KS MARILANE CARTER: Missing from Overland Park, KS - 1 Aug 2020 - Age 36 *Found Deceased*

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Kansas mother of 3 goes missing on trip to visit family in Alabama

Marilane Carter, 36, last spoke to family from Memphis, Tennessee.
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Kansas mother of 3 goes missing on trip to visit family in Alabama

A mother of three from Kansas has now been missing for a week after leaving on a trip to visit family in Alabama.

Marilane Carter, 36, left her home in Overland Park, Kansas, just outside Kansas City, on the night of Saturday, Aug. 1, according to police. She was last seen in surveillance footage checking into a hotel in West Plains, Missouri, the following morning.

Law enforcement said Carter last spoke to family on that Sunday near Memphis, Tennessee, before her phone went dead. Police confirmed her cellphone last pinged in that area.

Her husband, Adam Carter, told Kansas City ABC affiliate that his wife spent about three hours at the Missouri hotel before leaving and was speaking to her when her phone died. She spoke to her mother minutes later and her phone died again.

The Overland Park police said she "made concerning statements to her family and has not been heard from since later Sunday, August 2nd."

Authorities did not specify what was said.

"She was seeking some mental health care and she didn't want to go to any place in Kansas City, but she wanted to go to a place she was familiar with," Adam Carter, who works as a pastor in Kansas, told KMBC on Saturday.

Marilane Carter's mother lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and she was also going to see her newborn niece.

Carter said the family has been searching in the area of the Interstate 55 bridge over the Mississippi River in Memphis where the cellphone last pinged her location. She has not used her phone or credit card since speaking to her husband and mother on Sunday evening.

"We are devastated because she has three children and they cry every night," Marlene Mesler, Marilane's mother, told Birmingham ABC affiliate WBMA. "They are asking for their mommy. Her husband loves her so much."


MEDIA - MARILANE CARTER: Missing from Overland Park, KS since 1 Aug 2020 - Age 36
 
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SheWhoMustNotBeNamed said:
wgno.com

‘It goes cold’: Detectives trying to find Marilane Carter frustrated by dead ends

Investigators say they have been doing everything in their power to try to find missing metro woman Marilane Cater, but lead detective Blake Larsen said they have run into roadblocks.
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‘It goes cold’: Detectives trying to find Marilane Carter frustrated by dead ends

Investigators say they have been doing everything in their power to try to find missing metro woman Marilane Cater, but lead detective Blake Larsen said they have run into roadblocks.

“I want people to know, we are doing everything possible,” Larsen said in a news conference on Aug. 14, 12 days after she was last heard from.


“After her phone goes off at 8:02… it goes cold,” Larsen said.

The detective told reporters that officers don’t have much more evidence than that. He said that’s what has made this case particularly unusual, prompting a large response.

He said officials have tried tracking the vehicle through OnStar and satellite radio, but there is no information based on the vehicle she was driving, a 2012 GMC Acadia. Traffic cameras in the Memphis area have also come up empty.

“We’ve even attempted to get a search warrant in the Kansas courts for her cellular tower pings,” Larsen said. “In the state of Kansas, the statute does not allow for the community care-taking function.”

He said that type of warrant is only available for criminal activity.


He asked anyone with a good tip, either here or down near Memphis, to contact their local police department.
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That's interesting. I guess every state differs but to me that says that there is no joint phone account or the husband could approve access to ping it I would think...

Different wording than I am familiar with but a person or LE should not be able to access personal accounts of someone who is an adult who may be missing without just cause. They need a warrant it sounds like and have to have cause. I guess that is good and bad in my opinion, depending on the case. No one should just be easily able to access your personal info without cause if missing for a few hours or a day or two, but then again, if time is of the essence that can make a huge difference. What we have heard publicly there is no proof of a breakdown or anything else, nor foul play, there is nothing but the statements of others about her that I have seen...

I pray she is found safe.
 
Trust Linda. This podcast is less than 9 minutes and she mapped it and picks up on right away the legs of this trip have many hours missing, meaning it took the woman too long to get to each point.

Interesting that LE and helping agencies say they can't access her cell phone records as she is an adult and may be missing voluntarily so they cannot. Yet it is then sid her family is checking to see if she checked into hospitals etc. and are using a power of attorney to do so. I am unclear if that is family or husband.... That doesn't even make sense to me that one thing can be done but not the other...?

I don't think this case is clear cut. I think there is more to it than meets the eye.

 
GrandmaBear said:
Trust Linda. This podcast is less than 9 minutes and she mapped it and picks up on right away the legs of this trip have many hours missing, meaning it took the woman too long to get to each point.

