Missing mum’s body found after telling daughter ‘they are not going to let me go’

Deborah Collier (left) was discovered useless after sending her daughter (inset) a cryptic message and Venmo fee (Photos: Fb/Pleasure Purcell/NowHabersham.com)

A mom’s physique was discovered shortly after she left a disturbing message for her household.

Deborah Collier, of Athens, Georgia, was present in a small ravine simply someday after she left a chilling message to her daughter.

On September 10, Collier, 59, despatched her daughter Amanda Bearden an unprompted Venmo fee of $2,385 together with: ‘They aren't going to let me go love you there's a key to the home within the blue flower pot by the door.’

The fee and message look like despatched from her husband, Steve Collier’s, account, in response to Bearden’s Venmo account that she set to public.

The Habersham County Sheriff’s Workplace searches the forest near the place Collier’s automobile was discovered (Image: Pleasure Purcell/NowHabersham.com)

Bearden, 36, tried to name her mom after receiving the fee, however she didn’t choose up. She reported her mom lacking that night.

Authorities have been capable of find Collier’s physique on September 11 after her rented automobile’s Sirius XM safety system alerted them to its location. Collier was driving a rented SUV as a result of her personal automobile was within the store.

After Collier was reported lacking, her automobile’s satellite tv for pc radio alerted investigators on the Habersham County Sheriff’s Workplace to its place. They discovered her automobile on US Route 441 – about 60 miles north of her residence in Athens.

Collier’s automobile was parked off the facet of the freeway, close to an previous logging highway. It was unlocked and unoccupied.

Debbie Collier lived in Athens, Georgia and labored for Carriage Home Realty (Image: Fb)

Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene in Tallulah Falls and commenced looking out the woods by the freeway. They deployed a Okay-9 search-and-rescue unit, which discovered a small tote bag, a ‘partially-burned’ tarp, and what seemed to be the stays of a hearth.

Collier’s physique was situated in a ravine close to the tarp, in response to an incident report launched to Metro.co.uk. An investigator ‘noticed a nude feminine laying on her again, greedy a small tree along with her proper hand,’ the report says.

A sergeant from the Sheriff’s Workplace reported that Collier’s physique seemed to be burned, with ‘charring to her stomach.’ Authorities are investigating the case as a murder, not a suicide.

Collier’s demise has left her household shocked and looking for solutions.

Investigators discovered Collier’s automobile on the facet of the freeway close to Tallulah Falls (Image: Pleasure Purcell/NowHabersham.com)

Bearden advised investigators on the scene that her mom didn't have a historical past of psychological well being points, in response to the incident report.

Bearden additionally advised investigators that her mom had a foul again and couldn’t have walked that far into the woods.

Collier’s husband Steve advised investigators that he final noticed his spouse round 9pm on September 9, NowHabersham reported. When he wakened and went to work the morning of September 10, her automobile was nonetheless within the driveway

Collier married Steve in 2013, 11 Alive reported. She labored because the entrance workplace supervisor at Carriage Home Realty in Athens.

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