Sam Koslowski

But behind all of that, he had developed a severe opioid addiction and he'd also been systematically stealing millions of dollars from his own clients, which were some of the most vulnerable people in the area in his practice of family law for many, many years.

So on the evening of the 7th of June 2021, Alex Murdoch called the police to say he had found the bodies of his wife.

Her name was Maggie and she was 52 and his 22-year-old son, Paul, at the family's hunting property out in the regions.

Both had been shot multiple times at close range and there were no signs of a break-in or a robbery.

Now, Alex told the police at the time that he had been napping at the main house.

He had then driven to visit his sick mother and when he returned to the property, that's when he found their bodies.

As you can understand, investigators were sceptical from early on and as they dug deeper, they found this whole conspiracy of stealing money, as I've just mentioned, through his business and also discovered the opioid addiction.

And one of the interesting things that really got them thinking was that he had stolen a lot of money from their housekeeper who had died at an accident on the property in 2018.

So he was disbarred straight away even before the murder convictions had been laid.

The law firm was shut down.

There was also this bizarre incident in September 2021.

So they kind of kept going on this investigation.

In September, so only a couple of months later, Alex was shot in the head on the side of the road and he survived.

And he later admitted that he had staged the shooting himself to try and get a life insurance payout.

of $10 million to try and cover some of the debts.

So he had actually planned that out to try and cover his debts for his son.

Another son.

Another son who was alive.

So trying to get rid of these debts.

And that's obviously, that became part of the key evidence that the prosecution used.