Marilane Carter, 36, last spoke to family from Memphis, Tennessee.
A mother of three from Kansas is now missing a week after she went 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, August 1, according to police. She was last seen last morning at surveillance footage at a hotel in West Plains, Missouri.
Law enforcement said Carter last spoke to family on that Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee, before her phone died. Police confirmed their cell phone was last pinged in that area.
Her husband, Adam Carter, told a Kansas City ABC branch that his wife had spent about three hours in a Missouri hotel before leaving and talking to her when her phone died. She spoke minutes later with her mother and her phone died again.
Overland Park police said they “made statements to their family and have not been heard from since Sunday, August 2.”
Authorities did not specify what was said.
“She was looking for some mental health care and she did not want to go to one 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 would also see her newborn niece.
Carter said the family searched in the area of the Interstate 55 bridge over the Mississippi River in Memphis, where the cell phone pinged its location last. She has not used her phone or credit card since talking to her husband and mother on Sunday night.
“We are devastated because she has three children and she cries every night,” Marlene Mesler, Marilane’s mother, told Birmingham ABC branch WBMA. “They ask for her mother. Her husband loves her so much.”
Police said they rode a gray GMC Acadia 2011 with the Kansas license plate, 194 LFY.
Carter is about 5-feet-8 and 130 pounds with long brown hair and green eyes. Police said she was last seen wearing a green T-shirt and black yoga pants.
“She’s a loving mother, loving wife. We have a great relationship. I miss her terribly. I want her home. I want her home with our children,” Adam Carter said.
ABC News’ Erin Calabrese and Ahmad Hemingway contributed to this report.
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