Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Alex Murdaugh Housekeeper Spills Secrets

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

Blanca Simpson first met Alex Murdaugh through his family's law firm. But then she started working for him and his family as a housekeeper and became good friends with Maggie Murdaugh. After Maggie, and her son, Paul Murdaugh, were murdered in June 2021, Simpson became a witness in the trial. She also took Maggie's prized dog, Bubba, who played a pivotal role in Alex's murder trial. Now Simpson is telling hers and Maggie's story in a new book, "Within The House of Murdaugh". Law&Crime's Angenette Levy talks with Simpson in this episode of Crime Fix —a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can submit a claim in 8 clicks or less without having to leave your couch. To start your claim, visit: https://www.forthepeople.com/CrimeFixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Guest: Blanca SimpsonProducer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondry Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Based on your time with her, was Maggie Murdoch, anxious about anything? She was concerned about the amount of money that they were requesting on that lawsuit. You saw Blanca Simpson on the stand at Alec Murdoch's double murder trial. Now she's here with me, telling all. There were too many things going around that were untrue about Maggie and who she was. And she has the latest on Maggie's dog, Bubba, who rocked the trial and blew up Alec Murdoch's alibi.

I'm Ann Jeanette Levy, and this is Crime Fix. Let me tell you something. Morgan and Morgan is a law firm that wins a lot. That's why they are one of America's. largest personal injury law firms. The firm has more than a thousand attorneys who have recovered $25 billion for more than 500,000 clients. In the last few months alone, a client in Florida received $12 million when the insurance company offered just $350,000. In Pennsylvania, another client was awarded $26 million. That was 40 times the insurer's offer. Morgan and Morgan

makes it really easy to fight for what you deserve. You can even start a claim from your phone. So if you're ever injured, you can start a claim at for the people.com slash crime fix. Click the link below or scan the QR code that you see right there on your screen. Alec Murdoch is in a South Carolina prison serving two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife, Maggie, and his son Paul. Maggie and Paul were shot to death on June 7, 2021 at the family's Moselle hunting property in Colleton County, South Carolina. at his trial, which was basically the trial of the century down there in South Carolina, Alec insisted he did not murder Maggie and Paul. On June 7th, 2021, did you take this gun or any gun like it and shoot your son Paul in the chest

in the feed room at your property off Moselle Road? No, I did not. Mr. Merti, did you take this gun or any gun like it and blow your son, brains out on June 7th or any day or any time. No, I did not. Mr. Murray,

did you take the 300 blackout such as this and fired into your wife Maggie's leg, torso, or any part of her body? No, I did not. Did you

shoot a 300 blackout out into her head, causing her death. Mr. Griffin, I didn't shoot my wife or my son any time, ever. To this day, Alec Murdoch maintains he had nothing to do with Maggie and Paul's murders, and he's appealing his conviction to the South Carolina Supreme Court. There was one piece of evidence, though, at Alex's trial that seemed to blow his entire story apart. Remember, he said he wasn't at the kennels initially with Paul and Maggie that night, but a video that detectives later found on Paul's cell phone after the Secret Service

was able to unlock it, rocked Alex's story. Get back. Get back. Quit, Cash. Come, quit. That's okay. Come here. It's not bad.

Come on bad. Come on, Cash. Shit. Come. Post it. Cat. Hey, he's got a bird in his mouth. Baba.

Hang on, Baba. That's a guinea. This is a chicken. Come here, Papa. Come here, Papa. Come here, Bob. Cache. Quit.

Come here, Bob. Come on. That was Alec Murdoch at the kennels yelling to the family's dog Bubba. Minutes before detectives said that Paul and Maggie were shot to death. Bubba was Maggie Murdoch's favorite dog. And now he is with one of her good friends and former housekeeper Blanca Simpson. More on that later. You are not going to want to miss that.

