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For many who followed the ‘Murdaugh Murders‘ crime and corruption saga – which features no shortage of “loose ends” waiting to be tied up – the quest for certainty and resolution remains infuriatingly elusive.
While there has never been any doubt as to the culpability of disgraced 56-year-old attorney Alex Murdaugh – who was found guilty last year of murdering his wife, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh, and younger son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh – the truth about this savage crime has been difficult to pin down.
The case against Murdaugh was circumstantial from the beginning: No murder weapons were ever found. Other than dogs and chickens, there were no witnesses. There was no damning DNA evidence – and the investigation included several missteps. The only thing conclusively proven at trial? That Murdaugh lied about being at the scene of the murders – and continued to lie during his testimony.
Based on the flood of compelling evidence presented to jurors, though, that was enough… although prosecutors will likely wind up having to retry this case based on jury tampering allegations (and attendant theories about alleged jury rigging).
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While the legal drama continues to play out, the lingering uncertainty surrounding the crime itself continues to fuel all manner of suspicions – flames adeptly fanned by Murdaugh’s legal team.
A blaring headline in The New York Post this week stoked those flames even further… albeit if only for a nanosecond.
“Buyer of Alex Murdaugh’s murder house claims he’s found evidence proving convicted killer is innocent,” the headline read.
What… what?
Citing an “exclusive” article on Realtor.com – that bastion of investigative journalism – the Post story posited that the man who purchased the former Murdaugh hunting property, “Moselle,” earlier this year at auction had “uncovered a crucial piece of evidence proving the disgraced South Carolina lawyer is an innocent man.”
True crime aficionados were agog…
Crucial evidence? Of Murdaugh’s innocence?
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Minds raced as fingers fumbled to click on the story. Breaths were drawn and held in rapt anticipation as cell phone and tablet screens came to life – pulling up what everyone assumed would be a bombshell development in the case.
Did the new owner find the missing guns? Did he stumble upon shell casings the police missed? Did he retrieve some other piece of evidence which would prove there were multiple shooters? Did he find something which would reveal the identity of alleged co-conspirators?
Local audiences were especially curious. They knew that new property owner Alexander Wallace Blair – who purchased Moselle for $1 million in February 2024 – was undertaking a “roof to subfloor” renovation of the main house. Did he find something hidden under the floorboards? Something which would point investigators in a new direction?
Um… no. On all counts. No.
The “exclusive” report – breathlessly touted by the Post as a “shocking” discovery – turned out to be nothing but a recycling of the defense’s widely dismissed reconstruction of the crime scene during Murdaugh’s double homicide trial last year.
“I have the door and the window from the dog kennel,” Blair told Realtor.com. “(Murdaugh) is a big man, he was even bigger back then, and he’s too big for the bullets to have gone through in the way that they did.”
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Far from uncovering any new evidence in the case, Blair was simply offering his opinion on old evidence – an opinion most have already discredited. While Realtor.com can be forgiven for not knowing the difference, the Post has covered this case for far too long (and covered it far too well) to lead its audience on such a wild goose chase.
While Blair razed the dog kennel and airplane hanger on the Moselle property – the site of the murders – according to Realtor.com he kept “the kennel door and window that contain the bullet holes.” Both items provided “clear evidence of Murdaugh’s innocence,” he claimed.
Hmmmm…
That was certainly the defense’s theory during the trial, but as I noted at the time it was not a particularly compelling theory… and was generally disregarded by most of the jurors. Also, having already seen the graphic crime scene and autopsy photos – which remain under seal – most of the jurors already knew the prosecution’s theory of the how the shooting went down was consistent with the wounds they observed on the two victims.
Unlike the defense’s theory…
FITSNews has been exceedingly critical of the state in the aftermath of the trial. I believe its investigators and attorneys have been far more interested in protecting their verdicts than they have been in seeking the truth regarding the jury tampering that took place during the trial. Accordingly, I’ve blasted them repeatedly for their ongoing obfuscation. I’ve also steadfastly defended Murdaugh’s Sixth Amendment right, which I believe was clearly violated during his trial.
