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Blanca Turrubiate was devastated when her boss and good friend, Maggie Murdaugh, and her son, Paul, were shot and killed in June 2021

She describes the close bond they shared and how difficult it was after Maggie's death when she saw reminders of her slain friend

She was shocked when she found a lock of Maggie's hair at the kennels, where her friend had been fatally shot five times — by her husband, Alex

In the days and weeks after Maggie Murdaugh and her son, Paul Murdaugh, were shot and killed on the sprawling property of their Lowcountry, S.C., hunting lodge, housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson saw reminders everywhere she looked of the woman with whom she had formed an unlikely bond.

After the shocking June 7, 2021, murders, Alex Murdaugh, then 54, asked Simps

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