Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh claimed in a federal court docket submitting Monday that he lied when he advised his insurance coverage corporations that the household canine precipitated his late housekeeper Gloria Satterfield to journey and fall.
Satterfield died Feb. 26, 2018, after tumbling on the steps of the household’s important residence on the household’s former South Carolina looking property often known as Moselle.
“No canine have been concerned within the fall of Gloria Satterfield,” Murdaugh’s attorneys wrote in his reply to Nautilus Insurance coverage Firm’s fraud lawsuit in opposition to him. “After Ms. Satterfield’s dying, defendant invented Ms. Satterfield’s purported assertion that canine precipitated her fall to pressure his insurers to make a settlement fee.”
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Alex Murdaugh is led out of the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (Mark Sims for Fox Information Digital)
Nautilus sued Murdaugh, his former pal and ex-attorney Cory Fleming, and others for fraud after they allegedly pocketed $3.8 million from Nautilus and $500,000 from Lloyd’s of London that ought to have gone to the Satterfield kids.
Nautilus has accused Murdaugh of hatching an insurance coverage fraud scheme by encouraging the Satterfield kids to sue him then lining his personal pockets.
Murdaugh advised the Satterfield boys {that a} settlement hadn’t been reached, as he and his co-conspirators allegedly spent the windfall.
Within the reply, Murdaugh’s attorneys level out that the Satterfields recovered over $7.5 million based mostly on the allegation that the disbarred legal professional had stolen insurance coverage cash that ought to have gone to them.
Alex Murdaugh beforehand mentioned the household’s late housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, proper, fell on the steps of their South Carolina looking property in 2018. She died within the hospital. (Eric Bland)
The Satterfield property wasn’t entitled to the funds within the first place if Murdaugh lied concerning the circumstances of the autumn, the doc contends.
Lawyer Eric Bland, who represents the late housekeeper’s household, alleges that Murdaugh is mendacity but once more to keep away from a judgment in opposition to him and to encourage Nautilus to sue the Satterfield property.
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The Satterfield household has a $4.3 million judgment in opposition to Murdaugh, which he voluntarily signed.
“He’s to not be believed. He is a convicted assassin and a identified liar,” mentioned Bland.
A facet view of the home on the Moselle property in Islandton, South Carolina, the place the Murdaugh’s housekeeper Gloria Satterfield fell and later died. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Submit and Courier/Pool)
Murdaugh was sentenced to 2 life phrases in March for fatally taking pictures his son, Paul, 22, and his spouse, Maggie, 52, in June 2021. He’s interesting the decision.
On the stand, Murdaugh admitted to mendacity to his household, greatest pals and purchasers for many years.
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The South Carolina Legislation Enforcement Division has mentioned it’s investigating Satterfield’s dying.
Murdaugh’s courtroom battles are removed from over. He has been indicted for over 100 counts of monetary crimes stemming from the theft of practically $9 million from his former regulation agency, purchasers and the Satterfield kids.