Murdaugh Moselle property on sale for $1 95M: Photos of estate

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• Driver linked to road rage murder of 6-year-old boy won’t do any time behind bars, despite getting maximum sentence
• Murdaugh estate sells for $3.9 million. Here's who will get the money.
• Inside the 1,700-acre Murdaugh family murder farm now on sale for $3.9M
• The former attorney was convicted of killing his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul in March.

On June 7, 2021, Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found dead at dog kennels on the Murdaugh family property. The bulk of the proceeds, about $2.7 million, will go to Beach's family, as well as two survivors of the crash, the newspaper said. Another boat crash survivor will receive $100,000, while Buster Murdaugh will receive $530,000. Almost $300,000 in additional funds will go to a settlement fund for creditors and financial victims of Alex Murdaugh, among other payments to creditors and to cover legal fees.

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They also saw a place where another mysterious death took place just three years before the 2021 murders. Given its history, the property is bound to attract a lot of curiosity, but the Crosby Land Company explicitly states that all potential buyers must be pre-approved for purchase before visiting the home for a showing. "The 4 bedroom / 4.5 bathroom residence is a sprawling 5,275 square foot home that exudes character, charm, and high-end finishes," says Crosby in a property listing. Located approximately 70 miles from Charleston, the Moselle Estate House is private and secluded, surrounded by upland open fields and a mature old growth hardwood forest, the home's listing notes.

Murdaugh estate sells for $3.9 million. Here's who will get the money.

The lawsuit accuses the elder Murdaughs of being willful contributors to their son’s underage drinking. The sale of the home has been on hold amid a court order that Murdaugh’s assets be frozen. Even when the sale of Moselle is complete, Murdaugh will be legally obligated to pay off the bank, give money to his surviving son, Buster, as part of his mother’s estate, and compensate parties who say the Murdaugh family has harmed them. In connection to that suit, South Carolina attorneys John T. Lay and Peter M. McCoy Jr. were court-appointed as co-receivers at the request of Beach's attorney, Mark Tinsley.

Inside the 1,700-acre Murdaugh family murder farm now on sale for $3.9M

According to a representative for Liberty Auction, three times the normal crowd showed up to bid on the macabre remnants of the Murdaugh family’s life at their once idyllic country home, CBS News reported. In February 2022, The Crosby Land Company, a land brokerage and consulting firm, listed the property on its website. The estate sold for $3.9 million in March 2023, despite the stigmatizing events that occurred there. Local farmers James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley teamed up to make the purchase, The New York Post reported. At the time, the buyers told the outlet that they weren't sure what they were going to do with the property. This has happened in other high-profile cases, including the one in which Michael Peterson allegedly murdered his wife Kathleen Peterson at their North Carolina home.

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They toured the dog kennels where Murdaugh ambushed his son in the feed room, shooting him once in the chest and a second time in the head, neck and shoulder with a shotgun. The South Carolina Court of Appeals stayed Murdaugh's murder convictions and twin life sentences, putting the outcome of that case on hold until a lower court hears Murdaugh's request for a fresh trial. Boulware, an Allendale County, S.C., fisherman who died in 2018, was indicted in 1983 after authorities seized 17 tons of marijuana on a fishing trawler from the Bahamas, according to UPI. Despite being federally charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute 34,000 pounds of marijuana and conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States, the charges against Boulware were dismissed after a government witness was fatally struck by a car in Florida. “You can’t really appreciate the spatial issues without actually seeing them,” defense attorney Richard “Dick” Harpootlian told the court. Laffitte's attorneys issued a Jan. 27 statement that he is cooperating with the investigation.

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Murdaugh was convicted earlier this month of killing his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul at the rural estate. The buyers are James A. Ayer and Jeffrey L. Godley, according to the court document, which was filed on March 22 in South Carolina and seen by CBS MoneyWatch. Judge Newman agreed to the jury visit on 27 February following a request from Mr Murdaugh’s defence attorney Prosecutor Creighton Waters raised an objection that the property has changed in the last 20 months, with trees between the family home and the kennels having grown significantly.

This property is also the site where the Murdaugh’s longtime housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, 57, died on Feb. 26, 2018, in what was described as a slip-and-fall accident. Paul, 22, and his mother, 52, were found gunned down on their hunting estate in the unincorporated community of Islandton last June in a murder that remains unsolved. “We have had offers, but of course we are working at [the] discretion of the courts and [it is] not sold yet,” Todd Crosby, who holds the listing with Crosby Land Company, told The Post.