You saw Blanca Simpson testify at the trial. You've also, I think in multiple interviews with Swad and other folks, described, I think the words were Maggie was his all. Didn't that what you told was? Yes, sir. What does that mean Maggie was his all? He adored her. He loved her. He adored her. Worshipped her. I mean, just treated her as somebody he adored, correct? Exactly. Did you ever see them have any arguments?

I never saw them have arguments. It was just minor disagreement because of the remodeling. Blanca has actually had Bubba since Maggie and Paul were murdered. And she's going to tell us all about how Bubba is doing. So please stay tuned for that. Blanca has now written a book about her friend Maggie Murdoch and how close they were and what a good person she was. So I want to bring in Blanca Simpson. She is the author of Within the House of Murdoch.

She was the housekeeper, but also a friend of Maggie Murdoch. So Blanca, thank you so much for joining me. I really appreciate it. The book is beautifully written. And I want to ask you, first of all, you know, why did you decide to write this book? Because there were too many things going around that were untrue about Maggie and who she was. there was a lot of villainization behind it. Just, I just didn't like the way that she was being personified in public, you know,

when it wasn't really the, the Maggie that I knew, the Maggie, you know, who she was. And that's one of the reasons, you know, I decided to speak out about that. What were the things going around that you thought needed to be cleared up, the things that weren't true that were floating around about Maggie? Well, first of all that, fur wearing, you know, high and mighty socialite, you know, and talking about, you know, that having her maids, you know, do everything for her and just commentary that was being spun around to make her look like she was one of these high and mighty high class. women that had no, that she really didn't care about anybody but herself. And that was it. That was untrue. And I just did not like that.

And I think some of it could be considered, some of it could be considered, you know, envious people. And you could kind of, you can kind of tell. And some, it was just plain ugliness coming from people. I didn't really know her based on what they were hearing about her. And I just figured, I just tell some stories, you know, who she was behind closed doors, how, you know, stuff that we got into, that sort of thing, so people could see, you know, who she truly was.

You guys had a unique friendship. I mean, because you had worked at the law firm. for Alec and his family, but then, and you had done some work there, but then, you know, they brought you on to work at the house, but you guys became friends. I mean, you talked about this when you testified at the trial. And you write about it in the book. And your co-author, Mary Weaver did a great job, Mary Frances Weaver, with you in telling this story. I love how the book starts out.

And you talk about the dream and how you had this dream. She came to you. That Maggie came to you in a dream and basically said, take care of it. And she wanted you to tell her story. Talk to me a little bit about that because it sounds like it was very vivid. Before the dream, when her mother had contact. me. We had spoken a little bit about it. She had received the news that was right after the roadside shooting. I saw her mother and she was told the news about how, what happened.

And they were gathered at Moselle. That's the last time, you know, that I've gone to Moselle. And I remember we were talking in, Ms. Kennedy said, Blanca, I trust you with this. And I told her, I said, I feel her around me all the time. I still want to call her and talk to her. And she says, I know. She said, I want to do the same thing. And then about, I don't know, maybe about a week or so later, it was kind of odd. I could, I could, I could kind of feel the presence. I don't know how to explain it. I could

just feel like a, uh, I was really emotional and I, uh, I remember I wasn't feeling well and I lay down and my husband, my husband said, I fell asleep. And later on in the evening, maybe about like two in the morning, between two and three in the morning. I remember, um, he started, you know, trying to wake me up because it got emotion, it got to the point where it was emotional and it was, you know, he woke me up. He was concerned. So I was like, when I woke up, I was like, it just, it felt real. It felt so, it felt like I was actually had just had a one-on-one conversation with her, still her personality, you know. But it was still still. that I don't know, it was like a, I was aware, but I didn't want to believe, you know, that she was no longer there, you know, even though we were talking in the dream. It's kind of like a weird feeling. I was talking to her, asking her, how are you doing? How are you feeling? You know, what's going on? Just, you know, different questions. But it's like in my subconscious,

