A true crime fan is shocked to find hundreds of never-before-seen photos of the Murdaugh family vacation on a memory card she bought at auction.
Dawn Martin, who had “followed closely” the Murdaugh case, said the footage showed Alex driving the family boat and Paul holding the pigs he had just killed.
Martin invested in several items at the auction, but claimed he “didn’t really know” what a memory card was or that he would keep such an intimate look into the family’s life.
He has shared just two photos, one of Maggie on vacation and one of Alex wearing a diving mask, while he waits to decide what to do with the rest.
Last week, Liberty Auction House in Pembroke, Georgia, auctioned off a large number of items from the Murdaugh family’s 1,800-acre site where patriarch Alex murdered his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, the June 7, 2021.
A photo of Alex Murdaugh scuba diving was one of hundreds of never-before-seen photos of the family found on a memory card sold at auction last week.
A picture of Maggie enjoying her vacation was also found on the old cards.
It was revealed yesterday that Murdaugh’s hunting lodge sold for $2.6 million to two buyers, a drop from the $3.9 million it was listed for.
Martin, who lives in Pembroke, said he decided to visit the auction after realizing how close it was to his home.
He had followed the case very closely. I had the day off and decided to do it since it was so close that I was very surprised to have it in Pembroke, Georgia,’ she said. OMCC 11.
“The biggest thing for me was this camera bag that was said to have SIM card information.”
He bought two cameras and a bag of memory cards that he took home and loaded onto his computer.
She insisted that she expected to see “nothing” on the cards, adding: “I really didn’t know what a SIM card or a memory card was.”
However, they were filled with hundreds of vacation photos of the Murdaugh family.
She explained: ‘Alex, with his arm around driving the boat, photos of Paul holding honey, pigs he had apparently shot, vacation photos.
Dawn Martin said she had been following the Murdaugh case “very closely.” She bought several items at auction, including two cameras and a bag of memory cards.
Martin said he “didn’t really know” what a memory card was and expected to find nothing on the devices.
‘I will say that it has changed me. I can not stop watching. I never imagined that he would own things and hide a peek into his private view of life.’
She added: ‘The pictures told a story. There were so many of them. And guessing that by looking at a novel and knowing the outcome and what that outcome became and how surprised I was myself.
Martin said he also wanted to pay tribute to Maggie through the photos.
“She was the forgotten victim in this story and I am honored to have seen them. But it’s like the novel, we know what happened at the end. So to me, it’s very creepy,” she said.
Liberty Auction House sold household items, including a leather sofa, an easy chair set, dinnerware, lampshades and hunting saddles, all belonging to Murdaugh at last Thursday’s auction.
Among the most expensive items for sale were lamps adorned with tortoise shells, which sold for $800, a Yeti tumbler for $400, and mounted longhorns that commanded a lofty $10,000 price tag.
Martin said the shots gave an intimate look into Murdaugh’s private life. Shown from left to right: Buster, Maggie, Paul, and Alex Murdaugh.
A photo shared on Facebook shows Maggie with her two children on vacation.
The first item up for auction was an animal trap, which sold for $500, followed later by a pair of rocking chairs for $850 and a sofa from the family mansion, which sold for $30,000 after an intense bidding war.
It comes three weeks after Murdaugh appealed his double murder convictions along with his life sentence. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the murders on March 3.
Murdaugh is currently in the high-security Kirkland Correctional Institution, one of South Carolina’s most notorious prisons.
And while the disgraced former lawyer escaped death row for the murder of his wife Maggie and son Paul, a third life sentence would mean Murdaugh will spend the rest of his life behind bars under the state’s ‘three strikes’ law. ‘.
He is currently appealing his murder conviction, but the state is specifically seeking three additional breach of trust convictions totaling $10,000 or more.
Three additional convictions on the breach of trust charges would result in a life sentence, eliminating his chance for parole.
Murdaugh’s trial lasted six weeks and included more than 75 witnesses, but culminated in a jury that took less than three hours to find the 54-year-old man guilty of fatally shooting his wife and son.
Murdaugh called 911 on the night of June 7, 2021, and said he found his son and wife dead as he returned home from an hour-long visit with his mother, who has dementia.
Household items belonging to the Murdaugh family were sold at the auction, including a leather sofa and armchair set (pictured), dinnerware, lampshades, and hunting saddles.
The auction house also sold a pair of tortoise shell lamps.
The sale also featured hunting mounts from the family’s Moselle estate, where Alex Murdaugh murdered his 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul.
Authorities said Paul was shot twice with a shotgun, each round loaded with different sized buckshot, while Maggie took four or five rounds from a rifle.
A crime scene report suggested that both victims were shot in the head after initially being wounded near the kennels on the Murdaughs’ sprawling rural property.