Found Deceased KS - Marilane Carter, 36, Overland Park, enroute to Birmingham, 2 Aug 2020 #2

[Deleted member 272036]

Posting just because I do not want this case to get lost or not thought about. As I write this, the thread is on page 3, and I can't believe that.

There is still so much wrong about Marilane's travels and what happened after she left the hotel that bothers me.

 

[iamnotagolem]

I just found out about Marilane after following the Sally Smith case.

Have to admit Marilane’s case is deeply concerning.

 

[Allynator]

I just found out about Marilane after following the Sally Smith case.

Have to admit Marilane’s case is deeply concerning.

Very much so. I think about Marilane almost daily.

 

[Rosegold68]

hmmm not sure its connected to Marilane but who knows!

 

[Allynator]

Holy moly. So, so, terrible and confusing if true.

 

[MurderMittens]

hmmm not sure its connected to Marilane but who knows!

Based off how 2020 is going.... Really wouldnt doubt it

 

[Backabeyond]

My thought is that this poor unfortunate lady was experiencing a ‘manic episode’.....so many details fit with this.....the disrupted sleep, the impulsive/irrational change to her travel plans ( thinking she’d be OK driving that long distance...setting out late evening), followed by confusion, disorientation, & possibly paranoid delusions.

Her death may well have been an accident/misadventure...while the balance of her mind was disturbed.

Or self-harm....but again... while acutely mentally ill.

So very sad for Marilane, her loved ones & everyone affected by this tragedy.

RIP beautiful lady.

This immediately brought to mind another case I followed here ( relatively) recently. Apologies, I cannot recall or find the name of the lady concerned.

She was a high-achieving business woman who became lost/confused/disorientated whilst driving her rental car to an airport to catch a flight home, following a conference.

She was on the phone to her partner and her mother during the journey, who said she was lost & not making sense.

She was later found dead in her vehicle in a side street in a residential area.

So many parallels to this particular case.

( In the case I’ve mentioned above, it is possible an already diagnosed thyroid disorder could have contributed to her mental state ( however that may be my own personal theory, having had experience of thyroid disease)

I have also experienced a manic episode, which may be why I lean heavily toward this diagnosis in both these cases.

There are actually tons of these cases, IMO. Lots of "mysterious" disappearances start with the tell-tale signs of psychological crisis.

 

[Seni]

It was Marilane's uncle who found her when he stopped off somewhere and went to check the units off road and found one unlocked.

Why? Such a strange thing to do, to occur to you to do.

So, as is being suggested in another case, would this unit also have been owned by family? And that is why uncle checked it out?

 

[Backabeyond]

It was Marilane's uncle who found her when he stopped off somewhere and went to check the units off road and found one unlocked.

Why? Such a strange thing to do, to occur to you to do.

So, as is being suggested in another case, would this unit also have been owned by family? And that is why uncle checked it out?

It was Marilane's uncle who found her when he stopped off somewhere and went to check the units off road and found one unlocked.

Why? Such a strange thing to do, to occur to you to do.

So, as is being suggested in another case, would this unit also have been owned by family? And that is why uncle checked it out?

He didn't just "stop off somewhere". The searchers and family had already been in the area. He wasn't even the only one to have seen the containers from what I can tell. He's just the one who actually looked.

 

[Seni]

Thanks. Yes, I remember now, there were several containers.

 

[Seni]

How did she find them and know which ones were unlocked?

 

[Backabeyond]

How did she find them and know which ones were unlocked?

Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe as simple as just getting lucky. As far as finding an unlocked one, there are only 3 It looks like on the map.

 

[Backabeyond]

How did she find them and know which ones were unlocked?

Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe as simple as just getting lucky. As far as finding an unlocked one, there are only 3 I think.

 

[Seattle1]

Crittenden County authorities find body, vehicle matching missing Kansas woman

8/18/20

CRITTENDEN COUNTY, Ark. — The Crittenden County Sheriff’s Department said a body believed to be a missing Kansas woman was found inside her vehicle Tuesday.

The vehicle, with the remains inside, was found inside a shipping container in a remote field, down a gravel road about a quarter of a mile off Interstate 55 in eastern Arkansas.

Those remains are believed to belong to Marilane Carter, who was last seen in West Memphis, Arkansas on Aug. 2.

[..]

Family and law enforcement have been searching the area for days, most recently in the Mississippi River.

Grooms said investigators had seen the shipping containers in the field previously, but hadn’t thought to look inside.

“I just never would have dreamed that her vehicle would have been up inside one of them,” Grooms said.

