Murdaugh family housekeeper says white truck ‘haunts’ her from night of murders years after

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The Murdaugh family’s longtime housekeeper, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson, said a achromatic pickup motortruck inactive "haunts" her years aft the brutal Lowcountry murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.

Her book, "Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship," co-authored with Mary Frances Weaver, chronicles not lone her adjacent narration with Maggie Murdaugh but besides the details surrounding the nighttime Maggie and her lad Paul were killed.

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital, Turrubiate-Simpson discussed the infinitesimal that inactive troubles her much than 4 years later, including a achromatic pickup motortruck she saw adjacent the family’s spot disconnected Moselle Road successful Colleton County, South Carolina. The spot was known simply arsenic "Moselle."

"The portion that truly haunts me," she said, "was not looking into that achromatic motortruck that was parked retired determination by the hangar."

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson answers questions from authoritative   John Meadors

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson answers questions from authoritative John Meadors during Alex Murdaugh's proceedings for execution astatine the Colleton County Courthouse connected Friday, Feb. 10, 2023.  (Joshua Boucher/Pool via USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn)

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She recalled that she initially assumed it belonged to Paul and felt nary crushed to cheque it.

"When I heard grounds during the proceedings wherever they specified that Paul’s telephone was dinging successful Okatie, I said, well, who was driving that truck? Who was driving the achromatic truck? The achromatic F-150? That’s 1 of the main ones that bothers me."

Alex Murdaugh arrives successful  tribunal  successful  Beaufort

Disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh arrives successful tribunal successful Beaufort, S.C. Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

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Turrubiate-Simpson said she has often replayed that infinitesimal successful her mind, wondering wherefore she felt compelled to permission the spot done a antithetic gross alternatively than thrust past the kennels.

Maggie and Paul were recovered dormant adjacent canine kennels astatine the family’s home, constabulary said. The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office said some victims suffered aggregate gunshot wounds.

"Perhaps it was similar a divine involution oregon thing that said, ‘No, you request to spell retired the different gate,’" she said. "I wasn’t disquieted due to the fact that the motortruck looked conscionable similar Paul’s truck, truthful it wasn’t a reddish emblem then."

A broadside  presumption    of the location   astatine  the Murdaugh Moselle property

A broadside presumption of the location astatine the Murdaugh Moselle spot connected Wednesday, March 1, 2023, successful Islandton, South Carolina. (Andrew J. Whitaker/Pool via USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn)

In the book, Turrubiate-Simpson shares respective tiny inconsistencies connected the spot the greeting aft the murders that lone a longtime confidant would catch.

She told Fox News Digital that Maggie’s car was parked successful a spot she had ne'er seen her use.

"Maggie utilized to ever propulsion up to the near of Paul," she explained. "But that morning, Maggie’s car was to the right, and it was not adjacent up to the house. It was a small spot further to the right, benignant of wherever the hunting country entranceway is. I knew she didn’t enactment it there."

The placement didn’t marque sense, she said: "There was nary request for her to parkland determination erstwhile determination were nary different vehicles truly there."

Bullet holes are seen successful  the solid  astatine  the Murdaugh Moselle property

Bullet holes are seen successful the solid astatine the Murdaugh Moselle spot connected Wednesday, March 1, 2023, successful Islandton.  (Andrew J. Whitaker/Pool via USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn)

‘Oh my God. He did it.'

Turrubiate-Simpson said that she had her doubts astir Alex Murdaugh’s work successful the treble murders until body-camera video was played successful court.

During the trial, prosecutors played video from Deputy Daniel Greene, the archetypal serviceman to get astatine the transgression scene. Turrubiate-Simpson said her hubby encouraged her to ticker the video, adjacent though she initially said she had nary involvement successful seeing the transgression scene.

"He said, ‘I deliberation you request to ticker astatine slightest a small spot of it,’" she said.

When the camera concisely passed the family’s achromatic Suburban, she instantly recognized a towel.