“This is truly a top-tier property, complete with all the improvements and amenities one would expect from a high-end sporting property with little or no deferred maintenance cost,” it reads. According to the listing by the Crosby Land Co. of Colleton County, Moselle consists of 1,772 acres of “an unusually diverse habitat with varying forest types and age class distribution”. Murdaugh, Paul and Buster – as well as their friends – would spend a lot of time riding around the estate hunting deer, duck, quail, doves and hogs. Moselle was just one of several homes that the high-powered attorney – and alleged financial fraudster – owned. Alex Murdaugh bought Moselle back in 2013 from Boulware’s wife Jeannine Morris Boulware, according to property records. They saw a snapshot of the powerful and affluent Murdaugh family’s life given the $4m property was the place they called home for several years.

The former attorney was convicted of killing his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul in March.

The first lawsuit filed against Murdaugh was the March 2019 wrongful death suit brought by the estate of Mallory Beach in relation to the Feb. 24, 2019, Beaufort County boat crash in which Murdaugh's son, Paul, was allegedly driving. Roughly $2.86 million went to the Beach family (who also received a $15 million settlement) and other individuals who were involved in the boat crash and had filed civil suits. The Greenville News broke down the rest of the payments, which mainly cover Alex's legal fees and expenses along with a payment to his younger brother.

However, not all 1,700 acres of it, including the kennels where lawyer Richard "Alex" Murdaugh killed his wife and younger son, is on sale. “This spacious floor plan could easily be converted into a weekend hunting lodge with the capability to sleep up to 15 people,” the listing notes. Known as the Cross Swamp Farm, bordering the banks of the Salkehatchie River, the property offers a wide range of natural amenities including freshwater fishing, kayaking, more than 2 miles of river frontage and plus abundant deer and turkey, the listing states. When Murdaugh turned himself in as part of an alleged suicide-for-hire plot in 2021, SLED announced an investigation into Satterfield’s death.

Before the Moselle estate sale was finalized, assets from the property—including furniture, home decor (including monogrammed pillows and hunting lodge-themed trinkets), and cars—were auctioned off in Pembroke, Georgia. An employee of the auction house told CBS News that a Yeti cup (which typically costs $35) sold for $400. Another sale included the sofa set on which Alex claimed he napped on the night of the murders, for $36,000, Court TV reported.

“The next owner may be the beneficiary of considerable tax advantages that may be available through the donation of an easement,” the listing says. Before the public became interested in Murdaugh’s case, and the property became known as the site of the killings, the sprawling estate on the Salkehatchie River had a dark history. But when jurors head to 4147 Moselle Rd., they’ll be going to a property that Murdaugh has been trying to sell for more than a year. Former Palmetto State bank manager Russell Laffitte is under investigation by the state Supreme Court's Office of Disciplinary Counsel and the state Attorney General's Office in connection to one of the Murdaugh cases. Laffitte was terminated from his position at the bank on Jan. 7, although the bank did not specifically state the reason for his termination.

The purchaser of the sofa set told the Island Packet that he didn't believe buying the furniture was "morbid" or "cold-hearted." After the jury visit, proceedings resumed in Colleton County Courthouse with the defence and prosecution delivering closing arguments. “It has been a year and a half or more since June 7, 2021, since the alleged crime occurred. It took place under tight security with Judge Clifton Newman telling jurors that they could not ask anyone any questions while there, including law enforcement, and that they could not discuss the case with each other during the trip. Questions have now been mounting around Satterfield’s death and investigators reopened an investigation into her death in September 2021 – days after Murdaugh’s financial fraud scheme came to light.

There is also more money yet to come in and be added to the Moselle estate, which will inflate many of the above amounts. The settlement was approved by Lexington County Judge Daniel D. Hall on Jan. 24 over the objections of numerous interested parties, including one of Alex Murdaugh’s former law partners. The jury was sent out to deliberate on the afternoon of 2 March and returned with a guilty verdict less than three hours later. Several witnesses testified that they roamed the property and caused a nuisance, and that the family – and their friends – would shoot them any chance they got. However, jurors have heard how Maggie preferred to stay at Edisto Beach – especially during the summer months.