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SOLVED: GORGEOUS PARALEGAL MOM OF 2 VANISHES: RING DOORBELL LAST PHOTO · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: A young Texas mom realizes she's late for work, grabs
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Speaker 1: her bag and races out the door, and then disappears.
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Speaker 1: A Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious X
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Speaker 1: one eleven. What happened to Chrissie? She takes off, leaving
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Speaker 1: behind her mom who helps take care of her child,
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Speaker 1: headed to her job as a paralegal, all dressed for work,
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Speaker 1: and then seemingly vanishes into thin air. You can even
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Speaker 1: see the ring doorbell cam. You see Chrissy rushing out
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Speaker 1: with her back slung over one shoulder, all of her
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Speaker 1: work with her. But then what happens The young paralegal
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Speaker 1: and mother of two not even checking on her children.
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Speaker 1: Then her mom realizes Chrissy didn't take her phone and
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Speaker 1: she left behind her medication. For three weeks, family and
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Speaker 1: friends desperately search for answers. How did this whole thing start?
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Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to this unknown are
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Speaker 1: just the scariest part. So many scenarios are playing out
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Speaker 1: in the mind of Lauren Leat. And she's not just
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Speaker 1: a friend, she's a sister. Her friend Chrissie Powell, whom
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Speaker 1: she's known all her life is missing. Leale is speaking
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Speaker 1: on behalf of the family. It's just been really hard
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Speaker 1: to kind of wrap her minds around where she might be,
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Speaker 1: what could have happened. Lea says, this is not in
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Speaker 1: her friend's character to just vanish, calling this disappearance bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Police and the family, have you even checked the jail
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Speaker 1: and hospitals? We just want you home. You were just
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Speaker 1: hearing our friends at Kae and S five and the
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Speaker 1: very best friends speaking out, and there's more. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends at Living loving to listen. I
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Speaker 1: actually have the next door app and I reached out
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Speaker 1: to her mother personally because she did post a thread
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Speaker 1: on there about her daughter, Chrissie Powell, and this is
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Speaker 1: from her mother. She let me know. Her name is
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Speaker 1: Christina Powell. She left my house in Apple Creek ten
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Speaker 1: thirty ish Tuesday July fifth, heading to work driving a
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Speaker 1: black Nissan Rogue. Her office is around Eye ten and
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Speaker 1: Vance Jackson. She never showed up to work. Can you
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Speaker 1: imagine so desperate you're reaching out on Facebook, Insta, Twitter,
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Speaker 1: trying to get the word out about your missing girl.
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Speaker 1: You were hearing from the best friend, but the mother
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Speaker 1: desperate calls police. It takes them three days before they
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Speaker 1: report Chrissy missing. Why first of all, let's get to
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Speaker 1: the facts with me and All Star panel to make
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Speaker 1: sense of what we know right now. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: straight out first to special guests. Joining me, Stephanie pagonus
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Speaker 1: crime reporter with Fox News Digital. Stephanie, thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us, and start at the beginning. Thank you, Nancy. Yes, So,
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Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, Chrissie Lee Powell lived with her mother.
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Speaker 1: She woke up that morning she was running late. She
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Speaker 1: told her mother. She runs out the door at the time,
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Speaker 1: as you can see in doorbell footage. Her mother says
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Speaker 1: she said I love you and be careful before she left.
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Speaker 1: But her daughter left behind some of her belongings, namely,
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Speaker 1: according to family and reports, her cell phone, which she
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Speaker 1: left on her bathroom encounter. She also left behind medication,
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Speaker 1: and family later determined that they believed she left behind
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Speaker 1: her Apple Watch as well. They believe that because when
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Speaker 1: they went to go track down the watch later on
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Speaker 1: after her daughter had not come home, they determined it
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Speaker 1: was actually in the vicinity of the home. Hey, hellball,
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Speaker 1: just a second. Stephanie pegu joining me from Fox News
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Speaker 1: Digital special guest today, I want to go quickly to
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Speaker 1: doctor Angela Arnold, renowned psychiatrists joining us out of the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta jurisdiction. You can find her at angela Arnold MD
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Speaker 1: dot com. Doctor Angie quick question, have you ever been
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Speaker 1: on vacation? Okay? And you come back and just having us.
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Speaker 1: We took the twins on vacation. We came back our
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Speaker 1: race in the kitchen to make the twins of breakfast
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Speaker 1: and from my mom and I turned to my husband,
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Speaker 1: did you feed the countin the dog? At He goes, Oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, I'm out of my routine. The point is
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Speaker 1: she had just come off the July fourth break she had,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe Thursday night, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. This
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Speaker 1: is Tuesday morning, July sixth. She's like, oh, dear Lord
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Speaker 1: in Heaven, I'm late for work, very responsible, never late,
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Speaker 1: never misses work. That's important regarding behavioral evidence. She even
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Speaker 1: calls the job to say I'm on the way here,
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Speaker 1: I come, I'm late, I'm sorry, jumps into her Nissan rogue.
