for two weeks we said how did he do this? how did he get back home? to find out they pulled footage along the roads in the area and found this video of a man riding a bike in the driving rain along the i-1 feeder road. the video was tim stamped at 7:05 a. m., 2 minutes after crystal s car wa dropped off. and that s when the pieces all fell into place when we were at his house we saw a bicycle in the garage and the thing about this bik is it has unique mag wheels. jeter remembered mcdowell s alibi for that saturday mornin was that he d been shopping at this walmart across the freewa from thejeter had the security a footage bulled. a guy lookin like steven mcdowell dressed i a sweatshirt with a hoodie u is paying cash for a bike with unique mag wheels minutes afte crystal s mercedes was abandoned. when we saw him riding bike, we said that s what he did. he walked across th
a riddle. did crystal leave he mercedes at the motel 6 or did someone else you can tell it had bee happen hazardly parked and the keys inside yes. come and get it, i wan somebody to take this ca because something happened this is a tasty prize absolutely. steal me. absolutely. nobody seemed to have taken the bait well, there was a coupl that tried but the problem i the water was too high crystal s car was later toeed to a garage where a cs team went through it forensically what happened. di they come up with anything nothing that s when dateline pose a missing in america report bu the story generated no usabl leads. by the time the las remanence of the storm howle out of texas, a week had gon by with this county in shambles, the sheriff knew he needed a outside assist on the mcdowell case and put out a call fo help. one answered by texa ranger steven jeter.
wetlands in search of kis crys ranger jeter looked to solve the dilemma of the investigation. he had two me in the cross hairs, th ex-husband and new boyfriend he needed to focus on one or the other. so you started to ask questions who has a camera around here. that s right. he had investigators chec businesses near the motel 6 in search of surveillance footage what did you come up with? fortunately, a lot of peopl had some almost too much. hours upon hours of footage but burie deep within this investigative or detectives caught images of the man they believed killed crystal mcdowell. the firs clip is this footage recorde saturday, august 26th at 6:3 a. m. the outer bands of hurricane harvey are startin to hit bayto baytown. near the top of your screen, you can se the taillights of crystal mercedes as it s being backe into the motel 6 parking lot we can see somebody wal from the car five hours later, a