Found Deceased TX - Chrissy Powell, 39, San Antonio, Paralegal, didn’t arrive @work, BOLO, 5 July 2022

[SteveP]

It is stated that her car was in the parking lot where it was found, for at least a week. I hope LE can determine when it actually was left there, and where it and she were during the days before she ended up there. Was she with someone? What was she doing? Can foul play be positively ruled out? I hope the autopsy can answer that very important question.

Powell's mom Claudia Molbey told The Sun on Monday morning that her daughter's car was found in a nearby shopping center parking lot over the weekend - and is believed to have been there for at least a week.

Heartbreaking update after missing mom found dead in her car in a parking lot

A MISSING mom has been found dead in her car three weeks after she first went missing, her family has said. Chrissy Powell, 39, vanished after the loving mom of a young child was last seen on her h…

www.the-sun.com

 

[rosesfromangels]

It is stated that her car was in the parking lot where it was found, for at least a week. I hope LE can determine when it actually was left there, and where it and she were during the days before she ended up there. Who was she with? What was she doing? Can foul play be positively ruled out? I hope the autopsy can answer that very important question.

Powell's mom Claudia Molbey told The Sun on Monday morning that her daughter's car was found in a nearby shopping center parking lot over the weekend - and is believed to have been there for at least a week.

Heartbreaking update after missing mom found dead in her car in a parking lot

A MISSING mom has been found dead in her car three weeks after she first went missing, her family has said. Chrissy Powell, 39, vanished after the loving mom of a young child was last seen on her h…

www.the-sun.com

It certainly sounds like self harm, however, another (remote) possibility is that she stopped at a pharmacy to have a vital prescription filled, and expired prior to accomplishing that. A long shot, but since we are speculating while waiting for more info, thought I’d suggest this.

Amateur opinion and speculation

 

[Curiousobserver]

Located Saturday a.m. in the Huebner Oaks Shopping Center parking lot.

Missing San Antonio woman found dead in vehicle at shopping center

Police said a foul odor came from the vehicle.

www.mysanantonio.com

So strange- she was found so close to her job.

 

[Sundog]

my heart hurts for her children mother and other loved ones. I knew in my gut this wouldn't end well.

It will be interesting to see what info is released at this point as to COD, where her body was located, etc. Right now they haven't really divulged much other than she is dead. IF we don't see much more then I think we can assume self harm was the cause.

I hope that is not the case. Hard thing for children to be left to live with. I want to believe that some accident took her from them.

Just heartbreaking. We all wanted to hope beyond hope that she would come home to be with her children and mother.

 

[indicolite22]

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[indicolite22]

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[Sundog]

It is stated that her car was in the parking lot where it was found, for at least a week. I hope LE can determine when it actually was left there, and where it and she were during the days before she ended up there. Who was she with? What was she doing? Can foul play be positively ruled out? I hope the autopsy can answer that very important question.

Powell's mom Claudia Molbey told The Sun on Monday morning that her daughter's car was found in a nearby shopping center parking lot over the weekend - and is believed to have been there for at least a week.

If it is confirmed that she had been parked at the shopping center for a week, I wonder if during the other two weeks she was living out of her car, since LE reported no credit card or bank activity, she may have had enough cash with her to pay for food using drive-throughs, and perhap enough for gas and she just kept driving around and sleeping in her car at night in various locations, with this one her last.

Did she give up? Was she overwhelmed with life? Such a tragedy - a beautiful 39 year old woman with two sweet children and a mother who loves her, and a good, close friend. And an employer that praised her abilities and work ethic. And perhaps all the while, she may have been living a life of quiet desperation, we just don't know yet.

 

[TGIRecovered]

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No apparent trauma. Medical event? Overdose? Strangulation? Waiting patiently with you all here for the updates to come. So very sorry to hear of the news of her passing. Prayers for her family and loved ones.

"Per protocol, detectives and the Bexar County Medical Examiner investigator made the location to conduct an investigation," police said.

"There was no apparent trauma observed to the body. A purse with identifying information was located inside the vehicle, which was used to tentatively identify the deceased as missing person, Christina Lee Powell."

The Medical Examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death, according to police.

I'm wondering if she had a medical event earlier that morning that caused her to be late for work. Possibly a seizure or stroke? Maybe she missed her insulin the day before, and her blood sugar was dangerously high.
The parking attendant could be mistaken about how long her car had been there. It would be embarrassing to admit that the car was there for three weeks and he didn't check on it sooner. MOO

 

[whitelilac]

So very sorry to see this heartbreaking update.
My condolences to Chrissy's mom, her two young children and all who loved her.

