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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>Dick Harpootlian the attorney representing South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh in a TV interview said <strong>&#8216;We know who killed Alex&#8217;s wife and son &#8211; and it was personal&#8217;</strong> </strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her son Paul, 22, were found shot dead at family&#8217;s hunting lodge on June 7 </strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>Harpootlian on Wednesday denied Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>His client was addicted to opioids and fell into depression after the deaths of his wife and son on one of the family&#8217;s properties, on June 7 </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>Subsequently investigators allege, he hired a hitman to kill him so that his surviving child could collect a $10million life insurance policy. </strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>On Tuesday police arrested <strong>Curtis Edward Smith, 61, the man</strong> &#8216;paid by Alex Murdaugh to kill him&#8217;, <strong>on charges of assisted suicide</strong> </strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>Harpootlian said his client was in &#8216;dark, dark place&#8217; when he hatched scheme &#8211; <strong>and he wanted to make his death look like a suicide to facilitate the insurance payout to his sole survivor</strong></strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#504142"><strong>Alex Murdaugh was said to have spent millions of dollars to fuel opioid addiction <strong>and he expects Alex to be charged for embezzling from law firm</strong></strong> </h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Dick-Harpootlian-right-with-Alex-and-Margaret-Murdaugh-left-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-389684"/><figcaption><strong>Alex Murdaugh&#8217;s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian [right], says he knows who killed the South Carolina legal scion&#8217;s wife and son earlier this year. Murdaugh has since been accused in a $10M insurance scheme. Harpootlian said &#8216;It was an attempt on his [client&#8217;s], part to do something to protect his child,&#8217; of the suicide-for-hire scheme. </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Alex Murdaugh&#8217;s lawyer says he may know who killed the South Carolina legal dynasty heir&#8217;s wife and son three months back, though he does expect his client to be arrested for embezzling funds from a law firm to fuel an addiction to painkillers.<br>Attorney Dick Harpootlian says his client was addicted to opioids and fell into depression after the deaths of his wife and son on one of the family&#8217;s properties, on June 7. Subsequently investigators allege, he hired a hitman to kill him so that his surviving child could collect a $10million life insurance policy. <br>&#8216;He was in a dark, dark, dark place and he wanted to help his remaining son, Buster, in any way he could,&#8217; Harpootlian says. <br>&#8216;He thought this was the only way he could leave him with anything.&#8217; <br>Harpootlian says that his client, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head while changing a tire on a rural highway on September 4, hatched the self-financed attempt on his life, for insurance payout, ‘to protect his child’, 25-year-old Richard Buster Murdaugh. <br>Murdaugh&#8217;s surviving son, 25-year-old Richard Alexander &#8216;Buster&#8217; Murdaugh Jr, the sole surviving heir to his father&#8217;s South Carolina legal dynasty, was apparently supposed to receive the insurance payout from his father&#8217;s death in the botched alleged, assisted suicide scheme, investigators said. </p>



<p>https://www.today.com/today/embedded-video/mmvo120912965952</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Buster-Murdaugh-left-Maggie-Murdaugh-Paul-Murdaugh-second-right-and-Alexander-Murdaugh-right-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-381943" width="841" height="587"/><figcaption><strong>Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, [together center], were shot dead on June 7. Police say Alex Murdaugh [right], orchestrated a separate shooting to kill himself with the help of a hitman, in a scheme to deliver a $10 million life insurance payout to his other son Richard &#8216;Buster&#8217; Murdaugh [right], as the elder Murdaugh faced investigation over misallocated funds</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Harpootlian also says that the motive for the murders of his wife, Maggie, 52, and son, Paul, 22, was &#8216;personal&#8217; and that the identity of the suspect could be revealed sometime this week.<br>&#8216;It was an attempt on his part to do something to protect his child,&#8217; Harpootlian says of the suicide-for-hire scheme. &#8216;He didn&#8217;t want law enforcement spending time on this fake crime instead of focusing on solving the murders of Maggie and Paul.