A romance novelist that disappeared following her arrest after leading police on a high-speed chase was found alive and well on Sat., Feb. 18.
52-year-old Faleena Marie Hopkins went missing on Mon., Jan. 30, the day she left the jail. Police tracked her down using surveillance cameras, alleging she bought a new phone and changed the number while at the Jackson Airport in Wyoming by pinging the cell phone on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.
Hopkins is due for another federal court appearance on the morning of Feb. 28, the Jackson Hole Daily reported.
It brings to mind the case of another writer going missing nearly 100 years earlier.
On the evening of Mon., Dec. 3, 1926, Agatha Christie left her home. The following morning her abandoned car was found several miles away by Surrey Police, the apparent result of a car accident.
Her disappearance led to a search by thousands of police and volunteers. Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks put pressure on police to find the writer, and fellow mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sought the help of a clairvoyant.
Ten days later, the head waiter at the Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire (now known as the Old Swan Hotel) contacted police that a guest by the name of Theresa Neale may be the missing writer.
Christie’s husband traveled to Yorkshire with police, took a seat in the corner of the dining room where he watched his wife walk in, take her place at another table, and begin reading a newspaper that heralded her disappearance as front page news. Witnesses said Christie didn’t recognize him when he approached her.
“So, after illness, came sorrow, despair, and heartbreak,” Christie wrote, reflecting on the period, “There is no need to dwell on it.”
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