Paul Murdaugh Kept Mallory Beach’s Obituary in His Truck — What Nobody Else Saw
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Paul Murdaugh kept Mallory Beach’s obituary tucked into the door frame of his truck. Every time he climbed in, it was right there. Blanca Simpson saw it because she’d been inside the Murdaugh home for fifteen years and knew things about that family the cameras and courtrooms never captured. In this interview with Tony Brueski, Blanca tells the story of who the Murdaughs actually were behind the front door — and why the public version doesn’t match what she witnessed.
She goes back to the beginning — meeting Alex in the late ’90s, translating for his cases, and eventually becoming the family’s housekeeper after the real estate crash left her between jobs. Over the years, the relationship deepened from cleaning to running the household, cashing checks, and becoming someone Maggie trusted enough to confide in when Alex wouldn’t give her the full truth about a $30 million lawsuit bearing down on the family.
Blanca challenges the public image of both Maggie and Paul. She describes Maggie as the opposite of the cold socialite in a fur coat — loud, funny, generous, and always shopping local to support the community. She remembers Paul’s humor and his arrogance in equal measure, but insists the version the media handed the public after the boating incident erased the person he actually was.
She reveals the private fractures: Maggie wanting to sell everything to make things right while Alex wouldn’t sit down long enough to explain the situation. The joke about Maggie divorcing Alex for Tom Brady that got twisted into a serious rumor. And the two months before the murders when Alex started retreating — staying in bed, showing up late, carrying something nobody around him could fully see.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big breakdown. |
| 0:02.2 | A long look back at some of the biggest stories we're covering for you at the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today. |
| 0:09.2 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:12.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:15.5 | Forever 15 years, Blanca Simpson was the housekeeper for one of the most powerful families in the South |
| 0:21.6 | Carolina low country, the Murdoz. She cleaned their home, she ran their errands, she became a |
| 0:28.2 | part of their inner circle. And on June 7th of 2021, she was one of the last people to see |
| 0:34.4 | Alec Murdoch before his wife Maggie and son Paul were gunned down at the |
| 0:38.8 | family's Moselle hunting property. Now Blanca is speaking out, not just about the murders, but about |
| 0:44.5 | the family she thought she knew. The red flags, she says, investigators ignored and her own |
| 0:50.5 | theory about what really happened that night. This is part of my five-part interview, part one, with Blanca Simpson. |
| 0:59.8 | In this first segment, we'll go back to the beginning, |
| 1:03.0 | how she first crossed paths with Alec Murdoch in the late 1990s, |
| 1:08.2 | how she eventually became the family's trusted housekeeper and who Maggie |
| 1:12.3 | and Paul Murdoch really were behind closed doors. Let's get into it. Well, Blanca, take me back |
| 1:20.4 | to 2002, back when you started working with Alec at PMPED and and then how you transitioned to |
| 1:29.2 | become the Murdof family housekeeper in 2007 those those initial days what was |
| 1:34.6 | life like for you and what was the world like as you entered into the orbit of the |
| 1:39.0 | Murdoz I met him in the late 90s. Like I said, a friend of mine needed, she basically needed a new attorney |
| 1:53.5 | because the agency that she had hired was not doing her, was not helping her out with what she needed. |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah. |
| 2:03.7 | And I told her that I was going to help her find an attorney. |
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