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

[FlossyMay]

She may have had a panic attack and parked the car to wait it out, but her being in the passenger seat is odd to me.

If she took her life, how? No trauma to body. Pills? Where did they come from? Where is the container?

Was there something wrong with her vehicle, like the exhaust system or AC that could have made her sick? That seems unlikely.

I can see all this happening if she had an asthma attack. She might have moved to the passenger seat to find an inhaler in the glove box, but that's just a shot in the dark. No one has said she had asthma.

It's all just odd.

 

[Shamrock1]

Speaking very generally, I’ve noticed that diabetes, asthma, cardiac conditions, and very recent surgeries/injuries requiring antibiotics are often publicized. Everything else - which can be anything from transplant operations to kidney failure to mental health DXs - tend to come later, if at all.

(Someone here noted that her dominant right hand was specified, which I suggested could relate to self-injections. That could be for diabetes, but could also be some auto-immune or hormonal conditions. Or it could have nothing to do with anything).

 

[aimeea]

Speaking very generally, I’ve noticed that diabetes, asthma, cardiac conditions, and very recent surgeries/injuries requiring antibiotics are often publicized. Everything else - which can be anything from transplant operations to kidney failure to mental health DXs - tend to come later, if at all.

(Someone here noted that her dominant right hand was specified, which I suggested could relate to self-injections. That could be for diabetes, but could also be some auto-immune or hormonal conditions. Or it could have nothing to do with anything).

I think it was shared that San Antonio's PD just for whatever reason includes the hand dominance info in all cases. I know I've seen at least one other case from the area recently that included it as well.

 

[MimosaMornings]

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.”

She never got out of the car.

Overcome by the heat? She could have started the car up and had the AC going in a very short amount of time.

She was wearing a black top with long sleeves and black pants inside a black vehicle with dark interior.

If that vehicle was not able to be started - she could have gone into any of those stores that were open that time of day.

JMO

 

[NeverPersonal]

I think it was shared that San Antonio's PD just for whatever reason includes the hand dominance info in all cases. I know I've seen at least one other case from the area recently that included it as well.

Considering shooting them a FB msg or tweet to ask why that is.
EDIT: maybe they include it so if another dept comes across someone they think is the MP, they can ask, "hey, are you left handed?" as one out of many determining factors

 

[tigerteeth]

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.

It’s also just known to make people act super weird and out of it. I have witnessed a friend on Ambian and yeah…it was something else.

 

[carbuff]

She never got out of the car.

Overcome by the heat? She could have started the car up and had the AC going in a very short amount of time.

She was wearing a black top with long sleeves and black pants inside a black vehicle with dark interior.

If that vehicle was not able to be started - she could have gone into any of those stores that were open that time of day.

JMO

Excess heat, like excess cold, causes mental confusion and reduced ability to think logically. It's possible that by the time she realized she was too hot, she was too confused to think of more practical options, if indeed she realized it at all. She might have just passed out--I know I've had times when I was hiking and didn't realize I was too hot until spouse was grabbing my arm and dousing me with his water bottle as I was about to fall over.

If she was wearing black inside a black car, and slumped over the console into the passenger side, the security people might not have been able to see her as they drove by. Even somebody walking past the car might not have noticed.

 

[aimeea]

Random thought that popped into my head: Do we know the condition of her car? Maybe the AC wasn't working properly when she was driving to work so she was already overheating before she even pulled over.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office told Fox News Digital on Monday that the cause and manner of Powell’s death remain "pending" as the office awaits the results of further tests.

Meanwhile, the San Antonio Police Department could not confirm an Inside Edition report that claims Powell died from an "apparent suicide" after driving straight from her home on July 5 to the parking lot where she was discovered nearly three weeks later.

Speaking to Fox News Digital on Monday, longtime forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht said the additional studies likely consist of a toxicology examination, and microscopic testing to check for any disorders.

Texas mom Christina Powell: Longtime medical examiners weigh in as questions swirl about woman's death

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

 

[Deleted member 287549]

I've been following this tragic case since CP initially disappeared. And, after the body was found I never once thought that this was an intentional death on her part - nor did I think that foul play was involved. And, I haven't changed my mind re: any of this.

