Property tycoon Brad Simpson's chilling texts to friend two days after his wife vanished screaming from their $1.5m San Antonio mansion

A spot tycoon called successful a favour from a longtime concern subordinate conscionable 2 days aft his woman vanished screaming from their San Antonio mansion.

Brad Simpson, 53, sent frantic substance messages to his person and concern partner, James Valle Cotter, connected Tuesday October 8, telling him: 'I don't person overmuch time.'

Simpson's woman Suzanne, 51, was past seen precocious connected Sunday October 6, retired the beforehand of her $1.5million location successful the city's ritzy Olmos Park having an altercation with her husband. 

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

Now, Cotter has been charged with 1 number of tampering with grounds aft constabulary discovered an AK-47 wrong the partition 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 substance Cotter the time aft formally reporting Suzanne missing, writing: 'If you're successful Bandera, tin you haul ass to conscionable maine astatine your house?'

'I don't person overmuch time,' the archetypal substance read, according to KENS5.

A secondary substance allegedly read: 'Sorry for the urgency but you're each I got particularly now... societal media is destroying me.'

Simpson has not been charged relating to his wife's disappearance. But helium is being held connected a $2million enslaved for 2 misdemeanor charges of home unit and unlawful restraint.

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

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

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

Cotter and Simpson person known each different for 25 years and are longtime concern 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 with Suzanne conscionable an hr earlier she was past seen.

Speaking astatine a vigil acceptable 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 with an alternate program for her that she would determination successful with maine and person her small toddler spell to the simple schoolhouse successful my neighborhood. 

'I ne'er got to archer her the plan.'

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

Suzanne was pictured unsocial astatine the exclusive, members-only club, wearing a knee-length acheronian formal and her hairsbreadth down implicit her shoulders.

Several hours aft this photograph was taken, a neighbour claimed helium heard an assertive combat betwixt Suzanne and her husband.

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

Shortly aft that interaction, the neighbour alleges helium heard screams from the woods.

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