million to them. >> cory fleming and his law firm agreed to two separate settlements with gloria satterfield'sn criminally charged in the alleged satterfield scheme, cory fleming was indicted on 18 charges in march. he has not yet entered a plea. >> alex murdaugh is now seen as this man who has been tricking people that are closest to him to help himself. >> the boat crash was the first domino that really fell. and everything started to come undone. >> we are following breaking news from south carolina where a disgraced attorney has just been indicted for the murders of his wife and son. >> tonight, the dramatic new turn in this case. >> alex murdaugh is now charged with two counts of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. >> coming 402 days after maggie and paul murdaugh were found brutally murdered with multiple gunshot wounds, this was an almost unbelievable twist. alex murdaugh, the father, the husband, is indicted. >> according to the indictments, he acted alone in the shooting of his wife and son, allegedly killing maggie with a rifle and shooting pau

>> reporters were also looking at the 2018 death of the murdaughs' house keeper and nanny, gloria satterfield at their home. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> my housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding, i cannot get her up. she fell going up the brick steps. >> murdaughs' insurance company agreed to pay $505,000 for her wrongful death. but as the summer independents, there's a new emergency. >> i got a flat tire. >> uh-huh? >> and i stopped and somebody stopped to help me. and when i turned my back, they tried to shoot me. >> according to authorities, alec sustains a superficial head wound. >> two days later, on labor day, alec's p.r. team released a statement. >> he says that he's resigning from his law firm and that he's checking into rehab. >> then another bombshell. >> abc news has learned alec murdaugh resigned from his family's law firm amid accusations of misappropriating funds just the day before he says someone shot him. >> he loses his law license. his life is falling apart. >> days later, curtis henne smith, a distant relative and former client of alec's, is arrested in hi

call from jail, alex referred to a tv report he saw and mentioned the name steven smith and gloria satterfieldy died. >> gloria and all that -- surrounding gloria's death, about how she died. >> reporter: gloria satterfield died in 2018 after falling down the steps at his home. both of those deaths are now under investigation by the state. meanwhile, following court today, murdaugh once again returned to jail, where he is being held on a $7 million bond on charges of financial crimes, including insurance fraud. >> randi joins us now from charleston, south carolina. the prosecution give any hints in court today about possible motive? >> reporter: anderson, no clear motive was spelled out, but the prosecutors noted what could be to come. he noted the allegations murdaugh is facing for fraud, for drugs, for financial crimes, all things the grand jury had to consider when it decided to indict him in this double murder case. the prosecutors said in court today, quote, a lot of that provides the background and motive for what happened on june 7, 2021. that was the day of the double murder, when alex

phone call from jail, alex refer to a tv report he saw and mentioned the needs steven smith and gloria satterfielded. >> i mean, it's just that same old -- >> stephen smith and gloria, all of that stuff. the mystery surrounding gloria 's death, how she died. >> gloria satterfield dialed in 2018 after falling down the steps at murdoch's home. smith was found dead on a roll road in 2015. both of those deaths are now under investigation by the state. meanwhile, following court today, murdoch wants to get returned to jail, where he is being held on 7 million dollar bond on charges of financial crimes, including insurance fraud. >> randi now joins us from charleston, south carolina. did the prosecution give any hints about possible motive? >> anderson, no clear motive was spelled out in court today. the prosecutor certainly hinted at one may be to come. they noted 81 allegations that he is facing for fraud, for, drugs for financial crimes, all things at the grand jury had to consider when deciding to indict him in this double murder case. so, prosecutors said today court, quote, a lot of that provides

including keeping millions of dollars in a settlement that was to go to the family of housekeeper gloria satterfield who died on murdaugh's property now police say they are re-examining her 2018 death >> he's just an extremely dark individual, evil >> reporter: murdaugh denies all of the accusations. his attorneys saying tonight he did not have anything to do with the murders of maggie and paul. he loved them more than anything in the world. a family's reputation made in the courtroom now sees one of its own go on trial. anne thompson, nbc news >>> in buffalo, prosecutors have indicted the gunman accused of shooting and killing ten people at a grocery store on federal hate crime charges. it comes two months after the gruesome rampage and as the store finally reopens. emilie ikeda is there. >> reporter: in buffalo, a step forward from the tragedy that took the lives of ten of their own inside tops supermarket, the heart of the neighborhood. >> this grocery store has been a center of community. hundreds and hundreds of people shop here. >> reporter: now two months later the supermarket is re-opening f

