This Texas Mom Vanished Earlier This Month After Allegedly Arguing With Her Husband, Who Has Since Been Arrested, And Her Mother Fears She’s No Longer Alive
The search for a missing mother of four from Texas continues in the wake of her husband being arrested in connection with her case.
Suzanne Simpson is 51-years-old and lives in an exclusive suburb known as Olmos Park, located about four miles north of downtown San Antonio.
She was a realtor working for Nix Realty, a luxury real estate brokerage. And on October 6, Suzanne went to a birthday party with her husband, Brad Simpson, at The Argyle.
This private dinner club on Patterson Avenue in Alamo Heights is associated with the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
Following the event, Suzanne was last seen with her husband outside of their home, located in the 500 block of East Olmos Drive, sometime between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Then she vanished.
Brad contacted the Olmos Park Police Department the next day, October 7, to report his wife missing after she didn’t pick their daughter up from school.
While speaking with authorities, Brad reportedly claimed he only found out about Suzanne’s disappearance at 3:00 p.m. that day, when their daughter wasn’t retrieved from school.
He was also “uncooperative” during interviews with police, according to Olmos Park Police Chief Fidel Villegas.
Upon launching an investigation, authorities learned a neighbor allegedly witnessed an altercation between Suzanne and Brad after they got home from The Argyle.
Olmos Park Police Department – pictured above is Suzanne
The neighbor, who lived across the street, reportedly saw the couple arguing and then physically fighting with each other outside their home.
The neighbor stated Brad was “grabbing her upper torso area to gain control of her body.” The neighbor further claimed Brad was attempting to prevent Suzanne from running away.
Afterward, the neighbor reportedly went outside with a flashlight and heard screaming coming from a nearby wooded area. Brad then left in his black 2019 GMC AT4 pickup truck with Texas license plate number MWD7050 and returned about one or two hours later.
“That night, we think she was in distress… it’s very suspicious, though, that obviously she’s not going to work, and she’s not checking in on her children,” Chief Villegas stated.
Brad was later arrested on two family violence charges in connection to his wife’s disappearance and is in Bexar County Jail. He is reportedly now facing a federal gun charge as well, possession of an illegal weapon for a short-barrel firearm.
Searches for Suzanne have turned up two items of interest in the woods. Additionally, investigators have begun searching a landfill located on the southeast side of Olmos Park.
“Currently, they have moved to a location, a landfill just outside San Antonio. They’ve been there for the last two days, searching for evidence,” said Sergeant Deon Cockrell of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
“We’re just continuing the investigation from one stage to another. If it leads to somewhere else tomorrow, we’ll go to that location tomorrow.”
After a candlelight prayer vigil held for Suzanne on October 14, her mother, Barbara Clark, admitted to believing that Suzanne was no longer alive.
“Suzanne and I had an opportunity to talk an hour before a lot of this happened, and I don’t understand why and what happened, and I hope someday I will be able to understand the situation,” she explained.
The night of Suzanne’s disappearance, she reportedly called Barbara and asked if her mom would watch one of her four kids while she went out.
Suzanne changed her mind and then called her mom for a second time later that night, supposedly telling Barbara about an altercation she’d had with her husband.
“My speculation is maybe the whole thing is alcohol-related because when she got back, she called me up and told me things that Brad had done to her physically,” Barbara explained.
According to Barbara, Suzanne and Brad had gotten into other disagreements in the past, and Barbara was planning to ask her daughter to leave.
“Well, I came up with an alternative plan for her, and I hoped that she would move in with me and have her little toddler go to elementary school in my neighborhood. I never got to tell her the plan,” she said.
Suzanne is five foot five, weighs about 140 pounds, and has brown hair and hazel eyes. The night she went missing, she wore a black dress to The Argyle.
Anyone with information regarding her disappearance is urged to contact the Olmos Park Police Department at (210) 822-2000.
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