Man who bought Alex Murdaugh’s murder home claims he found bombshell piece of evidence that proves convicted killer is innocent
The man who bought the South Carolina home where former socialite Alex Murdaugh shot and killed his wife and son has claimed he has evidence proving the former lawyer is innocent.
Alex Blair, of Rock Hill, bought Murdaugh’s Islandton estate for $1 million in February and has since begun a renovation of the house from roof to subfloor, including an addition to one side of the property. Broker reports.
He now says he is in possession of the kennel door and window that contain bullet holes from the June 2021 shooting, which he says proves Alex Murdaugh did not kill his wife Maggie and son Paul.
The South Carolina patriarch was given two life sentences without parole last year for their murders, after crime experts determined he ambushed Paul in the kennels and shot him twice before killing Maggie five times shot, even as she fell to her knees.
But Blair, who had the kennel torn down but kept the door, said the placement of the bullet holes suggests Murdaugh did not kill them.
Alex Blair, of Rock Hill, bought Murdaugh’s Islandton estate for $1 million in February
He has since embarked on a ‘roof to sub-floor’ renovation of the house, including an extension to one side of the property
‘[Murdaugh] He’s a big man, he was even bigger then, and he’s too big for the bullets to go through the way he does,” he explained.
“Maybe it was karma for other things he did,” Blair said of Murdaugh’s conviction. “But I don’t think he killed them.”
He further noted that many of the local residents who live on the street where the Moselle Estate House is located agree with him that the former lawyer is not guilty of the murders, and said the reason he bought the estate is because ‘I don’t think so [Murdaugh] did it.’
Blair also revealed that he has a set of keys and keychains that once belonged to Maggie.
He said he’s holding on to them in case Murdaugh’s surviving son, Richard “Buster” Murdaugh, “wants it back… to have something of his mother.”
Murdaugh received two life sentences without parole last year for the murders of his wife Maggie and son Paul
Murdaugh has remained adamant that he did not kill his son Paul with a shotgun and his wife Maggie (both circled) with a rifle.
Following Murdaugh’s arrest, his 1,700-acre hunting lodge in Islandton was purchased by two businessmen in March 2023 for $3.9 million.
But a few months later, James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley opted to carve up the land and put the house and surrounding 21 acres back on the market for $1.95 million.
Godley explained at the time that he and Ayer had no use for the house itself and were only interested in the land, which they planned to use for hunting, farming and woodworking.
He noted that they were both from the area and he wanted to make sure the homebuyer would be a good neighbor.
“I’m a neighbor, with our house about a mile from this house, he said.”
‘We are looking for a new neighbor who can enjoy this beautiful house and land.’
The listing at the time suggested the house could be used as a “family home or complex,” a place for “equestrian sports,” a potential “hobby farm” or “weekend retreat destination.”
Maggie’s body was found a few feet to the right of a doghouse, while Paul’s was near the doorway at the end of the kennels.
Murdaugh claims he was in the main house watching TV when Maggie and Paul were shot, according to the state
Blair, already a father of two, now plans to use the house as a ‘second home’ as he owns a hunting lodge just 20 minutes away from the family estate.
He explained that he wanted to make sure that any other homes he adds to his real estate portfolio are close enough to the house so that his family can move between the two without disrupting his children’s lives too much.
He said he hopes the work he is doing on the home will remove the “bad stigma” surrounding it, noting that he wants to change the story of the home in a “positive way.”
Since purchasing the property, Blair has built a pond on the property, installed horse fences, demolished the kennels and demolished and replaced Murdaugh’s private plane hangar.
He has also hired two land managers to ensure the property remains “clean and organized” and is renting a greenhouse on the land to an area sheriff’s deputy.
When asked about his decision to extend the house with an extension, Blair said it was simply his “obsessive” desire to make it “symmetrical.”
That is now the last part of the house to be completed, which Blair expects to be completed by mid-November.
Maggie, Paul, Alex and Buster Murdaugh with their dog Bubba in a family photo obtained by DailyMail.com
He added that it would be difficult for anyone to find pristine real estate in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.
“Every property in the Lowcountry has a history,” Blair said.
“A bad thing about our state is that the slave trade took place here,” he continued.
“Bad things have happened in every area. But you have the choice to focus on the negative or create a positive story. And that’s what I want to do.’
The murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh shocked South Carolina, where the family was known as a political and legal dynasty.
Members of the family had served as lawyers and prosecutors for the Low Countries region for 85 consecutive years.
But prosecutors alleged that on the day of the murders, Murdaugh was confronted with approximately $792,000 that was “missing” from a recent case.
In the following months, it would be revealed that he had stolen more than $10 million from customers and partners at his company.
Jurors also heard gruesome evidence that Paul’s brains were blown out of the back of his head by a close-range steel buckshot from a 12-gauge shotgun.
He then shot his wife Maggie with a .300 Blackout rifle from several feet away, causing gunshot wounds to her thigh, wrist, torso and head.
The final shot was fired into the back of her head as she lay face down on the ground when she was already dead.
Prosecutors also alleged that bodycam footage showed Murdaugh had already lied about the last time he saw his wife and son.
He then paid his former drug dealer and accomplice to shoot him in the head so his surviving son could claim insurance benefits, prosecutors said.
Yet Alex has fiercely denied executing his wife and son and has sensationally taken the stand to defend himself against the advice of his own lawyers.
He cried as he admitted to jurors that he lied about being at the crime scene minutes before they were killed, but blamed his paranoia stemming from a crippling opioid addiction and distrust of police.
Murdaugh said, “I would never intentionally do anything to hurt any of them.” Ever. Ever,” he sobbed. “I never shot my wife and son.”
Murdaugh claimed he found the bodies of his wife and son after returning home from visiting his parents.
His lawyers have since tried to appeal his conviction, arguing that clerk Becky Hill told jurors “not to let him fool them” in an attempt to secure his conviction so they could make money with a book about the case.
Their claims of ‘unprecedented jury tampering’ were dismissed by Judge Jean Toal in January, but that decision has now been overturned by the Supreme Court, which will now assess whether he should be granted a new trial.
But even if Murdaugh ultimately gets a new murder trial, he will still serve 40 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from clients of his law firm, a sentence that will be served concurrently with his 27-year sentence for his murder case. separate convictions for state fraud.
The 40-year prison term will be imposed in addition to the disgraced lawyer’s life sentence for the murder of his relatives.