Carey Mae Parker disappeared March 17, 1991. The last known documented sighting of Carey is when she finished her shift at Precisionaire in Terrell, Texas. Neither she nor her 1980 Buick Skylark has ever been found. Carey was 23 years old at the time she disappeared. She was a mother of three young children, who were 6, 5 and 2 at the time she disappeared. Carey’s three children grew up without a mother. For many years the kids were tortured thinking their mother abandoned them. Several things have led Carey's sister to believe something must have happened to her. The summer before Carey disappeared, her sister asked her to move to Houston with her and she refused. She didn’t want to leave Quinlan, Texas. This refusal has led her sister to believe she would not have left of her own accord. Her son’s birthday was the week she disappeared and she was planning a birthday party for him. She never showed up for that party or called. Her last paycheck was mailed to her father’s address, because she used his address as her permanent address. Other items such as her driver’s license and car registration also arrived at her father’s address and were never retrieved by Carey. Her mother passed away in 1995 never knowing what happened to Carey. Her faher is still alive, but now has dementia and is in a nursing home in Honey Grove, Texas. Today Carey would be 46 years old and have four grandchildren she has never seen.

Carey's sister didn’t learn until 2010 that the report she filed in Terrell, Texas in June of 1991 was not a missing person’s report, but instead was a welfare check. She also discovered in 2010 there was never a missing person’s report filed in Hunt County. Since this discovery, one was filed in Hunt County and all rumors heard and details known have been given to the Hunt County Sheriff’s department. Carey's sister has attempted time after time to contact Hunt County and request updates, but only gets their voicemail. E-mails go unanswered. Messages do not get returned. To her knowledge, there has never been a search for Carey or her car and nobody has been questioned about her disappearance. Since October of 2012, her sister has worked tirelessly by herself to find answers. Since then, Carey has been entered into the DPS Missing Person’s Clearinghouse, NamUS, The Charley Project, Missing persons report.org and Websleuth. An article has been published in the Quinlan Tawakoni News and the "Missing Carey Parker" Facebook page has been started. Her family has had a memorial, raised $1000 for a reward and after 6 months of Hunt County not sending in the family's DNA, her sister was finally able to get it accomplished working with the DPS and her local police department. She continues to work on getting her younger sister’s DNA submitted through other means as well. This has been the most difficult of any trials she has ever faced. All she wants is to bring Carey home, but many days it seems hopeless no matter how hard she tries...