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

[JerseyWasHome2]

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.

Thanks so much for resharing that. I know I missed that post and I've been following this closely. So now that makes better sense that they wouldn't notice anything odd in the wee hours after midnight if they aren't even patrolling at that time! Again, thanks!

The cases you mentioned - just unreal, and very sad.

 

[Friday Fan]

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.
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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.

Thank you for the Express-News article.

I did find it kinda odd that her mom stated that she had no connection to Huebner Oaks Shopping Center

I assumed she shopped there frequently based on her age and because she was a single parent. Those stores are popular with middle class, young parents etc...Old Navy, Bed Bath and Beyond, Ulta, Ross etc. (Moderately priced with decent merch)


Mobley searched along her daughter’s route to work. With the help of a close friend, she drove off the route and checked hotel parking lots, Walmart parking lots.

 

[Seattle1]

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.

^^BBM

IMO, the co-worker likely requested SAPD meet her at the residence to conduct a welfare check on their employee that did not show up at the firm as expected.

The co-worker may have been the same person that took the call earlier in the morning and must have heard something from CP that gave her reason to believe she was not in good form that day.

It's also possible that CP confided in somebody at work that she was struggling to cope.

I'm really glad to know that CP spent her last weeks in a carrying environment where personnel did not hesitate to act on her behalf.

ETA: Thinking about CP, she went missing and most likely expired the day following a three-day holiday weekend which just may have been too much for her. Holidays (or a break in routine) can often be the source of mental triggers for individuals struggling with emotional/mental issues. She may have consumed excess alcohol that weekend while taking Rx, in addition to feeling pressure about reunification, etc. Regardless, it's obvious that she was not in a healthy place when she walked out of her residence on July 5. MOO

 

[Friday Fan]

^^BBM

IMO, the co-worker likely requested SAPD meet her at the residence to conduct a welfare check on their employee that did not show up at the firm as expected.

The co-worker may have been the same person that took the call earlier in the morning and must have heard something from CP that gave her reason to believe she was not in good form that day.

It's also possible that CP confided in somebody at work that she was struggling to cope.

I'm really glad to know that CP spent her last weeks in a carrying environment where personnel did not hesitate to act on her behalf.

ETA: Thinking about CP, she went missing and expired the day following a three-day holiday weekend which just may have been too much for her. Holidays can often be the source of mental triggers for individuals struggling with emotional/mental issues. She may have consumed excess alcohol that weekend while taking Rx, in addition to feeling pressure about reunification, etc. Regardless, it's obvious that she was not in a healthy place when she walked out of her residence on July 5. MOO

On the day she vanished, Powell had overslept. About 10 a.m., work called asking where she was. She said she would be late. Questions linger as Chrissy Powell's mother recounts an agonizing wait during the search for her daughter

Loved ones told Fox News Digital Powell kept a low profile on the July 4th holiday. That Monday marked one year since Powell’s 3-year-old son began living with his father instead of Powell, said her mother, Claudia Mobley.

"We didn’t do anything, because a year ago, July 4, was when she had … when her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend walked out and took the baby," Mobley told Fox News Digital. "So, it was kind of a bad anniversary." Missing Texas mom Christina Powell: What we know about the San Antonio paralegal missing over a week

 

[PrairieWind]

When we first heard about the law firm employee showing up at the house and talking to the son, there was no mention of police officers as well. That combined with the Mother's reluctance to say much about what the medications are/were and what conditions CP had leads me to believe there was reason for concern that morning and the cause of this is likely known to police and family.

 

[Jenesaisquoi]

I wonder if the law firm she worked for was assisting her in trying to get her son back. In that case they may have been privy to some/all of the story.

Whatever turns out to be the cause of her death, it does seem that Chrissy was trying really hard and it’s so sad for her children and family to lose her so young.

 

[Arkay]

So now that makes better sense that they wouldn't notice anything odd in the wee hours after midnight if they aren't even patrolling at that time

In my heart I really don't blame security for overlooking this car. Had it been discovered earlier her family would have known sooner, but IMO I don't think it would have saved her life. Not if she was already in a blistering hot car since morning with the windows closed.

Here in NYC the average citizen doesn't walk around with guns, but I recently returned from a trip to Florida to help my parents. We went to a Publix to stock up for the AirB&B, and I saw a sign in the supermarket window about "please don't carry your gun inside the store." Or show it, I don't recall which. But that got me nervous, thinking about all the recent mass shootings in diverse places.

What made me feel safer was seeing quite a few security guards patrolling in front of Publix, as well as security trucks passing by frequently.

This leads me to believe that possibly in the wake of so many mass shootings in public places, including a supermarket in Buffalo, NY, perhaps security is instructed to keep their eyes peeled on customers. That makes sense to me, rather than patrolling for what appear to be abandoned vehicles.

Jmo

Also, I don't know Chrissy and can't guess if she was suicidal or had a medical episode that knocked her out. Either seems plausible to me, except that her family did allude to her having some emotional problems.

