{"id":756818,"date":"2021-09-15T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T01:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756818"},"modified":"2021-09-15T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T01:21:26","slug":"s-c-lawyer-claims-he-hired-gunman-to-kill-him-so-son-could-collect-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/s-c-lawyer-claims-he-hired-gunman-to-kill-him-so-son-could-collect-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"S.C. lawyer claims he hired gunman to kill him so son could collect insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fs-c-lawyer-claims-he-hired-gunman-to-kill-him-so-son-could-collect-insurance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2521249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2521249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buster Murdaugh, center, receives a hug in the rain during the funeral service for his brother, Paul, and mother, Maggie, on Friday, June 11, 2021 in Hampton, S.C.&nbsp; (Kacen Bayless\/The Island Packet via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:07 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, September 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The attorney for Alex Murdaugh, who is a prominent South Carolina lawyer himself, offered new details in the convoluted case of the deaths of his wife and son as well as the attempt on his own life. In an exclusive interview on Wednesday, Dick Harpootlian explained Murdaugh\u2019s mindset when he hired a man to kill him in order for his son to collect the insurance money.<\/p>\n<p>Harpootlian said Murdaugh was under the influence of opioids and was suffering from depression after the deaths of his wife and son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believed that $10 million policy had a suicide exclusion. Suicide exclusions are only good for two years and he didn\u2019t realize that, so he arranged to have this guy shoot him,\u201d he explained. \u201d By the way, Alex is total cooperating. We called SLED, they didn\u2019t call us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2521253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2521253\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2521253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/v.jpeg\" alt=\"FILE - In this June 8, 2021, file photo, a vehicle sits in the driveway of a home in rural Colleton County, near Islandton, S.C., where a mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family were found shot and killed. The Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston is suing state agents, saying they are withholding information about the killings that should be public under the state&#039;s Freedom of Information Act. (Andrew J. Whitaker\/The Post And Courier via AP, File)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"647\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2521253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this June 8, 2021, file photo, a vehicle sits in the driveway of a home in rural Colleton County, near Islandton, S.C., where a mother and son from a prominent South Carolina legal family were found shot and killed. (Andrew J. Whitaker\/The Post And Courier via AP, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>61-year-old Curtis Edward Smith agreed to shoot Murdaugh and has since been arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/pa-state-senate-authorizes-subpoenas-in-push-for-election-audit\/\">Pa. State Senate Authorizes Subpoenas In Push For Election Audit<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buster Murdaugh, center, receives a hug in the rain during the funeral service for his brother, Paul, and mother, Maggie, on Friday, June 11, 2021 in Hampton, S.C.\u00a0 (Kacen Bayless\/The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}