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hey County one where's your emergency um I just going down crille Road I see somebody laying
out what road are you what's the name of the highway that you're on I know it's crocodille Road you just
know it's crocodille road yeah um hold on just a second and which way you had it okay uh know back way to go going
uhhuh yeah okay you on that road just before you get into cville turn cville make that right okay
cville take right take a take a left you call 601 uhhuh if I'm if I'm going toward
bber I'm G take a left on in that R yeah like you going I get a r called 14 you can go to Sandy run but but you're not
on Sandy run roll I think okay and is it in the road or on the side of the road he in the roadway
in the road yeah uhuh all right so what's your name and call that number uh my name is Ronnie C okay all
right Mr C can I get a phone number for you uh see I don't know off the phone but you can call this number back I
going to work okay but this is a good number to reach you back at yeah okay all right we'll get an officer headed
out that way to see what's going on okay in the road uh I ain't moving or nothing
like that but um somebody going hit him it's dark uhhuh somebody Going H it all right we'll get an also headed out that
way okay all right [Applause] [Music] sir [Music] there it is it's a 911 call we have a
driver out on a country road and he finds a lifeless body lying in the middle of the road the body is
identified to be a one Steven Smith Steven Smith was just 19 years old when his body was found in the middle of a
country road in Hampton County South Carolina who is Stephen Smith and what does his death which was over six years
ago on July 8th 2015 what does this death have to do with anything with the Murdoch murders
case that we're covering well that's because on June 23rd just 3 weeks after the Murdoch's
double homicide killings sled released the following statement it says sled has opened an investigation into the death
of Steven Smith based upon information gathered during the course of their double murder investigation of Paul and
Maggie Murdoch that really makes me curious on what evidence they found well and not to really kind of put a a marker
on the severity of either situation there both horrific tragedies but we've seen this movie before right Captain
where we have a high-profile case a double homicide there was one out in Deli Indiana where later they tell us
hey during the course of our double homicide investigation we've been LED on to other investigations of criminal
activity that may or may not have anything to do with this double homicide right so we've seen this before and it's
always interesting when they're uncovering these little tid bits and breadcrumbs to lead them to potential
other perpetrators or maybe it is in some weird way connected we've seen this tangled web of the Murdoch so far and it
only continues to grow and get bigger and more stranger as we go now in regard to the Steven Smith case there's some
thought that during the course of the Paul and Maggie Murdoch murder investigation that they may have
uncovered some information in regard to the Steven Smith case from Paul Murdoch's phone now I cannot confirm
that that's accurate I cannot confirm that that's true that is the rumor that was swirling around about the same time
that sled announces hey we're going to be doing a full investigation into this stepen Smith case what's interesting is
they weren't actively investigating the Steven Smith case at at the time as far as I could find and we'll get into that
and the reasons why but in regard to the Steven Smith case this to me is one of the biggest mysteries in the whole
Murdoch Saga what is this young man doing out in the middle of a country road in the
middle of the night all by himself when the driver finds him he's already expired by this point he's he's already
dead and thank God that that guy stopped and called into 911 because this is the middle of the
night it's pitch black out there anybody could have just could have run the body
over right which could tamper with the evidence at at at the scene and you know what I don't know how many Clues we have
at the scene but as you said it could have taken a bad crime scene and made it even worse from an investigation
evidentiary standpoint well let me just point this out again the the Smith case we're looking at it going look this is
maybe an accident maybe a hit and run but let's go back to that phone Paul's phone you have to remember in the
boating accident the cops knew that Paul's phone was there they should have collected Paul's phone as evidence and
they never did and clearly this is rumor and speculation but obviously something
during the course of that Paul and Maggie Murdock investigation LED them back to 19-year-old Step Smith who was
killed over 6 years prior in regard to this situation here Captain what we have here is the police are called to the
scene and they arrive on the scene of this what's got to look like a hit and run on the
surface they arrive at 4:00 a.m. where they found Steven lying in the road now he had a 7 and 1/2 in laceration on his
head his skull was crushed there was a gaping hole in his forehead and his shoulder was dislocated Steven's death
certificate says he died due to severe blunt force trauma to the Head the damage to Steven's face and head was so
horrific so bad at first it was thought to have been a gunshot wound right then investigators decided that it was a hit
and run but by all accounts there was zero that's a big fat zero evidence at the scene of a hit and run there's no
skid marks no no car parts no paint chips I mean there's there's no evidence of a vehicle having been involved in
