Affirmation of the United States: A famous lawyer paid an assassin to kill him so that his son could receive $ 10 million from his life insurance policy.
Attorney Alex Mordeau, 53, of South Carolina, gave a gun to a man he knew, Cortis Edward Smith, and the two concocted a failed plot.
Smith was to shoot the lawyer to death, as the insurance policy was not valid in the event of suicide.
The plan the two devised is for Mordeau to be killed by gunfire so they staged a scenario where Mordeau got stuck on the road following a “malfunction” in his car and was then shot to death in an unknown manner.
But on September 4, the day Smith was to shoot him to death, he only wounded Mordeau.
On Wednesday, after about a week in which police were trying to decipher the shooting against Mordeau, which as a result of the failed assassination plot failed, Mordeau turned himself in to police, a day after police arrested Curtis for his involvement in the scam.
Mordeau's defense team said the decision to initiate his death came amid the murder of his wife and eldest son last June, which led to him sinking into depression and so he decided to dispense the plot so that his only son left could live a comfortable life.
