A man who was the last person to be seen with a missing Texas woman lied to police, was seen cleaning his car and had cuts on his hand and arm following the date of her disappearance, CBS News reported on Tuesday.
Christina Marie Morris, 23, vanished after spending a night out on the town with friends on Aug. 20. She was last seen with acquaintance Enrique Arochi in a parking garage at The Shops at Legacy.
She was reported missing by family and friends when she didn't show up for work after the Labor Day weekend. Her car was discovered in the same spot in the parking garage where she was last seen.
Morris and Arochi can be seen walking together in the garage's surveillance video. Arochi told police that he didn't see Morris again after the two walked separately to their cars, but the separation is not seen on the video.
He has maintained that he doesn't have anything to hide and that Morris' whereabouts are unknown to him. Arochi told investigators that the two were high school aquaintances and had mutual friends.
The Sept. 24 search warrant for Arochi's car said he "intentionally made false statements that hindered detectives in location Morris."
Police have also said the easiest way for Morris to have left the parking garage without being seen on video would be in Arochi's car, which allegedly just recently been cleaned. He denies having Morris in the car with him at all that night.
At first Arochi told police he parked in a different garage than Morris, but said he must have parked there after police confronted him with a surveillance video. He also said Morris was talking on the phone and seemed upset in the parking lot, so the two didn't talk on the way to their cars. But police found calls from Arochi's phone to Morris' boyfriend just after she was last seen, and Arochi suggested that Morris must have made the calls from his phone.
Plano Police Spokesman David Tilley said no one has been ruled out as a suspect yet in her disappearance.
"At this point we're keeping our options open - we haven't cleared anyone from continuing to want to look at them as having more information or knowledge about her disappearance than they're providing," Tilley said.
