But, he could have tied the bucket with cement to her with the bungee cords/rope he had wrapped around her body wit the blue tarp? He could also have thought that the bug spray would hide the smell of her body if it was starting to stink (sorry, that sounds horrendous and disrespectful, but I don’t mean for it to be).
I hope that someone is looking in the riverbeds! Especially like FindLisa said, it doesn’t seem like he veered far off from the highway routes.
Is it possible an accomplice had prepared a site for him so the process was quicker?
My thinking is that he spent 13 minutes getting the orange bucket with lid ready with the quickcrete as a weight, and on the road back toward San Antonio it was ‘geronimo’
I was at my kid’s game at Olmos basin tonight and the mosquitos were nuts. My family has property within a half mile of both Simpson properties in Bandera, and on the river, mosquitos are always a problem. I think people are overthinking the bug spray being anything but for his own comfort.
Which potentially leads us back to water disposal.
Didn’t realize your area had so many mosquitos, bug repellant would be a necessity in that case. I was on the river walk a couple years ago about this time of year don’t recall any mosquitos, ugh they are unbearable insects.
Living in Bandera County for 23 years. Only get mosquito’s around standing water. Not moving water. Other than that, never been bothered too much unless we are in a very wet year with standing water in low areas. So hmmm about why he/she needed bug repellant? BS working in a standing water environment or preservation/oder cover for body?
Honestly, we have no idea what he did with that one bag of cement.....zero, zip, nada.
I believe LE is continuing to search for her.
Well, it's concrete, not cement, so first let's get the terminology correct. Personally, I think he used it, somehow. That part is a straightforward deduction from info in the murder affidavit. He bought two bags of Quikrete in cash on Monday, 10/7, at the Home Depot in Boerne, according to that affidavit, and a bag of Quikrete was found in his garage in Olmos Park with a bunch of items that came from the bed of this truck, also in the murder affidavit. So, Det. Hector Ruiz of the OPPD made it as plain as he could that Brad Simpson seemed to use one bag of Quikrete (which is quickly-setting, concrete, not cement).
If erosion can be an accomplice, then I agree with your idea here. Regarding humans, had Brad told anyone, it seems Val would have been top of his list. But my guess is that he told no one, since he seemed to be doing all the critical steps alone and, often, with his phone disabled. I think stats for these types of crimes also suggest that he likely acted alone.
Your theory gets my vote. This is pragmatic given the terrain, the drought and the supplies he bought.
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Here it looks like you are referring to "San Geronimo Creek" (since that is along Texas highway 16 and not far from the turn off to 37). My personal feeling is that he predominantly stuck to Texas routes 46 and 16 (which goes into Medina as Broadway St). There isn't much time (or milage) to divert from that route (which he was already very familiar to him, as his main route from Boerne to his ranch). So, no, I don't think this diversion down to San Geronimo Creek (southeast of the 46 & 16 intersection) seems possible. I think his truck couldn't have been observed in all places for all time periods and specific times mentioned in the affidavit had he visited San Geronimo Creek (assuming that is what you meant).
