Maliciously Missing | Michele Hundley Smith & Royal 'Scoop' Daniel III
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society Podcast.
In this episode, we discuss two separate cases where missing people have been found ALIVE years after their disappearance, in crazy circumstances.
- In December 2001, North Carolina woman Michele Hundley Smith told her three children that she was going Christmas shopping. She never returned. Over the next two decades, Michele’s husband faced scrutiny and many wondered if he may have been involved in her disappearance. In February 2026, Michele was found to be alive and living in a trailer park, two hours from the home of her family. She asked that her location not be disclosed to them.
- Colorado attorney Royal ‘Scoop’ Daniel III went to the office of his law practice one morning in April 2007. When other staff arrived, Scoop’s dog was left in the office alone and there was no sign of his owner. An investigation into Scoop’s disappearance revealed that he was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Scoop was found alive in 2011 when he attempted to cross from Mexico back into the US, using his own passport. He was arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Read our blog for these cases - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2026/03/01/missing-people-found-alive-michele-hundley-smith-and-royal-scoop-daniel-iii/
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| 0:33.2 | Thank you. What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia. |
| 0:37.5 | It is March 1st, my birthday month. |
| 0:41.5 | And it's actually always a horrible month. |
| 0:43.6 | Let me just say it's always a horrible month. |
| 0:45.4 | March, I don't know what it is. |
| 0:47.4 | For years, there's always been some type of, this is going to sound like very selfish in a way, but I haven't been able to celebrate |
| 0:55.8 | my birthday with my family for years, but like we intended to, but something always happens. |
| 1:00.6 | Like for the past three years, someone's always been sick. There's always some drama. There's |
| 1:03.7 | something going on. So I never get to like have my original birthday plan, which is fine, |
| 1:09.7 | whatever. I'm an adult. But I just noticed that always, |
| 1:12.2 | for some reason, March seems very hectic. And this year, there's like this horrible Mercury |
| 1:17.5 | retrograde going on right now. We just woke up and we're like at a war, apparently, at a war, |
| 1:23.3 | we're in a war, apparently. I don't even know. I'm not going to speak about that, obviously. |
| 1:29.4 | But it just seems like a very chaotic month all the time. |
| 1:33.8 | And it's probably the worst. |
| 1:37.4 | One of the, not the worst. |
| 1:39.1 | It's just a tough time for weather too, because you feel like you should be at the end of winter. |
| 1:43.0 | And you're like oh spring is |
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