No one is more open than FITSNews to receiving and reviewing credible new evidence in this case… irrespective of which side it incriminates or exonerates. But this? This ain’t it… and frankly, the Post should be embarrassed for publishing such tripe in what certainly appears to be a shameless bid for clicks.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina and before that he was a bass guitarist and dive bar bouncer. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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That is VERY rich from the man, Will Folks, who, for two years, FALSELY pushed Richard Alex Murdaugh’s (“RAM”) guilt of the deaths of, not only of Paul and Maggie, but also of Gloria Satterfield (a chronic, poorly managed diabetic, with TERMINAL renal failure and dizzy spells BEFORE her death) and of Stephen Smith (a teen-age escort with grandiose claims to being “a medical physician or rule the world” according to his yearbook but failing his middling nursing school classes).
You, FITS and mainly FITS, pushed the “blood spatter” theory, which you retracted too late.
You, FITS initiated the stupid “family annihilator” theory even though RAM was the opposite of that.
You, FITS found a willing prostitute and FALSELY portrayed her as “sex-trafficked” and assaulted by RAM even though the Prosecution itself found her not credible.
What was all that if not “click bat” by you, Will Folks and FITS?
But I am glad you returned to counting your own children correctly.
SubZeroIQ has written extensively, thank God and due chapeau to FITS for letting most of it through, OBJECTIVE medical and scientific evidence of Richard Alexander Murdaugh’s (“RAM”) innocence.
It bears quick summarizing here that the Prosecution’s time of death is WRONG based on the victims’ stomachs’ contents of food that was too digested and too little for the deaths to have occurred ONLY 22 MINUTES after their known last, large and relatively fatty, meal.
RAM’s white T-shirt is THE one he wore to the kennels BECAUSE it has some blood from that chicken Bubba the dog killed. Because that shirt has NOT A SPECK of Paul’s blood or brain matter, RAM could NOT be the or a shooter.
Paul did not send his video of Cash the dog’s tail, NOT BECAUSE Paul was killed right after he made the video, BUT BECAUSE the video did NOT show “a pone” on Cash’s tail; and you see IN THAT VIDEO that Paul looks at his own hand after having slid Cash’s tail through it; and THERE IS NO PONE on Paul’s hand either. Therefore, Paul did not send the video because the video was USELESS and UNNECESSARY, and THE BATTERY, not Paul, DIED.
But there is MORE evidence which I noticed additionally, AND PROBABLY Alexander Blain, the present owner of Moselle noticed too.
The first two NONE LETHAL shots to Maggie are downward. Why?
My initial thought is the shooter is a short-statured FEMALE with experience AND MUSCLE MEMORY of shooting animals; she thus instinctively aims at the level of an average animal’s, not human’s, head.
NOTHING refuted that theory of SubZeroIQ’s.
But another theory is not mutually exclusive and emerges from the angles.
The shooters went to Moselle to SCARE Paul and Maggie out of disclosing that NO DOGS were involved in Gloria Satterfield’s death.
REMEMBER: by that time, Mandy Matney, Mark Tinsley, Eric Bland, AND the Satterfield heirs KNEW from court records there had been a settlement and that RAM had kept the loot for himself. But they were playing dumb about it.
They LIKELY tried to extort RAM but he responded that, if they do not buzz off, RAM will tell the truth (supported by Paul and Maggie) and no one gets anything.
So, Mandy Matney’s agents went to scare Paul and Maggie into silence about Gloria Satterfield’s NATURAL death (as opposed to death by dogs) but things got out of hand and the scarers had to silence Paul and Maggie forever.
So, Alex Blair COULD have the new evidence based on the angles of the first shots.
Now a new observation which Alex Blair COULD have gathered from the STRUCTURE of the henhouse which Alan Wilson suggest was as flimsy as a cardboard shipping box. SC’s AG has one in his arms while examining Kenny Kinsey in the Prosecution’s rebuttal.
