# If Alex Murdaugh Never Did Anything Alone, Why Would the Murders Be the Exception?

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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: 2026-06-21T22:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8918669
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Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson served as the Murdaugh family’s housekeeper for approximately twenty years. She observed the defendant’s operational pattern across that period: the consistent use of intermediaries in financial transactions, the delegation of exposure to associates, the construction of deniability through layered relationships. Curtis Eddie Smith’s documented role — cashing approximately four hundred thirty-seven checks totaling roughly two point four million dollars — is one component of a broader infrastructure Simpson observed firsthand. Simpson presents a specific theory of the crime. She posits that the defendant maintained a Plan A involving another individual’s presence at Moselle the night of the killings, and when that arrangement failed, executed the plan independently and constructed a post-hoc narrative implicating the boat crash families. Her basis is the defendant’s documented behavioral history of using others as instruments. Simpson directly addresses the defense’s third-party suspect strategy, arguing that the defendant’s established pattern of operating through intermediaries makes a solely independent act inconsistent with his behavioral record. Attorney Eric Bland provides the retrial analysis. Bland constructed the financial fraud case prosecutors relied upon for their motive theory and represented the Satterfield family. The Supreme Court’s ruling directs that financial crimes evidence be substantially curtailed at any retrial. Bland identifies what evidence survives, what does not, and whether the prosecution’s case can sustain the loss. He addresses the defense’s assertion of new DNA evidence and third-party culprit claims, the AG’s consideration of capital charges and the defense’s vindictive prosecution response, and the question of…

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