In late July, a security guard found the body of Christina Powell, who was first reported missing earlier that month, in the passenger seat of her car.
According to officials, the 39-year old Texas mom who was reported missing, supposedly had an accidental death.
“Christina Powell’s cause of death was hyperthermia complicating ethanol intoxication,” the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s office said, ruling her death an accident.
The San Antonio Police Department also stated that it is closing the case, “We did not find any evidence leading to a criminal investigation.”
Hyperthermia occurs when the body is no longer able to regulate temperature which raises a person’s body temperature to dangerous and potentially deadly levels. Temperatures when Powell first went missing were well into the high-90s.
The body of Powell, a mom of two boys 3 and 12, was found in the front passenger seat of her 2020 Nissan Rogue by a security guard in the parking lot of the Huebner Oaks Center in San Antonio on July 23.
Her car had reportedly been parked in the lot for about a week. The security guard who discovered her allegedly smelled a foul odor coming from the car before seeing her body.
The police also said nothing was taken and her purse that was found near her body was untouched. There were also no apparent signs of trauma to her body.
Powell’s body was transported to Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.
Confirming the loss on Facebook, Powell’s mother Claudia Mobley wrote on July 25, “My beautiful daughter, Christina Powell, has been found, deceased. I am heartbroken. Thank you all for your prayers.”
Powell was last seen July 5 walking out of her home and heading to work at about 10:30 a.m., according to a doorbell camera video.
“We didn’t really have any kind of in-depth conversation. It was basically, ‘Good morning.’ She told me she was late,” 70-year old Mobley said. “Then, she was leaving for work and I told her to be careful. And I probably told her, ‘I love you.’ “
Earlier that morning, Powell called her office where she works as a paralegal and told them she would be late. But she never showed up.
Later in the day, a colleague went to her home and asked Powell’s 12-year-old son if her mother was there.
“My grandson answered the door, and the lady said, ‘Is your mom here?’ ” Mobley told the site. “He said, ‘No, she’s at work’ … He went and checked, and of course, she wasn’t here.”
Something isn’t adding up!