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As a housekeeper for the Murdaughs, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson had a front-row seat to the lives of the once-influential family

She opens up about what she saw before, during and after the 2021 shooting deaths of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh at the hands of Alex Murdaugh, who was convicted of murdering them in 2023

She talks to PEOPLE about what hit her the hardest about their brutal slayings

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson dropped the phone when Alex Murdaugh called her at 6 a.m. on June 8, 2021, and told her that his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, 52 , and their son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, were dead.

“They’re gone, B! They’re gone!” he told her, she writes in her new memoir, Within the House of Murdaugh: Amid a Unique Friendship — Blanca and Maggie , out this month and co-authored wi

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