North Carolina police are still searching for a woman who was last seen in 2024.
On January 14, 2024, Marissa Carmichael called 911 about a man taking her phone at an Exxon gas station in Greensboro. Carmichael has not been seen making that 911 call — during which she also mentioned having no way to get home, according to WMFY.
“I don’t know where I am in Greensboro. I just got all my stuff threw out the car. He took off with my phone. I have no clue where I’m at,” she said in the 911 call.
Carmichael’s family said she vanished after spending the evening with friends at a nightclub. Carmichael is believed to have gone from the nightclub to the gas station, where she placed the 911 call at 3:40 a.m.
“She said, ‘I’m going to go to the Mexican restaurant across the street and get a drink before work [at the Waffle House],’” Carmichael’s mother recalled to NBC.
NBC reported that Carmichael actually called out of work that day. She allegedly told her sister about her plans that night, but not her mother.
“She had said, ‘Don’t tell Mom because I don’t want her to worry about me,” Carmichael’s sister stated.
Greensboro police said they responded to the gas station but Carmichael was nowhere to be found. According to WXII, surveillance footage showed her getting into a car and leaving the gas station.
NBC reported that Greensboro police are not releasing the footage to the public. However, they said the driver of the vehicle — who has been interviewed and questioned — is considered a witness.
Carmichael would be 27 today. It is unclear whether foul play is suspected in her ongoing disappearance.
Carmichael was described as standing 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighing 260 pounds, and having brown eyes and black hair. She was last seen wearing a white Tweety Bird T-shirt, blue jeans, and yellow sneakers.
Carmichael’s case is being covered as part of CrimeOnline’s “Finding the Lost: Black and Missing” series, which will feature a missing Black person every day in February. The full series can be read here.