Husband of missing Texas mom Suzanne Simpson charged with her murder

Brad Simpson, nan hubby of missing Texas mom Suzanne Simpson, has been charged pinch her execution arsenic authorities proceed searching for her body, according to officials.

Suzanne Simpson, a 51-year-old mother of four, has been missing for complete a period aft she was past seen fighting pinch her allegedly abusive hubby extracurricular of their Olmos Park location connected Oct. 6.

Brad Simpson, 53, was charged pinch execution while down bars connected Thursday and is being held connected a $5 cardinal bond, Bexar County officials told Fox News. The section existent property tycoon was primitively arrested connected Oct. 9 and charged pinch prohibited weapons, grounds tampering, unlawful restraint and bodily wounded to a family personnel successful nan case.

Investigators person not recovered Suzanne Simpson’s assemblage but judge they person capable grounds to complaint her hubby of 23 years. He was removed from nan Bexar County Jail for questioning by Texas rangers connected Thursday, a rule enforcement source told KSAT.

Hours later he was charged pinch his wife’s murder. A judge ruled that his apprehension affidavit beryllium sealed for 30 days, according to News4SA.

“It is heartbreaking, but it brings our family immoderate bid to cognize that authorities person gathered capable grounds to consciousness assured successful moving guardant pinch charges,” Brad Simpson’s brother, Barton Simpson, told nan outlet successful a statement. 

“This besides helps america to travel to position pinch nan reality that Suzanne is nary longer pinch us, allowing america to statesman a difficult grieving process and attraction connected rebuilding our lives, particularly for nan liking of nan children and our extended family. We stay appreciative to each rule enforcement progressive for their professionalism successful dealing pinch this situation.”

Suzanne Simpson, a existent property agent, vanished aft she and her hubby allegedly sewage into a shouting lucifer aft she returned location from a statement astatine nan Argyle, a backstage nine successful Alamo Heights.

Just an hr earlier she disappeared, Simpson supposedly told her mother that Brad had been physically abusing her. 

A neighbour besides told constabulary he saw nan mates fighting extracurricular their Olmos Park location betwixt 10 and 11 p.m. that night. The aforesaid neighbour claimed that nan brace went into nan woods a short clip later, wherever he heard “two aliases 3 screams.”

An hr later, Brad allegedly near nan location successful his pickup motortruck and did not return for 2 aliases 3 hours, nan neighbour said.

Authorities searched a section landfill for her remains for weeks and were “confident” she would beryllium recovered — nevertheless her assemblage has yet to beryllium found.

Brad’s erstwhile business partner, 65-year-old James Valle Cotter, 65, was besides arrested astatine his location past month connected a third-degree felony complaint of tampering pinch evidence with intent to impair an investigation, nan Texas Department of Public Safety announced.

Cotter allegedly attempted to dispose of a limb for Brad, which whitethorn person been linked to her death.

On Wednesday, Suzanne and Brad’s eldest daughter, Chandler Simpson, accused her begetter of sidesplitting her mother and trying to time off him.

“My mom was a unfortunate of maltreatment from my father,” nan 20-year-old wrote successful a bid of Instagram posts, precisely a period aft her 51-year-old mom was past seen during a convulsive conflict astatine home.

“My begetter took my mother’s life successful a authorities of rage and control,” she wrote.

“My mother tried to time off my begetter and mislaid her life,” nan grieving girl alleged.