The Exhumation of Gloria Satterfield

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The body of Gloria Satterfield, longtime housekeeper for disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, will be exhumed. Satterfield died after a trip and fall accident at the Murdaugh home. No autopsy was performed and her manner of death listed as natural. Now, after the string of deaths linked to the Murdaugh name, investigators want to know more. Exhumations are not ordered for just any old case, but when a court orders the embalmed remains of a human being be uninterred, everyone pays attention, including our forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan. In this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss what exhumation is, and why exhumation must be handled with the utmost of care.

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Show Notes:
Introduction [02:00]
Events that lead to the pending exhumation of Gloria Satterfield [03:32]
Judiciary regulations regarding exhumations [05:58]
The effect that embalming (or not) has on exhumations, and factors that impact a successful exhumation and investigation [08:31]
Joseph Scott Morgan describes the investigative process, vital medical records, and test results he would study prior to the exhumation of Gloria Satterfield [17:08]
The impact that medical intervention, autopsy, and body preparation for burial have on the investigation of a trauma-related death, and the particular problem with the Gloria Satterfield case [20:24]
Information investigators will be looking for when reviewing Gloria’s body [27:27]
The types of professionals who perform autopsies of exhumed bodies, and concerns regarding the omission of the South Carolina medical-legal community in the Satterfield case [29:46]
Kathleen Savio, Shele Danishefsky Covlin, and other high-profile exhumation cases in the US [32:36]

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0:00.0	We spend time thinking about those that we honor that have passed on to the other side.
0:27.9	One of the ways we do that as a people is to memorialize them and I guess probably for most
0:34.5	of us that involves a burial, that is setting up a location, perhaps where we can go and
0:42.4	visit Tom to Tom, remember the people that surround us, people that impact our lives.
0:53.7	But when it comes to death, many times, some things are hidden, we've heard that old phrase,
1:00.4	they're going to take it to the grave with it.
1:05.3	That's where the practice of Examation comes in and today we're going to talk about
1:10.1	the Gloria Satterfield.
1:12.9	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.
1:21.9	Give me today is Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crowned Stories, with Nancy Grace.
1:28.9	Jackie, I think one of the things I'd like to explore with you today is Gloria Satterfield
1:34.6	and her apparent pending Examation.
1:37.8	The Gloria Satterfield Examation is coming about because of the investigation into Alec
1:42.5	Murdal.
1:43.7	So many deaths surrounding this prominent family in South Carolina since the death of Maggie
1:48.9	and Paul Murdal, both were murdered outside their family home, discovered by the father
1:55.6	Alex Murdal.
1:57.2	Since then, he is in jail charged with setting up a murder for hire on himself to ensure
2:03.9	that his remaining son would get millions in life insurance policies.
2:08.9	That hit failed, Murdal survived.
2:12.8	He has also been charged with stealing millions of dollars from his law firm.
2:18.2	And that included a $4.3 million ruling award for Gloria Satterfield's children.
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