Inside the House of Murdaugh

Everyone reported on the Murdaugh murders from the outside. This is the story from within.

For twenty-one years, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson was more than the Murdaugh family's housekeeper-she was Maggie's closest confidante, a witness to the family's private moments, and the keeper of secrets no outsider could access. She fixed Alex's collar on the morning of June 7, 2021. She cooked the last meal Maggie and Paul would ever eat. And she was the first person Alex called after he murdered them.

When Alex asked Blanca to clean the house the next morning, she walked into a crime scene frozen in lies. Pots stuffed in the refrigerator when they should have been on the stove. Maggie's pajamas folded with underwear she never wore to bed. A damp beach towel that shouldn't exist. Khaki pants-the same ones Alex wore that morning-wet in the laundry. To investigators, these were meaningless details. To someone who knew the family intimately, they were a confession written in the language of daily life.

Drawing on Blanca's testimony, insider knowledge, and unique observations alongside extensive research and trial records, Karen R Allen reveals the story no journalist sitting in the courtroom could tell. The small details that exposed the lies. The conversations that revealed motive. The evidence hidden in plain sight that only an insider would recognize.

The truth about the Murdaugh murders wasn't found in the courtroom alone. It was waiting in the details of daily life.