ATHENS, Ga. — The murdered Georgia mother discovered useless and bare in a ravine might have been concerned in “screaming and preventing” at her dwelling the evening earlier than she went lacking, in line with a neighbor.
Debbie Collier, 59, was found by authorities Sept. 11 with burn marks on her stomach a day after her daughter and husband had reported her lacking.
“There was commotion on the home,” a neighbor instructed The Put up of the Friday evening earlier than Debbie disappeared, noting she steadily heard shouting from Collier’s dwelling atop a small, wooded hill in Athens.
The neighbor added: “Any individual comes as much as go to on the weekends [and] within the evenings, and there’s loud screaming and preventing,” saying the customer was a youthful girl.
The sufferer’s husband, Steve Collier, instructed investigators he final noticed his spouse at 9 p.m. Saturday and her automobile was nonetheless within the driveway when he left for work the next morning.
He instructed investigators he slept individually from his spouse as a result of he snored and that he didn’t see her earlier than she went lacking, in line with the Day by day Mail. When approached by The Put up, Steve declined to talk.
On Sept. 10, Collier wired her daughter, Amanda Bearden, $2,385 and included a chilling word that mentioned: “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.”
Bearden instructed CBS 46 that “my mother was my all the things.”
“Any individual took my entire world from me,” she mentioned. “She was a fantastic, variety, giving girl — and she or he didn’t deserve any of this…I would like justice for my mother”
Police have declared Collier’s demise a murder, and say they've executed search warrants and interviewed related folks, however are staying tight-lipped on additional particulars.
No suspects have been named within the case “and the household have declined to talk publicly.”
One pal of Collier’s declined to remark after answering the door of her dwelling, however cryptically mentioned: “There’s a cause we're retaining quiet.”
One other neighbor in Athens, Ricky, mentioned Debbie and her husband had been reclusive individuals who didn’t mingle with others on the road.
“After we would get collectively out right here on the block for a cookout, they by no means participated,” he mentioned, saying many locals didn’t even know their names. “They didn’t come to no get-togethers.”
“So far as I can inform they’ve lived right here a superb few minutes,” he mentioned, noting he’s been on the identical block for many years.
The neighbor instructed The Put up that there was "screaming and preventing" on the home.
One other neighbor mentioned that Debbie and her husband Steve Collier had been reclusive.
The mom was discovered useless and bare in a Georgia ravine a day after she was reported lacking.
After Collier’s physique was found, their quiet round street on the sting of Athens was flooded with police vehicles, neighbors mentioned, althought in addition they famous they haven’t been interviewed or contacted by the police.
“I don’t perceive what’s taking so lengthy,” Ricky mentioned concerning the investigation, which is being performed partially by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. “They’re gradual out right here.”
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