storm that slow the investigation, had also flushed out krystal s killer. here is dennis murphy with, before the storm. the woman captured on security camera moving ghost like from one room to the next is 37-year-old crystal mcdowell, a real else state agent from baytown, texas, it s thursday, august 25th, 2017. at 7:35 a. m., crystal gets into her black mercedes coupe and backs out of the driveway. looks like she s on her way to work, but crystal never makes it to the office that day. texts, phone calls and emails go unanswered. when crystal s extended family gathers later that evening to watch a paper view boxing match, cousin jade cherry says they we aren t sure if they should be annoyed or concerned. it was the night of the
biblical, all words to describe hurricane harvey, meaning it was a storm like few had ever seen. harvey was not only massive but slow moving and once it hit usen and baytown, it weirdly just stopped. it just kept raining and kept raining, half of the county was going under water at 5:00 in the morning and we were already doing high-water rescues. it seemed like nobody was talking about a missing woman any longer. the community and everyone in it was fighting to survive. what was the scariest moment for you in harvey? when the water started coming down my walls in my house and it was overflowing and i was watching to see which way it was going to come in first, the front door or backdoor. i ve never experience that before. it just never stopped. there were boats actually traveling the roads and the only communication we have is through our phones. thank god our phones were working.
attendant position with expressjet, and with her outgoing personality crystal was soon an airline favorite. and that s when her life became even more complicated. she had numerous lovers throughout her marriage. men and women. she was very social, and because she d traveled all over the united states with expressjet, she had flight attendant friends and pilots all over the country. so there were a lotta players and a lot of different directions that we found ourselves goin in the first week. and if she s been intimate with people here and there, you got to wonder, we got an angry husband here, an angry wife, right? that that is correct, and in fact, that was some of the avenue that we were looking at, was other angry spouses. crystal mcdowell had been missing just two days by the time the chambers county sheriff s office had uncovered all of these promising leads to pursue. but suddenly, pursuing leads became next to impossible, as little baytown suffered a disaster of epic
they died within six months of each other, from aids, from drug use. at one point, around 13, she was abducted by a man, and he kept her hostage, kept her in a chicken coop oh, you re kidding. sexually assaulted her. how awful. but she managed to escape and, then, eventually ended up down here in baytown with her grandmother and a paternal aunt. crystal eventually ended up living with her cousin jade s family, and somehow clawed her way back from the abuse she suffered as a child. which could explain all those photos and videos crystal took with her own daughter. she may have just wanted the world to see how much her own little girl was loved, wanted and protected. when i think of crystal, i think of loving was very, very loving and a hard worker. those are the two things i think of when i think of crystal.
here s dennis murphy with before the storm. the woman captured on security camera, moving ghost-like from one room to the next is 37-year-old crystal mcdowell, a real estate agent from baytown, texas. it s thursday, august 25th, 2017. at 7:35 a.m., crystal gets into her black mercedes coupe and backs out the driveway. looks like she s on her way to work. but crystal never makes it to the office that day. texts, phone calls and emails go unanswered. when crystal s extended family gathers later that evening to watch a pay-per-view boxing match, cousin jade cherry says they aren t sure if they should be annoyed or concerned. it was the night of the mayweather and mcgregor fight. and my whole family is here. and my brother comes up to me immediately. and he s like, crystal s missing. but in my head i m like, what? like, you don t think you know, you re like, well, find her. like, what do you mean? yeah. that doesn t make sense.