Hows your client now . Hows his State Of Mind . Not good. Jimmy, where jim i was with him that morning he was shot. In his mind, he was ready to give up. I said, you know, alex, theres an end to this, and theres a life beyond this. And you need to be here for your family, and buster loves you, and, you know, we all support you 100 . And he told me that he had an Opioid Addiction and that he had been struggling with it for many, many years and it was very expensive. Alex murdaughs speaking for the first time in weeks, this time from a savannah hospital bed. The patriarch of the family making Big Decisions as he recovers from a gunshot wound. The murders of my wife and son have caused an incredibly difficult time in my life. Ive made a lot of decisions that i truly regret. Im resigning from my law firm and entering rehab after a long battle thats been exacerbated by these murders. After alex was shot, first thing he did was admit that he had an Opioid Addiction and a problem and then went immediately to rehab. Does he have to stay within the state . He can go to the Rehab Facility where hes admitted. And he has to stay there and cant leave. Okay. And then come back to South Carolina. Is he going home with you guys . Hes going straight back to rehab. The murder of his son and wife 90 days ago took a tremendous toll on him. Most people couldnt get through that. He got through it with the use of opioids. That hole, that void just keeps getting bigger, and you feel for the family. You know, i felt sorry for him. I feel like he didnt want to live anymore. With maggie and paul gone. To lose your wife and son, nobody deserves that. For you to get to that point to want to take your life, you are at rock bottom. Thats what the drugs do. I did not know that he was an addict. I mean, none of my friends and family knew when i was deep down in that rabbit hole either. Theres a couple places that youre going to be. Youll be in jail, dead, or wishing you were dead. Ive been doing a lot of thinking, just about taking all these pills and how that all started. I mean, this goes back 20 years. I know maggie told you she had a real hard time when we moved to hampton. And why. And thats generating some bitter [ bleep ] feelings. Whether maggie knew he had an Opioid Addiction or not, i dont know. Theres so many questions still out there about their relationship. There may have been difficulty in their marriage. Ive heard through various rumors and sources that maggie may not have been really living at the Main Property with him, that she may have been in the edisto property. People whove spoken to me say they believe that alex had a mistress. Rumor is that she wanted a divorce, and why did she want a divorce . Theres so much misinformation out there and [ bleep ] can you run [ bleep ] maggie and alex being estranged, theres nothing further from the truth. After the boating accident, maggie felt uncomfortable in hampton, and she preferred, you know, to distance herself from the small community. And so she was spending time at edisto. They were communicating in very loving fashion, jokes with each other, sign off at night, i love you, i love you more. They were close, always, you know, hugging each other. You know, they were out there at kids sporting events. They were active parents. You could tell just the interaction between the two, that they loved each other. They met in college. Randy, his dad, told me alex had met somebody and he was chasing her. When he met maggie, the world stopped, and he was Head Over Heels in love with her. From what i knew, there were no problems. But who does know whats going on Behind Closed Doors or whatever . I think they loved each other. I dont know that they were in love with each other, but they were both very much in love with how they were viewed in society. You know, their family and their name and their power. What we can say about Alex Murdaugh right now is that he was addicted, whether he was addicted to opioids or was he just addicted to money. But how far was he willing to go to keep his lifestyle, to keep that murdaugh name front and center . 911, where is your emergency . 4147 moselle road. Whats going on out there . My housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding. I cannot get her up. Okay, where did she fall from . She fell going up the steps, up the brick steps. Gloria satterfield had been the murdaugh familys housekeeper and essentially a nanny to Alex Murdaughs kids for about 20 years and was treated very much like a Family Member herself. Several years ago, there was an accident at the murdaugh home. According to them, you know, the murdaugh family dog accidentally knocked her down the stairs, and she ended up passing away from her injuries. At or after her funeral, apparently Alex Murdaugh approached her sons. And hes like, hey, look, im sorry about what happened, and im going to make sure you get taken care of. Dont worry, i have insurance. He had apparently a 500,000 liability policy and a multimilliondollar Umbrella Policy on his home. And he told them that if they would go visit his friend cory fleming, cory would get the satterfield boys some money. Fleming brought those claims against the insurance company. There was 4. 3 million that the Insurance Companies paid, and neither cory nor alex ever told their clients. And the boys got none of it, not a penny. How he got away with what he did is the money went through Cory Flemings firm, and Cory Flemings record showed that the money went from there to forge. Now, Forge Consulting is a legitimate Settlement Funding company. Cory fleming wrote the checks to forge, not Forge Consulting, just the word forge, and delivered them to Alex Murdaugh. So he went and created an account at bank of america, r. 