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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Missing 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

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A Georgia mom goes missing after sending a bizarre text to her daughter.

Debbie Collier sends her daughter, Amanda Bearden, $2,385 using Venmo and included a message that read, “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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0:36.0

Crime Stories with Nancy Grease

0:44.0

A mom goes missing then sends a bizarre text to her grown daughter, stating

0:53.0

they're not gonna let me go. I love you and the key to the house is under

1:00.0

the flower pot. Her body discovered about 60 miles away from home, naked down

1:08.0

the side of a ravine, clutching a tree, burned.

1:17.0

What happened to Deborah, Collier, aka Debbie?

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1:36.0

This morning 11 alive obtained a police report offering new details showing Athens

1:41.0

Card County police working with Habersham County investigators on September 11th

1:45.0

to find Collier's rented minivan, which had been pinged using satellite radio.

1:49.0

The report says the vehicle was unlocked and no one was inside.

1:52.0

A police officer stated he saw the same vehicle there the day before around 5 p.m.

1:57.0

Got an all-star panel to introduce to you.

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