Alex Murdaughs Moselle Estate On the Market Again for $1 95 Million

Table Of Content

• Alex Murdaugh estate, Moselle, is back on the market for $1.95 million
• Alex Murdaugh’s Moselle Estate on Market Again for $1.95 Million — 6 Months After it Last Sold
• How four generations of Murdaugh brought murder and misery
• Ex-attorney Cory Fleming appeals 10-year sentence for helping Alex Murdaugh steal
• Alex Murdaugh's 'Moselle' home, site of unsolved double homicide, listed for $3.9 million
• Quarter-acre property a 'whimsical environment'

To that end, Lay and McCoy also believe Murdaugh knew the Moselle property would be settlement fodder once his years of thefts were inevitably exposed, so he was doing his best to shield it from seizure and forfeiture down the road by transferring it to his wife. Moselle is also the place where Maggie Murdaugh was killed, alongside her and Alex's youngest son, Paul, the night of June 7, 2021. Late in the trial, as the case captured the national fascination, Murdaugh defense attorney Dick Harpootlian complained that the property had become a sort of morbid tourist attraction. Harpootlian said trespassers were sneaking up to the former crime scene to take selfies.

Alex Murdaugh estate, Moselle, is back on the market for $1.95 million

In the meantime, the legal circus tent covering all the criminal indictments and civil litigation involving Alex Murdaugh has expanded into the realm of probate, where the fate of his money and assets — including the Moselle property — are held in limbo. Murdaugh, 54, is accused of stealing millions from his legal clients and others who trusted him. And after Paul allegedly crashed the family’s boat, killing one friend and injuring others, Murdaugh and his surviving son, Buster, were also facing a civil lawsuit.

Alex Murdaugh’s Moselle Estate on Market Again for $1.95 Million — 6 Months After it Last Sold

The 1,700-acre South Carolina hunting lodge where Alex Murdaugh, once a prominent lawyer in the state, killed his wife and younger son has sold for $3.9 million, according to a sale deed. Infamous as the location of the June 2021 double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh that resulted in the conviction and two consecutive life sentences for disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, the Moselle Estate House is listed with a sale price of $1.95 million. In March of this year, the Moselle home and surrounding 1,700 acres were sold to James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley for $3.9 million, according to a Colleton County sale deed. Around $2.7 million of the initial sale was awarded to the family of 19-year-old Mallory Beach, who died in 2019 when Alex Murdaugh’s murdered son, Paul Murdaugh, crashed a boat with himself, Beach and others inside. 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.

How four generations of Murdaugh brought murder and misery

In that filing, Lay and McCoy asked the probate court in Colleton County to declare the intramarital sale of Moselle null and void under South Carolina's "fraudulent conveyance" statute. The Moselle property happens to be the most valuable single asset in Maggie Murdaugh's contested estate. Unsurprisingly, the Murdaugh family and their growing list of legal nemeses all are jockeying for access to the proceeds of Moselle in what's projected to be a multi-million dollar sale.

Former Colleton County Probate Judge Ashley Amundson appointed John Marvin Murdaugh to the role of Personal Representative for Maggie Murdaugh's estate in December 2021 after Alex Murdaugh gave up his rights to the role from behind bars. The new owners — Murdaugh’s former neighbor, Jeffrey Godley of Islandton, and James Ayer of Ehrhardt — have not said how they plan to use the land. Crosby Land Company has Cross Swamp Farm, also known as the Murdaugh 'Moselle' property, listed for $3.9 million.

Ex-attorney Cory Fleming appeals 10-year sentence for helping Alex Murdaugh steal

This crossbow was supposedly seen in police body cam footage on the night of the murders, according to the seller, ABC4 reports. Godley and Todd Crosby, of the Crosby Land Company, who is listing the property and who had the initial listing, did not respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment. The purchaser of the sofa set told the Island Packet that he didn't believe buying the furniture was "morbid" or "cold-hearted." There are also two man-made waterfowl reservoirs planted with corn to attract the birds and a 20-acre dove field with a dead wire and parameter fencing to minimize crop damage, the listing adds. “Paul Murdaugh’s consumption of alcohol was condoned, encouraged and facilitated by Richard Alexander Murdaugh and Margaret Kennedy Branstetter Murdaugh,” reads the legal filing, obtained by The Post.

Murdaugh's former SC estate Moselle back on market. Will murders impact value?