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Speaker 1: I believe it was a twenty twenty Stephanie, but got
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Speaker 1: to correct me on these facts. And I've got any
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Speaker 1: of them wrong and takes off and mom sees her
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Speaker 1: leave to go to work. Fifteen minute drive seven miles right.
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Speaker 1: I think she forgot her iPhone and her didn't put
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Speaker 1: on her Apple Watch because she was in a rush
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Speaker 1: and she was out of her routine a little bit
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Speaker 1: because of the break. What do you think? I agree
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Speaker 1: with you, but I'll tell you something, Nancy. One of
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Speaker 1: the first things that came to my mind was that
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Speaker 1: it also sounds like she could have been distracted something.
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Speaker 1: She could have been distracted. She could have had something
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Speaker 1: on her mind that none of us know about. Someone
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Speaker 1: could have contacted her. I don't know, but it sounds
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Speaker 1: to me like she also could have been distracted. Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: number one, is there anybody on this panel that's not distracted?
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Speaker 1: But I understand what you're saying. Something out of the ordinary.
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Speaker 1: But that leads me to another issue. Jason Campo, Chief
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Speaker 1: Prosecutor Cameron County, Texas, five years in the DA's office
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Speaker 1: regarding family violence. I mean, I could go on renowned
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Speaker 1: lawyer in that jurisdiction, Jason, A lot of I'm really upset. Now.
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Speaker 1: This is in San Antonio and it's in a really
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Speaker 1: low crime and neighborhood of San Antonio. I believe it's
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Speaker 1: Apple Circle or Apple Orchard, Apple Apple what or Apple
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Speaker 1: Creek Apple Creek. Thank you for the wrong information, Jackie,
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Speaker 1: yet again Apple Creek. And the reason I'm saying that
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Speaker 1: is because, let me just throughout New York City, Okay,
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Speaker 1: where I've lived for so long. There's Manhattan, and there
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Speaker 1: are there's the Upper east Side, there's an Upper West
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Speaker 1: Side where all the rich people live. Then there are
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Speaker 1: other areas that are high crime. This area apple Creek
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Speaker 1: on a cold decac I mean, this might as well
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Speaker 1: be Beaver. Leave it to Beaver. I'm sure you remember
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Speaker 1: that there's no crime there. It's not like somebody carjacked
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Speaker 1: her as she's driving out of the driveway. Help me
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Speaker 1: out here, throw me a bone, Jason Campo, there is
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Speaker 1: anything that could have happened to her that morning. She
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Speaker 1: only worked fifteen twenty minutes away from there. I'm familiar
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Speaker 1: with that area being here in Texas anyhow, going to
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Speaker 1: San Antonio a regular basis. But there's nothing in that
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Speaker 1: neighborhood that would make you think anything suspicious would happen
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Speaker 1: right there in front of her house. As far as
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Speaker 1: leaving her watch and her phone behind. I think we've
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Speaker 1: all been in that situation where we're running late for
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Speaker 1: work and we're just trying to grab everything that we can,
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Speaker 1: and we leave things behind. You know what I thought,
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Speaker 1: on Jason Campo one time in ten years, I was
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Speaker 1: like to a calendar call. I was humiliated and mortified.
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Speaker 1: My car started smoking out from under the hood at
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Speaker 1: a red light. I'm like, that's not good, and I
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Speaker 1: managed together really slowly. I parked the car on the
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Speaker 1: street and raced him without any of my files. Jason Campo,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. This was an arrayment
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Speaker 1: calendar car with one hundred and fifty one hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventy defendants all felony on it waiting for me. I
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Speaker 1: got in there. The court room was totally silent. Everybody
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Speaker 1: was in place. The judge was sitting there, God bless him.
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Speaker 1: He never said a word and I started court. I'll
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Speaker 1: never forget it. So that is just in my mind,
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Speaker 1: because this woman does not run late. She's a paralegal.
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Speaker 1: You cannot be late if the lawyer has a court
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Speaker 1: date or something similar, Jason. Normally, we try our best.
