Video: Client Charged in Suicide-for-Hire Plot Was ‘Set Up’ by Detoxing ‘Drug Addict’ Alex Murdaugh
Fraud
‘If I’d have shot him, he’d be dead.’
Murder
September 25, 2021
Dispute Over 10-Month-Old Baby Leaves 4 Dead
Four people are dead and a 10-month old was temporarily missing on Saturday after a shooting in rural southeast Tennessee. McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy said that deputies responded to a home in Riceville around 9 a.m. and first located two witnesses who had escaped the shooting, WTVC reported. Then they found the bodies of …
Family Crime
September 18, 2021
‘It Ain’t True!’ Alex Murdaugh’s Alleged Co-Conspirator Says the Low Country Lawyer Set Him Up ‘To Be the Fall Guy’
The man South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh said he hired to kill him so his son could get an insurance payout says that’s just not true. Curtis Smith, 61, told the New York Post he “was set up to be the fall guy” and complained about pictures published of his bond hearing Thursday morning. “They …
Family Crime
September 16, 2021
Alex Murdaugh Faces a Judge on Insurance Fraud Charges
Embattled South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh appeared in court Thursday afternoon on charges that he paid a former client to kill him so his son could collect a $10 million insurance policy. Murdaugh turned himself in late Thursday morning after the State Law Enforcement Division announced it had charged him with insurance fraud, conspiracy …