Admitting To Killing Her

Finally, after days of interrogation, and finding Crystal’s work bag left in his house, Steven Wayne McDowell morosely confessed to killing his wife inside his home. Although his motive for killing her hasn’t yet been made clear, Steven said that he strangled her to death in the confines of his home. Hawthorne even went on to say that his admission was a “tearful, remorseful confession.”

Were The Children Witnesses?

According to some, Steven and Crystal’s children, who reportedly stayed with Steven on a more regular basis, had been witnesses to their own mother’s death. But according to others, this is just not true. Some claim that they were in the house at the time of her murder, but they were in a different room. Sadly for the orphaned minors, they have been placed under the custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services for the meantime.