Everything We Know About Moselle, the Murdaugh Family Murder Farm

Table Of Content

• What happened to the Murdaugh home, 4147 Moselle Road?
• Wayfair Way Day: Here's what we know about the year's best furniture and home decor sale
• What to Know About the South Carolina Property Where the Murdaugh Murders Took Place
• Murdaugh trial
• Inside the 1,700-acre Murdaugh family murder farm now on sale for $3.9M

The jury’s tour of the murder scene came at the request of Murdaugh’s defence attorney Dick Harpootlian who said “it would be useful for the jury to see Moselle” before they decided the fate of the disgraced attorney. But the sale was put on hold when Murdaugh was accused of trying to offload his assets to avoid paying up in a string of lawsuits he is facing, prompting a court to freeze his assets. The property was first listed in February 2022 – eight months after Maggie and Paul’s murders and five months before Murdaugh was charged with them – under a new name of Cross Swamp Farm. One witness even told the court how he had killed around 1,000 hogs in his time in the area (though not just on the Murdaugh estate).

What happened to the Murdaugh home, 4147 Moselle Road?

Michael Satterfield, a son of Gloria Satterfield, testified this month that Murdaugh never told the family that he collected more than $4 million in insurance settlements after the 57-year-old woman’s fatal fall at his home. The property was bought by a farmer whose family owns significant acreage in Colleton County, S.C., that’s adjacent to the Murdaughs’ near Islandton, along with a partner in nearby Bamberg County, reported WCIV in Charleston. Murdaugh allegedly used at least two banks in South Carolina to orchestrate his financial schemes, including Palmetto State Bank in Hampton, allegedly stealing more than $8 million from his former clients, partners and other attorneys. The property, located at 3606 Big Bay Drive, Edisto Island, is owned by Murdaugh and the estate of his late wife, Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, as tenants in common. Maggie and the couple's younger son, Paul, were shot and killed in June 2021 in an ongoing criminal case also connected to Murdaugh in which no one has been charged.

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Since the property was sold for $3.9 million, the agreed-upon calculations mean that Buster Murdaugh will receive $530,000 as the devisee of the estate. The final Murdaugh receiving a payout is John Marvin Murdaugh, Alex Murdaugh’s younger brother, for funds he previously advanced on the estate’s behalf. The family home was built in 2011 and consists of four bedrooms and 3.5 baths, meaning it could “easily be converted into a weekend hunting lodge with the capability to sleep up to 15 people”, the listing reads. On 1 March, the jury was taken to the family’s sprawling 1,700-acre Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina, to see for themselves the crime scene where Maggie and Paul were killed back on 7 June 2021.

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Custom built in 2011, it also boasts mahogany doors, heart pine floors, a grand staircase, a chef's kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances and granite countertops, a billiards room and custom gun cabinets. 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.

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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. “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. 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. When Murdaugh turned himself in as part of an alleged suicide-for-hire plot in 2021, SLED announced an investigation into Satterfield’s death.

The case was settled in January; surviving passengers from the incident are also included in the settlement. 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.

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On June 7, 2021, Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found dead at dog kennels on the Murdaugh family property. The bulk of the proceeds, about $2.7 million, will go to Beach's family, as well as two survivors of the crash, the newspaper said. Another boat crash survivor will receive $100,000, while Buster Murdaugh will receive $530,000. Almost $300,000 in additional funds will go to a settlement fund for creditors and financial victims of Alex Murdaugh, among other payments to creditors and to cover legal fees.

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They toured the dog kennels where Murdaugh ambushed his son in the feed room, shooting him once in the chest and a second time in the head, neck and shoulder with a shotgun. The South Carolina Court of Appeals stayed Murdaugh's murder convictions and twin life sentences, putting the outcome of that case on hold until a lower court hears Murdaugh's request for a fresh trial. Boulware, an Allendale County, S.C., fisherman who died in 2018, was indicted in 1983 after authorities seized 17 tons of marijuana on a fishing trawler from the Bahamas, according to UPI. Despite being federally charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute 34,000 pounds of marijuana and conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States, the charges against Boulware were dismissed after a government witness was fatally struck by a car in Florida. “You can’t really appreciate the spatial issues without actually seeing them,” defense attorney Richard “Dick” Harpootlian told the court. Laffitte's attorneys issued a Jan. 27 statement that he is cooperating with the investigation.

Murdaugh family home

The judge also advised them that some things have changed on the property in the aftermath of the murders. In particular, jurors heard a lot about the hunting of wild hogs – from the time of day to hunt to the type of guns used. However, Murdaugh's defense team petitioned for a new trial in September, alleging Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill of inappropriate communications with jurors, denying their client a fair trial. The lawyers contend Hill's communications may have helped remove jurors sympathetic Murdaugh and swayed others. 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 co-receivers are tasked to determine what Murdaugh's assets are, where they may be allegedly hidden, and control those assets through the creation of a fund for alleged victims and their pending suits. According to the Greenville News, a settlement agreement was filed by attorneys for Maggie Murdaugh on Jan. 10 outlining how the money from the sale of the hunting lodge will be dispersed. The proceeds of the infamous hunting lodge will largely benefit the survivors and victims of a 2019 drunken boat crash caused by the youngest member of the fallen-from-grace legal dynasty.

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. The listing comes less than five months after Alex Murdaugh, 53 — the father of the family — allegedly conspired to hire a hit man to kill him so that he could leave his only surviving son, Richard, known as Buster, a $10 million life insurance policy, The Post reported. On April 26, those attorneys filed a motion in Hampton County Court of Common Pleas asking the court to consider and approve the sale of one of Murdaugh's real estate properties, his family vacation home in Edisto. 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. Alex had previously claimed to be napping at the main home on the property during that time frame, and the video reveals his duplicity. When on the stand, Alex admitted to lying about this, referencing an 1808 quote from Sir Walter Scott, "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

According to a representative for Liberty Auction, three times the normal crowd showed up to bid on the macabre remnants of the Murdaugh family’s life at their once idyllic country home, CBS News reported. 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. Local farmers James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley teamed up to make the purchase, The New York Post reported. At the time, the buyers told the outlet that they weren't sure what they were going to do with the property. This has happened in other high-profile cases, including the one in which Michael Peterson allegedly murdered his wife Kathleen Peterson at their North Carolina home.

Last week, the property, which was held in Maggie Murdaugh’s name at the time she was killed, was sold by The Crosby Land Company, according to a listing. The buyers are reportedly “two men,” according to Savannah, Georgia-based ABC affiliate WJCL. An estimated 3,000 people showed up for an auction of items from the Moselle estate on Thursday — three times the normal crowd, Emily McGarry, who works for the auction house, told CBS News. Throughout the trial, jurors heard how the property’s 1,700 acres were a hunter’s paradise with dove fields, deer stands and duck ponds all over the estate.