Alex Murdaugh repeatedly stole from the dead, indictments claim

HAMPTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The now well-known Gloria Satterfield case, in which Alex Murdaugh is charged with stealing a wrongful death settlement meant for his late housekeeper, apparently wasn’t the first time Murdaugh stole money from the dead.

Attorney Justin Bamberg represents eight people who he says Alex Murdaugh scammed out of their money while serving as their lawyer.

Bamberg says he’s learned what happened in the Satterfield case was part of a pattern that appears to have begun several years before Satterfield’s death, and impacts several of his clients.

Case in point: Hakeem Pinckney, a deaf man severely injured in a car crash back in 2011.

“He was in a horrible accident and rendered quadriplegic,” Bamberg says of Pinckney. “He then died in a nursing facility, and even after his death, Alex stole money.”

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Bamberg also is handling another case where Murdaugh reportedly stole money intended for the family of a dead person — a young woman named Blondell Gray, who was killed in an ambulance crash in 2012.

According to Bamberg, Gray’s family is owed in excess of $112,000.

“Instead, Alex took it and spent it on what he wanted to spend it on,” Bamberg said.

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Another case involves Sandra Taylor, a Beaufort woman killed by a drunk driver in Colleton County in 2019.

Indictments show Murdaugh reportedly told Taylor’s mother she would only receive a mere $30,000 as a settlement, when that figure really was over $180,000.

Bamberg does not represent Taylor’s mother, but says as far as his clients go, he’ll go after Murdaugh, his former law firm, Palmetto State Bank in Hampton, and anyone else that played a role in the thefts.

“If a person will steal from, mislead and deceive people when they've lost a loved one and they're grieving, I don't put anything past them,” Bamberg said.

Pinckney, Gray, Satterfield and Taylor’s cases are among the dozen so far that have led to multi-count criminal indictments against Murdaugh by the State Grand Jury. He’s charged with money laundering, fraud, forgery and more.

Murdaugh remains in jail with bond set at $7 million awaiting trial for those charges.