Unfortunately, I think that she was feeling ill for whatever reason (heat-stroke, a medical issue - or both) and pulled into the parking lot in order to get her bearings and/or to look for something that she thought was in the car. I.e., maybe she moved into the passenger seat to get into a better position to look around the car for something important. I myself have sometimes had small items (phone, etc.) fall between the seats or onto the side(s) of one of the seats, etc. - and have had to contort myself to look for them in the car. She may have then gotten disoriented because of the heat, etc. - since she obviously had to turn the air conditioning off when she turned the car off - that is, if her air conditioning was even working.

And, as a result she may have passed out before she could open the window(s)/door(s). But, her intent may have been to open them soon after she turned the car off.

Just my opinion, obviously.

Again, summers in TX are brutally hot.

 

[PrairieWind]

Sadly, I think the most likely scenario is that she did indeed take her own life. We may never know for sure, unless she left a note or something else definitive for LE to see. The fact that the parking lot was not even on the way to her office tells me she didn't just feel ill on the way to work and pull over.

 

[Friday Fan]

This looks like suicide to me. Maybe foul play or something.

One reason for the sweater in this hot weather would be to hide a NSWF tee shirt. Maybe she didn't have any other clean clothes or something.


I don't think this is an accidental case of hypothermia
Why would she be in the theater parking lot? It's too far off the road.
She either had business there OR went to a secluded spot.

At 10 am all those retail areas are active with business. There's Ulta, Versona, Bath and Body Works, Bed Bath and Beyond, clothing shops etc. Plenty of places for her to stop.

 

[NeverPersonal]

Texas mom Christina Powell: Longtime medical examiners weigh in as questions swirl about woman's death | Fox News
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office told Fox News Digital on Monday that the cause and manner of Powell’s death remain "pending" as the office awaits the results of further tests. Meanwhile, the San Antonio Police Department could not confirm an Inside Edition report that claims Powell died from an "apparent suicide" after driving straight from her home on July 5 to the parking lot where she was discovered nearly three weeks later.

"They’re waiting for toxicology, that’s most important – most important," said Wecht, who has been involved in some of the country’s most high-profile death investigations, including those involving President John F. Kennedy and JonBenét Ramsey. "They’ll also look at tissues microscopically – make sure there’s no evidence of inflammation of the heart or lungs or something like that."

Dr. Michael Baden, a Fox News contributor and former New York City chief medical examiner, said that, simply put, the need for additional testing means the cause and manner were not immediately obvious.

"Mostly, it may mean there are no external marks on the body. If there were a bullet wound, strangulation, for example – trauma – or if in the autopsy they found cancer or heart disease as a cause of death, that would have been released right away," said Baden, who has conducted more than 20,000 autopsies in his five-plus decades as a forensic pathologist.

"And if the autopsy itself doesn’t reveal the cause of death, then the most likely tests that will be significant would be toxicology, with the idea being… what of the history? If she’s depressed, for example, they might be thinking of, barbiturates, drugs, lethal drugs."

Then, the San Antonio Police Department received a call around 6:45 p.m. on July 23, for a report of "an injured sick person" at the Huebner Oaks Center in San Antonio.

Officers arrived and spoke to a security guard who told them that he was driving through the lot and spotted the 2020 Nissan Rogue, which was later determined to belong to Powell, "that had been parked in the same location for about a week," the San Antonio Police Department said.

He "reported a foul odor coming from the vehicle," and looked inside to find the body in the front, passenger seat, police said.

The windows of the SUV were closed, a law enforcement source told Fox News Digital.

"It had been days," the source added.

[Wecht] added that the levels of any chemicals found in her system could better explain whether the death was accidental. Hypothetically speaking, he said, evidence of a high volume of medication or alcohol in Powell's system would indicate a more specific intention.

 

[Friday Fan]

I previously thought her vehicle was found near the theater. (There was some local crime "SM post" about a body in a vehicle near the theater. However looking at the DM article photos it looks like her vehicle was found much closer to I-10 and this site is not secluded.)

