Christina Revels-Glick death: Woman who was arrested for masturbating on a Georgia beach committed suicide eight months later after downward spiral of drink and drugs

The woman whose arrest for pleasuring herself on a Georgia beach went viral following the release of bodycam footage last week, took her own life just eight months after the humiliating incident in a tragic end to a once promising life, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Video of police cuffing Christina Revels-Glick after she was reported by a beachgoer who witnessed her using her vibrator by the shore July 1, 2021, was viewed by 2.5million people withiin the first three days of its posting.

Many took to the internet to express sympathy for the mother-of-two and unconfirmed internet rumors suggested she had killed herself across the weekend because of the public shaming.

Today DailyMail.com can set the record straight as family members have confirmed that Revels-Glick did die by suicide but that her death came more than a year and a half ago and had nothing to do with the Tybee Island Beach incident or its recent resurfacing.

Instead, Revels-Glick's story, told here for the first time, is a sorry tale of a downward spiral caused by drink and drug abuse, that saw her cut off from those who once loved her the most and led to the university graduate and one-time realtor ending her own life in abject squalor.

Speaking to DailyMail.com a family member who asked for anonymity said, 'Christina's gone. She died about a year and a half ago. I really can't tell you why she went the way she did. 

'She had a good life for a while, drove a BMW, had a nice house – but she was wild.'

The family member said that Revels-Glick simply, 'went off the rails'. The attractive 35-year-old had two sons, a 19-year-old from one relationship and a 15-year-old from a marriage which ended in divorce in 2015.

But while the marriage legally ended that year it had long since broken down with Revels-Glick first leaving her then-husband and their child just six months after the baby was born.

The relative said, 'She got in trouble. She went to prison in Florida, got herself arrested, her husband took her back after all that, but she was just wild. 

'Then she fell in with a real bad crowd…drinks, drugs.'

Liberty County Coroner told DailyMail.com that Revels-Glick's date of death was March 31, 2022, and, according to the family member, she had been dead for approximately 30 days before her body was found in an rented apartment in Hinesville, Georgia, in which she had been living.

They said, 'It took a while to figure out who she was, but they managed to work it out because she had bought her son a motorbike and she'd filled out the registration paperwork, so they had that.'

They added, 'When they told us we thought, 'Well at least we know where she's at now.'

The death certificate and police incident report shed light on the sad truth. Revels-Glick shot herself in the head and died of a wound that appears not to have been fatal immediately.

Instead, her landlady found her decomposing remains amid an horrific scene of an apartment spattered and trailed with blood after entering the home because Revels-Glick had failed to pay rent.

The Hinesville Police Department report states that a pistol was found lying on the master bedroom bed. It notes, 'A hole was also observed in the roof directly above the bed. On the opposite side of the hallway a decomposing female body (later identified as Ms. Christina Revels-Glick) was observed laying on the ground.'

There was 'a large amount of blood' on the living room floor, 'two separate blood trails leading in both directions in the hallway,' and 'blood [was] observed in the guest bedroom on a chair, desk and computer', Officer Timothy Conley wrote.

The report notes that Revels-Glick had 'an exit wound from a bullet on her forehead.'

It also reveals that Revels-Glick's landlady had requested a welfare check 12 days earlier, on March 19, and that 'negative contact was made'.

In a poignant detail police officers stated that an attempt to have animal control come out and take control of Revels-Glick's two cats was refused, 'due to their protocol of coming out only for sick or injured animals'.

Revels-Glick was cremated following a small ceremony held in her hometown of Fitzgerald, Georgia. Neither her ex-husband nor their son attended.

Records show that Revels-Glick had numerous brushes with the law in Georgia and Florida, where she was deemed a fugitive from justice having been accused of stealing a car in 2018. And she was arrested on more than one occasion as well as cited for public drunkenness that same year.

Court records in Chatham County, Georgia, also show several civil filings against her including suits pursuing her for unpaid rent, damage to property and stolen property.

In one instance repeated attempts to find and serve Revels-Glick – who appears to have re-partnered by 2017 and was going under the name Glick-Revels Snell – proved unsuccessful.

In July 2018 and in her absence the court ruled against her and her then partner – to whom DailyMail.com could find no record of marriage – to the tune of $11,051.71.

By January 2019, having now reverted to the name Revels-Glick, she was sued in Savannah by Harmony Towne Homeowners Association for breach of contract, but the case was dismissed as, again, court officers were unable to locate her.

Revels-Glick was barely in contact with her family or the fathers of her children when the Tybee Island Beach incident made local news back in 2021. At the time it made only a small ripple on social media.

That all changed last week when bodycam footage was released and The Smoking Gun website obtained the police report.

According to the incident report beachgoer Sarah Moss informed police and recorded Revels-Glick's act. She told officers that Revels-Glick walked past her family's tent several times before stopping and laying out a towel.

The report stated, 'At one point the female stopped in front of their tent and lay out a white towel then sit on the towel. Sarah observed the female open her green backpack and pull out what looked like a vibrator. Sarah stated the female began masturbating, using the vibrator…she could hear her moaning. Sarah said after about five minutes the female gathered her belongings and left the area.' 

Bodycam footage showed Revels-Glick initially trying to deny she had done any such thing, and instead asked officers 'Who saw that?' and assumed one of her friends was pranking her.

She said the whole thing was 'highly offensive' to her, before one of the officers asked to search her bag and Revels-Glick was forced to admit that it contained her vibrator.

The officer said, 'So you had a vibrator?' To which Revels-Glick replied, laying down to demonstrate, 'Listen, I was sitting on the water like this. I just put it in there. I was covered up and I just had an orgasm. I am sorry. I was just stressed out.'

She went on to tell officers that the whole thing had only taken '20 seconds.'

Revels-Glick apologized while she was booked for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct, telling officers she didn't think anyone had seen her.

She was released shortly after her arrest on subpoena but there are no records of her ever having appeared in court on the charges.

If you or a loved one is experiencing suicidal thoughts or actions, please contact the National Suicide Hotline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255)