The sprawling saga of prominent local family took an important step this week – what next for Alex Murdaugh?
All told, the sprawling saga around the prominent South Carolina family involves five deaths, at least seven state and federal investigations, the loss of millions of dollars, and five indictments totaling 71 charges, including money-laundering, computer crimes and forgery., a local Columbia newspaper , Alex Murdaugh told sister-in-law Liz Murdaugh “it wasn’t that bad” when he was shot in the head during an alleged suicide-for-hire incident three months after his wife and son were murdered.
Three months earlier, Murdaugh reported finding the bodies of his wife and son. But those reports, too, are filled with inconsistencies. Cellphone records show Murdaugh was at or near the property close to the time of the murders. Maggie Murdaugh left all her assets, valued at about $2.1m after debts, to her husband.
And then there’s Gloria Satterfield, the housekeeper of 20 years who died after a fall at Murdaugh’s home – apparently after tripping over a dog – in early 2018. Satterfield died three weeks after the incident. But an autopsy was never conducted, and the coroner’s office said it was not informed of her death, as it should be for anyone who dies under unusual or suspicious circumstances. In fact, her death went uninvestigated for three years.
Murdaugh’slawyers have said state police investigators consider their client a person of interest in their investigation. But he has never been publicly named as a suspect in any murder investigation. For now, any charges have revolved around financial wrong-doing.
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