First, a hen house could NEVER be constructed out of cardboard. The hens would have pecked through it in no time.
Second, cardboard COULD NOT hold the henhouse’s wood door and its metal hinges. These would have torn through the cardboard and fallen in not time.
So, there is much Alex Blair could have discovered in Moselle upon cool reflection.
But always ask who profits from what.
The airplane hanger/shed was not torn down, only the kennels. The hanger just had new siding put on it.
Might as well post my reply to “Be Kind Anyway,” here too:
I like your nom de plume, Be Kind Anyway, and hope you commented out of kindness.
I also hope you, and Dick and Jim, AND U.S. District Judge Gergel, AND SC Associate Justice Verdin, AND Retired/Active SC Circuit Judge Clifton Newman, and Retired/Active SC Chief Justice Jean Toal, take this comment of mine in the same kindness in which it was meant.
ALL of you have NOT been loved enough to allow you to be creative. The judicial system accepted you AND ELEVATED YOU only ON CONDITION that you worship it with all its flaws, which, in many instances amount to crimes and to misprision of felons, such as the prosecutors who suborn perjury.
Another commenter accused ME of “trying to impress with [my] insights.” Not in self-righteousness, but in desire to share the joy as while I have the duty to share the knowledge: You have NO IDEA how liberating it is to be concerned ONLY with what God thinks of me, not what other human beings think of me. As such, I do not need to put appearances because I have faith that God sees what is in my heart.
Going back to the SC lawyers and jurists I mentioned; but first stopping at SC Associate Justice Verdin. In the recently-released (but undated) video of her investiture, she acknowledged her parents’ disappointment that she went into law instead of Medicine BUT made belated amends to her parents by proudly introducing her twin sons as beginning medical students. Best to them and to all medical students.
I will not hide that I believe that Medicine is far superior to law, not because it is my profession, but because we study, and bow to, NATURE, not our predecessors.
Nature is never wrong. Lawyers’ predecessors MORE OFTEN THAN NOT are wrong. Yet “respected” jurists are expected to parrot their predecessors verbatim and glorify that mindlessness with Latin “stare decisis” or English “respect for precedent” or “rule of law” which is really rule of lawyers and bowing to emperors without clothes.
This is a long but necessary introduction to this bold but compelling statement: Once, God willing, Alex Murdaugh’s convictions or the murders are vacated, ALL his guilty pleas to “financial crimes” should be withdrawn as made by a DEPRESSED widower and bereft father STILL in the shock of having the death of his loved ones FALSELY pinned on him.
Judge Clifton Newman and Judge Gergel asked Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) every question PRESCRIBED BY THEIR PREDESSORS IN LAW to determine if his guilty pleas were “knowing and intelligent.”
But they did NOT ask him the essential question: was he too depressed to make a “knowing and intelligent” decision?
And even if they had asked, how could RAM possibly know the correct answer?
To this day, Joe Biden is unaware of his age-and-repeated-CoViD-19-infections intellectual decline and insists on speaking in what TO HIS INTERNAL EAR sound like complete sentences but to the outside world are confusing ambiguous statements.
Had RAM not been depressed, he would have CORRECTLY seen what were called his “victims” AND THEIR LAWYERS for what they are: his greedy accomplices in the crime of exaggerated (if not outright fabricated) insurance claims. None of RAM’s so-called “victims” would have gotten a penny had any other lawyer represented them. These “tire separations,” (if these, not drunk driving, are the real cause of the auto accidents of RAM’s so-called “victims”) hardly get compensated in any other counties outside SC’s 14th Judicial District.
And I am still trying to figure out what that Moore’s and that J.J.’s injuries were that they so b—-ed at RAM for retaining part of the compensation for. Both Moore and J.J. look as strong as oxen and both continued gainful employment.
And of course, Gloria Satterfield’s heirs always knew, or should by now know, that there were no dogs but that Gloria dies of TERMINAL renal failure associated with chronic, poorly-managed diabetes.
