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Popular Lawyer In Court For Killing Wife, Son [PHOTOS]

Ridwan Deola by Ridwan Deola
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Alex Murdaugh, a former attorney who for decades wielded tremendous influence in South Carolina, USA, is on trial for allegedly killing his wife and son.

NEWSBREAK reports that Murdaugh, 54, was part of a multi-generation dynasty of wealthy, high-powered attorneys and prosecutors in the state of South Carolina when he plunged into financial problems and drug addiction.

His wife and son were shot and killed on June 7, 2021, at the family’s sprawling hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina.

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This photo provided by Orange County, Fla., shows Richard Alexander Murdaugh. The prominent South Carolina lawyer has been charged with stealing insurance settlements meant for the sons of his late housekeeper. State police say Murdaugh was arrested Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021 at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Fla., where his attorneys say he has spent the past six weeks since claiming he was shot in the head. (Orange County, Fla. via AP)
Alex Murdaugh

As police struggled to pinpoint a suspect, three months later Murdaugh tried to fake his own murder on a country road so his surviving son could collect on a $10 million insurance policy.

Jury selection for his murder trial began Monday in the city of Walterboro, in an area of the state where his family wielded influence for generations.

While the trial focuses on the murder charges, Murdaugh faces more than 70 others including embezzling millions of dollars, insurance fraud, drug trafficking and money laundering.

And police have opened inquiries into the 2018 death of Murdaugh’s family nanny, originally called an accident, and the 2015 roadside death of a young gay man not far from the Murdaugh home whose family alleges was also a homicide.

Murdaugh was first arrested after allegedly recruiting his drug dealer to shoot him on a South Carolina roadside in an insurance scam on September 4, 2021.

But Curtis Smith, the hitman hired by Murdaugh, botched the job. He shot Murdaugh in the head but the bullet only grazed his skull.

When Murdaugh was arraigned in court, his lawyer Dick Harpootlian said he had a “tremendous opioid addiction.”

Harpootlian stated that Murdaugh had financial problems and that the deaths of his wife and son had “put him over the edge.”

It would be recalled that in July 2022, a grand jury indicted Murdaugh for the murder a year earlier of his wife Maggie, 52, and his son Paul, 22.

He has since been barred from practicing law in the state.

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