Missing North Carolina woman found ‘alive and well’ after 24 years

Daughter was ‘heartbroken’ after Michelle Hundley Smith requested her location not be disclosed to family she had walked away from A North Carolina woman says she was simultaneously “ecstatic … pissed … [and] heartbroken” to learn authorities recently found her mother living safely and well – while also wanting her location kept secret – more than 24 years after she suddenly vanished from her family. “I am all over the map!” Amanda Smith, the daughter of Michelle Hundley Smith, wrote in a len...

By Ramon Antonio Vargas