It does strike me as odd that a new employee, already late for work, would garner a co-worker and police response, but it seems like due diligence to me. They could have shrugged her off, as someone they barely knew.

Jmo again

 

[aimeea]

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.

BBM. Okay so like... whatever she said over the phone was obviously pressing enough to get the coworker to call the police, but NOT pressing enough to call the police immediately after the call?

 

[Seattle1]

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.

I think there are answers in the article to earlier questions-- as well as other possible clues about CP and her state of mind.

As I speculated just one day earlier, it now appears to me that info provided to SAPD caused them to believe that CP was missing voluntarily and/or had taken off before (i.e., CP's mom wondered if she went to see her father or flown to Utah to see her sister).

To be clear, this is not blaming the victims here but I think it's a legitimate concern to question CP's relationship with her mom (Mobley).

For example, at first, I thought Mobley took her grandson to band camp and was unaware that CP was home but we know that she saw CP walk out the door. Assuming CP was working typical business hours and was due at work at 8AM -- IMO, it doesn't follow that Mobley would not wake her daughter if she was still in bed sleeping at 10 AM!

Seems to me there was a reason mom did not approach her adult child's room. (And why co-worker took the initiative to personally come to the house to conduct a welfare check)?

I also wonder if CP was feeling pressure about getting her own place -- especially now that she was permanent status at the law firm.... in addition to pressure about reconciling with her former mate.

If anything, I believe CP left knowing in her heart that her 12 yr old was safe, very much loved, and in a good place.

From the link:

Her older son, Ryan, 12, was attending band camp, honing his skills with the euphonium, a brass instrument.

[..]

On the day she vanished, Powell had overslept. About 10 a.m., work called asking where she was. She said she would be late.

[..]

Mobley remembers seeing her daughter dash out the door, forgoing her usual routine of preparing for the day.

[..]

She began calling people she hoped might know of her daughter’s whereabouts: the father of Powell’s 3-year-old son, Elijah; her best friend; her ex-husband. Perhaps Powell had gone to visit her father, or maybe she had flown to visit her sister in Utah.

[..]

Police would “take notes, but they wouldn’t put her on the missing persons list,” Powell said. “But they finally did. It seemed like it was after I emphasized the depression and anxiety.”

[..]

Mobley and her daughter loved Ryan so much that they joked they would maintain “joint custody” of him if she ever did find a place of her own.

ETA: OP has since learned that the July 4 holiday marked the one-year anniversary of CP losing her 3 yr old son to the child's father. Good possibility CP stayed behind closed doors all weekend.

 

[Seattle1]

Holidays (or a break in routine) can often be the source of mental triggers for individuals struggling with emotional/mental issues.

^^rsbm

That Monday marked one year since Powell’s 3-year-old son began living with his father instead of Powell, said her mother, Claudia Mobley.

^^rsbm

There we go -- the trigger revealed.

I wouldn't be surprised if CP privately, unbeknownst to others, gave herself a year to regain her 3-year-old-- and tortured herself all weekend.

Everybody has a side to them that nobody else is aware of.

I think CP confided in at least one co-worker that she was absolutely dreading the holiday weekend and the no-show on July 5 was a HUGE red flag. MOO

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

I think there are answers in the article to earlier questions-- as well as other possible clues about CP and her state of mind.

As I speculated just one day earlier, it now appears to me that info provided to SAPD caused them to believe that CP was missing voluntarily and/or had taken off before (i.e., CP's mom wondered if she went to see her father or flown to Utah to see her sister).

To be clear, this is not blaming the victims here but I think it's a legitimate concern to question CP's relationship with her mom (Mobley).

For example, at first, I thought Mobley took her grandson to band camp and was unaware that CP was home but we know that she saw CP walk out the door. Assuming CP was working typical business hours and was due at work at 8AM -- IMO, it doesn't follow that Mobley would not wake her daughter if she was still in bed sleeping at 10 AM!

Seems to me there was a reason mom did not approach her adult child's room. (And why co-worker took the initiative to personally come to the house to conduct a welfare check)?

I also wonder if CP was feeling pressure about getting her own place -- especially now that she was permanent status at the law firm.... in addition to pressure about reconciling with her former mate.

If anything, I believe CP left knowing in her heart that her 12 yr old was safe, very much loved, and in a good place.

Snipped and bolded by me above:

I wonder if in the past, Chrissy had issues maintaining steady employment and so her mom, who was not 30 and Chrissy was not 10 - i.e., both are adults and had been so for a long time - perhaps her mother decided "I'm not going to baby her anymore. If she has a new job and can't get up on time for it, she's going to have to deal with the repercussions." I could be completely mistaken here and even feel bad typing this for the public to see as none of us have ANY idea what really went on with any of them, but I do know there are "tough love" situations where a parent or spouse or friend have to let the person flounder and figure things out for themselves and not always be the rescuer, or in this case, her alarm clock.

