Christina "Chrissy" Powell disappeared without a trace on the morning of July 5 after she was last seen hurrying out of her San Antonio home running late for work.
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Loved ones told Fox News Digital Powell kept a low profile on the July 4th holiday.
That Monday marked one year since Powell’s 3-year-old son began living with his father instead of Powell, said her mother, Claudia Mobley.
"We didn’t do anything, because a year ago, July 4, was when she had … when her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend walked out and took the baby," Mobley told Fox News Digital. "So, it was kind of a bad anniversary."
Powell worked as a paralegal at a San Antonio law firm, Sanchez and Wilson, where
she had begun as a temporary employee on June 27, said managing partner Mark Sanchez. The firm was so satisfied with Powell’s performance that managers offered her a full-time position just days later, he said.
"We were impressed with her punctuality and hard work, and extended her a full-time offer of employment, actually, on Friday, July 1 – the weekend before she disappeared," Sanchez said Thursday, when reached by phone. "She was elated and accepted a job offer on the spot."
"She never came to work during that short time in any capacity other than wanting to work and being prepared for work. We wouldn't have offered her a full-time position if we weren't satisfied that she was demonstrating those basic workplace values that we expect, such as punctuality, hard work, attention to detail."
He described how one of his colleagues called Powell on the morning of July 5 when she did not arrive on time for work. He heard from the colleague, a woman, that Powell answered the phone and said, in sum and substance, that "it was the July 4th weekend, and she had overslept, but was on her way to work."
But after she stopped answering her phone and failed to show up two hours later from what should have been a 10-minute drive, he said, the female colleague went to Powell’s home to personally check in.
"It was a feeling that we all had, and it was just something wasn’t right," he said.
Powell’s mother, Mobley, said her daughter had
previously disappeared, albeit for a shorter period of time, about four or five years ago.
"One time she did, but I knew she was with her boyfriend … that was a long time ago," Mobley said.
"It was days, but not a week," she said, when asked how long her daughter had gone quiet at the time.
On Wednesday, Mobley said family members were able to check her bank account, and found there had been no spending activity since Powell’s disappearance. The family was unable to look into her credit card activity, Mobley said.
When asked Thursday if Powell's SUV had any navigation system, Mobley said she learned from police that "
there is no tracking device in there, in her car."
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I can see rushing around and getting in a wreck. It could have even easily happened if she had just realized she didn't have her phone and looking around for it while driving.
