Found Deceased TX - Crystal Seratte McDowell, 38, Baytown, 25 Aug 2017 #2 *Arrest*

[dxt]

Did anyone see Crystals December 2015 youtube post? 'My Son on life priorities, Family and work-the world needs more love'. He is very young with an intense measure of delivery. Very sweet, and sad...

Yes. I found it interesting. He seemed to be saying how he thought it was better for parents to be poor and be with family than to be working all the time. Life is about love, not work. I imagine her being a flight attendant & realtor and working perhaps too much was having a negative impact on her children if she wasn't around a lot due to work and other responsibilities to spend much needed time with them.I also came across her ex-husbands youtube channel which is full of videos of him and the kids doing activities from 2+ years ago. Crystal only seems to be in a few of them.

 

[whitelilac]

If it turns out to be the uncle, I think I will have a heart attack.

Jmo

You won't have a heart attack because there's no way imo.

He's raised her as a daughter and he's the only one who has exhibited real grief and fear .
Speaking of which, for a man who is crazy in love after 4 weeks and who is on TV every second day, I haven't perceived that kind of anxiety from bf.

However, that said, I'm leaning to stalker tonight. That may change in the morning.
I'm on so many fences with this case, I'm losing track of them.

 

[tarabull]

From her FB page

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...80086595.2074884.1298217919&type=3&permPage=1

But, but, but...

:crazy:

 

[flute4peace]

I'm not caught up yet so apologies if this is repetitive. Watching AB on DVR and they're now showing video from the night before - and she IS wearing a purple dress. So why all the weird stuff about the infrared to try to explain away the different dress?

Bizarre

I think both Ex and BF are hinky, IMO. I feel like she jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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[SuperTmo]

Check this out: Her missing persons posters have differing eye colors! One says her eyes are green; one says they're hazel, and I've seen plenty of photos where her eyes are bright blue and could not be mistaken for any other color -- they're blue in the photo, no doubt.

It's crazy.

If I were Crystal and I intentionally went missing to have a little space (which is what I hope happened!) I'll be honest and say I think I might be a little peeved that my loved ones didn't know what color my eyes were and couldn't put together an accurate poster for me. In the big scheme of things I know it is probably not that big a deal, but come on!

 

[flute4peace]

There is no pink dress. The camera makes the black look pink

Even if it's black it's a different dress. It's a completely different style. That wasn't obvious to me until I saw the additional footage.

ETA: Sorry, coming in late & this has already been discussed.

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[tarabull]

:abduction:

 

[Gooddeeds]

Yes. I found it interesting. He seemed to be saying how he thought it was better for parents to be poor and be with family than to be working all the time. Life is about love, not work. I imagine her being a flight attendant & realtor and working perhaps too much was having a negative impact on her children if she wasn't around a lot due to work and other responsibilities to spend much needed time with them.I also came across her ex-husbands youtube channel which is full of videos of him and the kids doing activities from 2+ years ago. Crystal only seems to be in a few of them.

Yes-its all about LOVE👨*👩*👧*👦
I will take a look at the EX's Youtube channel, thanks for mentioning it.

 

[SuperTmo]

If it turns out to be the uncle, I think I will have a heart attack.

Jmo

Me too. He is the only one who seems to genuinely care. I feel like he misses her and his heart is broken. I could feel his feelings. Boyfriend seems so fake.

The ex... I don't care how many kids the ex is watching or keeping from this or whatever the excuse is for him not uttering a word about Crystal being missing. It comes off as uncaring for him not to even release a statement through LE or a friend as a spokesperson. It is just weird, IMO.

If Crystal is gone, one day her kids are going to Google her name to see if they can find out what happened and they will see that their dad didn't say one word about her, didn't utter one hope that she'll come home, and never said he would search for her. They will wonder why.

 

[luckystar01]

After viewing the ex's channel, Crystal seemed to go from beautiful to smokin' in the last few years. And I mean that in the best and most flattering way possible. She's gorgeous of course, but somehow she looks even younger and more vibrant now than she did around the time her daughter was born. I could definitely see her getting more attention. I wonder if her husband was the type to feel threatened by something like that.

