SHOCK REVEAL

Mom Missing for 24 Years Looks Unhappy to Be Found in New Pic

Michele Smith’s children hadn’t laid eyes on their mom in decades.

Police records reveal what the missing mother who disappeared 24 years ago looks like after she was arrested on a decades-old charge. Michele Hundley Smith, 62, was arrested for skipping out on a court appearance for drunk driving in November 2001. By December, Smith, then 38, was gone. Smith disappeared while she was out Christmas shopping in Eden, North Carolina. She was found alive earlier this month after the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office received an anonymous tip on her whereabouts. “She said she left… due to ongoing domestic issues at the time,” Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page told People. While Smith didn’t offer additional explanation, daughter Amanda Hundley, 38, told hosts of The Vanished Podcast that her mother had drinking problems and at times would skip out on the family. Her family had waited three weeks to report her disappearance. “As far as my opinions and feelings on my mom… I am ecstatic, I am pissed, I am heartbroken, I am all over the map!” Hundley posted on Facebook after learning that her mother did not want her location shared with family.