Missing Woman Resurfaces, Faces Old DWI Charge

0:00It's April 23rd. Welcome in. This is Durham News Today, where local news meets AI. A North Carolina woman missing for 24 years just popped up alive, but now she's back in court facing a driving while impaired charge from. Back in 2001, McKelle A. Hunley Smith, now 62, vanished from Eden in December after heading to K-Mart for Christmas shopping. Cops found her alive in February, thanks to a tip, and arrested her the next day for skipping that old court date. After this week, prosecutors in Rockingham County asked to delay the case because they can't track down the records from storage, the officers long. Gone from the department, Judge Erica Brandon pushed it to June 8th. Smith's lawyer fought the continuance, but it stuck. Her daughter Amanda hugged her mom outside court last month and said she's not holding grudges. Smith had reached out over the years. Smith herself called it personal demons back then, stuff folks in tough spots would get. She blew a point to eight on that November 11 stop at 133 a.m.

1:03After swerving off Mebbeney Bridge Road, with glassy eyes and booze on, her breath. Multi-stay searches turned up nothing to that fresh lead. The saga rolls on with more court dates ahead, shedding light on how some folks just step away from life for decades, leaving families in the mystery.