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The Murdaugh Housekeeper Believes Alex Didn’t Act Alone — Who Are ‘The Cleaners’?
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- May 17, 2026
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Summary
Blanca Simpson calls them “the cleaners.” In her telling, Alex Murdaugh did not handle the aftermath of Maggie and Paul’s murders alone. Someone moved Maggie’s car and parked it in a spot she’d never use — close to the kitchen entrance, as if following Alex’s vehicle without knowing the household’s parking routine. Someone removed one of Maggie’s three wedding bands, and Blanca believes it fell from a pocket into the space under the driver’s seat during the rush. If Blanca’s theory holds, this wasn’t a crime of impulse. It was planned, and it had help. In this segment of her interview with Tony Brueski, Blanca details the evidence trail she pieced together after walking into the Moselle house twelve hours after the murders. The pajamas staged in the laundry room doorway with underclothes Maggie never wore to bed — a detail only someone who knew her daily routine would catch. The pots stored wrong in the refrigerator. The beach towel from the laundry room found in Alex’s Suburban, which told Blanca he’d been in the room where the staging happened. She describes Alex arriving at the guest house, pacing, shirt half untucked, asking her to confirm he’d been wearing a Vineyard Vines shirt that day. She knew he wasn’t. She later learned he’d just come from a SLED interview. Before any of that, on the day of the murders, Blanca saw a white Ford F-150 at the property she assumed was Paul’s. Paul’s truck was in the shop. She saw a tractor with a front-end bucket heading toward the back fields. She believes someone was preparing a concealment site. When she tried to share what she noticed with SLED, they allegedly told her to stop obsessing and get help. She stopped talking. LINKS & LEGAL Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.sub…