GUILTY TX - Christina Morris, 23, Plano, 30 August 2014 - #1 *Arrest*

[Gigglingtoes]

The fact that LE isn't conducting more searches makes me think they already have an idea of what is going on or has happened.

 

[JeannaT]

The fact that LE isn't conducting more searches makes me think they already have an idea of what is going on or has happened.

They announced early on that they found no evidence of a struggle at her car or in that area. I think once they thoroughly searched the garage, then they're out of places to search if they don't have further information. It seems clear she left in a car, and there's no point in even attempting to search for her in that case. They'll now have to develop clues rather than just boots on the ground kind of searches.

I am curious about why they were searching her old High School. That can't have been random, IMHO.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Has the bf turned over his phone to LE yet?

 

[OldFashionWithaFlair]

A cheating boyfriend looks less guilty of committing murder than a not cheating one, IMHO. A man who's carrying on behind her back isn't really obsessed with her - and wouldn't have motive to kill her. It's not like Christina was his wife and now he's got a love on the side but he needs to get rid of his wife so she won't take his fortune. He is just not that in to her, as they say IMHO.

I also don't see how he could have been there in that parking garage without some evidence that he was there, or evidence that he was not at home in the wee hours, and my guess is LE has looked very carefully at any evidence as to his whereabouts beginning an hour before she attempted to get to her car.

Actually in my experience cheaters are more obsessed boyfriends, cheaters think everyone is is cheating too & are in my experience more controlling. I think he knew he had it good with Christina, but wanted to have fun on the side too. He may have had no intention of leaving her & if he thought she was off having a good time with other people he could have gotten very jealous. Also, as for the multiple calls, either his phone was off & she was trying to reach him or they continued arguing. Also just a thought, but if he was not answering, she may have thought he was with another girl & kept calling. JMO only. Throwing ideas out there. Fight or not, there is ABSOLUTELY no reason for him not to have contacted someone when she came up missing & my guess is that her workplace caller him first & the calls were ignored.

 

[LibbyinTexas]

The fact that LE isn't conducting more searches makes me think they already have an idea of what is going on or has happened.

Not necessarily. The cost involved, the man power ... if they don't have anywhere else valid to search, they won't keep searching where there isn't a lead or reason. This is how it usually always is in missing person cases... heavy searching goes on for a few days with LE and then the family continues and then it stops if nothing happens. It doesn't mean they have anything to go on. It just means the locations to search have dried up.

 

[ShellockHolmes]

Random thoughts of why you call your bf 15 times early in the morning: 1. he was supposed to drive you home but didn't show up 2. your car won't start and who else do you call that early in the morning 3. he left her a message enticing her to call him ie; i'm gonna do something to myself, if you don't call me i'm going to do this, etc. 4. She gets abducted by his known associate who tells her "call your bf and get him on the phone, or else" 5. She's abducted by bf's friend and she's in the trunk...? (would she call 911, if she didn't want him to get in trouble?).....Again, just throwing out some thoughts...

 

[omaetoy]

I am curious about why they were searching her old High School. That can't have been random, IMHO.

Someone involved in the search stated they simply used the high school as a meeting point. It was not searched.

 

[finine]

Random thoughts of why you call your bf 15 times early in the morning: 1. he was supposed to drive you home but didn't show up 2. your car won't start and who else do you call that early in the morning 3. he left her a message enticing her to call him ie; i'm gonna do something to myself, if you don't call me i'm going to do this, etc. 4. She gets abducted by his known associate who tells her "call your bf and get him on the phone, or else" 5. She's abducted by bf's friend and she's in the trunk...? (would she call 911, if she didn't want him to get in trouble?).....Again, just throwing out some thoughts...

#6: they are having an argument...(I think it's that simple)

 

[Dogface]

I think if you got in a fight with your bf, and decided to go out and have drinks with friends that you could get a sudden case of regrets and start calling him and when he doesn't pick up your mind thinks the worst, perhaps he his with someone else, so you keep calling and calling. And perhaps he thought he would let her think he was out and not thinking of her.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

Random thoughts of why you call your bf 15 times early in the morning: 1. he was supposed to drive you home but didn't show up 2. your car won't start and who else do you call that early in the morning 3. he left her a message enticing her to call him ie; i'm gonna do something to myself, if you don't call me i'm going to do this, etc. 4. She gets abducted by his known associate who tells her "call your bf and get him on the phone, or else" 5. She's abducted by bf's friend and she's in the trunk...? (would she call 911, if she didn't want him to get in trouble?).....Again, just throwing out some thoughts...

3, 4, and 5 are all really likely possibilities in my opinion.

For #1, I don't think she would walk into the parking garage to where her car was if he was supposed to pick her up.
For #2 if she had car trouble I think she would have walked back to her friends apartment or called another friend when the bf didn't answer. She was very close to her friends apartment that she just left, and was walking with a friend, so it would make more sense to call or go to one of them as opposed to her bf who (to my knowledge) lives about 30-45 minutes away.

But, I think 3, 4 and 5 are all definite possibilities.

