Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Legal Heir Alex Murdaugh Housekeeper Body to be DUG UP
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Exhimation. That's a word you
- 0:17Speaker 1: don't hear very often, to exhume a body and other
- 0:21Speaker 1: words and regular people talk dig up a dead body.
- 0:26Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about in South Carolina. And of
- 0:30Speaker 1: course the Alex and Murdoid case. He's so called legal titan.
- 0:34Speaker 1: You know the thing about him. There are a lot
- 0:37Speaker 1: of dead bodies connected to him and his family, and
- 0:41Speaker 1: even now the murders of his wife Maggie and son
- 0:45Speaker 1: Paul remain unsolved as the body of his former housekeeper
- 0:52Speaker 1: is set to be dug up. I'm talking about fifty
- 0:57Speaker 1: seven year old Gloria Sadderfield. But why what do authority sled,
- 1:04Speaker 1: specifically South Carolina Law Enforcement Division? What do they hope
- 1:08Speaker 1: to gain by digging up this beloved mother. I'm Nancy Grace.
- 1:14Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
- 1:16Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation and serious XM one eleven. First
- 1:20Speaker 1: of all, take a listen to this our friends at
- 1:23Speaker 1: w LTx. The former housekeeper of Alec Murdoch died after
- 1:27Speaker 1: allegedly falling in the Murdoch home in twenty eighteen. But
- 1:31Speaker 1: now the State Law Enforcement Division says it just got
- 1:33Speaker 1: permission to exhume her remains. Soled says the process to
- 1:38Speaker 1: dig up Gloria's Sadderfield's body is complex and will likely
- 1:41Speaker 1: take weeks. This investigation is still ongoing. The housekeeper who
- 1:45Speaker 1: died after falling on stairs outside the home of once
- 1:48Speaker 1: prominent South Carolina attorney Alec Murdoch is set to be exhumed.
- 1:52Speaker 1: South Carolina authorities say they will recover and examine the
- 1:55Speaker 1: body of Gloria Sadderfield in the coming weeks. It's part
- 1:58Speaker 1: of the ongoing investigation into her death four years ago.
- 2:01Speaker 1: The original police report called Gloria Centerfield's death natural and
- 2:05Speaker 1: no autopsy was performed. This is the latest twist in
- 2:08Speaker 1: a Southern saga involving a series of deaths of individuals
- 2:12Speaker 1: close to Murdoch in multiple indictments against the lawyer for
- 2:16Speaker 1: financial fraud. Former South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon telling
- 2:21Speaker 1: NBC News after Murdoch's arrest in the fall, it's just
- 2:24Speaker 1: very difficult to see how he would not be serving
- 2:27Speaker 1: a very long prison sentence. You know, it took moving
- 2:31Speaker 1: a mountain to get any activity on this case. Gloria
- 2:37Speaker 1: Centerfield now dead and barry for four years plus and
- 2:42Speaker 1: now something's being done about it. You originally were hearing
- 2:46Speaker 1: our friends over at WLTX, but then you heard from
- 2:50Speaker 1: our friend Von Hilliard at NBC with me an all
- 2:54Speaker 1: star panel of guests to make sense of what we
- 2:56Speaker 1: know right now again, I mean, NC Grace, this is
- 2:59Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at Fox
- 3:01Speaker 1: Nation and series XM one eleven. You know it kind
- 3:05Speaker 1: of makes you think that there's a rich man's justice. Okay,
- 3:09Speaker 1: I don't like that because this guy, Alex Murdog was
- 3:15Speaker 1: one of a dynasty of so called legal titans. This
- 3:21Speaker 1: is the deal. His dad, his grandfather, I don't know
- 3:24Speaker 1: how far it goes back. Have been the prosecutors in
- 3:28Speaker 1: that jurisdiction then, which I do not understand how this
- 3:32Speaker 1: was allowed. They had a civil law firm as well,
- 3:36Speaker 1: so how did that work? They would prosecute a case
- 3:40Speaker 1: for crime victims and then somehow get their hands in
- 3:43Speaker 1: the victims pockets and represent them in civil court and
- 3:47Speaker 1: take a cut of the winnings. It's just, you know,
- 3:51Speaker 1: it stinks, And all this discussion about millions of dollars
- 3:57Speaker 1: Alex Murdog has managed to siphon, including the money from
- 4:01Speaker 1: Gloria Satterfield's insurance settlement four million dollars, the housekeeper that
- 4:07Speaker 1: failed down the steps four million dollars win in his pocket?
- 4:11Speaker 1: What judge signed off on all of that? Millions and
- 4:16Speaker 1: millions of dollars in dirty money again, our all star
- 4:22Speaker 1: panel joining us first of all, Susan Williams, South Carolina
- 4:25Speaker 1: criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor, and you can find her
- 4:29Speaker 1: at s Williams dash Law dot net. Karen Stark where
- 4:34Speaker 1: noown psychologists, joining us out of New York. You can
- 4:37Speaker 1: find her at Karen Stark dot com. Karen with a See,
- 4:40Speaker 1: Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My
- 4:44Speaker 1: Feet on Amazon and Starvin You hit series Bodybags with
- 4:48Speaker 1: Joseph Scott Morgan on iHeart. Steve Helling joining me senior writer,
- 4:53Speaker 1: People dot com and special guests Joining us today, Skip Hobland,
- 4:58Speaker 1: the founder Scwatchdog dot com. Mmmm, He's got his eyes
- 5:06Speaker 1: on corruption all across South Carolina. First of you. Steve Helling,
- 5:10Speaker 1: my longtime friend and colleague. Can find him on Twitter
- 5:13Speaker 1: at Steve Helling and author of Outrage the Casey Anthony's Story.
- 5:18Speaker 1: That's a story that never gets old. Steve Helling, Steve,
- 5:21Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. I mean, now we
- 5:25Speaker 1: are hearing that the body of Gloria Satterfield is going
- 5:29Speaker 1: to be exhumed. What happened. I mean, that was what
- 5:35Speaker 1: we were hoping was going to happen. We thought that
- 5:36Speaker 1: was going to happen. But we had, you know, the
- 5:39Speaker 1: authority for you to get the family's permission, which the
- 5:42Speaker 1: family has happily done. So yes, it could take it
- 5:46Speaker 1: could take weeks. But they're going to exhume the body
- 5:49Speaker 1: and they're going to see if there's anything that's fishy
- 5:51Speaker 1: there based on you know, this slip and fall accident
- 5:55Speaker 1: that happened, you know a few years ago, you know,
- 5:57Speaker 1: right off at the gate Jess goot Morgan, death investigator.
