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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly Update, Breaking crime News Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Drew Nelson. It's a Monday afternoon and Brad Simpson

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Speaker 2: gets a call from his youngest child's school. Staff are

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Speaker 2: concerned because his wife, Suzanne is now almost thirty minutes

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Speaker 2: late picking up their kindergartener and isn't answering her phone.

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Speaker 2: Simpson picks up his daughter. That makes several calls. No

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Speaker 2: one has heard from Suzanne, and coworkers say she wasn't

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Speaker 2: in the office. Crime Onlines Dave mac tells us Brad

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Speaker 2: Simpson reports his wife missing.

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Speaker 3: Almost Park PD are desperately searching for a missing mom

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Speaker 3: of four. Suzanne Simpson fifty one, is a white female,

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Speaker 3: approximately five foot five, one hundred and forty pounds, with

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Speaker 3: hazel eyes and brown hair hitting just below her shoulders.

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Speaker 3: Suzanne was last seen outside her East Almost drive home

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Speaker 3: Sunday evening after having a dinner at the Argyle, a

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Speaker 3: private club in Alamo Heights. Suzanne was last seen wearing

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Speaker 3: a black short sleeve dress, nude chunky heels, and a

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Speaker 3: watcher bracelet on her right wrist.

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Speaker 2: The day before Sunday evening, Suzanne and Brad dine at

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Speaker 2: the Argyle, a nearby country. At dinner, nothing seems unusual,

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Speaker 2: but when the couple returns home around nine pm, Suzanne

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Speaker 2: calls her mom again, detailing a physical argument with Brad Simpson.

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Speaker 2: An hour later, a neighbor hears loud arguing from their home.

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Speaker 2: The yelling seems to get louder, and the neighbor peeks

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Speaker 2: out of their window, shocked to see the Simpsons in

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Speaker 2: a physical fight outside their home. It looks like Suzanne,

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Speaker 2: still dressed from dinner, is trying to get away, but

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Speaker 2: Brad Simpson keeps pulling her back. The couple eventually moves

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Speaker 2: out of the neighbor's site. Line. Here's crime Onlines, Jackie Howard.

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Speaker 1: The simpsons neighbor steps outside to see where the couple went.

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Speaker 1: There's no sign of Brad or Suzanne. Then the neighbor

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Speaker 1: freezes when they hear a scream from across the street.

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Speaker 1: In almost space and park, the neighbor hears two more

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Speaker 1: screams than silence. The neighbor quickly goes back inside. An

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Speaker 1: hour later, the neighbor hears the Simpson's garage door open.

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Speaker 1: Brad Simpson backs out in his black truck and leaves alone.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't return for nearly two hours after giving an

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Speaker 1: initial statement Monday, Almost Park PD schedule a second interview

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Speaker 1: with Brad Simpson on Tuesday. Alarm bells ring when Simpson

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Speaker 1: doesn't show up. Family members say they haven't heard much

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Speaker 1: from Simpson since he left the home he shares with

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Speaker 1: Suzanne for his ranch in Bendera, about an hour's drive away.

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Speaker 2: The search for Suzanne Simpson continues. Almost Park PD originally

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Speaker 2: focuses their searches on a wooded area in Almost Basin Park,

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Speaker 2: just across the street from the Simpsons home. The search

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Speaker 2: warrant is also executed at the Simpsons home. In the

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Speaker 2: second week since Mama for Suzanne Simpson's disappearance from her home,

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Speaker 2: searches have once again shifted to a landfill in southeastern

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Speaker 2: Bear County. While officers were initially hopeful Suzanne would be

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Speaker 2: found alive. Almost Park PD now says there's a good

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Speaker 2: chance Suzanne will be recovered in the new search area.

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Speaker 2: In a statement Monday evening, Copp said evidence, statements and

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Speaker 2: solid police investigation led them to the landfill, and they

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Speaker 2: are competent they will find Suzanne. Brad Simpson, who's fifth three,

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Speaker 2: has stopped cooperating with the investigation and hired an attorney.

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Speaker 2: Simpson is arrested and charged with assault and unlawful restraint.

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Speaker 2: His bond is set at two million dollars, but federal

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Speaker 2: authorities have additionally placed a hold on Simpson, saying only

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Speaker 2: that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is

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Speaker 2: heading an ongoing investigation. Reports say Simpson owned illegal firearms.

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Speaker 2: For more on the Simpson investigation, tuned into Crime Stories

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Speaker 2: with Nancy Grace on Doctor Phil's new network, Meyritt Street

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Speaker 2: on your favorite podcast app. More crime and justice news

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Speaker 2: after this early seventies California, a young woman vanished from

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Speaker 2: a car wash, leaving behind a locked vehicle and belonging

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Speaker 2: scattered everywhere. Christine Marie Easton was nineteen when she was

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Speaker 2: last seen in Hayward January eighteenth, of nineteen seventy one.

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Speaker 2: She had borrowed her ex boyfriend's blue nineteen sixty nine

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Speaker 2: Ford Maverick to run errands, intending to wash the car

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Speaker 2: and pick him up from work, but Christine never showed up.

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Speaker 2: Early the next morning, her abandoned car was found at

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Speaker 2: the car wash. The car was locked, with papers from

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Speaker 2: the interior scattered near the driver's door. Her purse was

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Speaker 2: still inside. Police said the scene look staged, but they

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Speaker 2: found no trace of Christine. Her ex boyfriend was questioned

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Speaker 2: and later ruled out as a suspect, and her family

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Speaker 2: insisted she would not have left on her own. Christine

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Speaker 2: had recently graduated from Sunset High School, where she was

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Speaker 2: active in theater. Described by loved ones as responsible and

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Speaker 2: not involved with drugs or trouble, she had been trying

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Speaker 2: to rekindle a relationship with her ex boyfriend. Nearly fifty

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Speaker 2: years later, in twenty nineteen, a witness came forward claiming

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Speaker 2: she'd seen Christine being forced into a white van at

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Speaker 2: the car wash by two men. She described the band's

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Speaker 2: distinctive West Coast mirror's signage and saw the driver briefly.

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Speaker 2: Authorities released a sketch of one of the men and

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Speaker 2: now suspect foul play in chris Stine's disappearance, but nothing

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Speaker 2: has come of it in the last five years. Despite

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Speaker 2: the reclassification of her case into an involuntary missing person,

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Speaker 2: Christine's family still seeks answers. Her family and friends have

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Speaker 2: never forgotten her. If you have any information on her disappearance,

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Speaker 2: called eight hundred, call FBI, or go to Tips dot

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Speaker 2: FBI dot gov. For the latest crime and justice news,

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Speaker 2: app with this crime Alert. I'm Drew Nelson.