10/3/2022
RawNews1st – Deputies now say they believe the murder of an Athens mother whose burned and naked body was found in Habersham County earlier this month was “deliberate and personal.”
Deputies said that at some point the day before Collier died, her daughter received a strange message saying “they aren’t going to let me go,” and more than $2,000 in cash through the Venmo app.
The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office held a news conference Friday morning on the mysterious death of Deborrah Collier, who vanished from Athens on Sept. 10 after sending her daughter a cryptic text and thousands in cash via Venmo.
Collier was found dead Sept. 11 in a ravine in Habersham County near a burned tarp and a tote bag. Surveillance video released earlier this week showed Collier in a Family Dollar store in Rabun County buying similar items.
Workers at that store told Channel 2′s Audrey Washington that Collier did not appear distressed in the store and was alone.
Deputies also said Friday that they have obtained new surveillance video from outside the Family Dollar that shows the last moments that Collier was known to be alive.
“We don’t believe that this is a random act of violence. We do not believe this was the act of a serial killer,” deputies said Friday. “We believe that this act was deliberate and personal.”
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