 

[JeannaT]

Random thoughts of why you call your bf 15 times early in the morning: 1. he was supposed to drive you home but didn't show up 2. your car won't start and who else do you call that early in the morning 3. he left her a message enticing her to call him ie; i'm gonna do something to myself, if you don't call me i'm going to do this, etc. 4. She gets abducted by his known associate who tells her "call your bf and get him on the phone, or else" 5. She's abducted by bf's friend and she's in the trunk...? (would she call 911, if she didn't want him to get in trouble?).....Again, just throwing out some thoughts...

6. She is drinking and being driven mad by the images of him with his girlfriend and she thinks he might be with his girlfriend right now.

 

[JeannaT]

I think if you got in a fight with your bf, and decided to go out and have drinks with friends that you could get a sudden case of regrets and start calling him and when he doesn't pick up your mind thinks the worst, perhaps he his with someone else, so you keep calling and calling. And perhaps he thought he would let her think he was out and not thinking of her.

Yep. I posted before reading this. That's exactly what I picture.

 

[Agent.Veritas]

What? She has a premonition that he will kill her that night, and so she spends her evening calling and calling him all night so that after her death, sleuthers would think hmmmm, it sounds like it was the boyfriend who killed her - look, she called him all night.

That seems far-fetched. I think if she had a premonition he was going to kill her, she would have requested that her friend walk the final 50 yards to her car with her.

Oh goodness, that was not at all what I was trying to imply. I hate to even put words to what I was trying not to say, because it sounds so cynical and hopeless and worst-case-scenario, but I when I wrote it, I was envisioning fifteen calls in immediate succession from the trunk of a car. Anything from trying to call the hypothetical driver of the vehicle ("This isn't funny! Let me out!") to maybe as long as I try to initiate a call, someone will try to follow the trail of cell phone tower pings to rescue me...

 

[Dogface]

Yeah, and this is no offense to the victim, or even insinuating she was drunk drunk, but 15 calls makes me think of the term "drunk dialing". I know I was guilty of this in my past younger days.

I think right now the key will be narrowing down a suspect and finding a likely path. I wish they could release toll road images for users to go through and see any cars paths through out this time period, although I know that would be a HUGE privacy intrusion so it has to be done on LE's side.

 

[Agent.Veritas]

Many surveillance cameras record over themselves after a period of time due to limited space. I know times have changed from the physical tape they used to use for recording, but even now, there are hard-drive limits, and many fill up quickly.

I wonder how much surveillance footage was not able to be recovered due to the three-to-four day gap in reporting her missing...

 

[jacy]

I just saw that and that comment is ridiculous. She said her sister was an addict for 15 years and has been clean for a couple. In Plano when all those kids overdosed happened in two phases. The first was in the late 90s/early 2000s when my brother was in school. Then about 6 years later when I was in high school. The comment states she's been doing heroin since the commenter's sister was in school. The timing makes no sense...Christina would have been a young child! Just debunking that factless rumor.

Thanks for this. Regardless of anything Christina did or did not do, to publically state that information is sickening. (Especially when they then faux-fretted that this information might cause people to stop looking. I want them to stop talking.)

One of these cases has to end in an unbelievable miracle right? I hope that precious mom gets her miracle.

 

[Agent.Veritas]

Not necessarily. The cost involved, the man power ... if they don't have anywhere else valid to search, they won't keep searching where there isn't a lead or reason. This is how it usually always is in missing person cases... heavy searching goes on for a few days with LE and then the family continues and then it stops if nothing happens. It doesn't mean they have anything to go on. It just means the locations to search have dried up.

I agree about the cost involved, but I want to reassure everyone that Plano definitely has the manpower. Once, while heading to the gym at 4:30am (and I do mean once!) I passed NINE cruisers. The gym is less than three miles away. We were practically the only ten vehicles on the road at that hour!

It seems like standard operating procedure is to send two cruisers, each with two officers, to respond to house calls. I've seen this pattern on my street several times in the past year, and it's just a normal uneventful middle-class North Plano neighborhood off Legacy.

I still think that any LE silence here is intention. They'll be stealthy, but they won't give up.

 

[Dixie811]

They announced early on that they found no evidence of a struggle at her car or in that area. I think once they thoroughly searched the garage, then they're out of places to search if they don't have further information. It seems clear she left in a car, and there's no point in even attempting to search for her in that case. They'll now have to develop clues rather than just boots on the ground kind of searches.

I am curious about why they were searching her old High School. That can't have been random, IMHO.

I just want to clarify that yesterday a searcher corrected that rumor. The high school was a meeting place for searchers-- the high school itself was not searched. The family wanted some areas of Allen (her hometown) searched and the high school was simply a meeting place.

ETA: I see someone beat me to this Sorry for being redundant.

 

[KaylynnCouture]

A "Find Christina" FB group has been set up.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1475884869332377/

 

[Dogface]

Also, I will add that any time the hubby and I have an argument, I leave because I am totally one of those people who fights dirty and will say something stupid because I fight like a 14 year old girl. The funny thing is our most epic arguments are over things like politics and never anything pertaining to our usually quite happy relationship. Knowing this I will usually just ride over to the mall and walk around for an hour and if I don't answer he calls and calls and it drives him crazy. If I'm still mad I won't answer, but once I cool off I will sheepishly answer because I'm slightly embarrassed.