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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Found the tin foil nutjob who thinks he’s a detective
One reason that comes to mind for not using the ground penetrating radar 15 years ago is simply cost. The $$$ per hour for operating the radar in the field is just the start. In addition to that, the engineering $$$ can rack up impressively. I can see costs pushing to $10K pretty easily. A second possibility is that the investigators at the time simply did not know of the technology.
You have some issues pal?
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.
Maybe six months later her body is found in a ditch along a highway about five miles from her house. Once the body is found the young man was charged and convicted of the murder. He had done yard work for her and I think killed her when she wouldn’t lend him her car.
“He had done yard work for her and I think killed her when she wouldn’t lend him her car.”
Well, that’ll show her, huh?
That is depressing & seems really dangerous.
This one, for example. Your crystal ball needs a tune-up.
You guys mix up your prep-h and ben gay?
You might want to read (or watch the movie) Murder in Coweta County. The prosecutor didn’t even have that much to go on. Just some unidentified brain tissue and some bone fragments. And the testimony of a couple of poor Black farmhands against the rich white landowner.
This case was on the ID channel, complete with surveillance video from the casino. I am glad they found her body.
I saw it on ID too.....wasn’t it See No Evil? I think it was. I watch that channel all the time.....
It's a totally legit question these daze. But totally rhetorical. Biden and Pelousy need to be completely tarred and burned.
Oh gosh that knock...knock knock, KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.......;) Not sure if that’s the sequence but it scares the beejeebees outta me
Oh gosh that knock...knock knock, KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.......;) Not sure if that’s the sequence but it scares the beejeebees outta me
““after a night of gambling.”
Something is not right, how many single 27 year old girls spend a night gambling?”
I think she was out having fun. Whatever, I don’t think she deserved to die at the hands of this monster, do you?
Everyone knew the woman was dead and they knew the kid had killed her. But there wasn’t enough blood found to prove she was dead. (A friend bought her house and he and his wife had to clean up the blood stains).
While the kid was in custody, they tried to get him to confess to the killing to a cellmate, but he wouldn’t. So they pretty much had to wait until the body turned up before they could charge him with anything.
Is he a Democrat?
Is he an illegal?
“do you?”
Of course not. Don’t be a tool, there seem to be several out today.
He wasn’t illegal.
Yes, it was a See No Evil episode. I really like that series but they have not made enough of them. All I see are repeats.
Aaah, thanks Parley.......while I’m at it remember the one where this girl went out with friends and a latin male was walking her to her car in a parking garage....they interviewed him over and over knowing he was responsible but couldn’t prove it. They recently found her body too. I’ll try and find the episode and I think they charged him.
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