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Michele Hundley Smith opened up to authorities about the reason that she disappeared from her family’s lives and started a second life of her own nearly 25 years ago.

Hundley Smith was 38 when she left her home in Eden, N.C. on December 9, 2001. Her two youngest children and husband believed that she was going for a shopping trip across state lines in Virginia, according to a 2020 Dateline interview with her daughter Amanda.

However, that was the last time that the mom of three was seen by her family and loved ones for more than 24 years.

On Saturday (February 20), the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office issued a news release on Facebook, confirming that Hundley Smith, now in her 60s, had been found “alive and well.”

In a new interview, the local sheriff opened up about a conversation that the department had with the recovered woman, in which she alleged a reason for her disappearance.

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A North Carolina mom of three who was last seen in December 2001 has been discovered “alive and well” by authorities more than 24 years later. Now, her family is speaking out.

On Friday (February 20), the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a news release on Facebook that they were successful in closing a decades-old missing person case regarding the “troubling” disappearance of Michele Hundley Smith.

Per the release, Hundley Smith, then 38, was last seen on December 9, 2001, when she left her family home in Eden, N.C. to travel across state lines to shop at a K-Mart in Martinsville, Va.

Authorities spent the following decades determined to find the missing mother and wife but were unsuccessful until a recent lead led them to the woman. However, her recovery is raising new questions for the family.

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A man declared missing over a week ago after his abandoned truck was found in a North Carolina beach preserve is believed to be dead, and his family is speaking out.

In a January 20 news release, the National Park Service noted that 39-year-old Chris Palmer had officially been declared a missing person on January 16. He last made contact with his family on January 9, and his truck was found on the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Over the weekend, Chris‘ parent Bren Palmer took to Facebook to request that authorities call off the search for their son.

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