Lawyer for Murdaugh housekeeper’s sons says he found key document in missing settlement money
While South Carolina law enforcement comb through every inch of Alex Murdaugh’s life and financials, a lawyer for the family’s housekeeper thinks he found a break in the case.
Eric Bland, who represents the sons of Gloria Satterfield, told The State Tuesday that he tracked down the judge’s order approving a multi-million dollar settlement after her 2018 death, money that her sons say they never saw.
“A disbursement signed by the judge says my clients were supposed to get $2.76 million of this,” he told the newspaper. “Somebody else got that money.”
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Satterfield, who worked as a housekeeper and nanny for the Murdaughs for more than 20 years, died in 2018 after falling at their home. But an autopsy was never performed and the 57-year-old woman’s death was never reported to the coroner’s office, according to Hampton County Coroner Angela Topper.
Her manner of death was listed as “natural” on her death certificate, which Topper said was “inconsistent with injuries sustained in a trip and fall accident.”
Last week, the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division announced that it was opening an investigation into both her death and the missing insurance settlement.
That’s one of several SLED investigations into Alex Murdaugh, who last week turned himself in for a botched assisted suicide and insurance fraud.
