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

[JerseyWasHome2]

Yes and I’m a teeny bit worried about her saying something to her employer to the effect of she thought it was still the weekend (IIRC). If she did have anxiety, many also suffer from insomnia and use Ambien to help sleep. However, it can create a morning grogginess and could have a person fighting off the med and falling back to sleep. Perhaps she thought she could just take an energy drink, was searching for them in the glove box, but dozed off, and the heat took her. Just thinking of possibilities, aside from those we’ve already discussed, and barring a sudden medical event like a heart attack or aneurysm - which are also a possibility.

jmo

I meant to reply to your input about the Ambien in my previous post! You're so right that it can create morning grogginess, and don't some people sleepwalk on it? Not that we know she took any sleeping meds, but that could surely create a bad situation while rushing and still being half asleep. I still don't know why she didn't pull over closer to that main intersection though.

 

[DFWNF]

IMHO, hyperthermia cannot be the only cause of death or many, many more of us suffering through the misery of this Texas summer would be perishing.

In addition to the usual to above average daily highs, it only cools off between midnight & 6 a.m., making it more brutal.

Think about it. Whatever the complicating factor, there has to be one if heat stroke led to her death.

I dunno, never been to Texas, but heat/ heat stroke etc can and has killed. Heartbreaking for her loved ones.

 

[DFWNF]

I meant to reply to your input about the Ambien in my previous post! You're so right that it can create morning grogginess, and don't some people sleepwalk on it? Not that we know she took any sleeping meds, but that could surely create a bad situation while rushing and still being half asleep. I still don't know why she didn't pull over closer to that main intersection though.

Yes, can cause grogginess in the am, sleepwalking, and even sleep eating.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

IMHO, hyperthermia cannot be the only cause of death or many, many more of us suffering through the misery of this Texas summer would be perishing.

In addition to the usual to above average daily highs, it only cools off between midnight & 6 a.m., making it more brutal.

Think about it. Whatever the complicating factor, there has to be one if heat stroke led to her death.

She also left vital medication behind, they say. Police say that Powell suffers from a medical condition that requires a doctor's care, and have classified her as missing and endangered.

Texas cops took 3 days to list mom, 39, as missing, her mother says

Christina Lee Powell, 39, was last seen on a Ring doorbell camera leaving her house at 10:34 a.m. on July 5, after calling in to her job as a paralegal to let them know she was running late.

www.dailymail.co.uk

*Has the medical condition been explained? (I sometimes think this type of criteria is often needed/exaggerated to satisfy a requirement for official posting.) imo So Idk if the meds come into play. She disappeared right after the 4th July weekend. I know holidays are triggering for me. It’s one of my worst for childhood memories. I feel so terrible for her mom. Could she be in denial?

 

[Sundog]

I hope Chrissy's mother has a support system that can help her with her grandson right now. Her comments in the DM article posted above concerned me, in terms of her grandson's grief and understanding the way a 12 year old boy grieves versus an adult. They need a support system to wrap around them for a good while. I do recall that Chrissy has a sister, I think MSM quoted her after Chrissy was found, and that the sister's name is Jennifer.

This family needs lots of support right now, as a family unit, and as indivdiuals within it. IMO.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

She also left vital medication behind, they say. Police say that Powell suffers from a medical condition that requires a doctor's care, and have classified her as missing and endangered.

Texas cops took 3 days to list mom, 39, as missing, her mother says

Christina Lee Powell, 39, was last seen on a Ring doorbell camera leaving her house at 10:34 a.m. on July 5, after calling in to her job as a paralegal to let them know she was running late.

www.dailymail.co.uk

*Has the medical condition been explained? (I sometimes think this type of criteria is often needed/exaggerated to satisfy a requirement for official posting.) imo So Idk if the meds come into play. She disappeared right after the 4th July weekend. I know holidays are triggering for me. It’s one of my worst for childhood memories. I feel so terrible for her mom. Could she be in denial?

As far as I know, no, no one has divulged what that medication was. I wonder if it was insulin which could certainly have put her in a bad state. It's never been clear to me if her mom was worried that she didn't have her medication with her because she'd definitely need it by the end of the work day, or because she was missing, that it was something she'd surely need the next day or two. Some meds you can skip some doses with no ill effects and others not so much.

It's all awful and I know all of us here want answers for her family and loved ones. It's hard to put things to rest when the questions are still dancing around. If any of them are reading here, we are on your side and trying to help figure things out!

