The hunt for missing mom of four Suzanne Clark Simpson led to a huge search of a landfill close to her Texas home Tuesday — with cops predicting there is a “good chance” they’ll find her body there.
Multiple law enforcement agencies began scouring a landfill near San Antonio in hazmat suits on Tuesday, nine days after Simpson vanished after allegedly fighting with her property tycoon husband.
“We feel confident there is a good chance of recovering Suzanne at that location,” the Olmos Park Police Department said in a statement shared by the missing mom’s family.
“Evidence, statements, and solid police investigation has led us there,” the department said, without elaborating.
The mother of four has not been seen or heard from since Oct. 6 when she was heard by a neighbor screaming in the woods outside her home in Olmos Park.
Suzanne’s husband of 22 years, 53-year-old Brad Simpson, was arrested last Wednesday and charged with assault causing bodily injury – family violence and unlawful restraint. He remains locked up at the Bexar County jail Friday on a $2 million bond.
The missing mom’s brother-in-law, Barton Tinsley Simpson, said the family is “so appreciative of the endless, grueling hours” that police “have committed to uncovering solid information.”
“We are comforted by the fact that they might be close to determining what happened to Suzanne.”
Simpson’s family no longer believes she is alive.
Her mother, Barbara Clark, revealed at a vigil for her daughter on Sunday night that Simpson had called her just an hour before she disappeared and told her that Brad had been physically abusive, causing injuries to her arm and back.
“She called me up and told me the things that Brad had done to her physically,” Clark said, suggesting the violence was “alcohol-related.”
“I came up with an alternative plan for her that she would move in with me and have her little toddler go to the elementary school in my neighborhood,” Clark said, lamenting that she “never got to tell her the plan.”
A neighbor witnessed Suzanne and Brad in a physical altercation between 10 and 11 p.m. that same night, according to police. Brad was “clearly attempting to keep Ms. Simpson from running away,” the neighbor told investigators.
The man said the married couple walked off into the woods together. When he went outside to investigate minutes later he heard“two to three screams” coming from the darkness and ran back inside.
About an hour later, Brad left the house in his pickup truck and returned between two and three hours later, the neighbor said.
Brad initially reported Suzanne missing on Monday — but has been uncooperative with law enforcement as the frantic search for his wife continues.
Her phone has also notably not been recovered — a key piece of evidence that retired FBI Special Agent and Project Absentis Managing Director Abel Pena thinks could blow the case wide open.
“The big thing is going to be digital evidence,” he told News4SA Tuesday. “If they find her cell phone there, that would be a great find. From there they can probably put together a better timeline.”
The couple share two children and Suzanne has two others from a previous relationship, officials said.