- 6:01Speaker 1: This stinks a mile away because even if everything we've
- 6:05Speaker 1: been told is true, it's still wrong. And you know
- 6:09Speaker 1: why you don't fall down steep outdoor steps and die
- 6:14Speaker 1: and that be called natural cause of death. That's at
- 6:20Speaker 1: the very least an accident paired with Alex Burlogu pocketing
- 6:25Speaker 1: four million dollars of life insurance policy on his maid. Seriously,
- 6:31Speaker 1: nobody saw a red flag waving. You know, you might
- 6:34Speaker 1: as well get the weekend, which to the west to
- 6:36Speaker 1: put murdog is stealing across the sky. For Pete's sake,
- 6:40Speaker 1: what has it taken that jurisdiction? You know when when
- 6:43Speaker 1: Miss Sadderfield rolled into the hospital, when they took her there,
- 6:48Speaker 1: you know, they knew that she had sustained trauma, Nancy,
- 6:51Speaker 1: trauma is not natural. As a matter of fact. Under
- 6:54Speaker 1: South Carolina's statue, if somebody dies as a result of violence,
- 6:59Speaker 1: now it does necessarily mean homicidal violence. It just means
- 7:02Speaker 1: violence that can be an accident. That death has to
- 7:05Speaker 1: be reported to the corner in this case. Okay, what wait, wait, wait,
- 7:10Speaker 1: you got me drinking on the fire hygien again too much.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Defase death by violence, you mean like a violent fall
- 7:15Speaker 1: down the steps you're in, Go ahead, It's an unnatural event.
- 7:20Speaker 1: I think people have floated things like you know, dogs
- 7:22Speaker 1: getting in our way, trips over dogs, all of this
- 7:26Speaker 1: kind of thing like this. At the you know, at
- 7:29Speaker 1: the close, you have to have another set of eyes
- 7:31Speaker 1: on this. I don't care how long the individual has
- 7:33Speaker 1: been in the hospital. I've participated in autopsies, Nancy, where
- 7:36Speaker 1: people have been in an ICU for up to three years.
- 7:39Speaker 1: In an unconscious state, but they arrived as a result
- 7:41Speaker 1: of a violent act. We still have to document that.
- 7:45Speaker 1: And they're gonna have a lot to work with here
- 7:47Speaker 1: because hopefully they did mriyes and cts and all those
- 7:50Speaker 1: sorts of things while she was in the hospital and
- 7:52Speaker 1: then when when they do finally get her body, Nancy,
- 7:56Speaker 1: the thing about an eximation, a thing about trauma is
- 7:59Speaker 1: it doesn't go. Can let me ask you something just
- 8:02Speaker 1: got Morgan with me, Professor Forensics. I want you to
- 8:06Speaker 1: hear something in our cut one. This is Attorney Eric
- 8:09Speaker 1: Bland and he is talking to anchor Cody Alcorn on
- 8:13Speaker 1: Fox Carolina. Listen to what we learn. Murdoch said. At
- 8:19Speaker 1: the funeral, Alex went to the family and said, look,
- 8:22Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I feel horrible. My dogs
- 8:25Speaker 1: were the cause of your mom falling and ultimately she
- 8:29Speaker 1: died because of that. And I'm gonna, you know, take
- 8:33Speaker 1: the boys, who are the only heirs she died intestate,
- 8:36Speaker 1: so under South Carolina law, they're the only heirs. I'm
- 8:39Speaker 1: going to take him to a lawyer, I know, and
- 8:42Speaker 1: that lawyer is going to make claims against me for
- 8:46Speaker 1: the death your mother called wrongful death and a survival claim.
- 8:49Speaker 1: Could she survived three weeks? And I'm going to turn
- 8:52Speaker 1: them over to all my insurance companies. And you know,
- 8:56Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, and it's our fault. You know,
- 8:59Speaker 1: the dogs should not have been unruly and they shouldn't
- 9:02Speaker 1: have been altogether like that too, you know, knock your
- 9:06Speaker 1: mother over and I'm going to admit liability. Okay, where
- 9:09Speaker 1: you're hearing the lawyer Eric Bland recounting Murdog's statements at
- 9:15Speaker 1: Miss Satterfield's funeral. Now, that's the first we've heard Alex
- 9:21Speaker 1: Murdog stating that Gloria Centerfield is dead because of a dog.
- 9:27Speaker 1: I mean, Karen Stark blaming it on the dog. I
- 9:31Speaker 1: thought we only you only did that when your homework
- 9:33Speaker 1: went missing. Yeah, the whole story doesn't make a lot
- 9:36Speaker 1: of the dog, did it do? It's a dog story,
- 9:39Speaker 1: right when you think about you know, how many people
- 9:43Speaker 1: trip over a dog and die and loved test statistics
- 9:46Speaker 1: on that trip over a dog and die? You know,
- 9:50Speaker 1: you know what our minds you have, Karen start how
- 9:52Speaker 1: many cases have we covered where a child, an infant,
- 9:57Speaker 1: is just beaten to death and and the father goes, oh,
- 10:02Speaker 1: she fell out of the high chair, or she fell
- 10:05Speaker 1: off the diaper changing table. You fall three feet and
- 10:08Speaker 1: you're dead. This is like the same thing here. She
- 10:12Speaker 1: tripped over the dog and she's dead. That sounds very
- 10:15Speaker 1: fantastical to me. Karon's stark. I agree, Nancy just doesn't
- 10:19Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. I mean, I have dog boy.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Do you you know? They're this big and they sound
- 10:24Speaker 1: like they're on a like a microphone. They're like each
- 10:29Speaker 1: one is like five pounds of lung. But how you
- 10:33Speaker 1: haven't tripped over those dogs and broken your foot I
- 10:35Speaker 1: don't know, but I don't think you would die because
- 10:38Speaker 1: but apparently skip Hogeland joining me out of South Carolina,
- 10:41Speaker 1: the founder of scwatchdog dot Com. I guess that's okay
- 10:45Speaker 1: in that jurisdiction for a woman to a young woman.
- 10:49Speaker 1: She's fifty seven years old, she's got her whole life
- 10:51Speaker 1: in front of her, she said, the prime of her life,
- 10:55Speaker 1: and she's bleeding profusely from the head and the left,
- 11:01Speaker 1: and somebody signed off that that was unnatural cause of death. Nancy,
- 11:06Speaker 1: I hope I'm the most outspoken person here today. I
- 11:10Speaker 1: got a real simple take on this. My guess is
- 11:13Speaker 1: these is the is the murder cases will never be
- 11:16Speaker 1: solved until Alex Murdock is sentenced to life in prison.
- 11:19Speaker 1: If he in fact committed these murders, which seems highly likely,
- 11:23Speaker 1: why would he confess if he knows he's gonna walk
- 11:25Speaker 1: free in five to ten five to ten years, So
- 11:28Speaker 1: we have to who knows where this is gonna end up.
