Lawyers who represent a Texas Property Tycoon accused of killing his broker's wife, trying to take the state of the state against him apart while her body remains missing.
Brad Simpson, 54, was arrested for three days after his wife, Suzanne Simpson, 51, was seen late in the evening outside her $ 1.5 million house in the Ritzy Olmos Park district in San Antonio, an argument with him in a fight.
Since then, he has been charged with murder of the first degree crime and serious abuse with a fatal weapon that causes serious accusations of physical injury that have a maximum life sentence.
Simpson is also confronted with accusations of mess with a corpse, as well as two counts of messing with physical evidence and possession of a forbidden weapon.
Authorities have said they believe that he killed Simpson on the night of October 6 and then removed her body.
But on Wednesday, Simpson's defense lawyers submitted a motion to reject the indictment against him, according to the San Antonio report.
When they appeared with Simpson later that day, the defense lawyers said they still needed about one terabyte of evidence to continue before they could continue with their motion to destroy the indictment, Fox News reports.
Public Prosecutors said when they were still waiting to receive about five to six terabytes of evidence from the Texas Rangers, and admitted that they had problems transferring some data to the defense, according to my San Antonio.
Brad Simpson, 54, appeared in court on Wednesday for a hearing for the trial
He is accused of killing his wife, Suzanne Simpson, 51, the night of October 6
As a result, the judge in the case postponed a hearing until next month.
In the meantime, spokesperson Deon Cockkell, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that the authorities will continue their search for the remains of Suzanne.
“They won't stop watching,” Cockkell promised. “We still want to find her, just as much as her family.”
Authorities have previously said that they believe that Suzanne died on October 6, the last time she was seen alive, because they did not find any evidence of life from mobile data, financial data, family, friends and colleagues.
Prosecutors explained that Suzanne disappeared at night, she and Brad were seen to nearby Bushland when a neighbor said he heard shouts.
The neighbor said he saw Brad 'her upper body grabbing to gain control of her body, “according to a police report.
At one point he said that Suzanne tried to get away from Mr. Simpson when he tried to pull her down ', and he chased her when she walked away, according to a sworn explanation.
The neighbor claimed that they are screaming from a wooded area, before Brad rose again about an hour later and drove into his truck.
Authorities have said that they believe that Suzanne died on October 6, the last time she was seen alive, because they did not find any evidence of the lives of mobile phones, financial data, family, friends and colleagues (Credit: Olmos Park Police )
When detectives later asked him about the disappearance of his wife, the authorities said that Brad seemed “carefree about his wife who was missing and showed little to no emotion,” said the sworn explanation.
It added that he had different scratches and cracks on his hands and arms.
The sworn explanation also noted that when the five -year -old child of the couple was questioned by a school adviser, she claimed that Brad pushed her mother against the wall in the night of October 6, hit her mother on her face and hurt the elbow of Her mother in their home. '
Brad is said to have reported “her mother's phone turned out because they fought.”
After his arrest, the mother of Suzanne, Barbara Clark, claimed that she received a harrowing call from her only a few hours before Suzanne was missing.
“She called me and told me that Brad had done her physically,” Barbara said in a wake for her daughter.
She explained that Suzanne trusted her and revealed that Simpson had injured her arm and her back at about 9 p.m.
The daughter of Brad and Suzanne, Chandler Simpson, also claimed on social media that her father took my mother's life in a state of anger and control, “adding that he was offensive.
The mother of the missing woman, Barbara Clark, explained that Suzanne trusted her and revealed that Simpson injured her arm and her back at around 9 p.m.
She was last seen outside her $ 1.5 million house in the Ritzy Olmos Park in San Antonio in a fight with Brad
Brad is now locked up in the prison of Bexar County, with his bond on a combined $ 3 million.
Sam Bassett van Texas, Sam Bassett, who is not involved in the case, suggested that his layers could now close a deal for him to give full disclosure and to argue for 40 years instead of life, because in Texas life 60 year means.
“Everything less than 60 years is better than the likely life imprisonment that he could receive when he ends up,” he said, adding, “The best way they are going to find her body is when he finally decides to tell them.”
Yet he said, “the Texas Rangers are … very thoroughly in their research.
“I think the researchers still hope to find the body … but you have to prepare for a process if you are a public prosecutor as if you won't have a body.”
Brad's old business partner James 'Val' Cotter (photo), 65, was also charged by a large jury in connection with the death of Suzanne
But Brad is not the only one that is being charged for the murder of the mother of four, because his old business partner James 'Val' Cotter, 65, was also charged for crime accusations of tampering with evidence with the intention of prohibiting prohibitions Hinder weapons.
He is accused of entering Brad's Gunroom on 8 October and the removal of an AK-47, the prosecutors say that he has been illegally changed to a 'machine gun' and is not properly registered according to KSAT.
An arrest warrant, obtained by my San Antonio, claims that Brad contacted him that day and to ask for help to hide a weapon.
Allegedly he said to Cotter “Make sure you leave everything in the pump house, especially the gun.”
'Sorry for the urgency, but you are now everything I have received now … Social media destroys me,' texts Brad's old friend, according to the order.
When he was questioned by the police, James initially claimed that Brad referred to a .22 caliber rifle that he had taken out of Brad's house.
But an anonymous witness later said that the Cotter police had taken an AK-47 from the walk-in safe of the Brad family, which, according to the order, was filled with weapons.
Simpson is now back in court on 12 March, while Cotter is tested on 21 May.
