Low Country double murder gets more interesting…

[Eric 951]

newest info--he was driving an MB with run-flats--and no spare--absolutely no reason to "pull over to change a flat". This dude is gonna burn

[Brian 162]

Originally Posted by KC911

Sounds like it'll make a perfect TV show... that I will miss!

"... he was just an excitable boy" - WZ

Dateline will be all over this

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by Eric 951

newest info--he was driving an MB with run-flats--and no spare--absolutely no reason to "pull over to change a flat". This dude is gonna burn

That reminds me. I have run flats on my 530i. I'd better not try that alibi. Oh wait, I'm not a lawyer and even I know I never owe the cops an explanation and should never talk to them.

[rfuerst911sc]

More twists and turns to " the story " of how this went down .

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cops-turn-heat-lawyer-wild-221846818.html

[A930Rocket]

And the hits keep on coming.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/murdaugh-mystery-south-carolina-man-arrested

“South Carolina police have arrested a man who allegedly conspired with Alex Murdaugh, a high-profile attorney whose wife and son were murdered in a double shooting in June, to shoot and kill him in a plot to garner millions in life insurance payouts to his son.”

[tdw28210]

The human mind is a funny thing. It can REALLY screw itself over. As I said to somebody else recently, this is an example of what occurs when individuals start to believe that they are unaccountable and the "rules don't apply to them". This guy was a 3rd-generation lawyer/prosecutor from a "respected" family that appears to hold a LOT influence over law enforcement and the criminal justice in this particular multi-county corner of South Carolina. In this case, it took 3 generations for the sickness to really take root. (The two sons would be part of the 4th). Often times it only takes two or none at all. The surviving son should be moving out of the area and and changing his last name. There will be no rehabilitating it once everything comes to light.

I hope the whole corrupt cabal goes down in glorious, cleansing flames.

[GG Allin]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

And the hits keep on coming.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/murdaugh-mystery-south-carolina-man-arrested

“South Carolina police have arrested a man who allegedly conspired with Alex Murdaugh, a high-profile attorney whose wife and son were murdered in a double shooting in June, to shoot and kill him in a plot to garner millions in life insurance payouts to his son.”

So he hired a guy with bad aim? Or pretty good aim if he grazed him.

[black73]

Six months rehab and he'll be back to work, business as usual.

[rfuerst911sc]

And another investigation into the death of the housekeeper .

https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-carolina-authorities-open-investigation-204259009.html

[URY914]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/alex-murdaugh-turn-himself-authorities-234627803.html

South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh will turn himself into authorities on Thursday in connection with a jaw-dropping plot to have his alleged drug dealer shoot him dead so his son could collect $10 million in insurance money.

[GH85Carrera]

I am guessing the insurance company can just cancel his policy right now as he has shown the willingness to cheat and commit insurance fraud.

[Rick Lee]

Wow. And I thought Alan Stanwyck wanting Fletch to murder him was far-fetched.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Wow. And I thought Alan Stanwyck wanting Fletch to murder him was far-fetched.

Hahah!

Next on Jerry Springer!

attorney Dick Harpootlian

Wow, that's a heck of a name.

[asphaltgambler]

Reads just like a daytime soap opera so far, but real deal. I suspect there are many more layers to this onion yet to be uncovered....

[URY914]

This is a great article about it.

https://news.yahoo.com/just-keeps-coming-alex-murdaugh-010224837.html



**** Goes Downright Faulknerian
As Pat Conroy always said, “The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?” But in this case, he was wrong, wrong, wrong. On September 14th, news broke: Murdaugh had been at the end of his rope. In a “massive depression,” and withdrawal from opioid addiction, he hired Curtis Edward Smith, 61, of Walterboro, SC, to kill him. This, Alex Murdaugh mistakenly believed, would ensure that his surviving son, 25-year-old Richard “Buster” Murdaugh, would collect his 10 million dollar life insurance policy — he thought the policy had a suicide exclusion.

Smith botched the shooting spectacularly, not only spending at least seven rounds with the gun Murdaugh provided him, but also actually failing to kill Murdaugh. He says he “got rid of the gun” after the shooting. While Murdaugh served as Smith’s lawyer in a personal-injury case a decade ago, a police source says that he was Murdaugh’s “personal drug dealer.”

[MRM]

There's no way that was an attempt to kill the lawyer. He set it up to make it look like he was the victim of whoever it was that killed his wife and son so he could play the victim and take some of the heat off.

[speeder]

It's very "Fargo-esque," or at least resembles the true story that inspired the movie. Certain details are different but the general stupidity and incompetence of everyone involved sure rings a bell.

Crime should always be left up to actual criminals, amateurs always bone the pooch. Sometimes even the pros do as well but when it comes to hiring someone to shoot someone, it's a "don't try this at home" kind of thing. Whenever someone in the news tried to have their wife killed, my dad would always say, "haven't you ever heard of divorce?"

I was also reminded of one of the more hilarious episodes of The Sopranos, when the rapper hires Bobby Bacala to shoot him in the ass in order to gain street cred. "I don't want to see it coming."

[HobieMarty]

It seems that once it all started spiraling downward, it went pretty quick, that's a crazy story for sure.

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[craigster59]

Originally Posted by speeder

It's very "Fargo-esque," or at least resembles the true story that inspired the movie. Certain details are different but the general stupidity and incompetence of everyone involved sure rings a bell.

Dude, you ain't just a whistling "Dixie".

This will be made into a movie guaranteed. Hell, give it to Lin-Manuel Miranda, he'll turn it into the Broadway musical hit of the season!

[Brian 162]

I saw on the news last night that he was arrested but allowed to finish his rehab.