A South Carolina lawyer surrendered to face charges in a failed plot to arrange his own death. Police say Alex Murdaugh wanted his son to collect a $10 million life insurance policy. The killings of his wife and another son in June remain unsolved.
A defense attorney said Murdaugh was deeply depressed with a drug addiction worsened by his discovery of the bodies of his wife and son, who were shot multiple times at the family’s home on June 7. Those killings remain unsolved.
Murdaugh told his lawyers on Monday that he had arranged his own shooting, and they then spoke to police. Murdaugh asked Curtis Edward Smith to kill him with a shot to the head on Sept. 4 so his surviving son could collect a $10 million life insurance policy, authorities said.Murdaugh’s lawyers said he has spent the past 10 days or so in drug rehab after his law firm fired him over missing money that could total millions of dollars..
Murdaugh’s lawyers said he decided to kill himself the next day, but have someone else shoot him. Murdaugh gave Curtis Edward Smith a gun and they headed to lonely Old Salkehatchie Road. Smith fired one shot that only grazed Murdaugh’s head, a State Law Enforcement Division agent said in a sworn statement.
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