crystal was gone, and there were lots of reasons to worry. she had numerous lovers, me and women. you had the husband and boyfriend failing polys. on the same day the answer would have t wait hurricane harvey is movin in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house an immediately went to social media. what kind of things pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were willing to trade one nigh of freedom he said i m ready to talk let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell yo everything in exchange for the terribl truth. if he couldn t have her nobody could. crystal was young mom and brought th search for crystal to a halt - then hurricane harvey decimate her texas town and brought the search for krystal to a halt but in a lead investigator forged ahead, uncovering a series of clues and as the floodwaters receded, h discovered the
wait. hurricane harvey is moving in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house and immediately went to social media. what kind of things? pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were. willing to trade one night of freedom. he said i m ready to talk. let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell you everything. in exchange for the terrible truth. if he couldn t have her, nobody could. crystal was a young mom and brought the search for crystal to a halt, but an investigatior brought a series of clues and as flood waters receded, he discovered the same deadly storm that slowed the investigation had also flushed out crystal s killer. here is dennis murphy with before the storm. the woman captured on security camera moving ghost like from one room to the next is 37-year-old crystal mcdowell, a real else state agent from baytown, texas, it s
killed crystal, that it wa nothing more than a frea accident. in the midst of thei argument, he said, crystal got hysterical so he put her in bear hug to calm her down. just wanted to hug her. he told the court. i just wanted to stop fighting. i wanted t quit going back and fort because it was going nowhere and i was frustrated and i was upset and i was mad. his lawyer asked, what happened next? mcdowell reponded, sh became limp and she fell. d. a. lieck couldn t believe what she was hearing. he hugged her to death. yeah, that s a new one on me that had not been tol before no, and there s no way. and then we were actually lookin i up on you know, we re googlin it, you know, at at dinner that night, goin , how do you hug somebody to death? when the case went to the jury, lieck thought an outrigh acquittal seemed unlikely. but a hung jury was a distinct possibility. just one just one juror, that s all it needs. and i thought, god, if the on believes his sto
crystal was gone, and there were lots of reasons to worry. she had numerous lovers, me and women. you had the husband and boyfriend failing polys. on the same day the answer would have t wait hurricane harvey is movin in this direction and high water rescues. we re stuck in the house an immediately went to social media. what kind of things pictures of her and her license plate. someone knew where she was, someone that liked to play games. he thought he was smarter than we were willing to trade one nigh of freedom he said i m ready to talk let me go home and tomorrow morning i ll tell yo everything in exchange for the terribl truth. if he couldn t have her nobody could. crystal was young mom and brought th
couldn t believe it. i thought maybe they re in it together so that really threw us off. really threw us off. the skies may have cleare but that didn t mean any new light was shed on th investigation. everythin seemed just as dark an confusing as before. it looked as though the only way to solv this mystery was to find crystal or her body. coming up caught on camera, a rider in the storm. when we saw him riding bike, we said that s what he did. when dateline continues