whatever happened to step Smith again what we do know of this family is once there was a tragedy and there was a
there was a dead girl that they knew and instantly instead of caring about that loss and caring about that family's
suffering they instantly go into cover up mode and protect ourselves protect our family mode yeah and in here
in this situation with Steven Smith it it looks to me like they may not know the investigators may not know exactly
what they are dealing with here right some more things from the scene when Stevens found he's still has his shoes
on his phone and keys were still in his pocket and from what I've been told those are that's not typical of a hit
and run the other thing too is keep in mind the location and the time of day it's dark out there this is a country
road this is pretty open out there he would have been able to see a vehicle coming from a good distance away and
when investigating the this whole Saga really the first time that you hear about this evidence to me it seems more
like a drop point than it does an area that somebody would be hit by a car well and it also seems here captain that the
local authorities you know we have the the South Carolina Highway Patrol they're investigating they're responding
to the scene but it sounds like there was some squabbles over was this a a more traditional homicide or was it an
accident right the thing here is important that if it was if Steven was a victim or determined to be is what I
think we should say determined to be a victim of a homicide then the South Carolina Highway
Patrol would not be the investigating agency okay so they would hand that over to sled so that's why it's so
interesting that just three weeks after the double homicide of Paul and Maggie that we have sled coming out and saying
we are opening up an investigation into the death of Steven Smith it seems like something along the way has changed from
Hit and Run to homicide or at least that's the thought of law enforcement at the local level now the autopsy at the
time did not help to clarify things remember they're still arguing is this a homicide or some kind of hit and- run
accident the pathologist this is Dr Aaron prell ruled it to be a hit and run but was not able to really clarify why
she came to the conclusion other than to say that well he was found on the road so no real evidence pointing to it other
than where this poor young man was found out regardless though Captain the South
Carolina Highway Patrol will continue to investigate this case as it were back in
2015 Colonel could you give us some background on Stephen Smith yes it would be my pleasure there Captain as we said
Steph Smith was 19 years old at the time of his death uh just a young man with a
whole big bright future ahead of him he was a nursing student and Steph was working toward his life goal of Bec
becoming a doctor now interestingly enough we can tie him to this case in more ways than one and one way being
that he's a former classmate of Buster Murdoch you know we spent so much time in episodes one and two talking about
the youngest son Paul Murdoch but we didn't spend a whole lot of time about talking about Buster Murdoch the the
older of the two sons yeah the Murdoch family had the name Buster and they were going to use it for a dog but they never
got a dog so when they had a son they decided to use the name Buster now Steven's body was found about 10 miles
from the Murdoch's home which sounds really interesting on the surface but it was also you know his body is also found
less than 10 miles from his own home so I don't think that that really indicates
anything now per media reports quote his death has never been fully explained police files have suggested that Mr
Smith ran out of gas on the side of the road about three miles from where his body was found the gas cap was
reportedly dangling and open an older man who claimed to be in a relationship with Steven told investigators that he
had been on the phone with step and Steven told him that he was going to run out of gas and that some guys in a
pickup truck were harassing him and it has been mentioned before captain that he steveen his own words says that he
has been picked on from time to time from some of the guys in town well it's a small town and a lot of times you have
small minds and I would assume him growing up that he probably had some harassment coming from the guys about
his sexuality in January of 2016 the highway patrol Sergeant his name is Todd Proctor obtained a search
warrant for Steven Smith's phone and phone records the search warrant affidavit states that the death was
under mysterious circumstances saying quote the investigation has led to this individual not not being struck by a
vehical and possible Foul Play end quote we don't know what if anything was found
in those phone records but here we have the highway patrol doing their due diligence to check the victim's phone
records the highway patrol continued to investigate this case even though again they do not investigate homicides and
even though this case was believed to be a Murder by several Troopers looking into it but they didn't talk to many of
the people who were the subject of tips and this might be where they kind of dropped the ball a little bit here
captain from the tips that they're getting one of those people would have been Buster
Murdoch that they're hearing tips about Buster Murdoch and some of his friends but they're not actually speaking with
Buster and the these friends some attempts were made to speak with these individuals however when phone calls
went unanswered or emails went unreplied to it seemed to be that that was enough
