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

[happyday]

To me, what's the most suspicious about this whole thing is how long it took to find her in what seems to be such a busy area.

I actually see it as less suspicious that it was such a busy area. If her car had been parked alone in a quiet, empty parking lot I think it might have been checked out by someone a lot earlier. It would have been noticed by a police officer, business/lot owner, security—someone.
It made sense to me when I found out she was parked in Heubner Oaks with constant activity, people parking, getting in and out of cars all day and at night, rushing to get out of the intense heat. With the dark clothes she was wearing, it might have taken someone to physically walk over, cup hands against window and look in to find her. Since the car being there wasn’t suspicious in itself, it took the smell to become bad enough to alert someone to check it out.

 

[FlossyMay]

If LE believes she took her own life then there must have been some evidence in the vehicle to suggest that. An empty pill bottle perhaps. I can't imagine why else they would jump to that conclusion.

 

[aimeea]

I actually see it as less suspicious that it was such a busy area. If her car had been parked alone in a quiet, empty parking lot I think it might have been checked out by someone a lot earlier. It would have been noticed by a police officer, business/lot owner, security—someone.
It made sense to me when I found out she was parked in Heubner Oaks with constant activity, people parking, getting in and out of cars all day and at night, rushing to get out of the intense heat. With the dark clothes she was wearing, it might have taken someone to physically walk over, cup hands against window and look in to find her. Since the car being there wasn’t suspicious in itself, it took the smell to become bad enough to alert someone to check it out.

Is it common for cars to stay parked overnight there? I guess I'm just wondering since most of the businesses there probably have set hours, there's probably some time of day where someone, like security, routinely goes through and would have noticed the car consistently in the same spot day over day at a time when it's more cleared out (like 11PM or 7AM).

There's a lot of "ifs" there though, I realize. Maybe different security people working different shifts, etc etc. I can see how it might slip through the cracks unnoticed but still strikes me as odd.

 

[Sundog]

Is it common for cars to stay parked overnight there? I guess I'm just wondering since most of the businesses there probably have set hours, there's probably some time of day where someone, like security, routinely goes through and would have noticed the car consistently in the same spot day over day at a time when it's more cleared out (like 11PM or 7AM).

I think that even if security noticed the same car parked in the same spot on day three, that the outcome for Chrissy would have been the same. Of course, her body would have been found earlier.

My understanding from earlier posts on this thread is that this huge mall had businesses and stores that were open at just about all hours, and that it wouldn't be unusual for cars to be parked there between 1 or 2 a.m. and then arrivng early around 5 a.m., and some would just leave cars there overnight. This sprawling mall is very different that a Walmart parking lot that has a defined space in front of that one store.

 

[indicolite22]

Questions linger as Chrissy Powell's mother recounts an agonizing wait during the search for her daughter

Questions linger around the disappearance of the San Antonio woman who later was found dead.

www.expressnews.com

Mobley thought her daughter had made it to work until later that day when a coworker showed up at her front door with two officers. They spoke with her son, Ryan, asking him to check to make sure she wasn’t in her room.
..
She emphasized Powell’s struggle with anxiety and depression when reporting her disappearance to police, who put out a missing persons bulletin after three days. Powell had two medicines she took before bed.
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Police told Mobley her daughter was found sitting in the passenger side. She was slumped over below the bottom of the window line.
“If you just walked by the car, you probably wouldn’t see her sitting there,” Mobley said.

 

[SteveP]

Questions linger as Chrissy Powell's mother recounts an agonizing wait during the search for her daughter

Questions linger around the disappearance of the San Antonio woman who later was found dead.

www.expressnews.com

Mobley thought her daughter had made it to work until later that day when a coworker showed up at her front door with two officers. They spoke with her son, Ryan, asking him to check to make sure she wasn’t in her room.
..
She emphasized Powell’s struggle with anxiety and depression when reporting her disappearance to police, who put out a missing persons bulletin after three days. Powell had two medicines she took before bed.
..
Police told Mobley her daughter was found sitting in the passenger side. She was slumped over below the bottom of the window line.
“If you just walked by the car, you probably wouldn’t see her sitting there,” Mobley said.

