ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. — There has been a bizarre turn in the search for a wife and mother who has been missing since 2001.
The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office says a tip led them to find Michele Smith, who vanished on a shopping trip in Eden, North Carolina.
Deputies say Smith was alive and well, living somewhere else in the state.
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They say she requested that they don’t share her whereabouts.
One of Smith’s children posted on Facebook that their mother chose her new life.
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