'Mum vanished while Christmas shopping - 24 years later she came back and explained why'
- Posted on September 8, 2026
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'Mum vanished while Christmas shopping - 24 years later she came back and explained why'
Michele Hundley Smith, a missing person cold case investigated by both police and the FBI, left her three children aged seven, 14 and 19 alone in 2001 and they did not see her again for over two decades - until she was found alive and well in North Carolina