And everyone plays dumb about “where the money is.” Everyone knows “the money” went BACK to insurance adjustors and lawyers who rolled over and paid OBVIOUSLY fraudulent (or, at the most charitable, wildly exaggerated) insurance claims.
And those who fawn over those “victims'” new lawyers are really dreaming that said lawyers would get new millions for any and every one willing to insult RAM.
In sum, the law should be advanced to include, before accepting a guilty plea, an OBJECTIVE examination of the criminal defendant’s PSYCHOLOGICAL ability to make a correct decision. After all, isn’t that where MOST false confessions come from? Psychological collapse.
FITS shall, God willing, win an award in courage if he lets this comment through.
Since Mark Tinsley, “the tiger,” and the hunter father of a hunter, boasted about his coveting Moselle and ultimately caused the Murdaughs to lose it and lose their lives, I might as well shed some light on the tiger’s SECOND lawsuit stemming from Mallory Beach’s death.
What is that “outrage” the tiger rages about in his SECOND lawsuit against Gregg Parker and for which the tiger wants $20M more from Gregg Parker?
Gregg Parker admitted, even bragged, that he hired people to follow Paul and Buster Murdaugh around and ruin their reputations as gay playboys.
HOW DID THAT INJURE THE TIGER’S CLIENTS?
The REAL victims here are Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) and Paul and Maggie’s other survivors, not Mallory Beach’s survivors whose injuries were complete with Mallory’s death.
The tiger claims IN HIS SECOND LAWSUIT that Mallory’s survivors suffered immensely by Gregg Parker’s release of photos (videos?) of Mallory’s dead body.
No one needs to support Gregg Parker to ask this obvious question: How could Mallory’s survivors possibly been affected by OTHERS seeing photos (videos?) of Mallory’s dead body?
Had Mallory’s survivors themselves not ALREADY seen those photos (videos?) of Mallory’s dead body?
And if Mallory’s survivors had no desire to those photos (videos?) of Mallory’s dead body, they were NEVER forced to look.
The law gives few rights to the deceased themselves, including no liability for defaming the deceased. Mallory’s survivors may sue for THEIR own loss of her consortium; but they have no cause of action for the privacy of photos of HER dead body being ALLEGEDLY breached, assuming it was IN FACT breached.
My insight that insurance defense lawyers roll over and pay huge settlements for invalid insurance claims in return for kick backs from plaintiffs’ lawyers is supported by Gregg Parker’s CURRENT defense lawyers’ failure/refusal to seek dismissal of that baseless SECOND lawsuit.
And my insight will be further supported when we hear of ANOTHER huge settlement for Mallory’s survivors with the tiger and his team getting 40% of it and spending it on God knows what.
That art of the kickback, not “art of the BS” was RAM’s secret, a secret the tiger learned and is practicing to a vengeance.
But vengeance is mine, says the Lord.
Apparently I did it this time and came up with a comment that FITS is too scared/embarrassed to let through. Here it is again:
All politics is local; and apparently all “justice” is local. But I cannot allow all SCIENCE to be local.
I am a physician and Biostatistician-Epidemiologist. So, PURELY SCIENTIFICALLY, I was offended by Dylan Nolan’s interpretation of a chart; and I posted this comment on FITS’ YouTube and, God willing and FITS permitting, paste here hoping it goes through both places, and hoping Will Folks mends his ways.
Here it is:
Absolutely NO POLITICS in this comment BUT pure STATISTICAL observation, EVEN ASSUMING the numbers are correct:
If, as you say, 14 million Democrat voters were fraudulently created in 2020 and vanished in 2024 because there was better poll-watching, HOW DO YOU EXLAIN the EXTRA 22 million REPUBLICAN voters who magically appeared between 2016 and 2020, and of whom 8 million vanished between 2020 and 2024? How? How? How?
Either you chart is totally wrong or there was simply a higher voter turnout in 2020 due to CoViD-19 making it easier to vote without actually having to wait in line on election day.
