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[Music] crystal always had a great spirit about her she knew what she wanted she went
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for it to jump out of a perfect moment [Music] she could take care of herself [Music]
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i didn't punk out like a girl she was obviously very beautiful very attractive but there
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was something about her she radiated light i worked with crystal as a flight attendant
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she was definitely a goofball and she would even describe herself as a dork she kind of has like a gypsy soul like
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she was a flight attendant you know she just likes traveling i've been dating crystal mcdowell for a
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few weeks now we've both been divorced and we knew exactly what we wanted you know when you first meet somebody
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and you're kind of on cloud nine that's kind of how we were tropical storm harvey is expected to
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strengthen into a hurricane before making landfall in texas hurricane warnings in place along most
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of the texas coast friday morning august 25th is when she left the house she was actually living with her
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ex-husband she was living in the master bedroom downstairs and he had moved into a bedroom upstairs he had
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such a passion of love for her it was almost like an obsessive controlling love she sent me a few text messages and
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i replied back but i never got to reply after that so i thought maybe she was just
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preoccupied with getting ready for the storm across southern texas grocery store
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shelves are bare people are rushing to stock up on last minute supplies at that point in time i just started
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trying to find relatives or friends to reach out to them to see if they knew where she was
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and that's when i reached out to jeff walters he's her uncle i get messages from her every
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morning i get messages all throughout the day she's one of the most responsible people
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that i know she never loses contact with us chambers county sheriff's office okay
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no one can get a hold of her no one has heard from her and i'm really concerned it's a serious
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storm it's going to last four or five days and quite frankly this is day day one this morning police are
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searching for a texas mother who mysteriously disappeared before harvey hit we are hampered by
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some of the flood issues but we are as aggressive as ever trying to locate crystal mcdowell
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i knew she wouldn't run away she would never be that type of person so that was would she have ever left her kids
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automatically as a sheriff i know that mothers don't leave their children and there's
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obviously never a good time for anybody to become missing but the timing was terrible
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was there a part of you that just went it can't get any worse um on more than one occasion
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my gut tells me there's something catastrophically wrong with this scenario by the time floodwaters receded
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authorities believed one of three men knew where crystal was got the boyfriend got
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the ex-husband well then the uncle was making such noise about everything i started
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thinking about him 21 months later one would be on trial for murder