The day before Texas mother Suzanne Simpson’s husband reported his wife missing, he sent an urgent message to his business partner asking him to “bring his ass” to his home to help hide a rifle. .
“If you’re in Bandera, can you pick me up at my house?” Brad Simpson allegedly texted James Valley Cotter on the morning of Oct. 8, according to an arrest affidavit reviewed by KENS5. Ru. “I don’t have much time.”
In a subsequent message, Mr. Simpson, 53, sought to downplay the frenetic tone he had expressed minutes earlier.
The day before Brad Simpson reported his wife missing, he sent an urgent text message to his business partner asking for help hiding a gun. olmos park police
“Sorry to rush, but you’re the only thing I can do, especially right now…social media is destroying me,” the real estate mogul wrote.
Cotter, 65, agreed to help his partner, allegedly taking Simpson’s AK-47 and hiding the weapon inside the walls of his home.
Suzanne Simpson, 51, was last seen on October 6, the day she and her husband got into a screaming match.
The mother of four called her mother at around 9pm, an hour before she was last seen, to tell her that Brad had physically hurt her, including injuries to her arm and back.
Suzanne’s mother, Barbara Clark, suggested at her daughter’s wake that the violence was “alcohol related”.
Suzanne Simpson, a mother of four, was last seen on October 6, the day she and her husband got into a screaming match. Facebook / Suzanne Simpson Suzanne Simpson leaves a Texas country club hours before she was last seen on October 6, 2024. OLMOS PD
According to KSAT, a neighbor saw the couple fighting outside their San Antonio home and then heard screams in a wooded area between 10 and 11 p.m.
Brad Simpson reported his wife missing on October 9th.
He was arrested the same day and charged with assault causing bodily harm – family violence and unlawful restraint.
Authorities viewed previously recorded video of Simpson’s gun safe and when they searched his home, they discovered the gun was missing from the location shown in the footage.
Neighbors reportedly witnessed the couple fighting outside their San Antonio home and then heard screams in a wooded area between 10 and 11 p.m.
The gun was recovered and located during a search of Cotter’s home on Oct. 21 with the help of an ATF K-9 team.
The report said authorities believe the cord attached to the gun’s sight was intended to allow the gun to be easily removed “through a gap” in the wall.
Cotter was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence with intent to obstruct an investigation, a third-degree felony.
James Vallee Cotter was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. Bexar County Jail
KENS5 reports that Simpson was additionally charged with prohibited weapons and tampering with/fabricating evidence following the discovery of a gun imported from China.
He also faces federal firearms charges for illegally possessing a short-barreled rifle.
Officials search for Suzanne Simpson at a Bexar County landfill on October 15, 2024. SAPD
Mr. Simpson is being held on bail totaling $3 million and is scheduled to reappear in court on November 23.
He has not been charged in connection with his wife’s disappearance, but authorities are searching landfills, woodlands and his home for bodies and gathering evidence.
