Texas Mom Suzanne Simpson’s Husband Urgent messaged my business partner The day before his wife was reported missing, there was a “donkey haul” to his house to help hide a rifle.
“If you are in Bandera, can you take the donkey to meet me at your house?” According to an arrest affidavit, Brad Simpson allegedly texted James Wally Cotter on the morning of October 8 Spotted by KENS5. “I don’t have much time.”
In a follow-up message, Simpson, 53, attempted to tone down the frantic tone of minutes earlier.
“Sorry for the haste, but especially now you’re all I have…social media is destroying me,” the property tycoon wrote.
Cotter, 65, agreed to help his partner and allegedly took the AK-47 from Simpson and hid the gun inside a wall of his home.
Suzanne Simpson, 51, was Last seen on 6 October, That very day there was a shouting match between her and her husband.
The mother of four had called her mother at about 9 p.m., an hour before she was last seen, and reported that Brad had physically harmed her, including bruising her arm and back.
Susan’s mother, Barbara Clark, suggested at a vigil held for her daughter that the violence was “alcohol-related”.
A neighbor reportedly saw the pair fighting outside their San Antonio home and heard screams in a wooded area between 10 and 11 p.m. According to KSAT.
Brad Simpson reported His wife went missing on 9 October.
He was arrested the same day and charged with assault occasioning bodily harm – family violence and unlawful restraint.
Authorities searched the home after viewing pre-recorded video of Simpson’s gun vault and discovered that the gun was missing from the location it was seen in the footage.
On October 21, a search of Cotter’s home resulted in the gun being recovered with the help of an ATF K-9 team that pinpointed its location.
According to the outlet, authorities believe a lanyard attached to the gun’s sight was intended to allow the gun to be easily fired by “zeroing out” into the wall.
Cotter was arrested and charged with the third-degree felony of tampering with evidence with intent to impair the investigation.
Simpson was charged with additional charges of prohibited weapons and evidence tampering after the gun was discovered to be from China, KENS5 reported.
He also faces federal gun charges for illegal possession of a short-barreled rifle.
Simpson is being held on bond totaling $3 million and is scheduled to return to court on Nov. 23.
He has not been charged in his wife’s disappearance, but authorities have been charged have discovered Search the landfill, wooded area and his house for his body and collect evidence.
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