On March 22, the 1,770-acre property where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were fatally gunned down in 2021 was sold for $3.9 million to Murdaugh’s former neighbor, Jeffrey Godley of Islandton, and James Ayer of Ehrhardt, The Post and Courier reports. 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. A 4-bedroom home on Moselle, the South Carolina estate where the Murdaughs lived prior to the tragedy, has gone on sale for $1.95 million. The home, which served as the primary Murdaugh residence, the Moselle Estate House, is located on only 21 acres of land, according to listing agent Crosby Land Company.

Alex Murdaugh's 'Moselle' home, site of unsolved double homicide, listed for $3.9 million

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Meanwhile, a separate source told The Post that the family’s 1,700-acre hunting farm is in contract and close to being sold after all of the family’s personal belongings are removed from the property. GEORGETOWN (WCIV) — What happens to the money from selling the property where Alex Murdaugh is accused of murdering his wife and son in June 2021? A probate court hearing scheduled for September 30 in Georgetown County looks to bring some clarity to the question. Moselle, the South Carolina estate that was home to the Murdaugh family prior to attorney Alex Murdaugh's murder of his wife and son, is back on the market, with the 4-bedroom home listed for $1.95 million. A roughly 21-acre property in Islandton, South Carolina, which includes a 5,275-square-foot home, has listed for sale asking $1.95 million, The Post has learned — and it’s part of a much larger parcel that comes with a tragic past.

Quarter-acre property a 'whimsical environment'

Meantime, Lay and McCoy have offered an alternative to blocking the sale of Moselle. Aside from the fraudulent conveyance claims, Lay and McCoy also are contesting the sale of Moselle because they say Murdaugh's extended family would have direct access to the money through Alex Murdaugh's brother, John Marvin Murdaugh. The Lowcountry property at the center of the 2021 Murdaugh family double homicide is officially up for sale. The Lowcountry property at the center of the Murdaugh family double homicide is officially up for sale. All potential buyers must be pre-approved for purchase before visiting the home for a showing, Crosby Land Company said.

"That money is going to help the victims of these people who went through a very dark time in their life and were wronged," the buyer, Phillip Jennings of Soperton, Georgia, told the publication. 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. 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.

Known as Moselle Farm, the property is located at 4147 Moselle Road in Islandton, South Carolina. Along with the infamous hunting lodge, the sprawling estate features a farm, two miles of river frontage for freshwater fishing and kayaking, dog kennels, plenty of turkey and deer for on-site hunting, and a custom-built home constructed in 2011. Local farmers James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley purchased the overall Moselle Farm site mere weeks after the family patriarch, and disgraced attorney, Alex Murdaugh was convicted of killing Maggie and Paul near the farm’s dog kennels. He was sentenced in March to two life terms for the double murder and maintained his innocence during the hearing.

Other portions of the proceeds went to Alex’s surviving son, Buster Murdaugh, and into a settlement fund for victims of Murdaugh’s alleged financial crimes for stealing millions from his clients and others, The Post and Courier reports. Proceeds from the sale of the estate, which was in Maggie’s name, helped pay Murdaugh’s legal fees and victims of the 2019 boat crash that killed Mallory Beach, 19, when Paul was allegedly at the wheel, WSAV reports. The lawsuit accuses the elder Murdaughs of being willful contributors to their son’s underage drinking. As the legal scion currently sits behind bars awaiting trial on more than 70 charges, including swindling millions from his own clients, the farm, which includes a custom-built home constructed in 2011, has already seen interest. Simpson's home after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Brown, told the Daily Mail that the value of a home attached to trauma like a murder can drop by as much as 25 percent in the aftermath of the incident.

Fast forwarding many years later to June 7, 2021, Alex called 911 to report the shooting of his wife, Maggie, and their son, Paul. Aside from being horrific, they likely gained even more media attention due to Paul Murdaugh's own ongoing trial, in which he was charged with a wrongful death suit for a fatal boat crash that occurred while he was boating under the influence. The property including 1,700 acres of hunting land and the kennels where Alex Murdaugh killed his wife Maggie and son Paul in 2021 sold earlier this year for $3.9 million.

Alex Murdaugh’s hunting estate on the Salkehatchie River officially has new owners, just weeks after the once-prominent attorney was found guilty of killing his wife and son on the property. Alex Murdaugh was convicted in March of killing his wife Maggie Murdaugh and son Paul near the family dog kennels, about a quarter mile from the house on June 7, 2021. 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.