The husband of murdered Georgia realtor Debbie Collier broke his silence Friday — practically two weeks after her bare burnt physique was present in a ravine about 60 miles from the couple’s residence.
“She was a lovely lady and I beloved her,” Steve Collier, 67, instructed The Every day Mail from his Athens residence.
“It has been a protracted two weeks and I’m very drained,” he reportedly stated, whereas combating again tears. “My spouse was a beautiful individual.”
The widower later spoke with The Submit at his residence and stated investigators haven’t shared many particulars with him past what’s been made public.
“Police discovered my spouse’s physique in Habersham County, close to Clarkesville, Georgia. They stated it wasn’t suicide and it wasn’t a kidnapping,” he stated. “They stated it was homicide. If they've any extra data, they haven’t shared it with me but.”
Police haven't named any suspects or motives within the homicide case, and had been ready for post-mortem outcomes to find out Collier’s reason behind loss of life.
Debbie, 59, was discovered useless close to Tallulah Falls on Sept. 11, a day after leaving her residence in a SUV that was rented as a result of her car was within the store, police stated.
Her daughter Amanda Bearden, 36, instructed police that her mother had Venmoed her $2,385 together with the message “They don't seem to be going to let me go, love you” on Sept. 10.
A neighbor instructed The Submit she heard “a commotion” on the Collier residence on the night of Sept. 9, and had steadily heard screaming coming from the house.
“Any individual comes as much as go to on the weekends [and] within the evenings, and there’s loud screaming and combating,” the neighbor stated, saying the customer was a youthful lady.
Steven Collier instructed cops he final encountered his spouse at 9 p.m. the night time earlier than her disappearance and didn’t see her go away the next morning as a result of they sleep in separate beds as a consequence of his loud night breathing.
Her rental car — which was discovered close to her physique — was nonetheless within the driveway the subsequent morning when he went to work, he stated.
Bearden and her boyfriend, who each have a historical past of home arrests, stated Thursday they'd been interrogated by detectives who additionally confiscated their telephones.
“The [police have] interrogated all of us. The people who find themselves closest to [Collier] are form of checked out as suspects proper now,” Andrew Tyler Giegerich instructed The Submit.
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