That simple! And NO conspiracy theories! And no Haitians eating cats and dogs in Ohio!
Of course, everything in South Carolina is now related (or can be related) to Richard Alex Murdaugh (“RAM”); and I see John Paul Miller (“JPM”) as the new RAM and Buster Murdaugh rolled into one. None of the three is a wonderful person; but none killed his wife or lover or friend; YET, there was for RAM and now is for JPM a media-lawyer push to get the man incarcerated rightly or wrongly.
So-so-Lawyer Regina Ward made no secret of her wish and gloating over seeing JPM incarcerated. And Jen Wood issued her own WRONG definition of assault as she had issued her WRONG definition of “family annihilator.”
Because my comments and replies on FITS’ YouTube videos are too good to remain only there, I hereunder paste my most reply to a reply on FITS’ 9 November 2024 Week-in-Review:
? @imho7250 , no one needs to be a lawyer (or to play one anywhere) to read the plain English of the South Carolina Code of Laws, Title 16 (Crimes and Offenses), Chapter 3 (Offenses Against the Person), Article 7 (Assault and Criminal Sexual Conduct), in which third degree is FULLY defined thus:
“(E)(1) A person commits the offense of assault and battery in the third degree if the person unlawfully injures another person, or offers or attempts to injure another person with the present ability to do so.
(2) A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than thirty days, or both.
(3) Assault and battery in the third degree is a lesser-included offense of assault and battery in the second degree, as defined in subsection (D)(1), assault and battery in the first degree, as defined in subsection (C)(1), assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, as defined in subsection (B)(1), and attempted murder, as defined in Section 16-3-29.
HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 273, Section 6.B, eff June 2, 2010; 2011 Act No. 39, Sections 1, 2, eff June 7, 2011; 2015 Act No. 58 (S.3), Pt II, Section 3, eff June 4, 2015.
Effect of Amendment[:] 2015 Act No. 58, Section 3, rewrote (A)(2).”
As you can see, it says nothing about making someone (reasonably or not) afraid. Reasonable fear is not mentioned in the statute; and criminal laws must be strictly construed. That means you can not invent a crime the legislature did not make a crime; and if a statute is ambiguous (meaning not clear) the lack of clarity is interpreted in favor of the defendant. That is called the rule of lenity.
My reading of the statute (and I am NOT a lawyer either, only better than most) is that a person is guilty of assault in the third degree if he “offers to injure another person with the present ability to do so” EVEN IF the other person was not frightened by the offer (or took it as a joke or mere bragging). The joking defense may plausibly be used to say that it was not an actual “offer” to injure.
I wish people would read the actual source before making pronouncements on what they think the law is or should be. And I reiterate my wish that police be better trained in the law and be held accountable for not applying it evenly.
Attempted to be posted on your other story today:
FITS, I notice this time you did not repeat your fig-leaf that you still think Richard Alexander Murdaugh (“RAM”) killed his wife and younger son but that RAM should get a new trial for it to be proven again beyond reasonable doubt and with constitutional t’s crossed and i’s dotted.
I also respect and encourage the father of (seven or eight?) children waking up after Thanksgiving and writing such a courageous, if repetitive, article.
BUT it is not that simple.
The REAL reason for resistance to a new trial for RAM is that a new trial will prove him INNOCENT and could, God willing, reveal the real killers, throw light on the facts that RAM’s so-called “client-victims” were NOT victims at all but were co-conspirators with RAM in presenting grossly-exaggerated, if not outright fraudulent, insurance claims, and that those claims would NOT have been paid out to such levels without the collusion of LOCAL insurance adjustors AND local supposed defense-lawyers hired by those big insurance companies with (physically and operationally) remote head-quarters.
Most significantly, the real truths about RAM would hinder, if not end, Alan Wilson’s gubernatorial ambitions if he really has any. After all, South Carolina’s (“SC”) Attorney General (“SCAG”) is not term-limited; but SC’s governor is.
