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

[tlcya]

11700 Heubner Oaks puts you at the entrance to a large shopping plaza that includes a French bakery, REI, an ice cream shop, jeweler and steakhouse, among several other 'anchor' stores at the back of the plaza (Ross, Men's Wearhouse, Ulta Beauty, Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works etc.) Across the street, there's another shopping plaza with a few small shops and restaurants and a movie theater.

Hard to guess where exactly her vehicle was found. It looks like there's public parking all around the business complex, and from what I can tell, no real place to "hide" your vehicle from view. In fact, I just put my little orange google map man down on street view behind the building in the far NE corner of the plaza and there's a security guard parked right there in the street view image.

I think if that car was located back where you spotted the security car in google streetview, that it could very well have gone unnoticed back there if security was not, er, vigilant. That appears to be well behind the more heavily trafficked front of the strip mall. That is where I would be even more focused if I were security. But hey, what do I know [insert eyeroll]. Particularly during the evening hours. I would also assume that lots of mall employees would park back there but maybe I am wrong.

This whole thing is so weird.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Piggybacking here on my question from a few min ago asking if anyone can point us to a medical care facility in that shopping center, I now do see a "Carenet Health" building just NW of the shopping center up above the Bed Bath and Beyond store. Although it's unclear to me if that's a place that the public can walk into, or if they just have employees available 24/7 for telehealth, etc. If employees work there 24/7, then I imagine a security guard may not think much of seeing a car left there during the night time hours, assuming, that is, that she was located near such a medical place and not in the midst of the Bed Bath and Beyond shopping center.

Here's a link to Google Maps of Carenet Health -

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[MntnHiker]

Oh no. RIP Chrissy and my condolences to her family.

I also have so many questions. Honestly, if she had been found in the driver's seat, I would think she started not feeling well/having a medical episode on July 5 as she rushed to work and knew she had to pull off into a parking lot as she could not safely drive and then passed away. But why would she park and then get out and go sit in the passenger seat if this was the case? For the record, I've driven several different cars and always been able to get into my glove box from the driver's seat, so I don't know that she'd need to physically go sit there to access something in the compartment but who knows?

My other thought was car trouble - does the car drive well now? I'm assuming it was towed so not sure if anyone has tried driving it - probably not yet as it may be evidence, depending. Maybe the car is making an odd sound or a light comes on so she again pulls off. But yet again my question is, why the passenger seat, and in that case, what killed her then? Just a coincidence she also has a medical episode when she has car trouble?

I'm very curious when the car and Chrissy first arrived in that lot. It seems like there would not be many cars in a shopping center at night/overnight and hers would stick out like a sore thumb. Also surprised that since family/friends etc searched for her, they wouldn't have found her car had it been in a lot near her work. To clarify, I am NOT blaming any of them for not finding it, just saying it leads me to wonder when it got there.

 

[LauraAnne]

It’s a “lifestyle” centre (strip mall)

Probably no on-site Mall Management Office and probably no on site security.

So: it makes more sense now. I’m going to bet she’s been there more than a week and a minimum wage security guard (rent a cop) spent his evenings sleeping somewhere and not patrolling.

Hopefully, Security Cameras from surrounding businesses will tell the tale.

IMO she’s been there a lot longer than 1 week. Someone reported an odour and FINALLY someone showed up to investigate.

How sad for everyone.

MOO

It was a security guard that found her, so they did have "security", although not checking on a car that was there for at least a week, pretty lax security.

 

[Elliot_Alderson]

Circumstances where you end up in the front passenger seat of your own car with the door closed...

1) someone else was driving
2) you need something out of the glove box?
3) you're taking a nap (in 90 heat??)

Help me out here- you're on your way to work, you're late, you stop for some reason at a busy shopping center and get into the passenger seat of your car and close the door...

I have no idea, honestly. I've gone out to my car while at work to take a nap on my lunch break, but I still sit in the driver seat. Only reason I have ever sat in the passenger seat of my car (whether it was moving or parked) was when someone else was driving.

