Gone
Sep 17, 2026 · 44 min · 14 segments
Michelle Warner had been living with her ex-boyfriend, Mark Castellano, when she vanished in 2012. Castellano claimed she stormed out after a fight, leaving behind their three-year-old son. Castellano…
Sep 17, 2026 · 44 min · 14 segments
Michelle Warner had been living with her ex-boyfriend, Mark Castellano, when she vanished in 2012. Castellano claimed she stormed out after a fight, leaving behind their three-year-old son. Castellano…
Tracy SmithIt's just about a 45-minute drive from the refineries of the Texas coast to the high-rises of downtown Houston, and in 2000, 20-year-old Michelle Warner moved to the big city.
Michelle did have the small-town girl in her, but Michelle always desired to go to the big city.
She loved to talk to people.
Um, she never met a stranger.
We were really, really close when we were young kids.
I mean, really close.
From the time we were born, we did pretty much everything together.
I was her child, not theirs.
She just grew into this beautiful swan, you know, and she had the long, pretty hair, and, um, a beautiful smile.
She started going to college and started studying criminal justice.
When that marriage went south in 2003, little Haley went to live with the ex-husband and Michelle was on her own.
Michelle was a great mom, um, but she ran into some tough times in her life.
She even disappeared a couple of times, and she was arrested for possession of cocaine.
But that was eight years ago, and her family says Michelle's dark days were behind her.
She was finally turning around.
She was no longer on any kind of drugs.
She was going to work every day.
In 2008, she also began a relationship with a man she met at work, a man named Mark Castellano.
It's just about a 45-minute drive from the refineries of the Texas coast to the high-rises of downtown Houston, and in 2000, 20-year-old Michelle Warner moved to the big city.
Michelle did have the small-town girl in her, but Michelle always desired to go to the big city.
She loved to talk to people.
Um, she never met a stranger.
We were really, really close when we were young kids.
I mean, really close.
From the time we were born, we did pretty much everything together.
I was her child, not theirs.
She just grew into this beautiful swan, you know, and she had the long, pretty hair, and, um, a beautiful smile.
She started going to college and started studying criminal justice.
When that marriage went south in 2003, little Haley went to live with the ex-husband and Michelle was on her own.
Michelle was a great mom, um, but she ran into some tough times in her life.
She even disappeared a couple of times, and she was arrested for possession of cocaine.
But that was eight years ago, and her family says Michelle's dark days were behind her.
She was finally turning around.
She was no longer on any kind of drugs.
She was going to work every day.
In 2008, she also began a relationship with a man she met at work, a man named Mark Castellano.
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