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Katrinepa said:
Seems the whole scene was very unusual according to BIanca, even to the way Maggie's clothes and pajamas were laid out. Sounds to me like the scene was 'set up' to look a certain way...Very unusual. She is ex military, and very detail oriented and observant-Powerful testimony MOO
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For sure even how MM's PJ's were laid out to wet towel on the floor in the closet ect.. Sure the oddness of more things will pop up.
 

The state will continue to question its 43rd witness, Beach family attorney Mark Tinsley, when court resumes at 9:30 a.m.

Court is back in session.

Defense attorney Phillip Barber treats Mark Tinsley like a well-cooked grenade on cross, getting in and out in just a couple of minutes. Barber asked just two questions and fumbled over the second one a number of times as Tinsley repeatedly said he couldn't understand him.

Barber tries to get Tinsley to answer "yes or no" about his prior testimony that "there wouldn't have been an explosion" at the 6/10/21 hearing on Murdaugh's finances. Tinsley: “You’re trying to turn it into something it’s not, but I probably said something to that effect.”

The defense truly wants no part of Mark Tinsley, and I do not blame them.

Barber has no further questions after a brief redirect. Tinsley steps down. The state calls its 44th witness, Murdaugh family housekeeper Blanca Simpson.

Prosecutor John Meadors is questioning Simpson. Meadors: “Is this difficult for you to be here today?” Simpson: “Yes it is.”

Mark Tinsley just texted me: "Phil is smarter than I first thought.”

(I asked if I could quote him. He said yes).

Blanca Simpson testifies she cleaned and ran errands for the Murdaughs. She said she was close with Maggie. Even during a spell when she wasn't working for the Murdaughs after having a stroke in 2015, she would see Maggie in town and they would stop and catch up.

Simpson testifies that on 6/7/21, Maggie texted her and asked her to stop at the grocery store on her way to Moselle to get some orange Capri Suns for Alex. Simpson tried at Food Lion. Meadors: "Were you successful in your search for orange Capri Suns?"
Simpson testifies Maggie told her Alex wanted her to come home to Moselle on the evening of 6/7/21. She said Maggie sounded disappointed. “She kind of sounded like she didn’t want to come home because she really liked being in Edisto because they had a lot of work going on” …

... to prepare for a Fourth of July party there at the family's Edisto house. Simpson testifies Maggie told her Alex wanted Paul home as well that evening “to fix the mess” that groundskeeper C.B. Rowe had done with the sunflowers at Moselle.

Simpson testifies that when Alex Murdaugh left for work on 6/7/21, he was wearing brown leather shoes, khaki pants, a seafoam polo shirt and a blue sport coat.

Simpson testifies Alex Murdaugh called her with a shaky voice the morning of 6/8/21 and said: “B, they’re gone. They’re gone.” She thought he meant that they had gone to Edisto. “He said: ‘No, B, they’re dead.’”

Simpson testifies Murdaugh asked her to straighten up the Moselle house on 6/8/21 like Maggie liked it because people were going to come by.

Simpson gets emotional as she testifies about returning to the Moselle house on 6/8/21. She said she got a weird feeling. “It felt cold.” She said it was strange to walk through the kitchen and see no pots and pans in the stove or sink. .

Simpson: The Murdaughs typically didn’t clean up for themselves after dinner. They would leave things out overnight. She found the pots sitting in the fridge with lids on them. “That was not normal.” Simpson also testifies Maggie’s clean pajamas and underwear were laid out ..

.. on the ground in the doorway of the laundry room. That was very strange, she says. Maggie didn’t usually lay out her clothes like that, especially in the middle of a doorway. She also didn’t wear underwear with her pajamas, Simpson says.

Simpson testifies she found a pair of khaki pants by the shower at the Moselle main house on 6/8/21. She took them to the laundry room and washed them.

So, we've got the Murdaugh family housekeeper walking around the Moselle main house and doing laundry with potential evidence on the morning after the slayings, all before SLED goes up to the house to conduct a search.

SLED already testified their investigation began with a very small circle - the three people at the crime scene. And the only one alive was Alex Murdaugh. Perhaps searching his home should have been a priority.

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(Alec was so used to having people do his and his family's bidding, it seems he failed to acknowledge their humanity. Never occurred to him that someone in his home would know everything there is to know about their habits and needs. Attention to detail. Their housekeeper connects the dots. Sorry, Alec. She never worked for you. She worked for Maggie. And IMO she's being true to her now, testifying to what she noticed out of place, out of character. )

Jmo
 
Katrinepa said:
Laborday-Buster and AM family were moved to the back of the Courtroom, and told any other incident would remove them totally from the Courtroom. Buster flipped the middle finger, and his aunt also slid a book slyly to Alex, which is against Rules as well. JUdge could have cited them with Contempt, but did not.
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Thank you @Katrinepa
I guess this family doesn't think the rules apply to them. SHOCKER!
 
This is one of the craziest crime scenes ever.... so many people traipsing all over the home/property after the murders. I would really like to hear law enforcement's explanation of this. Was AM hoping the crime scene/property would become (for lack of a better word) tainted, but why would LE allow all of these people on the property. Why was it not all taped off by LE.
 
Ceska said:
This is one of the craziest crime scenes ever.... so many people traipsing all over the home/property after the murders. I would really like to hear law enforcement's explanation of this. Was AM hoping the crime scene/property would become (for lack of a better word) tainted, but why would LE allow all of these people on the property. Why was it not all taped off by LE.
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It appears as though this family was given preferential treatment (to say the least)
 
Why in God's name wasn't the house part of the crime scene!? I will never understand why in the world the house wasn't closed off and videoed/searched. That is Investigation 101 especially since surviving family members are ALWAYS looked at first! This was a HUGE blunder on LE's part, IMO
 
arielilane said:

So, we've got the Murdaugh family housekeeper walking around the Moselle main house and doing laundry with potential evidence on the morning after the slayings, all before SLED goes up to the house to conduct a search.
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That’s why DH has made such an issue of drain pipes not being checked
 
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