to stop them from inquiring about Buster and his cronies a lot of this Captain is
coming from multiple sources and what's being said is that in the course of conducting interviews in the hit and run
mysterious death of Steven Smith in that case investigators heard the Murdoch name up more than 40 times is what I was
able to find more than half of the people interviewed had heard the same rumor that buster Murdoch was secretly
gay and involved with Steven Smith or had been involved with Steven Smith at some point again remember they were
classmates I believe the name of their high school that they both attended was Wade High School abc15 news reported
that case files indicated 10 of 18 people interviewed by highway patrol had mentioned Murdoch possibly being
involved in the death of Steven with some indicating Steven and Buster may have been in a
relationship however law enforcement was never able to formally tie Buster Murdoch to the case nor track down the
original source of some of these rumors additionally attempts to reach Buster for questioning when unanswered records
showed what happened was the highway patrol Sergeant Proctor called Buster to talk to him about stevenh Smith but
Buster conveniently never answered his phone so Proctor emailed him and never got a response and it appears that that
once that went down Captain Sergeant Proctor ran out of ideas and just kind of gave up on talking with Buster
Murdoch well again you have to remember this family has a lot of power in this community and so at least they trying to
investigate this at least they're trying to ask questions it's a sticky situation
I wish that it would have been pursued much more hardcore than that you have a situation where you're hearing You're
simply hearing rumors as the investigator that's all that this stuff is you cannot formally tie Buster to the
victim here you also can't get any hardcore evidence to tie the two of them together but you're hearing the same
rumor over and over again so it is something that does need to be tracked down and something that needs to be to
be sourced and and figure out why you are hearing this person's name his friend's names and why he's tied to the
story time and time again when you're talking with people that know the victim or that went to school with the victim
well you're hearing from his partner about the harassment you're hearing from others about his harassment and being
bullied that instantly takes this investigation not from just a murder but a hate crime more stiff penalties for
for that situation so like always the the murdochs seem to be not answering questions and trying to protect
themselves it looks like that in some point in 2016 the investigation into the mysterious death of Step Smith well that
case stalled and I don't know if we would call it a cold case but it's simply stalled out and this would be
until Paul Murdoch was shot dead when we have sled announcing that it was taking
a new look at the case again this is six years later well obviously since they found something from this double
homicide that led them to reopen this case the whole world is wondering how is this connected to the murdocks yeah
everybody's going to want to know answers to that question and many more but of course sled is not going to
address what the information was that that they gathered in the Murdoch investigation what may have led them to
Stephen Smith or why they're reopening this investigation and how it's linked to the
Murdoch case it's it's all very it's all very confusing but there's a lot of stuff that's obviously going on behind
the scenes here that we are just not privy to the Steven Smith case when sled and announced that they were going to be
examining the case this is when we have Steven's mother Sandy Smith she told Fitz news quote I've been waiting on
this day for 2,174 days wow she said that on the night that Steven died apparently Steven
ran out of gas but his mother has said publicly and repeatedly that she does not and will not believe that Steven was
accidentally hit by a vehicle she told the Hampton County Guardian that she believed her son's death was
the result of Foul Play and a Poss hate crime because her son was openly gay and
then we also have some other information coming from the family that it apparently at some point Stephen Smith
told his twin sister that he had a fling with a boy and that the boy he was involved with was privileged now we
don't have the sister naming any names just the fact that her brother told her that he was involved or had a fling with
a boy and it was a privileged boy or a boy from a privileged family law enforcement is not opening up their case
files for us to take a peak right M so when you hear these rumors time and time again you're going to go talk to the
community you're going to talk to people that went to school with them I guarantee you that they have
eyewitnesses or at least ear Witnesses that also heard these rumors just taking a look at what little information has
been put out there about the Steven Smith case and the Steven Smith crime scene he's found about three miles from
where they find his abandoned vehicle one point that I cannot shake is a fact that his mother has brought up time and
time again that her son would not have been out there walking the street trying to get somewhere trying to find gas and
then accidentally got hit by this vehicle I believe the general thought is that he was walking and he was walking
in the road and maybe a semitruck that didn't see him and apparently he didn't see the semi truck or was too close to
it that one of the mirors smacked him as it drove by hit him right in the head and that's why we don't have other
