Overview
- Jimmy Fowlie, in an Instagram post Wednesday, said the LAPD told his family that Christina Lynn Downer is "no longer alive" and that the case is now a homicide investigation.
- The LAPD later said Robbery-Homicide detectives are leading the case but that Downer has not been found and the case has not been reclassified as a homicide.
- Downer, 38, was reported missing in December 2025, and officials say a friend last reached her by text on December 10 with her last known area in Los Angeles' Koreatown.
- Fowlie said the family believes her phone and social accounts were taken over before she vanished and used to request money and to push a false story that she went off the grid.
- He urged anyone with information to contact LAPD, said he would step back from social media, and continued public appeals that have drawn wide sharing from friends and celebrities.