 

[Seattle1]

Yes and I’m a teeny bit worried about her saying something to her employer to the effect of she thought it was still the weekend (IIRC). If she did have anxiety, many also suffer from insomnia and use Ambien to help sleep. However, it can create a morning grogginess and could have a person fighting off the med and falling back to sleep. Perhaps she thought she could just take an energy drink, was searching for them in the glove box, but dozed off, and the heat took her. Just thinking of possibilities, aside from those we’ve already discussed, and barring a sudden medical event like a heart attack or aneurysm - which are also a possibility.

jmo

July 4 holiday was on Monday so I can see CP thinking that July 5 was a Sunday -- I've done that before myself.

 

[aimeea]

Backtracking to the watch detail, that probably would still be helpful for them to find exact time of death. Even if the phone isn't with her, the underlying health tracking still works independently. I'm sure the battery died weeks ago, but once they charge it back up and get it near her phone, all the health data (heart rate, etc) should be syncable. My understanding of the Apple Watch is that it captures heart rate every 5 minutes so they should be able to see when it dropped off within close approximation.

 

[minneolo]

Realize I am a page or two past the discussion about suicidal ideation & completion that was going here for a moment (and thank you to other sleuthers sharing their stories to humanize these experiences).

I’d just add one thing: while many individuals who contemplate or attempt suicide describe it as a ‘letting go’ or decision made after thinking about it for a very long time… others describe much more sudden, intense ideation that has come on ‘out of nowhere’. This happens too.

 

[carbuff]

Wait, I just realized I know this mall. We take our grandson to the trampoline park, we've eaten at Magnolia Pancakes and the Madeleine bakery, I know where Chipotle is and where the jewelry store is. OMG.

My first thought off the top of my head is: the strip malls and and parking lots go on for miles in all directions. It's a maze. Parts of it are crowded and parts of it, like behind the Regal Cinema building, are deserted. You can be looking for a parking space in one row, turn a corner, and find yourself in a completely different mall.

It looked to me like it would be possible, generically speaking, for a vehicle in a corner, or in a line between different properties, to be ignored or overlooked. But I remember Chipotle being in a busy area. Which jewelry store was it, do we know?

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Wait, I just realized I know this mall. We take our grandson to the trampoline park, we've eaten at Magnolia Pancakes and the Madeleine bakery, I know where Chipotle is and where the jewelry store is. OMG.

My first thought off the top of my head is: the strip malls and and parking lots go on for miles in all directions. It's a maze. Parts of it are crowded and parts of it, like behind the Regal Cinema building, are deserted. You can be looking for a parking space in one row, turn a corner, and find yourself in a completely different mall.

It looked to me like it would be possible, generically speaking, for a vehicle in a corner, or in a line between different properties, to be ignored or overlooked. But I remember Chipotle being in a busy area. Which jewelry store was it, do we know?

Wow! So you've seen it firsthand compared to me and others using Google maps and using the orange man to "drive through" via Google. It is a HUGE mass of shopping centers for sure, from what I could tell. I hadn't read anything about a jewelry store - what are you referring to? Have just read the car was found somewhere between Chipotle and the steak restaurant to the west. I have guessed she parked a bit north of the area right between them based on the pic of the PNC Bank ATM machine in the background so in that open expanse between those 2 restaurants and the shops in the strip mall just north. So no one would have walked by her car or parked next to it, hence the reason no one smelled anything.

 

[carbuff]

Wow! So you've seen it firsthand compared to me and others using Google maps and using the orange man to "drive through" via Google. It is a HUGE mass of shopping centers for sure, from what I could tell. I hadn't read anything about a jewelry store - what are you referring to? Have just read the car was found somewhere between Chipotle and the steak restaurant to the west. I have guessed she parked a bit north of the area right between them based on the pic of the PNC Bank ATM machine in the background so in that open expanse between those 2 restaurants and the shops in the strip mall just north. So no one would have walked by her car or parked next to it, hence the reason no one smelled anything.

I've been there. I wouldn't say I'm familiar with it and I don't think I've ever been to that corner of the parking lots.

The jewelry store is, according to the Daily Mail article (Texas mom Chrissy Powell body sat unnoticed in hot car for three weeks), where they got the security footage:

"Security video, obtained from a nearby jewelry store by the cops and described to DailyMail.com by Powell's mother Claudia Mobley, 70, showed that no one got in or out of the vehicle after it arrived on July 5 and that Powell was alone in the car."

This looks to me like the only jewelry store that would be in a position to have a security camera viewing that part of the parking lot:James Avery Artisan Jewelry · 11745 I-10 West, San Antonio, TX 78230 Saltgrass Steakhouse is across the street from the jewelry store; Chipotle is to the top right relative to the Steakhouse and jewelry store. I'm sure other people have pointed it out before. The pictures in the Daily Mail article appear to show her car not far from the ATM.

