NC MARISSA CARMICHAEL: Missing from Greensboro, NC - 14 Jan 2024 - Age 25

Family searching for answers after mother of 5 goes missing in Greensboro

Police said 25-year-old Marissa Carmichael was reported missing Sunday. Her family believes she was last seen at a gas station on E. Market Street.

www.wfmynews2.com

Family searching for answers after mother of 5 goes missing in Greensboro​

A family is worried about a mother of five who went missing after attending a nightclub in Greensboro.

Police said 25-year-old Marissa Carmichael was reported missing on Sunday, Jan. 14.

Family members said she left a club with someone and ended up at the Exxon on E. Market Street. At some point, the family said she got into an argument with the person, so she called 911 saying she'd been robbed. They said she eventually got into a car with someone else and hasn't been seen since.


Sara Carmichael said she's looking for all the help she can get to bring her daughter home.

"We need more help because she is out there somewhere," she added.

Her mom said she's a mother and her kids need her, all of them are under the age of 10 years old.

Desperate for answers, Sara Carmichael would like to know what happened even if it's not what she wants to hear.

"We’re looking for you. Just contact us. Just contact us. Contact the police. Contact somebody, so many people are looking for you. We love you and we miss you," Sara Carmichael added.


MEDIA - MARISSA CARMICHAEL: Missing from Greensboro, NC - 14 Jan 2024 - Age 25

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Family and friends continue to search for missing 25-year-old mother of five

It has been nearly six months since her family has heard from her.

www.wfmynews2.com

Author: Giselle Thomas
Published: 11:33 PM EDT June 9, 2024
Updated: 11:33 PM EDT June 9, 2024

GREENSBORO, N.C. — We are nearing the 6-month-mark of the missing person's case involving 25-year-old Marissa Carmichael.
Sunday morning, a search party went to her last known location.
"It's important for us to be out here almost every day looking for her," close friend Jamie Lipford shared.

The Exxon gas station in Greensboro on East Market Street was the first stop in canvassing the area. It's the last place Greensboro Police said Carmichael was seen after a night out.

Lipford led the search to put flyers on gas pumps, cars, and trees.

"We're not gonna quit until she is found," she said.

Carmichael's family believes she went to the gas station after a night out and got into an argument with the person who drove her there. Carmichael then made a chilling call to 911 asking for help saying she was robbed and left at the Exxon. Her family then believes she left the gas station with someone else.

Now about 150 days later, her family said they are picking up the pieces of what her disappearance left behind. Carmichael's mother told WFMY News 2 they had to make the hard decision to put her five children up for adoption.
"It was a shock because of my health, I am not able to take care of all five of them," Sara Carmichael shared, "It seems to get harder and not easier at all."

While the family tries to adjust to Carmichael's absence, they continue to hold out hope for justice.


Greensboro Police said are investigating but have not shared if a suspect has been arrested or identified in this case.

The family said they plan to hold a prayer vigil in the near future.

If you or anyone you know has any information about Marissa Carmichael's whereabouts, please contact Greensboro/Guilford County Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Piedmont Triad - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Piedmont Triad (or simply the Triad) is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of North Carolina anchored by three cities: Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. This close group of cities lies in the Piedmont geographical region of the United States and forms the basis of the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area (CSA). As of 2012, the Piedmont Triad has an estimated population of 1,611,243 making it the 33rd largest combined statistical area in the United States.[1]

Okay, thank you so it refers to the region...

No news or updates on this case at all it appears. I would have sadly forgotten about it had I not seen a new post and activity. Sadly that's how I stay up on any these days

I hope they are working on it and hope she is found.

 

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https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/marissa-carmichael-has-been-missing-from-greensboro-for-6-months/

by: Emily Mikkelsen
Posted: Jul 16, 2024 / 06:40 AM EDT
Updated: Jul 16, 2024 / 06:40 AM EDT

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — It has now been six months since a Triad mother was last seen after a night out.

Twenty-five year old Marissa Carmichael was last seen at an Exxon gas station in Greensboro on Jan. 14, 2024. Just before 4 a.m., she called 911 to report that her phone had been stolen and she’d been left at the gas station on E. Market Street.

“I don’t know where I am in Greensboro,” she had said in the 911 call. “I just got all my stuff thrown out the car. He took off with my phone, and I have no clue where I’m at.”

When police got to the scene around 4:21 a.m., Carmichael was gone. Her family say it is not like her to not be in contact. She has five children.

Surveillance footage showed Carmichael getting into someone’s car and leaving the station. That person has been identified and interviewed by police, but they consider the person a witness in the case.

“I think she trusted the wrong person or … something was set up to happen,” Sara Carmichael, Marissa’s mother, said when her daughter disappeared. “I’ll have my moments where I fall apart, and I just can’t function … Then I just kind of have to pick myself up and put myself back together and just focus on Marissa,” she said. “I just want her home, so I can shut the world out and take care of her and get her to where she needs to be.”

Carmichael is described as a biracial woman who is around 5-foot-4 and weighs about 260 pounds. She has long black and blond braids. She has a heart tattoo on her face, and a butterfly tattoo near her eye. She was last seen wearing a white Tweety Bird T-shirt, blue jeans and yellow sneakers, according to Crimestoppers.

Greensboro police say anyone who knows anything about where Marissa Carmichael is should call them immediately. Anonymous reports can be made to Crimestoppers at (336) 373-1000.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Is missing mom Marissa Carmichael a victim of trafficking?

