
When the South Carolina Supreme Court erased Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, the woman who knew Maggie best drove straight to her grave without calling a single person first. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson spent twenty years inside the Murdaugh household. She wasn't staff. She was family. Maggie's right hand. The person Maggie cried to behind closed doors when Alex's financial world was collapsing and she didn't understand why. Blanca fixed Alex's collar the morning of June 7th, 2021. She remembered the shirt. She found the wet towel by the shower the next day. She told all of it to a jury that convicted him in three hours. Then Becky Hill — a court clerk writing a book about the trial while it was still happening — placed her fingers on the scales of justice. Five Supreme Court justices said that was enough to erase everything. In her first interview since the conviction was overturned, Blanca talks about what she said to Maggie at the gravesite. Whether she can respect the court's decision and still believe Alex is guilty. What Becky Hill took from the people who loved Maggie and Paul. And whether she's the same witness she was in 2023 — or whether three years of processing what she saw has changed what she's ready to say. Then the question nobody wants to ask out loud. If Alex Murdaugh didn't pull the trigger that night — who did? Jennifer Coffindaffer built and broke cases like this for a career. She strips the name off the file and looks at what's left. Two people shot at the dog kennels on a remote property. Two different guns — a shotgun and a rifle — and neither was ever found. No blood on the man the prosecution pointed at for six weeks. The defense long argued no single shooter could have done it the way the state claimed. Paul's earlier legal troubles — including a boat crash that killed a young woman — left a trail of grudges worth examining. This isn't about whether Alex is a good man. It's about whether the murder case survives a second look. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MaggieMurdaugh #PaulMurdaugh #MurdaughRetrial #BeckyHill #JenniferCoffindaffer #SCSupremeCourt #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime

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