Mystery of Alex Murdaugh’s lost clothes solved? The housekeeper revealed to have WASH the khaki pants
The mystery of Alex Murdaugh’s lost clothes may have been solved today as his housekeeper testified about washing the khaki pants he was seen wearing on the night of the double murder. – but she never saw his shirt or shoes again.
Blanca Simpson testified that Alex told her to come home and clean up the day after Maggie and Paul were killed at the kennel on the property in Moselle, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.
Despite the police presence at the crime scene, the housekeeper was able to go around the house without interruption and find the khaki pants he was seen wearing on the night of the murder next to a puddle. on the floor next to the shower in his bathroom.
Simpson said that in the closet on the floor, she found a damp towel and T-shirt. The housekeeper told jurors she took the clothes into the laundry room because Alex had told her to ‘flatten the furniture’.
Murdaugh wore a blue shirt, khaki pants, and brown shoes on the night of the murder, according to a Snapchat sent by Paul at 7:46 p.m. local time. But when police arrived shortly after 10 p.m., he was wearing a white T-shirt, shorts, and sneakers.
Blanca Simpson testified that Alex told her to come home and clean up the day after Maggie and Paul were killed at the kennel on the property in Moselle, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.
Murdaugh wore a blue shirt, khaki pants and brown shoes on the night of the murder, according to a Snapchat sent by Paul at 7:46 p.m.
Murdaugh wore a white t-shirt and shorts when the police arrived and looked clean
Prosecutors played the video shot by Paul. Simpson told the jury she never saw that sponge shirt or loafers again. She also said that a pair of Sperry boat shoes was lost in the closet – she never saw the shoes again.
Murdaugh’s mother’s carer testified earlier that when she saw Murdaugh at his parents’ home in Almeda around 9 p.m. that evening – after the murder – he was wearing Sperry-type shoes.
Simpson said one day in August 2021, two months after the murder, Alex visited her home in Hampton and appeared distressed and said something was wrong, while also referring to a video of him. ta.
“I have a bad feeling about this,” Murdaugh told her.
He asks her if she remembers the ‘Vinny Vines’ (Vineyard Vines) shirt he was wearing on the day of the murder.
But this confused her because ‘I don’t remember him wearing that shirt that day’.
“I don’t know what he was trying to get me to say – that’s the shirt he’d wear if I was asked,” Simpson testified.
Simpson testified about a number of unusual things when she arrived at the house, including strangely placed vases and clothes placed in the middle of the floor.
When she arrived, she went to the kitchen for the first time and found that the pot of dinner she had cooked for the family the night before was not on the stove.
Alex Murdaugh with his wife Maggie, eldest son Buster, right, and young son Paul, left
The housekeeper said Maggie often leaves the pot out for her to clean and ‘very rarely’ cleans up the food.
However, the entire pot with lid was in the fridge. Simpson said this was “unusual” and she recalls, “I was like, who did this?”
Outside the kitchen, she found Maggie’s pajamas ‘lined up’ on the floor in the middle of the doorway along with a pair of her underwear.
“It’s very unusual,” Simpson told the court, “I don’t feel right.”
‘She didn’t wear underwear with her pajamas. Underwear looks clean, they still have folds,’ she said.
