What was once a family home filled with children, ranging in age from 5 to teenagers, has sat for nearly a year as a vacant reminder of a tragedy that struck an affluent San Antonio-area neighborhood. Where a Barbie playhouse once sat in the front lawn behind a proudly staked Alamo Heights High School Foundation sign now stands as a reminder of a family split by a mother gone missing and a father accused of killing her. But another family may bring new life to the stone-faced structure along Olmos Drive.
Almost exactly 11 months after Olmos Park mother of four Suzanne Clark Simpson was last seen, a judge has granted the executor of her will permission to sell the family home at 520 E. Olmos Drive to another couple in a private deal. The couple was slated to buy the property for $1.2 million – a little more than $200,000 less than the Bexar County Appraisal District valued the home and .38 acres at in 2025.
While the home was jointly owned by Suzanne and Brad Simpson, county records show the husband signed over his half ownership to the executor of Suzanne’s will, Richard M. Kleberg IV, and the Simpson Children Support Trusts in June of 2025. According to the request to sell the property, the Simpson family still owed around $680,000 on the home’s mortgage since buying the home in 2014…