According to the sheriff’s office, it was Carter’s uncle who finally looked inside the shipping container. Carter’s family came to the Memphis area over the weekend to search for her, and everyone returned home except her uncle.

Tuesday morning, he was driving and walking around the area where Carter’s phone was last pinged. He stumbled upon three big containers in a field, and the door on one of the containers was open, authorities said.

He looked inside and found a vehicle matching the description of Carter’s vehicle, they said. He also found a body inside the car before calling the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Department.
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A video news report at the link above shows good footage of the scene and also MC's vehicle being hauled away from the secluded area. There appear to be 3 containers that seem to have been there stored there for some time.

I really don't know how MC found [stumbled upon] these containers....

 

[Seattle1]

Marilane Carter: Carbon monoxide likely killed missing Kansas mom found in shipping container

Aug 20, 2020

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Searchers looking for Marilane Carter had spotted the three large shipping containers sitting in a field of tall grass off of Interstate 55 but no one had peered inside.

It was a regrettable mistake. The missing Kansas wife and mother, who left home Aug. 1 on a trip to Alabama for mental health care, was apparently found inside one of the containers Tuesday, still sitting in the dark-gray SUV that people across the country had been keeping an eye out for.

Investigators and Carter’s loved ones were still awaiting a positive identification Thursday morning but said the body was likely that of the 36-year-old. Authorities believe she died of carbon monoxide poisoning, The Kansas City Star reported.

[..]

Chief Todd Grooms, of the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Department, told the Star the vehicle’s ignition was in the “on” position when the car was found, and there was evidence it had been running while closed inside the container.

 

[Seattle1]

Kansas Mom's Body Discovered In Arkansas Shipping Container Weeks After She Disappeared On Her Way To Alabama, Family Confirms

Aug 20, 2020

Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office Chief Investigator Todd Grooms told The New York Post one of Carter’s uncles discovered the body inside her grey SUV Tuesday on a private farm in West Memphis. The vehicle had been driven into a shipping container.

The body was found in the driver’s seat of her GMC Acadia SUV, along with her purse and credit card.

“No foul play is suspected at this time,” Grooms told the news outlet. “She was traveling through here and found that place and this is where her journey ended.”

Investigators believe that Carter may have taken her own life by asphyxia from carbon monoxide poisoning; however, the results of an autopsy on the body are still pending.

Grooms said no note had been found with the body.

 

[evilwise]

I know I'm the one who originally brought up Marilane in Sally's thread but I think there are key differences. Factually speaking, Marilane wandered around for a time with sporadic family contact while Sally seemed to drive straight to the storage unit. I think that Marilane just happened across those shipping containers and saw from the road - or even after going down the gravel drive - that the doors were standing open and took the opportunity to drive into one of them. I'm less inclined to accept that Marilane intended to end her life (as opposed to just being in a fugue state looking for a hiding place to rest) than I am with Sally, despite the investigations perhaps implying the reverse. I think it's possible Sally was aware of Marilane and copycatted.

 

[jeni25]

For what it’s worth it’s very easy to get on a service road and not realize your main road is running parallel if you are not familiar with them. I’ve never drive where there are any except through same parts of Arkansas that she was driving.

My friend and I still laugh at ourselves because we were chatting away and driving in that route on what we thought was the main road and then the road just abruptly ended. We could not understand why the road just stopped. We had no understanding of service roads at the time.

 

[Backabeyond]

For what it’s worth it’s very easy to get on a service road and not realize your main road is running parallel if you are not familiar with them. I’ve never drive where there are any except through same parts of Arkansas that she was driving.

My friend and I still laugh at ourselves because we were chatting away and driving in that route on what we thought was the main road and then the road just abruptly ended. We could not understand why the road just stopped. We had no understanding of service roads at the time.

I don't remember that being a problem in AR. Every highway in Texas has access roads, and I've never made that mistake. At least in TX, I don't see how that's possible. Though, if you've done it, then I'm sure others have too.

 

[Seattle1]

I don't remember that being a problem in AR. Every highway in Texas has access roads, and I've never made that mistake. At least in TX, I don't see how that's possible. Though, if you've done it, then I'm sure others have too.

At one point I recall MC telling her mother she kept getting lost which mom said was alarming because MC had made the drive to AL several times before so I think she was familiar with the roadway. However, I won't be surprised to learn that toxicology showed evidence that MC ingested particular sleep Rx where some users reportedly exhibit strange behavior and/or end up in odd places. MOO