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Speaker 1: My paralegal was hardly ever late, but every once in
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Speaker 1: a while something might come up. You might oversleep, missing alarmed,
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Speaker 1: especially coming off the long weekend. Your schedule is off
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Speaker 1: and your mind is just not back in the place
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Speaker 1: where it needs to be to get back to work
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Speaker 1: on time. And another thing, Paul's joining me form a
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Speaker 1: police commander in Albuquerque domestic homicide talking and author stop
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Speaker 1: him from killing them on Amazon Paul another complication. And
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Speaker 1: I don't want to refer to the children as a complication,
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Speaker 1: because it got the joy of her life. But when
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Speaker 1: you have children, a three year old and a twelve
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Speaker 1: year old, you've got a lot to do before you
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Speaker 1: can get out the door. If one of them says,
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Speaker 1: mom must die my heart, you've got to deal with
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Speaker 1: that before you can leave it. Now, when if she
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Speaker 1: left her iPhone, it makes a lot of sense that
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Speaker 1: she would be in a rush. And you know, I
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Speaker 1: was saving kids myself. You know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: moving parts. It's almost like a small business. But I
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Speaker 1: will say that when she left that morning, she did
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Speaker 1: have her purse on her shoulders. Sure it is as
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Speaker 1: she answered, and that just leads me to believe there
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Speaker 1: could be a little more to the leaving the iPhone
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Speaker 1: possibly in the eye watch behind. Seeing trackable means that
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Speaker 1: there would been and those are left behind. That's slightly concerning.
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Speaker 1: I'm also interested in her car, so twenty Nisan Road
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Speaker 1: black in color, and we researched through as soon as
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Speaker 1: I found out that Chrissie's missing. You have to buy
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Speaker 1: the NAV system, which is you know, chowing practically every car.
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Speaker 1: You know, how you buy a package? Do you want
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Speaker 1: serious XM? Do you want this? Do you want that?
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Speaker 1: Do you want carpet or leather as part of the package.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if Stephanie pigunas she had that
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Speaker 1: NAV system. We don't have a cell phone, we don't
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Speaker 1: have an Apple Watch to track her. I was thinking,
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Speaker 1: does her Niecean have a NAV system? Time Stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Chrissy Christina Powell goes missing from her own home.
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Speaker 1: According to a ring doorbell cam. She's seen rushing off
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Speaker 1: dressed for work or bags lung over her shoulder. Mom
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Speaker 1: gets worried when she realizes Chrissy didn't take her cell
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Speaker 1: phone or her meds, but then the evening passes and
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Speaker 1: Chrissy doesn't call back to check on the children or
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Speaker 1: show up for dinner. What do we know about the
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Speaker 1: morning she raced out of the home July six, It's
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Speaker 1: ten thirty four a m. We know that because of
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Speaker 1: the ring camera she leaves. I've watched it fifty times.
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Speaker 1: She's walking out very like you know, walking down the
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Speaker 1: halls to the courthouse. She's on her way, not dawdling.
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Speaker 1: Jumps in the car and Mom sees her leaf. Then
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Speaker 1: what happens. So that's correct. So this was actually July fifth,
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Speaker 1: two day July, thank you. Around ten thirty five in
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Speaker 1: the morning, she walks out the door like you said,
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Speaker 1: Mom sees her driving away. Mom said it seemed as
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Speaker 1: though she was going to work. She said her mother
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Speaker 1: believed that she was going to work. And not only that,
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Speaker 1: but her mother said she believed her daughter believed she
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Speaker 1: was going to work. But then around noon that day,
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Speaker 1: or I should say more around lunchtime, one of her
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Speaker 1: colleagues shows up at Christie's home. Her twelve year old
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Speaker 1: son answers the door and they said, at her mom home,
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Speaker 1: we haven't seen her. Apparently the coworker wants to check
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Speaker 1: in to see if her mother might have or to
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Speaker 1: see if Christie might have fallen back to sleep. Twelve
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Speaker 1: year old though, went to check to make sure, and
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Speaker 1: of course Christie was not home. The next day, Christie's
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Speaker 1: mother called the police. Called on just a set, just
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Speaker 1: a set. He just says something that's very, very critical
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Speaker 1: in my mind, Doctor Angie. The office, the law firm
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Speaker 1: where she worked, realizes is so unusual for her not
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Speaker 1: to be there. They despatch a female colleague that goes
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Speaker 1: to Chrissie's home. Is your mom here? It's so unusual.
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Speaker 1: I mean, when have you say that happened? Not a
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Speaker 1: lot that the office sends somebody to the home. And
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Speaker 1: I got to tell you, the relationship between a lawyer
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Speaker 1: and the paralegal is very close. They work hand in glove.
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Speaker 1: I compare it to my investigator, Earnest. We did everything together,
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Speaker 1: we ate, lunched together, we suffered together, we did everything together.
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Speaker 1: We've been at the Georgia Supreme Court and strip clubs
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Speaker 1: together trying to find witnesses and make our cases. So
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Speaker 1: when your paralegal doesn't show up, that's a big red flag.
