'I KNEW HE DID IT'

SHE WORKED FOR THE NOTORIOUS KILLER FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES. NOW BLANCA TURRUBIATE-SIMPSON REVEALS WHAT SHE SAW IN A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE MURDAUGH MURDERS

- K.C. BAKER,AMANDA GREENE

1. Alex asked Simpson to return to Moselle on the morning after the murders to clean the house.

2. A photo reconstruction of Maggie's pajamas on the floor.

3. Maggie's final text messages to Simpson.

4. A towel from the house that Simpson spotted in video of Alex's SUV.

As the housekeeper for attorney Alex Murdaugh and his family in Hampton, S.C., Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson paid attention to detail. She knew, for instance, that Alex liked his polo shirts hung with the collars turned up and his bed made with pressed sheets.

So she was taken aback when he pointedly told her weeks after his wife, Maggie, 52, and their youngest son, Paul, 22, were shot to death at the family’s hunting lodge that he was wearing a Vineyard Vines shirt on the day of the killings, June 7, 2021. Simpson uttered, “Okay,” in response, but she was deeply troubled, having vividly remembered that Alex was wearing a different shirt that day because she had straightened the collar for him. “One thing was for sure,” recalls Simpson, 58. “He was lying.”

Until then, Simpson had remained loyal to Alex, her employer of nearly two decades. But Simpson began to reconsider what she had witnessed inside the household before and after the crimes prior to appearing before a grand jury in 2021 and later testifying for the prosecution at Alex’s 2023 murder trial. Alex was convicted of murder and received two consecutive life sentences. In a separate federal case he pleaded guilty to 22 counts of fraud and money laundering and was sentenced to an additional 40 years in prison. (He’s appealing the murder conviction.)