The person who purchased the house the place Alex Murdaugh murdered his spouse and son has made a stunning declare that he uncovered a vital piece of proof proving the disgraced South Carolina lawyer is an harmless man.
Alexander Wallace Blair bought the sprawling 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom Moselle Property Home and its 21-acre property in Islandton, SC, for $1 million in an public sale in February 2024 and has since begun renovating the house.
Murdaugh obtained two life sentences with out parole final yr for the 2021 murders of his spouse, Maggie, 52, and son, Paul, 22, after crime scene specialists decided he ambushed them on the property’s canine kennels — believed to haven’t been included when the property was purchased at public sale.
Blair, nonetheless, advised Realtor.com on Friday that the kennel was included and, regardless of having torn the construction down, has stored its door and window that include bullet holes from the June 2021 capturing.
Now, having evaluated the proof for himself, Blair instructed that Murdaugh was “too huge” to have fired the lethal pictures.
“[Murdaugh] is a giant man, he was even greater again then, and he’s too huge for the bullets to have gone via in the way in which that they did,” he advised the outlet.
Blair identified that Murdaugh, 65, was no saint however mentioned he doesn’t “assume [Murdaugh] did it.”
“Perhaps it was karma for different issues that he did,” he mentioned. “However I don’t assume he killed them.”
Whereas Blair, who’s from Rock Hill — over 150 miles from Moselle — mentioned he didn’t personally know Murdaugh, to a few of his new neighbors within the space who allegedly agree with him that the previous lawyer didn’t kill Maggie and Paul.
“Everybody on that highway is like, ‘No,’” he advised the outlet.
Blair additionally mentioned he has a set of keys and a keychain that after belonged to Maggie and that he’s holding onto them in case the household’s surviving son, Richard “Buster” Murdaugh, “needed it again … to have one thing of his mom’s.”
The property, which contained a whopping 1,700 acres when the Murdaugh household owned it, was bought by two businessmen, James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley, for $3.9 million in March 2023.
Nonetheless, months after shopping for the land, the companions selected to divide it and put the house and its surrounding 21 acres again available on the market for $1.95 million, the place Blair was capable of snag the property for $1 million, in keeping with Realtor.com.
Godley beforehand mentioned that he and Ayer had no use for the 5,275-square-foot dwelling and had been solely within the land for searching, farming, and timber.
Blair, a father of two, mentioned he plans to make use of the property as his “secondary residence” and hopes to take away the “unhealthy stigma” surrounding it.
“Dangerous issues have occurred on each property,” he mentioned, noting South Carolina was infamous for its plantation and “slave buying and selling.”
“However you might have a option to both deal with the destructive or to create a constructive narrative. And that’s what I need to do.”
Nonetheless, Blair says he has put in a pond on the grounds, put up horse fences, torn down the kennels, and demolished Murdaugh’s non-public airplane hangar as a part of the work.
He’s additionally in the midst of renovating the home “roof to subfloor,” together with including an extension to the already large dwelling.
Blair expects the work to be performed by mid-November.
Murdaugh has denied killing Maggie and Paul, regardless of a jury’s conviction.
He’s serving two life phrases for the double murders plus one other 27-year and 40-year sentences for monetary crimes.
