It would be interesting to know if the gas tank was still full. If the car was running with AC on, and she, for whatever reason, moved into the passenger seat (look for a phone, find her meds, etc.) and then passed out, the car would have run and supplied her with AC til the gas tank emptied, I would think. If the tank is empty, the car could not have been driven there. She also could have sadly taken her own life with the engine on and AC running.
I was wondering the same thing Jersey. Was the key in the run position and the gas tank empty?
Ahh, even more clues - the key itself - great thought. I can't imagine that if she got out of the car to look for something she thought maybe fell on the passenger side, that she would have turned off the engine. Not in the heat, no way.
Good point. I wondered about her taking pills and waiting for them to take effect but it would be so very hot sitting in her car. And she left her phone at home so she wasn't searching for it under the seat.
FOR A WEEK? That's the part I'm not understanding. Nobody on security detail looked inside it or reported it for that long? That can't be their norm, surely?
Missing San Antonio woman found dead in vehicle at shopping center
Police said a foul odor came from the vehicle.www.mysanantonio.com
“A missing San Antonio woman was found dead in a vehicle parked in a Medical Center shopping plaza on the city's Northwest Side on Saturday, July 23, according to the San Antonio Police Department. The woman, Christina Powell was last seen leaving her house in a rush on the morning of July 5.
San Antonio officers responded just before 7 a.m. to the Huebner Oaks Center in the 11700 block of Interstate 10 W after a security guard reported a suspicious 2020 Nissan Rogue that had been in the parking lot for a week, according to a news alert sent by SAPD on Monday, July 25.”
Unless she didn't realize she left her phone at home until she got halfway to work. Folks seem to think that, and the Apple watch, were intentionally left behind, and they could have been, but maybe she was half awake, rushing, got halfway to work, said OMG, maybe grabbed her purse while driving and the contents flew out all over the place, so had to pull over to search. Just thinking out loud here. So many possibilities...
Does anyone here have any idea how long shopping malls like that tend to keep video feeds on hard drives or servers? I'm sure it varies depending on how they're managed, budget, whether individual stores have them vs the entire strip mall complex, etc.
I wonder if she was still wearing the same clothes that she was wearing when she left her home for work. That may give some indication as to when her car was parked there, and when she perished. If she had on the same clothes, that might indicate that she died relatively soon after leaving home, perhaps within the day. If she had on different clothes, that would seem to point to her having perhaps been alive and elsewhere for a period of time. JMO
Excellent question, @SteveP! I really hope whomever is in charge of this doesn't just write it off as a self-harm. Obviously the autopsy should shed some (or all) light, although I'm worried given the length of time and temperatures inside a parked enclosed vehicle, etc., that anything can be analyzed accurately at this point from being subjected to heat and degradation.
