Death of Murdaugh family housekeeper in 2018 under investigation
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A criminal investigation has been opened into the 2018 death of a housekeeper who worked for a prominent South Carolina family that has since become the focus of several investigations, CBS affiliate WSPA-TV reported. Hampton County Coroner Angela Topper requested the investigation into Gloria Satterfield's death, which the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agreed to on Wednesday.
Satterfield died on February 26, 2018, as a "result of injuries sustained in a trip and fall accident, in Hampton County," according to a wrongful death settlement filed after her death, with Richard A. Murdaugh listed as the defendant.
But Satterfield's death was not reported to the coroner, and an autopsy was never performed, the coroner said.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.