The man who bought the house where Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and son has made a shocking claim that he has discovered a crucial piece of evidence that proves the disgraced South Carolina lawyer is an innocent man, he said. Realtor.com.
Alexander Wallace Blair purchased the sprawling four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom Moselle Estate House and 21-acre estate in Islandton, SC, for $1 million at auction in February 2024 and has since begun renovating the home.
Murdaugh received two life sentences without parole last year for the 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, after crime experts determined he ambushed them at the dog kennels of the estate – probably not included in the property. was bought at auction.
However, Blair said the kennel was there and, despite demolishing the building, retained the door and window that had bullet holes from the June 2021 shooting.
Now that he had reviewed the evidence himself, Blair suggested that Murdaugh was “too big” to have fired the fatal shots.
“[Murdaugh] He’s a big man, he was even bigger then, and he’s too big for the bullets to go through like that,” he told the newspaper.
Blair pointed out that Murdaugh, 65, was no saint, but said he doesn’t “think [Murdaugh] did it.”
“Maybe it was karma for other things he did,” he said. “But I don’t think he killed them.”
While Blair, who is from Rock Hill — more than 150 miles from Moselle — said he did not know Murdaugh personally, some of his new neighbors in the area agreed with him that the former attorney did not kill Maggie and Paul.
“Everyone on that road says ‘No,’” he told the outlet.
Blair also said that he has a set of keys and a key fob that once belonged to Maggie and that he is keeping them in case the family’s surviving son, Richard “Buster” Murdaugh, “wanted them back… to get something from his mother.” to have.’
The estate, which spanned a whopping 1,700 acres (2.6 square miles) when the Murdaugh family owned it, was purchased in March 2023 by two businessmen, James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley, for $3.9 million.
However, months after purchasing the land, the partners opted to subdivide it and put the house and surrounding 21 acres back on the market for $1.95 million, and Blair was able to snag the property for $1 million. according to Realtor.com.
Godley previously said he and Ayer had no use for the 5,275-square-foot home and were only interested in the land for hunting, farming and timber.
Blair, a father-of-two, said he plans to use the estate as his “second residence” and hopes to remove the “bad stigma” surrounding it.
“Bad things have happened on every estate,” he said, noting that South Carolina was infamous for its plantations and “slave trade.”
“But you have the choice to focus on the negative or create a positive story. And that’s what I want to do.”
Nevertheless, Blair says that as part of the work he built a pond on the property, installed horse fences, tore down the kennels and demolished Murdaugh’s private plane hangar.
He is also in the process of renovating the house “from roof to subfloor,” including adding an extension to the already enormous house.
Blair expects the work to be completed by mid-November.
Murdaugh has denied killing Maggie and Paul, despite the jury’s conviction.
He is serving two life sentences for the double murders, plus sentences of 27 and 40 years for financial crimes.
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