- 11:31Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna I'm gonna speak real, frank,
- 11:34Speaker 1: if you in South Carolina can be trusted from the
- 11:36Speaker 1: bottom to the top. South Carolina watchdog dot Com has
- 11:39Speaker 1: called judges line committee of mouthfeasance, called the FBI the
- 11:43Speaker 1: Attorney General line, I arrest dr non enforcing tact evasion,
- 11:47Speaker 1: nonprofit violations. You tend to lose faith in our legal
- 11:50Speaker 1: system and it's just become it's become so bad. And
- 11:55Speaker 1: the other thing is with the with the judge mouthfeasance.
- 12:00Speaker 1: This is an area of law that South Carolina's fear
- 12:02Speaker 1: because it puts them into position where they may be
- 12:05Speaker 1: accusing a judge. You will later hear their other cases. Well,
- 12:07Speaker 1: my question is about the cause of death. How can
- 12:10Speaker 1: you be bleeding from your ear and your head profusely
- 12:15Speaker 1: mumbling just confused, can't stand up, you die. How can
- 12:20Speaker 1: that possibly be passed off as natural causes like you
- 12:24Speaker 1: die of a heart attack or you die in your
- 12:26Speaker 1: sleep at age ninety nine? How can that be. I've
- 12:29Speaker 1: never heard of that before. It's impossible. I don't believe it.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I mean, what about it, Joe Scott, It's totally follow
- 12:35Speaker 1: up always skip Holand is saying, if you haven't been
- 12:38Speaker 1: in the criminal business, Jo Scott, you may not. Well
- 12:41Speaker 1: you shouldn't know. I hope you don't know that. There
- 12:44Speaker 1: are X number of causes of death. You've got homicide,
- 12:48Speaker 1: You've got natural causes like you die of pneumonia. You've
- 12:53Speaker 1: got did I say accident? Accident, homicide, natural determined, undetermined,
- 13:01Speaker 1: and suicide, thank you, suicide. That's it. Those are the choices.
- 13:06Speaker 1: Those are the five choices. Nothing else under cause of death.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Then you got matter of death. For instance, I could
- 13:13Speaker 1: say just got more gun died of homicide and that
- 13:19Speaker 1: would be the cause of death. The manner of death
- 13:22Speaker 1: would be, let's just pretend gunshot one, all right, So
- 13:25Speaker 1: there's an MD in a cod No, you're right, there's
- 13:28Speaker 1: five five manners. And I tell everybody that I teach
- 13:31Speaker 1: because this is specifically what I teach that there is
- 13:34Speaker 1: an umbrella of death. Oh, that sounds like a great book.
- 13:39Speaker 1: It's homicide, homicide, natural, unexplained or undetermined, suicide, accidental. And
- 13:46Speaker 1: so you've got these five and then everything else, all
- 13:49Speaker 1: of the causes, gunshot one, cancer, anything, it'll fall beneath
- 13:54Speaker 1: one of those categories under that umbrella. So I don't
- 13:57Speaker 1: totally see bass Ackwards go ahead, and there's no way
- 14:01Speaker 1: you can you can sell this to anybody. Well, somebody
- 14:05Speaker 1: bought it. Somebody bought it. She's bleeding from her ear
- 14:08Speaker 1: in profusely out of her head, and somebody okayed and
- 14:13Speaker 1: signed off natural causes like she died in her sleep. Okay, guys,
- 14:17Speaker 1: where does it all start? And you know, Susan Williams
- 14:20Speaker 1: that are in South Carolina trial lawyer, former prosecutor Susan Williams.
- 14:25Speaker 1: I love nothing more than playing a nine one one call,
- 14:29Speaker 1: preferably in my opening statement. But to do that, you
- 14:33Speaker 1: have to have emotional lemonye and you've got to get
- 14:35Speaker 1: it introduced into evidence, because anything the jury sees or
- 14:39Speaker 1: hears or touches has to be admitted into evidence, and
- 14:42Speaker 1: you normally do that through a witness, so it's kind
- 14:44Speaker 1: of hard to get one in in an opening statement.
- 14:47Speaker 1: Why is it so powerful, Susan Williams, You're a veteran
- 14:52Speaker 1: trial lawyer to play that nine one one call in
- 14:55Speaker 1: front of a jury. Explain, Nancy. It's because it's a
- 14:57Speaker 1: snapshot of exactly is going on at that moment in
- 15:03Speaker 1: that particular location, and there's really nothing else that can
- 15:07Speaker 1: put you at the seam like that, like a no
- 15:10Speaker 1: one one't call. Yeah, I love him, and that is
- 15:12Speaker 1: why I'm gonna play it for your right now. Susan Williams.
- 15:15Speaker 1: Take a listen to I wur cut a. Remember Maggie Murdog,
- 15:20Speaker 1: the wife who is now dead. She and her son
- 15:23Speaker 1: Paul shot dead in the same place. They're all dying
- 15:29Speaker 1: around Alex Murdog's mansion and hunting a lodge. Take a
- 15:33Speaker 1: listen to the nine on one call about Glorious Sadterfield's
- 15:36Speaker 1: death four one four seven Murdie Roads. I'm sorry, what's
- 15:45Speaker 1: going on there? My housekeeper has followed and leaving. I
- 15:50Speaker 1: cannot get her up. Okay, you said she's falling leading
- 15:54Speaker 1: from the head. Yeah, oh how I'm not sure? Like
- 16:00Speaker 1: fifty eight maybe you know if she fell from standing
- 16:05Speaker 1: or not? No, so where she fall from? She felt
- 16:12Speaker 1: going up the steps, but the first steps okay, so
- 16:15Speaker 1: she had better on time outside? So tim, how many
- 16:20Speaker 1: steps are there? Eight? Okay? If she on the ground
- 16:28Speaker 1: or she knows on the ground, she's on the ground.
- 16:31Speaker 1: She's on the ground. Contract but no, not really is
- 16:35Speaker 1: she awake at all? Yeah? Okay, Okay, she sounds really calm.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Does she sound calm? Do you? Steve Helling, Steve Helling
- 16:44Speaker 1: joining me from people dot com. What about it? Say?
- 16:46Speaker 1: I mean, yes, she sounds very calm. I mean I
- 16:49Speaker 1: sometimes understand that you could be in shock when you
- 16:52Speaker 1: see something and that you don't get, you know, hysterical
- 16:55Speaker 1: about it. So I'll give her kind of a path
- 16:57Speaker 1: on that. But I will say that it was just
- 17:00Speaker 1: it felt like a very clinical phone call, you know,
- 17:02Speaker 1: Yes it did. Yeah, so so And I don't even
- 17:06Speaker 1: know what to read into that is. I don't know
- 17:09Speaker 1: what to think about that now, Steve Helling, Um, Steve
- 17:12Speaker 1: joining us from people dot com. We've done We've covered
- 17:15Speaker 1: a lot of cases together, Steve Helling. We know that Maggie,
- 17:19Speaker 1: who you're hearing on the nine one one call reporting
- 17:22Speaker 1: Gloria Senterfille's fall is dead. She was shot really badly
- 17:28Speaker 1: outside the hunting lodge belonging to Alex Murdock. Her husband
- 17:34Speaker 1: also shot at the same time, her young son, Paul Murdock.
