Pt. 2: Single Mom Vanishes After Night Out - Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen

the search for Christy Kelly met a tragic end her body found in her SUV submerged at the bottom of a lake in Boonville Indiana the coroner quickly ruling Christy's death an accidental drowning and Sheriff Brett crews closed the case and sealed the file did you ever ask the sheriff or any of the deputies or investigators that question point-blank why are you not looking into this death further to be honest I never really asked him that question all I know was I wish the case would be reopened and let's try to find some answers as to why it's sealed Christy's parents always suspected their daughter's death was no accident I just want to know the truth what happened to her I want to know what happened that night so desperate to know Todd and his wife took an extraordinary step hiring attorney April Edwards to dig for answers possibly hidden in the cult file on their daughter's death Sheriff Curtis indicated to me that the it was an accident it was closed he's gonna flat out it's an accident right but we're not gonna hand over these records yes the investigators theory is that Christy had too much to drink beard off the road and landed in the lake but Tommy the bar manager at the VFW said she didn't seem drunk when he last saw her the other night she was walking by and she was talking van you know she wasn't slurring investigators do say their theory is Christy was drunk and she will throw do you buy that no why not and talking with the pathologist he explained to me how as the body decomposes it produces ethanol ethanol reads as alcohol in your toxicology her toxicology was only a 0.1 1/2 so she had been at probably around 0.05 and that would be nowhere near and capacitated could the answers possibly be hidden in security camera footage now sealed in the closed file that captured would appear to be Christy as she left the bar chilly the VFW you'd make a right which would be indicative her coming toward her house yet she's found four miles south of town the sheriff believes Christie was speeding southbound on Mount chiliad Road they say she blew past a stop sign and careened into the lake but Todd says when he searched the area he made a chilling discovery Todd what is significant about this location this is the location where we found parts of Christy's vehicle there was the passenger side fender well it was later determined that's what it came from Todd says the fender was from Christie's own car far from where she was found dead more than a mile away the alleged crash site yes when they pulled it from the lake was a lot more damage than should have just been caused by water this is what led us to look to try to figure out you know what happened and another disturbing find when Christy was recovered from the lake her body had no bruises or injuries that would be expected in a violent car crash I mean does she have any wounds on her nothing nothing to indicate any type of bleeding contusions scratches cuts not a broken fingernail her body is pristine so to me that doesn't make sense and April Edward says investigators were well aware of another bizarre detail when they pulled the SUV from the water the gearshift was in park and her keys were in her pocket why do you think the keys out in your pocket what do you do you know why do you put the car in park that to me is is extremely odd because I would think that most people's instant reaction be if he liked a better get out of here even more shocking April says her body was found in the backseat how does law enforcement theorized that she ended up there the information that was made available to me indicates that she could have either crawled there or that she could have floated there I'm not sure I buy into the floating theory because there was a big car seat she had children which begs the second question could Christie have been the victim of foul play there's a possibility that needs to be investigated that this was all staged to look like an accident in my mind it's possible that somebody abducted her and kept her for a couple of days or a week and until they realized that the heat was getting tight and they had to dispose of the car in the body if Christie was abducted who would want to take her or was it a random attack by someone much closer to home one of Christie's exes the father has been with the Department for 30 years April tells us that one of Christie's exes has connections to the Sheriff's Department investigating the case if there was a cover-up or someone's being protected that's where would happen I think that most people would leave and would reach that conclusion this particular person made a misleading statement to the people investigating her disappearance he'd indicated that she had disappeared before one time for four days and one time for two days when in fact that's patently false the FBI did help the family get a hold of the data in Christie sell even generating a six thousand page transcript of her texts and what was discovered in her digital footprint was chilling her text messages had reflected that an axe had made some threats toward her within the week before she disappeared so far the family hasn't been able to connect the dots on the text exchange were they just idle threats or something far more sinister these texts of sexual nature there was one shortly before her disappearance basically you need to disappear but I really don't want to go into great detail at this time on somebody saying to Christie that she needs to disappear pretty much yes that same ex was given the polygraph test his results came back inconclusive but there was never any follow-up interview I think that there are motives out there if the police would look a little further but there are other X's in the picture one of them admitted to keeping track of Christie's whereabouts and Christie's texts reveal she was texting another God the night she disappeared with so many questions we think it's high time to pay a visit to the sheriff we are curious to what the sheriff doesn't hand over the case file to Christie's parents we tried to reach out to him he won't return any of our phone calls any of our email so now we're here outside his office to see if he'll talk to us my name is Jason Mattera I'm with the television show crime watching daily and we are doing a story surrounding the controversy of Christie Kelly's death and we'd like to get comment from the sheriff is he available he's not available is he here today he's any reason why he's avoiding for now April is working to open the sealed file legally with the help from a forensic pathologist to subpoena the Sheriff's Department and at this point after three harrowing years with no answers Todd can only hope that one day he will know the truth about what happened to Cristy where do you go from here let's find out what happened period I watched you my daughter and that's kind of my stance on it and my grandkids someday you're gonna wanna know what really happened I wanted to have those answers people who followed this story when it first hit the news might remember that when Christie Kelly went missing there was speculation that her case might be connected to another missing Indiana mother of two Joelle Lockwood disappeared from the same area just a few weeks earlier however Lockwood would be found alive two months later after police say she was held captive in a cage for weeks by a man in his trailer home as of right now police believe there is no connection between the two cases I'm Chris Hansen if you liked this story make sure you tune in every day their crime watch daily you can find where the show airs in your city at crime watch daily.com watch it live or recorded on your DVR and watch it at night until all those criminals out there remember we are watching

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Length: 8min 44sec (524 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 08 2017