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Speaker 1: And it was so unusual. She's so reliable. They actually
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Speaker 1: sends somebody to the house. They don't just call the house,
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Speaker 1: they send somebody you know, Nancy. The other question that
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Speaker 1: I have about this also is has this ever happened before?
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Speaker 1: Because isn't it isn't it odd that she asked, is
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Speaker 1: your mother still asleep? Yeah, nobody would ever think I'll
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Speaker 1: be asleep at ten thirty four in the morning. What
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Speaker 1: do we know about at Stephanie, Because if she's never missed,
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Speaker 1: I'd been late to work before or skipped out on
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Speaker 1: work totally. You know, I don't see any any indication.
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Speaker 1: But I did notice the question wise, is your mom asleep?
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Speaker 1: What did they say? Is your mom here? So that's
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Speaker 1: a good question. So this is coming from Christie's family,
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Speaker 1: who say that the coworker came to the house because
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Speaker 1: they thought she might have fallen back to sleep. Interesting. Interesting,
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Speaker 1: Something might have been lost in translation there, But christie
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Speaker 1: mother did tell me that it is unusual for her
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Speaker 1: daughter to be late and rushing in the morning. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when you said Stephanie lost in translation? For all I know,
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Speaker 1: the coworker said, hey, is your mom here? And the
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Speaker 1: little boy said no, she said work, but let me
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Speaker 1: make sure she didn't fall back to sleep. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how that guy's in the mix. Guys, take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friend isis Romero k E N S five.
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Speaker 1: Chrissie Powell called the law firm where she works last
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Speaker 1: Tuesday to say she was running late on that day,
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Speaker 1: was seen on video rushing out of her home, but
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Speaker 1: she never showed up to work. Since then, there has
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Speaker 1: been no sign of the mother of two. Leyall even
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Speaker 1: went down the route her friend would have taken to
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Speaker 1: work to see if maybe she crashed, but nothing. Chrissie
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Speaker 1: Powell has wavy shoulder length hair. She is five two.
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Speaker 1: You know, we know the female co worker came to
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Speaker 1: Chrissie's home around one pm, so she probably came right
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Speaker 1: after her lunch break. So Stephanie Pogonis, when did mom?
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Speaker 1: And I find this interesting that she lives at home
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Speaker 1: with her mother and her children, literally on a cold
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Speaker 1: sack in Apple Creek neighborhood in San Antonio. Jason Campo
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Speaker 1: with me, chief prosecutor out of Cameron County. Jason, you
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Speaker 1: said you're very familiar with the Apple Creek area. Tell
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Speaker 1: me about it. It's a it's a kind of a
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Speaker 1: small community be there in the heart of San Antonio,
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Speaker 1: and like the bigger city, it feels like you're kind
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Speaker 1: of in a smaller town. It's quiet, trees lining the
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Speaker 1: sides of the roads. It feels like everyday American town
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Speaker 1: that doesn't feel like it's part of the big city.
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Speaker 1: But it is also right there attached to it. I'm
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Speaker 1: very familiar with it. My first cousin lived there forever
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Speaker 1: as a cowhand, okay, running a ranch near San Antonio.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful area. And why I keep saying col de Sac
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Speaker 1: and I say that, Paul's like, because you ever drove
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Speaker 1: down to cauld Sack and you get to the very end,
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Speaker 1: you think, wow, if I lived here, I live on
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Speaker 1: that last house on the cul de sac. Absolutely no traffic. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's not a cut or a cut through to get
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Speaker 1: from the shopping center to the Thimbo grocery store. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's not a cut. There's not a lot of traffic.
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Speaker 1: You can't cut through a coul de sac. You don't
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Speaker 1: have a lot to back and forth traffic there. And
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Speaker 1: here she is at the end of a cul de
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Speaker 1: sat in Apple Creek neighborhood, for Pete's sake, where nobody
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Speaker 1: people could probably leave their doors a lot which I
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Speaker 1: do not advise. And that is significant here because there's
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Speaker 1: nobody hiding behind a bush to carjack her at the mailbox. No,
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Speaker 1: And there's no piece of information that would even suggest that.
