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The son of Debbie Collier, the woman found dead and severely burned in a Georgia ravine in September, is calling for the sheriff handling the investigation into her demise to resign after he says the cop “snickered” at him during a phone call last week.
“I want him to resign, absolutely,” Jeffrey Bearden told The Daily Beast on Monday. “He just dismissed my concerns and laughed at me. I would not be the man I am today without my mother, and I can’t let another victim’s family go through what I went through on the phone with [Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell].”
Bearden said that last Wednesday, after attempting to get ahold of an investigator handling his mother’s case, he spoke to Terrell about concerns he had about possible leaks from the sheriff’s department to the press. He also just wanted an update on the case, he told The Daily Beast.