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Suzanne Simpson murder: Texas attorneys sift through evidence as husband’s case rocks affluent neighborhood
More than five months after Texas real estate agent Suzanne Simpson vanished in a wealthy area of San Antonio, attorneys are still sorting out evidence as her husband faces a murder case and her body has not been found.
Simpson, a 51-year-old mother of four, went missing Oct. 6, 2024, after reportedly fighting with her husband of 22 years in front of their house in Olmos Park in the San Antonio area. Authorities believe Brad Simpson “intentionally and knowingly caused the death” of Suzanne “on or about Sunday, Oct. 6,” records show.
Brad Simpson is charged with murder, tampering with evidence, aggravated assault and prohibited weapons possession in his wife’s disappearance and suspected death and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for a status hearing after it was delayed in February.
Both prosecutors and Simpson’s defense attorney said during a Feb. 12 hearing they would need more time to go through discovery in the case. Prosecutors were still sifting through data and expecting more evidence from the Texas Rangers, according to the San Antonio Report.
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The night of the fight and Suzanne’s disappearance, Oct. 6, the Simpsons and their 5-year-old daughter attended a party at The Argyle club. (Olmos Park Police/ Kendall County Sheriff’s Office)
On Oct. 6, the night of the fight and Suzanne’s disappearance, the Simpsons and their 5-year-old daughter attended a party at The Argyle club, an exclusive, ritzy club in Alamo Heights. Bystanders witnessed the couple having a “verbal altercation” while at the party, according to an arrest affidavit.
Around 8:30 p.m., Suzanne Simpson and her daughter left the party and went to the H-E-B grocery store in San Antonio from 8:40 p.m. to 8:51 p.m., according to surveillance footage obtained by police. They arrived at their house soon after, documents show.
Later that evening, Suzanne phoned a family friend to say she was stopping by. She also called her mother to tell her Brad assaulted her, injuring her arm, back and neck, according to court records. She arrived at the family friend’s house at 9:25 p.m. Around 10 p.m., the family friend’s neighbor reported seeing Brad and Suzanne arguing loudly and “physically struggling” in front of his house.
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The Argyle club in San Antonio is where Suzanne and Brad Simpson attended a party the night Suzanne disappeared. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
The neighbor observed Suzanne “attempting to get away from Mr. Simpson’s grasp as he tried to pull her downwards.” The neighbor also observed Brad chasing after his wife and trying to grab her, according to documents. The neighbor later heard screams coming from the wooded area across from his home.
About one hour after witnessing Suzanne and Brad Simpson fighting in front of his home, the same neighbor saw Brad’s truck leave the area and then return about an hour later.
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Brad Simpson appears in court for a pretrial hearing in Bexar County, Texas. Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
The next morning, on Oct. 7, surveillance footage from a San Antonio H-E-B grocery store captured Brad and his truck, which contained a large ice chest.
Later that morning, he bought food at a drive-thru in Kendall County, Texas, and camera footage captured three white trash bags, a heavy-duty trash can, an ice chest and a “large bulky item wrapped and secured in a blue tarp” that was held down by a firewood rack in the back of Brad’s truck, according to the affidavit.
Shortly after the drive-thru, Brad was allegedly seen purchasing two bags of cement, a construction bucket, a box of heavy-duty trash bags, Clorox disinfectant spray and insect repellent with cash at a nearby Home Depot, police learned through cellphone data, surveillance footage and a Home Depot receipt.
A Home Depot in Boerne, Texas, Nov. 13, 2024. According to an affidavit, Brad Simpson’s truck was observed here Oct. 7, 2024, and he bought Quikrete cement, trash bags, Clorox and insect repellent around the same time his wife, Suzanne Simpson, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
Prior to his purchase, Brad asked an unknown male in the parking lot for directions to the nearest dump in Boerne. His cellphone was apparently turned off at the time.
At a gas station that same morning, surveillance footage captured Brad’s truck, which was missing the white trash bags, but the blue tarp, firewood rack and trash can were still present.
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A Valero Stripes gas station in Boerne, Texas, Nov. 13, 2024. Brad Simpson was observed here Oct. 7, 2024, after leaving a local waste center around the time his wife, Suzanne Simpson, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
After picking up his daughter from school in the afternoon, Brad was spotted on another surveillance camera “washing and cleaning the drive front (sic) side and the rear-left passenger side” of his truck at a car wash back in San Antonio.
Suzanne’s friend reported her missing the evening of Oct. 7. When police contacted Brad about his wife’s disappearance, he allegedly told them he had not seen her since Oct. 6, around 11 p.m.
