself and you look at is $2.7 million goes to the client.

Starting point is 00:30:08 That's the net from the 4.4. If that settlement disbursement sheet was going to be followed, should have been paid to the PR who would distribute all of it but $50,000 because that's the survival claim. There's two claims that were brought, a wrongful death, which is the kids bring a claim for the loss and love of their mother, which goes out. outside of the probate court. But a survival claim is glorious claim, because she survived for three weeks.

Starting point is 00:30:51 And they allocated $50,000 to that. That money was never paid into the court. It was never distributed through the estate. And what else they didn't ever disclose to Judge Mullen

Starting point is 00:31:06 was, Gloria had $675,000 of medical bills to try it in hospital for being there in three weeks and they crafted a settlement that only $50,000 if it was

Starting point is 00:31:22 ever paid would go to pay off the medical bills and when you structure something like that it's Medicaid fraud because there was enough money in the $4.3 million recovery

Starting point is 00:31:38 to pay off the medical bill of $675,000. But the way they structured it and Judge Mullen signed it, only $50,000 would be available to pay medical bills because the wrongful death money that would have gone to the kids, the $2.7 million, that's not part of the estate, and they're not liable for their mother's medical bills. So what happened? The check went straight to Corey Fleming.

Starting point is 00:32:10 So you asked me, okay, how did Alec end up with the money? Alec told Corey, now Alex's the defendant. We're going to do a structure. We're going to buy an annuity for these kids through a company called Forge Consultants in Atlanta. 80% of the lawyers in the state like me, when we get a big lump sum settlement for, let's say it's a minor kid or somebody that, is paralyzed and has ongoing medical needs. You don't give them the money all at once, one, because there's big tax consequences.

Starting point is 00:32:48 But two, you buy an annuity so that that $2.7 million is paid over 15 years turns out to be worth like $6.5 million. The only problem is Corey never got any documents from Forge, and he's taking direction from the defendant who tells him, after you take your fees, write the check to Forge and send it to a PO box in Hampton, South Carolina.

Starting point is 00:33:18 And there's not one single document with Forge's name on it. And oh, by the way, if you're going to do a structure like that, you've got to get court approval. It's got to be disclosed to the judge in the petition. And the order that Judge Mullen signs has to approve that there's going to be a structure and an annuity, and the money is going to be paid out over time. None of that's done. So, Corey takes his direction from Alex to do a check in the name of Forge, not Forge Consultants, which they know about, because I've spoken to Michael Gunn and Spooner Phillips at Forge Consultants, and they say,

Starting point is 00:34:03 oh, man, Corey knows exactly what we do, because when you do a structure, you get tons of documents. in advance of the settlement because you have to see what the annuity return is going to look like over a 10 or a 15-year period. And number two, the beneficiaries have to sign off that they're going to get their money over time instead of all once. None of that was done. So the check is made out the forge. Alec Murdoch gives him a P.O. box where it's sent to. The check goes in the P.O. box. Alex Murdoch opened up a bank account at Bank of America under the name of Forge, got to check, cashed it, and walked away with the money.

Starting point is 00:34:46 So what Eric Land is saying here is absolutely appalling. He's basically saying that two prominent attorneys in South Carolina were able to do the scheme to steal from a grieving, hardworking family who deserve money from their mother's death. He needed it, but never got a dime due to their greed. So the latest revelations in the Gloria Satterfield case leave us with so many questions about the South Carolina justice system. Did Corey and L.A. could do this scheme to other people? How did our justice system allow this to happen? And how many people will go down for this? I think we're only halfway through the onion.

Starting point is 00:35:33 Because I think that this citadel of this Murdoch, the Murdoch's citadel, is going to fall. And I think at the end of this, I think the Murdoch firm will not be what it was. There will be the word Murdoch in there. I think the solicitor's office is going to be completely different. Whether Duffy Stone, you know, stays solicitor, who knows. I don't see, you know, I'd be shocked if Corey Fleming keeps his law license, but who knows. knows, you know, obviously how it's one or should. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:36:10 I think there's how the, I think the chief justice of our Supreme Court's going to look at how the court system is run down there and clerks of court and probate court and how it's all run. I think there's going to be a whole host of disinfectant on that whole town because of all this. and you guys keep doing the sunlight you're doing it. You know, nothing can get swept under the rug. The new BMO ViPorter MasterCard is your ticket to more. More perks, more points, more flights, more of all the things you want in a travel rewards card, and then some. Get your ticket to more with the new BMO VI Porter MasterCard

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Starting point is 00:37:26 Starring Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette and Jason Clark. The Hulu original series Murdoch Death and the Family is now streaming only on Disney Plus. Before we finish this episode, I want to talk about who Gloria was as a person. Because Gloria and her families are victims in this, and we need to talk about them. So I spoke with Kim Brandt, who is a former Hampton resident who knew Gloria Satterfield. So she was not living the life of someone who worked. as hard as she worked. She didn't, you know, she probably entered the workforce right out of high school,