injuries to other parts of his body and just the head well that would make some sense that's the thought however
everybody knows to get the hell out of the way of the semi TR and again we pointed out he would have seen this
truck at a good distance away and then we have to factor in that whoever hit him never bothers to report it or didn't
know that they hit him but the thing that she says that I cannot shake and I have to keep circling back to is that
Steven had a cell phone with him that night she says I know my son he wouldn't have been out there walking he would
have called someone somebody would have went picked him up or somebody would have taken gas to him or he would have
called and got a ride from somebody I mean and we know he had some communication with his partner or
boyfriend according to that man yes right according to that man the thing is it troubles me and it really boggles my
mind to to discredit his mother and say you know what Not only would he not call
for help but he would walk 3 miles before an accident would occur I mean how long was he going to walk without
calling anybody it it just it doesn't ring true it doesn't ring true so what could have happened here is somebody
could have been harassing him he could have run out of gas just like the the man says that hey I was on the phone
with him says some guys in a a truck are harassing him and he's going to run out
of gas well that all could have went down that way and his car may have ended up on the
side of the road I don't argue that I don't think that he walked to where his body was later found and until somebody
can prove to me that that is the case I just have a hard time believing that the
Smith family had an open casket funeral for stepen and this was so everyone could see what was done to him his
mother Sandy said his head had to be reconstructed with Putty for the viewing and there was something else the day
that Steven passed away Randy Murdoch was the second person to call the family after the corer this is according to
Stevens's twin sister Stephanie she has said on the record repeatedly that on the day that her
brother was killed they receive a phone call from the corner so let them know that a loved one has
expired the second call that her father got received after being notified to the
of his son is from Randy Murdoch Alec Murdoch's brother he's saying Randy Murdoch is telling the father that he
wanted to take on the case and he would take on the case free of charge the family told police that they
thought that this offer was weird why would the murdocks offer to help free of charge seemingly out of the blue well
this is the same thing that they tried to do with the bo accident let's get somebody on the inside so we can control
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event well Captain all of this leadup is leading us to yet another mysterious death tied to the Murdoch family this is
the death of 57 7-year-old Gloria saterfield the housekeeper and nanny for the murdocks who had been employed by
them for 20 years she died after a strange slip and fall or trip and fall accident at the Murdock's home on
February 2nd 2018 now supposedly she tripped over the family dogs fell down the stairs hit her
head and suffered severe head trauma while hospitalized from the fall Gloria had a Str went into cardiac arrest and
then died on February 26th 2018 let's take a quick minute to listen to this news clip where they're going to
play a portion of that 911 call and we begin with that breaking news here at five sled released a 911 call as part of
the investigation into the death of former prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdoch's housekeeper Gloria
saterfield died in 2018 after falling at the Murdoch's family home according to a
report from the Colton County Sheriff's Office the 911 call was initially made from a person identified as Maggie take
a listen what's going on out there uh my housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding I cannot get her up okay you
said she's falling she's leading from the head yes okay is she on the ground or is she up near to she on the ground
she's on the ground she's on the ground she contous uh no not really is she awake at
all yes here's another clip where you'll hear Maggie and it's believed to be Paul
responding to the 911 operator she just not like responding appropriately but she is
awake man she's not no she's not responding okay I just I've already got them on the way and me asking questions
does not slow them down man knowing that she's conscious is one of the things that the medic needs to know she's
responding at all to you no do you know she's ever had a stroke or anything before ma'am can you stop asking I
already have them on the way I already have them on the way me asking questions does not slow them down in anyway these
are relevant questions that I have to ask for the ambulance not unconscious she's just mumbling okay I believe she's
maybe hit ahead and maybe has a concussion or something now obviously we don't have
the whole clip to analyze but it's pretty telling that both times when a member of the Murdoch family get get
irritated with the 911 operator that once they push back once the operator pushes back and says look me asking
these questions does not affect what time the ambulance is going to get there and these this is information we need to
know it goes from you know man why do you need to ask that I'm so annoyed to answering the
question not only by the mother but also by the son yeah and the trick thing here
is when you're looking at these 911 calls and and giving a little analysis on them look the you're right when when
you first get the push back from ma'am can you quit asking us all these questions basically is what again it's
