Missing Fort Worth Woman's Mother Extends Search To Mexico
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - The search for missing Fort Worth woman Christina Morris will soon go international. Her mother, Jonni McElroy, plans to erect a billboard in Mexico asking for information about Christina along a known human smuggling route.
Morris' friends and family are retracing overgrown areas in Collin County, giving them a second look now that the seasons have changed. The arrest has given them new hope, though Christina's mother is fearful she's been abused.
"My daughter's still alive," insists Jonni McElroy. "Until you prove me different, my daughter's still alive. I feel her with me every single day."
Jonni McElroy says she was relieved to learn that the last person to see Christina is behind bars. She says Enrique Guiterrez Arochi has lied from the beginning until confronted with evidence, like being the last person seen with Christina in this surveillance video, something he initially denied.
"As a mother's gut instinct and as a family we knew from Day-1 that he had an involvement with Christina's disappearance," McElroy told CBS 11 News adding, "DNA doesn't prove wrong. She was in that (Arochi's) car, he has the answers, and he has to tell us."
McElroy is broadening the scope of her search. She's planning to erect a billboard---in Spanish---in Mexico along a known human trafficking route. She says she's had visions of her daughter's life currently. "I see her locked up somewhere being hidden in a solitary area, definitely not being treated right. I feel her being drugged, abused unfortunately. But we can heal her from that. Or I unfortunately see the worse. Was she sold for drug trafficking, is she involved in that? We live in very sick world, unfortunately."
Enrique Gutierrez Arochi is being held on a million dollar bond and an immigration detainer. He's in a single cell in the county jail infirmary for his own protection. Neither he nor his attorney is commenting
The ground search continues daily over sometimes rough terrain.
"What we've found out a lot lately, these leaves are in holes and have covered up holes that are sometimes 2-3 foot deep," according to search organizer Tracy Nix. He says it's worthwhile giving a second look at areas already examined now that leaves have fallen and rains have come and gone. Items could have washed out of a hiding place. "Larger items that probably with all of the rain that just--have probably washed downstream farther. For example if you drop a back pack, try to get rid of a backpack or a purse up north, it's farther south now."
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