Man Accused Of Evidence Tampering In Case Of Business Partner’s Missing Wife [Video]

A Texas man was arrested Monday in connection to the disappearance of his business partner’s wife, a mother of four who was reported missing earlier this month.

James Vallee Cotter, 65, was booked into jail on suspicion of tampering with evidence weeks after Suzanne Simpson, 51, was last seen at her Olmos Park home, according to information from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Olmos Park Police Department.

Authorities said that Cotter is a “business associate” of 53-year-old Brad Simpson, Suzanne Simpson’s husband, who was arrested earlier this month. Suzanne Simpson remains missing.

A neighbor reportedly told authorities that they last saw Suzanne Simpson in early October, when she was in a physical altercation with her husband. The couple had just returned from a party at a private dinner club.

Barbara Clark, Suzanne Simpson’s mother, told NBC affiliate WOAIthat she’d received a phone call from her daughter on the …