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The home of Suzanne and Brad Simpson in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 12, 2024. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
On Oct. 8, Brad exchanged text messages with his longtime friend and business partner, James “Val” Cotter, who is also charged in the case.
“If you’re in Bandera, can you haul a– to meet me at your house?” Simpson allegedly texted Cotter. “I don’t have much time.”
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Kendall County Solid Waste in Boerne, Texas, Nov. 13, 2024. Brad Simpson’s truck was observed here Oct. 7, 2024, around the time his wife, Suzanne Simpson, disappeared. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
In a later text to Brad, Cotter wrote, “Get over here!! I won’t tell anyone” and “You’re my brother.”
Cotter was charged with tampering with evidence with the intent to impair an investigation and possession of prohibited weapons in Suzanne’s disappearance. He posted bond in November 2024.
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According to Bexar County Court records, James Valle Cotter, 65, was charged with tampering or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair an investigation. (Bexar County Jail)
Authorities arrested Brad Oct. 9, 2024, and Cotter on Oct. 21, 2024.
On Oct. 9, Texas Rangers executed a search warrant on Brad’s property in Bandera County, where they found a ground-level burn site with a burnt laptop and multiple cellular devices. They also searched his truck and identified stains that tested “presumtively positive for blood,” which were tested and determined to be Brad’s blood.
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Brad Simpson appears in court for a pretrial hearing in Bexar County, Texas Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
In December, Bexar County Criminal District Attorney Joe Gonzales announced via press release that Brad had “concealed” a “reciprocating saw” two days after Suzanne’s disappearance, and authorities informed family members that Suzanne’s DNA had been identified on the saw.
Brad remains in Bexar County’s jail with bonds totaling $3 million and a federal hold by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for the weapons charge. His attorney could not be reached for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Mollie Markowitz contributed to this report.
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Killer Lori Vallow, 'doomsday mom,' says Jesus spoke to her in spiritual vision, showed her prison release
Lori Vallow, known as the Idaho “doomsday mom” convicted of killing two of her children and conspiring to kill husband Chad Daybell’s former wife in 2019, expressed her belief that she will be freed from prison in the future in her first TV interview since she was sentenced to life in prison in 2023.
Vallow and Daybell, who was sentenced to death, killed Vallow’s youngest children, 7-year-old J.J. Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, as well as Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell, in what prosecutors described as an escalation of their extreme “doomsday” religious views by which they believed certain people were “zombies.” Vallow maintains her innocence.
“I have seen things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in heaven, and we were not … in prison,” Vallow told “Dateline” in a new episode that premiered Friday night when asked about her belief that she and Daybell will be exonerated. “And they were still in the future from now.”
Vallow also took aim at the media in the “Dateline” interview, saying, “They exaggerate everything, and they make stuff up, and they twist things around.”
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Lori Vallow, convicted of killing two of her children and conspiring to kill husband Chad Daybell’s former wife in 2019, expressed her belief she will be freed from prison in the future in her first TV interview since she was sentenced to life in prison in 2023. (Dateline)
Vallow added that she is “absolutely” misunderstood.
The so-called cult mom will stand trial in Arizona for allegedly conspiring to kill her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and her niece’s ex-husband after a judge recently denied her motion to dismiss the case.
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After J.J. and Tylee were reported missing in September 2019 and Tammy Daybell died a month later, in October 2019, Vallow and Daybell married in Hawaii in November of that same year. They proceeded to steal J.J. and Tylee’s Social Security benefits after their disappearances.
J.J. and Tylee were found in shallow graves on Daybell’s rural Rexburg property in June 2020. The 16-year-old’s remains were burned while the 7-year-old was bound in duct tape.
When asked whether she was at the site of her children’s murders, Vallow told “Dateline” in her interview, “I was not there.”
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Lori and Chad Daybell were convicted of killing 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old J.J. Vallow in 2019. (Rexberg Police Department)
Idaho prosecutors alleged during Vallow and Daybell’s trials the pair had extreme religious beliefs, including the idea that some people had “dark” souls while others had “light” souls. They believed the “dark” spirits could be so dark, in fact, that they could be zombies.
Vallow’s oldest son and only surviving child, Colby Ryan, is also featured in the “Dateline” episode.
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In this aerial photo, investigators search for human remains on Chad Daybell’s property in Salem, Idaho, June 9, 2020. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register )
“I guess I always was, like, a positive, see-the-best-in-people kind of person, and then I watched someone I knew my entire life do what she did, and it just changed the way I view people,” Colby told “Dateline” when asked how his mother’s crimes have affected him. “The way that my sister was treated was with hate. That’s not even human to do what they did to her after.”