As young as Alan Wilson is, and as ailing as his adoptive father is, Alan might not want to end is own political career by going into a dead-end (proven by Nikki Haley) term-limited state position instead of staying where he is or inheriting his adoptive father’s congressional seat.
And where SCAG Wilson is is literally worth millions. Many more millions than RAM’s so-called missing millions which are really not missing at all.
SCAG Wilson’s predecessors, including Charlie Condon, controlled millions in the State Insurance Reserve Fund’s farming out the state’s public business to private law firms AND in farming out the state’s huge civil cases to private law firms.
The latter civil cases (such as the tobacco litigation) were typically NOT started by SC but by other states with all SC having to do being signing its name to share in the settlements.
Since Condon’s time, the cases increased to include insulin pricing, the opioid litigation, etc. The one SC exclusive case was that nuclear waste case for which SCAG Wilson assigned two private law firms: one headed by his former lawyer, Ken Woodington, and the other by Jean Toal’s brother, Willoughby and Hoefer. The $75M SCAG Wilson gave those two private law firms instead of depositing them for SC’s tax-payers may still be in litigation; but all who will rule on it know on which side their bread is buttered.
And it seems that nuclear waste settlement was easier than the proverbial shooting of a pig in a poke. It was handed to SCAG Wilson on a proverbial silver platter by you-know-whom. And SCAG Wilson passed the largesse down to two private law firms, not to the tax-payers.
Back to RAM!
This oulet, FITSNews, then led by Malicious Mandy Matney (“MMM”) and her “work wife” Liz Farrell (with MMM’s now-puppy-dog husband David Moses completing the menage-a-trois behind the scenes) insisted JUST PRIOR to Paul and Maggie’s 7 June 2021 shootings that RAM and/or his son(s) had killed Sanctimonious Sandy Smith’s (“SSS”) son Stephen and Ever-Bluffing Eric Bland’s (“EBEB”) clients’ decedent Gloria Harriot Statterfield (“GHS”).
The Prosecution’s theory was that RAM killed Paul and Maggie to delay the discovery of RAM’s involvement with GHS and SSS’s son.
But the truth is: GHS did NOT die at Moselle as a result of her fall but died in hospital 24 days later from myocardial infarction MOST PROBABLY resulting from her chronic diabetes complicated by TERMINAL renal failure and neuropathies causing imbalance.
The truth ALSO is: GHS’s heirs KNEW of GHS’s pre-existing conditions, of the REAL cause of her death, AND of the settlement reached, long before Paul and Maggie’s demises. They PROBABLY knew they were initiating a fraudulent insurance claim when they agreed to hire Corey Fleming to sue RAM under that fabricated dogs story.
In MMM’s book, “Blood on Their Hands,” she discloses that she discovered the GHS settlement by digging into court records ALMOST A YEAR before 7 June 2021.
That email which the grown-man, fully-employed (NOT “boy”) Tony Satterfield sent RAM in April 2021 was a dual function fabrication of deniability for GHS’s heirs and entrapment for RAM.
MY conclusion, based on MY experience with malicious prosecutions (which, thank God, I ultimately defeated WITHOUT A LAWYER and in the courtroom of none other than Judge Clifton Newman, who is still to stand up for me and say Dr. Faltas does NOT deserve to have her BASIC human right to speak for herself denied just because she defended herself pro se successfully) and without false humility is: GHS’s heirs and their lawyer EBEB have NO PROBLEM pursuing their fraudulent insurance claim about GHS’s demise; their ONLY problem is that RAM kept all the loot to himself.
OR not all of it because, my conclusion based on OTHER observations, is that such OBVIOUSLY fraudulent claim would NOT have succeeded without the complicity of the LOCAL insurance defense lawyer(s) and the LOCAL insurance adjustor(s). These were NOT “charmed” by RAM’s theatrics but functioned on a strict quid-pro-quo basis. THAT is where RAM’s supposed “missing millions” went: kick backs to LOCAL insurance defense lawyers and adjustors.
