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							<p class="mol-para-with-font">A Texas realtor mom who vanished the day before Hurricane Harvey is still missing in mysterious and worrying circumstances.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Crystal McDowell, 38, was last heard from on August 25 when she left her boyfriend&#8217;s home to go to collect her children from her ex-husband home in Houston.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">She never showed up and later missed several business appointments, prompting her uncle to report her missing on August 26.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Four days after vanishing, the woman&#8217;s Mercedez was found submerged in flood water in the parking lot of a Motel 6. It was recognized by someone who had seen her family&#8217;s frantic social media appeals to find her.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Now, almost two weeks after she first disappeared, authorities fear she is the victim of foul play.</p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="122482" data-permalink="http://rumorbus.com/2017/09/07/police-fear-foul-play-for-texas-real-estate-agent-mom-crystal-mcdowell-who-vanished-the-day-before-hurricane-harvey/90yihieieo/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/rumorbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/90yihieieo.jpg?fit=634%2C634" data-orig-size="634,634" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\u00a9 Chambers County Sheriff&#039;s Department&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="90yihieieo" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/rumorbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/90yihieieo.jpg?fit=300%2C300" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/rumorbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/90yihieieo.jpg?fit=634%2C634" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-122482" src="https://i0.wp.com/rumorbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/90yihieieo.jpg?resize=634%2C634" alt="90yihieieo.jpg" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/rumorbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/90yihieieo.jpg?w=634 634w, https://i0.wp.com/rumorbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/90yihieieo.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https://i0.wp.com/rumorbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/90yihieieo.jpg?resize=500%2C500 500w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Chambers County Sheriff&#8217;s Office beefed up its search effort on Wednesday by enlisting a local equestrian unit to help them search an area near the Cedar Bayou river.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">In the days before her disappearance, Crystal made teasing reference to a happy new life on social media.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;I&#8217;ve never been happier in my whole life than I am right now. God is so good,&#8217; she wrote.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">When friends begged for more information, she replied: &#8216;Details soon.&#8217;</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Crystal stayed overnight at her jeweler boyfriend Paul Hargrave&#8217;s home on Thursday, August 24.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">On the 25th, she left his home in the morning and was seen on surveillance cameras in his home leaving in a purple dress and black coat, carrying a black bag.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">As she drove to Steve&#8217;s house, she stopped during the journey to text her boyfriend a photograph of an advert featuring her real estate business.</p>
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<p id="ext-gen144" class="imageCaption">Two days before she vanished, Crystal said cryptically that she was &#8216;happier&#8217; than she had ever been and she told friends she would give them &#8216;details soon&#8217;</p>
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<p id="ext-gen145" class="imageCaption">Crystal stayed at her boyfriend Paul Hargrave&#8217;s home on August 24 the night before she disappeared</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The advert was at his jewelry business. At 7.27am, she texted Paul a photograph of the billboard and told him: &#8216;You are so sweet&#8217;.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">He replied: &#8216;I love you and I&#8217;ll always support you.&#8217;</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Steve, her ex-husband, says she never showed up at his house to collect the children.  He claims to have received a text message from her before she was due to arrive in which she described plans to take the children to Dallas to ride out the storm.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Her uncle Jeff Walters has cast doubt on the authenticity of that message.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;We aren’t sure she sent those messages to him. She never told me of plans to go to Dallas for the storm,&#8217; he told Dateline.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Sheriffs later found a black bag containing her business paperwork at Steve&#8217;s house.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">It is not clear how long the pair have been separated or how long she has been dating Paul.</p>
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<p id="ext-gen147" class="imageCaption">On August 29, her car was found submerged in flood water at a Motel 6 in Houston but she was nowhere to be seen</p>
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<p class="imageCaption">Crystal&#8217;s uncle Jeff Walters said he does not believe she sent the text claiming she was going to Dallas and suggested it may have been written by someone else</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">When her uncle spoke to Dateline, he said Crystal was still living at her ex-husband&#8217;s house while works on her townhouse were ongoing.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Steve has not spoken publicly of his ex-wife&#8217;s disappearance. On Wednesday, Paul declined to comment while the search for his girlfriend intensified.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;There&#8217;s a lot going on today,&#8217; he told DailyMail.com in reference to the equestrian team&#8217;s sudden announcement that it had been called in to the search for her.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Crystal&#8217;s uncle Jeff did not respond to requests. He describes himself as a father-figure for the woman whose own parents died when she was 11.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Chamber County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, which is leading the search for her, did not respond to requests either.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Crystal&#8217;s boyfriend and uncle have pulled money together and are now offering a $15,000 reward to anyone who can help find her.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-bold">Anyone with information is urged to contact Chamber County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on 409-267-2500.</span></p>
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