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Carie Melissa Zapletal was 48 when she disappeared from her home in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 2, 2014. She was last seen on foot near the 6600 block of Santaolina after leaving her residence. Carie left behind her purse, identification, cell phone, car and the cigarettes she regularly smoked, and about $2,000 remained in her bank account. She is described as a Caucasian female, 4 feet 11 inches tall, about 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She may have been wearing a black sweater and dark blue jeans and has pierced ears, a butterfly tattoo on her right breast and a faded homemade barbed-wire–style tattoo on her left shoulder.

Accounts about her state of mind conflict. Her husband, Edward Zapletal, said she had become depressed and was abusing prescription drugs and that they had made a suicide pact the day before she went missing; her children state she had no depression diagnosis and was not on antidepressants and believe she would not have willingly left her family. Edward Zapletal died in 2018. The Memphis Police Department continues to list Carie as missing.

Did anyone in the Memphis Santaolina area see Carie or notice anything unusual around December 2, 2014?