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Speaker 1: Certainly right off the bat, I would the fact that
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Speaker 1: no money's taken from her account. I think the financial
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Speaker 1: aspect of that is taken out. Even low level criminals
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Speaker 1: will you know, if they're going to take you a gunpoint,
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Speaker 1: you know they're going to take you to ATM, they're
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Speaker 1: going to make you take money out, They're gonna you know,
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Speaker 1: they're going to pursue what they want as money, you know,
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Speaker 1: obviosated by drugs. And the second real concerning issue is
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Speaker 1: the July third text message threats that have been mentioned
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Speaker 1: with her actor, you know, Stephanie Pogona. Paul Zyke joining
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Speaker 1: US out of Albuquerque brought up an interesting point that
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Speaker 1: nothing taken out of the ATM, which suggests to him
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Speaker 1: a random carjacker didn't grab her and forced her to
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Speaker 1: go to the bank to withdraw money. But it also
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Speaker 1: indicates something else if you think about it. The flip
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Speaker 1: side of that is, if she were just going to
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Speaker 1: walk away from her beloved children that she took care
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Speaker 1: of it and loved and lived with, she hasn't withdrawn
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Speaker 1: any money to live off. What is she going to do?
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Speaker 1: What go forage in the forest. That's not happening. So
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Speaker 1: that's a double edged sword right there. Is there any
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Speaker 1: indication she took any money with her Stephanie so far,
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Speaker 1: her mother hasn't said whether she has actually taken money
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Speaker 1: with her. But what her mother has said is that
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Speaker 1: while they have been able to determine no money has
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Speaker 1: been taken from her debit account, they have had trouble
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Speaker 1: and faced resistance in obtaining information about her credit accounts.
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Speaker 1: They say that when they contacted the powers that be
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Speaker 1: to get that information, they were told that it can't
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Speaker 1: be provided to them because Christie is an adult. So
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Speaker 1: that's something that remains to be determined more or less
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Speaker 1: by her family. Chrissy Christina Powell goes missing from her
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Speaker 1: own home. According to ring doorbell cam, she's seen rushing
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Speaker 1: off dressed for work or bags lung over her shoulder.
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Speaker 1: Mom gets worried when she realizes Chrissie didn't take her
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Speaker 1: cell phone or her meds, But then the evening passes
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Speaker 1: and Chrissy doesn't call back to check on the children
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Speaker 1: or show up for dinner. The case seemingly goes cold.
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Speaker 1: You know, Jason Campo, chief Prosecutor, joining us out of
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Speaker 1: the Texas jurisdiction. The mother has her cell phone. We
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Speaker 1: know there's been no ATM activity, but that is concerning,
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Speaker 1: And that brings me to the major point that police
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Speaker 1: sat on their bombs San ANTONIOPD. I'm calling you out
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Speaker 1: settle their thombs for three days before they reported Chrissy
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Speaker 1: as a missing person. What. I don't know if they
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Speaker 1: put out a bolo for her before those three days,
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Speaker 1: if they were just to be on the lookout for her.
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Speaker 1: It's not a missing person you put out a bolo.
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Speaker 1: I want to escape you from the jail, please, that's correct.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they do that in the first couple of days
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Speaker 1: of a missing person case two to just be on
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Speaker 1: the lookout, especially when there's nothing that shows right from
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Speaker 1: the beginning that there's some kind of foul play if
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Speaker 1: they're starting the investigation. So I don't know if maybe
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Speaker 1: that's what they were doing, and then once that led
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Speaker 1: to nothing, that's when they switched it to a missing
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Speaker 1: person case. But on top on top of the money
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Speaker 1: not being moved, I think even if she wanted to
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Speaker 1: walk out, she would have at least taken her medicine
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Speaker 1: with her right because that's not going to change, and
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Speaker 1: so I think leaving the medicine that she needed at home.
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Speaker 1: Two just says that she was planning on coming back
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Speaker 1: that day after work. I agree. I agree completely, and
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about her two children. But first
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Speaker 1: take a listen to our cut eight our friends at
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Speaker 1: crime online dot com. Family members say they have checked
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Speaker 1: Pale's bank account and there's been no spending activities or withdrawals.
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Speaker 1: Her mother was able to access the account from the
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Speaker 1: phone that was left behind. They have been unable to
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Speaker 1: look into her credit card activity. However, her route to
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Speaker 1: work has also been checked. The distance from her home
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Speaker 1: to work is roughly seven miles and takes about fifteen
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Speaker 1: minutes to drive. Pal's friends and family have retraced the
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Speaker 1: possibilities looking for a possible crash. Local hospitals and the
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Speaker 1: county jail have been covered too, but no sign of
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Speaker 1: Chrissy Powell. This is why I've determined they need to
21:47
Speaker 1: be doing. Number One, get other ringdoorbells in off that
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Speaker 1: cal To sack. You know, they've all got them leading
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Speaker 1: all the way out of the cal To sack and
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Speaker 1: then red light camps if they exist, parking garage or
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Speaker 1: parking lot evidence at work? Did she make it that far?
