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Alex Murdaugh Sentenced to Life successful Prison for Murdering Wife and Son
Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, who was sentenced to life successful prison for the murders of woman Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul Murdaugh, has made a bombshell confession with respect to a beingness security fraud suit filed against him successful transportation with the decease of his longtime housekeeper.
In a May 1 effect to Nautilus Insurance Company's filing, Murdaugh's lawyers stated that their lawsuit lied erstwhile helium said Gloria Satterfield, 57, had tripped implicit his family's dogs erstwhile she fell connected his spot successful 2018, NBC News reported.
"No dogs were progressive successful the autumn of Gloria Satterfield connected February 2, 2018," the attorneys said successful the ineligible filing, adding that aft Satterfield's death, Murdaugh "invented Ms. Satterfield's purported connection that dogs caused her to autumn to unit his insurers to marque a colony payment."
However, according to his May 1 response, Murdaugh "denies the beingness of immoderate conspiracy to improperly origin Nautilus to wage a fraudulent claim."
The security company filed its civilian suit against Murdaugh successful 2022, alleging that that aft Satterfield's death, helium made a assertion connected his $5 cardinal umbrella argumentation and helped coordinate efforts to "improperly obtain" the security money.
In October 2021, Murdaugh was arrested for allegedly misappropriating funds meant for the Satterfield family. "Mr. Murdaugh coordinated with (Gloria) Satterfield's household to writer himself successful bid to question an security colony with the stated intent to springiness the proceeds to the Satterfield household to wage for ceremonial expenses and monetary compensation for Satterfield's children," CNN quoted a South Carolina Enforcement Division affidavit arsenic saying.
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In a wrongful decease suit filed a period prior, Satterfield's big sons, Michael "Tony" Satterfield and Brian Harriott, alleged that they had received nary of the proceeds from a $4.3 cardinal settlement they said Murdaugh arranged successful secret, NBC News reported.
This past February, astatine a proceeding for his double execution proceedings successful the deaths of his woman and son, Satterfield's lad Michael told the court that Murdaugh offered to "go aft my security company" to assistance their household with aesculapian bills and different expenses, but that they yet ne'er got the wealth and Murdaugh ne'er mentioned his $5 cardinal umbrella policy.
"Neither myself, my instrumentality firm, oregon my clients person ever possessed adjacent $1 of the stolen Nautilus money," Ronnie Richter, 1 of the Satterfield household attorneys, tweeted May 2, a time aft Murdaugh's latest filing.
In March, Murdaugh was sentenced to 2 consecutive beingness sentences for fatally shooting his woman and lad successful what prosecutors said was a bid to distract from financial misdeeds. His attorneys person filed a announcement to entreaty the murder case.
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