Mysterious drone footage has revealed Alex Murdaugh‘s brother and son removing guns from the family hunting lodge three months after Maggie and Paul were killed.
In a new Netflix show released Wednesday video taken by an amateur sleuth shows John Marvin Murdaugh and Alex’s surviving son Buster removing eight weapons from the 1,800-acre estate in Moselle, South Carolina.
Eric Alan a local YouTuber said that he received a tip in September, 2021, that police were searching Moselle. It came after Murdaugh allegedly shot dead his wife Maggie, 52, and younger son Paul, 22, at the property on the night of June 7.
Alan put his drone up but believed he was too late because he could not see any cops. ‘It wasn’t until a few days later when I was going through the footage and seen what I got, that I noticed the guns. My first thought was “this is a big deal,”‘ he said.
There is no suggestion of anything improper in John Marvin and Buster’s actions.
John Marvin Murdaugh, Alex’s brothers, is seen removing two uncased rifles and taking them out to a truck at the hunting estate at Moselle three months after the murders
Buster and John Marvin Murdaugh at the kennels loading a dog and other gear into the truck
Buster, Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh at a family celebration at Lake Keowee in May 2021
On September, 13, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) announced it was investigating Murdaugh over his financial crimes.
He was arrested three days later and charged with fraud and conspiracy after his drug dealer cousin, Curtis ‘Eddie’ Smith, shot him in a botched suicide life insurance scam on September 4.
Murdaugh said he wanted to end his life after his wife and son’s murders because ‘all these things were coming to a head.’
He was arrested at a Florida rehab center and charged with swindling clients out of millions on October 14, 2021. He has been in jail ever since.
In the Netflix film, YouTuber Alan says: ‘I got the tip that they were executing a search warrant, and now I have footage of them unloading eight guns out of the house.
‘It clearly captured John Marvin carrying two uncased rifles out to the truck. They loaded up a few more things, drove over to the kennels, loaded up a hunting dog and a couple more things and then they left.
‘John Marvin and Buster, it could be them going on a hunting trip. I’m not sure, you know, knowing that a double homicide had recently occurred on that property and there were Murdaughs taking guns off of the property, not the officials, it can obviously lead someone to speculate.
‘Maybe one of these firearms or some of these firearms were pieces of evidence that could be used against the Murdaugh family in some capacity.’
The Netflix docuseries is currently trending at number 2 as the most watched show on their platform in the US. It also features harrowing testimony from Paul Murdaugh’s ex-girlfriend, Morgan Doughty, who describes how he would beat her and was frequently drunk.
At the time of Paul and Maggie’s deaths, Murdaugh was being sued by the family of 19-year-old Mallory Beach after she was killed while Paul was drunk at the wheel of his father’s boat in February 2019.
Prosecutors say that the wrongful death lawsuit put Murdaugh in financial peril and that he was already millions in debt after getting in over his head while stealing more than $10m from clients and partners at his law firm.
The documentary includes allegations that Murdaugh visited the hospital after the boat wreck and pressured the surviving teenagers to lie about who was driving his boat.
The pair are seen packing up the truck in the drone footage before driving down to the kennels and loading up more kit
John Marvin Murdaugh taking firearms out of the Moselle property and loading them into the back of the truck
Alex’s son Buster, his girlfriend Brooklynn White, and Alex’s brother John Marvin arrive at court Friday
Murdaugh bought two .300 Blackout rifles (pictured) as Christmas presents for his sons Buster and Paul in 2016. Paul lost his gun and a replacement rifle, a third .300 Blackout, was bought in April 2018. Neither the lost gun or its replacement have ever been accounted for
SLED agent Jeff Croft holds the only .300 Blackout rifle recovered from the Murdaugh estate – two others remain unaccounted for
MURDAUGH GUN CABINET: During his interview with cops, Murdaugh said that there were probably 25 guns on the estate. He said that in addition to the camo shotgun officers took off him when they arrived there were ‘all kinds of rifles.’ He added: ‘I mean you name ’em, we have ’em’
Paul was shot twice with a shotgun, while Maggie was shot five times with an assault rifle loaded with .300 Blackout.
Neither murder weapon has ever been identified. However, jurors have heard about two .300 Blackout rifles owned by the Murdaughs that are unaccounted for.
Murdaugh bought two .300 Blackout rifles as Christmas presents for his two sons Buster and Paul in 2016. Paul lost his gun and a replacement rifle, a third .300 Blackout, was bought in April 2018.
The State says it is possible that one of those missing rifles could have been used to kill Maggie.