22:06
Speaker 1: Did someone accost her when she got there and take
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Speaker 1: off in her car? Check intersections for evidence, including evidence
22:16
Speaker 1: that her car may have been hit. You know there
22:20
Speaker 1: is a scam where somebody will run into your car,
22:24
Speaker 1: you get out to check on it, and then they
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Speaker 1: car jack you with the car. That's possible. I would
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Speaker 1: be checking those intersections and the entire route along the
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Speaker 1: way when I circle back to you. Stephanie Pogona is
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Speaker 1: joining us from Fox Digital. I understand the family retraced
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Speaker 1: her route to work and found nothing, But you need
22:40
Speaker 1: a crime scene analyst going out there, possibly even a
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Speaker 1: reconstruction an accident reconstructionist to look to see if there
22:50
Speaker 1: is any tail lights or broken glass or broken plastic
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Speaker 1: that they could find from that sort of an attack. Also,
23:00
Speaker 1: was she a loving target? Did someone somehow jump in
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Speaker 1: at a red light? Jump in at a stop sign? Also?
23:10
Speaker 1: Is there any keycard information? Did she try to get
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Speaker 1: into the building but couldn't? Also is there nav information
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Speaker 1: navigation information that we could obtain? Also, gas station information,
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Speaker 1: fast food joints, along the way, did she drive through
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Speaker 1: Starbucks to get a coffee? Also? Tag grabbers, tag grabbers.
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Speaker 1: There are those little poles you see on the side
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Speaker 1: of the Interstate of the road with a metal horizontal strip.
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Speaker 1: They're grabbing your tag license, and thank Heaven they exist.
23:45
Speaker 1: Those are just a few things that I want to
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Speaker 1: throw out, But to you, Stephanie Pogonis, could you address
23:51
Speaker 1: that please? Yes, absolutely, And I do want to point
23:55
Speaker 1: out that one of the things I found I noticed
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Speaker 1: in case, I should say, in the missing endangered adult
24:04
Speaker 1: flyer that police released, at least the one that they
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Speaker 1: sent to me, they did not even include information regarding
24:12
Speaker 1: the kind of car she was driving. Oh, dear Lord
24:15
Speaker 1: in Heaven. You know I love Andy of Maybury, But
24:19
Speaker 1: what is is Barney five? What you've got to put
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Speaker 1: the car in there? I mean, there's a great picture
24:24
Speaker 1: for standing by the car, but normally they do a
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Speaker 1: mock up. Stephanie Pagonis of that make and model, that year,
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Speaker 1: in that color as best as they know it, with
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Speaker 1: a big picture of the tag number. That's a good catch,
24:38
Speaker 1: Stephanie Pagonis, This girl is no dummy. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our cut nine our friends at crime online dot Com.
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Speaker 1: Chrissy Powell is originally from New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated
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Speaker 1: with a degree in psychology from the University of Texas
24:52
Speaker 1: at San Antonio and works as a paralegal. News reports
24:55
Speaker 1: looking at Powell's social media posts say that Powell is
24:58
Speaker 1: the mother of at least to boys ages three and twelve.
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Speaker 1: Pal's longtime friend, Lauren Lele, says she took pride in
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Speaker 1: being a mom. In twenty eighteen, Pal posted a photo
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Speaker 1: promoting domestic violence awareness, but her latest social posts are
25:12
Speaker 1: on a more happy note, posting a puppy update with
25:15
Speaker 1: photos of her two dogs, Oliver and Chevy. So, this
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Speaker 1: woman has a psychology degree at University Texas and Antonio,
25:23
Speaker 1: she's originally from Newhaving, Connecticut, and she's made a real
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Speaker 1: life for herself. It's not like she's out turning tricks
25:31
Speaker 1: and buying crack on the corner. That means a lot.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Angela Arnold explain why her lifestyle is significant. It
25:40
Speaker 1: sounds like she's a very responsible person. And of course
25:45
Speaker 1: we don't know a lot of her background. It it
25:48
Speaker 1: seems like we don't know a lot of her background,
25:49
Speaker 1: her different relationships that she's been on but she certainly
25:54
Speaker 1: seems very responsible at this point, because, like you said, Nancy,
25:57
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many people are aware of how
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Speaker 1: of the kind of job that a paralegal does. But
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Speaker 1: it's a very important job, and you have to be
26:05
Speaker 1: really good at that job for somebody to keep you around,
26:07
Speaker 1: because the lawyers depend very heavily on their paralegals. That's
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Speaker 1: my understanding. So she's got two children, she's living with
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Speaker 1: her mother, she's got a new car, she's got a
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Speaker 1: full time job. She's got a good degree from college.
