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

[WingsOverTX]

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.

I find it VERY STRANGE. This summer's heat in Texas has been unrelenting. Even more than usual because higher temps started in early May and there's been no relief & hardly any rain in most places.

Getting in a car mid-morning that's not garaged means encountering stifling heat. Her handbag was large enough to carry a spare layer for a cold building interior. It can take me up to an hour to cool off after 15 minutes of intense heat exposure (maybe I'm unusual?).

It was 90 by 10 a.m. near Houston this morning. It was 88 at 10:30 last night! We only get a brief respite into the upper 70s for a few hours between midnight & 6 a.m.

In fact, the 1st thing I saw as a red flag was her clothing in the ring cam. Heat is a factor in what happened to CP. Either before or after death (or both). I don't think it alone caused her death.

My opinion only.

 

[MimosaMornings]

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

The AC runs continuously in Texas since its 90 degrees with a real feel of 101 degrees at 10am. Add high humidity.

Plus her car was parked outside in her driveway - a black vehicle with dark interior sitting outside in the sun would be hot as Hades when you opened the door.

I carry a sweater or jacket to the vehicle because I don’t want to arrive at work with sweat stains. Your hair can wilt just walking to the mailbox.
JMO

 

[NeverPersonal]

Security guard waited 12 days to report car of missing San Antonio woman Chrissy Powell | San Antonio News | San Antonio | San Antonio Current (sacurrent.com)
Bexar County Medical Examiners Office has yet to rule on Powell’s cause of death, but Powell’s mother said she doesn't believe her daughter committed suicide.

 

[Curiousobserver]

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.

Me too- accidental hyperthermia or medical event. She telegraphed exactly where she was going and she was going in that direction. There is no evidence she wasn't heading to work exactly the way she said she was.

 

[GoBuckeyes]

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.

Ambien doesn't make people ignore basic human needs, however. For example, one can sleep eat, but not sleep starve. It doesn't make someone unaware of thirst or uncomfortable, dangerous levels of heat in a car. IME

 

[GoBuckeyes]

I find it VERY STRANGE. This summer's heat in Texas has been unrelenting. Even more than usual because higher temps started in early May and there's been no relief & hardly any rain in most places.

Getting in a car mid-morning that's not garaged means encountering stifling heat. Her handbag was large enough to carry a spare layer for a cold building interior. It can take me up to an hour to cool off after 15 minutes of intense heat exposure (maybe I'm unusual?).

It was 90 by 10 a.m. near Houston this morning. It was 88 at 10:30 last night! We only get a brief respite into the upper 70s for a few hours between midnight & 6 a.m.

In fact, the 1st thing I saw as a red flag was her clothing in the ring cam. Heat is a factor in what happened to CP. Either before or after death (or both). I don't think it alone caused her death.

My opinion only.

Was her medical condition(s) ever revealed? Some have medical conditions that require long sleeves in the sun. MOO

 

[WingsOverTX]

Me too- accidental hyperthermia or medical event. She telegraphed exactly where she was going and she was going in that direction. There is no evidence she wasn't heading to work exactly the way she said she was.

Upthread you will find a map that shows she drove in the opposite direction from her workplace. Here is a link:

17:20 EDT, 29 July 2022

Texas mom Chrissy Powell body sat unnoticed in hot car for three weeks

Chrissy Powell's decomposing body went unnoticed for three weeks in her car in a mall parking lot, DailyMail.com can reveal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

"The mom-of-two was last seen at 10.34am on July 5 and was captured in haunting doorbell footage as she headed to her paralegal job.

DailyMail.com can reveal her 2020 Nissan Rogue was caught on camera 30 minutes later, entering the lot at the upscale Huebner Oaks Mall in San Antonio, Texas, just after 11am."

"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."

"In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Mobley said she believes her daughter, who suffered from anxiety, must have felt unwell and was overcome by the heat. She does not believe her daughter committed suicide or intended to die and said she was furious that security guards took so long to check the car."

"It was only the officer's second day on the job when he discovered Powell's body. His first day, he had just taken note of her parked SUV."