So, she was a couple hours late for work one morning, a week after being hired, and after telling the supervisor that she had slept late and was on her way, she didn't show up, and so a short while later, the co-worker showed up with two police officers to check on her??

Many here thought it was extreme that a co-worker would actually go by her home to check on her, but to have two police officers accompany her??? Seriously??? There HAS to be more to this story than we have ever been told. What did she really tell her co-worker, that got three people to her door, checking on her? JMO

ETA...First we have heard that she took two medicines the night before. I wonder if they were both prescribed and taken as prescribed, and wonder if one of them was Ambien. I also wonder if she had alcohol earlier in the evening. Wonder if she told the co-worker any of those things?

 

[Really?]

I guess she didn’t want to be found is why she left her phone behind.

 

[PrairieWind]

I wouldn't think it strange at all to send someone to check on her. Our office would do the same. They heard from her, then she doesn't show, and she doesn't answer the phone. The office would pretty much have to send someone in person. But this is the first I've heard of officers being there. I'm surprised the police would even do that.

 

[ilovewings]

Well, not all jobs have a conventional 9-5 schedule, so this doesn’t strike me as especially odd…

It isnt odd at all--- when I was working in a law office, I arrived at 10 am
I lived far from tne office and did not want to drive in rush hour
Traffic--- I had a good boss- that was only a couple years ago





rking

 

[wary]

I wouldn't think it strange at all to send someone to check on her. Our office would do the same. They heard from her, then she doesn't show, and she doesn't answer the phone. The office would pretty much have to send someone in person. But this is the first I've heard of officers being there. I'm surprised the police would even do that.

What in the world was the conversation with the office like, that morning, to make the co-worker show up with two officers? What could have been said?

Any chance that we’re getting two days conflated in the news article, and two officers showed up on the day they found her body?

 

[PrairieWind]

What in the world was the conversation with the office like, that morning, to make the co-worker show up with two officers? What could have been said?

Any chance that we’re getting two days conflated in the news article, and two officers showed up on the day they found her body?

That is a good point. That would make sense. I just can't see police dispatching two officers just to check on an employee that was late for work.

 

[GoBuckeyes]

The accidental theory makes the most sense IMO as opposed to the intentional or foul play theories. Many things can make people feel faint or like they need to lie down, which I usually do in the back or passenger seat to avoid pushing anything in the driver's seat. I've fainted twice because I get overheated from hot flashes caused by Graves' Disease (not trying to diagnose her, just saying that being too hot can cause fainting which could lead to hyperthermia in this instance). To me, what's the most suspicious about this whole thing is how long it took to find her in what seems to be such a busy area.

I know someone who passes out easily when she gets too hot. My parents were practicing to sing with her. She fainted and was out for quite some time. My parents called 911, it was that concerning how long she'd been out. The woman later commented to my Mom that the same thing happens to her sister. Maybe a condition that runs in families??

 

[SteveP]

What in the world was the conversation with the office like, that morning, to make the co-worker show up with two officers? What could have been said?

Any chance that we’re getting two days conflated in the news article, and two officers showed up on the day they found her body?

It doesn't sound like they are getting the two days conflated, as it says the officers asked her son to go to her room and check to make sure she wasn't still there. I have no idea what LE was told, to get two to her door because she was a few hours late to work. I'm wondering if she said something that had the co-worker worried that she was going to go to her home and find a suicide victim. Completely flabbergasted here.

 

[GoBuckeyes]

I think that even if security noticed the same car parked in the same spot on day three, that the outcome for Chrissy would have been the same. Of course, her body would have been found earlier.

My understanding from earlier posts on this thread is that this huge mall had businesses and stores that were open at just about all hours, and that it wouldn't be unusual for cars to be parked there between 1 or 2 a.m. and then arrivng early around 5 a.m., and some would just leave cars there overnight. This sprawling mall is very different that a Walmart parking lot that has a defined space in front of that one store.

I still find it unusual that it took them so long to find/notice her car. IMO

 

[Sundog]

It doesn't sound like they are getting the two days conflated, as it says the officers asked her son to go to her room and check to make sure she wasn't still there. I have no idea what LE was told, to get two to her door because she was a few hours late to work. Completely flabbergasted here.

