Suzanne Simpson, the disappearing San Antonio realtor (UT alum)

Nice Guy Eddie · October 22

47 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Guessing it was the saying of 911. Otherwise wouldn't they come every time the Brats are having maritals.

He didn't say that wasn't happening as well.

Armybrat · October 22

19 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

He didn't say that wasn't happening as well.

Samson's Wig · October 22

2 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Early in the evening of July 3rd I started having a severe a-fib attack and was in bad enough shape to start discussing with Mrs. Brat about calling 911.
A few minutes later before she even picked up her phone, a Wilco deputy knocked on our front door to ask if someone was having a medical emergency.
He did say our address was on record of having prior medical emergency calls.
Less than 5 minutes later the Sam Bass FD showed up followed closely by the EMS.
We did not call any of those folks at all.
We do not have an Alexis, nor have we ever used Siri.
My pacemaker has a Bluetooth, but the monitor was 30’ away in our bedroom.

Obviously, one of our electronic gadgets is eavesdropping and blabbing to somebody or some computer elsewhere without our knowledge.

That was definitely your pacemaker sending out the bat signal.

SurlyGator · October 22

24 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

That was definitely your pacemaker sending out the bat signal.

As someone who sells pacemakers, zero chance it is the culprit. If it had detected something, it would have sent an alert to AB’s following physician within that timeframe, but they aren’t dispatching the sheriff’s office that quickly.

Armybrat · October 22

13 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

As someone who sells pacemakers, zero chance it is the culprit. If it had detected something, it would have sent an alert to AB’s following physician within that timeframe, but they aren’t dispatching the sheriff’s office that quickly.

Maybe the Feds who are monitoring the gun owners thread here on Surly heard something. 😀

Samson's Wig · October 22

18 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

As someone who sells pacemakers, zero chance it is the culprit. If it had detected something, it would have sent an alert to AB’s following physician within that timeframe, but they aren’t dispatching the sheriff’s office that quickly.

I'll take your word for it, and that makes sense.

My dad's pacemaker alerts his physician's office with irregularities, so I'm familiar with that process. I assumed in AB's case that it was the physician's office that maybe had an itchy trigger finger in terms of calling in support. That still seems more plausible to me than a sheriff and EMT showing up based on his phone, or whatever, monitoring his conversation with his wife.

SurlyGator · October 22

5 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

I'll take your word for it, and that makes sense.

My dad's pacemaker alerts his physician's office with irregularities, so I'm familiar with that process. I assumed in AB's case that it was the physician's office that maybe had an itchy trigger finger in terms of calling in support. That still seems more plausible to me than a sheriff and EMT showing up based on his phone, or whatever, monitoring his conversation with his wife.

Makes sense in theory, but way easier for the MD’s office to call the patient directly and recommend going to the ER if necessary. Even then, if they got the phone call within a half hour I would be very impressed with that clinic’ processing time.

This sounds much more Big Brother-y to me. Maybe an app on the phone that is listening in? Way too weird of a coincidence.

Edited October 22 by SurlyGator
Spelling - how does it work?

flatdawgs · October 22

2 hours ago, BamaATL said:

You jest, but sadly this is extremely true. I read a stat a while ago about Native American missing women and presumed murdered and it was shocking.

This is a major issue in Canada as well. Just terrible, and as down here mostly ignored.

huge · October 22

18 hours ago, huge said:

Dammmmmmn you got some big breasts…

Dennis Taylor · October 22

Pacemaker thread is probably somewhere...

F250 · October 22

3 hours ago, BamaATL said:

You jest, but sadly this is extremely true. I read a stat a while ago about Native American missing women and presumed murdered and it was shocking.

3 hours ago, UTPhil2006 said:

Was the whole premise behind the show Alaska Daily. Only lasted a season with Hilary Swank.

