Missing in North Carolina: Where is Frances ‘Dell’ Apperson?

Frances Apperson was looking forward to spending time with family and doing some hiking in the North Carolina mountains. She enjoyed the mountains but really and truly loved spending time with her family.

It was May of 2022, and the weather was becoming warmer and the sun was staying out longer. Summer was on the way.

Frances was supposed to meet her family for a nature hike near Hawksbill Mountain Trailhead, but she never showed up.

Frances, at age 67, lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Hawksbill would be about a 2-hour drive from her apartment in the city. At first, the family thought maybe she changed her mind, however, continued calls to her cell phone went unanswered.

Frances was deaf but had been deaf since she was a baby and navigated the world just fine.

Pretty soon, the family started to search for Frances, and after a few days of not finding her, she was reported missing on May 21, 2022, to the Mecklenburg County Police Department. Mecklenburg County is the county where Frances resided.

An alert for Frances was put out, as was a BOLO — be on the lookout- for her car, which was also missing.

That would change nine days later when authorities finally received Frances’s cell…