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   (Gray News) - A North Carolina mother who went missing 24 years ago   
   while going Christmas shopping has been found “alive and well,”   
   according to authorities.   
      
   On Feb. 20, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office said Michele Hundley   
   Smith, 62, who was first reported missing Dec. 31, 2001, had been found   
   after detectives “received new information” about her disappearance.   
      
   Authorities made contact with Smith at an undisclosed location in North   
   Carolina, “alive and well,” the sheriff’s office announced.   
      
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   On Friday, Feb. 20, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office said Michele   
   Hundley Smith, 62, who was first reported missing Dec. 31, 2001, had   
   been found.(Source: Rockingham County Sheriff's Office)   
      
   Smith was 38-years-old at the time of her disappearance.   
      
   Her husband was the first person to report her missing back in 2001,   
   investigators said.   
      
   She had left her home to go Christmas shopping at a Kmart in   
   Martinsville, Va., on Dec. 9, about 17 miles from her home and never   
   returned.   
      
   In 2020, her daughter Amanda Smith told NBC News that on the evening in   
   2001 she remembered her mother kissing them goodnight and leaving their   
   house around 8:30 p.m.   
      
   Amanda was 14 years old when her mother disappeared. Her younger brother   
   was almost 8. Their older sister was 19 and already out of the house.   
      
   Amanda said her mother was always there when they got off the bus from   
   school, cooked their favorite meals, and, while she wasn’t very strict,   
   never let them get away with everything.   
      
   At her request, her current whereabouts will remain undisclosed.   
      
   Officials said Smith’s family was notified that she had been located and   
   were informed about her request to keep her whereabouts undisclosed.   
      
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