 

[SuperTmo]

Yes. I found it interesting. He seemed to be saying how he thought it was better for parents to be poor and be with family than to be working all the time. Life is about love, not work. I imagine her being a flight attendant & realtor and working perhaps too much was having a negative impact on her children if she wasn't around a lot due to work and other responsibilities to spend much needed time with them.I also came across her ex-husbands youtube channel which is full of videos of him and the kids doing activities from 2+ years ago. Crystal only seems to be in a few of them.

IDK this is a bit heavy for a kid of his age. He was probably around 6 in this. Was there a lot of animosity in their home regarding money and long working hours? He seemed to really be feeling what he was saying, almost as if he is asking his own parents to spend more time with him. I don't think kids at that age should be worrying about being poor or how much money their family has, or where it comes from. That kid seems burdened by the topic.

 

[dxt]

Me too. He is the only one who seems to genuinely care. I feel like he misses her and his heart is broken. I could feel his feelings. Boyfriend seems so fake. The ex... I don't care how many kids the ex is watching or keeping from this or whatever the excuse is for him not uttering a word about Crystal being missing. It comes off as uncaring for him not to even release a statement through LE or a friend as a spokesperson. It is just weird, IMO. If Crystal is gone, one day her kids are going to Google her name to see if they can find out what happened and they will see that their dad didn't say one word about her, didn't utter one hope that she'll come home, and never said he would search for her. They will wonder why.

Some men handle their emotions & feelings differently. Just because he hasn't said anything publicly doesn't mean he doesn't care. It most likely hasn't even settled in for him that his ex-wife might be gone forever. The five stages of grief are at work I imagine in him. The ex has other much needed responsibilities than to be doing interviews. He has to work and make sure his children are being taken care of, that is the most important. I also think he most likely feels like he doesn't really know his ex-wife. She obviously hid things from him. I know my boyfriend wouldn't want to be blasted all over the media or be the "spokesperson" for my strange disappearance if such a thing ever happened to me. The fact that her 4-week old BF seems to be the person taking charge and acting as if he knew Crystal for years... is very weird to me. The Uncle and her close family & friends should be doing that.. it's very odd that everyone who is close to her is taking a backseat. Yet her 4-week old BF is front & center. What is going on!?

 

[SuperTmo]

Some men handle their emotions & feelings differently. Just because he hasn't said anything publicly doesn't mean he doesn't care. It most likely hasn't even settled in for him that his ex-wife might be gone forever. The five stages of grief are at work I imagine in him. The ex has other much needed responsibilities than to be doing interviews. He has to work and make sure his children are being taken care of, that is the most important. I also think he most likely feels like he doesn't really know his ex-wife. She obviously hid things from him. I know my boyfriend wouldn't want to be blasted all over the media or be the "spokesperson" for my strange disappearance if such a thing ever happened to me. The fact that her 4-week old BF seems to be the person taking charge and acting as if he knew Crystal for years... is very weird to me. The Uncle and her close family & friends should be doing that.. it's very odd that everyone who is close to her is taking a backseat. Yet her 4-week old BF is front & center. What is going on!?

That's kind of my point. Boyfriend is blowing up the tv and ex who apparently loved her so much still isn't saying a word. Maybe he feels edged out by the boyfriend? I don't buy that his kids or needing to work are his reasons for not speaking out about her. Plenty of people have a missing loved one they advocate for even in the face of other responsibilities. I can appreciate your point about him feeling like he doesn't really know her.

 

[freudian._.slip]

I just had an opportunity to watch a short video clip (1:58) of A. Banfield show.

My first impression of the kitchen scene was that CM was slouching a little like she may have had too much to drink. No judgement there.

And when she was walking to her car I noticed like a lot of other posters that she looked around a bit. She might have been thinking about the incoming storm?

This is all my observations and opinion.

I agree with others that TxEq coming back is a big deal.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/09/07/mom-mysteriously-disappears-hurricane-harvey-texas.cnn

Slouching was the main thing I noticed as well.


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[SuperTmo]

Off topic but I just had a creepy thing happen at my house. I'm sitting in the living room, which my front door opens right into. It has tall skinny windows on either side and an oval window in the door.

