yeah. in september of 2016, almost two years to the day since christina had vanished, enrique arochi went on trial at the collin county courthouse charged with aggravated kidnapping. zeke fortenberry was the lead prosecutor. why not prosecute him for murder? we thought about that, and i believe he did murder her. the problem is we didn t have a body to show that and we didn t have a crime scene to show murder. it s probably the most difficult case i ve ever tried. i m here to give you the facts. and to tell you that on august 30th, this defendant kidnapped christina morris. and that s what the facts say. the prosecutor showed the jury those interviews enrique gave police and pointed out his changing stories. why did he lie again and again and again? he told the jury that even though she can t be seen here, christina was probably in the
you knew she was gone then? yeah. in september of 2016, almost two years to the day since christina had vanished, enrique arochi went on trial at the collin county courthouse charged with aggravated kidnapping. zeke fortenberry was the lead prosecutor. why not prosecute him for murder? we thought about that, and i believe he did murder her. the problem is we didn t have a body to show that and we didn t have a crime scene to show murder. it s probably the most difficult case i ve ever tried. i m here to give you the facts. and to tell you that on august 30th, this defendant kidnapped christina morris. and that s what the facts say. the prosecutor showed the jury those interviews enrique gave police and pointed out his changing stories. why did he lie again and again and again? he told the jury that even though she can t be seen here, christina was probably in the passenger seat of enrique s car. so why did christina get in the car? my guess is he lied to her. maybe
relationship was rocky. she was planning on leaving him. i do know that for sure. she was home alone a lot by herself because he d go out partying with his friends. and she was lonely. she was sad. and when police talked with christina s friend steven, he told them she d been texting hunter that night asking him to pick her up from the shopping center. she had texted him a few times and then he stopped texting her back, and then she tried calling him and he didn t answer. as a result, steven said, christina became more and more upset as the night wore on. i mean, yeah, they were in a fight. they were definitely fighting that last night? uh-huh. police asked hunter to come down to the station. former prosecutor zeke fortenberry. what s he say about that fight that he and christina were having? hunter says he wasn t really aware of the fight. he said that he was out drinking, partying. he wasn t paying attention to his phone. and yet it s the opinion of
i opened the door i look inside, you know. the car was locked. it was just a mess. just a mess like she keeps it. a mit s always a mess. but no bag, no wallet, no cell phone. the car was locked. and she never got in it. now, police had to play catch up. the plano police department had a disadvantage with the four-day delay start. zeke fortenberry was a prosecutor in the collin county district attorney s office. plano police department knew that it was four days she d been missing already. and so that kind of raises a red flag that something serious might be going on. there is still no sign of a missing ft. worth woman who vanished from a plano parking garage. by this time a lot of people in north texas were hearing about christina morris. lorraine caceras covered the story for telemundo dallas. people don t randomly disappear from shopping centers in plano. that just doesn t happen. and the fact that maybe, just maybe this could be a random act.
fortenberry pointed to records from cell phone towers that he said proved she was in the car. he said christina s phone battery was almost drained as she and enrique approached the garage that night. not surprisingly their phones were pinging near each other. then, it gets a bit murky. the prosecutor explained that after the camaro left the garage, it passed through a toll station heading north on the highway. but about ten minutes later, christina s phone pinged off a tower back near the shopping mall and then so did enrique s, almost as if they d made a u-turn. and i think something changed. i think maybe he put the moves on her and started making sexual advances towards her and she was not okay with that. and then maybe is when the altercation began. detectives testified they d seen injuries on enrique s arms and hands. because as detective busby said, there was a fight. it was between enrique and christina and she was fighting for her life.