Man who bought Alex Murdaugh's murder home claims he found bombshell piece of evidence that proves convicted killer is innocent

The man who purchased nan South Carolina location wherever one-time socialite Alex Murdaugh changeable dormant his woman and boy has claimed he has grounds that proves nan erstwhile lawyer is innocent.

Alex Blair, of Rock Hill, bought Murdaugh's Islandton property for $1million successful February, and has since embarked connected a 'roof to subfloor' renewal of nan house, including an hold to 1 broadside of nan property, Realtor reports. 

He now says he is successful possession of nan kennel doorway and model that incorporate slug holes from nan June 2021 shooting, which he claims proves Alex Murdaugh did not kill his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul.

The South Carolina patriarch received 2 life sentences without parole past twelvemonth for their murders, aft crime segment experts wished he ambushed Paul successful nan kennels and changeable him doubly earlier shooting Maggie 5 times moreover arsenic she fell to her knees.

But Blair, who has had nan kennel torn down but retained its door, said nan placement of nan slug holes propose Murdaugh did not termination them.

'[Murdaugh] is simply a large man, he was moreover bigger backmost then, and he's excessively large for nan bullets to person gone done successful nan measurement they did,' he explained.

'Maybe it was karma for different things that he did,' Blair said of Murdaugh's conviction. 'But I don't deliberation he killed them.'

He went connected to statement that galore of nan locals who unrecorded connected nan thoroughfare wherever nan Moselle Estate House is located work together pinch him that nan erstwhile lawyer is not blameworthy of nan murders, and said nan logic he bought nan property was is because 'I don't deliberation [Murdaugh] did it.'

Blair besides revealed he has a group of keys and keychains that erstwhile belonged to Maggie.

He said he is holding connected to them successful lawsuit Murdaugh's surviving son, Richard 'Buster' Murdaugh, 'wanted it back... to person thing of his mother's.'

Following Murdaugh's arrest, his 1,700 Islandton hunting lodge was purchased by 2 businessmen for $3.9million successful March 2023.

But a fewer months later, James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley, chose to carve up nan onshore and put nan location and its surrounding 21 acres backmost connected nan marketplace for $1.95million.

Godley explained astatine nan clip that he and Ayer had nary usage for nan location itself and were only willing successful nan land, which they planned to usage for hunting, farming and timber.

He noted that they were some locals successful nan area and wanted to guarantee nan homebuyer would beryllium a bully neighbor.

'I americium a next-door neighbor, pinch our location astir a mile from this house, he said.' 

'We activity a caller neighbour to bask this gorgeous location and land.'

The listing astatine nan clip suggested that nan location could beryllium utilized arsenic a 'family residence aliases compound,' a tract for 'equestrian pursuits,' a imaginable 'hobby farm' aliases 'weekend retreat destination.'

Blair, a father-if-two, now plans to usage nan location arsenic a 'secondary residence,' arsenic he owns a hunting compartment conscionable 20 minutes distant from nan family estate.

He explained he wanted to guarantee that immoderate different homes he adds to his spot portfolio is adjacent capable to nan location truthful that his family tin move betwixt nan 2 without disrupting his children's lives excessively much. 

He said he hopes nan activity he is carrying retired connected nan residence will region nan 'bad stigma' that surrounds it, noting he wants to alteration nan home's communicative successful a 'positive way.'

Since purchasing nan property, Blair installed a pond connected nan grounds, put up equine fences, torn down nan kennels and torn down and replaced Murdaugh's backstage airplane hangar.

He besides hired 2 onshore managers to guarantee nan the spot remains 'clean and organized' and is renting retired a greenhouse connected nan onshore to a sheriff's lawman from nan section area.

When asked astir his determination to widen nan location pinch an addition, Blair said it was simply his 'obsessive' desire to make it 'symmetrical.'

That is now nan last portion of nan location that needs to beryllium completed, which Blair expects to beryllium done by mid-November. 

He added that anyone would beryllium hard-pressed to find a spot successful South Carolina's Lowcountry without a blemish.

'Every spot successful Lowcountry has a history,' Blair said. 

'One bad point astir our authorities is that enslaved trading happened here,' he continued.

'Bad things person happened connected each property. But you person a prime to either attraction connected nan antagonistic aliases to create a affirmative narrative. And that's what I want to do.' 

The murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh shocked South Carolina, wherever nan family were well known arsenic a governmental and ineligible dynasty.

Members of nan family had served arsenic solicitor and territory lawyer for nan Low Country region for 85 consecutive years.

But prosecutors claimed that connected nan time of nan murders, Murdaugh had been confronted astir $792,000 that had gone 'missing' from a caller case.

In nan consequent months it would beryllium revealed that he had stolen much than $10m from clients and partners astatine his firm.

Jurors besides heard gruesome grounds of really Paul's encephalon was blown retired nan backmost of his caput by a adjacent scope blast of alloy buckshot from a 12-gauge shotgun. 

He past changeable his woman Maggie pinch a .300 Blackout firearm from yards away, pinch slug wounds to her thigh, wrist, torso and head. 

The last changeable was fired into nan backmost of her caput arsenic she laic look down connected nan crushed erstwhile she was already dead. 

Prosecutors besides claimed that bodycam footage showed Murdaugh already lying astir nan past clip he saw his woman and son.

He then paid his erstwhile supplier trader and accomplice to sprout him successful nan caput truthful his surviving boy could declare an security payout, nan prosecutors said.

Still, Alex has fiercely denied executing his woman and boy and sensationally took nan guidelines to take sides himself against his ain lawyers' advice.

He wept arsenic he admitted to jurors that he had lied astir being astatine nan crime segment minutes earlier they were slain - but blamed his paranoia brought connected a crippling opioid wont and a mistrust of nan police. 

Murdaugh said: 'I would ne'er intentionally do thing to wounded either of them. Ever. Ever,' he sobbed. 'I didn't sprout my woman aliases son, ever.'

Murdaugh claimed he recovered nan bodies of his woman and boy aft returning location from a sojourn to his parents.

His attorneys person since tried to entreaty his conviction, arguing that tribunal clerk Becky Hill told jurors 'not to beryllium fooled by him', successful a bid to unafraid his condemnation truthful she could make money from a book astir nan case.

Their claims of 'unprecedented assemblage tampering' were rejected by Judge Jean Toal successful January, but that determination has now been overturned by nan Supreme Court which will now see whether he should beryllium granted a retrial.

Yet even if Murdaugh is yet granted a caller execution trial, he will still service 40 years successful situation for stealing millions of dollars from clients of his rule firm, a reward that will beryllium served astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic his 27-year condemnation for his abstracted authorities fraud convictions .

The 40-year condemnation is to beryllium held consecutively pinch nan disgraced lawyer's brace of life sentences for nan murders of his family members.