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A true crime fan was astonished to find hundreds of never-before-seen vacation photos of the Murdaugh family on a memory card she bought at auction.
Dawn Martin, who had 'closely followed' the Murdaugh case, said the shots showed Alex driving the family boat and Paul holding up dear and hogs that he had just killed.
Martin invested in several items at the auction but claimed she 'didn't really know' what a memory card was or that it would hold such an intimate glance into the family's life.
She has shared only two photos - one of Maggie on holiday and another of Alex in a scuba diving mask - while waiting to decide what to do with the rest.
Last week the Liberty Auction House in Pembroke, Georgia, auctioned off a whole host of items from the Murdaugh family's 1,800-acre site where patriarch Alex murdered his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, on June 7, 2021.
A photo of Alex Murdaugh scuba diving was one of the hundreds of never-before-seen photos of the family found on a memory card sold at auction last week
A shot of Maggie enjoying herself on vacation was also found on the old cards
Yesterday it was revealed the Murdaugh hunting lodge was sold for $2.6 million to two buyers - a downgrade from the $3.9 million it was listed for.
Martin, who lives in Pembroke, said she decided to visit the auction after realizing how close it was to her home.
'I had followed the case very closely. I had the day off and decided to, since it was so close, I was very surprised to have it in Pembroke, Georgia,' she told WTOC 11.
'The most important for me was this camera bag that was said to have had information of SIM cards.'
She bought two cameras and a bag of memory cards that she took home and uploaded to her computer.
She insisted she had expected to see 'nothing' on the cards, adding 'I didn't really know what a SIM card or memory card was.'
However they were filled with hundreds of photos from Murdaugh family vacations.
She explained: 'Alex, with his arm around driving the boat, pictures of Paul holding up dear, hogs that he apparently had shot, pictures of vacations.
Dawn Martin said she had 'very closely' followed the Murdaugh case. She bought several items at auction including two cameras and a bag of memory cards
Martin said she 'didn't really know' what a memory card was and was expecting to find nothing on the devices
'I will say that it has changed me. I can't unsee it. I never imagined that I would be owner of the things and hide a glimpse into the private view of their life.'
She added: 'The images told a story. There