I wasn't aware of the issue until I watched the series Three Pines. That's where I first heard about the MMIW movement and the empty red dress and red hand symbols. I was curious and pretty damn shocked after learning about it. https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw

Dbeasy · October 22

16 hours ago, Helobious said:

The clearance rate nationwide for homicides is something like 50%. In Bexar county (where this occurred) it’s roughly 35% in recent years. It’s very easy to get away with a murder

I want to see complete statistics on number of deal bodies found, % declared a murder. Because I can guarantee law enforcement is doing everything in their power to avoid calling a death a murder so that their clearance rate is as large as possible. Fudging stats is one of the reasons crime rates look better.

brown water · October 22

15 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

I bet if the statistics were available, they would show it's very easy to get away with murder as long as the victim isn't a white woman. Particularly one of means.

South Austin · October 22

16 hours ago, Helobious said:

The clearance rate nationwide for homicides is something like 50%. In Bexar county (where this occurred) it’s roughly 35% in recent years. It’s very easy to get away with a murder

Nice Guy Eddie · October 22

40 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

I want to see complete statistics on number of deal bodies found, % declared a murder. Because I can guarantee law enforcement is doing everything in their power to avoid calling a death a murder so that their clearance rate is as large as possible. Fudging stats is one of the reasons crime rates look better.

jdhorn92 · October 22

16 hours ago, C-Man said:

I'm sure it's a hell of lot easier statistically to get away with murder when it's completely random. Not so much if/when it's your spouse.

Without a doubt. I read a book recently called Ill Be Gone In The Dark written by Patton Oswalt's wife (name escapes me) about the original GSK; went decades before she solved the case(s). Random killings collar rate is very low.

F250 · October 22

58 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I need to rewatch The Wire.

atomheartbevo · October 23

11 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Early in the evening of July 3rd I started having a severe a-fib attack and was in bad enough shape to start discussing with Mrs. Brat about calling 911.
A few minutes later before she even picked up her phone, a Wilco deputy knocked on our front door to ask if someone was having a medical emergency.
He did say our address was on record of having prior medical emergency calls.
Less than 5 minutes later the Sam Bass FD showed up followed closely by the EMS.
We did not call any of those folks at all.
We do not have an Alexis, nor have we ever used Siri.
My pacemaker has a Bluetooth, but the monitor was 30’ away in our bedroom.

Obviously, one of our electronic gadgets is eavesdropping and blabbing to somebody or some computer elsewhere without our knowledge.

Do you have a smart watch connected to a phone? Those can be set to contact family members and if no response within X amount of time, they start calling 9/11 with your location. Or they can be set to call 911 with your location anyways. We've gotten watches for my parents/in-laws/step-parents, and when they've fallen or done something that triggered their watch (such as my dad's heart condition edit: which maybe an additional app or something else), we get blasted on our own phones with a map popping up with their locations and what the watch thinks happened. If I recall right, a countdown timer kicked in either on the original watch/phone or on our watches/phones, and if we or the relative who was having the problem didn't respond within X amount of time, it was notifying 9/11.

It's jarring for family members when it happens because shit gets real, but I love those features for a couple of relatives who live alone.

Note: I've not seen the process go all the way to automatically 9/11 - it was resolved by the relatives calling 9/11 or being taken off to the hospital or doctor.

Edited October 23 by atomheartbevo

atomheartbevo · October 23

7 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Maybe the Feds who are monitoring the gun owners thread here on Surly heard something. 😀

Most of us were ~~smart~~ dumb enough to have a big get-together on Lake Travis, around the deepest part of the lake, to show off our firearms to each other, and then somebody did something ~~brilliant~~ foolish and all of the firearms were lost overboard.

chainsaw · October 23

22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Most of us were ~~smart~~ dumb enough to have a big get-together on Lake Travis, around the deepest part of the lake, to show off our firearms to each other, and then somebody did something ~~brilliant~~ foolish and all of the firearms were lost overboard.

I know some of these monitors are linked up to private dispatchers who can make a judgment call about getting first responders involved.

Armybrat · October 23

25 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Do you have a smart watch connected to a phone? Those can be set to contact family members and if no response within X amount of time, they start calling 9/11 with your location. Or they can be set to call 9/11 with your location anyways. We've gotten watches for my parents/in-laws/step-parents, and when they've fallen or done something that triggered their watch (such as my dad's heart condition), we get blasted on our own phones with a map popping up with their locations and what the watch thinks happened. If I recall right, a countdown timer kicked in either on the original watch/phone or on our watches/phones, and if we or the relative who was having the problem didn't respond within X amount of time, it was notifying 9/11.