And THAT is why no one wants to delve more deeply.
The media, main stream or mom-and-pop, rely on advertisements from personal injury lawyers. The latter know that they cannot get the huge settlements about which they boast in their advertisements without insurance defense lawyers OCCASIONALLY rolling over.
The most probative case, the proverbial “original sin,” is buried deep in Cory Fleming’s deposition in the federal case of Nautilus v. Murdaugh.
In August 2010 years ago, Cory and Eve Fleming’s then-minor only son needed some surgery. So, they had Fleming’s MATERNAL cousin Jean Fowlkes as a guardian to a name-redacted-child sue Eve Fleming for having directed that name-redacted-child to exit Eve’s SUV through the backdoor causing the child to fall and suffer severe injuries. The case is in Beaufort County 2012-CP-07-2826.
Whether that is really what happened to that child or not, the Flemings could not have sued their own automobile insurance for their own negligence towards their own child.
The issue TO ME, is that the insurance defense lawyer could AND should, with MINIMAL RESEARCH, have found out that the injured child was Eve’s own son and that, as such, no insurance coverage is available.
For full disclosure, before reading Cory Fleming’s RECENT deposition in the Nautilus case, I had romanticized the story and thought the child was an abuse victim of one of Public Defender Eve Fleming’s clients and that Eve had exercised utter nobility in seeing to it that said poor child’s medical needs were met even at the cost of getting herself fraudulently sued.
I am naive, but I lose my naivety when confronted with OBJECTIVE evidence that that the REAL world is darker than I ever thought.
Parenthetically, I had also been naive about EBEB confronting big law firms. But that is another story.
Only in Cory Fleming’s deposition did I discover that the child was Cory’s own and gathered that said now-grown son did not attend Cory Fleming’s federal sentencing, not to be spared the humiliation of seeing his father sentenced, but to be spared being questioned about that August 2010 injury.
So, it appears to be a long tradition of insurance defense lawyers, FOR THE RIGHT PRICE, rolling over an paying obviously-invalid insurance claims.
How does that apply to GHS’s heirs claims and to Paul and Maggie’s demises?
Also deep in the depositions in the federal Nautilus case, John Grantland, of Murphy and Grantland, testifies that he could not find an internal medicine physician who could/could have done a life-expectancy analysis of GHS based on her pre-existing conditions.
Really? REALLY?!!!?? Really??!!
That is the bread and butter of ALL insurance defenses in wrongful deaths cases: the assessment of life expectancy independent of the event subject of the lawsuit.
And if you do not believe me, RAM himself had gotten a trial judge reversed based on that judge’s erroneous refusal to admit life-expectancy evidence.
The other side of the coin of insurance defense lawyers rolling over and paying worthless claims is their resorting to unethical extortions to terminate the cases of deserving claimants who cannot or would not pay bribes.
The cheating husband who brings flowers to the wronged and unsuspecting wife.
After all, a local insurance defense lawyer would not be rehired if (s)he kept rolling over and paying all claims. Only the select few get paid; the others get “defended” to the point of getting the worthy, deserving claimant falsely arrested to extort her to drop her claims or accept a penny on the dollar.
GHS’s heirs knew of the settlement and had confronted RAM about it. He PROBABLY responded that, if they do not buzz off, Paul and Maggie would testify that there were no dogs, and “Handsome” would testify that GHS was NOT picking up a check for services rendered to Libby Murdaugh. Thus, if GHS’s heirs had a case at all, it would be a workman’s comp, and that is only if GHS was even covered by workman’s comp insurance.
“Handsome” was dying and DID die three days later.
The only two remaining witnesses who could have brought the temple down a la Biblical Samson on themselves and their enemies were Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, who had made the 911 call when GHS had fallen at Moselle in February 2018.
So, follow the money. Who really profited from Paul and Maggie’s demise?
And what is the DOCUMENTED conduct of local insurance-defense-lawyers?
As always, do not take my words, take the OBJECTIVE records.