 

[LauraAnne]

Oh my, she was in a Medical Center shopping plaza! This is so sad, I know I sound like a broken record...
so many questions. Maybe she did have a medical episode and tried to get help.

Medical Center is an area of San Antonio, I think. This was a shopping center, located within the area of "medical center", called that for the number of medical facilities in the area.

 

[FlamingoLady]

With all the haphazard, ill-worded reporting these days, (IMO) she could have been slumped over into the passenger seat instead of her entire body sitting in the passenger seat. Also, I find it hard to believe she was upright or she would have been observed in the car much sooner.

 

[Dotta]

Maybe she felt like fainting/dizzy and moved to this seat?

It has way more legroom and no steering wheel digging into your body.

In case of dizziness you have to put your head as low as possible.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

With all the haphazard, ill-worded reporting these days, (IMO) she could have been slumped over into the passenger seat instead of her entire body sitting in the passenger seat. Also, I find it hard to believe she was upright or she would have been observed in the car much sooner.

That's a really good point!

 

[tigerteeth]

I have no idea, honestly. I've gone out to my car while at work to take a nap on my lunch break, but I still sit in the driver seat. Only reason I have ever sat in the passenger seat of my car (whether it was moving or parked) was when someone else was driving.

I have when cleaning or looking for something. Maybe she was looking for her phone? But of course someone else driving or sticking her there may make the most sense.

 

[steeltowngirl]

This is starting to feel like the Jennifer Kesse case, except Chrissy was located. The autopsy will bring answers and closure.. hopefully.

 

[steeltowngirl]

It was a security guard that found her, so they did have "security", although not checking on a car that was there for at least a week, pretty lax security.

I’m sure they will thoroughly talk to the security guard.

 

[bestill]

I have when cleaning or looking for something. Maybe she was looking for her phone? But of course someone else driving or sticking her there may make the most sense.

I wondered about that too. She could have pulled into the parking lot to look for her phone, sat in the passenger's seat and started going through her bag, passed out and died from heat stroke. If she passed out in a hot car it wouldn't take long for the heat to impact her. She was wearing all black too, the car was black and interior could have also been black. I'm not sure how much faith we should have in the security guard's timeline. JMO

 

[DizzyB]

As noted above, plenty of times being found in the passenger seat just means that was where a person ended up. Not sitting on that side. Unless there was some sort of 24 hour business in that location, I find it hard to believe that the car went unnoticed. And for that length of time, we aren’t talking one single security person working all shifts. She may have not been visible until someone walked up to the car. If security was driving around daily, maybe they noticed the car, but we are not talking law enforcement here. The workers might not even be aware of a missing person. Someone finally decided to go over to the car.

 

[Ann99]

I’m catching up, a little behind. So sad.
Is it possible her vehicle had dark tinted windows that did not allow a clear view inside?

 

[monkey222]

Circumstances where you end up in the front passenger seat of your own car with the door closed...

1) someone else was driving
2) you need something out of the glove box?
3) you're taking a nap (in 90 heat??)

Help me out here- you're on your way to work, you're late, you stop for some reason at a busy shopping center and get into the passenger seat of your car and close the door...

4) You need to change or adjust your outfit. Such as spilled a drink or need to put on pantyhose or need to switch pants or skirt or blouse. I have done all of these, though mostly I would pull over and stay in driver's seat. But.. it is much easier in the passenger's side.

 

[Dotta]

Christina Powell, 39, is found dead in car at a strip mall in Texas

Christina Lee Powell was found dead in her car in the parking lot of the Huebner Oaks Center in San Antonio on Saturday night. She has been missing since July 5.

www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[indicolite22]

Perhaps the SAPD Calls for Service database could be consulted to suggest the location where she was found.

 

[Deleted member 287549]

Very sad. I agree completely that she could have died of heat stroke - this is extremely plausible, unfortunately - especially if she was looking for something in a hot, parked car with the windows closed (re: post #434 above). It's hot as hell in TX right now.

 

[buffalogal]

Have any of you looked up what the interior of a 2020 Nissan Rogue is like? There is no way someone slumped over into the passenger side from behind the wheel would be described as being in the passenger seat. There is a large console and the gear shifting the way.