since I knew that she was not real, but yet it felt real, it felt real to me. And I felt maybe, I don't know, it brought some peace. It brought a lot of peace to me. And it was, you know, it was kind of sad as well. Yeah, I can only imagine that it was, that it brought you peace, but it made you sad at the same time, you know, because she, she, she's, she's, gone. At that point, Paul is gone. You also talk, you know, you've talked about Paul. And, you know, Paul really got, you know, people, people talk very badly about Paul Murdoch, you know, that he was, you know, the boat crash with Mallory Beach. I mean, it was horrific, a tragedy. You know, his friends obviously loved Paul very dearly. Talk to me about the

Paul Murdoch that you knew? He used to play jokes on me all the time since he was little. He used to either, you know, walk by me and take stuff and hide it. And Paul was just a kid at heart. He loved the outdoors. He liked getting dirty. He would like getting dirty. on the machinery, I mean, every time he would walk through the door, you know, his demeanor,

he was like, what up, Ms. B, how's the family doing? You know, he'd ask me individual, you know, my kid's names individually, how are they doing? What a Big Mike? He called my husband Big Mike. He's like, what's Mr. Big Mike doing? And just have him, what did you do this weekend or, you know, whatever he had going on. I never saw that other side of him. I never did. He was always very respectful, very caring. And that was another side that, that's one side that people don't know, that if you

ask him for help, he would help you. He would give you, just like Anthony Cook said in one of his, you know, interviews, he would give you the shirt off his back. He would help you. I mean, he was just, he was a good kid with a lapse in judgment on that day. That's, and unfortunately, you know, it, it had consequences. But he had, he had issues. You know, he had issues, but he was depressed.

And he was having health problems. but Paul had that little boy curiosity, tried something if it didn't go, you know, if it didn't go well. He loved gardening from a little kid. He would grow a garden and give the stuff away. He was just curious all the time. But he had that jokester personality also with me. And I want to remember him like that. I don't want to remember no more.

I think the media, I think the way he was portrayed in the media did not give him, does not reflect who he truly was. He might have had that side. I didn't see it. And I'm not sitting here saying, you know, oh, they're lying about him because I wasn't there on, you know, during some time.

But as far as, I know that when I went, you know, when I worked there when he was little, he was just a curious little boy getting into everything, always, you know, trying to figure out. He was just curious about everything. They would, he would scare me at times because he was like a little daredevil. He would climb out the window in the game room when they lived in Holly Street and they would jump into the pool. And I mean, he would jump on the motorcycle and just right around. And I would be kind of cautious, you know, but that's just who he was. He was a little daredevil. He was curious. He was always just getting into things. But it was out of curiosity, not out of mischievous,

I should say. But I have very good memories of him. I want to go back. to June of 2021. You get the word that Paul and Maggie have been murdered. I mean, I can't even imagine. I mean, you cooked dinner for them. You left the dinner. And then within hours, they're shot dead. What were your, tell me about your reaction and walk me through that.

I have to imagine you just were stunned, like you didn't believe it at first. The phone rang that morning, and at first I was like, why is Alex calling me? And I said, well, it could be Maggie because when her phone would, when the battery would run low on her phone, she would call me from Alex's phone. And so I picked it up. And as soon as I picked up, as soon as I picked up the call, I heard him say. He said, B, they're gone, B, they're gone. And he was crying, and it was like a high-pitched cry, barely able to catch his breath. And I was like, what are you talking about?

They're gone, B, they're gone. I said, my reaction was, did they go back to Edisto? It didn't cross my mind what he was trying to tell me. I didn't know. I didn't, even though he was crying, I thought, well, maybe he's upset because they went back to Edisto or something, I never imagined what came next when he said, no, B, they're dead. But he didn't tell me they had been shot. He didn't tell me how or anything. All I remembers, he told me they're dead. And I dropped the phone. And my husband was at, I was trying to process

what Alex, I told me, and my husband was asking me, what's going on, what's going on. And he picked up the phone, I got the phone, and Alex said, be there gone. And he was crying. I said, I'm getting dressed. I said, I'll be right over where are you at. He said, I'm in Mama and Daddy's house in Almeda. I said, I'll be right over. And I hung up.