26:24
Speaker 1: It's not easy to get a psychology degree. Okay, So
26:28
Speaker 1: all of these things indicate a stability in her life. Okay.
26:33
Speaker 1: I was waiting for you to make the connection to victimology,
26:37
Speaker 1: Jason Campbell. What I'm looking for. Everything that Angela Arnold
26:40
Speaker 1: said is true, but it all equals to one thing.
26:44
Speaker 1: Low crime risk. Absolutely, she seems like a low crime
26:48
Speaker 1: risk type of a victim. She is somebody that is reliable.
26:52
Speaker 1: She's somebody that you can count on. The fact that
26:54
Speaker 1: they sent somebody to her home tells me that she's
26:57
Speaker 1: worked there long enough that they think that it's odd
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Speaker 1: or out of her behavior that she wouldn't come in.
27:04
Speaker 1: We do the same thing here at our office. If
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Speaker 1: we can't get ahold of somebody by nine o'clock nine
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Speaker 1: thirty in the morning and we haven't heard from them,
27:12
Speaker 1: we send an investigator or somebody to their home to
27:16
Speaker 1: check and find out what's going on. Because in order
27:19
Speaker 1: to maintain these jobs, I think you have to be
27:21
Speaker 1: a reliable type of a person, and when you do
27:23
Speaker 1: something like that, it sends up red flags right away.
27:39
Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace what happened to Chrissy. She
27:46
Speaker 1: takes off, leaving behind her mom who helps take care
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Speaker 1: of her child, headed to her job as a paralegal,
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Speaker 1: all dressed for work, and then seemingly vanishes into thin air.
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Speaker 1: Another thing that's very troubling is this. Take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our cut ten our friends at climb online dot com.
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Speaker 1: New information shows that Chrissie Powell and the father of
28:10
Speaker 1: one of her two children argued over text messages. Powell
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Speaker 1: had left her phone at home the day she disappeared.
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Speaker 1: Her mother, Claudia Mobley, told the son that her daughter
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Speaker 1: had argued with the father of the three year old.
28:22
Speaker 1: Mobley says she doesn't know what the pair were arguing about.
28:26
Speaker 1: But she adds that it wasn't unusual. Mobley says that
28:29
Speaker 1: she doesn't think the X could have hurt her daughter,
28:31
Speaker 1: and he has spoken to the police. When Chrissy Powell
28:34
Speaker 1: didn't show up at work, one of her colleagues went
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Speaker 1: to her Apple Creek home to check in on her.
28:39
Speaker 1: Powell's old a son, twelve years old, answered the door.
28:42
Speaker 1: When asked if his mom was home, he replied, she's
28:45
Speaker 1: at work. In a span of just three hours, Chrissie
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Speaker 1: Powell disappeared. Claudia Mobley says her conversation with her daughter
28:53
Speaker 1: that morning was nothing out of the ordinary. They exchanged
28:56
Speaker 1: morning greetings followed by I'm leaving, I'm late, and be careful,
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Speaker 1: love you. Mobley saw her daughter drive away after the
29:03
Speaker 1: colleague visit, and when her daughter didn't return home, Mobley
29:07
Speaker 1: reported her daughter missing with the San Antonio Police Department
29:10
Speaker 1: the next day. You know it's interesting about that will
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Speaker 1: so many things. Doctor Angela Arnold, renowned psychiatrist joining us
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Speaker 1: out of the Atlanta jurisdiction and you can find her
29:18
Speaker 1: at Angela Arnold MD dot com. Doctor Angie. The dichotomy
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Speaker 1: of it being a normal morning, grabbing your stuff, running
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Speaker 1: out the door. You're late saying bye, I love you,
29:29
Speaker 1: Be careful. It just brings back to mind the day
29:34
Speaker 1: I learned my fiance have been murdered. I had been
29:36
Speaker 1: in a statistics exam and I walked out and inside
29:40
Speaker 1: it was an old building at Mercy University, and it
29:44
Speaker 1: was dark in there in the hallway, and I walked
29:46
Speaker 1: out and it was sunny and bright and beautiful. I thought, wow,
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Speaker 1: and started walking To work the dichotomy between what feels
29:56
Speaker 1: to be a normal day and then all of a
29:59
Speaker 1: sudden world blows up. Nobody is ready for this. That
30:03
Speaker 1: mother and those two children are not ready for this.
30:07
Speaker 1: It changes everything. Well, it knocks them off their guard also,
30:12
Speaker 1: so first they're in shock about what's happened, and they're
30:16
Speaker 1: kind of learning what's happened all along. Right, it's not
30:21
Speaker 1: like you go, oh my god, she's been kidnapped, Oh
30:22
Speaker 1: my god, she's run away. No, every day they're wondering
30:26
Speaker 1: in their mind, oh, what in the world happened to her?
