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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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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.
The jury tour
“The next owner may be the beneficiary of considerable tax advantages that may be available through the donation of an easement,” the listing says. Before the public became interested in Murdaugh’s case, and the property became known as the site of the killings, the sprawling estate on the Salkehatchie River had a dark history. But when jurors head to 4147 Moselle Rd., they’ll be going to a property that Murdaugh has been trying to sell for more than a year. Former Palmetto State bank manager Russell Laffitte is under investigation by the state Supreme Court's Office of Disciplinary Counsel and the state Attorney General's Office in connection to one of the Murdaugh cases. Laffitte was terminated from his position at the bank on Jan. 7, although the bank did not specifically state the reason for his termination.
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Portion of Alex Murdaugh's tragic family hunting farm lists for $1.95M - New York Post
Portion of Alex Murdaugh's tragic family hunting farm lists for $1.95M.
Posted: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
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.
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.
This property is also the site where the Murdaugh’s longtime housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, 57, died on Feb. 26, 2018, in what was described as a slip-and-fall accident. Paul, 22, and his mother, 52, were found gunned down on their hunting estate in the unincorporated community of Islandton last June in a murder that remains unsolved. “We have had offers, but of course we are working at [the] discretion of the courts and [it is] not sold yet,” Todd Crosby, who holds the listing with Crosby Land Company, told The Post.
The first lawsuit filed against Murdaugh was the March 2019 wrongful death suit brought by the estate of Mallory Beach in relation to the Feb. 24, 2019, Beaufort County boat crash in which Murdaugh's son, Paul, was allegedly driving. Roughly $2.86 million went to the Beach family (who also received a $15 million settlement) and other individuals who were involved in the boat crash and had filed civil suits. The Greenville News broke down the rest of the payments, which mainly cover Alex's legal fees and expenses along with a payment to his younger brother.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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).
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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