lot of reasons. it s easier to try a murder trial when you ve got a dead body. it just is. but, you know, she deserved to be found. you know? she deserved to be found. her kids deserved for her body to be found. her family deserved for her to be found. investigators all believed mcdowell knew where the body was but he staed fastly denied any involvement in crystal s disappearance. after an hour of getting nowhere, mcdowell was allowed to go home to his children but now, district attorney leak and ranger jeter had a whole new problem on their hands. i had found some folks that i had interviewed throughout the week that had said he d actually talked about murder suicide sometime earlier. right after the divorce, mcdowell had reportedly threatened to destroy the entire family. it was like i m going to kill myself. i m going to kill the kids. you re going to be blamed for the ruining of my life. yes. now that he was once again under stress, leak worried