do you think i killed paul? i have to go to where the evidence and facts take me and i don t have anything that points me to anybody else at this time. during cross-examination, the defense questioned whether investigators had any direct evidence linking murdaugh to the crime. agent owen testified that no murder weapon was found, nor did investigators find any evidence of blood in the murdaugh family home. bret? bret: jonathan serrie live in atlanta. jonathan, thank you. there is growing controversy near the white house tonight. the local government is removing a large settlement of homeless people here in the nation s capitol. it comes about two months ahead of schedule. that has many advocates for the homeless extremely upset. correspondent david spunt shows us tonight. as promised, city crews in washington, d.c. showed up to clear the district s largest homeless encampment, forcing dozens to relocate.
2018 death of a family housekeeper who tripped and fell on the front steps of the murdaugh family home. his attorneys said we re prepared to challenge the state s allegations and demonstrate the weaknesses in the state s case before a jury. alec looks forward to the opportunity to clear his name of these charges so the attorney general can begin looking for the actual killer or killers of alec s beloved wife and son. prosecutors are not seeking a death sentence. so if convicted murdaugh could face life in prison without the possibility of parole. dana: we ll be watching. thank you. bill: nancy grace has been on the story from the beginning and the host of crime stories on fox nation. good morning to you. there are so many very interesting details about the family, three generations in and out of this courtroom 50 miles west of charleston. they run so deep that the accused grandfather had a portrait of himself hanging in
related to the 2018 death of the murdaugh housekeeper gloria satterfield. according to the state prosecutors, murdaugh came to the satterfield family at the funeral saying she could sue him after she died following a trip and fall accident at the murdaugh family home. now, he set them up with an attorney, according to state prosecutors, who then brokered a $4.3 million settlement agreement. roughly $3 million of that was supposed to go to the satterfield family, but according to families they didn t see any of it. instead, that attorney put checks in an account that shared a name with an insurance settlement firm that deals with these kinds of things in south carolina except it was one that was run by alex murdaugh. he made the name similar according to attorneys and they say that he was using that money for his own personal reasons. they laid out the case saying that he had used to pay off credit card bills, give money to his father and things like that.
county, florida. he s waiting to be extradited to buford, south carolina, here to appear in a bond hearing sometime early next week. that is what his attorney is telling abc news. now, this is the second time alex murdaugh has been arrested just this past month. he now faces two new felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. these charges, as you were mentioning, focus on his housekeeper, his late housekeeper of 25 years, gloria satterfield, who died in 2018 after what was described as a trip-and-fall accident in the murdaugh family home. the allegation is he stole more than $4 million in insurance settlement funds that were supposed to go to satterfield s family. this is according to the attorney for gloria satterfield s estate. now, we heard from one of alex