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Charles Vallow died in July 2019. Two months later, in September 2019, Tylee and J.J. disappeared. Tammy Daybell died of asphyxiation in November 2019. Alex Cox died of an apparent blood clot in December 2019. (KASZ; Facebook; Post Register/John Roark, AP Pool)
The “Dateline” interview also featured interviews with retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Doug Hart, the former lead detective for the Rexburg Police Department; Sheriff Ron Ball; and Det. Ray Hermosillo of the Rexburg Police Department.
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Vallow and Daybell allegedly collected J.J.’s and Tylee’s Social Security benefits between Oct. 1, 2019, and Jan. 22, 2020, after their murders. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register )
During her sentencing, Vallow spoke publicly for the first time since her arrest in 2020 and appeared to be in denial, saying at the time that she knew her children were “happy and busy in the spirit world.”
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“I have had many communications with Jesus Christ, savior of this world, and our heavenly parents. I have had many angelic visitors come and communicated with me and even manifested themselves to me because of these communications,” Vallow told an Idaho courtroom during her sentencing hearing.
“I know for a fact that my children are happy and busy in the spirit world. Because of my communications with my friend, Tammy Daybell, I know that she is also very happy and extremely busy.”
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In her statement to the court, Vallow added she “died in the hospital” while she was in labor with her daughter, Tylee. Doctors revived her, at which point she began seeing spirits.
“One of the times that Tylee came to me as a spirit after she died … she said to me, ‘Stop worrying, mom. We are fine.’ She knows how I worry and how I miss her,” Vallow said at the time.
The so-called “cult mom” was extradited to Arizona in November 2023, about four months after she was sentenced to life without parole in Idaho.
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Convicted felon arrested after ghost gun, tactical armor found in San Bernardino County home
A convicted felon was arrested after deputies found a ghost gun, tactical gear, suspected narcotics and more at a San Bernardino County home.
The suspect, Francisco Yzarraraz, 48, of Victorville, is a convicted felon and is prohibited from possessing ammunition and body armor, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
On March 13, deputies served a search warrant at Yzarraraz’s home on the 12900 block of Claremore Street.
During the search, investigators found a loaded homemade Polymer 80 pistol, several ammunition magazines, tactical body armor, miscellaneous ammunition, and a substantial amount of individually packed bags of suspected methamphetamine.
Authorities also found digital scales with white powder residue and a large amount of stolen mail, credit cards and personal ID information that did not belong to Yzarraraz.
Yzarraraz was arrested and booked into the High Desert Detention Center for:
- Possession of a controlled substance while armed
- Possession of a controlled substance for sale
- Felon in possession of a firearm
- Prohibited from owning ammunition
- Felon in possession of body armor
Yzarraraz was previously convicted of robbery, authorities said.
No further details were released as the case remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hesperia Police Department at 760-947-1500 or Sheriff’s Dispatch at 760-956-5001.
Anonymous tips can be provided to We-Tip at 1-800-782-7463 or online at wetip.com.
A four-block section of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills will be closed for three weeks, with detours in place, as part of ongoing LA Metro construction on the D Line Extension.
The full closure between El Camino Drive and Crescent Drive will run from March 17 to April 7 to allow crews to complete deck removal and roadway restoration for the Wilshire/Rodeo Station, which is currently under construction.
Work will take place 24 hours a day, seven days a week, except during holidays and regional events, LA Metro officials said.
The construction will also impact Metro bus routes.
Starting March 17, Metro Lines 20 and 720 will detour via Santa Monica Boulevard, Burton Way, and San Vicente Boulevard, with temporary stops along the route. Line 617 will reroute via Santa Monica Boulevard, Century Park East, and Olympic Boulevard, with a temporary stop at Santa Monica and Wilshire.
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Map shows the planned Metro bus detours that will be in place during road closures on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills from March 17 to April 7, 2025. (City of Beverly Hills) -
Map shows the planned Metro bus detours that will be in place during road closures on Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills from March 17 to April 7, 2025. (City of Beverly Hills)
These detours will remain in place through April 7.
The Wilshire/Rodeo Station is part of the D Line, formerly the Purple Line, extension, which will connect downtown Los Angeles to Westwood in about 25 minutes. The project is being built in three sections, with the first phase from Wilshire/Western to Wilshire/La Cienega set to open this year. The second phase, including Wilshire/Rodeo, is expected to be completed in 2026.
For more information on the project and traffic detours, visit beverlyhills.org/purpleline.
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