Search on for North Carolina mom and her children aged 7 and 10 who mysteriously disappeared without trace
PENDER COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA: Police in North Carolina are asking for the public's help in finding a woman and her two children who have been missing for a few days. The 32-year-old Melinda Sue Hull and her kids, Gavin, 10, and Gracie, 7, are missing, and the Pender County Sheriff's Office is looking for them.
Melinda is roughly 5'9" tall and weighs around 180 pounds, according to Pender County Police. They were last seen by family members at Rocky Point on Tuesday, January 31.
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Anyone with information about their whereabouts is asked to call Detective Sergeant Lobel at the Pender County Sheriff's Office at 910-259-1515, as reported by The US Sun.
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MEAWW reported a relatively similar incident, where a woman went missing while her son was visiting his father. Cari Allen, 43, inexplicably disappeared when her son was visiting his father. Her car was said to be still in the garage. Cari is a White female that weighs roughly 130 pounds and stands 5ft 8in tall. Her hair is blonde, and her eyes are hazel.
“If it’s a missing adult without any type of contact that the individual hasn’t contact anyone, from our agency standpoint, we’re going to pull out all the stops to find out why that individual is missing,” Chief Deputy Wayne Hudson said.
According to reports, it was Allen’s neighbor, Alex Mueller, who said that her son was off to see his father when she went missing. “She’s wonderful. She’s been our neighbor for over ten years, and her son played with our kids. And it was, you know, just a few weeks ago, he played basketball with our kids in the backyard. I mean, we’re, we’re close,” Mueller said.
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the Topeka Police Department have joined the search for Allen, who was last seen around 11 p.m. on Saturday, November 19, near 168th and Blondo streets in Douglas County. "We aren't direct neighbors, but you know, in this community, you want to hope for the best and you don't want anything bad to happen," Allen’s neighbor Katelyn Massey said. "There is a sense of fear gripping those in the locality- which is only natural to go through when you see someone you know go missing," she added.
"I would always come back up around here and I would see her either sitting outside or mowing the lawn, and so I would just say 'Hi' and 'How's your day going?' as I passed by," another neighbor, Micah Rhodes, said.
Rhodes added, "When someone a couple houses down from you is missing and you don't know what the reason is or where she is, and knowing that she has family left behind wondering as well, it just tugs at your heartstrings." He concluded that extreme cases like these led to introspection. “Something like this happens and you kind of have to step back and realize there are other things going on in the world than your own personal life," he said.