30:29
Speaker 1: Why would she do this? So people are trying to
30:32
Speaker 1: gather evidence, but at the same time there's a level
30:35
Speaker 1: of shock that's going on with the family. The answer
30:40
Speaker 1: is the car we now learn Chrissy's vehicle first spotted
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Speaker 1: by security guards and the parking lot of a nearby
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Speaker 1: shopping strip mall Kibner Oaks Center. They walk passed the
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Speaker 1: car over and over. Take a listen to k E
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Speaker 1: N S five. According to a SAPD on Saturday evening,
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Speaker 1: a security guard checked on a suspicious vehicle as a
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Speaker 1: PD says the car had been parked in the same
31:07
Speaker 1: location for about a week. The fact that this car
31:11
Speaker 1: might have been there for up to three weeks and
31:13
Speaker 1: it wasn't, you know, reported until the last week. It's
31:19
Speaker 1: just it's hard for me to understand, Leo says. The
31:21
Speaker 1: shopping center is not close to her friend's work. Unknown
31:25
Speaker 1: is hard, but I think trying to put all the
31:27
Speaker 1: pieces together is even more frustrating. Was her car there
31:31
Speaker 1: this whole time? Where if it wasn't? Where was it?
31:34
Speaker 1: And so just pray that we can find out the details.
31:39
Speaker 1: And now we learn what happened to Chrissy. Her body
31:44
Speaker 1: discovered in the passenger seat off her own car, the
31:47
Speaker 1: ones she left home in, parked outside the Salt Grass Steakhouse.
31:54
Speaker 1: It's there, not far from home, and the Humaner Oaks
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Speaker 1: shopping Plaza now a security guard says they've been sitting
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Speaker 1: there for a week. As he got closer, he sensed
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Speaker 1: a foul odor coming from inside. Wait a minute. He
32:12
Speaker 1: passes a parked car with a woman in the front
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Speaker 1: seat and it sits there for a week until her
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Speaker 1: body starts to decompose. Take a listen to k e
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Speaker 1: n S five developing attend the case of a missing
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Speaker 1: mother now a death investigation. Three weeks ago, Chrissie Powell
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Speaker 1: was rushing out of her home to get to work,
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Speaker 1: but she never made it. Believe say Powell's body was
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Speaker 1: found in her car. It was parked at the shopping
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Speaker 1: center at Heibner Oaks. Because my reporter, Henry Damis is
32:45
Speaker 1: live there now, and Henry, do we know how this
32:48
Speaker 1: mother died? The news that the family feared, and now
32:51
Speaker 1: they're left with so many other questions. How long was
32:54
Speaker 1: Powell here and how did that mother lose her life?
32:58
Speaker 1: For the last three weeks, it's been held and it
33:00
Speaker 1: isn't getting any better. For Lauren Leon, she just found
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Speaker 1: out her best friend, who was more like a sister,
33:07
Speaker 1: is dead. It's very hard, just so I'll never see
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Speaker 1: her or talk to her. San Antonio police. A palace
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Speaker 1: body was found in her car at the parking lot
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Speaker 1: at Hebnuok Center. According to SAPD, on Saturday evening, a
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Speaker 1: security guard checked on a suspicious vehicle. Once he got closer,
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Speaker 1: he smelt something foul. He looked inside and saw a
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Speaker 1: body in the front passenger seat and called nine one one.
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Speaker 1: At first, police sources tell us they didn't know how
33:37
Speaker 1: Chrissy had died, but they knew her body showed no
33:42
Speaker 1: signs of trauma. Then we learn they stated it could
33:47
Speaker 1: be a number of things carbon monoxide, eat, exhaustion, medication.
33:52
Speaker 1: You had to wait for the autopsy report. We now
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Speaker 1: learned the official cause of death for this rgeous young
34:00
Speaker 1: mom of two hyperthermia got too hot in the car
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Speaker 1: that she was sitting in, complicated with ethanol poisoning, which
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Speaker 1: is from drinking. After days of suffering, Chrissie's mother, Claudia
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Speaker 1: gets the horrible news her daughter, a gorgeous young mom
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Speaker 1: of two paralegal, is dead. She had been begging for
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Speaker 1: information that could lead to the whereabouts of her daughter.
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Speaker 1: She ultimately posed. She was quote heart broken by the
34:36
Speaker 1: discovery of Chrissie's body. Well the case file may be closed,
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Speaker 1: but this family, including her mother and two little children,
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Speaker 1: are left with a life sentence without Chrissie. Nancy Grace's
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Speaker 1: crime story signing off goodbye Friend three