- 17:39Speaker 1: They've got another son who's still alive, but Paul and
- 17:43Speaker 1: Maggie shot dead outside the hunting lodge off Mozille. Where
- 17:48Speaker 1: did Gloria Centerfield fall down the steps bag place? So,
- 17:52Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's certainly, it certainly seems like
- 17:56Speaker 1: there's a real trail of tragedy following this. I guess
- 18:00Speaker 1: that's one way you're looking at it, a trail of tragedy.
- 18:04Speaker 1: Now you've got two other dead bodies connected to Alex
- 18:08Speaker 1: murdog and that would be Mallory Beach, the nineteen year
- 18:12Speaker 1: old girl that was thrown off the Murdoch boat to
- 18:17Speaker 1: her death, floating in the water for days and days.
- 18:19Speaker 1: Then you've got Stephen Smith, the teen boy that was
- 18:23Speaker 1: found in the road not far from their hunting lodge.
- 18:26Speaker 1: It was said it was a hit and run, but
- 18:29Speaker 1: long story short, he looked like he had been beaten
- 18:31Speaker 1: to smithereens like with a baseball bat. Do I have
- 18:35Speaker 1: all the dead bodies so far. Oh woa, then you
- 18:38Speaker 1: got the murdake grandfather who died of natural causes. Anybody
- 18:42Speaker 1: else dead that we know of, I don't think that.
- 18:45Speaker 1: I can't think of anybody else. But you know, there's
- 18:48Speaker 1: still investigations going on. Lord only knows what they'll find. Okay, guys,
- 18:52Speaker 1: we're listening to the night Wanta call and there's more
- 18:54Speaker 1: of it. Listen responding appropriately. But she is a weak man,
- 19:00Speaker 1: she's not she's not fun. Okay, I just I've already
- 19:04Speaker 1: got them on the way, and me asking questions does
- 19:07Speaker 1: not show them down. Man. Knowing if she's conscious is
- 19:12Speaker 1: one of the things that the medic needs to know.
- 19:14Speaker 1: If she's a smile up all to you. No, so
- 19:18Speaker 1: she's not responsive at all? Well, I mean she's mumbling, okay,
- 19:23Speaker 1: so she is somewhat conscious. Um. Is she breathing? Okay? Yeah?
- 19:29Speaker 1: Is she bleeding from anywhere? Yeah? Her head? Hey, are
- 19:33Speaker 1: you guys able to control the bleeding? No can dragging
- 19:38Speaker 1: on it? Yeah, I got it, Okay, bleeding from like
- 19:41Speaker 1: her face, the back of the head? Form word? Where
- 19:48Speaker 1: exactly she bleeding from? Mine? I'm not sure. At the
- 19:51Speaker 1: top of her head? Okay, gosh, is that really necessarily
- 19:56Speaker 1: to you just got Morgan. It's Maggie could be helping
- 20:01Speaker 1: Gloria Sadderfield and she's on a landline. She can't move
- 20:05Speaker 1: down to Maggie. So why all the questions? Can't emt
- 20:09Speaker 1: deal with it when they get there? Well, they could,
- 20:11Speaker 1: but it's important that they that they have an assessment
- 20:13Speaker 1: when they roll up. Remember these guys on the truck
- 20:15Speaker 1: they're rolling up, they're getting they're feeding them this information
- 20:19Speaker 1: as they're as they're rolling up. And if I remember correctly,
- 20:23Speaker 1: the sun was there as well, Nancy. He should be
- 20:27Speaker 1: offering aid and they're kind of communicating between the two
- 20:30Speaker 1: and that gets kind of interesting speaking of the sun.
- 20:32Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. Let's take a listen to him. This
- 20:35Speaker 1: is now dead, now murdered, Paul Murdock. Listen, Oh well,
- 20:42Speaker 1: what happens to sell back down? Can I get off
- 20:45Speaker 1: the phone? Go down? Then? Can I have your name
- 20:47Speaker 1: the phone number? Are you able to be burying the
- 20:49Speaker 1: phone down by her? What are you on a cell
- 20:53Speaker 1: phone where you can walk down there and walked her?
- 20:56Speaker 1: Can you bring it with you so we can ask
- 20:58Speaker 1: her some questions about what kind of paint is having? Hello? Yeah,
- 21:04Speaker 1: and can you have the facial amount pamee she's having?
- 21:07Speaker 1: Then she can't call? Okay? Do you know she's cracked
- 21:11Speaker 1: the hood and the blood on the country. She breathed
- 21:13Speaker 1: out of her left here. Okay, she's playing out of
- 21:16Speaker 1: her hair and out of her head. She's goal okay,
- 21:21Speaker 1: all right. The other lady said she had tried to
- 21:23Speaker 1: stand up and all down again. She I was holding
- 21:27Speaker 1: her up, Okay. She told me to trying to loosen.
- 21:30Speaker 1: She's trying to use her own but then she fell
- 21:32Speaker 1: back over. Okay. Do you guys know who she is? Yes?
- 21:36Speaker 1: She works for Okay Time Stories with Nancy Grace and
- 21:55Speaker 1: can you have the facial acount pamee she's having? Then
- 21:57Speaker 1: she can't call. Okay. Do you know she cuts the
- 22:01Speaker 1: hood and there's broad on the concourt and to breathe
- 22:03Speaker 1: out of her left here? Okay, she's bleeding out of
- 22:06Speaker 1: her here and out of her head school okay, all right.
- 22:12Speaker 1: The other lady so that she had tried to stand
- 22:14Speaker 1: up and fell down again. She I was holding her up, Okay.
- 22:19Speaker 1: She told me to try to loose, and she's trying
- 22:20Speaker 1: to use her on but then she fell back over. Okay,
- 22:23Speaker 1: do you guys know who shears, Yes, she works for Okay,
- 22:27Speaker 1: I'm telling you it hadn't no one. Operators getting really irritating.
- 22:31Speaker 1: Got a woman possibly bleeding out down at the bottom
- 22:34Speaker 1: of the steps, and she's going on and on and on.
