Found Alive TX - Christine Woo (fnd dec'd), 39, & 3 kids, Frisco, 28 March 2016

[IRule254]

Something just occurred to me. There is a McDonalds across the street from that Target. (Across the road and just a bit down.) I wonder if that was the one they went to. If so, how on earth didn't LE canvas nearby businesses to her last know whereabouts and get surveillance? They could have just driven right there to canvas and seen the car themselves!!!

I'm not one to be hard on LE, but if that was the Mcdonalds...I find that completely unacceptable and LE more than dropped the ball!

My husband is a pretty high ranking LE in our city. After hearing the news yesterday he said that if that car was, indeed, in the Target lot for 3 days, someone is for sure losing their job. He found it very hard to believe that normal patrol officers would not have noticed it, not to mention, they would have been on high alert for THAT particular vehicle.


**OT**I remember a few years ago my husband had to write up a trainee because they got a call from a lady that they saw a butcher knife stuck halfway down in the dirt at a local park, just off the side of the road (she saw it form her car, driving by.) When they arrived on scene an older couple was walking their dog and said "oh yeah, we have seen that all this week on our walks and were wondering why it was there." It really made it look like the officer was not doing a thorough job.

As for the 5 year old, let us pretend that he could not get out of the car for some reason or another..would someone not have noticed the sheer amount of noise, flailing, crying banging on windows of 3 kids in a car over a prolonged period of time in a public parking lot? It makes me suspect that they were sedated in some way.

 

[Inthedetails]

This is not uncommon. Most companies offer this service now. Especially banks.

Good to know. I haven't heard of it....and it sounded a little controlling to me, but I can see its appeal.

(I have nothing to hide from DH, but I really don't want him monitoring my every purchase either with texts. )

 

[VAgirlatheart]

I also just wanted to say that I sometimes take over the counter sleep aid and I know the next morning I feel super dehydrated... So maybe this could be a suicide-murder case? I know in high school my teammate (Softball) got murdered along with her two other sisters and the father took his life as well. All because the mother and father were getting a divorce and she was moving on. However, he did it when they was sleeping. I don't know this lady to judge her but you never know what goes in other peoples mind. The dad was also a coach and they seemed prefectly loving and normal until that weekend.

 

[Mogwai]

Good to know. I haven't heard of it....and it sounded a little controlling to me, but I can see its appeal.

(I have nothing to hide from DH, but I really don't want him monitoring my every purchase either with texts. )

This really, really bothers me. Yes you can get text messages for transactions...I have a text sent when my check is deposited.

But a text sent to my husband every single time I made ANY purchase? A text sent to me 2x a day when he sneaks off to the bodega for his fresh banana bread addiction? I don't care what small amounts he spends money on on a day to day basis (coffee, lunch, etc.). The texts would annoy me more than anything!

Having an alert set up for every purchase...that is not routine, in my mind.

In my opinion, an action like that would stem from a need to control / track someone, or a prior history of massive financial irresponsibility.

 

[blue22]

This really, really bothers me. Yes you can get text messages for transactions...I have a text sent when my check is deposited.

But a text sent to my husband every single time I made ANY purchase? A text sent to me 2x a day when he sneaks off to the bodega for his fresh banana bread addiction? I don't care what small amounts he spends money on on a day to day basis (coffee, lunch, etc.). The texts would annoy me more than anything!

Having an alert set up for every purchase...that is not routine, in my mind.

In my opinion, an action like that would stem from a need to control / track someone, or a prior history of massive financial irresponsibility.

I don't agree. Our accounts are all tied together. Every time I spend something, my spouse gets a text. Every time my spouse spends something, I get a text. The simple reason for that, is our accounts are joint. We find joint accounts easier to manage. We also get alerts every time something is spent, because we've had an experience with our account being accessed. (And my occupation involves money management.) It would make complete and simple sense for him to get alerts on a joint account. I'm not saying they DO have joint accounts, but alerts don't equal control. There are actually many practical reasons for a spouse to get financial texts.

