I knew she would never leave her kids in the middle of a hurricane. I always knew it was not going to be good. Crystal was gone and there were lots of reasons to worry. She had numerous lovers, men and women. She had a husband and boyfriend failing the polygraph. What the hell is going on. Hurricane harvey was moving in this direction. We were stuck in the house and we immediately went to social media. Someone knew where she was. Someone who liked to play games. He thought he was smarter than we were. Willing to trade one night of freedom. Let me go home and i will tell you everything. In exchange for the terrible truth. If he couldnt have her, nobody could. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Crystal mcdowell was a divorced mom, itching to start a new life when she vanished. Then, Hurricane Harvey decimated her texas town of brought the search for crystal to a halt. And the lead investigator forged ahead, covering a series of clues. As the floodwaters receded, he discovered the same deadl
almost too much hours upon hours of footage. but buried deep within this investigative ore, detectives uncovered gold. images of the man they believed killed crystal mcdowell. the first clip they found was this footage recorded saturday, august 26th at 6:37 a.m. the outer bands of hurricane harvey are starting to hit baytown. near the top of your screen, you can see the taillights crystal s mercedes as it s being backed into the motel 6 parking lot. and we can see somebody walk from the car. five hours later, a different security camera at a gas station next to the motel shows this blue car pull in next to a pump. this one caught the eye of a watchful investigator, because it s a rare mustang gt, just like steven mcdowell s. and he couldn t of have a more distinctive car than a shelby but, boy, that s that s it s hard to mistake that vehicle. yeah, without a doubt.