reported to be Paul Murdoch who who says that on the 911 call you you go with the situation of of
thinking well they don't want the 911 operator asking too many questions because they don't know how to answer
them because whatever situation they are phoning in they might be telling lies or
making it up but as someone who's been in a situation where I've had to rely on 911 and calling for the help of others I
can I can kind of side with the murdocks here with Maggie and Paul in the regard
that in the situation I was in it was it was me by myself and the other person was
unresponsive and so I was caught in this catch22 situation of trying to answer the operator's questions but also
feeling like I need to be tending to the person that I'm calling about I found myself in a situation where I caught
myself getting a little frustrated with the operator because I felt like my time
was better served for the person that I was calling about so the but different circumstances because there's a whole
family there so it's not like he's going hey ma'am stop asking her these questions cuz she's tending to her they
have multiple people making this phone call so right every situation certainly is is different and unique and so I'm
just trying to offer a little a little aside here on why this might be because they don't come off well Paul and his
mother do not come off well sounding well in this this clip here and I'm not running
I'm not running to their defense but I'm just offering up information as to why they may come off as sounding arrogant
or frustrated with the operator I don't know that we should say that the whole family was at the home when this
accident took place that's not my understanding right of the situation so it very well may have just been Maggie
and Paul there along with Gloria saterfield regardless at the end of the day sadly Gloria succumb to her injuries
as said while in the hospital 24 days later she has a stroke and goes into cardiac arrest and then passes away the
aftermath is where things get really complicated for the murdocks and for this True Crime Story that we're trying
to tell here today and that's because in December of 2018 a lawsuit was filed on
behalf of the sder fields adult sons this lawsuit is filed against Alec Murdoch this was because as the story
goes according to the saterfield boys that at Gloria's funeral Alec tells the boys that look this is this is my
not necessarily his fault but something that he's somewhat responsible for because this happened at his home and
that he would take care of them by getting them money they deserve some money for the death of their mother and
that he would get them money from his personal liability insurance provider so most of us out there have insurance that
will cover us if some horrific accident like this were to take place or or whatever the situation is takes place at
your home right that somebody can be compensated and it doesn't have to be going after the the homeowner personally
well a lot of people do die from Falls and especially stair Falls and then you would ALS so the
initial story seems plausible anyways right the she gets caught up with the dogs she trips and falls mhm so Alec
Murdoch has a policy in place to protect him in the event of anything happening at his home so he says hey I'm going to
hook you up with an attorney and what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to sue me and then my
insurance company will take care of paying everybody so what he does is he quotee unquote hooks them up with Corey
Fleming remember Corey Fleming he's the lawyer that Alec got to represent Connor
Cook in the boating accident case right and Corey Fleming arranged for Chad westendorf a banker at paletto State
Bank to serve as the personal representative of Gloria's estate so Chad's job will be to represent her sons
and her son's interest is as far as lawsuits negotiations and settlements are concerned now per this plan we have
westendorf and Fleming they then file wrongful death suit on behalf of Gloria's estate against Alec Murdoch the
lawsuit raised a wrongful death claim but did not allege any criminality on the Murdoch's part and in court Alec
admitted that the accidental death had occurred in his home so his insurance company needed to pay up this is all
fairly common stuff but when you throw in a tragic boat accident a double homicide and then this weird foul play/
hit and run case all surrounding the same people well this then becomes a very sticky situation and and really
just another mystery along the way but here we have another situation Captain where Alec is getting involved and
look the the boat situation is one whole different mess entirely but this would be rather unconventional for a person to
come forward and arrange for the other party to sue themselves right like I'm I'm going to have you Captain sue me and
I'm going to help you do that by hooking you up with an attorney and telling you
what you should do and leading you to suing me yeah it all just comes off as very shady correct now anybody on the
outside looking in would say the same thing and go well this this seems very fishy where the things get dicey for all
parties involved and where things I think just get a little confusing for the sder fields is again the mother
Gloria she worked for the Murdo for 20 years this guy is a successful attorney he's a big time lawyer they trusted him
that's that's where a lot of problems seem to be in this case people trusting people that they find out much later
they probably really didn't know that person very well and had they known them the way that they know them now there
would be no trust this happens a lot I mean even with business anytime that there's a
