More than 5 months later Suzanne Simpson, a Texas real estate agent The lawyer who disappeared in a wealthy area of San Antonio still sorts out the evidence as her husband is facing a murder case and her body has not been found.
Simpson, 4 51-year-old mothers; Got missing On October 6, 2024, after fighting her husband for 22 years in front of a house in Ormo Spark in the San Antonio area. Officials believe that Brad Simpson “intentionally and intentionally caused “Suzanne's death” on Sunday, October 6th,” records show.
Brad Simpson was charged with murder, tampering with evidence, aggravating the assault, banning his wife from possession of a weapon suspected of disappearing and death, and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for a status hearing after a delay in February.
Both the prosecutor and Simpson's defense at the Feb. 12 hearing said more time was needed to be found in the case. According to a San Antonio report, prosecutors were still sifting through the data and hoping for more evidence from the Texas Rangers.
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On the night of the Battle of October 6th and Suzanne's Lost of the Night, the Simpsons and their 5-year-old daughter attended a party at the Argyle Club. (Olmo Spark Police/Kendall County Sheriff's Office)
On the night of the fight and the night of Suzanne's loss of the Simpsons and their five-year-old daughter joined a party at the Argyle Club, a luxury, retweet club in Alamo Heights. According to the arrest affidavit, bystanders witnessed the couple “verbal altercation” while they were in the party.
At about 8:30pm, Suzanne Simpson and her daughter left the party and headed to a Heb grocery store in San Antonio from 8:40pm to 8:51pm, according to surveillance footage obtained by police. They quickly arrived at their home, documents show.
Later that night, Suzanne called a family friend and told her she was stopping by. She also called her mother to tell her that her Brad attacked her and injured her arm, back and neck, according to court records. She arrived at a family friend's house around 10pm at 9:25pm. A family friend's neighbor reported seeing Brad and Suzanne arguing loudly in front of his house and “struggling physically.”
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The Argyle Club in San Antonio is where Suzanne and Brad Simpson attended a party in the evening. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
Neighbors observed that Suzanne was “trying to grasp when Mr. Simpson tried to pull her down.” The neighbors also observed him chasing after his wife and trying to grab her, according to the documents. The neighbor later heard screams coming from the wooded area across from his house.
About an hour after seeing Suzanne and Brad Simpson fighting in front of their home, the same neighbor returned about an hour after Brad's truck left the area.
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Brad Simpson will appear in court for a hearing at a trial in Bexar County, Texas. Thursday, December 19th, 2024. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
The next morning, on October 7th, surveillance footage from a San Antonio Heb grocery store captured Brad and his truck.
Later that morning, he bought food at a drive-thru in Kendall County, Texas, and camera footage shot three white garbage bags, a large trash can, an ice chest, an “icy chest, a “big bulky item” wrapped in a “blue tarp” and held together.
Shortly after the drive-thru, Brad allegedly saw him buy insect repellent with two bags of cement, a construction bucket, a box of heavy-duty garbage bags, a Clorox disinfectant spray and cash at a nearby Home Depot.
Home Depot in Born, Texas, November 13th, 2024. According to the affidavit, Brad Simpson's track was observed here on October 7, 2024, and he disappeared under suspicious circumstances by his wife Suzanne Simpson. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
Before purchasing, Brad asked an unknown man in the parking lot for directions to the nearest dump of Bone. His phone was clearly off at the time.
That same morning, at a gas station, surveillance footage filmed Brad's truck, missing white garbage bags, but blue tarps, fire racks and trash cans were still there.
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Valero Stripes gas station in Born, Texas, November 13th, 2024. Brad Simpson was observed here on October 7, 2024 after leaving the local waste centre around the time his wife, Suzanne Simpson, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
After picking up his daughter from school in the afternoon, Brad was found on another surveillance camera that “cleans and cleans the drive front and rear passenger sides” of the truck in a San Antonio car wash.
A friend of Suzanne's report that she went missing on the evening of October 7th. He reportedly had not seen her at about 11pm on October 6th when police contacted Brad about his wife's loss.
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On November 12th, 2024, it was home to Suzanne and Brad Simpson in San Antonio, Texas. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
On October 8th, Brad exchanged text messages with longtime friend and business partner James “Val” Cotter.
“If you're in Bandera, you can get it to meet me at your home – can you get it?” Simpson is said to have texted Cotter. “I don't have much time.”
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Kendall County Solid Waste, Born, Texas, November 13th, 2024. The Brad Simpson track was observed here on October 7, 2024, when his wife Suzanne Simpson disappeared. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
In a later text to Brad, Cotter wrote, “Go here!! I won't tell anyone,” and “You are my brother.”
Cotter was accused of tampering with evidence intended to undermine the investigation and possession of a weapon prohibited in Suzanne's disappearance. He posted the bonds in November 2024.
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James Valle Cotter, 65, was accused of tampering or producing physical evidence with intent to undermine the investigation, according to Bexar County Court records. (Bexar County Jail)
Authorities arrested Brad and Cotter on October 9, 2024 and October 21, 2024.
On October 9th, the Texas Rangers ran a search warrant for Brad's property in Bandera County, where they found a ground-level burn site with burnt laptops and multiple mobile phone devices. They also searched his truck to identify the dirt that tested “presumably positive for blood” and tested the test that was determined to be Blood.
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Brad Simpson will appear in court on Thursday, December 19, 2024 for a pretrial hearing in Bexar County, Texas. (Kat Ramirez from Fox News Digital)
In December, Bexar County Criminal and Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzalez announced in a press release that Brad had “hidden” and “return” a “return” two days after Suzanne's loss of failure, and authorities informed the family that Suzanne's DNA had been identified in a saw.
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Brad remains in the Bexal County Jail, with bonds totaling $3 million, and the Bureau of Alcohol, cigarettes, firearms and explosives holding the federal government for arms charging. His lawyer could not be contacted for comment.
Mollie Markowitz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
