Inside the Scathing Letter Alex Murdaugh's Housekeeper Wrote Years After Family Murders: ‘You Had It All’  (Exclusive) By KC Baker 16

Alex and Maggie Murdaugh were two of the most laid-back employers Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson ever had.

“I loved the job,” Simpson, 58, a U.S. Navy veteran and former corrections officer who started working as one of the family’s housekeepers in 2007, writes in her new tell-all, Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship — Blanca and Maggie.

Out this month and co-authored with Mary Frances Weaver, the memoir provides a front row seat to life with the family once considered Lowcountry royalty, who she describes as down-to-earth and protective of her.

“Their caring nature made me feel a part of their family,” writes Simpson, who began working for Alex, a former attorney, in 2002 when she helped him with his Spanish-speaking clients. “It turned out to be the best decision I ever made. Maggie and Alex’s carefree and no-worries mottos were their best attributes.”

Spontaneous and quick to laugh, Maggie was the kind of boss who would surprise Simpson with fried chicken and Moon Pies from one of her favorite restaurants, even though they’d just started diets. “In her usual way, Maggie said, ‘We might as well enjoy the Moon Pies and worry about the diet tomorrow,’” Simpson writes.

Fun-loving and gregarious, Alex was the epitome of southern charm. “Everybody liked him,” Simpson tells PEOPLE. “He could talk to anybody. He was always the life of the party.”

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The “party” that the Murdaughs enjoyed for more than two decades came to a horrifying end on June 7, 2021, when Maggie, 52, and their youngest son, Paul, 22, were shot and killed at their hunting estate in Islandton, S.C., at the hands of the man they trusted with their lives. Convicted of double murder in 2023, Alex is currently serving two consecutive life sentences without parole for their violent shooting deaths. He is appealing the murder convictions and seeking a retrial.

Simpson still has trouble coming to terms with the fact that the man who was so good to her and doted on his family, shot and killed Maggie and Paul at point-blank range.

At the end of the bombshell book, Simpson shares an “unsent letter” to Alex, sharing her feelings about her former boss and how he hurt so many people.

In an exclusive excerpt from the book, Simpson writes:

“Alex, Have you adapted to your new life? Is your bed made to your satisfaction? Are the sheets soft against your sensitive skin? Do they make your bed with freshly pressed sheets that are tight enough to bounce a quarter off?”

In another part of the letter, she writes, “I often ask myself, at what point did greed, ambition, and lack of empathy overpower you? You had love, family, friendship, respect, and privilege — you had it all, and you decimated everything when you decided nobody deserved to be better off than your family.”

Calling Maggie a “fantastic woman who loved you, pampered you, and took pride in your accomplishments,” she writes, “She didn’t understand your taste for sweets, but she always made sure you had plenty, from the Froot Loops to the chocolate milk to the Capri-Suns. She felt that your child-like eating was cute. Spoiling you became her priority, especially when the boys were away in school.”

Saying she feels betrayed by Alex, Simpson writes, “What happened to you? What happened to the man who was always entertaining by cracking jokes; what happened to the man who nurtured and cared for his family? At what point did you become so unhappy in your life that you decided to kill your wife and son?”

She also opens up a host of unanswered questions when she writes about seeing an unnamed woman at the family’s estate, known as Moselle, after the funerals. “I especially remember an unfamiliar woman wandering around the house as if she owned the place, almost as if announcing to the world, ‘This will be mine,’” she writes, revealing nothing more about this.

She finishes the letter by writing, in part, “I may never find the answers that bring me full closure, but for now, I am releasing the emotional burden of your betrayal and focusing on my own healing. Praying for you, Blanca.”

Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship — Blanca and Maggie is available for presale now.