Found Alive TX - Christine Woo (fnd dec'd), 39, & 3 kids, Frisco, 28 March 2016

[J4cknsal1y]

This really, really bothers me. Yes you can get text messages for transactions...I have a text sent when my check is deposited.

But a text sent to my husband every single time I made ANY purchase? A text sent to me 2x a day when he sneaks off to the bodega for his fresh banana bread addiction? I don't care what small amounts he spends money on on a day to day basis (coffee, lunch, etc.). The texts would annoy me more than anything!

Having an alert set up for every purchase...that is not routine, in my mind.

In my opinion, an action like that would stem from a need to control / track someone, or a prior history of massive financial irresponsibility.

With some banks, in my experience Chase Bank, has an option where you can set a 'minimum' balance & any time your account hits that balance or less, you get a text message alert. Ex: minimum balance set to $1,000. Go grocery shopping, have $1,200 prior. Spend $200 on groceries--text message alert that you have hit your minimum balance, & usually there's a small blurb with the purchase amount & merchant name as well as a current account balance. Then you stop for gas, spend $50--you get another text message with info about this transaction & new updated balance. And for each transaction thereafter until the account balances rises above whatever the minimum was set to be.

I think the purpose is to avoid over drafting, but could also see it as a way to control, though I'm sure that's not the banks intention.

 

[lisser]

I just read through the whole thread. I hadn't heard about this case until tonight (I haven't followed any news in awhile)

The mention of breastfeeding kind of makes sense to me. If she was nursing, she would have chosen a spot secluded from the rest of the parking lot. I did that plenty of times while nursing.
I'm on the fence with what I think happened. I don't think Dad had anything to do with it. Part of me thinks she sedated the kids and overdosed herself, expecting that she'd overdosed the kids too, and the other part feels like it was a health issue.
I can not believe no one saw or heard those kids in that length of time, especially knowing the baby wasn't buckled in to a seat. Where are the nosy nellies who report parents for leaving the kids in the car while taking carts to the return when you need them.
My heart hurts for the poor little kids who must have been so distraught and confused along with the physical discomforts.

 

[Nataliah]

I wont be shocked if this does turns out to be a suicide..... However I think an innocent scenario is totally plausible. She goes out to run errands, grabs maccas for the older kids, find a nice spot under a tree and puts up the shadescreens to breastfeed. She chokes or has a stroke or something and dies. Kids survive because of food from maccas, baby survives by (sorry for the squeamish) continuing to breastfeed...


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[SCHMAE]

Have they updated the children's conditions ? Are they still in the hospital ?

 

[dyannaON]

She could have possibly had a brain aneurism. So sad.


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[Tssiemer]

I'm so on the fence about this! Part of me says suicide/drug over dose and part of me says choking or aneurism.


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[jjenny]

It sounds more like a choking/ medical issue to me now. Like, they picked up food and pulled across to eat before going to Target. She was holding the little to break pieces and give them to her. It sounds like the police were convinced in their own heads that she likely was missing on her own, so they didn't really look. Of course, that doesn't explain why a family member or friend didn't ride by and see them! If my child was missing, I would start at the last known place and search every inch until I could search no more.

Sounds plausible to me. If they were eating she could have chocked on the food and suffocated, with children too young to call for help.

 

[gdeyefaith]

Have they updated the children's conditions ? Are they still in the hospital ?

