# Does The Physical Evidence In The Murdaugh Murders Point To A Second Shooter?

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Podcast: [True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948)
Published: 2026-06-06T22:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8912879
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The South Carolina Supreme Court's unanimous reversal of Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions reset the legal record — and with it, the evidentiary question that a second jury will have to answer without twelve hours of financial crimes testimony supporting the prosecution's narrative. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer approaches that question as a clean-slate exercise: strip the name from the file and evaluate what the physical evidence actually supports. Two victims were shot at the dog kennels on a remote hunting property. Two distinct firearms were used — a shotgun and a rifle. Neither weapon has been recovered. No blood was found on the defendant. The defense has consistently argued that no single shooter could have executed the crime as the state described it. Paul Murdaugh's prior legal entanglements — including a boating incident that resulted in a young woman's death — generated a documented set of unresolved grievances that investigators never fully pursued. Coffindaffer evaluates the two-weapon theory, examines where the physical scene points absent the financial motive framework, and assesses whether the prosecution's case survives substantive scrutiny under the evidentiary limitations the Supreme Court has imposed for retrial. The human dimension of the reversal is addressed through an exclusive interview with Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson — the Murdaugh family's housekeeper of twenty years and a key prosecution witness at the original trial. Simpson's testimony included her recollection of the shirt Alex Murdaugh wore the morning of June 7th, 2021, a wet towel found by the shower the following day, and her observations of Maggie Murdaugh's emotional state as Alex's financial situation deteriorated. The jury that heard her testimony convicted in un…

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