It's jarring for family members when it happens because shit gets real, but I love those features for a couple of relatives who live alone.

Note: I've not seen the process go all the way to automatically 9/11 - it was resolved by the relatives calling 9/11 or being taken off to the hospital or doctor.

No I don’t and was unaware of such an application of those watches.

atomheartbevo · October 23

4 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

No I don’t and was unaware of such an application of those watches.

Oh yeah, at least one relative manages to set off the fall detection alarm every month or two. It pings us with a map of their location and if there's no response from them for one minute it calls 911 with coordinates. Can also do the same thing if it detects a car crash.

The heart stuff, I think is something additional my dad has, either an extra app that he can use to check things, or a separate device.

Hagbard Celine · October 23

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/brad-simpson-james-cotter-arrest-19854712.php

Brad Simpson's business partner arrested on evidence tampering charge

Bookman · October 23

6 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/brad-simpson-james-cotter-arrest-19854712.php

Brad Simpson's business partner arrested on evidence tampering charge

Hahahahaha

royiv · October 23

I’m surprised they’ve been able to hold him this long with a $2 million bond on two misdemeanor charges. Seems like any criminal defense attorney worth their salt could get that amount greatly reduced.

chainsaw · October 23

12 minutes ago, royiv said:

I’m surprised they’ve been able to hold him this long with a $2 million bond on two misdemeanor charges. Seems like any criminal defense attorney worth their salt could get that amount greatly reduced.

He has a public defender I thought (weird for an Alamo Heights guy).

7 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/brad-simpson-james-cotter-arrest-19854712.php

Brad Simpson's business partner arrested on evidence tampering charge

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This isn't the first time Simpson and Cotter faced legal woes together.

Welcome Back, Cotter

AnTiM · October 23

6 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

He has a public defender I thought (weird for an Alamo Heights guy).

Welcome Back, Cotter

Duh and Duh Duh.

Bookman · October 23

These stupid fucking assholes even texted about it.

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According to the affidavit, Simpson texted Cotter on Oct. 8 and said: "If you're in Bandera can you haul ass and meet me at your house? I don't have much time..."

Simpson then texted: "Ok, make sure to leave all that shit in the pump house, especially that gun."

"Sorry for the urgency but you're all I got especially now... social media is destroying me," Simpson texted, according to the affidavit.

The Ranger asked Cotter what Simpson meant by "that gun" and Cotter said his friend was referring to a .22-caliber rifle he had removed from Simpson's home two days earlier, the affidavit says.

That statement was false, according to investigators.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/james-cotter-brad-simpson-san-antonio-19855198.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXhwcmVzc25ld3MuY29tL25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZS9qYW1lcy1jb3R0ZXItYnJhZC1zaW1wc29uLXNhbi1hbnRvbmlvLTE5ODU1MTk4LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTcyOTY4NzQ5MTczNA%3D%3D&rid=YmVkZGU4OWQtYWMxNS00ODEwLWEwZTUtOTliMTQ4ZDg2NzYw&sharecount=Mg%3D%3D

Deej · October 23

16 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

went decades before she solved the case(s).

Uh..no. Her book was published after her death. It renewed interest in the case, and the case was finally solved. She did not solve it.

freyguy · October 23

46 minutes ago, Bookman said:

These stupid fucking assholes even texted about it.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/james-cotter-brad-simpson-san-antonio-19855198.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXhwcmVzc25ld3MuY29tL25ld3MvYXJ0aWNsZS9qYW1lcy1jb3R0ZXItYnJhZC1zaW1wc29uLXNhbi1hbnRvbmlvLTE5ODU1MTk4LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTcyOTY4NzQ5MTczNA%3D%3D&rid=YmVkZGU4OWQtYWMxNS00ODEwLWEwZTUtOTliMTQ4ZDg2NzYw&sharecount=Mg%3D%3D

Real men of genius.

Trey3216 · October 23

6 minutes ago, freyguy said:

Real men of genius.

