A Lawyer Hired A Man To Kill Him So His Son Could Get An Insurance Payout, Police Say

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A prominent South Carolina lawyer who found the bodies of his wife and son three months ago, tried to arrange his own death earlier this month so his son would get a $10 million life insurance payment, but the planned fatal shot only grazed his head, state police said Tuesday.

The shooter, Curtis Edward Smith, was charged with assisted suicide, insurance fraud and several other counts in the Sept. 4 shooting of Alex Murdaugh on a lonely highway in Hampton County, the State Law Enforcement Division said in a statement.

Murdaugh was not charged Tuesday night, but agents said more charges were expected.

Murdaugh gave Smith the gun to kill him and he followed Murdaugh to Old Salkehatchie Road firing one shot at the lawyer as he stood in the road, an agent said in a sworn statement.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037295769/alex-murdaugh-lawyer-hired-insurance-payout-police-south-carolina

[Historic NY]

1. The dead son?

There is so much wrong with this.....

[Phentex]

3. No, another one named Buster...

I am not really sure why he thought shooting everyone would be the way to go without suspicion from the insurance company. The first deaths were bad enough but another random shooting would not be suspicious?

[zuul]

2. This story keeps getting weirder and weirder.

All it needs at this point is hookers and some blow.

[Ritabert]

4. He did check into rehab

...allegedly for oxycodone.

[Sneederbunk]

5. If he hired one shooter he could have hired another.