When the Supreme Court erased Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson didn't call anyone. She drove straight to Maggie's grave. Twenty years inside that household. Not staff — family. The person Maggie cried to when Alex's financial world was caving in and nobody would tell her why. Blanca fixed Alex's collar the morning of June 7th. She remembered the shirt. She found the wet towel by the shower the next day. She gave every detail to a jury that convicted in three hours. Then Becky Hill — a court clerk who was writing a book about the trial while it was still going on — destroyed the verdict.

In her first interview since the reversal, Blanca talks about what she said to Maggie at that gravesite. Whether she can respect the Supreme Court's decision and still believe Alex killed his wife and son. What Becky Hill took from the people who loved Maggie and Paul — something no ruling can give back. And the question that matters most heading into a retrial: is she the same witness she was in 2023, or has three years of processing what she saw changed what she's ready to say?

Then the harder conversation. If Alex Murdaugh didn't pull the trigger — who did? Jennifer Coffindaffer strips the name off the file and looks at what's left. Two people shot at the kennels. Two different guns. Neither recovered. No blood on Alex. The defense has always argued no single shooter could have done it the way the state described. Paul's boat crash — a young woman died — left a trail of grudges nobody fully investigated.

Coffindaffer examines where the physical evidence actually points when you approach it clean, what the two-weapon theory means for the prosecution, and whether this case can hold together without the financial crimes testimony the Supreme Court stripped away. The conviction is gone. The question of who killed Maggie and Paul is wide open. Blanca's answer hasn't changed. Whether the evidence supports it is what the retrial will decide.

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