serious business decision you should have Outsiders that are not connected to you help you so when this guy comes
forward and says hey look you should sue me and here's the lawyer to do so mhm you could easily say okay well this
lawyer is not Alex's brother it's not a family member but he is still connected to Alex so you go hey thanks for the
advice but no thank you because this is now a business transaction and I need to get somebody
that is not connected to the situation in any way shape or form mhm 10 months after the lawsuit Alex insurance company
settled for $555,000 to compensate Gloria Sons for their pain and suffering of this after
fees taken by the law firm the saterfield boys were supposed to see a payout of $475,000 then their attorney Corey
Fleming submitted a second wrongful death claim and pursuant to this in a second settlement a second insurance
company agreed to pay $4.3 million of this amount the boys were supposed to get $22.76 million after all the fees and
payments to their lawyers per an order signed by A1 judge Carmen Mullen on May 13
2019 well seems like this all worked out in the end per what Alec told the boys that
they should get for the loss of their mother however glorious Sons never got any money at all they didn't see any
money not only did they did they not get any money it sounds like they didn't know about the settlements at all this
until they read about it in the newspaper during the wake of the whole Murdoch Saga in
2021 and the report says quote they were never told of the settlements they were
never told of the Court hearings they were never told of the dispersements so even though they sign up to sue Alec
Murdoch their their attorney Corey Fleming kept them at a good distance to the point where they didn't know about
the settlements they didn't know about court hearings they didn't know that money was being paid out in those
lawsuits so what the heck's going on here well as our listeners can easily put it together this whole thing has
been engineered by Alec Murdoch his buddy Cory Fleming and then now they bring in another bad guy Chad
westendorf Corey Fleming as we pointed out was Alex Alec Murdoch's college roommate and The Godfather to his son
Paul a connection not disclosed to the saterfield sons according to their lawsuit and Chad westendorf took on the
role as a court appointed personal representative a fiduciary for the boys who was supposed to represent their
interest in the administration of the lawsuit instead it appears that the three men entered into a scheme to keep
the money legal fees of $1.4 million were collected by Fleming's firm in which he was named partner all right you
went out and you drummed up some good business for us guess what we're going to make you a partner and what
westendorf got we don't know but it was almost certainly a good chunk of change or at least fees racked up by his bank
and Alec Murdoch pocketed the rest yes you're hearing that right Alec Murdoch teamed up with some of his buddies and
shafted the Poor saterfield Boys at the same time as ripping off these insurance
companies and keeping the money for himself and for themselves I just want everybody to ponder this for a second
you have to understand that their mother died serving this family it is not until after the double
homicide years later what 3 years later they' learn oh by the way we did win those lawsuits and we were granted a lot
of money and that doesn't bring back their mother but it it helps out their family
quite a bit and they didn't find out that they were awarded that money like I said about three years later well they
instantly know that they're cheated right when they read that and see that in the newspaper that we actually won
these lawsuits and settled out of court unbeknownst to us so where the heck is all that money well this is going to
lead them to sue basically Alec Murdoch again but also now they're going to sue everybody that was involved Corey
Fleming Chad westendorf and the companies that they work for basically suing any person or entity that made
money the wrong way the first time around and they filed that suit in September of
2021 again this is because Alec Murdoch allegedly diverted more than 3.5 million in death
settlement money meant for the sder fields to an account controlled by him personally okay so the way that this
works out Captain is Alec directed Cory Fleming his good old buddy and pal to pay the death settlement monies intended
for the sder fields to an account called Forge at a po. box in Hampton South Carolina it's called Forge Forge now the
reason why he did this is there is another company a legitimate company named Forge Consulting LLC that often
did business with Alec Murdoch's private firmm PMP in structuring these payout settlements
so Alec used this name or created this fake company in a similar name to a legitimate company so this gets real
confusing when somebody tries to go back and forensically go through the paperwork and try to find out where
monies got misappropriated does that make sense yeah so the sder fields have no idea about about the settlements
furthermore the second settlement for $4.3 million was never placed in any public court docket so shady that's
right it was never placed in any public court docket the fact that the whole thing was done off the Record if you
nasty makes it clear that it was intended to be a secret this second claim was never filed in state court so
there is no public record of the settlement nothing is on the court record that's a direct quote from the
saterfield boys new attorney and look Captain to put it plain and simple this is not Kosher because under South
