‘Odor of death’ led police to decomposing body of missing woman stuffed in car trunk

Texas man sentenced for tampering with the corpse of a woman found in a car in 2022

Background: News footage from the scene in Texas City, Texas on May 11, 2022 when Angela Mitchell’s body was found (KPRC). Inset (left): Angela Mitchell (provided by family). Inset (right): Christopher Lee Maldonado (Galveston County Sheriff’s Office).

A Texas man was found guilty of tampering with evidence by concealing the corpse of a mother of four children, but her cause of death is still unknown.

Angela Mitchell, 24, was reported missing by her mother on May 6, 2022, when she didn’t arrive to pick up her baby. Days later, after her loved ones used the Find My Friends app to track down her phone, they discovered that her last ping was at the address of Christopher Lee Maldonado, now 49. Her car, according to a press release from the Galveston County District Attorney’s office, was found on May 11, surrounded by flies and giving off “an odor of death.” Inside the trunk was the decomposing body of the missing mom.

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