What Did Murdaugh's Housekeeper Say At Maggie's Grave When The Conviction Was Thrown Out?
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Blanca Simpson reflects on her experiences with the Murdaugh family and the implications of the recent court ruling.
The South Carolina Supreme Court erased Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction, and Blanca Simpson didn't pick up her phone. She drove to Maggie's grave and sat in silence.For twenty years, Blanca wasn't just cleaning the Murdaugh house — she was holding its secrets. She was the person Maggie trusted enough to pull into a room and shut the door. The person who heard Maggie say she'd give everything she had to make the thirty-million-dollar lawsuit disappear. The person who knew, just by looking at a pair of folded pajamas, that something was deeply wrong the morning after the murders.Blanca testified for three hours in 2023. She told the jury what she saw. What she noticed. What Alex tried to get her to un-see months later when he brought up a shirt she knew he wasn't wearing. That testimony helped put him away for life. And now it exists in legal limbo — not because it was wrong, but because a court clerk named Becky Hill decided to put her thumb on the scale while writing a book about the trial.In this exclusive sit-down, Blanca opens up about what it felt like to hear the ruling. What she said to Maggie at the grave. How she holds two competing truths — that Alex is guilty and that…
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