Alex Murdaugh on a sprawling Islandton, South Carolina, property before he and his family were murdered: Opening the case Wednesday morning

The group of jurors who will decide Alex Murdaugh’s fate visited on Wednesday morning the sprawling Islandton, South Carolina, property where the defendant’s wife and son were found fatally shot in 2021.

Moselle was at the center of the trial and was important to the Murdaugh family before they were killed.

A house, a cabin and stretches of swamp lands are part of a 1,700-acre property that was home to the family for several years.

The judge decided to let jurors see the property despite opposition from prosecutors who said it had changed since they were killed. Testimony in the murder trial ended on Tuesday, and closing arguments began shortly after jurors returned to the courtroom Wednesday.

The jury and two alternates were taken to Moselle in three vans. They were followed by security vehicles and other court personnel. The jury had arrived at 9:40 a.m. and were gone at 10:30 a.m.

The family had been living in Hampton, South Carolina – a roughly 20-minute drive from Islandton – but after that house sustained damage during a hurricane, they relocated to the Moselle home, Buster Murdaugh told the court.

The Moselle property is not accessible because some areas are swamps, and there aren’t road systems to navigate the land on.

The property had a huge population of hogs, Buster Murdaugh testified, which would often ruin the family’s dove fields, so the Murdaughs would regularly hunt the animals to “try to cut the numbers down a little bit.”

The land offers abundant deer, turkey, and waterfowl populations, as well as freshwater fishing, kayaking, and canoeing, 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.”

The house at the end of the road was built in 2011) and is thought to have been bought by the Murdaugh family.

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.

The Murdaugh Estate: Exploring a Conservation Area with a Crime Scene Forensics Expert: Gloria Satterfield allegedly fell on a Brick Steps Home

“The location, ecosystem, and water features make this an ideal candidate for a conservation easement. The donation of an easement could provide tax advantages that may benefit the next owner, according to the note.

A lawyer for Gloria Satterfield’s estate said that she died in a hospital three weeks after a trip and fall at the Murdaugh 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.

On February 2, 2018), a recording of a phone call was posted on the internet by CNN and shows a person who appears to beMaggie Murdaugh saying Satterfield fell and gave the address.

“My housekeeper has fallen and her head is bleeding, I cannot get her up,” the caller says, adding Satterfield fell while going up the home’s outdoor, brick steps.

In more than three years after Satterfield’s death, the law enforcement division in South Carolina announced it was opening a criminal investigation into her death after a request from the county coroner that questioned the manner of her death.

The death did not go to the Coroner or be preformed as an autopsy. The manner of death was ruled natural, which is inconsistent with the injuries sustained in the trip and fall accident, the coroner’s request said.

Notes from a reporter representing the media who visited the crime scene after the jurors Wednesday help paint a picture about the vast, now-vacant estate.

“It is a heavy place to visit. The property has stood vacant for 20 months,” the reporter noted. A deflated football behind the kennel and a tube of sanitizing wipes in the shed are some things that have been left where they fell.

The feed room – where a crime scene forensics expert testified Paul was likely standing in when he was shot the first time – “feels like a haunted place,” the reporter noted.

The concrete pad where Paul fell is located near the corner of the shed, where the body of Maggie 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 Estate, a South Georgia, auction house where Alex Murdaugh and his family live and work. I. The case for the case of a bullet hole

No visible signs of violence, like bloodstains or similar marks, give away what happened in June 2021, except for the large bullet holes that remain in a back window.

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

The contents of the home of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh and his family will be auctioned off on Thursday, according to a South Georgia auction house.

The Savannah-based Liberty Auction house was hired to clean out the home and sell all its contents, according to owner Lori Mattingly. She told CNN over the phone that cleaning the Moselle Estate was just like any other job.

Their things are not any better than other things that we pick up from people’s homes. “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 said the auctions draw a few hundred people but they expect many more for this sale.

A massive South Carolina auction of Murdaugh objects from a hunting property that became a household name during the trial of a former South Carolina attorney

Murdaugh, who was once a prominent South Carolina attorney, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murders. He is appealing the conviction. He has yet to face trial for other alleged financial crimes.

On Thursday, people from all over the Southeast gathered for an auction of items originally inside the Murdaughs’ home in Colleton County, South Carolina, which is a hunting property called Moselle.

The auction, which was held about 100 miles away at Liberty Auction in Georgia, lasted over six hours, and Steven Dugger, the auctioneer handling the sale, told CNN that the event was “the largest auction I have seen here for sure.”

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. And when the auction finally came to a close at 10:30 pm, all of the Murdaugh items were sold.

It will take several days to do a full accounting of the sales but some of the items sold for eye-catching sums. A cup that retails for $35 was sold for $400. A beer koozie sold for $500, while mounted antlers went for $10,000 and a furniture set for $30,000.

There were beds, chests, tables, chairs, a popcorn maker and picture frames hanging from the Moselle estate in the sale. The book “Man with A Gun” by Robert Daley was one of the items sold.

One woman who was at the trial was the first in line for the auction. “We have been so invested in the family and the trial and followed it very close,” Mary Landrum from Augusta, Georgia said. A piece of the memorial would be interesting.

The trial was closely followed by another auction attendee. Diz said they are here to get a souvenir of the historical event. She said the whole trial was “sad,” and that “the jury probably reached the right decision.”

A large crowd at the Liberty Auction house was met by a man in front of them who was selling vegetables and fruit, and a concession stand in the back where hot dogs and tea were for sale.

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

Deer Heads from the Murdaughs: An Extraordinary Moment of Living in a Deer-Head Home: Lane Leopard’s Story of an Auctioneer

Lane Leopard, a Savannah salon owner who grew up not far from where the Murdaughs lived, was one of the early bidders. 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’ve been trying to Snapchat all my friends like, ‘Look, I got it, I did it.’ I had a purpose. I came and did it.

The family had it all. Ray said that they had the world at their fingertips. I was so sad to see that someone had sold their pillows, and that they were being auctioned off.