Regarding the shotgun, several 12-gauge guns were seized by cops.
However, testing on the weapons was not conclusive. Experts said the evidence can neither include or exclude the shotguns as the murder weapon.
Murdaugh told cops that Paul had a tendency to have his belongings ‘strung out’ everywhere, including guns.
‘He would leave anything anywhere, and it was not unusual for there to be guns out there,’ he told detectives on June 10, 2021 – three days after the murders.
On the night of the killings Maggie was found face down after being shot five times, according to a report by forensics expert Kenneth Kinsey.
He suggested three of the shots hit her while she was standing.
Two of the shots would have been instantly fatal, piercing her brain. One of those shots passed through her left breast, the other was fired into the back of her head.
One of those bullets hit her while she was ‘holding herself up on her knees and … her right hand with her shoulders and head down.’
Two of the family dogs – who appear to be Bubba and Maggie – based on descriptions in court – are seen in the kennels on the Moselle Road property on June 7, 2021 when Alex Murdaugh’s wife Maggie and son Paul Murdaugh were shot and killed
The family’s Labradors were still locked in the kennels on the sprawling hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina, when law enforcement arrived on the night of the double murder
Paul was also found face down. He was first hit in the chest from ‘several feet away’, leaving him standing and heading for a door, before a second shot in the neck and shoulder blew out his brain.
‘Brain was severed and exited through the anatomical right side of (his) head. … Brain was completely detached from (his) head,’ Kinsey said.
Murdaugh denies the murders and says he was visiting his elderly mother at the time of the killings.
The alleged killer told cops he was only ever at the murder scene after Maggie and Paul were shot dead. But he admitted yesterday for the first time that he lied because his opioid addiction made him paranoid.
Murdaugh’s new story is that he was there briefly but then went back to the house a minute after a video taken by Paul at 8.45pm which proves his father was with the 22-year-old and his mother at the kennels on the hunting estate in Moselle, SC.
But the disgraced legal scion today claimed that ‘other than lying about going to the kennel, I was cooperative about every aspect of this investigation.’
Prosecutor Creighton Waters hit back: ‘Very cooperative except for the most important fact of all – that you were with the victims just moments before they died.’
Murdaugh claims he drove back up to the main house in a golf cart around a minute after a video taken by Paul at the kennels at 8.45 which proves he was at the scene.
But the State argues that by that time they were already dead – brutally executed shortly after 8.49pm when their phones ‘locked forever.’
Waters said he drove to his mother’s home afterwards in order to ‘manufacture an alibi.’
Murdaugh told jurors: ‘I never manufactured an alibi in any way shape or form because I would not and did not harm my wife and child.’
The disgraced legal scion, 54, told cops he had never been at the kennels that night but yesterday admitted he had lied because his opioid addiction made him paranoid . Murdaugh’s new story is that he was at the kennels briefly but then went back up to the main house around a minute after Paul took a video at 8.45pm that proves he was at the murder scene
Alex Murdaugh’s son Buster with his girlfriend Brooklynn White, along with Alex’s siblings Lynn and John Marvin Murdaugh going into the Colleton County Court, South Carolina, on Friday
Paul, Maggie and Buster Murdaugh on a family holiday
The prosecutor tore into Murdaugh over his cell phone data, including calls and a flurry a footsteps after after prosecutors say he shot his wife and son dead.
Waters questioned why there were no foot steps for an hour after 8.09pm – covering the window of time during which the State says he killed his wife and son.
But then at 9.02pm, ‘you become a very busy bee,’ Waters told the disbarred attorney.
Murdaugh’s iPhone recorded 70 steps a minute for a total of 283 steps, three times faster than his normal pace.
Before leaving to Almeda he left Maggie missed calls and a text saying he was going to visit his mother.
Waters asked why he didn’t simply just take the short trip down to the kennels and tell her he was going.
Murdaugh responded: ‘There was no reason to … that’s simply me letting them know that I’m leaving for a minute, and I’ll be back.’
Describing why he lied to cops on Thursday, Murdaugh told jurors: ‘I don’t think I was capable of reason and I lied about being down there and I am so sorry that I did. I am sorry to my son Buster, I am sorry to Grandpa, Papa T (Maggie’s father) … most of all I am sorry to Mags and PawPaw.’
‘I would never intentionally do anything to hurt either of them. Ever. Ever,’ he sobbed. ‘I didn’t shoot my wife or son, ever.’
Murdaugh said: ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave. Once I told a lie, and I told my family, I had to keep lying.’
