Daughter detailed family turmoil before North Carolina mom vanished for 24 years before turning up alive

A North Carolina mom reported missing more than two decades ago and recently found alive was dealing with a tumultuous marriage and struggling with alcohol abuse, according to her daughter.

Michele Lyn Hundley Smith disappeared with a trace in Dec. 2001 and was until last week an unsolved missing person’s case. The woman, now 62, was located Feb. 20 in North Carolina after detectives received new information about her case.

In a 2018 interview on "The Vanished Podcast," her daughter Amanda Hundley said that her mother’s marriage was unraveling under the weight of alcohol abuse, infidelity and escalating marital arguments.

Smith, then 38, left her home Dec. 9, 2001, telling her family she was going Christmas shopping in nearby Martinsville, Virginia. She never returned. For years, her daughter believed her mother had simply walked away.

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