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

[Tealgrove]

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 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. JMO

We would investigate a car left overnight no matter where it is in the parking lot. And…we would have seen it the first NIGHT it overnighted.

Since 911 we are VERY vigilant.

I’m thinking Security was lax. Was this a strip mall or a big enclosed mall?

 

[Curiousobserver]

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. JMO

On Google earth you can see that whole parking lot from the highway. It looks like a pretty conspicuous spot to have hidden a missing women's car for 3 weeks. It seems like her co-workers must be driving by there from time to time... And it is right on the way to where she had just said she was going.

 

[steeltowngirl]

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

She didn’t move herself to the passenger seat after death. She was in that seat at her time of death or else someone moved her after. Likely she died there. So who was in the driver‘s seat? Or did she choose to sit or sleep there - it would be more comfortable to sleep or rest on that side with the seat back, if she was not feeling well, vs. a steering wheel in her way. But could this have been a carjacking or abduction?

jmo

 

[MimosaMornings]

Did someone drive her to that location?
Bring in the passenger seat is concerning.
Exact location in the shopping center also.
Was it a large shopping center or a small retail strip center?

Most of the larger centers have security that drives around during the day and night - a car alone in a lot would have been checked out the first night or two it was there.
JMO

 

[Curiousobserver]

Did someone drive her to that location?
Bring in the passenger seat is concerning.
Exact location in the shopping center also.
Was it a large shopping center or a small retail strip center?

Most of the larger centers have security that drives around during the day and night - a car alone in a lot would have been checked out the first night or two it was there.
JMO

Huebner Oaks Shopping Center

 

[SteveP]

On Google earth you can see that whole parking lot from the highway. It looks like a pretty conspicuous spot to have hidden a missing women's car for 3 weeks. It seems like her co-workers must be driving by there from time to time... And it is right on the way to where she had just said she was going.

And I think LE and even some of her family or friends had supposedly driven the route(s) that she would have taken to work, so it really seems almost inconceivable her car was not found before this past weekend, especially if it had been parked there much earlier than reported. JMO

 

[Tealgrove]

Did someone drive her to that location?
Bring in the passenger seat is concerning.
Exact location in the shopping center also.
Was it a large shopping center or a small retail strip center?

Most of the larger centers have security that drives around during the day and night - a car alone in a lot would have been checked out the first night or two it was there.
JMO

Absolutely! That car would have been noted by security the first night it over nighted.

 

[Curiousobserver]

And I think LE and even some of her family or friends had supposedly driven the route(s) that she would have taken to work, so it really seems almost inconceivable her car was not found before this past weekend, especially if it had been parked there much earlier than reported. JMO

It's possible but I agree, very strange. It's exactly where you would expect to "hide" or abandon or whatever a car along her route.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Missing San Antonio woman found dead in vehicle at shopping center

Police said a foul odor came from the vehicle.

www.mysanantonio.com

“A missing San Antonio woman was found dead in a vehicle parked in a Medical Center shopping plaza on the city's Northwest Side on Saturday, July 23, according to the San Antonio Police Department. The woman, Christina Powell was last seen leaving her house in a rush on the morning of July 5.

San Antonio officers responded just before 7 a.m. to the Huebner Oaks Center in the 11700 block of Interstate 10 W after a security guard reported a suspicious 2020 Nissan Rogue that had been in the parking lot for a week, according to a news alert sent by SAPD on Monday, July 25.”

 

[whitelilac]

I'm wondering when that car was last serviced. If since then Chrissy only went between home and work, could the odometer reading determine whether the vehicle drove a distance that would not jive with her regular driving distances?

Just thinking aloud....whether there's a possibility the car was elsewhere during the two weeks before it was discovered in that parking lot.

Did anything come of the Kerrivale sighting?

 

[steeltowngirl]

I realize we don’t have details yet, but the Sun said her purse and ID were in the car. Where were the car keys?

If the car keys are missing, someone likely moved her and the car there.

 

[SteveP]

It will be a horrendous job for anyone to do, but with her having been found in the passenger seat of her car, I hope her vehicle will be thoroughly forensically processed, with particular attention to the steering wheel, gear shift and driver side door handles, inside and out, as well as driver's seat and mirrors.. I am not convinced she drove herself to that location. JMO

 

[Tealgrove]

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

 

[JMapes]

Did someone drive her to that location?
Bring in the passenger seat is concerning.
Exact location in the shopping center also.
Was it a large shopping center or a small retail strip center?

Most of the larger centers have security that drives around during the day and night - a car alone in a lot would have been checked out the first night or two it was there.
JMO

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.

 

[Stopthehate]

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.

Yes! and if you go a little to the left, passed the security vehicle, there is a golf cart with a light on top. I'm thinking that is security as well.

 

[bestill]

Missing San Antonio woman found dead in vehicle at shopping center

Police said a foul odor came from the vehicle.

www.mysanantonio.com

“A missing San Antonio woman was found dead in a vehicle parked in a Medical Center shopping plaza on the city's Northwest Side on Saturday, July 23, according to the San Antonio Police Department. The woman, Christina Powell was last seen leaving her house in a rush on the morning of July 5.

San Antonio officers responded just before 7 a.m. to the Huebner Oaks Center in the 11700 block of Interstate 10 W after a security guard reported a suspicious 2020 Nissan Rogue that had been in the parking lot for a week, according to a news alert sent by SAPD on Monday, July 25.”

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.

 

[Curiousobserver]

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...

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Can someone point us to the actual medical center that is in the Huebner Oaks shopping mall area? If her car was located near a 24 hr urgent care place, it might make sense that it wasn't noticed sooner. But I'm unable to locate any kind of medical facility within all of the typical shops in that complex. Thanks!

 

[bestill]

No one even tried to break into her car and get her pocketbook. I can't believe that she was sitting in that car for that many days. Do you think possibly she wasn't in the car the whole time? What if she was picked up in that parking lot and then returned there dead and left to be found? My mind is going in so many directions.

 

[MimosaMornings]

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