I finished getting dressed, you know, in a hurry. I got in my truck, and I went to Elmita to meet with him. and Buster was there when I arrived and his girlfriend, Brooklyn, at Almeida. It doesn't take too long to get from my house to Almeida, but it felt, it felt like time was going like in slow motion. No matter, it just, time was just going really, really slow in my mind. But I remember getting in my truck and turning off the radio right away because I just did not want to ride and hear something on the radio.

And then later on, you know, I just didn't want nothing, no song to remind me of that particular moment, you know. And I wanted to figure out what was going on because in my mind I didn't know. I didn't know what had happened. All I knew is that they were, that they were. dead. And I don't know, I felt like my time was going slow, but my heart was like, my heart felt like it was like going to come out of my chest because I wanted to get out there. And it was like desperation. You don't know. It was just like all kinds of feelings coming into one, you know, emotional roller coaster like I describe it, because you don't know how to feel.

You, I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what was going on. I just knew that I had to get out there to see what, you know, what I could do. Alec Murdoch, you know, he's appealing the conviction. He, he is, you know, he has never wavered in saying he did not kill Paul and Maggie. What are your thoughts on that? I mean, do you have any doubts? Do you, what are your thoughts?

I don't have any doubts anymore. I did in the beginning. I didn't want to believe it. But as time went on and I started, I didn't watch his testimony line. I didn't, I didn't want to see. I really didn't like people making fun of the fact that, oh, you know, had snot coming out of his nose and he really wasn't crying. And I didn't, to me, that's not amusing. And to me, that's just not, it's being judgmental. And I did not want to do that.

To me, that's not a funny matter and it's not, I'm not vindictive. And I just feel like there was moments where I don't think I could have handled that. And it's hard for me. to watch him in that capacity when he's sitting on the stand. But even now, because I don't know the person anymore that's there. It's not the same person that I admired that I, you know, looked up to. There's a lot of things that have changed. But at the moment, you don't feel all that. You still feel bad.

you know for him but I know I know in my heart he'll never he will never admit he will take that to his grave he will he will always blame someone else for it had Maggie ever mentioned to you anything about financial difficulties about Alex drug abuse any of that stuff she had absolutely no knowledge about the financial when Maggie had her account where she paid the bills out of. The financial situation that was going on is because the contractor that they had hired, Maggie was having to, I believe the way it worked is he would hire subcontractors to come to either Edisto or Moselle.

And those contractors, what they wanted, what Maggie had to do is count the number of contractors that were out there, what time they arrived, what time they left, what work they did. And then at the end of the week, she would have to pay that subcontracting company separate from the actual contractor. And it was confusing to her because she not only had contractors at Moselle, she had contractors going to Edisto. So that's where the financials, you know, she was paying bill out of that account and also paying the contractors. But Alex never made mention of having any problems. Maggie said he would, well, if I run loam, Alex, I just need to let Alex know and he'll deposit the money in the account.

And that's how I always remember. If she needed to pay bills or something came up, she's like, Alec, I need for you to put money in my account. And he would do it. So she was not aware of whatever, how he was doing things. as far as I'm concerned, she, he never had a problem with that, you know, with that. And she was not aware of any of any financial difficulty. Her only worry was the lawsuit that was coming up. And, well, the, what is it, motion to compel that was coming up that Thursday.

That was her concern. Other than that, it was not, I guess, trying to figure out how it was, how it was going to be presented in court and what was going to happen, what the consequences of that lawsuit was going to be. But that was her worry, not because she was aware of anything else. She would have given up everything, you know, to make it right. She knew it wasn't going to bring Mallory back. But she would have given it, you know, she would have done what she had to do, Had it been up to her? After the trial, I remember there was this interview that surfaced with an alleged manicurist saying that Maggie wanted to leave Alec.