- 22:37Speaker 1: But guys, you've got to see the back drop to
- 22:40Speaker 1: what we're hearing right now. Take a listen to our
- 22:42Speaker 1: cut l from our friends at Fox Carolina. Gloria Sadderfield
- 22:46Speaker 1: died from a fall while in the Murdoch home back
- 22:48Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. Her sons were owed over four million
- 22:52Speaker 1: dollars in life insurance money. Murdoch was acqu has been
- 22:55Speaker 1: bazling that money, and today a new judgment reveals he
- 22:58Speaker 1: admitted to stealing those funds. This confession means he will
- 23:01Speaker 1: have to pay the sadder Field Suns four point three
- 23:04Speaker 1: million dollars. Murdoch faces a long list of charges related
- 23:08Speaker 1: to other estates. The Attorney General's Office says he worked
- 23:12Speaker 1: with his long time for Random Bank ceowed to steal
- 23:14Speaker 1: money owed to clients and use it for personal use.
- 23:18Speaker 1: Representatives for the Sadderfield Suns say they will work to
- 23:21Speaker 1: hold all those involved accountable. Now, the attorney for Glorious
- 23:25Speaker 1: Sadderfield Suns say they planned to use some of the
- 23:28Speaker 1: settlement money to start a foundation in her memory. They
- 23:30Speaker 1: plan to hold a news conference with more information in
- 23:33Speaker 1: the coming weeks to save Helen joining us from people
- 23:36Speaker 1: dot com what personal use? But how did Alex murdog
- 23:42Speaker 1: get his hands on a four point three million dollars
- 23:47Speaker 1: life insurance settlement that was for glorious Sadderfield children. Well,
- 23:51Speaker 1: the interesting thing is that there were actually two settlements
- 23:55Speaker 1: from two different insurance companies on this. The family knew
- 23:59Speaker 1: about one of them, but they did not know about
- 24:02Speaker 1: the other, and they were by the time, you know,
- 24:06Speaker 1: they were still waiting for payment for the smaller one,
- 24:09Speaker 1: while there was a payout for four you know, for
- 24:11Speaker 1: millions of dollars on the second one that the family
- 24:14Speaker 1: didn't even know existed. And that is the money that
- 24:19Speaker 1: um that you know, Alex Murdock is accused of taking.
- 24:24Speaker 1: So okay, skip Hogeland. How is it that some judge
- 24:28Speaker 1: somewhere signed off or thought it was okay for Alex
- 24:32Speaker 1: and Murdo to have his fingers in the cookie jar
- 24:37Speaker 1: in a lawsuit against himself and that the money be
- 24:42Speaker 1: given to him. I don't understand this well, you know,
- 24:46Speaker 1: here's why Judge Carmen Mullin tip of fuzz the outlaws
- 24:49Speaker 1: and dirty black robes classification. Well what who Who's Judge
- 24:54Speaker 1: Carmen Who Carmen Mullinka Mullin is on the set of
- 24:57Speaker 1: Field case. That's the judge on the Ria Sadderfield case.
- 25:01Speaker 1: That's that's correct, and I'm just on the civil case.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Judge Mullin was accused of allowing disgraced lawyer Alex Murdoch
- 25:09Speaker 1: to hide the four point three million payout from the
- 25:12Speaker 1: wrongful depth lawsuit for his housekeeper, which was supposed to
- 25:15Speaker 1: go to her grieving family. And this story goes on
- 25:18Speaker 1: and on and on and so um and and the
- 25:22Speaker 1: family never received the full payout, and we're told and
- 25:26Speaker 1: we're not told of the settlement. And then David Pasco
- 25:29Speaker 1: has now filed an official complaint saying that Mullins signed
- 25:32Speaker 1: off in the settlement knowing that it would be kept
- 25:34Speaker 1: in the public view. So wait a minute, let me
- 25:36Speaker 1: understand something, Skip Hoogland the judge. You're saying Judge Mullins
- 25:41Speaker 1: signed off on murdog getting the money. That's what That's
- 25:49Speaker 1: how these facts have laid out. And also in David
- 25:53Speaker 1: Pascoe's complaint of the testimony given last a month by
- 25:57Speaker 1: Chad west Westendorf, the vice president of Hampton County based
- 26:01Speaker 1: Palmla State Bank and alleged coals and he was an
- 26:04Speaker 1: alleged co conspirator in the scheme to steal the four
- 26:07Speaker 1: point three million from the family of the Murdoch's housekeepers.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Western Door testified that Mullin signed the order knowing it
- 26:15Speaker 1: would it would not be filed in the public record.
- 26:18Speaker 1: According to the complaint, there's now sworn testimony establishing that
- 26:23Speaker 1: Judge Mulland signed the sadder Field Order made thirteenth, two
- 26:27Speaker 1: nineteen knowing it would not be filed to prevent the
- 26:32Speaker 1: litigants in the Mallory Beach matter from learning about Murdoch's
- 26:35Speaker 1: insurance coverage and his settlement with the saddled Fields estate.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Who wait, wait, wait, wait wait, that's a lot, Steve Holling,
- 26:43Speaker 1: This monster has tentacles all the way through the courthouse.
- 26:48Speaker 1: Did you hear what Hogland is saying. He's saying that
- 26:52Speaker 1: a judge signed off on this four point three I
- 26:55Speaker 1: think it's four point three million dollars settlement knowing that
- 27:00Speaker 1: it was I guess sealed, and that the other people
- 27:05Speaker 1: suing Alex Mortaw specifically Mallory Beaches family, the team girl
- 27:10Speaker 1: they died on the Mornon boat, being thrown off the
- 27:13Speaker 1: boat so they couldn't see it. It's just getting worse.
- 27:17Speaker 1: It's like a giant, nasty snowball going down the mountain,
- 27:21Speaker 1: getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And you know, it's
- 27:24Speaker 1: funny because you always hear about these, you know, these
- 27:28Speaker 1: small communities and the corruption that can go on, and
- 27:31Speaker 1: you know, and the old Boys network and everything. I
- 27:34Speaker 1: don't know that I've ever seen it so blatant as
- 27:36Speaker 1: I'm seeing it in this case. You know, It's just
- 27:41Speaker 1: when has there ever been a settlement that is sealed
- 27:45Speaker 1: to the fact, to the point where other people won't
- 27:47Speaker 1: even know that it happened, including the plaintiffs. It's it's absurd.
- 27:53Speaker 1: I mean, Susan E. Williams joining me South Carolina criminal
- 27:56Speaker 1: defense attorney and former prosecutor, these serious allegations that a
- 28:04Speaker 1: judge or judges, bank officials, I don't even know who
- 28:08Speaker 1: else would somehow be complicit in taking people some money,
- 28:13Speaker 1: millions of dollars. I mean, somebody had to okay all
- 28:17Speaker 1: this well, although Pascoe had a solicitor, Pasco has filed
- 28:22Speaker 1: a complaint against Judge Mullin. Judge Mullin has not been
- 28:28Speaker 1: publicly reprimanded or anything like that in the state of
- 28:30Speaker 1: South Carolina. So I believe that there is still you know,
- 28:37Speaker 1: whatever went on there, there's there hasn't been any proof.
