WA WA - Cristina Ase, 61, Vancouver, 26 Mar 2024

[sasha17]

Finally a new article.
Interesting that the two admins of the Christina ASE MISSING page are sisters, and their mother also works at Rose Linn Care Center (the sisters both work there, too).

The mother is the one who received the text from Cristina’s phone:

“At 6:34 a.m. on March 26 — Cristina texted Amy and Nicole’s mother, who also works at Rose Linn Care Center. She said she wouldn’t be in till 8:30 a.m., an hour later than usual. According to Cristina’s co-workers, she did not give a reason why.

Amy and Nicole thought it was “weird” that Cristina only texted their mother instead of the three of them at once. “She knew, like, if she was gonna be late, we’d worry if she wasn’t there,” Amy said.”

Cristina Ase’s co-workers help in search more than a month after she disappeared

Ase, 61, of Washington state, texted a co-worker on the morning of March 26, saying she would be late for work. She has not been heard from since.

www.nbcnews.com

It seems unusual to me that Cristina texted a coworker about being late, and two other coworkers thought it was weird she didn't text them, too. But she didn't text her boss? If I were running late to work, the first (and probably only) person I'd text would be my boss.

 

[NervousNellie]

It seems unusual to me that Cristina texted a coworker about being late, and two other coworkers thought it was weird she didn't text them, too. But she didn't text her boss? If I were running late to work, the first (and probably only) person I'd text would be my boss.

I thought Cristina was the boss?

 

[sasha17]

I thought Cristina was the boss?

She's the boss of the nurses but her boss is a man, the director of the entire facility. He was interviewed in the media when she was first missing.

 

[slowpoke]

It seems unusual to me that Cristina texted a coworker about being late, and two other coworkers thought it was weird she didn't text them, too. But she didn't text her boss? If I were running late to work, the first (and probably only) person I'd text would be my boss.

What you say seems true, that it’d be sent to her boss; but it sounds like whatever was her usual way of informing—texting all 3?— she did not do that morning. And if that was “weird” to the two sisters/coworkers, it makes one wonder if it even was Cristina who sent the “I’ll be in late” text!

 

[kccorona]

She's the boss of the nurses but her boss is a man, the director of the entire facility. He was interviewed in the media when she was first missing.

I think I said this upthread in an old post, but I work in several long term care and assisted living facilities, and in Christina’s role as a director, it wouldn’t be that odd for her to text an employee- perhaps someone with seniority amongst her staff- to let them know she’d be late. Since she was a director, it’s likely she wouldn’t be that missed by other staff at the beginning of a shift because she may not be directly responsible for a set of residents/patients.
Further, in most of the bldgs I work in, it would be more common for Christina to text an employee on the “floor” or someone in direct patient care, instead of her main boss, who is generally someone in an executive director role, not clinical. Her being late, especially if she were planning to be there by 8:30a, would likely not directly affect the main boss, but would be information helpful to her patient-care staff.


ETA: my earlier post on similar topic-

Just wanted to comment on this with personal experience- I am no longer in bedside nursing but am a provider at several different facilities offering services/care similar to the one where CA worked as the director of nursing (referenced upthread). In none of the facilities where I round does the nursing director routinely have to relieve anyone from the prior shift- since they are in a supervisory position they will occasionally have to cover floor nurses who may be late or call in, but in general she may not have had the type of position that would cause issues with the prior shift getting off in time if she were late.

 

[azure]

What you say seems true, that it’d be sent to her boss; but it sounds like whatever was her usual way of informing—texting all 3?— she did not do that morning. And if that was “weird” to the two sisters/coworkers, it makes one wonder if it even was Cristina who sent the “I’ll be in late” text!

It's interesting that this article completely fails to mention Cristina being late on two other occasions and the fact that her phone indicated she was the same distance from home each time. I'd be interested to know whether she texted all three women each prior time she was mysteriously late.

 

[slowpoke]

It's interesting that this article completely fails to mention Cristina being late on two other occasions and the fact that her phone indicated she was the same distance from home each time. I'd be interested to know whether she texted all three women each prior time she was mysteriously late.

I’ve noticed the two sisters saying that the time of the text was 6:34 am.

Didn’t the police say Cristina texted her “I’ll be in late” texts 20 min after leaving home, and that the exit for the Glenwood Park area is a 20 min drive from her home, so the police have been saying “it’s likely” she visited the same area on those prior occasions.

If she normally leaves around 6:30am, then this last time her text was almost around the time she left, not 20 min later.

I don’t know what to make of it.

 

[sasha17]

I’ve noticed the two sisters saying that the time of the text was 6:34 am.

Didn’t the police say Cristina texted her “I’ll be in late” texts 20 min after leaving home, and that the exit for the Glenwood Park area is a 20 min drive from her home, so the police have been saying “it’s likely” she visited the same area on those prior occasions.

If she normally leaves around 6:30am, then this last time her text was almost around the time she left, not 20 min later.

I don’t know what to make of it.

This article says Cristina left her home at 6:34am and then sent the text 20 minutes later: Search warrant details deepen puzzle in Vancouver woman's suspicious disappearance

 

[slowpoke]

This article says Cristina left her home at 6:34am and then sent the text 20 minutes later: Search warrant details deepen puzzle in Vancouver woman's suspicious disappearance

But in the latest NBC News article, it says:
“At 6:34 a.m. on March 26 — Cristina texted Amy and Nicole’s mother, who also works at Rose Linn Care Center. She said she wouldn’t be in till 8:30 a.m., an hour later than usual. According to Cristina’s co-workers, she did not give a reason why.”

