Serious injuries due to tripping over dogs she has known since puppies, and who relied on her for food and water at the house. I don't buy the "tripped over a dog" story when everyone was in bed and the dogs knew her. Why would they suddenly, out of the blue, knock her down the stairs when they should be in the kennels?
"Gloria Satterfield, arrived at Moselle where she was — depending on who you ask — either scheduled to work that day, there to pick up her paycheck or there to pick up someone else’s paycheck.
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When she fell ascending the front stairs at the Murdaughs’ Moselle home (or was it their Holly Street house?) in Colleton County (or was it Hampton?), Gloria was tripped (or pushed?) by either Bubba, Bourbon, Blue or Sassy — or maybe it was none of them.
The fall caused Maggie Murdaugh to wake up sometime after 9 a.m. She awakened her son Paul, who was also sleeping, and called
911 at 9:24 a.m.
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Alex Murdaugh said he was at work at the time, 20 minutes away, and that his wife had called him at 9:45 a.m. to tell him about the fall. He “rushed to the scene,” arriving “before” emergency medical technicians … who were there at 9:41 a.m.
Before Alex arrived, Paul tried to sit Gloria up, but someone told him to “turn her loose” so she fell back over. When Alex arrived, Gloria was sitting on the stairs … but also he helped Paul sit her on the stairs.
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According to a 2018 report from attorney Scott Wallinger, who was hired by Lloyds of London to represent Alex Murdaugh in the case, Gloria sustained a right-sided head laceration, a right-sided subdural hematoma, a traumatic brain injury, multiple left-side posterior rib fractures, a partially collapsed lung and a plumonary contusion."
Latest in the Murdaugh Murders Saga: New details emerge in the death of Gloria Satterfield, showing the story that was crafter about her fall.
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Here’s Alex’s account:
— He left the house at a 7:45 a.m. to go to his office in Hampton.
— He got a call from Maggie around 9:45 a.m. who said Satterfield had been injured.
— “He found Satterfield sitting on the brick landing at the base of the steps. She was semi-conscious, knew who she was, and had blood on her head and face. There was a pool of blood on the brick landing.”
— Then EMS arrived.
— “Alex followed the ambulance to Walterboro. He was given Satterfield’s purse just before she was put on the helicopter. Alex drove back to his house in Moselle. He attempted to call and text Satterfield’s brother but did not speak with him.”
— “Alex told me that he had heard, from one or more of Satterfield’s relatives he cannot really recall, was that Satterfield had reported that ‘the dogs tripped her up.'”
Here’s Maggie’s account (Wallinger notes that she was interviewed two weeks before his report, which is dated Nov. 6):
— Maggie was asleep in bed. Gloria was expected to arrive at some point that day.
— The four dogs (the suspects?) were outside and were seldom allowed in the house.
— Bourbon (main suspect?) had just been picked up from obedience training a few days before.
— Two employees, Ronnie Freeman and Travis Martin, were on the property working but not near the house.
— She heard the dogs barking in “an unusual tone, as if something had happened.”
— She went out the front door and found Satterfield lying on her back, “head toward the bottom of the steps, with a bleeding head wound.”
— Maggie shouted “Oh my God!”
— Satterfield was not carrying any objects. Her eyes were open, she was conscious but “mumbling gibberish.” The dogs were walking around her.
— Satterfield didn’t know what happened.
— Maggie called 9-1-1.
— Satterfield told EMS her name that the current president was “Bill Clinton.”
— Maggie drove to the hospital and met with Satterfield’s relatives. “Maggie saw Satterfield in the ICU, she was sleeping but occasionally woke and stated her head hurt and she was cold. Maggie said she never visited Satterfield alone. Maggie recalled that at the time of Satterfield’s admission it was the peak of flu season and patients were on gurneys in every hallway. Satterfield never told Maggie why Satterfield fell.”
— Maggie visited Satterfield five or six times but never alone.
— She was not surprised to hear Satterfield died.
Here’s Paul’s account (also interviewed two weeks prior to the report):
— At the time of the incident, he was asleep in his downstairs bedroom.
— He heard the dogs barking, which he associated with someone coming up the driveway.
— He heard Maggie calling him and knew something was wrong.
— He went to the porch and saw Satterfield “had fallen off the front steps.” His mother “was rushing to get a telephone” and “Satterfield’s feet were on the second or third step from the bottom and she was lying on her back. She was bleeding from a head wound and blood was on the brick landing area. Satterfield was awake, making weird noises, and not making any sense. Paul did not try to talk with her.”
— “Paul remembers that his father Alex arrived and asked what happened and that Satterfield said ‘something about dogs.'”
— Satterfield started vomiting so “Alex and Paul sat her up while they waited for EMS to arrive.”
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