What Concerned Family Members Do

You’ve probably heard this happy story, but since they seem to be so few and far between, I’ll share it too:

Pennell, a waitress at Hannah’s Bar-B-Que in Lenoir, N.C., had left her job shortly before 10 p.m. last Wednesday. Before heading home, about 20 miles away, she stopped at a Wal-Mart to purchase birthday materials and home supplies. She made a call to Mitchell to see if he needed anything and left, the store’s surveillance camera recording her departure at 10:14 p.m.

Pennell then made a stop for gas at a station at 10:26, according to authorities, but that was her last recorded activity. Just after midnight, her husband reported her missing. A search, in earnest, would be launched the next day.

Although a K-9 team searched around her house, police officials mostly believed from the outset that Pennell’s car had gone off Route 321 — which would prove to be a great challenge for searchers because of long stretches of thick brush covering deep ravines.

Five days later, she was found:

“It was something we all wanted. We were praying for an outcome like this, and for it to become a reality — that was a blessing for all of us.”

Road to recovery
Pennell is now recovering at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, having suffered a skull fracture and other traumas as well as dehydration and hypothermia. As of Tuesday night, she was still listed in critical condition.

“She’s doing good, considering the situation,” Mitchell said.

In contrast, guys who kill their wives don’t call the police and mothers who kill their kids don’t report their children missing for over 30 days.

People always say, “Well, you don’t know what you’d do if you were that stressed.” Um, I think you do. You’d go crazy trying to find that child or wife or husband. That’s what you’d do. And you most certainly report the person missing right away.

Posted in Corrupted Culture
Tags: Crime • Murder