Starting point is 00:38:06 or maybe I don't know if she had a high school degree, but she worked hard. And she was honest and timed. You know, she had a good heart. She would help a stranger when she probably, you know, needed to be doing something for herself. For instance, here's a glorious story. my sister's father-in-law passed away and I ran over to the house and one of the neighbors was picking up pine straw in the pastor's yard and he was handicapped he could get on the riding lawnmower but he was in a wheelchair at home so his lawnmower had gotten too close to the ditch and they tipped over and was sort of half in the ditch and half out so I ran in looking for my brother-in-law but Gloria was the only person home. So she ran out in her apron and she and I just lifted him back on his riding lawnmower back onto the road so that he could continue on with his grass catching.

Starting point is 00:39:13 She's just that person. I mean, she didn't hesitate. She just dropped it and ran. And basically, I don't even know if I had my hands on the lawnmower. She just ended herself. That's just, And that was how she was. But as kind and sweet as Gloria was, she had a very tough life. I've been told that she was homeless for multiple times while working for the Murdoch family. And I'll repeat that while working for the Murdoch family, who owned multiple homes while Gloria was raising their children. All the family worked, but they just, they struggled. They never seemed to have a vehicle that, you know, we think we take things for growth.

Starting point is 00:39:55 Granted, like having a job, a consistent job where you had regular hours and a working vehicle and a safe, comfortable home, a roof over your head that didn't leak, and you weren't concerned about whether or not your electric bill was going to be able to pay your electric bill or get gas for your vehicle. It was just, there was always a struggle. Now lawyers Eric Bland and Ronald Richter, who specialize in attorney malpractice, are fighting for justice for glorious family. Think about the type of courage it finally took for them to go see a lawyer and pursue a possible claim against the Murdox. Now they want answers, which they've wanted from the start about the money.

Starting point is 00:40:45 Now they want answers about their mother. And, you know, right now, until Alex has proven otherwise, she died because of the dogs. But they also want justice now. And 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, well, then justice has to be served for that, too. So we've learned a lot more about Gloria Satterfield and her interactions with the Murdoch family

Starting point is 00:41:21 and who she was as a person. And we're going to say that for another episode. So stay tuned to the Murdoch Murder's podcast for the latest updates in this insane saga. The Murdoch Murder's podcast is created by me, Mandy Matney, and my fiance, David Moses. Our executive editor is Liz. Farrell.

Starting point is 00:41:44 Produced by Luna Shark Productions. That phrase at the beginning of each episode, I don't know, wasn't planned. It came from a place of honesty. Mandy said it in the early days of the podcast because she truly didn't know where this story was going. And that uncertainty became part of the show's DNA, which continues to this day because good reporting and good reporters start by asking a question and pursue the truth in answering it. Also at this time, Mandy was not just narrating. Mandy was investigating in real time and sharing that process with the world. You can hear her typing in the background. I don't know

Starting point is 00:42:33 gave listeners permission to think, to question, and to stay curious with us. When I built the sound design for each episode, and admittedly still learning, we wanted to build a brand voice for our little kitchen table podcast. That opening became our emotional signature, a small human pause before diving into chaos. It reminded everyone that this was a real journalist, not just a studio narrator, a journalist trying to find the truth in a world built on lies. That humility made the story relatable, I think, and made the reporting even more powerful. This episode was also the first time we meet our dear friend, now co-host, of Cup of Justice and Fierce Attorney Eric Bland, who's made a career with his partner Ronnie Richter suing

Starting point is 00:43:24 lawyers and taking on broken systems. And we know now that suing lawyers is a societal death sentence in South Carolina and beyond, because they laughably portray their profession and ethical compass as beyond reproach. As evidenced in this saga, it is not, though we do appreciate our attorneys and many that we encounter. Mandy would talk to Eric on background for hours during these months in the fall of 2021, and this recorded interview with Eric was electric. You can feel the shift in tone. For the first time, someone inside the system was just as angry as we were, and Eric brought the legal receipts and the moral fire. In Chapter 14 of Mandy's book, Blood on Their Hands, Mandy reflects on that collaboration as the moment when sunlight met strategy. What you hear

Starting point is 00:44:18 in episode 10 of the Murdoch Murders podcast is the seed of that partnership, a journalist and an attorney pushing against a corrupt ecosystem in parallel. Looking back, this episode set the template for everything that followed. The mix of facts, emotion, and righteousness. indignation that ultimately helped bring justice out from behind the clouds. We hope you'll watch episode four of Murdoch Death in the Family this Wednesday and catch our interview from the official companion podcast with Kathleen Wilhoit, who portrays Gloria in all her glory. You can watch on Hulu, Hulu on Disney Plus,

Starting point is 00:44:57 and extended audio episodes wherever you get your podcasts. Stay tuned. We're just getting started. Thank you.

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