- 28:41Speaker 1: There hasn't been anything that's come out and said that
- 28:43Speaker 1: she's done anything that was not something that she should
- 28:49Speaker 1: have done. I mean, it's it's nothing. The bar, the
- 28:52Speaker 1: South Carolina Bar has not recognized that in any way.
- 28:57Speaker 1: So it may or may not be true. It's correct.
- 29:00Speaker 1: Somebody had to sign off on this settlement, didn't they.
- 29:03Speaker 1: I mean, someone had to allow the disbursement of the
- 29:06Speaker 1: funds four point three million dollars because its sure as
- 29:08Speaker 1: hey did not go to the family. Someone had to
- 29:11Speaker 1: sign off that. That does not mean they were complicit. Necessarily,
- 29:14Speaker 1: does not necessarily mean that. Okay, I'm just you know
- 29:16Speaker 1: what immediately came to mind, Jackie. Do you remember the
- 29:19Speaker 1: huge apartment tower, condo tower in Florida that just fell
- 29:26Speaker 1: down in the middle of a day and all the
- 29:29Speaker 1: people they could hear people in the rebels screaming crying
- 29:32Speaker 1: and begging for help, and they couldn't identify them, and
- 29:36Speaker 1: they were trying to dig them out of all that scent. Well,
- 29:38Speaker 1: somebody signed off on that building and that structure and
- 29:43Speaker 1: the upkeep and the maintenance of that. So what they
- 29:46Speaker 1: weren't complicit? I don't know. I don't know all the
- 29:50Speaker 1: facts surrounding us, but I know this. They're sure as
- 29:54Speaker 1: hey better be some kind of investigation, because it's not
- 29:59Speaker 1: just the don't Feel family. According to documents that we'd received,
- 30:04Speaker 1: and correct me if i'm ron Steve Halling, Murdoch's law
- 30:08Speaker 1: firm kicked him out because of millions and millions of
- 30:12Speaker 1: dollars that he has apparently in basil siphoned from the clients.
- 30:20Speaker 1: And it went on and on and on. This is
- 30:22Speaker 1: not just the SATA fields. That's absolutely right. And you
- 30:25Speaker 1: know I spoke when I was in South Carolina. I
- 30:27Speaker 1: supposed to a couple of the associates there at the firm.
- 30:30Speaker 1: Oh I bete you did. Yes, they are furious. I
- 30:33Speaker 1: think everybody's curious because it makes the firm look bad.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Oh oh wait, excuse me, please call me. It should
- 30:40Speaker 1: make the law firm look bad. Where have they been
- 30:42Speaker 1: with their thumb up their rear end the whole time.
- 30:45Speaker 1: This didn't happened overnight. What nobody's watching the money? That's
- 30:49Speaker 1: one of the big questions. How could that have gone
- 30:51Speaker 1: on for so long? And it's not just their money,
- 30:53Speaker 1: it's their clients money. Steve halling right, and you know
- 30:57Speaker 1: it's you can almost figure that have happened one time
- 31:01Speaker 1: that maybe everybody just kind of missed it. I believe
- 31:04Speaker 1: I'd find four point three million dollars, But that's just me,
- 31:08Speaker 1: you know. The first of the mind, I'm right on
- 31:11Speaker 1: the computer trying to make sure that my check went
- 31:12Speaker 1: in for us paying bills. So it makes it really
- 31:15Speaker 1: hard for me to understand or connect to someone that
- 31:19Speaker 1: is so so cavalier. Well, not their money, but their
- 31:25Speaker 1: clients money. You don't write. They ought to be mad
- 31:28Speaker 1: and they ought to be embarrassed because this happened on
- 31:30Speaker 1: their watch time stories with Nancy Grace. What do we
- 31:52Speaker 1: know about the actual death, What do we know about
- 31:57Speaker 1: the stealing of the money. This is Van Hillyar NBC.
- 32:01Speaker 1: At the time, the Murdoch said her death was an
- 32:03Speaker 1: accident and that she tripped over the family dogs and
- 32:06Speaker 1: fell down the stairs. But Now authorities are questioning the incident,
- 32:10Speaker 1: her family alleging last fall that Murdoch never paid them
- 32:14Speaker 1: the two million dollars he agreed to pay out to
- 32:16Speaker 1: her estate as part of a settlement over her death
- 32:19Speaker 1: at the family's home. Sadderfield's family telling Craig Melvin on
- 32:22Speaker 1: Dateline last fall, she felt like they were family. We
- 32:25Speaker 1: thought they were a family. Think they are family. What
- 32:28Speaker 1: did Alec Murdoch see to you after your mom died?
- 32:35Speaker 1: He would you take care of us and kind of
- 32:37Speaker 1: look out pours? Yeah, okay, this is apparently Steve Hellings
- 32:43Speaker 1: joining me from people dot com as a mountain their words,
- 32:46Speaker 1: not mont a mountain of evidence is amassing against Murdog. Now, Oh,
- 32:53Speaker 1: quick question, where was Alex Murdog when Glorious Sadderfield failed
- 32:58Speaker 1: down the steps? I don't actually know where he was,
- 33:01Speaker 1: but he certainly wasn't part of the nine one one call,
- 33:04Speaker 1: and so I don't believe you. Is that what you think? Okay?
- 33:09Speaker 1: I don't know enough to jump on you and ride
- 33:12Speaker 1: you like a mule on that because I'm not clear
- 33:15Speaker 1: where he was, but I can tell you this his
- 33:18Speaker 1: seemingly airtight alibi the night that Paul his son and
- 33:23Speaker 1: Maggie were murdered in the same place at the hunting
- 33:27Speaker 1: lodge off Moselle is now apparently falling apart. A guy
- 33:34Speaker 1: named Jim Griffin, Murdog's lawyer, is placing Murdog at the
- 33:41Speaker 1: scene of the crime shortly before the murders. Griffin contends
- 33:48Speaker 1: Murdog left the estate around nine pm to drive to
- 33:52Speaker 1: his mother's house a twenty minute drive away, and came
- 33:56Speaker 1: back at ten and low and beholds even helling between
- 34:03Speaker 1: nine and ten the one hour window. What the coincidink
- 34:07Speaker 1: that's what his wife and son were shot dead. Steve
- 34:11Speaker 1: Halling jump in, yeah, I mean we now, we're now
- 34:14Speaker 1: starting to see a lot of stuff is coming together
- 34:17Speaker 1: to show that, you know, his air tight alibi isn't
- 34:20Speaker 1: as airtight. You know. There's appears to be some cell
- 34:23Speaker 1: phone video of taking off of Paul's phone which has
- 34:26Speaker 1: been unlocked, which seems to place Alex at the scene.
