Sons of Alex Murdaugh's dead housekeeper 'scared,' 'shell-shocked,' after SC lawyer's release to drug rehab
Fox News
The two sons of a 57-year-old housekeeper who died weeks after a mysterious fall at the home of prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh four years ago are absolutely “shell shocked,” their attorney tells Fox News, after Murdaugh was let out of a jail on a $20,000 personal recognizance bond and allowed to travel back to an out of state rehabilitation facility without GPS monitoring.
"They’re shell-shocked. They’re glad that an investigation is finally going to take place, but they learned of the investigation the same time that you did," Richter said Friday.
On Wednesday, the same day the sons’ civil lawsuit was filed in Hampton County, the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) opened a criminal investigation into the February 2018 death of Gloria Satterfield and the handling of her estate at the request of the Hampton County coroner.
By Thursday, Murdaugh, 53, turned himself in on charges relating to an alleged plot to have himself killed so that his surviving son, 26-year-old Buster, could cash out on a $10 million life insurance policy.