 

[carbuff]

As far as I know, no, no one has divulged what that medication was. I wonder if it was insulin which could certainly have put her in a bad state. It's never been clear to me if her mom was worried that she didn't have her medication with her because she'd definitely need it by the end of the work day, or because she was missing, that it was something she'd surely need the next day or two. Some meds you can skip some doses with no ill effects and others not so much.

It's all awful and I know all of us here want answers for her family and loved ones. It's hard to put things to rest when the questions are still dancing around. If any of them are reading here, we are on your side and trying to help figure things out!

If she's insulin dependent and rushed out without having food, she might have been light-headed and disoriented. Maybe she pulled into the mall hoping to find something quick and passed out before she could.

 

[wary]

Okay, now we’re hearing that no one got in or out of the car after it drove into the lot and parked.

Two possibilities:

1: Instead of “slumped in the passenger seat,” it should be: “slumped into the passenger seat.” So, she might have parked, feeling ill, and just passed out.

2: I believe she was petite—perhaps she wriggled across the console, rather than getting out to walk around the car, and get back in via the passenger door. Why? My first theory still seems plausible to me—that she missed her phone, and thought that it might have slipped from the seat, to under the seat.

 

[SteveP]

Are we to believe that LE have already looked at every minute of 18 days of video, to arrive at the definitive statement that no one entered or left the vehicle after it arrived there?

 

[NeverPersonal]

For those who may be suicidal:
Is suicide something people spend a lot of time thinking about? I've been down and out but there's always the promise of tomorrow; the hope for a beautiful day. Faith, promise, hope, and love are gifts we give ourselves.

Yes and no.
I don't want to go too off topic, so I'll leave one of my favorite (very short) poems from one of my favorite movies that sums it up - with a bit of dark humor - for me.
Girl, Interrupted - Resume by Dorothy Parker (1999) - YouTube

 

[steeltowngirl]

Circling back to the DM article. They do a decent job most of the time and have the best pictures, but stuff like this line just annoys me. She was not found both days. Pick one DM!

Photos taken by DailyMail.com show the security vehicle driving in the area of the parking lot where Powell's body was found on Wednesday and Thursday. Police tape can still be seen attached to the base of a street lamp.

Texas mom Christina Lee Powell's autopsy conducted Monday, is 'pending' further studies: ME's office

The missing Texas mom of two who disappeared on July 5 after she was seen leaving her San Antonio home was found dead nearly three weeks later, loved ones and cops confirmed.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Seattle1]

Are we to believe that LE have already looked at every minute of 18 days of video, to arrive at the definitive statement that no one entered or left the vehicle after it arrived there?

I don't know about surveillance video but I know from other cases that her Nissan was relatively new (2020ish) and the vehicle's Intelligent Key/Telematics system can be downloaded in a heartbeat where authorities could immediately determine when and how many times a door, window, hatchback, opened, closed, and whether this was from the interior or exterior, etc. JMO

 

[bestill]

This occured to me today. I have Ocular Migraines that cause temporary vision problems. When I get them my vision is impaired and I have to stop what I'm doing, close my eyes and rest until they go away. I wonder if this is something that Chrissy may have or experienced that morning. JMO

Ocular Migraines: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment​

 

[NeverPersonal]

Texas woman’s body, Christina Powell left rotting in car for three weeks | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
Powell’s mother, Claudia Mobley, 70, told The Daily Mail that police showed her footage from a jewelry store at the mall that showed that her daughter never got out of the car when it pulled into the shopping centre and that she was alone at the time.

Bexar County Medical Examiner has not yet declared an official cause of death but told the outlet she appears to have died from hyperthermia or overheating.

Weather records show that temperatures reached a maximum of 100 degrees on July 5, when Powell arrived at the lot. On the day she was found, temperatures still reached 100.

Mobley said she believes her daughter suffered from anxiety and must have been overcome by the heat after not feeling well.

She does not think that Powell would have wanted to take her own life. More than anything, she’s upset that it took so long for security to find her daughter.

“I don’t understand how the car could have been there two-and-a-half weeks and they didn’t even notice it until July 11,” she told the Daily Mail.

“It is shocking, it really is. It just makes me quite sick to think about it,” Mobley said. “It does seem wrong but I don’t know what to do about it.”

“[The car] was there the whole time,” Mobley said. “I do wonder why it took that security guard so long – he said he noticed it on the 11th and it was the 23rd before he checked it.”