The Search for Christie Wilson: A Killer’s Gamble
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty
CBS News
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
27-year-old Christie Wilson walks out of a California casino one October evening and disappears. She's last seen with Mario Garcia, a 53-year-old married father of two, who has a history of "stormy" relationships. Erin Moriarty takes you deeper into the 48 Hours episode, "The Search for Christie Wilson” through the lens of Garcia’s relationship history — including Wendy Ward, who faced his physical assault, Lynette Smith, who died mysteriously, and another woman who ended up at a battered women’s shelter. During the investigation, Garcia continually denies the accusations that he killed Christie even though DNA evidence ties him directly to her. Christie’s mother Debbie Boyd and detective Don Murchison vow to never stop fighting to find Christie.
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| 0:37.0 | Christy and I, we were young, we were happy, we were enjoying our lives. |
| 0:43.0 | I never really thought anything like this would have happened to Christy. |
| 0:49.0 | Your best friend is missing? How could she be missing? |
| 1:00.0 | The last we know is we see her walking out of Thunder Valley Casino at 113 in the morning on October 5th |
| 1:07.0 | with a man by the name of Mario Garcia and then she was never seen or nor heard from again. |
| 1:14.0 | Christy Wilson, blonde, bold California girl, would regularly gamble at a casino in Roseville, California. |
| 1:21.0 | Until one October night in 2005, when she walked out the door of the casino and was never seen by her friends or family. |
| 1:29.0 | Again. |
| 1:31.0 | Now surveillance cameras have captured her leaving the casino with an older man. |
| 1:35.0 | Her family is understandably frantic than her parents. |
| 1:38.0 | I want my daughter back and I want her back now. |
| 1:41.0 | I may be five foot one and blonde, but they've just met a barracuda and the fights on. |
| 1:47.0 | That's Deb Boyd, Christy's mom. |
| 1:50.0 | I met her just days after her youngest daughter went missing. |
| 1:54.0 | I was part of a 48 hours team that joined the search. |
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