SALISBURY, N.C. — Authorities said a 34-year-old Salisbury woman who they said hadn’t been heard from for several days after telling family members she was going camping has been found safe.
The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office was searching for Amber Nicole Torrence.
Torrence, who lives on Agner Drive in Salisbury, is described as being 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighing 102 pounds. She has dark brown hair and brown eyes. She also has several tattoos, one around her ankle of a chain and another on her lower leg of a sunflower.
According to investigators, Torrence left her home driving her 2008 white Nissan Xterra. The tag for the vehicle is BAZ-7932. The Nissan has a large white Bigfoot decal on the back window.
Torrence was reported missing Thursday night around 10:30 p.m. by her grandmother, who she lives with. According to deputies, the grandmother told them that Torrence left on Saturday around about lunchtime to go camping in the Uwharrie National Forest, in Montgomery County.
The grandmother said Torrence told her she was going camping with someone, but did not say who, or tell her where exactly her campsite would be. According to her grandmother, Torrence is an avid camper and has been camping in the Uwharrie National Forest in the past.
She also told deputies that her granddaughter left that day with a camping-style backpack with extra clothes, wallet, money, food, water, and other various camping items.
The sheriff’s office said that Torrence has talked with her father several times since she left on Saturday, but that he has not spoken to her since Wednesday morning. During that conversation, Torrence told her dad that she would be home Wednesday afternoon, but she never showed up.
Relatives had since tried to call Torrence, but their calls go to voicemail. According to family members, Torrence has never done anything like this before and it is unlike her.
The sheriff’s office also said that the friends to whom family members have reached out told them they have not heard from Torrence either.
An ex-fiancée said he saw her on Tuesday at Go Burrito in Salisbury, but there are no other details of that encounter, according to deputies.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Forestry Service, and other search and rescue personnel were called in to search in and around the Uwharrie National Forest while family and friends of Torrence have been searching around Salisbury, posting on social media that she was missing.
Torrence has now been removed from the National Crime Information Center database as a missing person.
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