A Georgia woman found previously unseen photos of convicted killer Alex Murdaugh in a stack of cameras and memory cards being sold at an auction of the family’s belongings last week.
Dawn Martin, of Savannah, went to the Liberty Auction sale in Pembroke last Thursday out of curiosity and picked up several items from the Murdaugh family’s infamous Moselle estate.
“I had followed the case very closely,” she told WTOC.
The items – a camera bag containing two cameras and several memory cards – came from the Colleton County, SC property featured prominently in Murdaugh’s murder trial.
“I didn’t really know what a SIM card or memory card was,” she explained.
Martin then took the electronic equipment home and uploaded the images onto her computer.
The memory cards, she found, were loaded with photos from Murdaugh’s family vacations.
“Alex, with his arm around driving the boat, pictures of Paul holding up deer, hogs that he apparently had shot, pictures of vacations,” she recalled.
Martin publicly shared just two of the images: one showing Maggie Murdaugh posing with an unknown woman on vacation, and another of Alex in a scuba mask underwater. She is still deciding what to do with the rest of the photos.
She recalled the emotional moment she looked through the collection for the first time.
“I will say that it has changed me,” Martin said about the find.
“I can’t unsee it. I never imagined that I would be the owner of the things and hide a glimpse into the private view of their life.
“The images told a story. There were so many of them. And to guess that looking at a novel and knowing the outcome and what that outcome became and how shocked I was myself.”
Murdaugh, a 54-year-old disgraced South Carolina lawyer, was convicted earlier this month of gunning down his wife, and son in the property’s kennels in June 2021.
Martin, who is a domestic violence survivor, said she is especially moved by the opportunity to learn more about Maggie Murdaugh.
“She was the forgotten victim in this story and I feel honored that I saw [the pictures of her],” she said of the mother of two, who was 52 years old when her husband shot her alongside their son.
The unseen photos are just a few of the many items picked up at the Moselle auction.
The leather sectional set that Alex Murdaugh claimed he was resting on when his wife and son were killed, for example, was scooped up for an eye-watering $36,000.
Other Murdaugh memorabilia — including a crossbow and other hunting gear — has already been resold for hefty prices on eBay.
The proceeds from the sale will reportedly go toward paying off Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers and creditors as he awaits trial for a slew of financial crimes.