 

[JurassicParker]

So...from that article says the car has been parked there for a week? She's been missing for 3 weeks now. So where was she before that? Possible bender, passes out in her car from drugs, it's stupid hot outside and she expired? Very sad news. RIP Chrissy. I hope you are at peace.

 

[Curiousobserver]

Holding my opinion pending more data.

We know nothing about her health or any other issues.

From the outside she is 39, living with mom, one kid home, the other with someone else, oversleeping at 10am.. not everything going well...

 

[Ontario Mom]

No apparent physical trauma, and in the front passenger seat. That sure does seem strange.

 

[Tealgrove]

I work in the Shopping Centre industry.

Since 911 and terrorist threats we patrol our parking lots 24/7 through cameras and active patrols even in in the dead of night.

I find it hard to believe that this car was not noticed earlier. Really hard.

If it had been one of our Centres, it would have been investigated within 24 hours.

I’m not sure why it took so long.

One other point…Chrissy was in the passenger seat. How was the Driver’s Seat positioned?

 

[Hoosgirl]

So strange- she was found so close to her job.

Was where she was found on the route she would take to go to work, do you know?

 

[bestill]

And cameras- security guard says she was parked there a week but was it really three weeks?

I am very surprised the car was located in a parking lot and apparently also near her home.

I just sort of reinforces that while these cases catch our attention most people even in her area probably had no idea to look for her.

LE was very quiet about this case from the beginning, imo. Her car may have been noticed sooner had their been more pleas for help. I understand the position they are in regarding missing adults, who can certainly disappear on their own.

I'm wondering if she had a medical event earlier that morning that caused her to be late for work. Possibly a seizure or stroke? Maybe she missed her insulin the day before, and her blood sugar was dangerously high.
The parking attendant could be mistaken about how long her car had been there. It would be embarrassing to admit that the car was there for three weeks and he didn't check on it sooner. MOO

I mentioned diabetes in an earlier post too. Sad!

 

[bestill]

This is so sad. How could no one notice a woman sitting in the passenger seat for days, unless she had blacked out windows. Where was her car parked in the parking lot, was it away from other cars so no one walked by it or parked by it? I hope that some of the many questions we all have will be answered.

 

[Curiousobserver]

Was where she was found on the route she would take to go to work, do you know?

It was very close to the address of her place of employment

 

[SteveP]

I work in the Shopping Centre industry.

Since 911 and terrorist threats we patrol our parking lots 24/7 through cameras and active patrols even in in the dead of night.

I find it hard to believe that this car was not noticed earlier. Really hard.

If it had been one of our Centres, it would have been investigated within 24 hours.

I’m not sure why it took so long.

One other point…Chrissy was in the passenger seat. How was the Driver’s Seat positioned?

I totally agree. If the car had been there at least a week, it almost had to have been parked well away from other cars, as otherwise surely someone would have smelled the stench. The temps had been in the high 90's daily almost the entire time she was missing. And if her car had been parked a distance away from other cars, that seems like that should have been even more of a red flag for patrolling security. I hope they have video surveillance, and LE can determine when the car first showed up there, and if someone else was with her. The whole her sitting in the front passenger seat doesn't sit well with me. JMO

 

[tlcya]

the car has been there "at least" a week. So sounds like that is when it caught security's eye or maybe that is as far back as the surveillance goes on the lot? I am just as confused as you guys about that week thing. Was it there all three weeks but only noticed after two and then someone started checking to see if it was still there each day at that point? But then why not just approach it and investigate?

Like, not to be crude or graphic, but three weeks of decomp would be extremely noticeable both visually and well, odor wise. So I am curious where the car was specifically located in the parking lot. Was it parked way out in the boonies of the lot where few people park?

If it was there the full time she was missing how on earth did nobody park near it, catch a whiff of it, see something troubling about someone apparently sitting in it for three weeks??

I didn't really give that wobble as she ran out the front door much thought. I am not terribly graceful so a wobble in my run wouldn't cause anybody who knew me to think I was having any sort of medical issue. But now that she's been found, dead, in a parking lot along her possible path to work, I am revisiting that wobble some noted. NO obvious signs of trauma, I am now leaning toward medical emergency. Why passenger seat tho? That is still a puzzler.

I hope she didn't stop off to pick up a scrip and met up with someone unsavory who tried to car jack her? How apparent would trauma such as strangling be upon visible inspection after say three weeks of decomp?

I hope we get answers to some of these puzzling details. At the very least I hope her loved ones do, even if I never hear another word, they deserve that closure.

 

[bestill]

At least now they know what cameras to check. Does anyone have the actual address of where she was found?