An unsealed arrest affidavit for Brad Simpson details his movements — and contradictory statements — after a search was launched for his missing wife in early October.

The affidavit reveals a burn site where several cell phones and a laptop were destroyed, Simpson traveling with bulky items in trash bags and under tarps in his truck, a request to a stranger at a Home Depot for directions to the nearest dump site, and a conversation with Suzanne Clark Simpson’s personal banker in which the realtor said “that if she went missing to look for her in a lake.”

Simpson was arrested three days after Clark Simpson’s disappearance and charged with domestic violence, but on November 7, he was charged with murder, as CrimeOnline reported. The affidavit was sealed at the time but unsealed on Tuesday.

The affidavit reveals that friends of Clark Simpson, a mother of three, reported her missing on the night of October 7 after they’d been unable to reach her during the day. Simpson reported her missing in a personal phone call to Olmos Park Police Chief Fidel Villegas, leaving a voice mail message, about 15 minutes after the friend made an official missing persons report.

The Simpsons lived at their Olmos Park home with two of their children,  a 5-year-old and a 15-year-old. The couple’s 20-year-old daughter did not live at the home. The 5-year-old told a school counselor that Brad Simpson shoved her mother against a wall on the night of October 6 and physically hit her in the face. The girl also said that Simpson hurt her mother’s elbow, took her phone, and turned it off.

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During his first interview with police, Simpson told officers that his wife had lost her cell phone at a local grocery store before coming home on October 6. He also told officers he last heard from his wife at about 11 p.m. that night.

But in his phone call with the Olmos Park police chief, Simpson said he saw Clark Simpson asleep when he left at about 6:30 a.m. the next morning to drop his child off at school.

From there, the investigation uncovered troubling details. The Simpsons — Brad, Suzanne, and their 5-year-old daughter — were at a party at the Argyle in Alamo Heights, where Simpson and Clark Simpson “engaged in a verbal altercation.” Clark Simpson and her daughter left the party at about 8:30 p.m., stopping briefly at the grocery store before heading home, arriving at about 9 p.m.

At 9:15, Clark Simpson called a friend and said she was coming over, arriving 10 minutes later. A minute after that phone call, she telephoned her mother and told her that Simpson “had just assaulted her, causing pain to her arm, back, and neck.” The phone call lasted until a minute before she arrived at the friend’s home.

During that phone call, Clark Simpson’s cell phone service was suspended, apparently by Brad Simpson.

Then came the already reported sighting of Clark Simpson and her husband by a neighbor, who reported them “loudly arguing” in their front yard after 10 p.m. The neighbor saw them physically fighting, saying that at one point Clark Simpson broke away and fled with Simpson pursuing. Later, the neighbor said, he heard screams from nearby woods, then saw Simpson drive away in his truck and return about an hour later.

From around that time and for the next 24 hours, Simpson shut his phone on and off multiple times.

Simpson’s truck was spotted multiple times during the day on October 7, on surveillance video and license plate cameras, beginning at about 12:30 a.m. on October 7, when he was seen at the grocery store. The bed of his truck carried only what appeared to be a large ice chest. Nine hours later, he was at a fast food restaurant buying food, and then surveillance video showed three large white trash bags, a large heavy-duty trash can, and a large, bulky item beneath a blue tarp with a metal firewood rack on top.

Further surveillance showed Simpson traveling into Kendall County, where he stopped at a Home Depot and bought two bags of Quikrete cement, a construction bucket with a lid, a box of 32-count heavy duty trashbags, and a gallon bottle of Clorox bleach. Before entering the Home Depot, Simpson walked up to a man in the parking lot and asked him for directions to the nearest dump.

Simpson’s truck was later spotted on surveillance cameras coming to and going from the dump site. After leaving the dump site, the large white trash bags were missing and Simpson had changed his shoes. After that, Simpson traveled into Bandera County. When he left, the blue tarp was no longer visible in the back of his truck and firewood rack had been repositioned.

At about 4 p.m. that afternoon, Simpson drove to a car wash and cleaned the truck. Only the ice chest remained in the truck bed.

A search of property in Bandera County, owned by Simpson, revealed a burn site where the destroyed remains of three cell phones and a laptop were found. A Bandera County deputy contacted Simpson on October 8 — a day before he was arrested — while he stood beside an actively burning fire on the property.

The affidavit also includes previously reported text messages with the friend and business partner who was later charged with helping Simpson hide an illegal gun and details the conversation Clark Simpson had with her banker.

The banker said that Clark Simpson told her of the abuse she endured from her husband and that he would frequently take her cell phone from her and tell the children she’d lost it. The banker said that Clark Simpson “advised her that if she went missing to look for her in a lake.” That conversation took place in August.

“There are no signs of Suzanne Simpson being alive since the ‘Defendant’ physically assaulted her on 10/06/2024,” the affidavit says. “This has been verified by Suzanne Simpson’s cellphone records, financial records, family, friends, and co-workers.”

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[Featured image: Suzanne Clark Simpson/KSAT screenshot and Brad Simpson/Bexar County Sheriff’s Office]