Posted on 08/25/2020 4:29:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Christie Wilson, 27, was killed by Mario Flavio Garcia after the pair met at Thunder Valley Casino in Oct. 2005.
In the early morning hours of Oct. 5, 2005, 27-year-old Christie Wilson left Thunder Valley Casino after a night of gambling. She wasn't alone.
When a missing persons report was filed, Placer County investigators immediately pulled surveillance footage from the casino northeast of Sacramento. They watched Wilson, under no apparent duress, enjoying herself like any other patron. Then, they spotted a man who kept striking up conversations with her, hour after hour. Around 1 a.m., the man and Wilson left together. The last bit of surveillance footage showed them walking out into the parking lot.
Using Thunder Valley's player membership system, that man was identified as Mario Flavio Garcia, a 53-year-old IT specialist who was then working as a project manager for Sutter Health. Garcia, who was reportedly sporting a black eye, told detectives he did meet Wilson that night, but that she had later gone back into the casino to retrieve her cell phone. This was not corroborated by the casino's surveillance footage.
When Placer County sheriff's detectives served a warrant on Garcia's car, they found Wilson's hair and spots of her blood in the vehicle. No other traces of Wilson were discovered.
In 2007, Garcia was convicted of first-degree murder, the first case in Placer County history where prosecutors were able to secure a conviction with no body. And so while a man was behind bars for her murder, Wilson remained missing.
On Monday, 15 years after her disappearance, the Placer County Sheriff's Office announced they have finally found Christie Wilson's body.
Last week, investigators went to Garcia's former home in Auburn and began searching anew, scanning the four-and-a-half acre property with ground-penetrating radar.
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Didn't your mother ever tell you not to talk about the dead that way?
Me, too. And the rrrr rrrrr rrrr like a knife being thrust into something. Shiver... LOL!
Great. confirmation that they convicted the right person is always a great thing.
No lets feed the piece of $hit for 20 more years. Shakes head.
Sure they do.
I think that forensic files may have had an episode about this. If not this then something very similar.
Voted for Biden 3 times using mail in ballots.
Me, too. And the rrrr rrrrr rrrr like a knife being thrust into something. Shiver... LOL!
Now I’m scared.......just fixing to go to bed. So glad I have a Chug and 2 Pugs to protect me but they’re such bed hogs........LOL
I don’t have time to research it, but I think you are thinking of a similar but different case. I think in that case the woman won $5000 and the perp followed her home and abducted her when she got out of her car, and I think her body was found in a cabin. Christie, as I recall, was very good at blackjack, and on this night was at first winning, but then was losing.
Gosh - do what you can to make it her fault...and don’t forget to vote “Biden”...
We had a case about 10 years ago where a college student won a nice chunk of change at the Peoria river boat. If my memory serves me, it was around $25K. 4 people in 2 separate cars followed him back to Champaign and robbed him when he exited the car. They got caught through surveillance video and cell phone records. Fortunately, no harm came to the student.
I ask a question and you accuse me of being a democrat?
ESAD anal orifice!
Found the Karen
Said the guy wiping his mouth with toilet paper. If you stop and actually think, you might decide that a woman who was stalked and murdered is tragedy enough w/o asking insane questions akin to "Why was she wearing a sleeveless dress?" Your question points at her as the problem instead of the sick F##k who killed her.
Sorry to say it, Poindexter, but such a reaction is exactly how the Dems go about defending the sick criminals...just like the idiot LEO who commented that the guy who mixed it up with cops, had a knife, and was reaching into his car, after being tased and refusing to follow instructions, then was shot 7 times, was merely "trying to deescalate the situation by leaving".
Say something stupid - get called for saying something stupid - and when the bile makes your mouth taste like crap, it ain't me eating it.
“If you go to a popular casino”
Well, there is a problem. Have passed through casinos back when, left as soon as I could to get away from the smoke stench.
Yep, having a no smoking exemption makes it hard to go to with regularity.
Have you been in a casino lately? I see a lot of young people when I go. It's not just old ladies playing Bingo and feeding nickels into slot machines anymore.
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