Her mother believes Marissa may be a victim of human trafficking.

www.newsnationnow.com

Marissa Carmichael: Is missing mom a victim of trafficking?​

A young mother of five disappeared more than six months ago after a night out with friends in North Carolina.

Marissa Carmichael’s mother fears her daughter is a victim of sex trafficking.


The only thing police know for certain is that Marissa placed a 911 call around 3:40 in the morning from an Exxon station.

“I don’t know where I am in Greensboro. I just got all my stuff threw out of the car,” she’s heard saying. “He took off with my phone. I have no clue where I’m at. I have no numbers.”

Her mother believes it was part of a setup to leave Marissa stranded and vulnerable.

On the 911 call, Marissa explained the guy told her to go into the store and grab something before taking off.

“I don’t know where I’m at, I’m in the middle of Greensboro. He took my phone and I don’t have my phone,” she told the dispatcher.

When Greensboro police arrived 40 minutes later, the clerk said Marissa had gotten a ride with another customer.

Her mother said Marissa tried to call her two more times that night from someone else’s phone. She turned that number over to the police.

“I think when she was reaching out and calling, she was figuring out, ‘Okay, he’s really maybe not bringing me home at this point,'” Sara said. “I think she was starting to get a feeling.”

Friends and family are working to keep attention on the case.

“It’s exhausting, it really is. It’s tiring. We just want her home; we miss her,” said friend Aerial Lipford.


NewsNation local affiliate WGHP reported surveillance footage showed Carmichael getting into someone’s car and leaving the Exxon station. That person was identified and interviewed by police, but they consider the person a witness in the case, WGHP reported.

Sara previously told NewsNation she is frustrated, wondering how police don’t have any information on the person who took her daughter even with all the cameras around the Exxon.

“Amazing how he just showed up at the Exxon as soon as she had been dumped out by the other guy,” Sara said.

She said she’s done her own investigation and believes the man Marissa left the gas station with may be involved in sex trafficking and that her daughter may still be nearby and alive.

Sara hopes someone will spot Marissa’s distinctive tattoos and make a call to authorities, returning the young mother of five to her family.

Until then, Sara has a message for her daughter.

“I’m not giving up. I’m working every day, we’re looking for you,” she said. “We’re trying to find you. We’re not giving up.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

I think that article is above somewhere because I was skimming as a refresher and reading some posts before reaching this one and the words are almost identical.

I don't know her name well and so came in not sure which case this was until I refreshed and then knew I was here from the start on it. I think I missed the last few posts too, not recognizing the name. So they adopted her kids out? How awful. I don't mean awful OF them, I mean awful this has come that as they haven't found her.

They call the person last seen with a witness. Odd but probably don't have enough to say otherwise....

You know she called 911 and yet they did not even dispatch anyone for like 30 minutes was it and 40 before an officer arrived? She likely tried to wait for such type of help than go with someone else but who knows... I do not understand that wait.

Still a lot of confusing things here. So her mom thinks she tried to call her twice on someone else's phone. Well she allegedly had no contact info of anyone she knew. And also to use a phone of the person who "had" her she had to be free to do so...

I don't know about the trafficking thing, I generally don't lean towards such but there was an odd comment or question in one of the above posts where news I think asked LE if anyone had been arrested or was a suspect. Why would you ask if someone had been arrested? They would announce such generally. However, NOT necessarily if it is a trafficking ring. You can find a lot of such cases on the D of Justice website...

She's not a teen though or even particularly young like early 20s.

However, that gas station being busy at like 3:40 or whatever in the morning is WEIRD. 5 a.m.? Maybe. Men getting lunch stuff to head off to a construction job, etc and other kinds of jobs, I've seen that or maybe even... But NOT at 3:40. And wasn't a truck stop from anything we've heard.

I don't think she is trafficked, I think she is more likely dead. Sadly.

She is 25, she'd find some way to contact someone imo. By now anyhow.

I'd have to look back further and into a link to recall all but why is it she did not have a ride? She went to a concert did she not with friends or something? And then attended an after party. Did they bail on her? I recall an argument, was she first with a bf, can't recall, or was I just wondering who these drivers were.

Anyhow, I read plenty again and little mentioned of such in further posts and still they've shared not a bit of info other than when they interviewed the last driver. Did they interview the first one? Who took off on her?

No answers, just thinking.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Mother of 5, Marissa Carmichael has been missing for 9 months

"Everything seems to be before and then after, like before she went missing and then everything after. I mean our life is nothing like it used to be,” said Sara

abc45.com

Mother of 5, Marissa Carmichael has been missing from Greensboro for 9 months
"Everything seems to be before and then after, like before she went missing and then everything after. I mean our life is nothing like it used to be,” said Sara Carmichael.

This is how Sara Carmichael has described the last nine months. The time it’s been since her daughter Marissa Carmichael went missing in Greensboro.


Carmichael’s birthday is next week, all her family thinks about is her not being there to celebrate. Sara Carmichael also talks about Carmichael’s five children and the five birthdays she’s missed.

“I hurt for them; I feel my own, but I hurt for her kids,” said Sara Carmichael.

Her mother is still holding on to hope that her first born will walk through her front door.

It’s been hell and I just want her home. I just want somebody to make one anonymous tip just one, you don’t even have to say who you are. Just anything, just something,” said Sara Carmichael.