gloria satterfield, the family's housekeeper died after a fall on the property, described as an accident, but last months police announced planned to exhume her body the court ordered him to pay more than $4 million to his family >> a bond hearing is scheduled for next week. that's when we could learn more details on evidence in this case his attorney says they're filing a motion for speedy trial, that all evidence be turned over one 30 days. >> a lot to unpack there >>> a university of oregon football star is dead tonight after authorities say he fell near a popular cliff diving spot spencer webb was 22 years old. he hit his head after falling on rockslides it happened yesterday about an hour west of the campus. deputies found his body 100 yards down a steep hill. there's no evidence of foul play the head coach of oregon football wrote -- so full of life in every moment of the day. your smile and energy will be missed, spencer. i love you. >>> the city of tulsa asking anyone whose family may have been killed during the 1921 race massacre to submit that i dna for testing against possible

also, next, gloria satterfield, she was the housekeeper, longtime housekeeper for the murdochs. 2018,res , outdoor stares at their home, blunt force trauma to the head, she died. it was a natural death, it was determined, case closed, now you start to get into the financial crimes, because that is what he's been charged with so far. the family bought a $500,000 claim for wrongful death, he said i was will settle it and then you will take all the proceeds, $500,000. but the family didn't get us in and now it is believed that there was misappropriation all those funds. financial crimes, i'm not done yet. september, 2021, last september, alex murdaugh was shot. authorities believe that he conspired with a man to shoot him, and killed him, alex murdaugh, so that his son , brad parscale alex murdaugh, only remaining son would get $10 million in life insurance funds. one more thing. malory beach, 2019, she was on a boat, it was owned by alex murdaugh, his son paul, his now deceased was allegedly driving it. she was ejected from the boat out to sea. she was deceased, and before paul, the son

. >> reporter: attorney eric bland represents the family of gloria satterfield.per who died after falling down the stairs. murdoch's wife was still alive and called 911. >> my housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding. >> reporter: satterfield later died in the hospital. according to the coroner an autopsy was never done, and hermaner of death was listed as natural. the coroner noted that was inconsistent with injuries sustained in a trip-and-fall accident. state law enforcement recently announced plans to exhume the woman's body as part of a criminal investigation into her death. >> everything around alex is a lie or deception or half answers. it's a family that's cloaked in secrecy. >> reporter: and the truth about what happened to 19-year- old mallory beach may have dade with alex murdoch's son paul. she was killed in february 2019 while boating with paul murdoch and a friends. >> we're in a boat crash on arthur's creek. there's six of us and one is missing. >> reporter: paul was facing charges of boating under the influence and causing her death when he

matter, but we don't think that he or anybody in the family would intentionally want to kill gloria satterfieldthat takes advantage of every situation, where most lawyers would say what would benefit our clients, he is a person that says what can i do to benefit myself. >> and for folks at home who don't know the details, what happened here is in her death, he promised i suppose to sue himself to get a settlement in her death, but then pocketed the $4 million, more than $4 million, for himself. but then that revealed that that wasn't the only time that he did this kind of thing, that he was using court settlements to steal all kinds of money. i just wonder how a prominent lawyer, how that was able to continue for so long. >> well, he can't do it alone. so the answer is, you know, the only currency that alex has at this time is information. and is he willing to try to salvage some family reputation going forward for his son and his brothers and sisters by eliciting information, telling information, whether judges, whether lawyers, whether colleagues, who helped him do this for so long and in suc

admitted to pocketing more than $4 million in settlement money owed the family of his housekeeper, gloria satterfieldng on the steps of the murdaugh family home back in 2018. >> no lawyer has ever seen anything like this. i mean, he is dark, he's evil, instead of thinking about what he could do for his clients, he uses the client opportunity to think how is this going to benefit myself. >> and sandra, murdaugh is no longer allowed to practice law. the south carolina state supreme court officially disbarred him yesterday. back to you. >> sandra: just yesterday, that was a big part of the story how long that took. jonathan, thank you very much. we'll keep following it. >> john: former president barack obama sending a scathing email to his former white house physician saying that jackson's criticism of joe biden's cognitive health on the campaign trail was a "cheap shot." but isn't it time to start questioning biden's mental acuity now that we have seen some troubling signs of decline? ari fleischer on that next. to only get this far with his cholesterol. taken with a statin, leqvio can lower bad choles

of dollars from an insurance settlement that was supposed to go to the family of housekeeper gloria satterfield018 death, though murdaugh has not been named a suspect and denies involvement. >> he's just an extremely dark individual, evil, just raw, basic evil. >> reporter: in response to the new indictment murdaugh's attorneys say he did not have anything to do with the murders of maggie and paul, adding he loved them more than anything in the world. they go on to say that law enforcement, quote, prematurely concluded that murdaugh was responsible for their deaths. the south carolina attorney general has offered no details on a possible motive for the murders. if convicted on the new charges murdaugh faces 30 years to life in prison without the possibility of parole. >> all right. thank you, gabe. >> all right, gabe. >>> let's get a boost. >> this is a cute one. giving baseball fans the same sense of accomplishment as building a giant beer cup snake this one was long enough to get some national attention. both cubs fans and mets fans stacked their empty cups together and created a snake that s