Thursday 22 September 2022 08:14 PM Wooded area where missing Georgia mom Debbie Collier was found murdered ... trends now
Debbie Collier, 59, was found in a steep-sided ravine on September 11 in a densely wooded area in Tallulah Falls, Georgia a day after she disappeared
The gruesome spot where murdered Georgia mom Debbie Collier was discovered naked and burned can now be revealed in exclusive DailyMail.com pictures.
Two harrowing burn sites just feet apart and a newly sawn-off tree clearly show where police discovered the missing woman in a densely-wooded ravine near scenic Tallulah Falls.
The real estate office manager, 59, was found clinging to a tree by sheriff's deputies a day after vanishing from the modest home she shared with husband Steven, 67, in Athens, Georgia, 60 miles away. Parts of her body were charred.
Eerily, just hours before her death, she had sent her daughter Amanda Bearden $2,385 via payment app Venmo along with a chilling last message.
It 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.'
DailyMail.com tracked down the murder site after obtaining the Habersham County Sheriff's Office incident report of the September 11 discovery.
This detailed the rough route to the horrific scene by Deputy Blake Forrester and his human odor-detecting K9 Zane.
We started at a pull-off to an old logging road near Victory Home Lane, Clarksville, where Collier's rented black 2022 Chrysler Pacifica was found through the Sirius XM service in the vehicle being 'pinged' to locate it via GPS.
DailyMail.com followed the path to the murder site after obtaining the Habersham County Sheriff's Office incident report of the gruesome discovery
A recently sawn-off tree and two burn sites marked the area where police discovered the missing woman in a ravine near scenic Tallulah Falls
The densely wooded area showed clear signs of a recent forensic investigation, with discarded latex gloves and crime tape littering the ground
A poignant teddy bear shrine guarded the spot where officers discovered the Pacifica – but no sign of the missing mom.
We headed into the dense woodland along the former logging road and within roughly six feet the roadway disappeared and turned into a rough track.
After 25 feet we saw the first signs of the search that would ultimately lead us to the horror site: a discarded pair of blue plastic forensic gloves.
Then, to the right, strips and small fragments of sheriff's office yellow crime scene tape were scattered every three to five feet, heading south in a line and parallel to busy GA 15.
Under a dense canopy of trees and with fallen limbs littering the undergrowth, we followed the trail of plastic scraps.
After roughly 15 minutes of hiking through piles of dead leaves and timber, we began to descend downhill sharply until we came across three sets of blue forensic gloves that had been ditched.
Then we were confronted by a macabre spectacle – that tied in with our knowledge of Collier's death.
Part of a tree had been sawn off, leaving a jagged portion jutting up and the toppled portion lying close by. The mom was found clinging to a tree – and within feet was a compact burnt area of leaves and timber.
A 15-minute hike through piles of dead leaves and timber led to a site downhill where DailyMail.com reporter spotted part of a tree that had been sawn off
A few feet from that lay a larger uprooted tree with parts of its roots scorched, believed to be the one described in the chilling police report
Forensic gloves lay nearby along with pieces of paper and what appears to be a strip of a book cover
Yellow crime scene tape is scattered every three to five feet around the area in Tallulah Falls leading to the spot where Debbie Collier's body was discovered
A poignant teddy bear shrine now sits on the spot where officers discovered Collier's rented black 2022 Chrysler Pacifica with no sign of the missing mom
A few feet from that lay a larger uprooted tree. Parts of the roots were scorched. Forensic gloves lay nearby along with pieces of paper and what appears to be a strip of a book cover.
And that is where the trail of tape fragments ended.
The site was only roughly 25 feet from the roadway and vehicles could be heard clearly passing by after we followed the path of the killer or killers.
Collier's cause of death has
