August 2023

• Brad Simpson physically assaulting Suzanne
• Suzanne Simpson spoke to her banker Gabriella L. Specia at Frost Bank employee, she was being physically abused by the Brad Simpson.
  

September 17, 2023 

• During a domestic violence incident, Brad Simpson took Suzanne’s cell phone and drove away. Later, he texted a friend Elizabeth Taylor Thomas, saying, “I still feel bad about tonight. I should never have grabbed her phone and driven off, but she was so protective of it.”

I still feel bad about tonight. I never should’ve grabbed her phone and drove off but she was so protective of it. My dumb ass didn’t know her pass code so I got locked out and had to bring it back. I really have no interest in looking through her phone or anybody else’s. these devices are the Devil”

October 6, 2024:

• 6:00 PM Suzanne Clark Simpson attended a party at The Argyle, a private club on Patterson Avenue in Alamo Heights, San Antonio, Texas.
  
• 8:30 pm Suzanne Simpson and her young child left The Argyle. Video surveillance image taken of Suzanne Simpson, showed her wearing a black, knee-length party dress and heels. 
• 8:40 pm Suzanne at the H-E-B store on Olmos Drive.
  
• 8:51 PM Suzanne leaves the store.
• Suzanne Simpson and her young child arrived at their home shortly thereafter.
  
• 9:15 PM Suzanne Simpson called a family friend Graham Matthews to say she was coming over.
• 9:16 PM called her mother Barbara Clark to say that Brad Simpson had just assaulted her. Brad Simpson had injured Suzanne’s arm and her back.  Suzanne’s cell phone was suspended “at the request of the subscriber (Brad)” 
• 9:24 PM Suzanne ended her call with her mother
  
• 9:25 PM Suzanne arrived to Graham Matthews house
• 10:22 PM “Find My” phone app, showed the last location of Suzanne’s phone was at home at 520 E. Olmos Drive, Olmos Park, Bexar County, Texas according to Suzanne Simpson’s daughter Chandler Suzanne Simpson.
  
• 11:00 PM a neighbor witnessed Suzanne in a physical altercation with her husband, Brad Simpson, outside their home in Olmos Park. Brad was seen restraining Suzanne and attempting to prevent her from leaving. Both were last seen heading into a nearby wooded area.
• The neighbor reported hearing screams shortly after, but did not call 911.
• 11:09 Brad Simpson turned his cell phone off.
  

October 7, 2024:

• 12:00 AM The neighbor saw Brad Simpson start his black GMC pickup truck and leave his house. The neighbor told authorities he saw Brad Simpson return about an hour later.
• 12:33 AM Brad’s truck was on the surveillance footage at HEB Grocery Store 300 W. Olmos Drive, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
  
• 7:15 AM Susanne’s cell phone pinged at a business parking lot in the 4000 block of McCullough Avenue, about half a mile from her home but has been inactive since.
• 7:53 AM Brad Simpson drops off his young child at school. The bed of his truck contains two white trash bags and a large ice chest. This occurs hours after a neighbor reportedly saw him arguing with his partner.
• 9:12 AM Brad is seen at a Whataburger in Boerne. His truck bed now contains three white trash bags, a large heavy-duty trash can, an ice chest, and a bulky item wrapped in a blue tarp with a metal firewood rack placed on top to weigh it down.
• 9:53 AM Brad visits a Home Depot in Boerne, where video surveillance and receipts show he purchases two bags of Quikrete cement, orange Home Depot construction bucket with a lid, box of 32 count heavy duty trash bags, one (1) bottle of 30-ounce Clorox disinfectant spray, and Insect repellent. While in the parking lot, he asks for directions to the nearest dump in Boerne. After this, he sets his phone to “lockdown” mode.
• 10:07 AM Brad Simpson left a Home Depot. He turned his phone off.
• 10:30 AM Brad’s truck is observed leaving the waste site in Boerne.
• 11:15 AM He then goes to a gas station in Boerne and buys two one-gallon jugs of water. Surveillance footage shows the trash bags are no longer in the truck bed, though the blue tarp, firewood rack, and trash can remain. Brad has changed his footwear from sandals to cowboy boots. His Truck captured in Median, Bandera county for approximately 13 minutes prior to heading east bound..
  
