The estate of Moselle was visited by the jury where Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son were killed

The Murdaugh Family Hunted on the Islandton, South Carolina, Land Between the Killings of Alex and his wife, Alex, in 2021

The jurors who will decide Alex Murdaugh’s fate traveled to the Islandton, South Carolina property where his wife and son were found fatally shot in 2021.

There is a house on a hunting property in South Carolina. The property became a household name during the nationally televised trial of its former occupant, Alex Murdaugh. It was recently found out that Murdaugh killed his wife and son on the property.

He said that there are dove fields, duck ponds and deer stands on the property. The Murdaugh men often invited their friends to join them on hunting trips as they hunted for deer, duck, quail, doves and hogs.

The judge agreed this week to let jurors view the property, despite opposition from prosecutors who said it has changed since the killings, including that trees have grown taller and thicker than what they were in the summer of 2021. The jury returned to the courtroom Wednesday afternoon to hear the closing arguments in the murder trial.

The jurors and alternates were loaded into the vans that would take them to Moselle. They were followed by security vehicles and other court personnel. The jury arrived on the property at roughly 9:40 a.m. and left at about 10:30 a.m..

The family moved to the Moselle house after the house in South Carolina was damaged by a storm.

Much of the Moselle property was “really not even accessible,” the 26-year-old testified, as some areas are swamps and many parts don’t have road systems to navigate the land on.

The Murdaugh family hunted hogs to try to cut the number of animals on the property in order to keep the dove fields.

The land “boasts over 2.5 miles of river frontage, offering freshwater fishing, kayaking, and abundant deer, turkey, and waterfowl populations,” according to the listing. “To complement the natural amenities there are two man-made waterfowl impoundments capable of being planted with corn and flooded to attract wintering waterfowl. In addition, there is a 20-acre dove field complete with a dead wire and parameter fencing to minimize crop damage.”

At the end of a long road sits a 5,275-square-foot home, built in 2011, according to the listing – shortly before Buster Murdaugh estimates his family bought the estate.

There’s also a cottage on the property, which Buster Murdaugh referred to in his testimony as a “cabin,” saying he had stayed there for some time with two friends.

A CNN investigation of a Morphologically Inconsistent Investigation into Gloria Murdaugh, a homeowner at a Moselle home

The location and water features make this an ideal site for a conservatoire. The next owner may be in a position to take advantage of tax advantages provided by an donation of an easement.

Gloria Satterfield, who worked at the Murdaugh home, died in a hospital in February last year three weeks after an accident at the home.

“Certainly there were questions by my clients because after she unfortunately fell, she was airlifted to a hospital and she had a traumatic brain injury, she never was able to communicate with them for the next three weeks until she died,” attorney Eric Bland previously told CNN.

In a February 2, 2018, recording of a 911 call posted online by CNN affiliate WHNS, a caller who appears to be Maggie Murdaugh reports Satterfield fell and gives the Moselle home’s address.

Satterfield fell while going up the outdoor steps in the home, the caller said, adding he was unable to get her up.

In 2021, more than three years after her death, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division announced it was opening a criminal investigation into Satterfield’s death because of inconsistencies in the ruling of her manner of death.

“The decedent’s death was not reported to the Coroner at the time, nor was an autopsy performed. According to the coroner, the manner of death was determined to be natural, which is inconsistent with injuries sustained in a trip and fall accident.

The notes from the reporter representing the media help paint a picture about the crime scene.

“It is a heavy place to visit. The property has stood vacant for 20 months,” the reporter noted. “Some items seem to be left where they fell, including a deflated football behind the kennels and a tube of sanitizing wipes in the shed.”

The feed room, where a forensics expert testified about Paul’s death, feels like a haunted place according to a reporter.

“The concrete pad where Paul fell is within sight of the corner of the shed, where Maggie’s body was found. Maggie fell roughly 12 steps from where Paul would have fallen,” the reporter added.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/us/moselle-property-alex-murdaugh-trial/index.html

The Moselle Home Auction and the Murdaugh Family Compared to Theirs, According to the Owner of the Residual House in June 2021

The only visible sign that there was violence in June 2021 was the large bullet holes in the back window.

“There was significant testimony about the bullet hole in the quail house. The reporter noted that the hole is visible and that cardboard was stapled to the side of the structure.

The contents of the home of Alex Murdaugh and his family will be auctioned off on Thursday.

The Liberty Auction house was hired to clean out the home and sell its contents, according to the owner. She told CNN that she was just like any other job when it came to cleaning the Moselle estate.

“Their things are not any better or nicer than any other things that we pick up from other people’s homes,” Mattingly added. “We go into a lot of very nice expensive homes … And we’ve had much nicer things than theirs, but their things are nice.”

“It’s unbelievable how many phone calls I have had, and I have only been able to answer so many,” said Mattingly. She told CNN the auctions usually draw a few hundred people, but they expect many more than normal for this sale.

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Murdaugh’s wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, were found fatally shot on the property on June 7, 2021. He has maintained that he didn’t kill them. Murdaugh’s long string of alleged financial crimes and lies was argued to distract and delay the investigation into his murders.

There were many people from all over the Southeast who gathered for the auction of the items that used to be in the Murdaughs’ home.

The Liberty Auction in Georgia held the large sale, which lasted about six hours, and Steven Dugger, who was the auctioneer, told CNN that it was the largest he had seen.

The property became a household name during the nationally televised trial of its owner, Alex Murdaugh, a former lawyer, who was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month for shooting and killing his wife and son there.

The bidding began just after 4 p.m. in a packed, stuffy room. The items from the auction were sold at 10:30 pm.

It will take several days to do a full accounting of the sales, and some of the items sold for really high sums. The cup was sold for $400, according to Mattingly. A beer koozie sold for less than $500, while mounted deer went for more than $100,000 and a furniture set went for more than $30,000.

The sale also included beds, chests, tables, chairs, a popcorn maker, and picture frames that once hung on the walls of the Moselle estate, along with a large rack of hunting equipment. Robert Daley’s book “Man with A Gun,” a story about a man who commits an accidental homicide, was also among the items sold.

People had begun lining up at the auction house in Pembroke, Georgia, six hours before the sale, expressing both curiosity and sadness for the victims that were left in the wake of Murdaugh’s crimes. Visitors wandered from table to table, wondering aloud about the family’s possessions.

Another attendee of the auction, named Debbie Diz, followed the trial closely. “We’re here in hopes of getting a memento of this historical event,” said Diz. She said the whole trial was “sad,” and that “the jury probably reached the right decision.”

The sizeable crowd at Liberty Auction house was met by a man selling fruits and vegetables and a concession stand in the back of the room where hot dogs and sweet tea were for sale.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/us/murdaugh-moselle-estate-liberty-auction/index.html

A Murdaugh-like family that had it all: When I saw the deer head I bought, I knew it had come from the salon owner

One of the early buyers was Lane Leopard, the salon owner who was close to where the Murdaughs lived. She told CNN that she had been looking for a deer head to decorate her salon.

“When I heard about this, I thought, ‘Well, that’s cool, get one from the Murdaugh house,’” she said, adding she “thought it would just be cool to tell our clients, ‘Hey, that’s where that came from.’”

Looking visibly excited with the deer head she bought at the auction, Leopard said, “I’m stoked. I try to send a message to my friends on the app, ‘Look, I got it, I did it.’ I had a purpose. I arrived and did it.

“This is a family that had it all. Ray, a city resident, said they had the world at their fingertips. To see some of their most prized possessions, including their most prized possessions, have been sold, to me is so sad.