(lots more about the security company and their policies)

From the DM article:

 

[carbuff]

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

That never occurred to me. Wow, good thinking.

I was thinking that she went through either the cash machine or the coffee drive-through and dropped her credit card down between the seat and the console when she went to put it away. In our Subaru, you can only reach that spot from the opposite seat--so the driver can reach beside the passenger seat, but if it's beside the driver's seat you have to go around to the passenger side, or crawl over. (I am too old, out of shape, and overweight for the crawling over thing.)

 

[carbuff]

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

I can't tell from the photos, but if the ATM camera was pointing to where a customer would be parked while using it, her car could have been fairly close but out of range.

 

[charminglane]

Chrissy's car was backed in.
In my experience, you do that if you are going to be there quite awhile-not on your way to work when you are already late.

 

[minneolo]

Chrissy's car was backed in.
In my experience, you do that if you are going to be there quite awhile-not on your way to work when you are already late.

Do we know if the spot she was parked in was one in which she would have had to literally reverse in, or if she could have pulled through from a spot behind the spot she parked in, and therefore appeared “backed in”

 

[carbuff]

Do we know if the spot she was parked in was one in which she would have had to literally reverse in, or if she could have pulled through from a spot behind the spot she parked in, and therefore appeared “backed in”

The Daily Mail photo looks to me like she probably pulled through.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Do we know if the spot she was parked in was one in which she would have had to literally reverse in, or if she could have pulled through from a spot behind the spot she parked in, and therefore appeared “backed in”

I don't think we know for sure. It's called a "sprue" when you pull through one spot and park in the one in front of it, making it look like you backed in.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

I can't tell from the photos, but if the ATM camera was pointing to where a customer would be parked while using it, her car could have been fairly close but out of range.

In one of those photos, these doors on the steakhouse were visible in the background (guessing they keep the trash locked up in there). If you look at this Google street view of them, does that look like a security camera above the regular door to the left?

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

That never occurred to me. Wow, good thinking.

I was thinking that she went through either the cash machine or the coffee drive-through and dropped her credit card down between the seat and the console when she went to put it away. In our Subaru, you can only reach that spot from the opposite seat--so the driver can reach beside the passenger seat, but if it's beside the driver's seat you have to go around to the passenger side, or crawl over. (I am too old, out of shape, and overweight for the crawling over thing.)

Thanks!

I do that often (dropping the card) and it's also impossible to spot it without getting out and poking around. But I keep reading her credit cards had no activity on them. I wonder if she frequently carried and used cash. I know I don't. I often have no cash on me, or if I do, I don't use it for months.

 

[DFWNF]

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

Me too.

 

[DFWNF]

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

Perhaps not relevant at all. Who knows. Some folks can have anxiety attacks that make it difficult to even breathe or swallow, never mind move. And then pass out. Jme.

 

[Curiousobserver]

Upthread you will find a map that shows she drove in the opposite direction from her workplace. Here is a link:



From the DM article:
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The Daily Mail often sensationalizes their stories. It's really not in the opposite direction, it's a pretty direct route along main roads from her house, and the mall has an entrance that is right at the end of the same street where her employer is located. There were dozens of likely routes she could have chosen, some going through more residential areas with frequent start/stops and some of those are more "perfect" than others. She was new to this job and likely taking direct routes she felt comfortable with while she discovered the quickest way to get to her job.

 

[NervousNellie]

Apologies if this has been discussed - I thought I've been following pretty closely, but I noticed in an article today that Chrissy arrived in the parking lot 30 minutes after leaving home. Thirty minutes seems like a long time to drive four miles (distance from home to shopping center, per the Daily Mail article linked above). I guess Chrissy drove around a bit before landing in the Huebner Shopping Center? I am sorry for her mom; this will never make sense to her.

 

[PrairieWind]

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.

She was already late for work. I doubt she would drive out of her way to pick up lunch on the way.
And I don't buy the heat angle either. She and everyone else drives to work every day in that heat with no problems.