&#8217; <br>The defense attorney acknowledged that Murdaugh is likely to be arrested for allegedly misappropriating millions from his own law firm. <br>Harpootlian told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-man-charged-assisted-suicide-shooting-alex-murdaugh-n1279208">NBC TODAY</a> that he and another lawyer, Jim Griffin, visited Murdaugh at an out-of-state detox facility on Monday. He said it was the first time either he or Griffin, spoke to Murdaugh ‘when he wasn’t on opioids of Oxy (oxycodone).’<br>‘He clearly knew that what he had done was wrong,’ Harpootlian told TODAY on Wednesday.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Curtis-Edward-Smith-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-389652"/><figcaption><strong>Alleged hitman Curtis Edward Smith, 61, [photo], was arrested on Tuesday on charges of assisted suicide in the alleged insurance fraud scheme</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>&#8216;He believed that $10 million policy had a suicide exclusion,&#8217; according to the attorney. <br>&#8216;Suicide exclusions are only good for two years, and he didn&#8217;t realize that. So he arranged to have this guy shoot him.&#8217; The alleged misfiring hit man, Curtis Edward Smith, 61, was arrested on Tuesday charges of assisted suicide, assault and battery, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. <br>Smith, from Walterboro, South Carolina, is a former client of Murdaugh, 53, who represented him in minor traffic matters as well as a 2015 lawsuit that Smith filed against a forest management company. <br>According to police, Murdaugh paid him to shoot him in the head and kill him, making it look like a random, drive-by attack. But, the plan failed as the shot only grazed his head, according to state police. <br>On June 7, the bodies of Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and the couple&#8217;s younger son Paul, 22, were found by Alex Murdaugh at their South Carolina home. <br>Murdaugh claims to have an &#8216;iron clad alibi&#8217; for the night of his wife and younger son&#8217;s murder, saying he was visiting his father in the hospital, just days before Randolph Murdaugh III&#8217;s death of cancer. <br>On the night of June 7, Murdaugh immediately identified himself on the 911 call and told the operator his &#8216;wife and child have been shot&#8217; near dog kennels on his property. <br>‘I’ve been up to it now. It’s bad,’ Murdaugh said.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Alex-Murdaughs-Mercedes-Benz-SUV-1.png" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Alex-Murdaughs-Mercedes-Benz-SUV-1.png" width="838" height="467"/><figcaption><strong>Alex Murdaugh told cops that he was changing the tire on his car on this rural road in Hampton County, SC, on Sept. 4, 2021, when someone drove by in a truck before turning back and shooting him from the passing truck</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>During the 911 call, dogs could be heard barking in the background and Murdaugh sounded deeply upset and agitated.<br>He told the operator several times that neither his son or wife was breathing. <br>No arrests have been made. Harpootlian adds, ‘The murder of his wife and son 90 days ago took a tremendous toll on him.’ <br>Harpootlian Wednesday denied that Alex Murdaugh had anything to do with the deaths of his wife and son. <br>&#8216;He did not murder them. He is totally distraught about their deaths.&#8217; <br>In the time he has spent with the family, they were &#8216;affectionate&#8217; with each other and that there was no indication Alex Murdaugh wanted to do them harm, the family&#8217;s lawyer said.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Richard-Buster-Maggie-Paul-and-Alex-Murdaugh-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-389658"/><figcaption><strong> Alex Murdaugh [right] is seen with his wife and son Paul, [center], who were shot dead at the family hunting lodge on June 7. The grieving husband and dad police said, orchestrated a separate shooting on September 4, hiring a hitman to kill himself in a plot to get an insurance payout for his surviving son Buster [left]</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Harpootlian also claims that the defense team is pursuing leads and have gathered information that may implicate a suspect in the June killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. <br>The team have zeroed in on &#8216;an individual or individuals we believe &#8211; may &#8211; have some culpability&#8217; or had carried out the murder. &#8216;We think we&#8217;ll know this week whether the one suspect we&#8217;re looking at bears further scrutiny and we&#8217;ll make that information available to law enforcement,&#8217; Harpootlian says. <br>When the interviewer probed for motive the killings, &#8216;Well, that would reveal who that person is, but it&#8217;s personal,&#8217; <br>Harpootlian said.<br>Revealing that he made Alex Murdaugh available for interviews with South Carolina law enforcement, Harpootlian adds that his client used &#8216;the vast majority&#8217; of the funds that he is accused of embezzling at his law firm &#8216;to buy drugs.