Alex Murdaugh confronted by theft victims at sentencing: ‘What kind of animal are you?’
Family annihilator Alex Murdaugh was confronted in court by several victims who put their trust in him in their hour of need – only for him to abuse that trust and steal millions of dollars in much-needed wrongful death and personal injury payments.
The disgraced legal scion appeared in Beaufort County Court in South Carolina on Tuesday morning for his sentencing on a slew of state financial charges, after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors earlier this month.
Cuffed and shackled and dressed in a bridge orange prison jumpsuit, the man whose family once reigned over the Lowcountry’s justice system entered the courtroom smiling before taking a seat next to his longtime attorneys and friends Jim Griffin and Dick Harpootlian.
At the sentencing, he was forced to come face to face with many of the victims that he stole from, including the family of his longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield – a woman who helped raise his two children Paul and Buster – and his friend for years Jordan Jinks.
In an emotional victim impact statement, Mr Jinks broke down sobbing on multiple occasions as he spoke of how close he used to be to the convicted killer – so much so that he told him he would have given him the money if he had just asked.
“What kind of animal are you?” he asked.
Mr Jinks looked Murdaugh in the eye as he said: “I’ve been waiting on this day to look in your eyes. I wanted to sit down with you one on one…
