Brad Simpson, accused of murder and other charges in the disappearance of his wife, Suzanne, is scheduled to return to court in August.
SAN ANTONIO — The Olmos Park man accused of murdering his wife, Suzanne Simpson, was back in court Monday for a status hearing, where a judge gave law enforcement leading the investigating a deadline to turn over all their evidence in the case.
Judge Joel Perez ruled for a “discovery deadline” of Aug. 1 for the Texas Rangers and Olmos Park Police Department. That means the agencies have less than two months to send over all of their compiled evidence to prosecutors.
Brad Chandler Simpson is accused of killing his 51-year-old wife in October 2024 despite the fact that Suzanne’s body has yet to be found. She was last seen Oct. 6, when the couple returned from a party and were seen by a neighbor arguing outside their home on Olmos Park Drive, north of downtown San Antonio.
That neighbor told police that Brad physically restrained his wife before he saw him leaving in his truck and returning later that night.
Several law enforcement agencies searched for Suzanne’s remains throughout multiple counties, including a landfill in east Bexar County but did not find her.
Despite the missing body, an indictment handed down in December alleges Brad, 54, killed his wife and tried to hide a motorized saw that had her DNA on it. Brad was already behind bars for weeks at that point, having been initially charged with assault and unlawful restraint—both misdemeanor charges.
He was charged with murder after law enforcement was able to pinpoint Brad’s movements in the hours and days after Suzanne’s disappearance, including a trip to a Home Depot in Boerne where he allegedly asked a stranger in the parking lot where the nearest dump is.
Brad’s court-appointed attorney, Steven Gilmore, filed a motion to quash the murder indictment just six days after a Bexar County grand jury handed it down. Gilmore was arguing its validity in the absence of his wife’s body more than six months after her disappearance, stating the penal code doesn’t have the burden of defining the parameters “act clearly dangerous to human life.”
That motion to quash was denied by the judge on April 29.
Brad is scheduled to be back in court on Aug. 1 at 9 a.m.