Scandal-plagued South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh surrendered Thursday to the Hampton County Law Enforcement Center, days after admitting to hiring someone to kill him in a failed insurance scam, according to his lawyer.
Murdaugh has been charged with insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and filing a false police report, all stemming from the Sept. 4 shooting that left the legal scion hospitalized with a superficial gunshot wound to the head, the State Law Enforcement Division announced Thursday.
After weaving a story about being shot by a man in a blue pickup truck while he was pulled over on a rural road with a flat tire, Murdaugh, 53, confessed Monday to concocting the entire scheme as a planned assassination to make sure his eldest son got his $10 million life insurance payout.
Desperate after his wife and other son were murdered on their Hampton County property in June, Murdaugh fell into a drug-fueled depression, another one of his lawyers, Dick Harpootlian, said on NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday.
He was fired from his law firm, started by his grandfather, Randolph Murdaugh Sr. more than 100 years ago, after allegedly stealing more than $1 million. The money, Harpootlian said, went to fund his opioid habit. But by Labor Day weekend, Murdaugh thought he was out of options and, as a last resort, asked Curtis Edward Smith, a former client, to kill him.
“That Saturday morning, he was trying to get off the opioids; he was not taking any of them, was in a...
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