L: Marquise Rochard Glasper; R: Crystal Lynch.Photo:Houston Police Department
Houston Police Department
A 16-year-old girl became concerned about 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 received didn’t seem like it came from her mother.
Two months before this day, Glasper allegedly “pistol whipped” Lynch, the daughter claimed, per the charging documents.
Crystal Lynch.Houston Police Department
Lynch, who stood at 5’1” 120 pounds, was last seen wearing a gray tank top with gray pajama pants marked with yellow and purple emoji,according to her missing person poster. Her body has still not been found.
In court Monday, Glasper’s bond was set at $400,000, and prosecutors said that in a hearing slated for December that bond may increase to $1 million,per ABC13.
On the night she disappeared, Lynch’s daughter waited 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 grip 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, per the documents, “because normally Marquise would have it hidden.”
Back at their Houston apartment, Lynch still was not home. As the main caregiver to her 16-year-old and 10-year-old daughters, she had never before let multiple days pass without communicating with her daughters, according to police, who called her disappearance “highly suspicious” in the charging documents.
Crystal Lynch’s missing person poster.Houston Police Department
Per the charging documents, C.L. said that Glasper, who was previously convicted of aggravated robbery in 2017, had been violent toward her mother in the past.
And, in a phone interview with a detective, Glasper also allegedly admitted to physically assaulting Lynch after another alleged affair, which Glasper claimed had occurred while he was incarcerated, per the charging documents.
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By the time investigators reached out later that month to swab the silver Jeep used to pick up Lynch’s daughter from Taco Bell and believed to have been used just before that to dump Crystal’s body, investigators allege in the charging documents that Glasper “remained evasive and stated that he wished he had known sooner because he has already gone through it and cleaned it twice.”
Even still, investigators noted that “blood was indicated on the swab collected from the interior rear passenger side” of the vehicle.
Marquise Rochard Glasper in a previous 2021 booking photo.Houston Police Department
Months after Lynch’s disappearance, in August, police received written permission from the owners of the property to search the two-story town home where the couple lived with Lynch’s two girls and which investigators noted “appeared to have been vacant” since Lynch went missing.
In Lynch’s deserted bedroom, investigators found what appeared to be “blood-soaked underwear,” along with possible blood-stained sheets, comforter, mattress and pillows, as well as what appeared to be blood dashed along the headboard and splattered across a bedroom wall.
Likely bleach drip stains also ran down Lynch’s bedroom wall, according to investigators, suggesting, according to the city press release that “someone tried to clean up a crime scene.”
On Lynch’s bedside table, investigators found her driver’s license, social security card, work I.D. and a blank form labeled Final Decree of Divorce, per the charging documents. And inside a metal box on the table, they found an incident slip for another case filed with the Houston Police Department earlier this year.
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source: people.com
