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Did Prosecutors Underestimate The Witness Who Knew The Murdaugh House Best?
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- Jun 4, 2026
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Summary
Prosecutors spent twelve and a half hours on Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes at the first trial. They gave Blanca Simpson three hours. The Supreme Court said the financial evidence went too far. Nobody said Blanca went far enough.That imbalance is the story of the retrial before it's even started. Because if round two can't rely on a parade of financial devastation to paint Alex as a monster, it has to rely on the evidence that was always there but never got the time it deserved. The timeline. The phone records. The physical evidence at the scene. And the domestic evidence — the kind that only someone who spent twenty years inside that house could carry to a jury.In this three-part exclusive, Blanca goes further than she's ever gone publicly. Part 1 takes you to Maggie's graveside and into the emotional reality of watching a conviction evaporate. Part 2 reveals what Blanca noticed the morning after the murders that nobody in the legal system asked about, what Alex's behavior in the hours and days after really looked like, and what prosecutors should be asking her this time that they didn't ask last time. Part 3 takes on the biggest question: did Alex do this alone? Blanca lays out her theory, confronts the defense team's "other suspects" strategy, and draws a line between Alex's decades of outsourcing risk and the night that ended Maggie and Paul's lives.Three parts. Twenty years of proximity. Evidence, theory, and emotional truth from the person who was closer to this family than almost anyone alive.A True Crime Today exclusive. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_c…