The sons of Alex Murdaugh's dead housekeeper still don't know how she died from a fall inside his home in 2018 at the age of 57, and have revealed how Murdaugh promised to take care of them after she died - then swindled them out of $3million.
Murdaugh is currently in jail awaiting his next court hearing on charges of theft stemming from him taking $3million of a $4million settlement that was intended for Tony Satterfield and Brian Harriott, the sons of Gloria Satterfield.
Gloria died mysteriously in 2018 after a 'fall' at the Murdaugh family's home in South Carolina. To this day, the two sons say they still don't know how the fall caused her such horrific injuries that she died.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating her death now in light of a slew of other allegations against Murdaugh.
In an interview on Tuesday, after Murdaugh was denied bond, the sons' attorney Ronnie Richter cast doubt on the claim that Gloria died by falling down the stairs in the family's home.
'Death was first classified a natural death... there is nothing natural about a 57-year old-woman falling down a flight of steps and dying from a head trauma,' he told CBS in South Carolina.
After Gloria's death, Alex Murdaugh promised to 'take care of' the boys financially.
The two sons, in a lawsuit filed last month, tell how they trusted Murdaugh as a respected South Carolina attorney whose family had been in law offices across the state for more than 100 years.
Gloria Satterfield died in the home of legal heir Alex Murdaugh (left) in February 2018 after working for the family for 20 years. He told her sons that she died of a fall. Now, they say they still don't know if that's what really happened
Attorney Ronnie Richter said on Tuesday: 'There is nothing natural about a 57-year old-woman falling down a flight of steps and dying from a head trauma'
'Prior to her untimely death on February 26, 2018, Gloria had worked for Alex Murdaugh and his family as a housekeeper and nanny for over two decades.
'Gloria was told she was part of the Murdaugh family, and she believed it to be true. The Murdaughs are prominent and wealthy family based in Hampton County that for generations controlled the prosecutor’s office in Hampton County and were the prominent legal family in the area,' the sons' lawyer said in their suit.
It was before the murders of Murdaugh's wife Maggie and son Paul, before Murdaugh admitted to having an 'opioid addiction', before he stole money from his own law firm and unsuccessfully
