Michele Hundley Smith
True Crime All The Time
Emash Digital
4.7 • 13.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In February 2026, Michele Hundley Smith was found in Robeson County, North Carolina, after being missing for 24 years. She left home to go Christmas shopping in December 2001, and her family did not see or hear from her again until authorities located her alive and well.
Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Michele Hundley Smith. She left her husband and kids behind and traveled the country with a long-haul trucker. But the reasons behind her leaving are at the heart of this mystery. Michele's daughter was fourteen when she went missign and her son was only eight. They have very different views on finding out that their mother was still alive, and Michele has legal ramifications ahead of her.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 491 of the True Crime All the Time podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime, Mike Gibson. |
| 0:08.8 | How are you? |
| 0:09.6 | Hey, I'm doing good. |
| 0:10.5 | And you? |
| 0:10.9 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:11.6 | Awesome. |
| 0:12.2 | We just had some Jersey Mike cheese steaks. |
| 0:15.2 | He did. |
| 0:16.1 | And now we're ready to get recording. |
| 0:18.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.5 | So we're talking about Michelle Hunley Smith. |
| 0:23.9 | In February, 2006, Michelle Hunley Smith was found in Robeson County, North Carolina after being missing for 24 years. |
| 0:34.0 | That's a long time to be missing. |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.0 | To be found. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:37.1 | To be found later on. Yeah. |
| 0:39.2 | She left home to go Christmas shopping in December 2001. And her family didn't hear or see from her again until the authorities finally located her. |
| 0:50.8 | I mean, there's times as I've been Christmas shopping that I wanted to disappear, but not like this. Well, right before you had to take out your wallet and pay for whatever it was that you were going to buy, and you're like, I'm getting out of here. I hear that ching ching, ching at the cash register, you know, even now, you know, a lot of them are quiet. I was i'm gonna say i don't think i hear that sound |
| 1:12.5 | anymore in my head i still hear the chiching chiching yeah i don't hear that but you know you and i |
| 1:18.9 | do have an unsolved podcast we do totally separate right from true crime all the time and you know |
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