• 1:41 PM A license plate reader captures Brad’s truck returning to Boerne, Kendall County. The blue tarp that was previously visible is now gone, and the firewood rack appears to have been re-positioned.
• 3:00 PM Brad Simpson received a call notifying him that no one picked up their child from school. Suzanne Clark Simpson typically picks up their child from school
• 3:27 PM Truck bed was cleared of the blue tarp and the metal firewood rack.
  
• 3:30 PM Brad arrives at his child’s school in Alamo Heights to pick them up. The firewood rack is no longer in the truck bed, though he still has the heavy-duty trash can and ice chest.
• 4:07 PM Brad visits a Bubble Bath Car Wash on San Pedro Avenue and cleans the interior of his truck. Surveillance shows “dried cement splashes” near the rear passenger compartment and truck bed, with only the ice chest remaining visible and 30-ounce Clorox bottle located within the rear passenger compartment of the vehicle.
• 9:57 PM Brad’s wife, is reported missing by a friend Sunnie Jane Woods .
• 10:11 PM Simpson called Olmos Park police and left a voicemail claiming he hadn’t seen his wife all day.
• Authorities are asking the public for any information or sightings of Brad’s black GMC Sierra on Sunday evening, in hopes of gathering further clues related to Suzanne’s disappearance.

October 8, 2024: Brad Simpson asks business partner for help hiding weapon

• 9:00 am, Detective received a copy of the phone conversation that occurred between Olmos Park Police Chief Fidel Villegas #301 and the Simpson where he had seen his wife the morning of Monday, 10/07/2024 at approximately 6:30 am as he was leaving to drop off his child at school. He stated he peeked into a separate room and observed his wife asleep. This contradicts his statement about not seeing his wife when he Initially spoke to patrol officers C. Maldonado and A. Davila on the night of 10/07/2024.
• Authorities launched a search operation in the Olmos Park area and nearby wooded locations. Two “articles of interest” were found in the woods but required forensic analysis to determine any relevance to the case.
• Brad Simpson sent a text message to James Valle Cotter
• Brad: “If you’re in Bandera can you haul ass and meet me at your house?
• James: I don’t have much time…
• Simpson: “Ok, make sure to leave all that shit in the pump house, especially that gun
  
• Simpson: Sorry for the urgency but you’re all I got especially now… social media is destroying me,
• 4:37 p.m.: Staff alerts Olmos Park police that the Simpsons’ 5-year-old daughter told school employees her parents had been fighting. The child told school officials that her dad hit her mom in the face and possibly pushed her mom into a wall.  Police interviewed staff at the school one of Suzanne’s children attends. The child disclosed that their parents had been “fighting” and that Brad had assaulted Suzanne, taking her phone away during the altercation. The child also mentioned seeing a bruise on their mother’s elbow.  Statement
• 9:50 p.m., police questioned Simpson’s neighbor Albert “Bert” Hernandez: He told investigators that he had witnessed the couple involved in a physical altercation outside their home the previous night, after they returned from a party. According to the neighbor, between 10 and 11 p.m., he overheard an argument from his window and saw Brad Simpson physically restraining Suzanne, trying to prevent her from running away. The couple then walked off together into a nearby wooded area. The neighbor, concerned, grabbed a flashlight to investigate but soon heard “two to three screams” coming from the woods, prompting him to return inside.
• 10 p.m., Texas Rangers investigator met with a neighbor of the Simpsons’ who witnessed their altercation.

October 9, 2024: Police search the Simpson family home. Law enforcement officers from the Olmos Park Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety executed the warrant on October 9, 2024.

• 12:42 AM. police obtained an arrest warrant for Brad Simpson on assault charges
  
• 1:30 AM Olmos Park Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety executed the warrant at the residence located at 520 E. Olmos Drive, Olmos Park, Bexar County, Texas and observed an indention located on wall at the bottom of the stairway at the residence.
• Brad Simpson was arrested on charges related to domestic violence after failing to cooperate with the investigation. He had been avoiding law enforcement since his initial interview. Arrest Affidavit
• 4:00 AM Brad Simpson was booked into the Kendall County Jail.
• The Texas Rangers executed a search warrant at a home at 359 Highland Drive, Bandera, Bandera County, Texas and located a burn site with a burnt laptop and multiple cell phones belonging to Brad Simpson. Two notes recovered from one of his cell phones were titled “This next life” and “Last will and testament.” The notes included apologies for physically assaulting his wife in August 2023 and again on Oct. 6. he created these notes on 10/08/2024.

