The mystery of Alex Murdaugh‘s lacking garments may have been solved these days as his housekeeper testified about washing his khaki pants he was observed sporting on the night time of the double murders – but that she under no circumstances saw his shirt or shoes once again.
Blanca Simpson testified Alex informed her to go to the house and cleanse up the working day after Maggie and Paul were killed at the kennels on the estate in Moselle, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.
Despite cops at the criminal offense scene, the housekeeper was equipped to go about the residence uninterrupted where by she identified the khaki pants he was found wearing on the night of the murders future to a puddle of water on the ground by the shower in his toilet.
Simpson claimed that in the closet on the ground she uncovered a moist towel and t-shirt. The housekeeper explained to jurors she took the clothing to the laundry room as Alex experienced instructed her to go ‘straighten things up.’
Murdaugh was carrying a blue shirt, khaki trousers and brown sneakers on the night of the murders in accordance to a Snapchat despatched by Paul at 7.46pm. But when cops arrived soon just after 10pm he was carrying a white t-shirt, shorts and a sneakers.
Blanca Simpson testified Alex instructed her to go to the residence and clean up the day after Maggie and Paul had been killed at the kennels on the estate in Moselle, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.
Murdaugh was putting on a blue shirt, khaki pants and brown footwear on the evening of the murders in accordance to a Snapchat despatched by Paul at 7.46pm
Murdaugh was donning a white t-shirt and shorts when cops arrived and appeared thoroughly clean
Prosecutors played the video clip taken by Paul. Simpson told jurors she never ever observed that seafoam-coloured shirt or the loafers at any time all over again. She also explained that a pair of Sperry boat shoes have been lacking from the closet – she under no circumstances observed these once more either.
Murdaugh’s mother’s caregiver testified earlier that when she saw Murdaugh at his parents’ property at Almeda close to 9pm that evening – after the murders – he was putting on Sperry-sort shoes.Â
Simpson said that 1 working day in August, 2021, two months right after the killings, Alex frequented her property in Hampton and appeared distressed and mentioned some thing was completely wrong, mentioning a online video of him.
‘I’ve got a negative emotion about this,’ she claimed Murdaugh instructed her.
He asked her whether or not she remembered the ‘Vinny Vines’ (Vineyard Vines) shirt he was putting on the working day of the murders.Â
But this baffled her since ‘I did not remember him carrying that shirt that working day.’
‘I really don’t know what he was hoping to get me to say – that was the shirt he was putting on if I was to be asked,’ Simpson testified.
Simpson testified about a range of irregularities when she arrived at the dwelling, together with pots put way strangely and dresses placed down in the middle of the ground.
Upon arriving she 1st went into the kitchen the place she noticed that the pot of meal she had built for the family the evening prior to was not on the stove.
Alex Murdaugh with his spouse Maggie, eldest son Buster, suitable, and youthful son Paul, still left
The housekeeper explained Maggie would commonly go away the pot out for her to thoroughly clean up and would ‘very seldom’ tidy food items absent.
On the other hand, the overall pot with the lid on was inside of the fridge. Simpson reported this was ‘unusual’ and she recalled, ‘I was like who did this?’
Outside the house the kitchen she uncovered Maggie’s pajamas ‘laid neatly’ on the floor in the middle of a doorway with a pair of her underwear.
‘That was really strange,’ Simpson instructed the court, ‘it just didn’t appear right to me.’
‘She did not dress in underwear with her pajamas. The underwear appeared to be cleanse, they nevertheless had fold marks,’ she reported.Â
