Friends and family of missing mom Suzanne Simpson issue warning over fake online fundraisers

Friends and family of missing San Antonio relator Suzanne Simpson are sounding nan siren connected clone online fundraisers. 

The 51-year-old mother-of-four was past seen precocious retired nan beforehand of her $1.5million location successful nan city's ritzy Olmos Park having an altercation pinch her husband, Brad, 53, connected Sunday October 6.

The mates were stepping toward adjacent bushland erstwhile a neighbour heard screams. She hasn't been seen since. Cops judge she's dormant and a hunt for her assemblage is ongoing. 

Soon after, Brad was arrested successful Kendall County and charged pinch family unit and unlawful restraint. He is being held connected a $2million bond. 

But arsenic constabulary proceed to make efforts to find Suzanne, her oldest kid and a friend person warned sympathizers of scammers mounting up clone crowdfunding pages and stealing money. 

In an Instagram communicative item titled 'come location mom,' Simpson's 20-year-old girl posted a screenshot of 1 GoFundMe page titled 'Aid Suzanne Kids successful Need' and warned readers. 

'Please do not donate to this fundraiser for my family. It is fraud,' she captioned nan GoFundMe image. 

Later on, Ayobami Olugbemiga, a GoFundMe spokesperson, confirmed to nan San Antonio Express-News that nan mendacious page has been pulled down and assured that nary costs had been raise. 

In different story, a screenshot was shared of a scam fundraiser that had ripped its full bio from an authentic MealTrain.com page and falsely claimed to beryllium group up by her aunt, Teresa Clark. 

Ultimately, she shared nan existent nexus and requested, 'If you are wanting to springiness emotion and support for my family, please only usage this link. Thank you for endless prayers arsenic we hunt to find my mother'. 

Suzanne's beloved friend, Abra Liberman Garrett, besides took to Facebook to stock different diplomatic GoFundMe pages. 

The well-wisher posted a screenshot of a page titled 'Honor Suzanne: Raise Awareness for Domestic Abuse' and asked her viewers to study it.  

'I dislike having to opportunity this because I dislike that immoderate quality beings tin beryllium this corrupt, depraved, immoral, and reprehensible, however, location are aggregate fake, fraudulent GoFundMe campaigns pinch Suzanne’s sanction attached. Please study them if you spot them. Here are two. (One of them plagiarized my verbiage.)

'The truth that anyone is trying to make money disconnected different people’s bully intentions is truthful vile. I dream these individuals are caught - location is simply a typical spot successful hellhole for personification who would do this successful my opinion.

'Again, nan GoFundMe are false, nan family has not group up a GoFundMe, nor are they going to - dispersed nan word, please.

'Thank You and let’s effort to support focusing connected nan bully group retired location who are praying, donating, sharing, and caring pinch axenic hearts and godly intentions,' she said. 

In different scathing post, she warned sympathizers to beryllium wary of an relationship nether nan sanction 'Aaron Goldsmith' and asked group to study nan phony GoFundMe page. 

'Well, evidently "Aaron Goldsmith" is simply a full lazy-a$ successful summation to being an unskilled conman. He virtually conscionable trim and pasted my full post. Which, by nan way, makes zero consciousness contextually coming from him. Talk astir phoning it in. 

'If you spot this/him please report. (I did person to grin knowing this dude pretending to beryllium maine would person wholly cracked up Suzanne!).'

Last week, reports emerged that Brad had allegedly sent frantic matter messages to his friend and business partner, James Valle Cotter, connected Tuesday October 8, telling him: 'I don't person overmuch time.'

Now, Cotter has been charged pinch 1 count of tampering pinch grounds aft constabulary discovered an AK-47 wrong nan wall of his home.

Police allege Cotter helped Simpson hide a weapon that could beryllium tied to his wife's disappearance, KSAT reported.

According to an apprehension affidavit, Simpson matter Cotter nan time aft formally reporting Suzanne missing, writing: 'If you're successful Bandera, tin you haul ass to meet maine astatine your house?'

'I don't person overmuch time,' nan first matter read, according to KENS5.

A secondary matter allegedly read: 'Sorry for nan urgency but you're each I sewage particularly now... societal media is destroying me.'

When constabulary and specially-trained K-9s searched Cotter's home, they recovered an AK-47 wrong a wall down a mounted television. 

An orangish drawstring was allegedly attached to nan gun, which allowed it to beryllium pulled from nan hiding place. 

Police allege they person footage of a vault wrong Simpson's location wherever he stored his weapons, successful which an AK-47 was antecedently visible. When they executed a hunt of nan vault aft Suzanne's disappearance, nan AK-47 was missing.

Cotter and Simpson person known each different for 25 years and are longtime business associates. 

Meanwhile ample scale, wide hunt efforts person been underway to find Suzanne. Police person confirmed they're looking for a body. 

The missing mother-of-four's ain mom, Barbara Clark, revealed the haunting telephone telephone she had pinch Suzanne conscionable an hr earlier she was past seen.

Speaking astatine a vigil group up to grant Suzanne at Lourdes Grotto, Clark said: 'She called maine up and told maine things Brad had done to her physically.'

Clark said Suzanne confided successful her that astir 9pm that night, October 6, Simpson had injured her limb and her back.

'I came up pinch an replacement scheme for her that she would move successful pinch maine and person her small toddler spell to nan simple schoolhouse successful my neighborhood. 

'I ne'er sewage to show her nan plan.'

Police released a haunting photograph of Suzanne earlier connected nan time she vanished, showing her stepping done The Argyle successful Alamo Heights.

Suzanne was pictured unsocial astatine nan exclusive, members-only club, wearing a knee-length acheronian dress and her hairsbreadth down complete her shoulders.

Several hours aft this photograph was taken, a neighbour claimed he heard an fierce conflict betwixt Suzanne and her husband.

That neighbour claims he saw Simpson hitting and restraining his wife, earlier they some wandered disconnected to a adjacent wooded area.

Shortly aft that interaction, nan neighbour alleges he heard screams from nan woods.

Olmos Park Police Chief Fidel Villegas has since confirmed: 'That nighttime we deliberation she was successful distress.'