All of a sudden both of my dogs went from asleep to completely alert and I heard someone say, "someone's here!" And both of my dogs started going nuts at the door. I didn't see anyone on the porch so I called the neighbors and nobody was outside but it scared the heck out of me. Someone probably was looking in the window. The only weird thing outside is that somehow my solar lights that our resident mole keeps popping out of the ground were standing back up.

My house is fairly secluded on a private road with just two houses so it has me freaked out. I normally get really paranoid reading Websleuths at night and would have thought it was my imagination, if my dogs hadn't responded that way. Ugh. No sleep for me tonight.

 

[iluvmua]

ABC Nightline did a segment.

Uncle says they were never fighting but they did have their disagreements.

This contradicts what the boyfriend has been saying.

On the Nancy Grace Podcast, he says that Crystal told him that they have been fighting up until the day she disappeared.

 

[dxt]

That's kind of my point. Boyfriend is blowing up the tv and ex who apparently loved her so much still isn't saying a word. Maybe he feels edged out by the boyfriend? I don't buy that his kids or needing to work are his reasons for not speaking out about her. Plenty of people have a missing loved one they advocate for even in the face of other responsibilities. I can appreciate your point about him feeling like he doesn't really know her.

I do agree that it is odd that he hasn't said anything officially but maybe he's just trying to put the pieces together himself. It's hard to know what's going on inside his head. Maybe what's going on is all too real for him and it makes him want to hide from the world due to being an extreme introvert and trying to protect his own sanity for the sake of his kids. I kinda feel like the bf is milking the media for all it's worth perhaps, he obviously has a local business he runs...and therefore any press painting him as a good guy is good for his business, especially if lots of locals are watching.

 

[Hoosier952]

How cutthroat is the real estate business down there? She was fairly new, working for/with two family members and uncle claims she was quite successful. Could another agent feel like she had some type of advantage or felt like they were losing sales to her? What about a rival agent? People kill for money all the time. A co-worker might also know enough about her personal life to know that they'd have a small list of potential suspects to focus on in the beginning. And they would probably know her schedule as well. Her car was found pretty close to the RE office.

I know it's generally expected for an agent to let someone know where they are going to be and who they are seeing, but what if she got a call from someone she'd previously shown a house to. Called again about same or different house and since nothing bad happened the first time, no real reason to call it in. We don't know anything about HER calls and texts that day other than what was shown from ex and the BF.

Speaking of texts from the ex, was it ever stated how those came to light? Ex hasn't spoken with the media and I cannot imagine LE releasing that evidence. So who had access to her text log?

 

[Jethro4WS]

Some men handle their emotions & feelings differently. Just because he hasn't said anything publicly doesn't mean he doesn't care. It most likely hasn't even settled in for him that his ex-wife might be gone forever. The five stages of grief are at work I imagine in him. The ex has other much needed responsibilities than to be doing interviews. He has to work and make sure his children are being taken care of, that is the most important. I also think he most likely feels like he doesn't really know his ex-wife. She obviously hid things from him. I know my boyfriend wouldn't want to be blasted all over the media or be the "spokesperson" for my strange disappearance if such a thing ever happened to me. The fact that her 4-week old BF seems to be the person taking charge and acting as if he knew Crystal for years... is very weird to me. The Uncle and her close family & friends should be doing that.. it's very odd that everyone who is close to her is taking a backseat. Yet her 4-week old BF is front & center. What is going on!?

BBM. I expect some shoes will start dropping and we'll get to see a little bit of what has been really going on.

 

[Deleted member 50844]

Off topic but I just had a creepy thing happen at my house. I'm sitting in the living room, which my front door opens right into. It has tall skinny windows on either side and an oval window in the door.

All of a sudden both of my dogs went from asleep to completely alert and I heard someone say, "someone's here!" And both of my dogs started going nuts at the door. I didn't see anyone on the porch so I called the neighbors and nobody was outside but it scared the heck out of me. Someone probably was looking in the window. The only weird thing outside is that somehow my solar lights that our resident mole keeps popping out of the ground were standing back up.

My house is fairly secluded on a private road with just two houses so it has me freaked out. I normally get really paranoid reading Websleuths at night and would have thought it was my imagination, if my dogs hadn't responded that way. Ugh. No sleep for me tonight.

Knock it off, you're scaring me! LOL