If this was a well-known and respected law firm in town, and they had reason to believe that Chrissy was suicidal based on either the phone call (what they heard her say or the manner of her speaking) and other conversations with her at the law firm/workplace, and the fact that Chrissy never showed up at the office after saying she was on her way, then I think they could get police to go with them for a welfare check.

But I agree, there is more to this situation than we know, and there was clearly subtantial reason for her employer/co-worker to be concerned about Chrissy's safety.

Maybe Chrissy mumbled something about taking too much sleep medication, or something, but that she was on her way, and that concerned them as they knew about drug use and/or mental health issues she was struggling with?

 

[kccorona]

Mobley thought her daughter had made it to work until later that day when a coworker showed up at her front door with two officers. They spoke with her son, Ryan, asking him to check to make sure she wasn’t in her room.

I have never thought it was strange that they sent a coworker to check on her, but the police coming too is definitely new and interesting. Thinking more about the coworker bringing police to check on her… a) it’s a law firm so maybe they’re going to be extra cautious/do everything by the book when showing up unexpectedly to someone’s house, especially when that person is still essentially a stranger to them; and/or, b) it’s possible they had some reason to be more concerned for her safety/well-being aside from her just not showing up for work after she said she was on her way.

 

[Friday Fan]

Any chance that we’re getting two days conflated in the news article, and two officers showed up on the day they found her body?

This is the San Antonio Express-News, not the Daily Mail, NY Post or an out-of-town media.
They pride themselves on getting their facts straight.

 

[kccorona]

I still find it unusual that it took them so long to find/notice her car. IMO

The most recent article I read about this (can’t find it right now but posted up thread 1-2 days ago) said security noticed it the first or second day she was missing, but didn’t think anything of it until several days (12 maybe?) later.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Is it common for cars to stay parked overnight there? I guess I'm just wondering since most of the businesses there probably have set hours, there's probably some time of day where someone, like security, routinely goes through and would have noticed the car consistently in the same spot day over day at a time when it's more cleared out (like 11PM or 7AM).

There's a lot of "ifs" there though, I realize. Maybe different security people working different shifts, etc etc. I can see how it might slip through the cracks unnoticed but still strikes me as odd.

She seemed to have been parked closer to the steakhouse than Chipotle, and not near REI which is between them and set back. Close to the steakhouse gate that looks like it encloses, perhaps, their dumpsters. When I looked up Saltgrass Steakhouse a few weeks ago, their website lists their hours as closing at 9:30pm some nights, and 10pm the rest. Given that cleaning staff, maybe even the owners and such, might stay on a few hours to tidy up, I would think that any car near the restaurant after 1-2am may seem suspicious, esp if one guard noticed it there for a few days or more! But if they noticed it around 1-2am and other employee cars were still scattered around, I think it may not have struck them as odd. For me, IMO, it's more the "what is this car doing here between 2am and 5am next to a steakhouse" that'd have had me wondering and investigating. But maybe the guards don't really focus on abandoned cars and are more attuned to looking for seedy characters who may be trying to burglarize places... i.e., humans, not cars.

 

[Friday Fan]

I still find it unusual that it took them so long to find/notice her car. IMO

I don't

Upthread, they gave the security patrol hours.

I don't believe they routinely patrol the area after midnight.


There are numerous stories about people dead in parked vehicles at airports, malls etc for weeks.

This man was in his vehicle for eight months at the Kansas City airport Dead man sat in truck at airport parking lot for eight months and no one noticed

Dead bodies found at Walmart: A list

A growing number of people across the country are dying in Walmart parking lots. Here's a list

www.floridatoday.com

These are just WalMart parking lots:
• Illinois, the body of a 49-year-old man who was reported missing for more than a month, was found dead May 18, 2018, in a van at a Bradley, Illinois, Walmart. He was seen going into the store on May 1 and then leaving a short time later. He died of natural causes, according to media reports.

• In Ohio, police said a 59-year-old man found April 17, 2018, in a pickup truck at an Airport Thruway Walmart, died of natural causes. The body was in the truck, parked on the side of the retail store since April 8, authorities report.

• In California, a woman missing for months turned up dead. Investigators in the February 2016 case said the woman's body remained in the car, parked at the retailer, for up to three months.