"Mr Murdering Husband's gun hider guy"

"He shoots the wife. Then shoots the text. You shoot yourself in the foot....Because, he's your ride or die. So today, we salute you....Mr Murdering Husband's gun hider guy. You put the mass....in dumbass"

Bill Brasky · October 23

22 hours ago, BamaATL said:

You jest, but sadly this is extremely true. I read a stat a while ago about Native American missing women and presumed murdered and it was shocking.

is it better or worse than the murder rate of white women with the last name Simpson?

atomheartbevo · October 23

1 hour ago, Bookman said:

These stupid fucking assholes even texted about it.

chainsaw · October 23

8 minutes ago, Bill Brasky said:

is it better or worse than the murder rate of white women with the last name Simpson?

Does he get a Dream Team?

Bookman · October 23

How do people like this have money? It must be all inherited.

Bill Brasky · October 23

5 minutes ago, Bookman said:

How do people like this have money? It must be all inherited.

new surly motto?

Deej · October 23

6 minutes ago, Bookman said:

How do people like this have money? It must be all inherited.

He's a nurse?

utee94 · October 23

Did he own a lightly used but good condition Corvette?

jdhorn92 · October 23

1 hour ago, Deej said:

Uh..no. Her book was published after her death. It renewed interest in the case, and the case was finally solved. She did not solve it.

Understood, but her tireless work and dogged determination on the case is widely recognized as having helped identify the killer. Her team finalized it as I recall.

Edited October 23 by jdhorn92

atomheartbevo · October 23

19 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Did he own a lightly used but good condition Corvette?

Own or lease?

jdhorn92 · October 23

2 hours ago, royiv said:

I’m surprised they’ve been able to hold him this long with a $2 million bond on two misdemeanor charges. Seems like any criminal defense attorney worth their salt could get that amount greatly reduced.

He is also being held on felony gun charge, according to the article linked above:

Brad Simpson remains in the Bexar County jail on two misdemeanor charges – a domestic violence charge and an unlawful restraint charge. Court records also show he faces a federal felony charge for illegally owning a firearm.

texasdago · October 23

1 hour ago, Deej said:

He's a nurse?

A murse?

Mitch Cumsteen · October 23

On 10/22/2024 at 10:08 AM, Helobious said:

Neighbor witness sounds full of shit:

Quick note on the neighbor: my son told me the neighbor called the cops on every party they had over there. But he didn't call the cops when Brad was (allegedly) beating Suzanne.

BurntEyes · October 23

On 10/22/2024 at 10:18 AM, BamaATL said:

You jest, but sadly this is extremely true. I read a stat a while ago about Native American missing women and presumed murdered and it was shocking.

The link below is a truly frustrating and extremely informative podcast on the issue. There's a ton of conflicts regarding who does what from policing efforts, lack of laws, and a lot of ZERO fucks given about Native American Women. The res is a predator paradise. Low income, low priority, low "moral" women, AND men have been completely neglected by police investigations forever. Plays into hippies, gays, sex workers, drug addicts, minorities of all races and well, anyone not middle class white American.

Timesuck Podcast YouTube Dan Cummins Native American Women

Edited October 23 by BurntEyes

Hagbard Celine · October 23

2 felonies added

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/brad-simpson-felony-charges-19856981.php

AbeFroman · October 23

They are going to keep his ass locked up one way or another.

MrX · October 23

3 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

Understood, but her tireless work and dogged determination on the case is widely recognized as having helped identify the killer. Her team finalized it as I recall.

Book only came out two months before GSK’s arrest. She had written previously on the case before - I guess give her credit for keeping the case in the public eye. But case got solved due to tracking down GSK through a genealogy database and matching up his DNA to a distant relative user.

Rex Kramer · October 23

Knowing very little about this case, did he kill her or not? Any plausible alternative?

Bevo · October 23

Just now, Rex Kramer said:

Knowing very little about this case, did he kill her or not? Any plausible alternative?

Yes, of course, he killed her.

5 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Any plausible alternative?

I can't even think of anything witty.

DDD Dad · October 23

6 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Knowing very little about this case, did he kill her or not? Any plausible alternative?

Probably. No.

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