Interesting that LE and helping agencies say they can't access her cell phone records as she is an adult and may be missing voluntarily so they cannot. Yet it is then sid her family is checking to see if she checked into hospitals etc. and are using a power of attorney to do so. I am unclear if that is family or husband.... That doesn't even make sense to me that one thing can be done but not the other...?

I don't think this case is clear cut. I think there is more to it than meets the eye.

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admittedly, I haven't read all the articles on this case. I just caught it on Linda's YouTube last night. I tend to think she will be found alive. I wonder if she had any cash saved up for an adventure? This is my most hopeful post!
 
Kimster said:
admittedly, I haven't read all the articles on this case. I just caught it on Linda's YouTube last night. I tend to think she will be found alive. I wonder if she had any cash saved up for an adventure? This is my most hopeful post!
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I saw elsewhere that allegedly she just received (or not long ago) some inheritance. This made me wonder if she could have taken some cash with perhaps unbeknownst to others. I have hope she is alive too. There is a vibe in this case imo that I pick up on and it was a remark in I think the very first article that just struck me a bit odd.

Trying to be careful as I don't want to accuse anyone of anything but let's just say some of the things to me sound a bit like subtle guilt trips and control... Which, in all fairness, people can do and not realize they come across that way. Also, perhaps i am totally wrong. The power of attorney remark bothers me too. Unless she has more wrong than stated as anxiety and trouble sleeping (and perhaps she does) then I don't see why anyone would have a POA over her. And if she had more wrong, I don't think anyone would have let her drive...?

I am hopeful she just needed a break or, as you said, adventure.

On the flip side, the remark of her being "lost" on like grass trails or back roads or whatever, and not knowing where she is, now that is concerning...
 
SheWhoMustNotBeNamed said:
Do we know what she purchased at the gas station? I'm thinking suicide, unfortunately. Perhaps a carbon monoxide event? (Except that the shipping container door was apparently open. But how far open?)
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It does sound more like suicide than anything. There clearly was and is concern we don't have details on, no idea what she bought, I know at the one stop they said she filled her water cup. I don't want to judge anyone or anything, it is a tragedy no doubt. I do find it odd if there was reason for major concern that no one drove with her or let her drive. Just seems like there are things we don't know.

How do you even find a shipping container in a field, if let's say she had a plan? No judgment, I just don't get it. I thought of carbon monoxide too, I guess she could have put something in the tailpipe. And her phone goes dead? I guess that would fit with suicide but why would you not want to be found with suicide? Maybe it is not wanting someone stopping it, I guess that would make sense...

I am not looking even for anything like foul play, I just as of now think it is a strange case and turn of events. I was actually hopeful in this one. Maybe she knew the area and the containers? Uncle found her, maybe it is somewhere she and family always passed on this trip or something and she knew the containers were there?
 
And where was she in the missing hours on the other legs of the trip as Linda had in her podcast? She couldn't have been too lost as she would then be at the next point on the trip. Was she looking for a spot throughout and the nerve or battling to try to find a reason not to? So sad whatever it is that happened.
 
I have to say this is still odd. Here is an article with pictures of the container and grass around it etc. I just don't see how she found this, how she knew if she drove onto someone's property that the container would be empty or no one would see her, how she even thought to do this honestly and so much more. That her car would fit, not sure I would assume mine would... Just strange... Assuming this is suicide, wouldn't it be easier to lock yourself in a motel room?

www.dailymail.co.uk

Body believed to be missing pastor's wife found in car inside crate

An uncle of missing Marilane Carter, 36, on Tuesday found a woman's body inside his niece's SUV parked inside an abandoned shipping container in a field in rural Arkansas.
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I read the article further and see more pictures including just how far in this is and likely almost impossible to see from a road. I don't really see likely foul play but this also is just hard to fathom. She almost had to go in there during daylight to have found these containers at all. No one saw her obviously driving in or opening the container. Head scratcher. I doubt somehow we will get answers.
 
GrandmaBear said:
I have to say this is still odd. Here is an article with pictures of the container and grass around it etc. I just don't see how she found this, how she knew if she drove onto someone's property that the container would be empty or no one would see her, how she even thought to do this honestly and so much more. That her car would fit, not sure I would assume mine would... Just strange... Assuming this is suicide, wouldn't it be easier to lock yourself in a motel room?

www.dailymail.co.uk

Body believed to be missing pastor's wife found in car inside crate

An uncle of missing Marilane Carter, 36, on Tuesday found a woman's body inside his niece's SUV parked inside an abandoned shipping container in a field in rural Arkansas.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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it might have been something spur of the moment she found while driving around when she claims she keeps getting lost. She very well could also have been specifically looking for a remote, hidden place.
 
