MURDAUGH MURDER SQUEEZE PLAY!

Patriarch charged in new swindle as law probes role in wife & son killings

ALREADY facing accusations of a mega-million insurance swindle and hiring a hitman to arrange his own murder, disgraced South Carolina power broker Alex Murdaugh is now being targeted by lawmen probing the execution-style deaths of his wife and youngest son.

Murdaugh’s lawyer Jim Griffin admits authorities see his client as a “person of interest” in the death of his wife, Maggie, 52, and troubled son Paul, 22, who were gunned down at the influential family’s hunting lodge. Murdaugh, a prominent lawyer with a secret drug addiction, called 911 after finding the bodies this summer.

Sources say Murdaugh, 53, who claims to have blown through millions to feed his drug habit, had a powerful reason to silence Maggie — she’d consulted divorce lawyers in April and was asking questions about the shoddy state of the family fortune!