- 34:32Speaker 1: That's something we didn't know before. You know, last month,
- 34:35Speaker 1: the talk, you know, the local news talked a little
- 34:38Speaker 1: bit about the high velocity spatter on Alex's shirt, which
- 34:43Speaker 1: we didn't know before. I haven't been able to independently
- 34:46Speaker 1: verify that, but it certainly is coming out fit Knews.
- 34:49Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that are coming out that, yes,
- 34:52Speaker 1: even half of them are true. It's really looking bad
- 34:55Speaker 1: for Alice Murdoch. Now we also know that FITS news
- 34:59Speaker 1: has reported that Maggie Murdog apparently was lured lured out
- 35:05Speaker 1: to the hunting lodge they call it the night that
- 35:11Speaker 1: night by her husband under the guy's visiting his sick father.
- 35:18Speaker 1: But I want to circle back to what you mentioned.
- 35:21Speaker 1: Video found reportedly found on Paul Murdoch's phone. The dead
- 35:26Speaker 1: son now has been unlocked. That's a forensic matter. Joe
- 35:30Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, how do you unlock a cell phone? It's
- 35:33Speaker 1: not like the James Bond movies where you've got some
- 35:35Speaker 1: brilliant computer whiz on the computer and all of a sudden, hey,
- 35:41Speaker 1: I got it. It his birthday backwards, plus the ABC's
- 35:44Speaker 1: of signed down. No, it's a lot harder than that
- 35:47Speaker 1: to unlock a cell phone. But they did unlock it,
- 35:50Speaker 1: and there's video on there showing reportedly Alex Murdog and
- 35:55Speaker 1: his wife Maggie talking by the dog Kennel's the evening
- 35:59Speaker 1: of June seven, twenty twenty one, according to multiple sources.
- 36:05Speaker 1: So that shoots his alibi to hell and back. What
- 36:10Speaker 1: about it, Hailing? I mean you just said it. It's
- 36:13Speaker 1: like there are a lot of source there are a
- 36:16Speaker 1: lot of sources that are now saying, well, no, this
- 36:19Speaker 1: isn't an airtight alibi, not at all. And yes, you know,
- 36:23Speaker 1: of course it took time to figure out how to
- 36:25Speaker 1: get into Paul murdoss phone, and once they did, there's
- 36:29Speaker 1: evidence there. I assume they're getting evidence elsewhere. And when
- 36:33Speaker 1: it comes to, you know, the state of Alex and
- 36:37Speaker 1: Maggie's marriage, we were the ones at People magazine who
- 36:40Speaker 1: reported that she had seen a divorce attorney before this
- 36:44Speaker 1: whole thing, you know, before she died? Now why a
- 36:46Speaker 1: man at Steve Hailing? Yes, when I went to the location.
- 36:52Speaker 1: How long ago was that, Jackie? Almost a year ago?
- 36:56Speaker 1: The people in the sandwich shop, Jimmy John told me
- 37:01Speaker 1: that they were getting a divorce and that she was
- 37:04Speaker 1: instigating it. Head been too a lawyer. Now, I trust
- 37:07Speaker 1: the people at Jimmy John's. So who told you that
- 37:11Speaker 1: the lawyer? I talked to the lawyer. Okay, So what
- 37:14Speaker 1: does that mean to you? I mean, what it means is.
- 37:17Speaker 1: You know, they try, they're still trying. His lawyers are
- 37:20Speaker 1: still trying to peep this picture that No, their marriage
- 37:23Speaker 1: wasn't in crisis. Their marriage was in crisis. You don't
- 37:26Speaker 1: go see a divorce lawyer. As somebody who's been divorced myself,
- 37:29Speaker 1: I can tell you you don't see a divorced lawyer
- 37:31Speaker 1: unless there's a problem in your marriage. Man, you're not kid.
- 37:34Speaker 1: You know they charge you for the consultation. Let's just
- 37:36Speaker 1: start right there. So you got going on, and you know,
- 37:40Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, Joe Scott Morgan, you're the professor of
- 37:42Speaker 1: forensics at jacksonvill State University, and so much more, Joe Scott,
- 37:47Speaker 1: to unlock a cell phone, like I said, it's not
- 37:50Speaker 1: like it is on James Bond. Okay, it takes effort
- 37:54Speaker 1: a lot of time. It's sometimes very difficult to do. Yeah,
- 38:00Speaker 1: you're right, it does. And many times there are subpoenas
- 38:03Speaker 1: that are involved, and it goes beyond the technical as
- 38:06Speaker 1: you well know. You know, there's been all kinds of
- 38:08Speaker 1: things that have happened with Apple phones and that sort
- 38:10Speaker 1: of thing, and kind of digging back in there. But
- 38:12Speaker 1: you know, when you look at an organization like sled H.
- 38:15Speaker 1: They have access to those abilities and capabilities people on
- 38:20Speaker 1: their staff. And now you know the FEDS are involved
- 38:23Speaker 1: in this, so you've got you know, you've got the
- 38:25Speaker 1: long arm of them. But here, here's here's what I'm
- 38:28Speaker 1: curious about, Nancy. Something that you mentioned. Why why would
- 38:32Speaker 1: Paul feel the need to record this conversation to video
- 38:36Speaker 1: his dad? And I think that's that's really compelling there.
- 38:40Speaker 1: And you know what, that's interesting. I was thinking the
- 38:42Speaker 1: same thing. And and Susan Williams, we just saw a
- 38:45Speaker 1: jury turn against amber Heard and the Johnny Depp amber
- 38:50Speaker 1: Heard civil trial because they thought it was just bizarre
- 38:54Speaker 1: that whenever that have an argument, she would video take
- 38:56Speaker 1: the whole thing. There's a reason you videotape things, right,
- 39:00Speaker 1: There's a reason that you video tape things or video
- 39:03Speaker 1: record things to preserve it for something that you may
- 39:06Speaker 1: want to use later. And amber Heard believed that the
- 39:13Speaker 1: jury would hear Johnny's story and not believe him, but
- 39:15Speaker 1: the jury spoke, I mean, come on, Susan Williams, are
- 39:17Speaker 1: you married? Are you married? Susan, yes, I am. When
- 39:21Speaker 1: you and your husband get in an argument, and I'm
- 39:22Speaker 1: sure it's his fault. Let's just put that out there
- 39:24Speaker 1: right now. Of course it's his fault. But when you
- 39:26Speaker 1: have an argument, does he videotape you or do you
- 39:29Speaker 1: videotape him? No? Never, I mean whenever I have an
- 39:32Speaker 1: argument with David, which, by the way, we never argued
- 39:35Speaker 1: until we have the twins. Now we argue all the
- 39:36Speaker 1: time about what's best for the twins. But I think
- 39:40Speaker 1: it was crazy but took out a video of phocus
- 39:43Speaker 1: me during an argument, Skip Hoogle, Let me ask you this,
- 39:47Speaker 1: a founder of scwatchdog dot com. I know that there's
- 39:51Speaker 1: an extensive body of research and evidence that you've done
- 39:54Speaker 1: on this, but could you explain in a nutshell the
- 40:00Speaker 1: type of people you believe could be involved in wrongdoing
- 40:04Speaker 1: as far as disbursement of money, as far as embezzling
- 40:09Speaker 1: money from his law firm, bank documents that have been
- 40:14Speaker 1: falsified allegedly by the Murdochs, all sorts of illegalities that
- 40:22Speaker 1: somebody approved and went along with. All right, Well, the
- 40:28Speaker 1: judicial mouthfeasance with Judge Mullin and many judges in South Carolina.
