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

[Maiko]

Has anyone else seen this?

FRISCO (CBSDFW.COM) – A Frisco mother found dead with her children alive in their SUV bought sleeping pills before her death, according to a source.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/04/01/vigil-held-for-frisco-mother-and-surviving-children/

Has this been reported on other local news stations?

After hearing about it (inside my house) this morning, I've been looking and looking for LE/MSM to mention it. I'm still holding on to something medical being the cause, I don't want this to be suicide or foul play.
My concern is for those young, innocent children that will grow up without their mother.

 

[tiffay01]

Not to keep bringing up old stories but Jennifer Huston did the exact same thing. Bought otc sleeping pills, but she ended up suffocating herself. I certainly hope the sleeping pill/suicide isn't true simply because the 5 year old will never have a normal life. This trauma will haunt this poor child forever!!!

 

[24Roses]

Hmm. I've not seen that anywhere else yet.

Unfortunately I'm leaning a bit towards suicide, even without the above detail. I certainly don't think she choked; I think even in a panic she would've slammed the horn, stumbled out of the car or even released the eldest child to run for help. If it was a medical emergency I'd lead more towards something like an aneurysm which has been mentioned and could come on very quickly. Sadly though, I think this was purposeful. I just can't decide if the children were supposed to die as well, or if she had the opposite intention, that they would be found quickly in that location.

BBM- I just got to thinking that when she passed away it was possible that she could of at some point fell forward and bumped the horn too, but I guess that didn't happen. This may sound like a dumb question, but do horns in all vehicles sound if the car isn't running. I honestly don't know about my own vehicle.

 

[EA18G]

Regarding the eczema cream, all I've seen states that: "Her husband says credit card records shows she picked up a prescription for Leah’s eczema."
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/friends-perplexed-by-frisco-womans-tragic-death/114633717

Do you have a link in which LE verifies that she bought the eczema cream and nothing more? I agree with you that I'd like to see something more than one station's elusive source, but I don't find the husband to be a reliable narrator, either.
IMO

I do not have a quote from LE. In news articles, such as the following, it mentions the eczema cream but not a source. Don't know their source.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-woman-found-dead-kids-car-article-1.2585577

 

[Maiko]

At Walgreens,
Credit card charges show she bought a prescription here.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/texas-mother-missing-young-children-38082922

snipped from video transcript link

Mr. Woo says on video that she didn't pack diapers "or even a bottle" - how does he know this? I guess the diaper bag could be in the house but how would he know for sure she didn't take a bottle? It just seems strange to me. Anyone else?

Someone up thread said they thought maybe she put the sunshade in the windshield so she could breastfeed the little one while the bigger two ate McDonald's.

Hoping for answers in the coming days.

 

[Tssiemer]

I don't think we're going to get any answers. The autopsy will probably be "inconclusive" and we'll have to wait for tox.

But I have a question, how hot could the car have gotten? We always hear things like "within an hour the car would have heated to 10,000,000 degrees". So, I'm surprised the kids lasted 3 days in a car with the windows up.


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[jjenny]

As embarrassing as it is, until this thread, I, myself, thought there was a 24 hour waiting period before police would file a missing persons report.

That being said, if my husband & daughter were missing under similar circumstances I would go crying to the PD anyways, to see if there was any way they would make an exception.

This guy had a wife missing with 3 small children. I could understand believing he had to wait to report an adult missing, but young children? I don't think he is involved with anything, but I wouldn't be giving him any husband of the year awards.

 

[jjenny]

I don't think we're going to get any answers. The autopsy will probably be "inconclusive" and we'll have to wait for tox.

But I have a question, how hot could the car have gotten? We always hear things like "within an hour the car would have heated to 10,000,000 degrees". So, I'm surprised the kids lasted 3 days in a car with the windows up.


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It's not summer yet. They would have been dead within a short time in TX once it gets hot outside.

 

[borndem]

So many things about this case just feel "off" to me. Most are things that many of you have already stated. I do pause when I hear that a mother with a 1 year old left the house and decided to run errands {Walgreens, McDonald's} without bringing a bottle or a DIAPER. But I stop and think "ummmmm, what?" that the father would know there was no bottle or diaper taken with them.


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No mention of it that I have seen, but may she also was breastfeeding the 1 year-old... And yeah, said_it -- How would her husband know what she took with her? When mine was little, I didn't go even to the grocery store -- one-stop -- without a bottle and at least one diaper -- you never know what could happen -- car trouble, traffic jam due to a crash ahead of you, you never know. And that was my first & only -- Christine had, I would assume, a lot of experience handling 1 year-olds...