&#8217;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Dick-Harpootlian-2.png" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Dick-Harpootlian-2.png" width="689" height="926"/><figcaption><strong>&#8216;He did not murder them. He is totally distraught about their deaths,&#8217; Murdaugh&#8217;s lawyer Dick Harpootlian [photo], denied that Alex Murdaugh had anything to do with the deaths of his wife and son</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>According to Harpootlian, Alex Murdaugh told investigators that he wrote personal checks to &#8216;drug dealers&#8217; to obtain the painkillers.<br>The lawyer says that he left a paper trail that law enforcement officials are now looking at. <br>When asked if he expects Alex Murdaugh to be arrested, Harpootlian replies: &#8216;Yes, I think he will be charged. <br>&#8216;But what he doesn&#8217;t want &#8211; and we don&#8217;t want &#8211; is an effort to deal with these issues [which] distract from law enforcement resources that could be used to solve the murders of Maggie and Paul.&#8217; <br>It was Alex Murdaugh who discovered his wife and son&#8217;s bodies near dog kennels on the property and called 911 shortly after 10pm on the evening of June 7. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Murdaughs-familys-property-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-381074" width="844" height="591"/><figcaption><strong>The Murdaughs own the Moselle Hunting Lodge where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were gunned down June 7. Their bodies were discovered by Murdaugh by the dog kennels</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>According to investigators mother and son were killed between 9 and 9.30pm. <br>Paul suffered fatal shotgun wounds to the head and torso. His mother was killed with a semi-automatic rifle. Murdaugh was visiting his sick father in hospital on the night of the shooting – Randolph Murdaugh III died three days later after a long battle with cancer.<br>What little information has emerged since, has only served to deepen the mystery surrounding the events on the Islandton estate in June. <br>At the time of his death, Paul Murdaugh was awaiting trial on a charge of boating under the influence causing death in a February 2019 crash that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach. <br>Whether local law enforcement agencies tried to obstruct the investigation into the boating death is also being reviewed by state officials.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Margaret-Murdaugh-and-Paul-Murdaugh-3.png" alt="" class="wp-image-389105"/><figcaption>On June 7, Alex Murdaugh discovered his son Paul [right], and wife Maggie [left], shot dead at the dog kennels on the family property. he then placed a 911 call reporting the double-homicide</figcaption></figure>



<p>Mallory died when Paul, &#8216;intoxicated&#8217; and &#8216;belligerent&#8217; ploughed his father&#8217;s boat into a piling in Archers Creek after an afternoon of drinking at an oyster roast. <br>Paul was one of six teenagers described by police as &#8216;grossly intoxicated&#8217; that night. He was awaiting trial on three felony counts of boating under the influence, including boating under the influence resulting in death, a charge which carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. <br>He had been released on a $50,000 bond pending his trial. All charges were dismissed two months after his death but the wrongful death suit being brought by Mallory&#8217;s mother, Renee, is still being pursued. <br>Buster is named as it was his license that Paul used to purchase the alcohol that night – a practice which, lawyers for Beach allege, was both common and done with Buster&#8217;s knowledge. <br>Murdaugh&#8217;s insurance company Philadelphia Indemnity have refused to pay out on two personal injury policies to the tune of $6million. The company, on record stated that they found that they had &#8216;no obligation&#8217; to defend or indemnify Murdaugh or his older son for a host of reasons.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Mallory-Beach-8.png" alt="" class="wp-image-389695"/><figcaption><strong> Mallory Beach, 19, [L-R], was killed in a fatal boating accident in February 2019 when Paul, &#8216;intoxicated&#8217; and &#8216;belligerent&#8217; ploughed his father&#8217;s boat into a piling in Archers Creek. Paul, who&#8217;d plead not guilty, was awaiting trial when he was killed </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The company stated that Murdaugh &#8216;had knowledge or should have had knowledge that his minor son illegally purchased and consumed alcohol on a regular basis by using or displaying the driver&#8217;s license of his adult son, Murdaugh Jr.&#8217; <br>They continued, &#8216;It was foreseeable that Murdaugh&#8217;s son would purchase alcohol for consumption by other minors and would then become intoxicated.&#8217; <br>Attorneys for Beach have since filed yet more paperwork in the wrongful death suit stating their intention to come after Murdaugh&#8217;s two properties – the hunting lodge and the Edisto Island beach house. <br><br><br><br><br></p>

‘We know who killed Alex [Murdaugh’s] wife and son – and it was personal’ – Embattled SC lawyer’s defense attorney makes TV admission, as cops accuse his client of arranging a ‘hit on himself’ in $10M life insurance scheme