- 40:32Speaker 1: What I think needs to happen in the way I
- 40:34Speaker 1: think we can prove Judge mullin mouthfeasance is the fact
- 40:39Speaker 1: that she is friends and she's been here for a
- 40:41Speaker 1: long time with another local judge, Duke. So they've been
- 40:43Speaker 1: here a long time. They're local judges, They're friends with
- 40:46Speaker 1: all the Murdochs, all the Murdoch lawyers, they're they're all close.
- 40:50Speaker 1: It's just one big and setuous, backslapping, background dealing club.
- 40:55Speaker 1: They should not only be investigated for the Saturville case,
- 40:58Speaker 1: but all cases, and this is how we can prove
- 41:01Speaker 1: a pattern. They should be They should be investigated for
- 41:06Speaker 1: all the cases involving the Murdoch lawyers going back twenty years.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Jitter mouthfeesis has become a plague in South Carolina, and
- 41:13Speaker 1: it's because we allow the legislature, many who are lawyers,
- 41:16Speaker 1: to appoint judges who ruling the cases involved in the
- 41:19Speaker 1: same legislatures or their friends who are the corupted officials
- 41:22Speaker 1: we are investigating. So Mullins needs to be investigated period. Well,
- 41:26Speaker 1: I agree. I believe every bank official, judge, everyone involved
- 41:33Speaker 1: in the firm that had anything to do with these
- 41:35Speaker 1: settlements needs to be investigated. But I want to say
- 41:38Speaker 1: one thing, Karen Stark, I may have told you this
- 41:41Speaker 1: story before, but I will never forget. One of my
- 41:44Speaker 1: very first big cases was against a very serious drug
- 41:49Speaker 1: lord and he lived in a beautiful luxury high rise
- 41:53Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and the whole case turned on one legal issue,
- 41:59Speaker 1: and that was as to seizure issue because in his
- 42:02Speaker 1: high rise, the doorman, who was drunk quite often, got
- 42:06Speaker 1: a fed X to the drug lord and he became
- 42:10Speaker 1: curious and he tore the fed X on the lope
- 42:15Speaker 1: open and inside, believe it or not, was a brick
- 42:18Speaker 1: of uncut cocaine worth millions of dollars millions on the street.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Why they sent it in fed X I don't know.
- 42:26Speaker 1: So the cops were called. I had an APD show up.
- 42:31Speaker 1: He was wonderful and saw what was in the fed axe.
- 42:37Speaker 1: That launched a search and the drug lord was arrested.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Had never been able to touch him before. Long story short,
- 42:46Speaker 1: The whole case depended on will that fed X come
- 42:50Speaker 1: into evidence with the cocaine, because if the search was bad,
- 42:53Speaker 1: there was no case. The lawyer was a very high
- 42:58Speaker 1: defense lawyer, very high pro bay, a lawyer all across
- 43:02Speaker 1: the country. He came into the courtroom Karen Start with
- 43:05Speaker 1: his beautifully tinted blown back blonde hair, kind of like
- 43:10Speaker 1: Frasier would wear his hair. He had this gorgeous coat
- 43:16Speaker 1: you know that would probably, you know, close to what
- 43:18Speaker 1: my used car cross draped over his shoulders like a cape.
- 43:22Speaker 1: He was being followed by a lot of lackeys. And
- 43:24Speaker 1: there I was and my little seriously catalog meal order
- 43:29Speaker 1: dress and my shoes that had been resold I don't
- 43:34Speaker 1: know how many times, and I'm like, oh crap. And
- 43:37Speaker 1: then here's the point. Here's the point. He goes back
- 43:41Speaker 1: into the chambers with the judge and they were their
- 43:45Speaker 1: arms around each other and they were patting each other
- 43:47Speaker 1: and talking. I'm like, well, look, yeah, well and they
- 43:51Speaker 1: went back there and they stayed a long time, and
- 43:54Speaker 1: I said, well that's that. The judge came back out.
- 43:57Speaker 1: We had the motion and Judge Don Langham ruled with
- 44:02Speaker 1: the state. I'll never forget it because I thought, oh,
- 44:07Speaker 1: they're friends, they're slapping each other on the bike. It
- 44:09Speaker 1: probably made a contribution, but the judge did the right thing.
- 44:15Speaker 1: So the fact that these judges may know the Murdogs,
- 44:18Speaker 1: or know their law firm or their partner, that doesn't
- 44:21Speaker 1: mean anything. The proof is going to be in the documents,
- 44:25Speaker 1: So let's don't rule the judges out yet. Can we
- 44:28Speaker 1: have a little fate Jared stark Well, I think that
- 44:32Speaker 1: we have to give it a transmitts a awful lot, Nancy,
- 44:35Speaker 1: of corruption going on there, and what you hope at
- 44:39Speaker 1: this point is that so much has been exposed that
- 44:42Speaker 1: there will be a fair trial and that people justice
- 44:46Speaker 1: will be served, as you love to say. Oh and
- 44:49Speaker 1: by the way, the end of that story is that
- 44:51Speaker 1: Charles Erlick aka Street named Charlie Tuna went down. I
- 44:56Speaker 1: think it was twenty to life after the trial. But
- 45:00Speaker 1: that wasn't the end of trolley Tenant Jackie. When O. J.
- 45:03Speaker 1: Simpson robbed that guy ever memorabilia guess who was winning
- 45:09Speaker 1: his robbing crew. Charles Erlick. He had done his jail time,
- 45:13Speaker 1: gotten out and hooked up with O. J. Simpson in Vegas,
- 45:16Speaker 1: and I heard that. I'm like, there's this is can
- 45:19Speaker 1: there be too? Charles Erlick's no, there was. It was him,
- 45:23Speaker 1: So you know, you can't teach an old dog in
- 45:25Speaker 1: nutric Apparently, we wait as justice unfolds as the body
- 45:30Speaker 1: of Miss Sadderfield is exomed. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing
- 45:35Speaker 1: off