BUT - maybe her mom did take her grandson to band camp, returned home and didn't realize CP was still sleeping. Who knows what their exact overlapping timeframes were.

 

[Dotta]

Was it mentioned why the child was taken away from her?
I must have missed it.
Did the Famiy Court decide about it?

 

[PrairieWind]

Was it mentioned why the child was taken away from her?
I must have missed it.
Did the Famiy Court decide about it?

I don't think we have heard anything about that situation and I'm guessing we probably wont hear much.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Was it mentioned why the child was taken away from her?
I must have missed it.
Did the Famiy Court decide about it?

As far as I know and have read, no, there has been nothing posted publicly about that sad situation or whether it was even a legal custody transfer.

 

[Seattle1]

Was it mentioned why the child was taken away from her?
I must have missed it.
Did the Famiy Court decide about it?

Thanks to @Friday Fan for posting the link, I just learned about the 3 yr old child with the father for the first time. Nothing was reported about a court order but I think it is safe to assume dad was acting as the legal custodial parent over the last year. Reportedly, he also wanted them to be a family unit again. MOO

Missing Texas mom Christina Powell: What we know about the San Antonio paralegal missing over a week

Christina "Chrissy" Powell disappeared without a trace on the morning of July 5 after she was last seen hurrying out of her San Antonio home running late for work.

www.foxnews.com

7/16/22

Loved ones told Fox News Digital Powell kept a low profile on the July 4th holiday. That Monday marked one year since Powell’s 3-year-old son began living with his father instead of Powell, said her mother, Claudia Mobley.

"We didn’t do anything, because a year ago, July 4, was when she had … when her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend walked out and took the baby," Mobley told Fox News Digital. "So, it was kind of a bad anniversary."
[..]

The day before, on Sunday, Powell and the ex-boyfriend argued over text message, Mobley recalled.

"He wanted them to be a family unit again," Mobley said, "and he was blaming her for them not being together anymore."

 

[Dotta]

As far as I know and have read, no, there has been nothing posted publicly about that sad situation or whether it was even a legal custody transfer.

Thanks.
I wasn't sure if I missed this info.
I am surprised b/c the older son was living with Christina.

 

[JerseyWasHome2]

Thanks.
I wasn't sure if I missed this info.
I am surprised b/c the older son was living with Christina.

You're welcome. It can be so hard to keep up.

 

[Seattle1]

Thanks.
I wasn't sure if I missed this info.
I am surprised b/c the older son was living with Christina.

We know that the Court weighs what is best for the child in these matters.

In this case, it could have been a situation where the toddler would have to go to daycare 40+ hours weekly while CP worked full-time whereas the father was able to care for the toddler at home because he either had hired help or worked from home or both. This very well may have been a mutual decision by the parents and not the court.

In other words, CP may have done what was best for her child but not her heart.

This is not directed at OP but I don't think it should be assumed that CP was deemed unfit to parent the 3-year-old.

We also know that the grandmother very much wanted the 12-year-old but may not have had the ability to help care for a toddler. MOO

 

[Dotta]

We know that the Court weighs what is best for the child in these matters.

In this case, it could have been a situation where the toddler would have to go to daycare 40+ hours weekly while CP worked full-time whereas the father was able to care for the toddler at home because he either had hired help or worked from home or both. This very well may have been a mutual decision by the parents and not the court.

In other words, CP may have done what was best for her child but not her heart.

This is not directed at OP but I don't think it should be assumed that CP was deemed unfit to parent the 3-year-old.

We also know that the grandmother very much wanted the 12-year-old but may not have had the ability to help care for a toddler. MOO

Im not sure it was a mutual decision for a child to be taken away from the mother.

Wasn't Christina depressed about this situation?

A child cannot be taken against mother's wish without the decision of Court.

And I did not suggest Christina was not a fit mother.

I simply asked b/c I did not remember this info.


MOO

 

[Friday Fan]

Im not sure it was a mutual decision for a child to be taken away from the mother.

Wasn't Christina depressed about this situation?

A child cannot be taken against mother's wish without the decision of Court.

And I did not suggest Christina was not a fit mother.

I simply asked b/c I did not remember this info.


MOO

It could have been an informal arrangement that did not involve the courts. Sounds like they weren't married, so it could lend itself to a more informal arrangement.

When my sister relinquished custody to her ex-husband, she was shocked to find that she had to pay child support. (It was an abusive situation and she decided just to let him have his way. This was all done via the courts and they were divorced..TX)

I get the impression that Chrissy likely had a somewhat spotty employment history. Mainly because she was hired a temporary, yet it seems that the temporary position was more of a "test" because she was hired after only a week. A true temporary is there for a heavy workload, then they may or may not be hired after the work is finished.

She also had "tuned out" (left home) on a few occasions which may have been another issue with the father. It may have been something that the father held over her head.


We'll probably never know. However, courts don't always need to be involved.