A roughly 21-acre property in Islandton, South Carolina, which includes a 5,275-square-foot home, has listed for sale asking $1.95 million, The Post has learned — and it’s part of a much larger parcel that comes with a tragic past.
Some six months following the $3.9 million sale of the 1,772-acre Murdaugh family hunting farm, where mother and son Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found shot dead in 2021 — ultimately becoming an unsolved murder case that rose to national notoriety — a portion of that property now seeks a new set of owners.
The Moselle Estate House, as described in its listing, has four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms and rustic-looking wooden interiors.
Local farmers James Ayer and Jeffrey Godley purchased the overall Moselle Farm site mere weeks after the family patriarch, and disgraced attorney, Alex Murdaugh was convicted of killing Maggie and Paul near the farm’s dog kennels. He was sentenced in March to two life terms for the double murder and maintained his innocence during the hearing.
The farm listed for sale a year earlier, in March 2022, for $3.9 million.
As The Post reported, Ayer and Godley were responsible for paying for eight tracts worth a total of $2.66 million — with Ayer noting they were unsure of plans for the property at that time. They will keep the remaining acres not currently listed for sale. Listing representative Todd Crosby of Crosby Land Company, who’s also repping this new listing for the Moselle Estate House, said neither Ayer nor Godley had any connection to the Murdaugh family, and that the sale had been delayed until all personal belongings inside the now-for-sale house had been cleared out.
(That said, hundreds of Murdaugh family belongings from inside the estate house were auctioned off in Georgia around the time of Ayer and Godley’s purchase. Items included lamps fashioned from turtle shells that sold between $500 and $800 apiece — as well as the brown leather couch on which Alex Murdaugh claimed he napped the night of the murders, which sold for $36,000.)
The for-sale Moselle Estate House may also be familiar to viewers of Netflix’s “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal,” now in its second season. It’s where the family’s longtime housekeeper, 57-year-old Gloria Satterfield, died in early 2018 in what was described as a slip-and-fall accident, which spawned its own investigations in the wake of the double homicide.
Now, it strongly appears the home and the nearly two dozen acres included in the offering aim for a new future. The columned white house stands at the end of a driveway lined with oak trees, and has front and back porches.
The mahogany front door opens to a two-story foyer with pine floors. A chef’s kitchen with a breakfast nook and industry-grade appliances opens to a family room with custom built-ins, crown molding and mahogany French doors that lead to the back porch.
The main-level primary bedroom has an ensuite bath with a Jacuzzi tub. Also on the main level, a recreation room suitable for billiards — which also has recessed lighting, custom built-ins and custom gun cabinets. The listing images additionally show a dining room, which is also fully clad in wood, and large windows.
The land, as is also seen in the marketing images, consists of open fields and mature woodlands, and is overall secluded. The listing notes this offering can be used as a family residence or a weekend residence, among other pursuits.
