The story around SC lawyer Murdaugh is getting crazier and crazier

[JoanofArgh]

Alex Murdaugh, the prominent South Carolina lawyer whose wife and son were shot and killed in June, asked a former client to kill him this month so his other son could collect a $10 million insurance payment but survived being shot in the head, the police said on Tuesday night.


The former client, Curtis Edward Smith, 61, of Walterboro, S.C., was arrested and charged with assisted suicide, aggravated assault and battery, and insurance fraud in connection with the shooting on Sept. 4, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said.

The state police agency said that Mr. Murdaugh, 53, had admitted to the scheme on Monday and that Mr. Smith had admitted to being at the scene and getting rid of the gun. Mr. Murdaugh’s lawyer did not respond to inquiries about the arrest, and it was not clear if Mr. Smith, who was booked in the Colleton County jail, had a lawyer.


The shooting of Mr. Murdaugh came nearly three months after he returned to his family’s large, rural property in Islandton, S.C., and discovered that his wife, Maggie, and son Paul, a 22-year-old college student, had been shot to death. At the time of his death, Paul Murdaugh was facing charges that he had drunkenly crashed a boat in 2019, killing Mallory Beach, a passenger, and wounding others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/alex-murdaugh-shooting-arrest.html



I won't be surprised to find out that Murdaugh hired somebody to kill his wife and son.

[livetohike]

1. I wish Ann Rule was still alive to write the book. This case

has it all, murder, corruption, politics, insurance fraud.

[JoanofArgh]

3. I loved Ann Rule! Read a bunch of her books.

[livetohike]

5. Same. I think I've read all of them. I haven't found a true

crime author as good as her, although lately I’ve been reading M. William Phelps .

[JoanofArgh]

7. I'll have to check out Phelps.

[malaise]

6. Don't forget wealth and entitlement

[Irish_Dem]

2. I had the same thought, he hired the hit on his family.

In his case, the hitman he hired to kill him was a lousy hitman.
Left him alive.

[ZZenith]

4. I think the "suicide for insurance money" ruse is cover for the botched "attempted murder" ruse.

They weren’t counting on the church having a video camera.

The “former client” is his cousin, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we learn that his cousin helped him to murder his wife and son. This Alex Murdaugh is as shady as they come.

[marble falls]

8. Mini series.