Police Believe a Mother Missing for 41 Years is Alive in Florida

In 1970, amid a family feud, Lula Cora Hood disappeared. Hood suffered from mental health problems and was the mother of fourteen children. The children did not hear from their mother for over twenty-years.

Then, in 1996, police alerted the family to human remains they believed to be Hood. The remains were found in a brickyard, and Hood’s family buried the remains, believing it was Hood.

Thirteen years later, in 2009, the family ordered a DNA test of the remains. The test revealed that the remains were not Hood. The police reopened the case and eventually found the eighty-four year old Hood alive in Florida. The police do not have any leads on the remains found in the brickyard.

See Zachary Roth, Woman missing 41 years found alive in Florida,  police believe, Jul. 6, 2011.