Did she ever say anything like that to you? No. During the time that people say that she was looking for a divorce attorney, she was with her mother and her sister in Q. West. So that was false. she was celebrating her mother's birthday. So that was totally false. And I believe it was a running joke in the house that Maggie was going to divorce.

And I've said this over and over. Maggie used to joke around and tell any time there was some confusion or something going around or she just felt, you know, that they were, you know, picking on her. She said, I'm going to divorce your dad and I'm going to marry Tom Brady. and that was a running joke. And I feel strongly that maybe perhaps somebody might have heard her say, I'm going to divorce Alex, but they didn't hear the full conversation. And I think that's how it probably got started. Somebody overheard her, and then it went from there.

But there was never any indication that they were getting divorced. There was never any indication. There was problems in the marriage. nothing nothing I know you still have Bubba and and Bubba was Maggie's you know favorite dog but Bubba also played such a huge role in this trial I mean Bubba and Paul but Bubba really blew up Alec Murdoch's story his alibi with that video so so talk to me a little bit about how much it means to you to have Bubba? You know, when I first got, when I first took Bubba with me,

the thought never crossed my mind. I just wanted to make sure that if nobody, you know, nobody else wanted him, I guess Paul and Buster had, excuse me, Buster had called around and he said, and when he called me, he said, I can't get nobody to take him. So I don't know who he called, and he said, would you take him? I said, I most certainly, I said, when can I go get him? Because I had a really hard time leaving him at the kennel when I left that day.

And like I said, when he called me and told me, I said, can I go get him right now? And he said, yes, ma'am. So I went and got him. I never, even to this day, we don't. And I say we, my husband and I, we just, we're just now starting to realize the impact that he's made and how popular he truly is up until recently. Because you don't really think about that. You know, you walk him, you talk to him, you, you know, he does his little roles where he'll come and lay. And if he wants attention, you know, he'll come and he'll put his.

big old paw on you. We didn't really think about it until he started, oh, Bubba, you know, after the trial is, I think, when it started, when we realized, you know, that he was famous. But he's just, he's rotten. He's, he was rotten before I brought him to my house and he's rotten now. So he commands his attention and he wants his attention and he wants to be babyed and, you know, but I'm truly thankful that I did get him and that Buster thought of me to take him. And he's been really helpful in helping me process what has been going on. And I think I don't know. I think animals kind of feel that too.

But I think the feeling is mutual between him and I. He's just been a blessing to have him in my home. And I'll always be appreciative for Buster considering me and asking me to take him. It was a tremendous help to me personally. Well, Blanca, is there, before I wrap this up, is there anything you'd like to say that I haven't touched on? I just want people to understand that when you say bad things about Maggie and Paul to consider how you say those things, even if you disagree with whatever their parents, or, you know, his arrogance, because he was a little arrogant, Paul was.

Be thoughtful and be respectful of her parents, you know, the family. They're still processing it. And just be a little, you know, be a little more thoughtful. Think before you say some ugly things because I don't, I don't think. I mean, it might not make a difference. People are going to have their opinion, but the few that are listening, that will listen, think, you know, about her family.

Think about her son. They don't deserve to hear ugly things being said. You know, they're no longer here to defend themselves. And I just want a little more respect with regard to them. However they feel about Alex, that's one thing, but, you know, be respectful. They are really good people. They're very humble people. And I think they deserve that respect.

That's all I'm asking. I just disrespect for the family before you speak and say negative things or ugly things about it. Well, Blanca Simpson, the book is really good. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Within the House of Murdoch, written by Blanca Simpson and her friend, Mary Frances Weaver, is now on sale on Amazon. Check it out.

It's a great read. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.