 

[perfectingpink]

Texas woman found mysteriously dead inside her SUV with her three severely dehydrated children in mall parking lot

The three children were taken to the hospital for severe dehydration after police found them inside a car in a Frisco mall parking lot with their mother, Christine Woo, dead in the driver’s seat. She was clutching the youngest child, a 16-month-old baby girl, in her arms.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-woman-found-dead-kids-car-article-1.2585577

 

[perfectingpink]

Missing Frisco Mother Found Dead, Children Alive

All three of the children suffered from severe body rash from sitting in their own filth and waste for days. The youngest child, a 1-year-old baby girl, is in critical condition.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/04/01/missing-frisco-mother-found-dead-children-alive/

 

[blue22]

Missing Frisco Mother Found Dead, Children Alive



http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/04/01/missing-frisco-mother-found-dead-children-alive/

Wow. LE has A LOT of explaining to do. How on earth could they have missed her car in that parking lot, being across the road from where she was last known to have been? That makes me so angry! I pray these little ones will heal quickly, mentally and physically.

"Woo was found dead in the family’s SUV Thursday night in the parking lot of a SuperTarget in McKinney. It’s a lot just across the street from the McDonald’s where credit card records show she took the children Monday."

 

[LaborDayRN]

Missing Frisco Mother Found Dead, Children Alive



http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/04/01/missing-frisco-mother-found-dead-children-alive/

Oh no! Those poor babies! And she was holding the 16 month old? This is just heartbreaking........

 

[Inthedetails]

Oh no! Those poor babies! And she was holding the 16 month old? This is just heartbreaking........

I don't think she was holding the 16mo in the car. I think she was holding the baby in the video from the store. When she walked in, she was holding the youngest, and the other two were walking.

JMO.

 

[blue22]

I don't think she was holding the 16mo in the car. I think she was holding the baby in the video from the store. When she walked in, she was holding the youngest, and the other two were walking.

JMO.

See post 246 above.

"The three children were taken to the hospital for severe dehydration after police found them inside a car in a Frisco mall parking lot with their mother, Christine Woo, dead in the driver’s seat. She was clutching the youngest child, a 16-month-old baby girl, in her arms.."

I think it does mean the child was in her arms in the car, from the wording.

 

[Inthedetails]

See post 246 above.

"The three children were taken to the hospital for severe dehydration after police found them inside a car in a Frisco mall parking lot with their mother, Christine Woo, dead in the driver’s seat. She was clutching the youngest child, a 16-month-old baby girl, in her arms.."

I think it does mean the child was in her arms in the car, fr the wording.

Wow. I misunderstood. I thought I read the same quote having to do with the video. I can't envision that scene in the car....too sad.

 

[Bootsctr]

This really, really bothers me. Yes you can get text messages for transactions...I have a text sent when my check is deposited.

But a text sent to my husband every single time I made ANY purchase? A text sent to me 2x a day when he sneaks off to the bodega for his fresh banana bread addiction? I don't care what small amounts he spends money on on a day to day basis (coffee, lunch, etc.). The texts would annoy me more than anything!

Having an alert set up for every purchase...that is not routine, in my mind.

In my opinion, an action like that would stem from a need to control / track someone, or a prior history of massive financial irresponsibility.

It bothers me too. I do understand the need for it in this day and age of credit card and identity theft, but the father made mention of they were a "credit card family."

"Friends and neighbors described Brandon Woo as a quiet man who works in Dallas as the family’s “breadwinner.” They said his wife was a stay-at-home mom more outgoing than her husband, someone who checked the mail next door when a neighbor went out of town and lent spiritual DVDs to a family she knew from church."

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/201...-found-dead-in-vehicle-3-children-alive.html/

With "breadwinner" in quotes, that makes me think HE controlled the money. She was expected to stay home and take care of the children. He just seems "cold" to me. Grrrr!

 

[mpnola]

It sounds more like a choking/ medical issue to me now. Like, they picked up food and pulled across to eat before going to Target. She was holding the little to break pieces and give them to her. It sounds like the police were convinced in their own heads that she likely was missing on her own, so they didn't really look. Of course, that doesn't explain why a family member or friend didn't ride by and see them! If my child was missing, I would start at the last known place and search every inch until I could search no more.

 

[blue22]

I believe breadwinner was a direct quote from those they spoke with. They were being quoted, hence the need for quotation marks.

 

[Bootsctr]

See post 246 above.

"The three children were taken to the hospital for severe dehydration after police found them inside a car in a Frisco mall parking lot with their mother, Christine Woo, dead in the driver’s seat. She was clutching the youngest child, a 16-month-old baby girl, in her arms.."

