‘He was lying’: The Murdaugh housekeeper reveals the moment she knew Alex killed his wife and son

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson spent more than ten years working as a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family. She cared deeply about them and never imagined Alex Murdaugh could harm anyone. When his wife Maggie and son Paul were killed in June 2021, she refused to believe Alex was responsible.

However, according to Fox News, strange details she noticed the day after the murders started to make her suspicious, and one specific clue eventually made her certain he was the killer. Turrubiate-Simpson recently spoke to media about what made her change her mind.

She also wrote a book with Mary Frances Weaver called Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship – Blanca and Maggie that comes out this month. In the book, she explains how she originally thought there was no way Alex could have done something so terrible, but after the shootings happened at the family’s Moselle estate in South Carolina, things just didn’t add up.

The moment that changed everything

The next morning, Turrubiate-Simpson saw several things that seemed wrong. Maggie’s Mercedes was parked somewhere she would never leave it. There were pajamas and an underwear set out in the doorway of the laundry room, but Maggie never wore underwear when she slept. “I knew automatically that wasn’t her,” Turrubiate-Simpson said. She found water on the floor in Alex’s bathroom, along with a towel and khaki pants that she had seen him wear the previous morning. 

The shirt he wore in a Snapchat video from that day was also missing. Several months later, Alex asked her if she remembered him wearing a Vineyard Vines shirt on the day his family died. She told him no because she remembered ironing a different shirt that was seafoam green. This made her feel like he was trying to create a false memory. She wrote in her book that she knew for certain at that point: “He was lying.”

The real breakthrough happened when she watched Alex’s murder trial in 2023. She saw footage from a police body camera that showed a beach towel sitting on the front seat of his car. This detail hit her hard because she had washed that exact towel earlier on the day of the murders, folded it carefully, and put it away on a tall shelf in the laundry room. There was no reason for it to be in his vehicle.

“When I saw that towel in his car, I said, ‘Oh my God. He did it,'” she told People. In her book, she suggests that Alex probably washed himself off with a hose near the kennels where the shootings happened. She thinks he either changed his clothes right there or went back to the house first. Her theory is that he grabbed the towel from the laundry room to dry off and maybe took a clean T-shirt that was hanging nearby.

Alex’s story to the police was that he had been asleep at the main house when the shootings occurred. He said he drove to his parents’ place in Varnville to see his father, who passed away just three days after the murders. 

According to Alex, he came back to Moselle around 10:07 at night, discovered his wife and son had been shot, and immediately called for help. While the Murdaugh case shocked the nation with its revelations of deception and hypocrisy in prominent families, this was not an isolated incident of powerful figures living contradictory lives.

All the little things Turrubiate-Simpson picked up on right after the murders, especially the towel in the car, finally convinced her that Alex had murdered his own family. What she saw and later shared became crucial evidence that helped prove he was guilty. For those looking for detailed guides on various topics, stories like these remind us how small observations can reveal larger truths.