Karen Deann Hollis was 23 years old when she walked out of her home in Northport, Alabama just before midnight on 8 May 2026, telling her boyfriend she was stepping out to get a Reese's peanut butter cup. She never returned. Eight days later, it was not law enforcement who found her — it was her own family and friends who discovered her body in Greene County
Her disappearance had triggered an urgent missing and endangered person's alert from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, which noted she had a medical condition that could affect her judgement. Northport, where she was last spotted, sits roughly 60 miles from Birmingham. What followed was more than a week of desperate searching, public appeals, and mounting dread — before the worst was confirmed.