I can't figure out why she was at Huebner Oaks.
She lived in Apple Creek near Huebner and Babcock. She would likely take Huebner to I-10 and get directly on 10. That intersection at 10 and Huebner is fairly busy and there would be no reason to cross it to get to work.

If she wanted to grab something to eat, on her way to work there were quite a few fast places on Huebner Rd.

One purpose of parking lot security is to prevent people from taking advantage of "free parking" etc. I don't think there were too many freeloaders at Huebner Oaks, hence it does not surprise me that a vehicle sat there for several weeks.

 

[Coo]

There is a mobile coffee shop close to where Chrissy's car was found called Early Bird Coffee. You can see it in this photo from a Daily Mail article. It's the Airstream behind the pickup.

 

[Tssiemer]

This looks like suicide to me. Maybe foul play or something.

One reason for the sweater in this hot weather would be to hide a NSWF tee shirt. Maybe she didn't have any other clean clothes or something.


I don't think this is an accidental case of hypothermia
Why would she be in the theater parking lot? It's too far off the road.
She either had business there OR went to a secluded spot.

At 10 am all those retail areas are active with business. There's Ulta, Versona, Bath and Body Works, Bed Bath and Beyond, clothing shops etc. Plenty of places for her to stop.

I wear a sweater because places blast their AC in July.

 

[nimaathep]

I wear a sweater because places blast their AC in July.

I do the same thing - and I almost always put it on before I leave the house because if I carry it with me I'll inevitably leave it in the house or car. I don't find her outfit strange.

 

[carbuff]

It's pretty easy to get stuck in the wrong lane of those crazy multi-ramp Texas intersections and wind up quite a distance from where you want to be, even on ones you're familiar with. Rather than driving an extra mile to make a u-turn under the highway and back, we often found ourselves pulling into a random parking lot and driving through to get back on the street to try again. I've done it myself at Huebner and 10.

The parking area belongs to the theater, but assuming the Daily Mail's photos are accurate, her car was near the cash machine and an instant coffee drive-through, also not far from a bakery and a place where she could pick up a lunch to eat later. It wouldn't surprise me if she drove slightly out of her way to get to a place that had coffee the way she liked it, or a breakfast pastry to energize her, or something along those lines.

I started out thinking self-harm, but the more I think about the conditions and the location, the more I'm leaning to a tragic accident.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

It's pretty easy to get stuck in the wrong lane of those crazy multi-ramp Texas intersections and wind up quite a distance from where you want to be, even on ones you're familiar with. Rather than driving an extra mile to make a u-turn under the highway and back, we often found ourselves pulling into a random parking lot and driving through to get back on the street to try again. I've done it myself at Huebner and 10.

The parking area belongs to the theater, but assuming the Daily Mail's photos are accurate, her car was near the cash machine and an instant coffee drive-through, also not far from a bakery and a place where she could pick up a lunch to eat later. It wouldn't surprise me if she drove slightly out of her way to get to a place that had coffee the way she liked it, or a breakfast pastry to energize her, or something along those lines.

I started out thinking self-harm, but the more I think about the conditions and the location, the more I'm leaning to a tragic accident.

I wonder if she could have even choked to death, maybe trying to eat something in a rush.

 

[MimosaMornings]

It's pretty easy to get stuck in the wrong lane of those crazy multi-ramp Texas intersections and wind up quite a distance from where you want to be, even on ones you're familiar with. Rather than driving an extra mile to make a u-turn under the highway and back, we often found ourselves pulling into a random parking lot and driving through to get back on the street to try again. I've done it myself at Huebner and 10.

The parking area belongs to the theater, but assuming the Daily Mail's photos are accurate, her car was near the cash machine and an instant coffee drive-through, also not far from a bakery and a place where she could pick up a lunch to eat later. It wouldn't surprise me if she drove slightly out of her way to get to a place that had coffee the way she liked it, or a breakfast pastry to energize her, or something along those lines.

I started out thinking self-harm, but the more I think about the conditions and the location, the more I'm leaning to a tragic accident.

How close was she to the atm?
They usually have cameras.