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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

DETAILS EMERGE: Mom Debbie Collier Found Stripped, Dead, Charred After Bizarre Text

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

New details are coming out surrounding the death of Georgia mom Debbie Collier, who went missing after sending a bizarre text to her daughter.  Body cam footage of daughter Amanda Bearden's on-again/off-again boyfriend has been released after Bearden called the police.

Andrew Giegerich was arrested for violating a no-contact order.  Giegerich also reportedly wrote a threatening handwritten message, contained in police evidence files, stating, "If you or your family ever come near me again I will hurt them."

 Also made public is Amanda Bearden's own arrest record for battery, and for faking a drug test.  

The bizarre message reportedly sent by Debbie Collier to her daughter, Amanda Bearden, along with $2,385 through Venmo says, “They are not going to let me go love you there is a key to the house in the blue flower pot by the door.” 

After receiving the message, Collier’s daughter tried to call her mom but could not get through. Collier was found the next day in a ravine, naked, her body burned.  Police tracked a rental vehicle Collier was using to a wooded area 60 miles away from the family’s Athens home. 

Collier's husband told police that he last saw his wife at about 9 p.m. on Friday, September 9, as he was going to bed. The husband went to work on Saturday morning and told investigators that his wife’s vehicle was still in the driveway at that time. 

The New York Post reports that the couple’s neighbor said they heard some sort of commotion going on at Collier’s home the night before she vanished.

Anyone with information on the case should contact Habersham Sheriff’s Investigators Cale Garrison at 706-839-0559 or George Cason at 706-839-0560.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • Renee Rockwell - Criminal Defense Attorney, Facebook: "Renee.Rockwell"  
  • Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist, CarynStark.com, Twitter: @carynpsych, Facebook: "Caryn Stark" 
  • Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"
  • Cody Alcorn - Reporter, 11Alive WXIA (Atlanta, GA), Facebook.com/CodyAlcornNews 

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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

0:44.0

A beautiful mom is found stripped, murdered, her body charred down a ravine.

0:52.0

I'm talking of course about Deborah Debbie Collier and still no arrest.

0:58.0

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox

1:02.7

Nation in Series XM 111. There may not be any arrest yet, but a lot has

1:09.2

happened during the last 72 hours. First of all, I want you to take a listen to

1:15.1

our friends from Fox 5. A trail of caution tape marks the path deep into the

1:19.4

woods where Collier's uncloved body was ultimately found. Investigators believe

1:25.2

whoever was responsible attempted to burn the body. Collier's red purse was

1:30.6

also found nearby. I'm scared for my family. It puts fear in me. One person told me

1:39.2

off camera. He noticed the van for a few days, but didn't think anything got

1:43.2

it because cars break down often. Okay, a lot to take in just right there.

1:48.4

One of the things we're hearing is that the rental car of Debbie Collier was

1:54.6

parked there for a couple of days that can't be right, but how long had it been

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