GrandmaBear said:
I have to say this is still odd. Here is an article with pictures of the container and grass around it etc. I just don't see how she found this, how she knew if she drove onto someone's property that the container would be empty or no one would see her, how she even thought to do this honestly and so much more. That her car would fit, not sure I would assume mine would... Just strange... Assuming this is suicide, wouldn't it be easier to lock yourself in a motel room?

www.dailymail.co.uk

Body believed to be missing pastor's wife found in car inside crate

An uncle of missing Marilane Carter, 36, on Tuesday found a woman's body inside his niece's SUV parked inside an abandoned shipping container in a field in rural Arkansas.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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them stating that they had previously searched the field because that's where her phone last pinged, but didn't think to look in the containers they noticed makes me wonder how many other people are right there where searches are happening, but that one little item was overlooked.
 
Guess Who said:
it might have been something spur of the moment she found while driving around when she claims she keeps getting lost. She very well could also have been specifically looking for a remote, hidden place.
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Yah I tell myself that but still what are the odds... I could see her driving down some dirt road or into the woods I guess but to come across these, and again, not worry someone can see you, it is private property, think to look inside or have a right to do so--in someone else's shipping container, luck out and find it empty, and again even know one's vehicle would fit and then decide to drive in. I have a little car and look at those pictures and picture my mirrors snapping off and would be unsure it would fit even then...

Maybe I am making too much of it as again, I don't really see a reason for foul play either but it is definitely a strange case. Now if she somehow knew the property and of these containers previously, that would take care of most of my thoughts and make more sense...

I suspect it was carbon monoxide, otherwise I think a motel room would have been the option...

I also guess we can't know how she was thinking but just lucking into finding such a container and her vehicle fitting is something we will likely never see align like that again... As I said, just odd I guess...
 
Guess Who said:
them stating that they had previously searched the field because that's where her phone last pinged, but didn't think to look in the containers they noticed makes me wonder how many other people are right there where searches are happening, but that one little item was overlooked.
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That's odd too, why wouldn't you look inside?? You are looking for a missing person! and you don't know she is in her vehicle, there is no way they could know whether she would be found with her vehicle or not that I can think of.
 
GrandmaBear said:
That's odd too, why wouldn't you look inside?? You are looking for a missing person! and you don't know she is in her vehicle, there is no way they could know whether she would be found with her vehicle or not that I can think of.
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especially when it sounds like that is exactly where her phone last pinged. Wouldn't you want to search every inch of that particular area?
 
I also would hope they do look into it in some depth to a point. They should at least look at her search history online at home and on her trip, etc. In fact, I thought she sure took in a lot of stuff into that motel to just stay a few hours. Perhaps she did not sleep and was online with wifi. Perhaps she showered and changed, we did not see exit video so hard to say.

One thing I do think is possible is we all know with using Google Earth one can see buildings, etc. although with sheds, etc., they can tend to be dots or barely detailed. I don't think the size of these things she could have likely seen very well what they were but maybe I am wrong. She could perhaps get an idea and see how to get in there and maybe even that no home was nearby, etc. NOTE: I don't know that there was no home or anything nearby, just saying if she was looking for somewhere remote it may be the case... If I get ambitious maybe I will try to get the spot and take a look to see what one can see online.

If she truly wanted privacy to commit suicide and did not want to be stopped or found, it would also not be unusual that she googled details on how to commit suicide. I mean like how many pills does it take and what kind of pill, carbon monoxide and how to be sure it works, etc... Not to be crass, but she seemed determined to be sure no one found her to stop her perhaps so I could see such searches to be sure how to do it and that it worked as well...

I have read elsewhere that her husband said she left without any luggage or anything packed but that was not true by the motel pics. If true, he was unaware of that and that she had possibly planned before just taking off or he did not see her leave and put it in her vehicle when she changed her mind about flying... I stress again, if true...

We know there is more video, if she is shown into the motel, she is shown out and probably at the gas station as well... Not that it necessarily would tell us anything. She sure is missing a lot of hours and likely using a lot of gas and no sightings on the first few legs of the trip... Only one fill-up with gas, unless she used cash.

I am overthinking. Oh well. It is beyond tragic. But I still think the shipping container and such and her "lucking" out if one can call it that, is just wow...

Mental illness is one thing with suicide but there are a few other reasons for it as well. One is about to be caught and go to prison and they kill themselves. They did something wrong and know they are about to be caught or their family find out/shame. Or they feel trapped and controlled and cannot see nor find any way out. I am so sorry whatever her reason was that she felt this was her only answer.
 
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