Update on missing woman Suzanne Clark Simpson, who was last seen at 11 p.m. Sunday in the 500 block of East Olmos Drive. Her husband, Brad Simpson, was booked early Wednesday morning on charges of assault causing bodily injury-family violence and unlawful restraint.

October 10, 2024:

• 4 PM LE held another media briefing and released a photo from a security camera showing Suzanne Simpson outside The Argyle.
• A Texas Ranger searches Brad’s vehicle. Tests confirmed stains in the Brad’s vehicle blood.
• A family member informed law enforcement officers that Brad Simpson owned multiple firearms that he/she wanted to surrender. The family member recovered several firearms from a locked room in the Simpson Residence and showed them to police and ATF agents. This room also contained several silencers registered to Brad Simpson in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (“NFRTR”).
• Olmos Park police interviewed James Valle Cotter Brads business partner. Cotter and Simpson have known each other for 25 years. They worked together at Cotter & Sons, a real estate firm founded by Cotter’s father, and they have been partners in a series of business ventures over the years. LE asked for a permission to examine James Valle Cotter phone, his text message and call history with Brad Simpson.
  

October 11, 2024:

• 8 AM Authorities began searching I-10, near Highway 87 a mile away from where Brad Simpson was arrested.
  
• 3 PM Authorities completed a search of the area.
  
• Brad Simpson was charged with Unlawful Possession of a Firearm Not Registered to Him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Brad Chandler Simpson Criminal Complaint
  

October 12, 2024

• Authorities obtain a warrant to search a southeast Bexar County landfill.
  

October 13, 2024:

• Family held a vigil for Suzanne
• Barbara Clark, Suzanne Simpson’s mother told reporters her daughter told her Brad Simpson hit her.
• Simpson Family released another statement on social media. Statement 
  

October 14, 2024:

• 4-day search for Suzanne Simpson at East Side landfill

October 15, 2024:

• 9:26 AM Simpson Family released another statement on social media. Statement
  

The Simpson family has been very helpful and supportive, even when they are the ones in need of support and understanding at this time.

The OPPD met with family members to discuss the stage of the investigation we are in—a search stage. The search will be at a SE side landfill. We feel confident there is a good chance of recovering Suzanne at that location.

Evidence, statements, and solid police investigation has led us there. This would not be possible without the help of many other LE agencies and some non LE agencies. However, the Texas Rangers and the DPS are at the forefront of this investigation and the OPPD is working side by side with them. Full Statement

October 16, 2024:

• 10: 39 AM Statement from Simpson Family Statement
  

Until Brad chooses to cooperate, we will continue cooperate for him, as we have from the very beginning of this heartbreaking ordeal. This is not how he was raised, and this is not who we are. Our parents instilled in us the values of honoring and protecting others, and they are truly remarkable people. The devastation this has caused to our family is overwhelming. Brad’s refusal to cooperate is unacceptable. My sister and brother-in-law have stepped up to take care of the children, but the impact on our parents has been shattering. Our lives have been irreparably changed. Full Statement

October 17, 2024:

• Landfill search called off
• “After conducting an extensive search consisting of digging and sifting through the municipal solid waste, no evidence was found”

October 20, 2024:

• An informant told Olmos Park police that Cotter had told him Simpson sent him to his home to retrieve an AK-47 with a bullet hole in its wooden stock. Cotter removed the weapon before police searched the walk-in vault at Simpson’s house and stashed the AK-47 in a void within a bedroom wall.
  

October 21, 2024: October 21: Brad Simpson’s business partner arrested in Suzanne Simpson investigation

• Police searched James Cotter’s home. Cotter denied that Simpson had asked him to hide any weapons, the dog alerted when it entered Cotter’s bedroom and approached the wall-mounted TV, once they removed the television and part of the wall, they found a black-and-brown Chinese-made AK-47 with the orange string that could be used to pull it from its hiding place, beside an air conditioning vent. In Cotter’s garage, investigators found a roll of orange string. The rifle and the string were seized as evidence.
  
• Brad Simpson business partner arrested James Valle Cotter faces felony charges of tampering with the evidence with the intent to impair an investigation. Arrest
  

October 23, 2024: LE interviewed the witnesses. 

