{"id":762396,"date":"2021-09-16T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762396"},"modified":"2021-09-16T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:29:24","slug":"s-c-lawyer-who-alleges-murder-for-hire-plot-against-him-to-turn-himself-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/s-c-lawyer-who-alleges-murder-for-hire-plot-against-him-to-turn-himself-in\/","title":{"rendered":"S.C. lawyer, who alleges murder-for-hire plot against him, to turn himself in"},"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\">24<\/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-who-alleges-murder-for-hire-plot-against-him-to-turn-himself-in%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=762396&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--><h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 9:16 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 16, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>One of the attorney\u2019s for Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer himself, gave new details in the convoluted case of the deaths of his wife and son as well as the attempt on his own life.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/attorney-alex-murdaugh-opioid-addiction-caused-him-hatch-fake-shooting-t231114\">interview<\/a> Wednesday, Dick Harpootlian explained Murdaugh\u2019s mindset when he hired a man to kill him after the murders of his wife and son as well as the death of his father; all of which occurred in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe murder of his son and wife 90 days ago took a tremendous toll on him,\u201d said Harpootlian. \u201cHis father died of cancer that same week. Most people couldn\u2019t get through that. He got through it with the use opioids.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2522045\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2522045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo provided by the Colleton County sheriff\u2019s office shows Curtis Edward Smith. State police say a prominent South Carolina lawyer tried to arrange his own death this month so his son would get $10 million in life insurance. (Colleton County Sheriffs Office via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Harpootlian said Murdaugh was under the influence of opioids and was suffering from depression when he hired 61-year-old Curtis Edward Smith to shoot him in order for his living son to collect $10 million in insurance money.<\/p>\n<p>As for the September 4 shooting, officials said Murdaugh, who was in a downward spiral after trying to withdraw from opioids, was shot in broad daylight in the head while trying to fix a flat tire. The bullet only caused a superficial wound.<\/p>\n<p>Harpootlian added, Murdaugh knows what he\u2019s done was wrong and blames his opioid abuse for leading him to embezzle money from his law firm to buy drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who allegedly agreed to shoot the 53-year-old, has since been arrested and charged. Meanwhile, Murdaugh\u2019s legal team said he\u2019s expected to turn himself in to authorities on Thursday.<\/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>OAN NewsroomUPDATED 9:16 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 16, 2021 One of the attorney\u2019s for Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer himself, gave new details in the convoluted case &#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-762396","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\/762396","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=762396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762396\/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=762396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}