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Did Alex Murdaugh Plan for Someone Else to Be at Moselle the Night of the Killings?
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- Jun 21, 2026
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Summary
The defense says “other suspects.” Alex Murdaugh’s own housekeeper of twenty years agrees there were other people in the picture — and her reading of it is the opposite of what the defense intends. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson believes Alex had a Plan A that involved another person being at Moselle the night Maggie and Paul were killed. When that plan collapsed, she says, he carried it out himself and built a narrative around the boat crash families to explain what happened. Blanca’s theory comes from two decades of watching Alex use other people as instruments. Curtis Eddie Smith cashed four hundred thirty-seven checks. Enablers kept the financial machine running. Alex moved money through other people’s hands and used relationships as cover. He built deniability into everything. Blanca says the murders fit the pattern, not the exception the defense needs them to be. She confronts the third-party culprit theory directly and explains why, based on twenty years inside that household, the idea that someone else did this without Alex doesn’t match the man she knew. Attorney Eric Bland brings the strategic overlay. He built the financial fraud case prosecutors used as their motive theory and represented the victims. The Supreme Court ordered that evidence sharply curtailed at retrial. Bland explains what the prosecution keeps, what it loses, and whether the case can survive the cut. He addresses the defense’s claim of new DNA evidence, whether Alex should testify again, why the kennel video may not hit the same jury the same way after three years of documentaries, and his prediction: high likelihood of reconviction, real possibility of a hung jury. He describes who the holdout juror is and what gets them there. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: http…