Buyer of Alex Murdaugh’s murder house claims he’s found evidence proving convicted killer is innocent: ‘I don’t think he killed them’

The man who bought nan location wherever Alex Murdaugh murdered his woman and son has made a shocking declare that he uncovered a important portion of grounds proving nan disgraced South Carolina lawyer is an guiltless man.

Alexander Wallace Blair purchased nan sprawling 4-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom Moselle Estate House and its 21-acre spot successful Islandton, SC, for $1 cardinal successful an auction successful February 2024 and has since begun renovating nan home.

Murdaugh received 2 life sentences without parole past twelvemonth for nan 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, 52, and son, Paul, 22, aft crime segment experts wished he ambushed them astatine nan estate’s canine kennels — believed to person not been included erstwhile nan spot was bought astatine auction.

Blair, however, told Realtor.com connected Friday that nan kennel was included and, contempt having torn nan building down, has kept its doorway and model that incorporate slug holes from nan June 2021 shooting.

Now, having evaluated nan grounds for himself, Blair suggested that Murdaugh was “too big” to person fired nan deadly shots.

“[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 that they did,” he told nan outlet.

Blair pointed retired that Murdaugh, 65, was nary saint but said he doesn’t “think [Murdaugh] did it.”

“Maybe it was karma for different things that he did,” he said. “But I don’t deliberation he killed them.”

While Blair, who’s from Rock Hill — complete 150 miles from Moselle — said he didn’t personally cognize Murdaugh, to immoderate of his caller neighbors successful nan area who allegedly work together pinch him that nan erstwhile lawyer did not termination Maggie and Paul.

“Everyone connected that roadworthy is like, ‘No,’” he told nan outlet.

Blair besides said he has a group of keys and a keychain that erstwhile belonged to Maggie and that he’s holding onto them successful lawsuit nan family’s surviving son, Richard “Buster” Murdaugh, “wanted it backmost … to person thing of his mother’s.”

The estate, which contained a whopping 1,700 acres erstwhile nan Murdaugh family owned it, was purchased by 2 businessmen, James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley, for $3.9 cardinal successful March 2023.

However, months aft buying nan land, nan partners chose to disagreement it and put nan location and its surrounding 21 acres backmost connected nan marketplace for $1.95 million, wherever Blair was capable to snag nan spot for $1 million, according to Realtor.com.

Godley antecedently said that he and Ayer had nary usage for nan 5,275-square-foot location and were only willing successful nan onshore for hunting, farming, and timber.

Blair, a begetter of two, said he plans to usage nan property arsenic his “secondary residence” and hopes to region nan “bad stigma” surrounding it.

“Bad things person happened connected each property,” he said, noting South Carolina was notorious for its plantation and “slave trading.”

“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.”

Nevertheless, Blair says he has installed a pond connected nan grounds, put up equine fences, torn down nan kennels, and demolished Murdaugh’s backstage airplane hangar arsenic portion of nan work.

He is besides successful nan mediate of renovating nan location “roof to subfloor,” including adding an hold to nan already monolithic home.

Blair expects nan activity to beryllium done by mid-November. 

Murdaugh has denied sidesplitting Maggie and Paul, despite a jury’s conviction.

He is serving 2 life position for nan double murders plus different 27-year and 40-year sentences for financial crimes.