Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A high-society prosecutor has been arrested after hiring a hitman to kill him so his son could claim the life insurance money.Alex Murdaugh, 53, planned to hand over the $10m (£7.25m) life insurance pay-out to his surviving son Buster and hired a pro hitman to shoot him in the head.He was charged with insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and filing a false police report, The Times reported..The well-connected lawyer, from a long line of South Carolina prosecutors, suffered a breakdown and developed a drug addiction after the murders of his wife and other son.Wife Margaret, 52, and son Paul, 22, were shot near their home.Murdaugh has maintained he had no role in the fatal.
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