• Frost Bank employee, Gabriella L. Specia said Suzanne Simpson had made an outcry of domestic violence in August. She added that her husband would also commonly take her cell phone away and would tell their children that she had lost her phone after Brad took it from her.. She told the banker that “if she went missing to look for her in a lake”
• During a search of the Simpson residence, authorities find a bag of cement, a box of heavy-duty black trash bags, a heavy-duty trash can, and a metal firewood rack. Box of trash bags contained only 28 bags out of 32 total trash bags.
  

October 30, 2024

• 6:40 PM Authorities interviewed a friend who told them that Suzanne Simpson knew her husband tracked her cell phone, and she knew him to be “extremely jealous,” 
  

November 4, 2024

• James Cotter appeared at a bond hearing where his attorney, Robert Maurer, argued that the $1 million bond was excessive and unconstitutional. The judge postponed the decision, setting the hearing to resume the next day to allow for testimony from Cotter’s mother regarding his financial circumstances.

November 5, 2024

• Suzanne Simpson’s daughter shared a series of Instagram stories about her mother’s disappearance and condemned domestic violence. In one of the posts, she alleged that her father, Brad Simpson, “took my mother’s life in a state of rage and control.”

Suzanne Simpson was reported as a missing person to the Olmos Park Police Department on October 7, 2024. Officers went to the residence shared by Suzanne Simpson and her husband, Brad Chandler Simpson, on Olmos Drive in Olmos Park (“Simpson Residence”) to investigate, where they met Simpson.

The Simpson Residence is within the Western District of Texas. As the investigation continued, officers developed probable cause to obtain a search warrant for the Simpson Residence.

Suzanne Simpson’s phone has yet to be located, adding to the challenges faced by investigators. Brad Simpson, currently held in Bexar County Jail, has been uncooperative during the investigation, according to police. Before his arrest, he fled to his ranch in Bandera County earlier in the week, appearing to distance himself from his family, as noted in an affidavit.

Police interviewed staff at the school one of Suzanne’s children attends. The child disclosed that their parents had been “fighting” and that Brad had assaulted Suzanne, taking her phone away during the altercation. The child also mentioned seeing a bruise on their mother’s elbow. Statement

A large group of volunteers and police searched a wooded area, and while Suzanne was not found, authorities discovered two pieces of evidence, though police chief Fidel Villegas did not provide further details.

Suzanne’s brother-in-law, Barton Tinsley Simpson, expressed that the family has been “devastated” by her disappearance.

Our family is devastated by the disappearance of our beloved Suzanne. We are doing everything we can to fully cooperate with law enforcement, and our first priority is to find her and bring her home.

Our second priority is to surround her children with love and ensure they are protected during this incredibly difficult time. We are desperately seeking answers and pleading for anyone with information to come forward.

We greatly appreciate the public outcry and support, and we are aligned in wanting answers and resolution.

We ask the public to respect our privacy, but we also deeply appreciate the outpouring of support. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Olmos Park Police Department . Your help could make all the difference. Statement

November 7, 2024

Brad Chandler Simpson was charged with murder Thursday, a month after his wife Suzanne Simpson went missing in San Antonio, Texas. Brad Simpson’s brother, Barton Simpson, has been working closely with law enforcement after his brother and Suzanne’s husband went radio silent, lawyering up and becoming uncooperative with investigators. In the press conference, Bart Simpson said the new charges are heartbreaking, but it means the family can now start the healing process.

• Brad Simpson charged with murder of wife Suzanne Clark Simpson. Olmos Park Police Chief Fidel Villegas said at a press conference that local authorities would continue to search for Suzanne Simpson but they had gathered enough to charge Brad Simpson in connection with the death of his wife. Affidavit
  

November 14, 2024 

• Brad Simpson’s attorneys filed a motion requesting an examining trial. This hearing requires prosecutors to present witnesses and demonstrate sufficient evidence to meet the burden of probable cause for a murder charge. The motion states: “If the State fails to present sufficient evidence to support a finding of probable cause by the court, Brad Simpson should be released from further restraint on his liberties.”

Update on missing woman Suzanne Clark Simpson, who was last seen at 11 p.m. Sunday in the 500 block of East Olmos Drive. Her husband, Brad Simpson, was charged with the murder of his wife Suzanne Clark Simpson. Arrest Warrant