The state claims Alex Murdaugh stole more than $4 million in insurance money from the family of his late housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield.
Defense attorneys have portrayed the defendant as a loving father and husband being prosecuted after a poorly handled investigation while the real killers remain at large.Michael Satterfield, a son of Gloria Satterfield, who worked as housekeeper for the Murdaugh family for more than 20 years, testified in the second week of the murder trial. She died a few weeks after a fall at the Murdaugh home in 2018.
Malinowski, who testified at Laffitte's trial, told the court that Murdaugh's mounting debt to the bank was regularly covered, without justification, by loans from Laffite. The defense has fought the admissibility of the evidence in the murder case, asserting the fraud cases are irrelevant to the question of Murdaugh's guilt in the murders of his wife and son.
On Thursday, the chief financial officer of Murdaugh's former law firm testified about confronting the now-disbarred attorney about missing funds the morning his wife and son were killed.The morning of the murders, Seckinger confronted Murdaugh about $792,000 in missing funds, she said Thursday, testifying that legal fees should have been made payable to the law firm -- renamed to Parker Law Group after Murdaugh's ouster -- and not to individual attorneys.
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