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Families who had the upper hand, the power, and the control for 100 years. Palmetto state bank has several branches now across the low country, and the Board Of Directors is filled with members of the laffitte family. And then theres the relationship between Russell Laffitte and Alex Murdaugh. Alex was able to walk into Palmetto State Bank and use his connections with Russell Laffitte to say, hey bud, i need this done. Alex murdaugh had the ability to skip protocols that most of us have to go through, and thats just how they looked out for each other. That is the good old boy system. This really is a case of institutional evil manifesting itself, and not just one crazy lawyer. This is the product of decades of entitlement, of privilege. The murdaughs are part of a club. And what club is that . A club of white people, powerful white people, who got to run things. This is the culmination of years of no accountability. With Alex Murdaugh, its a character flaw. It aint like, ooh, this deals with case finances, so my moral compass is broken on this one issue. If your moral compass is broken, that [ bleep ] dont ever work. If you be that disrespectful to the lady who helped tuck your kids in at night to sleep, what wont you do to somebody . Now, a lot of people werent really buying the whole dogs knocked her down the stairs narrative. I dont know, but i dont think she tripped over the dogs. Because when you listen to the 911 tape, she never mentions the dogs. 911, what is your emergency . My housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding. I cannot get her up. Okay, whered she fall from . She fell going up the steps, up the brick steps. And i just think if i was on the phone calling 911, its like, oh, my god. My housekeeper just tripped over my dog and she fell. But the dogs dont come up, ever. I have a difficult time believing how dogs that youre around all the time in a house that youre more familiar with than the people who own it, and the dogs jumped on you and knocked you down the stairs. I wasnt there, so i dont know. Maggie was initially on that call, then paul got on that call. Hello . Yeah, can you ask the patient what kind of pain shes having . Maam, she cant talk. Okay, do you know shes cracked her head and theres blood on the concrete and shes bleeding out of her left ear. Okay, shes bleeding out of her ear. And out of her head, shes cracked her skull. Okay, do you know if shes ever had a stroke or anything before . Maam, can you stop asking me all these questions . I already have them on the way. Me asking questions does not slow them down in any way. Its very interesting to hear his demeanor especially. 911 operator asking some Pretty Simple questions, and hes pretty upset about the fact that theyre asking questions, not as much of, this woman is bleeding to death on our stairs. So the rumor is that paul may have been involved somehow in this death, whether its pushing, tripping, something of the sort. Gloria satterfield, they pushed her down the stairs. That was no accident. That was on purpose. I think she found something. Ive heard that she found his stash of drugs. She was going to tell his daddy. Theres been talk for a long time here. Something in the milk aint clean. Alex murdaugh, the prominent attorney at the center of a case involving murder, money, and mystery, was arrested today in Orange County while leaving a drug Rehab Facility in central florida. I was in the newsroom and bulletin came out that Alex Murdaugh had gotten arrested, and your mind just wanders on what was he arrested for, what is he connected to, and why now . Alex murdaugh is charged with two counts of obtaining property by false pretense. Murdaughs longtime housekeeper died after an accident in his home back in 2018. Her family filed a lawsuit in september saying they never received any money from her estate. Murdaughs law firm fired him, saying they discovered that murdaugh had misappropriated funds. Your honor, he has fallen from grace. His wife and son were brutally murdered, and that has had an extraordinary effect on him. So we ask you to allow him to go and help heal himself. This is a 20year addiction. This is something hes struggling with every day, and if anyone wants to see the face of what Opioid Addiction does, youre looking at it. Thank you, your honor. This cant be the first time he did it, right . Theres no way the first time you stole money was with this level of coverup in a wrongful death case for 4. 3 million. He had to have been doing it before, and then people find out hed been doing it for over a decade. There are new victims in the murdaugh money mess. Twentythree new charges, all accusing Alex Murdaugh of stealing from his own clients. Now other families who lost loved ones are coming forward. They tell eerily similar accounts of missing money after tragic deaths. There are a number of victims here. You have victims like hakeem pinckney. Hakeem was a young deaf man, had just graduated high school, and his family is just driving down the road, and boom, tragedy hits. Tire tread comes off, car flips. Hakeem is rendered a quadriplegic in this accident, end sup in a nursing home, and he dies. And then alex steals their money, almost a Million Dollars. Johnny bush is in a really bad accident, and hes got hardware in his back. Alex stole his money. Blondell gary, on their way in the ambulance to the hospital. The ambulance wrecks. Shes no longer with us. Then he steals the money. Trooper moore of the South Carolina highway patrol. Alex takes the money. Malik williams. Jamie richard. And the list goes on and on and on. Alex murdaugh successfully stole almost 10 million from clients, both living and dead. Alex zeroed in on minorities, poor people, injured people, people that couldnt really defend themselves, and had probably come to alex because it was their last chance. Its outrageous that it was a wealthy person preying on so many people who had so little. As the charges started piling up, you started to realize exactly how far alex went, when youre looking into not just 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70plus charges. So its basically nearly 150 years in jail or more if he is convicted of all the crimes. Its hard for me to comprehend whats happened to him because hes such a good guy. He may not have been good to everybody. I dont know. For some people, cheating other people is almost like sex to them. Its a big high for them to know theyve gotten something over on people, and that might be the basis of some of what hes done. Hello, this is an amtel Operator Calling from alvin s. Glenn detention. All phone calls are subject to monitoring and recording. Hello. Hey, bud. What time did yall get back . Like 5 oclock this morning. What did yall fly on . Spirit airlines. How was that . It was better than i expected it to be. So you went four hours with no reclining . Yeah. But, you know, everything was still fun, and then going to sedona was a good time. Did you get to gamble any . Yeah, yeah, so i did go gambling, and then the next day there was an article created about how im misusing funds. By gambling . Yeah, someone took a picture of me and john marvin in the casino. What a [ bleep ] are you kidding me . No. How did they recognize you . No. Man, i guess, i mean, im a national figure, i think. 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