Carolina law settlement documents are supposed to be a matter of public record filed in State Court what this means is
that this was all done off the books under the table on the DL and was clearly fraudulent in short Alec Murdoch
Corey Fleming and west dorf used the saterfield boys as their pawns to line their own Pockets well and even if their
plan was well let's get this money not tell them about it I'm going to take this money turn it into more money so
then I get a little bit more of the pie but they still get their money it's still a sham well good news Captain
because in October of last year Cory Fleming and his Law Firm that he worked for agreed to a settlement with the
Saturday Fields Cory Fleming and his firm have agreed to pay back all legal fees and expenses and will pay full
policy limits to the saterfield estate now Cory Fleming he's forever cunning isn't he he's not admitting that he did
anything wrong on the contrary he claims that he too is a victim of Alec Murdoch
but his firm Cory Fleming's firm that he worked for in which he was once named partner
they're not buying it and neither am I after the settlement was announced they cut ties with Cory Fleming and the South
Carolina Supreme Court promptly suspended Corey Fleming's license to practice law this shows you the
character of Alec Murdoch you have somebody that served your family for all those years somebody
that should be as close as a family member to you and you straight lie to her sons and say do this and I'll help
get you the money that you should be awarded you get that money awarded to them from these
insurance companies that you probably have been scamming for years and you don't even tell him about
it I'm assuming the plan was for him to keep the money oh yeah and it just shows you how
big of a scumbag this guy is and then when you see Paul's actions when you s see Buster's actions
this this man with zero character just a low life scumbag no wonder they had not
a shred of good character in their body and what's amazing here to me Captain is
it looks to me that there's a strong possibility that the sder fields may have never sued Alec Murdock to begin
with and that Alec Murdoch pretty much spearheaded this whole lawsuit to begin with he sees their tragic loss these
boys and I keep calling them boys they're they're young men they were very close to their mother very close to
their mother and yet he sees their tragic loss as an opportunity for him to make a few bucks and it's just I mean
it's absolutely sickening now this other part there's more to the sder fields lawsuit and this part to me is extra
concerning Captain the sons made it clear the saterfield boys made it clear that they were never
informed what actually happened to their mother it seems as though people still have questions unanswered questions all
these years after Gloria's death as to exactly how she died in the Murdoch home per the New York Times quote Angela
topper the coroner in Hampton County South Carolina said the death was never reported to her office and no autopsy
was conducted now that Alec Murdoch's entire life is under a cloud of Suspicion the coroner requested a
reopening of the Gloria sder Fields death inquiry the problem with all this is you can't believe a word that comes
from anybody in the Murdoch family because for all we know it was an accident but you have to change the way
the event happens in order for it to be a slam dunk case against the insurance policy if that makes any sense MH yeah
what really happened to Gloria saterfield remains unclear on September 15th spurred by the
lawsuit by the sder fields alleging the fraudulent insurance settlement plot and
the from the coroner and all the rumors and suspicions surrounding Alec Murdoch sled announced that it was opening a
criminal investigation into the death of Gloria saterfield and also going to investigate the alleged misuse of the
insurance proceeds so for those keeping score we have one accidental death one family conned out of insurance money one
tragic boating accident one attempted cover up and a double homicide Colonel do we have
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This week we dive back into the very strange Murdaugh saga. Since 2015 there have been several mysterious deaths and murders all with ties to one family, the Murdaugh family of Hampton, South Carolina. Join us as we take a look at the unsolved murder of Stephen Smith and a weird death lawsuit from the sons of the Murdaugh’s long time housekeeper Gloria Satterfield. This week we wrap up our four part series about a family that is surrounded in mystery.

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Brief Summary

The episode examines Steven Smith's death and its ties to the Murdoch family, alongside Gloria Satterfield's suspicious death and insurance fraud allegations.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Steven Smith. A 19-year-old's lifeless body found on a country road raises questions about foul play.
SLED Reopens Investigation. Three weeks after the Murdoch double homicide, SLED announces a new investigation into Steven Smith's death.
Rumors of Connection. Investigators heard the Murdoch name over 40 times during interviews about Steven's death.
The Accident's Circumstances. Questions arise about how Steven ended up walking on the road at night.
The 911 Call. Tension escalates as family members react to the 911 operator's questions.
The Saterfield Settlement Mystery. The Saterfield sons discover they were awarded settlements without their knowledge.

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It seems like something along the way has changed.

Speculation about the shift in investigation focus.

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