And I have seen on the Cristina Ase Missing FB page,* both of the Admin say “she texted at 6:34” (in the comment area under this post by N.O., admin.) and one of them insisted “we know for a fact the text came at 6:34 am.”

(* this site was approved by WS mods earlier in Cristina’s thread)

 

[AislingGray18]

Thank you for posting this. Does it seem unusual that Christina’s husband and sisters would not choose to speak publicly about this? At least to solicit information on Christina’s behalf? The article said they do support her coworkers publicizing the case. The family may have reasons not to speak out, but I can’t imagine what that would be.

I am a local. Yes it is very unusual. Many times the missing here, are in the life and is never reported on. This woman was from a different demographic than our other missing women, who all have family and loved ones banging the drums, but LE and the news doesn't even seem to be aware. Or care. (Alana Carroll has been missing for 9 months and it never even made the news because she is an addict, that one hurts because we have friends in common that I care about that are also in the street life and I worry about them endlessly. I know she knew my nephew who also struggles with addiction)

It is very strange, and being so close, I have to try and respect it, because I don't ever want to point fingers at someone not on LE radar. ..but I surely do not understand it at all. No one even knows her spouses name, she doesn't have anyone really close to her that seem to want her safe and home other than these three.
Yes we are all talking about it locally and we all think it is weird, but we also think police know far more than they are saying, much like the Nikki Kunhausen case. In that situation they knew who the offender was right away, but he had fled to Ukraine/Russia and they played it off like they were clueless so he would come back state side and that's what happened.

 

[Cedars]

But in the latest NBC News article, it says:
“At 6:34 a.m. on March 26 — Cristina texted Amy and Nicole’s mother, who also works at Rose Linn Care Center. She said she wouldn’t be in till 8:30 a.m., an hour later than usual. According to Cristina’s co-workers, she did not give a reason why.”

And I have seen on the Cristina Ase Missing FB page,* both of the Admin say “she texted at 6:34” (in the comment area under this post by N.O., admin.) and one of them insisted “we know for a fact the text came at 6:34 am.”

(* this site was approved by WS mods earlier in Cristina’s thread)

I guess, possibly, she texted her boss at 6:50, since that is what was clearly stated by LE in a search warrant, and that text originated from the neighbourhood where the phone's last pings were centered.

Whereas the text to her employee seems to have been sent, perhaps after she left home but not yet arrived at her destination, so - from the point of view of the search warrant - doesn't add any information or evidence of probable cause.

Weirdness or not, hard to say...it would depend on what was going on with her, what had been the pattern before, was it really crucial, etc...

JMO

 

[annemc2]

Aww jeez. I've been traveling and was hoping that when I got back there would be some update on Cristina's case. Nada.

 

[carbuff]

This happened just last week in our area: Police investigating potentially fatal liposuction inside Mass. home

I more and more wonder whether Cristina was getting some sort of "work" done, something that took several appointments, at an illicit operation like this and after something went wrong, the provider(s) hid her body.

 

[JosieMae]

This happened just last week in our area: Police investigating potentially fatal liposuction inside Mass. home

I more and more wonder whether Cristina was getting some sort of "work" done, something that took several appointments, at an illicit operation like this and after something went wrong, the provider(s) hid her body.

Interesting theory!

 

[nhmemorymaker]

My mind, now, keeps coming down to intentional
But that really is hard, given what we know about her morning wanderings..just does not add up to a planned escape.

 

[threesevenninefour]

From what we’ve heard about the area she was last supposedly tracked to and from first-hand accounts of the type of person that Cristina was— my mind keeps going to her having someone she was providing treatment/medical care to “off the books.” Possibly someone unhoused who couldn’t access traditional aid services for one reason or another. I am a nurse and I have a few friends who have done this type of work at different points in their careers, out of the kindness of their hearts. Not always the safest thing to be doing, but as nurses many of us are called to help those in need, regardless of personal safety. But this theory also doesn’t explain how they’ve found basically no trace of her or how her car magically reappeared back near her home.

Hoping LE has more to go on and the silence is a sign that they’re getting all their ducks in a row…

MOO.

 

[ohemgee.kay925]

Thinking of you, Cristina.

 

[dms]

I can't believe there's just...nothing. Crickets.

 

[AislingGray18]

I can't believe there's just...nothing. Crickets.

As a local, I can tell you this is common and normal. LE doesn't make a big deal of missing persons. My own BIL has been missing for 4 months and they won't let us file a report since he is an addict. Alana Carrol has been gone almost a year, with a total of two news articles.

They seriously do not care. We have so many people locally that are missing but most of the time, they refuse to allow us to file a report, they say it's their choice to be missing. it's not their choice. Something terrible happened to them. We are at a point personally where we no longer believe my BIL is alive. He has not accessed his food card, his facebook, textnow, gmail, doordash account, literally nothing.

I don't think he would miss the birth of his son last week. Or his other children's birthdays. No one has heard from him. Not a peep. Sadly, we have come to accept that he isn't coming back.

 

[ohemgee.kay925]

As a local, I can tell you this is common and normal. LE doesn't make a big deal of missing persons. My own BIL has been missing for 4 months and they won't let us file a report since he is an addict. Alana Carrol has been gone almost a year, with a total of two news articles.

They seriously do not care. We have so many people locally that are missing but most of the time, they refuse to allow us to file a report, they say it's their choice to be missing. it's not their choice. Something terrible happened to them. We are at a point personally where we no longer believe my BIL is alive. He has not accessed his food card, his facebook, textnow, gmail, doordash account, literally nothing.

I don't think he would miss the birth of his son last week. Or his other children's birthdays. No one has heard from him. Not a peep. Sadly, we have come to accept that he isn't coming back.

I'm so very sorry. It's such a tragedy that LE doesn't take this more seriously.