Christopher Lee Maldonado in reference to the demise of a Texas mother present in her personal trunk.
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A person was arrested final week in connection to the demise of a Texas mom of 4 who was discovered lifeless within the trunk of her automotive final month, authorities mentioned.
Christopher Maldonado was charged with tampering/ fabricating bodily proof with intent to impair (human corpse) in connection to the demise of 24-year-old Angela Leean Mitchell, in line with Texas Metropolis Police.
Texas Metropolis Police and US Marshals made the arrest throughout a visitors cease Friday.
Maldonado was the final particular person Mitchell was identified to have been with earlier than she disappeared, in line with a lacking individuals flyer created by her family members.
Mitchell’s decomposing physique was discovered contained in the trunk of her white Honda sedan in Texas Metropolis on Could 11 after police acquired a report of a foul odor.
Police haven't revealed her suspected explanation for demise, however have cited the case as a “suspicious demise investigation.” The Galveston County Medical Examiner is conducting an post-mortem.
Mitchell’s mom reported her lacking Could 6, after she did not return to her house in Dickinson the evening earlier than.
Her mom has criticized native police for not looking out her daughter’s automotive sooner after family and friends tracked down the automobile the identical day they reported her lacking, in line with ABC 13.
“I met law enforcement officials at her automobile right here in Texas Metropolis after submitting a lacking particular person report and I begged them,” Georgia Mitchell advised the native information channel.
“I begged them to please search my daughter’s automotive. ‘Please search my daughter’s automotive. Please examine this’. I begged. I begged the law enforcement officials and so they simply dismissed me.”
Maldonado is being held on the Galveston County Jail on a $200,000 bond.
The Texas mother leaves behind two sons, 7 and seven months, and two daughters, 9 and three.
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