I think it does mean the child was in her arms in the car, from the wording.

This is more than a little bizarre! Rigor mortis sets in, but then the body relaxes. How could she still be clutching the baby - unless the baby crawled back into her mother's arms? That is just weird. ME results next week. I think I assumed Christine died Monday afternoon sometime with the last meal for the kids around noonish. This is horrible. I hope the baby makes it. It sounds as if she is in the worse physical condition.

 

[Bootsctr]

Respectfully snipped by me:

It sounds like the police were convinced in their own heads that she likely was missing on her own, so they didn't really look. Of course, that doesn't explain why a family member or friend didn't ride by and see them! If my child was missing, I would start at the last known place and search every inch until I could search no more.

Maybe if the husband had mentioned his wife had been depressed and could be suicidal LE might have sensed a much more need for urgency to look for Christine and find her. I'm going to have to take a chill pill break. This husband is making me sick to my stomach.

 

[verbonica]

It bothers me too. I do understand the need for it in this day and age of credit card and identity theft, but the father made mention of they were a "credit card family."

"Friends and neighbors described Brandon Woo as a quiet man who works in Dallas as the family’s “breadwinner.” They said his wife was a stay-at-home mom more outgoing than her husband, someone who checked the mail next door when a neighbor went out of town and lent spiritual DVDs to a family she knew from church."

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/201...-found-dead-in-vehicle-3-children-alive.html/

With "breadwinner" in quotes, that makes me think HE controlled the money. She was expected to stay home and take care of the children. He just seems "cold" to me. Grrrr!

He might be a successful breadwinner, but maybe she was the practical, day-to-day brains of the operation? It seems that he did not know how to proceed without her help. He's going to have to get it together for the children.

p.s. She had a degree in business from Texas A & M University, so I can imagine that she could well have been involved in (if not even in charge of) much of the family finances.

 

[J4cknsal1y]

Diabetic ketoacidosis?

Serotonin syndrome?
I have this, & it was not discovered until the 2nd time I was put on an SSRI for anxiety. The 1st time when I went back to the doctor they said I was allergic to that specific medication (Amitriptyline), & not to even sniff it again because when you react badly to this medicine it is apparently really bad. The same doctor prescribed the 2nd SSRI (Lexapro), which really bothers me. I felt yucky within hours of the 1st dose, but took the medicine for a few days giving it a chance to work. When I went to a different Doctor, he said if that ever happened again to get to an er immediately as I had all the mild, moderate, & sever warning symptoms & all but 1 of the symptoms associated with fatalities. I literally felt like 'death' is what I told him, like my eyeballs were going to fall out, in and out of consciousness, extreme fatigue, fever & chills, extreme sensitivity to sounds, light, touch, etc. it was awful. He told me from then on, no matter what I am at the doctor for, the first thing to inform them every single time is that I have serotonin syndrome & can absolutely not have SSRIs. SSRIs can be prescribed for anxiety, like in my case, but are most commonly (I believe) prescribed for depression. Jmo, but that could be the prescription she was picking up at Walgreens?

more info about Seratonin syndrome:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007272.htm

More info about SSRIs:
http://www.helpguide.org/articles/depression/types-of-antidepressants-and-their-side-effects.htm

I also wonder if maybe she had vasovagal syncope, a sudden drop in heart rate & blood pressure leading to fainting; often in reaction to a stressful trigger. I have this condition, & apparently it is fairly common. It causes me to just pass out. Or it did until I saw a variety of specialists, a cardiologist doing a tilt table test to diagnose me. I was only 26 at the time, & otherwise very healthy (apart from more stress/anxiety than usual at that particular time).
*i was prescribed medication for this, fwiw.

More info about vasovagal syncope:
http://m.circ.ahajournals.org/content/111/22/2997.full

all jmo

 

[Bootsctr]

He might be a successful breadwinner, but maybe she was the practical, day-to-day brains of the operation? It seems that he did not know how to proceed without her help. He's going to have to get it together for the children.

p.s. She had a degree in business from Texas A & M University, so I can imagine that she could well have been involved in (if not even in charge of) much of the family finances.

Yes, I'm sure you are right. He probably doesn't have a clue what to do without her. And maybe it was a stroke or something. I wonder if she was breastfeeding the little one. She got the food from McDonald's and pulled over under the tree at the Target parking lot. A nice day and then tragedy struck...