Angela Whalen Hudson, 33, disappeared from her rural Ruffin, North Carolina, home on the morning of September 20, 2001. Known as Angie, she was last seen at about 10:00 a.m. after walking her two young children to the school bus stop. Her husband, Robert Hudson, was the last person to report seeing her; he says she told him she had to go do something and left the house on foot, leaving her car and all personal belongings behind, including her purse, jewelry, eyeglasses, and medications for bipolar disorder and fibromyalgia.

The day she vanished she had been scheduled for a second appointment with her divorce attorney and had recently obtained a restraining order against her husband, alleging physical and emotional abuse. A relative expected for dinner found the house empty with a meal half-prepared on the counter. Family members describe her as a devoted mother who would not have willingly abandoned her children. She is a white female, blonde hair, blue eyes, 5 feet 7 inches, about 120 pounds, with tattoos: a red scorpion on her back, a Chinese dragon on her upper right shoulder, and Egyptian hieroglyphics on her right ankle. The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office keeps the investigation open.

Did anyone in Ruffin or the surrounding area see Angie Hudson on or after September 20, 2001, or have information that could help explain her disappearance?