What Does Murdaugh's Housekeeper Know That Nobody Ever Asked Her On The Stand?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:06)
The South Carolina Supreme Court didn't just overturn Alex Murdaugh's conviction. They told prosecutors the first trial went too far on financial crimes and not far enough on the actual evidence of murder. 12 and a half hours of testimony about stolen money. Meanwhile, the woman who was inside that house every day, who knew which shirt Alex wore, how Maggie folded her pajamas, and where the towels belonged, and what was moved, missing or wronged the morning after, testified for three hours. If round two is coming, the question isn't just what the prosecution will do differently. It's what Blanca Simpson knows that nobody thought to ask in the first trial of Alex Murdaugh. You spent three hours testifying during the first trial, talking about all different elements of that life. How Maggie folded her pajamas, if she folded her pajamas, where the towels belong, what was moved, missing or wronged the morning after. We can go into some of that again in a little bit.
When you, and in no way would I think you'd change your story, anything like that, but if you're to look at this beyond just your own experiences, in round two, when the prosecution will be asking questions of yourself and others, are there any questions that you look at now and go, I wish they would have asked that the first time, either so you could clarify something or share something that maybe you didn't share, or that others that have information that would have been helpful for the jury to consider, or for people to understand the dynamics of everything that was going on here, the way you see it.

**Blanca Simpson** (2:00)
The first thing was to explain the fact that the first time that I heard the Kennel video, it was on a laptop and the speaker system was not that great. So a lot of people were saying that I contradicted myself. It was not a contradiction. Actually, the way that it was echoing when I was listening to it, it was not that the sound system was horrible on it. So that's one of the reasons that once I heard it and I saw the image, I told them right away who it was, Maggie, Paul, and Alex.
But the original time, the first time that I heard it, it was on a, I don't know if it had been dropped too many times or what, but that laptop had a really bad sound system, audio. I couldn't hear it that well.
I actually recorded something on my laptop the other day to try to get some information out, and it was the worst recording I have ever. It reminded me of that recording because it was like I could not get the sound to, and I was speaking into it, and it was just horrible, and it took me back to that day when I heard it, and I was like, I could not, I can't, it's almost like you blame yourself. It's like, why couldn't I describe it? Why couldn't I say that?

**Tony Brueski** (3:25)
But walk me back, because I don't think I know, when was the first time you saw the video on the bad speaker laptop? Was that in court or where was the first time you had that experience?

**Blanca Simpson** (3:37)
I heard the audio. They never showed me a video.

**Tony Brueski** (3:41)
Okay, so you heard the audio. Was that during the trial itself?

**Blanca Simpson** (3:44)
No, I heard it. They brought it here prior to the trial.

**Tony Brueski** (3:48)
Okay.

**Blanca Simpson** (3:48)
They came to my house and they wanted me to hear the audio, but the audio was horrible on that laptop.

**Tony Brueski** (3:54)
Yeah.

**Blanca Simpson** (3:55)
And so you know, I didn't want to, even though people said I contradicted.

**Tony Brueski** (4:00)
So you heard it at home.
When you did have the realization and you had clear audio to make an accurate judgment call on what you were taking in, and you realized it was Alec right there on that tape, and the timing from what we understand, if the prosecution is correct, it puts him right there more than anything else, totally contradicts his original story. And this was obviously before Alec went on the stand and said I was lying about my story. When you first had that realization, number one, did you think he had done it at that time, or did that seal the deal for you in your mind that this man, either he did it or he had something seriously to do with it because that put him there, and that was not what he was saying. What was going through your mind when you could confirm to yourself, Alec's story is not adding up.