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m. the supervisors wanted to get all of the students together to wrap up but Michelle was still missing her person and coat was sat in the staff room she hadn't signed out and her phone was just ringing out concerned her instructor grabbed someone from security and they went out into the parking lot to Michelle's usual space but it was silent and empty a few minutes later Michelle's car screeched back into the building and back up to the third floor her instructor started waving and the car briefly stopped before reversing back driving past them and going back out of the building again it went without saying this was not like Michelle her instructor was not only alarmed but frankly unconvinced that it was even Michelle in that car she wasted no time and called the police the following morning there was still nothing from the 26-year-old it had now been about 10 hours since anyone had last seen her about 15 of her friends and colleagues had turned up at the police station they could not stress enough how odd this was for Michelle something was seriously wrong and they weren't leaving until an investigation was underway officers got it loud and clear and detective started over in the hospital's parking lot her ex-boyfriend whom she was still friendly with started calling around her family to let them know over at the parking lot they found Blood on the ground where her Honda had been and just an hour later at 9:00 a. m.
