Murdaugh Housewife Reveals What She Saw Convinced Alex Was The Killer (Exclusive)

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• As one of the Murdaughs’ longtime housekeepers, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson knew the family and its habits better than most

• She didn’t want to believe that Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son in June 2021

• Knowing the family as well as she does, when she saw the video of the common household item in Alex’s suburbs, she thought, “He did it,” she tells PEOPLE.

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson had no idea who shot and killed Maggie and Paul Murdaugh at their Islandton, SC, hunting lodge in 2021. June 7 the shocking murders came to light.

Simpson, who started working for Alex in 2002, then a lawyer, helping him with Spanish-speaking clients and became the family’s housekeeper in 2007, saw him on the day of the murders when he left for work.

Loyal to a boss who has always treated her well, Simpson believes Alex when he says early on that he believes Paul and Maggie were killed by a vigilante out of revenge for 2019. slain 19-year-old Mallory Beach, who died when Paul crashed his boat while drunk.

“There was no universe in which Alex could have committed these crimes,” Simpson writes in her new memoir. At the Murdaugh House: Between Blanca and Maggie’s Unique Friendshippublished this month and co-authored by Mary Frances Weaver.

But as time went on, she began to see disturbing cracks in Alex’s story. A US Navy veteran and former correctional officer discovers disturbing details that point to her normally friendly, fun-loving boss as the killer.

The day after the murders, she noticed unusual things at the hunting lodge in Mosel. Maggie’s Mercedes SUV was parked in the wrong place – something she never did. Her pajamas were placed on the laundry room floor, which Simpson thought was odd. “I automatically knew it wasn’t her,” Simpson tells PEOPLE.

She believed that someone else had moved Maggie’s SUV and arranged her pajamas so that she planned to sleep in Moselle on the night of the murders, which Maggie had no intention of doing. But at the time, she didn’t know what it could be.

Things started looking up for her in 2021. in August when Alex sat her down and told her he was wearing a different shirt the night of the murders.

“You remember what I wore that day,” she remembers him telling her. “You know, the Vinny Vines (Vineyard Vines) shirt.

It was a short-lived blow for her; She remembered him wearing a different shirt, because she straightened his collar before leaving for work.

“One thing was certain,” Simpson writes. “He lied.”

Even after Alex was arrested that fall for a series of financial crimes, and then in 2022. in July — for the murders, Simpson says he hoped he was somehow innocent.

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Her “aha” moment about his guilt came after 2023. January began his high-profile murder case when she saw police body camera footage from the first responding officer at the scene.

In the video, Alex is standing next to his Suburban. Inside the car, Simpson saw a beach towel on the front seat. “I looked at the towel and said, ‘Oh my God. He did,” she tells PEOPLE.

Alex told police he was sleeping in the main house in Mosel when Maggie and Paul were shot. He said he went to his parents’ home in nearby Varnville to check on his father, 81-year-old Randolph Murdaugh, who died three days after the murders.

Alex said when he returned to Mosel at 10:07 p.m., he found the bodies of his wife and son and called 911.

Earlier, in 2021 on June 7, Simpson washed, dried and folded that towel, placing it high on a shelf in the laundry room.

In the book, she speculates that Alex dropped by the kennels and changed there or went back home.

Alex, she speculates in the book, “went to the laundry room, grabbed a towel to finish drying off, and maybe grabbed a freshly washed T-shirt hanging there.”

He was wearing that shirt when he called 911 and was seen talking to an officer on body camera footage.

She says she believes the towel he used to clean up after the murders and that it may have had DNA evidence on it.

Like the shirt he had on the day of the murders, the towel disappeared after the night of June 7. “What happened to that towel?” she asks.

What completely confirmed to Simpson that Alex killed Maggie and Paul was the alarming cell phone video shown at trial that Paul had taken at 8:44 p.m. registered his friend’s dog in a kennel.

In the video, Alex can be heard saying, “Come here, Bubba,” in the background as the family’s Labrador retriever had a chicken in his mouth.

As a result, Alex ended up at the scene of the crime right before the murders.

On the stand, Alex admitted that yes, he was there. He said he lied because his opioid addiction made him paranoid.

This did not faze the jury, who took three hours to decide on the 2023 in March, he would be found guilty of murdering two people Simpson cared about so much.

He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was later found guilty of a series of financial crimes and is appealing his conviction for murder.

“I have a lot of good memories of Maggie,” Simpson tells PEOPLE of her former employer-turned-dear friend.

She adds, “And Paul was my heart.”

At the Murdaugh House: Between Blanca and Maggie’s Unique Friendship can already be pre-ordered.

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