Selling Moselle
Shortly before Alex was convicted in March 2023, the estate where he was accused of murdering his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, was sold to two local businessmen for $3.9 million.
Those buyers carved up the land and put the Murdaugh family home and its surrounding 21 acres back on the market for $1.95 million. The main property then sold in a February 2024 auction for $1 million after they failed to find a buyer. Alex Blair, the person who bought the property, did extensive renovations on the home and listed it for $2.75 million before removing the listing in April 2025.
The listing boasted the estate as “a symbol of classic Southern elegance and traditional style” with four bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms “filled with character and adorned with high-end finishes.”
Blair told Realtor.com after he bought the property that he believed Murdaugh to be innocent, which is why he had no problem buying it. He told the website that he tore down both the kennel—a key piece of evidence—and Alex's private airplane hangar.
The South Carolina Supreme Court’s May 2026 decision to overturn Alex’s murder convictions could bring eyes back onto the newly renovated property, even without the location of the murders. The court’s decision focused on how a county clerk’s improper comments to the jury violated his right to a fair trial.
“If there’s a retrial, the whole case has to start again,” Jessica Roth, a former prosecutor and current professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law, told CNN. “It’s a new trial from start to finish.”
During a portion of Alex’s trial in spring 2023, a judge agreed to let jurors view the estate property despite prosecutors arguing it had changed since the killings, including trees that had grown taller and thicker than what they were in the summer of 2021. The jury—12 members and two alternates—arrived around 9:40 a.m. and left at about 10:30 a.m.
Where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh Were Found
Maggie and Paul were found fatally shot on June 7, 2021, after Alex called 911 claiming he found their bodies after returning to the property.
“When I came back here, I mean, I pulled up and I could see them, and, you know, I knew something was bad...I called 911 pretty much right away,” he told investigators.
Prosecutors argued that the guns used in the killings belonged to the Murdaugh family based on the shell casings found, though the actual murder weapons were never found.
One of the most significant pieces of evidence came from Paul’s cell phone, where a video placed Alex at the dog kennels when the shooting occurred. Maggie’s cell phone was missing from the scene but was found the next day along a road near the property.
Experts who examined GPS data from the phones and OnStar data from Alex's vehicle showed that on the night of the murders, Alex drove past the spot where Maggie's phone would later be found. Prosecutors argued that he threw Maggie's phone out the window of his car.
What Jurors Learned about Moselle
Buster, the surviving Murdaugh son, testified that his family bought the property around 2012 after their house in Hampton, S.C., was damaged in a hurricane.
"It's a big property," he testified, saying it had deer stands all over it and that they often hunted for deer, duck and quail with and without their friends.
They would also hunt hogs that lived on the property because they would ruin the dove fields, Buster said, adding that most of the property was “really not even accessible” due to the lack of roads.
When jurors got to the property, they walked the path between the kennel area and shed near where Maggie’s body was found.
Jurors were then taken to the 5,000-square-foot main residence to look at the outside of the house, which is about 1,200 feet from the crime scene. Their final stop was a wooded area on the other side of Moselle Road, where there is a shooting shed that had been littered with spent 300 Blackout casings and 12-gauge shotgun shells like the kinds used to kill Maggie and Paul.
At the time he was murdered, Paul was going through his own trial where he was charged with three felony counts for a fatal boat crash that occurred while he was allegedly boating under the influence. Charges were dropped after Paul’s death, but the family of Mallory Beach, the young woman who was killed in the boat crash, have pursued multiple lawsuits in connection with the accident.
The Murdaugh family was also connected to the 2015 death of Stephen Smith, whose death was officially ruled a vehicular hit and run, and the 2018 death of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaughs' housekeeper, after a fall at the family's estate. Then, in September 2021, Alex was caught in an assisted suicide insurance fraud scheme after he was found guilty of enlisting a hitman to kill him so his living son could benefit from him $10 million life insurance plan. He survived the shooting and remains imprisoned on charges related to it.
