The hunting lodge where double murderer Alex Murdaugh executed his son and wife has sold for $1 million.
A South Carolina businessperson submitted the winning bid on an online auction for the infamous property in Islandton, South Carolina.
The four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath home comes with 21 acres and went under contract on Thursday, despite the price being under the minimum bid of $1.1 million.
The home, which covers nearly 5,300-square-feet, is where Murdaugh brutally shot dead his wife Maggie, 52, and younger son Paul, 22, in June of 2021.
Last March, Murdaugh, a disbarred lawyer, was found guilty of murdering the pair last year and is serving two life sentences.
The four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath home comes with 21 acres and went under contract on Thursday, despite the price being under the minimum bid of $1.1 million
The property boasts front and rear porches, with an oak tree lined driveway greeting the new residents
The property has now sold at auction to a South Carolina businessperson who is looking to turn it into a horse farm
Last March, Murdaugh, a disbarred lawyer, was found guilty of murdering Maggie and Paul, both seen here, last year and is serving two life sentences
In March 2023, the original parcel of the property, which stretched to 1,772 acres including the home, was sold for just under $2.7 million.
The house and 21 acres was then up for grabs for $1.95 million last year, but when it didn’t sell the owners turned to auctioning it off.
Maggie and Paul were found dead near the kennels on the property, which was not included in the most recent sale.
According to Realtor, the new owners asked the auction house that their names weren’t disclosed and are planning to turn it into a horse farm.
Craig King, senior marketing consultant at J.P. King Auction Co, told the outlet: ‘They’re a prominent South Carolina businessperson that has several offices throughout South Carolina.
‘Their plan is to relocate their current horse farm to this location. We had over a couple dozen serious inquiries on the property. We did have a lot of interest.’
The property boasts front and rear porches, with an oak tree lined driveway greeting the new residents.
The primary bedroom also features a walk-in closet and a bathroom with a spa tub inside.
On the auction listing, J.P. King describe the property as: ‘This property, with its mix of classic charm and modern amenities, is not just a home but a lifestyle, offering the perfect blend of seclusion, elegance, and convenience.’
The jury that would go on to find Murdaugh guilty of murder had previously been taken to the property as part of the trial.
The jury spent the bulk of their time at the kennels and the shed where Maggie and Paul were killed.
Towards the end of the visit, the jury were taken to the main house for a view of the exterior. They were not allowed inside.
Maggie, Paul, Alex and Buster Murdaugh with their dog Bubba in a family photo obtained by DailyMail.com
Murdaugh claims he was at the main house watching TV at the time the State says Maggie and Paul were shot dead
Maggie’s body was found a few yards to the right of a doghouse, while Paul’s was by the doorway at the end of the kennels
Murdaugh first killed his son Paul by shooting him twice with a shotgun in the feed room of the kennels.
Jurors heard gruesome evidence of how Paul’s brain was blown out the back of his head by a close range blast of steel buckshot from a 12-gauge shotgun.
He then shot his wife Maggie with a .300 Blackout rifle from yards away, with bullet 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.
Alex Murdaugh fiercely denied executing his wife and son and sensationally took the stand to defend himself against his own lawyers’ advice.
He wept as he admitted to jurors that he had lied about being at the crime scene minutes before they were slain – but blamed his paranoia brought on a crippling opioid habit and a mistrust of the police.
Murdaugh said: ‘I would never intentionally do anything to hurt either of them. Ever. Ever,’ he sobbed. ‘I didn’t shoot my wife or son, ever.’
Buster, Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh at Lake Kiwi in May 2021 to celebrate the birth of Maggie’s niece’s child. At the time of the killings, Buster was staying with his girlfriend near Charlotte
Buster Murdaugh, the son of Alex Murdaugh, listens as Alex Murdaugh’s verdict is read at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Thursday
‘Oh what a tangled web we weave. Once I told a lie, and I told my family, I had to keep lying,’ he added.
Prosecutors exploded Murdaugh’s ‘new story’ by playing bodycam footage from the local cop who was first on the scene in which he was seen already lying about the last time he saw Maggie and Paul.
On the day of the killings, Murdaugh had been confronted over $792,000 that had gone ‘missing’ from a recent case.
In the subsequent months it would be revealed that he had stolen more than $10m from clients and partners at his firm.
Three days after the killings he was due in court for a hearing in a lawsuit over his son’s drunken boat crash in which a teen girl had died two years earlier.
Earlier this month, Murdaugh was ordered to pay nearly half of his remaining $1.8 million fortune to the families of those onboard the boat.
Paul, 22, was driving drunk in February 2019 when the boat carrying six people crashed in Archer’s Creek near Parris Island, South Carolina, killing 19-year-old Mallory Beach and injuring four others.
Beach’s family will receive 29 per cent of Murdaugh’s remaining money, according to a court order.
The funds were marshalled together after lawyers sold off Murdaugh’s remaining land holdings, farm equipment and liquidated his 401(K).
Anthony Cook, Connor Cook, Miley Altman and Paul’s girlfriend Morgan Doughty – all of whom were injured in the fatal crash – will also receive a payout, as well as victims of Murdaugh’s financial crimes.
Alex Murdaugh, pictured in January, was ordered to pay nearly half of his remaining $1.8million fortune to the families of passengers onboard a boat crashed by his slain son
Paul was ‘highly intoxicated,’ ‘drunk’ and ‘belligerent,’ on February 23, 2019 ago when he sped his boat (pictured) into a piling, legal documents revealed
The family of 19-year-old Mallory Beach (pictured) will receive 29 per cent of Murdaugh’s remaining money, according to a court order. Beach was killed in 2019 when a boat driven by Murdaugh’s intoxicated son Paul crashed
Paul was ‘highly intoxicated,’ ‘drunk’ and ‘belligerent,’ on February 23, 2019 ago when he sped his boat into a piling, legal documents revealed.
The six youths on board that night, who were under 21, were ejected from the vessel – and all but Beach made it to shore. Her body wasn’t found for a week.
Paul was indicted on three counts of boating under the influence in April 2019 but was killed by his father before it went to trial.
The sale of the home comes after previously unseen bodycam footage surfaced showing him pleading with cops for opioid addiction medication.
The clip shows police apprehending Murdaugh outside a Florida rehab, where he was receiving treatment for drug and alcohol abuse following the murders of his wife and son in June of that year.
Murdaugh had checked into the unnamed facility three months after the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.
Following this, he paid his former drug dealer and accomplice to shoot him in the head so his surviving son could claim an insurance payout.
After leaving rehab, police arrested him on two felony warrants for stealing death settlements from the family of his late housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who died after allegedly falling down the steps to their South Carolina estate in 2018.
Her sons were awarded a $4.3m insurance payout from the Murdaugh’s insurer, but by 2021 they had not received any money
After leaving rehab, police arrested him on two felony warrants for stealing death settlements from the family of his late housekeeper
Indictments claimed Murdaugh and accomplices had conspired to steal the payout by diverting the money to his account and not notifying the beneficiaries.
The Satterfields were ultimately able to recover more than $6.5m following multiple lawsuits.
Murdaugh ultimately pleaded guilty to embezzling the insurance money in November 2023 and was sentenced to 27 years in prison for numerous financial crimes.
Following the arrest seen in the newly-obtained footage, the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) confirmed he had been taken into custody after leaving rehab and charged with two felonies relating to the missing life insurance money from Ms Satterfield.