What a mystery.

 

[borndem]

I have a hard time thinking an otherwise loving and attentive mother would commit suicide with her three children in the car. I feel it was more likely a sudden medical event that caused death very quickly.

Again I will say that a medical problem would make sense -- and she didn't have her phone to call 911. But if it were a medical emergency, she apparently didn't have time to even open the car door & scream for help. IIRC, a Target receipt was not found -- she could have had the beginning of a condition in the store and was just able to get in the car, and then was gone. Dunno.

 

[fabvab]

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but could she still be having postpartum depression? This link talks about having it if you've had a baby in the previous 12 months, so maybe not if her youngest was 18 months.
http://www.postpartumprogress.com/the-symptoms-of-postpartum-depression-anxiety-in-plain-mama-english

 

[borndem]

There is something about the husband that really concerns me. I wonder if the car was parked there the entire time. I read somewhere that he took the DART home on Tuesday, that seems odd to me since they live in Frisco and they have two vehicles.

:welcome: to Websleuths, ohhhlucy!! We're glad you're here to help us with this case.
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[tiffay01]

:welcome: to Websleuths, ohhhlucy!! We're glad you're here to help us with this case.
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Perhaps is was cheaper to use DART than to take the other vehicle? Or maybe there was an issue with the other car? I ask the same question, I really do hope that Target and the other places around there have cameras, to make sure everything adds up.

 

[Maiko]

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but could she still be having postpartum depression? This link talks about having it if you've had a baby in the previous 12 months, so maybe not if her youngest was 18 months.
http://www.postpartumprogress.com/the-symptoms-of-postpartum-depression-anxiety-in-plain-mama-english

Another poster mentioned PPD, I think its possible. This is completely my experience - JMO - I have 4 children and the adjustment from 2 to 3 was my greatest challenge and proved to be too much and I had to seek help. Just getting out the door was a huge challenge some days. After talking to a therapist about 6 weeks, I was better. I had to figure out how to feed everyone, get them dressed and out the door for school. Every.day.of.the.week! (I can smile about it now but it was hard back then.)

JMO.

 

[tiffay01]

There is something about the husband that really concerns me. I wonder if the car was parked there the entire time. I read somewhere that he took the DART home on Tuesday, that seems odd to me since they live in Frisco and they have two vehicles.

Brandon Woo says he took the DART train home and called her mother to ask if she’d seen her. He says she told him no. He says he began driving around looking for her. He called the police about 7 p.m. Tuesday.

www.wfaa.com/mb/news/local/collin-county/frisco-man-on-missing-family-im-broken/112834633

Link to the article where he talks about taking the DART home on Tuesday.

 

[kmclaren]

I think Christine probably placed the sun shields. If LE placed the shields they would have risked contaminating the scene, I realize they had to enter the vehicle to remove the kids, but I think they would try to limit their risk of contamination to what was absolutely necessary. JMO

Yes, agree I think that she herself put those up... If LE wanted to screen the reporters they could have just put something over the outside of the windshield...

 

[Maiko]

Brandon Woo says he took the DART train home and called her mother to ask if she’d seen her. He says she told him no. He says he began driving around looking for her. He called the police about 7 p.m. Tuesday.

www.wfaa.com/mb/news/local/collin-county/frisco-man-on-missing-family-im-broken/112834633

Link to the article where he talks about taking the DART home on Tuesday.

I was going to quote ohhhlucy's post but I don't see it. ??

I'm looking at the DART website and if I'm reading it correctly, he'd have to drive to the train station. McKinney is north, not visible on this map. http://dart.org/maps/printrailmap.asp

 

[borndem]

This is not uncommon. Most companies offer this service now. Especially banks.

Yep -- the banks are trying whatever they can to find possible fraud, etc., as quickly as possible, and stop it asap.

 

[Eileen730]

I don't think we're going to get any answers. The autopsy will probably be "inconclusive" and we'll have to wait for tox.

But I have a question, how hot could the car have gotten? We always hear things like "within an hour the car would have heated to 10,000,000 degrees". So, I'm surprised the kids lasted 3 days in a car with the windows up.


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What if the children were asleep because mom gave them sleeping tablets also. To me this could be a reason they survived in that car for so long and would explain the oldest not leaving the car.

 

[LonghornSpeakEasy]

I'm watching Dateline right now about a different case and the narrator says that the young man tried to file a missing persons report but the Miami Police wouldn't let him until she had been missing 24 hours. Is it different in different jurisdictions? Was the Miami Police Department just lying? Was the show in error? This is why people believe you have to wait 24 hours!