Sheriff Sam Page of the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said Michele Hundley Smith "left on her own accord 24 years ago." ...

Sheriff Sam Page of the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said Michele Hundley Smith "left on her own accord 24 years ago." ...

In February 2026, authorities in North Carolina made a surprising announcement that took social media by storm: a missing mother — who had last been seen by her husband and children in late 2001 — was ...

Michele Hundley Smith, now in her 60s, has been found in an undisclosed part of North Carolina, per the Rockingham County ...

Michele Hundley Smith was found “alive and well” decades after she told her family she was going Christmas shopping on Dec. 9 ...

Twenty-four years later, Michele Hundley Smith is found alive and well. She won't face charges of abandonment, but she could ...

A North Carolina mom of three who vanished while Christmas shopping 24 years ago left behind her family because of “ongoing ...

Michele Hundley Smith’s daughter shared that she was struggling with mixed emotions after learning that her mother was alive.

Michele Lyn Hundley Smith, the mother of three found living a secret life 24 years after she vanished, had struggled with a secret drinking problem — and was so prone to skipping out on her family, ...

A woman who was missing for 24 years was found alive and safe, thanks to a single ping from a national database. Here's how.