Members of the family of murdered Georgia mother Debbie Collier have had their telephones “confiscated” by police and really feel like they’re being “checked out as suspects,” her daughter’s boyfriend informed The Submit Thursday.
Collier, 59, of Athens, was discovered bare and partially burned in a ravine on September 11, the day after her daughter, Amanda Bearden, stated she wired her $2,385 together with a chilling observe.
“They don't seem to be going to let me go, love you there's a key to the home within the blue flower pot by the door.” the message learn.
Talking exterior an Athens dwelling he shares with Bearden, the boyfriend stated the household has been given scant particulars by Habersham County Sheriff’s Workplace investigators.
“They haven’t actually informed us nothing,” he stated, requesting that his identify not be used.
“They’ve interrogated all of us. The people who find themselves closest to her are sort of checked out as suspects proper now.”
He stated cops have been in possession of Bearden’s cellphone, alongside along with his personal.
Members of the family of murdered Georgia mother Debbie Collier have had their telephones "confiscated" by police.
Police tape close to Collier's homicide scene
A memorial arrange for Collier at her homicide scene.
The scene the place Collier's physique might have been burned.
“It’s bizarre,” he stated. “I really feel like [the Sheriff’s Department] might have some leads however they gained’t inform us something.”
Bearden’s beau stated the couple moved to Athens from Maryland simply two days earlier than Collier vanished in a rental automobile along with her driver’s license and debit card on September 10.
Her personal car was being repaired after an accident.
“We got here again Thursday,” he stated. “Her mom introduced us lunch Friday after which Saturday is when she went lacking.”
Collier, a realtor, lived at her dwelling along with her husband, Steven Collier. He informed cops he final encountered his spouse at 9 p.m. the night time earlier than her disappearance and didn’t see her depart the next morning as a result of they sleep in separate beds as a result of his loud night breathing.
A neighbor informed The Submit Wednesday that she heard a “commotion” coming from Collier’s dwelling the night time earlier than she vanished and the household steadily engaged in “screaming and preventing.”
Collier’s killer apparently tried to burn her corpse about 100 yards off the aspect of the freeway the place her automobile was present in rural Athens, roughly 60 miles from her dwelling.
A Submit reporter toured the crime scene Thursday, the place discarded items of yellow police tape and blue gloves fashioned a path to the bottom of an uprooted tree the place Collier’s physique was discovered.
Charred roots, burned paper towels and melted blue plastic from a tarp had been additionally nonetheless seen.
Police reported discovering the stays of a blaze close to Collier’s nude physique, and that she was discovered gripping the bottom of a small tree along with her proper hand.
Her stomach, they stated, confirmed indicators of charring.
Cops additionally discovered a crimson tote bag anear Collier’s corpse.
Bearden, who grew to become hysterical as she watched her mom’s stays being carried up the ravine, informed police that her mom had no historical past of psychological sickness or suicidal ideas.
She additionally informed investigators that Collier had a foul again and couldn't have wandered into the wooded space the place she was found.
In an interview with CBS 46 Bearden stated “my mother was my every thing.”
“Anyone took my complete world from me,” she stated. “She was a fantastic, sort, giving girl — and she or he didn’t deserve any of this…I would like justice for my mother”.
The Habersham County Sheriff’s Workplace has dominated the surprising demise a murder however have supplied few additional particulars up to now.
A press release from the Sheriff on on September 21 stated: “Presently there is no such thing as a proof to recommend or help that this incident was associated to a kidnapping or that this was a suicide.”
“We've no clue what’s occurring,” Bearden’s boyfriend stated Thursday. “We’ve just about simply been sitting at dwelling watching films.”
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