SAN ANTONIO — The search of Suzanne Simpson has entered the second week. She's the Olmos Park mother who was last seen near hear home on October 6.
Her husband Brad Simpson is accused of assaulting her before she went missing. His hearing for bond was initially scheduled for later Monday morning, but it has since been postponed to a later date.
The Bexar County court system said the hearing was set up before the deadline but a hold was placed on it. It is not clear when the hearing will be rescheduled.
Until then, Brad Simpson will remain behind bars.
Law enforcement could be seen at a landfill in east Bexar County on Monday, searching for evidence connected to Suzanne Simpson, officials said. It's the latest in a series of locations where groups have looked for the missing Olmos Park woman over the last week, including Boerne and the block where she lives.
Texas Rangers, the Department of Public Safety and Olmos Park police could be seen assisting in the efforts, which ended around 4 p.m. Authorities were also continuing to look in Kendall County on Monday.
Simpson has been missing since the evening of Sunday, Oct. 6, when officials said she disappeared from the 500 block of East Olmos Drive where she lives. Her husband, 53-year-old Brad Simpson, was arrested last week after neighbors told police he tried to physically keep her from leaving; he faces charges of assault and unlawful restraint.
He has not been accused by law enforcement on his wife's disappearance, but authorities said he has continued to be uncooperative in their investigation. A bond hearing scheduled for Brad Simpson this week was cancelled and he is on a U.S. Marshals hold, meaning that if he bonds out, he will have remain detained until he can be retrieved by the federal agency.
At a San Antonio prayer vigil Sunday night, Suzanne's mother told KENS 5 she didn't think her daughter was still alive, saying the situation was "hard to comprehend."
“It took me a little while to come to the conclusion that she would have called me, so in my brain I felt she was dead at that point,” Barbara Clark said.
Abel Peña is a retired FBI agent, dedicated to helping families of missing people. While he is not currently working on this case, he said the search in the landfill could be grueling.
“It’s exhaustive, exhausting too," Peña said. "I know they’re putting a tremendous amount of resources to looking in that landfill.”
A DPS spokesperson said they expected to return to the location Tuesday, but couldn't specify what brought them to the landfill.
“And after a week, there’s more and more trash piled on so yeah they’re going to be using tools to excavate and to look for whatever it is they are looking for it," Peña said.
Close friends of Suzanne's and even strangers have offered to help in the search but Olmos Park Police Chief Fidel Villegas said previously they are not accepting volunteers.
“I think it’s just very important law enforcement will keep things very close to their chest," Peña said. "Any evidence that is there they don’t want any outside entity, even ours, to be out there to disturb anything.”