Miracles Happen...

Carole Moore
Missing Persons Contributor
Officer.com

...And Amber Pennell is living proof. When Amber Pennell disappeared on her way home from work one night, her husband and family feared the worst. The 21-year-old mother of two wasn’t the type to pull up stakes and move on. She had a job in Lenoir, N.C., and worked hard to help support her two children, 3-year-old Gracelyn and 1-year-old Cameron. She had a strong marriage and no reason to leave. Everyone suspected the worst. But then Amber Pennell had the luck to cross paths with a man named Tommy Courtner, who spotted car tire tracks and broken leaves leading into a ravine on the side of a highway. When Courtner went to investigate, he found Pennell alive, but badly injured. Despite five days pinned under her vehicle without food or water, authorities say Pennell will recover from her wounds. Here is the moral to that story – and it’s one the families of those who have gone missing understand and know better than anyone else: Never stop. Never give up. Miracles happen. Amber Pennell is one of them. Good job, Mr. Courtner! Here’s my missing person spotlight for this post, from the Web site of Missing Persons Throughout the World, operated by a retired Coroner’s Officer in the UK: http://www.mispers.com/aiemsakul.html