The lawyer who said he hired a man to kill him in a botched insurance scheme turned himself in
while changing a tire on the side of the road on Sept. 4, but survived with what police described as a “superficial gunshot wound” and was released from the hospital just two days later. Murdaugh’s attorneys told WCBD in a statement that Murdaugh
after his mental illness and opioid addiction was exacerbated after finding his wife Margaret and 22-year-old son Paul shot dead in June, murders that are still unsolved.The Murdaugh family, which has produced prominent South Carolina lawyers for generations, has been connected to at least four sudden deaths over the past few years. Just three months before he was shot in the head, Murdaugh’s wife and son wereat the family’s hunting lodge. No arrests have been made.
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