Moselle Estate House on Murdaugh family farm lists for sale

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• Alex Murdaugh’s Moselle Estate on Market Again for $1.95 Million — 6 Months After it Last Sold
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• Murdaugh family’s former Moselle home listed for sale at $1.9 million
• Murdaugh family’s former home Moselle listed for sale again
• Murdaugh family home goes on sale for $1.95 million: Photos show Moselle Estate House

Murdaugh, along with Maggie’s estate, sold the Edisto Island home near Charleston in July 2022 for $955,000 — at the same time he was arrested and charged with murdering her and his youngest son Paul. Crosby said he didn't believe the murders of Murdaugh’s 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and son Paul, 22, on the property would affect the sale price. — The former home of Alex Murdaugh and his family is back on the market at $1.95 million, according to Monday real estate listing from Crosby Land Company.

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

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The listing is a carve-out of the Murdaugh's larger estate, which sold for $3.9 million earlier this year and included 1,700 acres. As The Post reported, Ayer and Godley were responsible for paying for eight tracts worth a total of $2.66 million — with Ayer noting they were unsure of plans for the property at that time. The 1,700 acres family estate was purchased by James A. Ayer and Jeffrey L. Godley in March, according to the Greenville News, part of the USA TODAY Network.

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The listing images additionally show a dining room, which is also fully clad in wood, and large windows. The sale of the house and 21 acres does not include the dog kennels, according to WSAV. The disgraced attorney, 55, has maintained his innocence and is seeking a new murder trial. Just weeks earlier, on March 2, Alex Murdaugh was convicted of killing his wife and youngest son.

Murdaugh family’s former Moselle home listed for sale at $1.9 million

The 5,275-square-foot estate boasts 4 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms, and has largely been refurnished. The Murdaugh family’s household items, including living room furniture, hunting trophies and dishware were auctioned off en masse in late March. In addition to cellphone data, one of the strongest pieces of evidence against Alex (more on the trial ahead!) was a Snapchat video captured by Paul that put his father at the kennels—the scene of the crime—minutes prior to the murders.

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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.

Murdaugh family’s former home Moselle listed for sale again

Murdaugh was convicted of two counts of murder during a six-week trial in Walterboro, South Carolina. The trial concluded on March 3, 2023, with Judge Clifton Newman sentencing him to two life sentences. "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. “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. Gambino said the Glassell Park area where the home is located is popular among artists, musicians and actors.

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.

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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.

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.

In regards to the double murder, no arrests were made until more than a year later in July 2022 when Alex Murdaugh was indicted for the murders of his wife and son. Alex's wife and son were found deceased at the family's hunting lodge in Islandton, South Carolina, which is on the same vast property as their main house, 4147 Moselle. They were both shot multiple times with different weapons at the dog kennels on the property sometime after they all had dinner together at the main house.

That was a key tenet of Lay and McCoy saying Murdaugh never had the right to sell it in the first place. And despite Lay and McCoy's conjecture about Alex Murdaugh's intentions in transferring the Moselle property to his wife, Newsome claims the receivers cannot and have not proved fraud or fraudulent intent. Firstly, Newsome argues Lay and McCoy's fraudulent conveyance claim is moot because a three-year statute of limitations on such claims has long since passed, meaning the receivers lack standing to seek judgment under that particular section of law.

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.