Suzanne Simpson, a Texas real estate agent, disappeared more than four months ago, and husband Brad Simpson, who was charged with the mother of four murders, is now court this week as his defense is looking for a hole in evidence. I've returned to.
At Wednesday's hearing in San Antonio courtroom, prosecutors said they hope there will be five to six terabytes of evidence from the Texas Rangers, and defense attorneys say they will pass before they can move forward. He said that he still needs a terabyte of evidence. KSAT reported that there was an appeal to cancel the charges.
Deon Cockrell, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, confirmed on Fox News Digital that authorities are still working to find Suzanne's body. Law enforcement in November said there were no signs she was alive, according to the affidavit.
“They don't stop looking,” Cockrell said. “Just like her family, we still want to find her. ”
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She is not home to her husband, Brad Simpson, a Texas mom, Suzanne Simpson. (Facebook/Suzanne Simpson)
Home to Suzanne and Brad Simpson in San Antonio, Texas, November 12th, 2024. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
Suzanne, 51, Got missing On October 6th, she allegedly fought her husband for 22 years in front of a house in Ormo Spark in the San Antonio area. Officials “deliberately and intentionally believe that “Suzanne's death” was “on Sunday, October 6th or around.”” records show.
The 54-year-old suspect remains at Bexar County Jail on a set of bonds totaling $3 million.
He was charged with two people First-degree felony charges, It exacerbated murder and deadly weapon assault, causing serious injuries to his family. The charges will bear the greatest punishment of life in prison. He was also charged with two additional charges of tampering with a body, tampering with physical evidence and tampering with possession of a prohibited weapon.
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“It's not unprecedented that a murder is being charged without a body being found. … That's rare,” Texas criminal defense attorney Sam Bassett, who is not involved in the case, told Fox News Digital. Ta. “There could be judicial negotiations.
“His lawyers can make a deal to make full disclosure and plead in 40 years rather than life, rather than to 40 years, to trial.
“The best way they can find her body is whether he ultimately decides to tell them,” he adds, and pleas in cases like Simpson come to confessions about the victim's body. He explained that it could lead to connections.
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Brad Simpson will appear in court on December 19, 2024 for a hearing of a trial in Bexar County, Texas. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
Suzanne Simpson, 51, went missing on October 6 after being reportedly fighting in front of their home with her husband of 22 years. (Olmo Spark Police)
Bassett said he would pursue the state's death penalty. He said that murder charges, the most serious murder charges, usually require filing. The second murder in Texas is called the “murder” that Simpson faces.
“The death penalty would probably not play if you claim “murder” at this point,” Bassett explained. “But at the same time, obviously, a murder conviction carries a life sentence, so the interests are high.”
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Neighbors reportedly saw Simpson attack his wife on the night of her loss and later heard a scream from the nearby woods. The couple's five-year-old told the school counselor on the evening of October 6th that their father said, “It is said that he pushed his mother against the wall, smacked her in the face (physically) and injured her mother's elbow. According to the affidavit, the residence and “because my mother's phone was fighting.”
Investigators followed Simpson's unusual behavior was days after his wife disappeared, shutting down his phone, driving with suspicious items in his truck bed, going to the dump site and cleaning the truck with a car wash.
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San Antonio Police Cadets searched Suzanne Simpson's landfill. (Chief Burma McManus/x)
Brad Simpson will appear in court on December 19, 2024 for a hearing of a trial in Bexar County, Texas. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
Authorities informed the family that Suzanne's DNA was identified in a “return saw” hidden few days after Simpson lost his wife, according to the accusation documents and KABB.
Simpson's team will need to run evidence from the Texas Rangers as the defense prepares to counteract the indictment.
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“The Texas rangers are… very thorough in their investigation,” Bassett said.
“I think investigators still want to find their bodies… but if you're a prosecutor, you have to prepare for the trial as if you don't have a body. .”
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Barbara Clark, mother of Suzanne Simpson, will depart her daughter's memorial at the first Presbyterian church in San Antonio on December 20th. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
After Simpson's indictment, Suzanne's friends and family gathered at the memorial on December 20th to honor her life.
The private ceremony was attended by hundreds of people at the first Presbyterian church in downtown San Antonio.
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Brad Simpson's next court appearance is scheduled for March 12th. Simpson's lawyers did not immediately seek comment.
The Bexar County District Attorney's Office said it had not commented on the pending case.