"I saw 1 of the towels that I had washed, that was going to beryllium going backmost to Edisto [Murdaugh family’s land getaway]," she said. "In a glimpse, thing caught my eye."

Alex Murdaugh appears successful  a South Carolina Courtroom

Alex Murdaugh talks with his defence lawyer Jim Griffin during a jury-tampering proceeding astatine the Richland County Judicial Center, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, successful Columbia, S.C. (Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool)

She said she instantly asked her hubby to rewind.

"And I told my husband, ‘Go back, spell back, spell back.’ He’s like, ‘What’s going on?’ I said, ‘Go backmost to the truck, spell backmost to the truck.’ So he’s dependable going back, and I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God.’ I said, ‘He did it.’ And astatine that constituent my hubby said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘He did it. That was him.’ I said, ‘That towel was going backmost to Edisto. I had conscionable washed it and acceptable it connected apical of the shelf.’ I said, ‘He… he… helium did it.’"

"To me, that towel being determination made nary consciousness unless helium grabbed it," she added, suggesting she believed Alex utilized the towel during a frantic cleanup arsenic helium moved betwixt the location and the kennels.

"His demeanor didn’t lucifer up with the nurturing, loving begetter that I saw wrong the home," she said.

View of the kennels connected  the Murdaugh's household  property  successful  South Carolina

A presumption from the way towards the location of the kennels astatine the Murdaugh Moselle spot connected Wednesday, March 1, 2023, successful Islandton.  (Andrew J. Whitaker/Pool via USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn)

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In her book, Turrubiate-Simpson floats a mentation wherever she believes Alex whitethorn not person acted unsocial that night, not successful the murders themselves, but successful the aftermath.

"My mentation successful the publication is that helium had assistance to clean, perchance mounting up," she told Fox News Digital.

The region betwixt the main location and the kennels, she said, plays a captious role.

"It takes a bully fewer minutes to get backmost and forth. In the clip that they said it was done, there’s conscionable not capable time."

Turrubiate-Simpson said her theories are rooted successful her intimate cognition of the family’s routines, noting that "there’s nary evidence" that she’s alert of suggesting that Alex had help.

'Within the House of Murdaugh' publication  cover

"Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship, Blanca and Maggie" is simply a 2024 publication by Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson that offers a idiosyncratic relationship of her experiences with the Murdaugh family. (Palmetto Publishing)

‘Because of Paul and Maggie’

In her memoir, Turrubiate-Simpson said that her intent was not to substance speculation, but to punctual the satellite of Paul and Maggie’s lives.

"I wrote this publication due to the fact that of Paul and Maggie," she said. "I don’t privation her forgotten. When they perceive his name, I’m bushed of proceeding conscionable his name. The 2 victims person been forgotten successful each of this."

A imaginable caller trial

The South Carolina Supreme Court is scheduled to perceive Murdaugh’s entreaty connected Feb. 11.

Murdaugh’s squad requested a caller trial, arguing helium did not person a just proceedings due to the fact that of alleged assemblage tampering by Colleton County Court Clerk Becky Hill.

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Alex Murdaugh, right, is shown present with his family.  (Fox News)

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"I deliberation we each merit a just trial," Turrubiate-Simpson said. "If they find that helium did not person one, past we conscionable indispensable travel through. It’s the law."

Headstone for Paul Murdaugh and Maggie Murdaugh

Maggie and Paul Murdaugh's headstones people their last resting places successful Hampton. (Michael M. DeWitt Jr. / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn)

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Turrubiate-Simpson said she doesn’t program to ticker Hulu’s caller dramatization of the Murdaugh saga.

"I’ve watched immoderate documentaries," she said. "But I don’t consciousness the request to ticker the Hulu bid due to the fact that I lived it. There’s nary constituent successful watching thing that I already lived."

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is simply a U.S. Writer astatine Fox News Digital. 

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