DEC 24, 2022
Two years ago, Marlena Hurst disappeared. Then last year her brother Greg Hurst disappeared.
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Christmas is a somber time for one Thomasville family. On Dec. 23, four siblings would normally be celebrating their mother’s 47th birthday.
Two years ago, Marlena Hurst disappeared. Then last year, her brother Greg Hurst disappeared and law enforcement has no leads in either case.
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On Dec. 13 after two weeks of not hearing from Marlena, the family reported her missing. Then a year later in October, Greg disappeared on the day he got out of jail. Both of them struggled with drug addiction.
“They were human. They struggled just as everyone else struggles. It’s because of that stereotype that we haven’t gotten anywhere in this case,” Hamilton said.
The week before Marlena went missing, her family says she had decided to turn her life around. Her first step was buying a camper to call her own.
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In that camper, the family found letters written by Marlena for each of her four children.
“It’s like she knew something was going to happen,” Griffin said.
Those letters were turned in to the Thomas County Sheriff’s Office for an investigation that has gone on for so long. Chief investigator Tim Watkins said they have interviewed over 100 people, executed search warrants of phones and have done several searches throughout four counties.
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The last known whereabouts of Marlena are at the Piggly Wiggly in Pelham but there’s no surveillance video showing that -- only the word of a family friend who saw her. Investigators also place Greg’s last known whereabouts at his home in Meigs. They say he ran towards a wooded area and was never seen again. They have no collected evidence in Greg’s case.
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