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The three children were taken to the hospital for severe dehydration after police found them inside a car in a Frisco mall parking lot with their mother, Christine Woo, dead in the driver’s seat. She was clutching the youngest child, a 16-month-old baby girl, in her arms. The children remain at the hospital with their father. They are all expected to live. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-woman-found-dead-kids-car-article-1.2585577

 

[gdeyefaith]

Her three children were alive but suffering from extreme dehydration, and also a severe body rash from sitting in their own filth for days, CBS DFW said Friday.
The station also said one-year-old Leah was in critical condition. All three were taken to the Children’s Medical Center in Plano. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mom-friends-reveal-depressed-overwhelmed.html

 

[jjenny]

Youngest child was 16 month old. In US vast majority of women stop breastfeeding by that time. If she bought McDonalds I feel it's more likely she was trying to feed the child with McDonalds, and also trying to eat, consequently choking and suffocating, which seems like a good possibility to me. Even though there are some reports she appeared to be overwhelmed (depressed?) suicide right now seems unlikely because of circumstances. All the children were in the car with her. Why would she kill herself with children in the car, and after buying food and picking up a prescription for the child?

 

[jjenny]

Her three children were alive but suffering from extreme dehydration, and also a severe body rash from sitting in their own filth for days, CBS DFW said Friday.
The station also said one-year-old Leah was in critical condition. All three were taken to the Children’s Medical Center in Plano. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mom-friends-reveal-depressed-overwhelmed.html

Luckily this happened before heat set in. If it was later on in a summer, none of the children would have survived for days in a car. Although I am kind of surprised oldest child at least wasn't able (didn't try?) to get out of the car. Were the doors locked from the inside?

 

[abr]

I'm so on the fence about this! Part of me says suicide/drug over dose and part of me says choking or aneurism.


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I do not think that she choked. If that had happened, I think she would have quickly put her baby down and jumped out of the car for help. It would have been her only chance. Staying seated, holding the baby, would have been a death sentence.

I choked in a restaurant before. First thing that I did was jump up so that someone could do the Heimlich, which my husband quickly did until I could breathe.

 

[atm9533]

It will be very interesting to find out what she got at Walgreens. If it was some type of prescription and she took it when she got it, going to McDonalds and Target would have been enough time for her to have a reaction to the medicine.

 

[jjenny]

I do not think that she choked. If that had happened, I think she would have quickly put her baby down and jumped out of the car for help. It would have been her only chance. Staying seated, holding the baby, would have been a death sentence.

I choked in a restaurant before. First thing that I did was jump up so that someone could do the Heimlich, which my husband quickly did until I could breathe.

She could have passed out before she could do any of the things you suggested. Thousands of people do die from choking every year.

 

[jjenny]

It will be very interesting to find out what she got at Walgreens. If it was some type of prescription and she took it when she got it, going to McDonalds and Target would have been enough time for her to have a reaction to the medicine.

Per the husband, it was eczema medication for her child.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/collin-county/frisco-man-on-missing-family-im-broken/112834633

 

[gdeyefaith]

It will be very interesting to find out what she got at Walgreens. If it was some type of prescription and she took it when she got it, going to McDonalds and Target would have been enough time for her to have a reaction to the medicine.

. Credit card records and surveillance footage show that Christine Woo had gone to a Walgreen’s at 9:45 a.m. on Monday to pick up an eczema prescription for her youngest child, Leah.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-woman-found-dead-kids-car-article-1.2585577

 

[abr]

She could have passed out before she could do any of the things you suggested. Thousands of people do die from choking every year.

You have a little bit of time before you pass out. Like holding your breath - you don't automatically pass out. That has been my experience with others, as well as myself.

 

[JeannaT]

You have a little bit of time before you pass out. Like holding your breath - you don't automatically pass out. That has been my experience with others, as well as myself.

Yes, it takes as long to die from choking as it does to die from drowning.

 

[jjenny]

Yes, it takes as long to die from choking as it does to die from drowning.

Says who? Thousands of people die from choking. Mostly children and elderly, but by googling I was able to find a bunch of cases where young adult people died while choking.
If she was in the car with children, eating, she could have chocked, passed out, and not be able to get out of the car to get help. People have died from choking even with others around trying to help. She was alone in the car with young children.

 

[Tssiemer]

My mom choked, panicked HARD and then passed out. But luckily it was dislodged when she hit the floor or changed positions or something.


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