Search intensifies for North Carolina mom missing in Grenada

Somewhere between the familiar rhythms of home and the unfamiliar terrain of a Caribbean island, a 44-year-old mother from North Carolina named Elizabeth Waddell disappeared — and five days later, the world she left behind is still searching. Her absence on the island of Grenada has set in motion the quiet machinery of crisis: local authorities mobilizing, family members pressing for answers, and the slow, heavy arithmetic of time working against them. A missing person case is always, at its core, a story about how suddenly the ordinary can become the unthinkable.