What Alex Murdaugh’s Housekeeper Heard Him Say BEFORE The Murders In Private!
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
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Summary
Maggie Murdaugh told her housekeeper she would have sold everything — the house, the land, all of it — to settle the $30 million lawsuit and make things right for the families involved. Alex wouldn’t even give her a straight answer about where the money stood. Blanca Simpson heard both sides of that conversation because she’d spent fifteen years inside the Murdaugh home, trusted enough to be in the room when the walls started closing in.
In this interview with Tony Brueski, Blanca opens up about the family she knew versus the family the public was given. She traces her relationship with the Murdaughs from a chance meeting with Alex in the late ’90s through the years she spent embedded in their household — cleaning, running errands, cashing checks, and becoming someone Maggie leaned on when Alex wouldn’t give her the full picture.
Blanca describes a Maggie the media never showed — casual, generous, loud, and funny. A woman who supported local businesses and made friends with everyone she crossed paths with. She remembers Paul as a jokester who carried Mallory Beach’s obituary in his truck and thought about her every day, long after the coverage moved on and the public reduced him to his worst moment.
She details Alex’s behavioral shift in the months before the murders — retreating into bed, arriving late to work, carrying the weight of a dying father and mounting legal exposure while shielding everyone around him from the truth. She dismantles the divorce rumor by tracing it to a joke about Maggie leaving Alex for Tom Brady that someone overheard and twisted into something it never was.
And she walks through the morning of June 7th, 2021 — the last ordinary morning before the Murdaugh name became something else entirely.
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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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