Alvin ISD Teacher Goes Missing, Search Expands to Louisiana

Alvin ISD Teacher Goes Missing, Search Expands to Louisiana

Zada Sowells, Reporter

Michelle Reynolds, an Alvin ISD junior high English teacher of eight years, has been missing since Sept. 22. Reynolds was reported missing by her husband after she left to go get something to eat and later never returned.

Her husband tracked her gray Lexus using the tracking system in her car to New Orleans. As of Tuesday Sept. 27, surveillance footage of Reynolds has surfaced.

The junior high teacher car was found in New Orleans on Saint Peters street. She was only a couple blocks away from the Mississippi River.

Reynolds left everything in her car. Her purse, License, credit cards, and even her phone. Additionally, Reynolds’s family says she has no known connections in New Orleans.

Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch, a non-profit search and recovery organization, helped obtain the surveillance footage of Reynolds from a business in New Orleans.

“We did get surveillance of her actually parking her car on Saint Peters Street at 12:01 p.m.,” Miller said when being interviewed by Fox News. “Friday afternoon and then kind of what direction she was walking. Saint Peters Street is pretty close to the Mississippi River.”

EquuSearch has sent a helicopter to search around the Mississippi River. It’s planned to fly along all of the 20 mile stretch of the Mississippi river.

It still not known how Reynolds end up in New Orleans. Or why when she got there, she immediately head for the Mississippi River.

Authorities first thought Reynolds had been carjacked. Foul pay has been ruled out as the surveillance footage show Reynolds getting out of gray Lexus on her own accord.

Miller speculates she may be confused. Reynolds has been open about his wife history with mental health. How she recently received outpatient treatment. Her husband told takes nightly medication. Reynolds husband said she might be confused and disoriented.

“She’s been off [medication] for almost six days now,” Reynolds’s husband said in an interview with Houston Public Media. “I think it’s important for people to understand her state of mind … [she’s] very intelligent, but she may not know where she is.”

EquuSearch is still working to find Reynolds with help form the Brazoria County sheriff’s office and New Orleans police department.

If you have any information, please call Brazoria County Sheriff office at 979-864-2392. Or the New Orleans Police department at 504-821-2222.

 

Sources

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/missing-alvin-isd-teacher-

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https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/michelle-reynolds-alvin-isd-missing-17475468.php