crystal was gone, and there were lots of reasons to worry. she had numerous lovers, me and women. you had the husband and boyfriend failing polys. on the same day the answer would have t wait hurricane harvey is movin in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house an immediately went to social media. what kind of things pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were willing to trade one nigh of freedom he said i m ready to talk let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell yo everything in exchange for the terribl truth. if he couldn t have her nobody could. crystal was young mom and brought th search for crystal to a halt - then hurricane harvey decimate her texas town and brought the search for krystal to a halt but in a lead investigator forged ahead, uncovering a series of clues and as the floodwaters receded, h discovered the
wait. hurricane harvey is moving in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house and immediately went to social media. what kind of things? pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were. willing to trade one night of freedom. he said i m ready to talk. let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell you everything. in exchange for the terrible truth. if he couldn t have her, nobody could. crystal was a young mom and brought the search for crystal to a halt, but an investigatior brought a series of clues and as flood waters receded, he discovered the same deadly storm that slowed the investigation had also flushed out crystal 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
confession tape again. doe that make you nervous? it always makes me nervou because i m, like, oh god where are they goin with this? an hour after re-watching the confession the jury came back with a verdict, guilty. but now came the penalty phase when the jury would decide i this was a pre-meditated killing or one of sudde passion. how stressful was this case for you? oh, it was real stressful. mean, when you get a case like this where you have th perpetrator who can convince even some members of law enforcement that he might have been the victim in all of this then you worry about, what s jury gonna think, you know? how do you straddle this this thing? and i you know, i forgive the the thought, but it s, like, how do you not get seen as a woman? do you assess i don t know know what i mean and i think that cause it cause somebod you could be judged and - right, absolutely. and i i think i am seen like that by a lotta jurors, and there nothin
believes his story, you know, we re cooked. and sure enough, during deliberations, one of the jurors asked to see mcdowell s confession tape again. does that make you nervous? it always makes me nervous because i m, like, oh god, where are they goin with this? an hour after re-watching the confession the jury came back with a verdict, guilty. but now came the penalty phase when the jury would decide if this was a pre-meditated killing or one of sudden passion. how stressful was this case for you? oh, it was real stressful. i mean, when you get a case like this where you have the perpetrator who can convince even some members of law enforcement that he might have been the victim in all of this, then you worry about, what s a jury gonna think, you know? how do you straddle this this thing? and i you know, i forgive the the thought, but it s, like, how do you not get seen as a woman? do you assess i don t know. know what i mean? and i think that ca
this was a pre-meditated killing or one of sudden passion. how stressful was this case for you? oh, it was real stressful. i mean, when you get a case like this where you have the perpetrator who can convince even some members of law enforcement that he might have been the victim in all of this, then you worry about, what s a jury gonna think, you know? how do you straddle this this thing? and i you know, i forgive the the thought, but it s, like, how do you not get seen as a woman? do you assess i don t know. know what i mean? and i think that cause it cause somebody you could be judged and right, absolutely. and i i think i am seen like that by a lotta jurors, and there s nothin i can do about it. i mean, if i tried to be anything different than i am, it would come across as as as insincere. that authenticity apparently resonated with the jury in crystal s case. they rejected the sudden passion argument and found that crystal s murder