Excellent post, true crime junkie!
I actually live not too far away from where her disappearance occurred. While that restaurant and apartment building aren’t exactly in my neighborhood, I am very familiar with that whole area. And anyone who is from the Dallas area or is even remotely familiar with it knows that much of the city, particularly the urban parts, is laid out in a bunch of one-way streets and side streets surrounding businesses and apartment buildings. Unlike in all of the other cities in the DFW Metroplex, parking is a nightmare in Dallas (like in most major cities) because there just aren’t that many parking lots dedicated to businesses or even residences. So unless you work at a particular restaurant or live in a particular apartment building, your parking options while you visit there are often quite limited. Either you luck into one of the few metered spots along the curb, you snag one of the few visitor spots dedicated to the place, you find a fairly expensive private pay lot in which to park, or you have to park farther away from your destination and then just walk. And Prisma would have been very well aware of this and known she couldn’t just leave her car where she did outside of the garage. The reason she parked where she did was due to one thing- ALCOHOL.
And I put that in all caps because I truly do believe that alcohol played a very central role in Prisma’s death. She was bombed out of her mind. Nobody in this entire case, to my knowledge, has ever come forward and said that Prisma had a mean or aggressive streak in her. But look at her actions that day. She got in a fight with R at the bar that was apparently pretty loud and disruptive. Then shortly later, Prisma got confrontational with the bartender when he cut her off, and police were supposedly called. Then she pulled a gun on a random motorist in an incident of road rage. She yelled at people on the phone. And finally she reportedly told a concerned citizen to leave her alone (not exactly very friendly). Those are not the actions of a sober person, at least not one who is not known to have major anger issues. Plus the parking of her car in the middle of a street, the changing of directions in her driving, the inability to stand up straight while talking on the phone, the frequent calls she made, the confusion over who she was talking to, and the complete inability to tell where she was all point to her being completely blackout drunk. I think that point is pretty obvious to most people, especially those of us who have ever been that drunk or been with someone who was. I thankfully never got wasted drunk and drove back in my wilder days, but I definitely had nights where way too much alcohol made me lose complete control of what I was doing and saying and, like Prisma, I didn’t even know where I was on a few occasions.
This is nothing more than my best guess, but in my opinion, Prisma would be alive and well and with her family today if she hadn’t gotten drunk that day. And that is not to pass judgement on her at all or in any way suggest that getting drunk is wrong or should lead to death. It just happened to lead to her death on this occasion.
I could be totally wrong here, but my gut says that nobody set out to kill Prisma on that day (if she is in deceased and was in fact murdered). Not the ex husband, not her current boyfriend, not a random stranger... nobody. I don’t think her possible death was in any way pre-meditated. I think one of two things happened:
A) Prisma died via accident caused by intoxication, and then someone either willingly or unknowingly covered it up. Maybe she fell off the roof, or into a trunk, or down some stairs, or into a dumpster, and then somehow her body was taken away and disposed of (possibly even accidentally by a trash collector).
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B) In my mind, even more likely is that Prisma had yet another drunken confrontation with either R, someone else she knew, or perhaps even a complete stranger, and she got violent with them and they ended up killing her in the ensuing fight. I could totally see her finally linking back up with R at his apartment building and, because Prisma was clearly in a confrontational mood, their fight picked up right where it left off earlier at the restaurant. Maybe she started shoving him and/or hitting him. Maybe she did neither. But maybe R (or someone else) was just angry enough or possibly even intoxicated himself to shove, punch, kick, etc. Prisma and she fell or hit her head on something and was killed. Then that person panicked, hid/disposed of her body, and covered up the “accidental” crime.
I don’t think Prisma’s life was in any immediate danger when the witness saw her crying on the ground by the car on the roof. I think Prisma was crying because drunk people tend to cry very easily. Maybe she was there waiting for R to meet her close to his car and they had already been yelling at one another on the phone. Maybe that car belonged to someone else she knew and that person told her to wait there while he/she went inside to get something. Clearly Prisma was upset at that point, but I don’t think it was because she thought she might die. I really think that whole scene was just an emotional drunken reaction to some kind of ongoing or escalating argument or situation she was in. Then, shortly after the witness offered her help, Prisma was killed as a result of that same argument/situation escalating even further.