Texas Woman Who Vanished in May Is Likely Dead, Husband Accused of Killing Her in Bedroom: Police

A 16-year-old girl became concerned for her mother’s well-being on May 6 when she texted her to pick her up after her shift at a Texas Taco Bell, and the response she got didn’t seem like it was coming from her mother.

Her mother, Crystal Lynch, 34, often texted in full sentences, but the person who texted her with “short slang words” sounded more like her stepfather, Marquis Rochard Glasper, the daughter told authorities, according to charging documents that got the PEOPLE.

Two months before that day, Glasper allegedly “pistolized” Lynch, the daughter claimed, according to charging documents.

The daughter, identified in the indictment only by the initials CL, reported her mother missing the next day. Lynch was last seen with her husband around 9 p.m. on May 6 at their home in the city of Houston, according to a press release. Houston police now believe Lynch is dead.

Crystal Lynch.

Houston Police Department

Six months after Lynch disappeared, Glasper, 37, is now in custody, accused of murdering his wife, touching a human corpse and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, according to charging documents. PEOPLE could not immediately identify Glasper’s attorney for comment.

Lynch, who was 5’1” 120 pounds, was last seen wearing a gray tank top with gray pajama pants emblazoned with yellow and purple emojis, according to her missing person poster. Her body still hasn’t been found.

In court Monday, Glasper’s bail was set at $400,000, and prosecutors said that bond could rise to $1 million at a hearing scheduled for December, according to ABC13.

The night she disappeared, Lynch’s daughter waited for hours for her mom to pick her up from the Taco Bell where she worked. Instead, her stepfather arrived around midnight in a silver Jeep with a gun with “blue tape wrapped around the handle” sticking out of his pants pocket. The teenager recognized it as the gun her mother and stepfather shared and was surprised, according to the documents, “because Marquise would normally have hidden it.”

At their Houston apartment, Lynch was still not home. As the primary caregiver for her 16-year-old and 10-year-old daughters, she had never before let days go by without communicating with her daughters, according to police, who called her disappearance “highly suspicious” in charging documents.

Crystal Lynch missing person poster.

Houston Police Department

The night before Lynch disappeared, she went on a double date with a friend and a man who was not her husband, police said, citing an interview with the friend as well as text messages between them that investigators believe Glasper read and then posed as his wife to try to get more information about the affair from his friend via text message.

CL was present during the interview with the friend, and according to police, she “interrupted her statement” to tell detectives that her stepfather had “made comments in the past that if he ever found out that ‘Lynch’ was cheating on him, he would kill her.”

According to charging documents, CL said Glasper, who had a previous conviction for aggravated robbery in 2017, had a history of being violent toward her mother.

And in a phone conversation with a detective, Glasper also allegedly admitted to physically assaulting Lynch after the second alleged affair, which Glasper claimed took place while he was in prison, according to charging documents.

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By the time investigators obtained swabs later that month of the silver Jeep used to pick up Lynch’s daughter from Taco Bell and believed to have been used shortly before Crystal’s body was dumped, investigators allege in charging documents that Glasper “remained evasive and stated that he wished he had known earlier because he had already gone through it twice and cleared it.”

However, investigators noted that “blood was indicated on a swab taken from the rear passenger side” of the vehicle.

Marquise Rochard Glasper in the previous photo of the 2021 reservation.

Houston Police Department

Months after Lynch’s disappearance, in August, police received written permission from the property owner to search the two-story townhouse where the couple lived with Lynch’s two girls and which investigators noted had “appeared empty” since Lynch disappeared.

Walking past food rotting on the stove and in the refrigerator, investigators found “two hammers, an ax and a box of 9mm ammunition with three remaining rounds” inside the home, according to charging documents.

In Lynch’s abandoned bedroom, investigators found what appeared to be “blood-soaked underwear,” along with possibly bloody sheets, a comforter, mattress and pillows, as well as what appeared to be blood sprinkled against the headboard and spattered on the bedroom wall. .

Investigators also found, according to charging documents, a possible bloodstain oozing from under the floor of the bed, measuring eight feet by three feet, noting that it was “reasonable to assume that the person would have died” from such blood loss without immediate treatment.

Bleach stains were also likely running down Lynch’s bedroom wall, according to investigators, suggesting, according to a city press release, that “someone tried to clean up the crime scene.”

On Lynch’s nightstand, investigators found her driver’s license, Social Security card, employment card and a blank form labeled Final Decree of Divorce, according to charging documents. And inside a metal box on the table, they found an incident report for another case filed with the Houston Police Department earlier this year.

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