The search for missing mother Marilane Carter goes through the Mississippi River, where her cell phone was last pinged after she left Kansas almost two weeks ago on a solo road trip.
The search for the 36-year-old mother of three is based on sonar and software mapping near the I-55 bridge in Memphis, Tenn.
LOOK FOR MISSING KANSAS MOTHER OF 3 SHIFTS TO MISSISSIPPI RIVER AFTER HEARTBREAKING PLEA
Blake Larsen, the lead detective on the case with the Overland Park Police Department, told “America’s Newsroom” that they were able to confirm that the woman was there, thanks to video from a nearby gas station.
The multistate search has been “extremely difficult,” said Larsen, who works more than 400 miles away.
Carter’s car, a gray GMC Acadia from 2011, is also missing, but the detective said he was told it would be difficult to get a car in the river and, if one did, they believe there would be definite signs. of one who enters.
Carter’s mother said that while talking to her, on the way through the trip, she described that she was disoriented and continued to get lost during her trip to Alabama.
“No one has exactly figured out why she wanted to leave that night and what came to her mind when she wanted to go,” Larsen said. “I talked to the family – husband, mother, brother-in-law – and I think they all knew they wanted mental help, but I do not think they knew to what extent they were in crisis.”
Investigators know she left Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, on the night of Aug. 1, and stopped at a hotel in West Plains, Mo., where she stayed two hours and 20 minutes.
“That was the first time we put her on video and it shows she was by herself,” Larsen explained. “She does not look under duress and her car is in the video.”
But he said the hotel stay “was very strange.”
“We feel that shows that she was in a crisis of mental health, even though she looks carelessly running in and out of the hotel,” Larsen said. “She seemed to be at the hotel two hours-plus. It was about.”
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Adam Carter, Marilane’s husband and a senior pastor at Leawood Baptist Church in Leawood, Kan., Invited volunteers to sign up at FindMarilane.com.
“Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. We see that and we just want to say thank you and keep praying that we can have Marilane at home, our three children miss her, I miss her, and we want her at home,” he said.
