At 10.34 a.m., 39-year-old Christina Lee Powell was last seen leaving her home. on July 5, after phoning her paralegal employer to inform them that she would be late.
However, three weeks later, a security guard in San Antonio discovered her death in a strip mall after smelling something bad coming from a vehicle that had been “parked in the same place for approximately a week.”
According to Fox, the mother-of-unintentional two’s death was brought on by heat with complications from ethanol consumption, according to the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s office.
The inquiry is now over, according to the San Antonio Police Department, which also stated: “We did not uncover any evidence supporting a criminal investigation.”
Authorities estimate that she remained in the vehicle for around the same amount of time that San Antonio temperatures reached approximately 90F.
Only a 10-minute drive from her house, Powell’s corpse was found in her Nissan Rogue at the Huebner Oaks Center. It showed no visible indications of violence.
Powell, 39, is originally from New Haven, Conn., and graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Bexar County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed that the mother-of-two suffered an accidental death caused by hyperthermia with complications from ethanol intoxication
Powell had two children, ages three and 12. Her body, which had no obvious signs of trauma, was discovered in her Nissan Rogue at the Huebner Oaks Center – just a 10 minute drive from her home
This graphic illustrates where Powell was last seen and where she was found
Ring doorbell footage from Powell’s home shows her walking briskly out of the door shortly after 10:30 a.m., a white purse under her shoulder.
But Powell appeared to have left her phone and smartwatch in the house, her friends say, as she rushed to work.
She also left vital medication behind. Police say that Powell suffered from a medical condition that requires a doctor’s care.
Nobody saw or heard from the young mother since that morning.
The shopping plaza where she was found is located along the same stretch of interstate as her job at Sanchez & Wilson, a law firm that handles cases such as personal injury and unfair dismissals.
Their offices are an eight-minute drive from where Powell was found.
Powell, who was driving a black 2020 Nissan Rouge that is also missing, left her iPhone and Apple Watch at home because she was rushing to get to work
Powell was driving this black 2020 Nissan Rouge that was missing, with the plate number PYJ-8564
Powell and Cady pictured with her son in December 2017 following a Christmas concert at the child’s elementary school
The father of Powell’s youngest child, Chris Cady. Powell posted this photo of the couple together in January 2020
Police found her purse inside the vehicle and used her ID to identify her.
Powell’s mom, Claudia Mobley, broke the news on Facebook on July 25 after pleading for others to help find her daughter.
She wrote: ‘My beautiful daughter, Christina Powell, has been found, deceased. I am heartbroken. Thank you for all your prayers.’
While Powell’s sister, Jennifer, wrote in a Facebook post: ‘I’m heartbroken and completely devastated. This was not how I hoped and prayed this would end. She will always be my sister and with me in some way.’
Jennifer’s message concluded with the words: ‘Check on those friends who are going through hard times.’
The paralegal had two children, ages 12 and three. According to her Facebook page, Powell was a native of New Haven, Connecticut.
Powell’s mother posted her first call for help on July 23, saying her daughter left for work from the pair shared, on July 5 and left her cell phone and medication behind.
‘There have been no transactions on her credit cards or bank account,’ Mobley wrote. ‘We have retraced her route to work several times and there are no bodies of water or signs of a crash along the way. We’re not even sure she headed to work.’
Powell had recently taken in two dogs, named Oliver and Chevy, and her last social media post on June 10 was a ‘puppy update’