Crime & Justice

Court Hears Alex Murdaugh Recount Botched Suicide-for-Hire Plot

COURTHOUSE CONFESSION

“I was in a very bad place,” Murdaugh told investigators in a previously recorded interview.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

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Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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