Woman reported missing after being released from Henrico Jail; family seeks help

The family of a 35-year-old woman who was released from Henrico Jail Aug. 22 is desperately seeking the community’s help in locating her after she failed to show up to meet family members who had arrived from Ohio to pick her up.

The family of Ohio-native Amanda Marshall reported her missing to Henrico Police Aug. 24 at about 3:45 p.m., according to Henrico Police spokesperson Will McCue. She had been released two days earlier, following about eight months in jail on charges related to prostitution, cousin April Foulk told the Citizen.

“Our family spoke Mandi before she left the Henrico Jail who asked us to send transportation to pick her up,” another cousin, Kyle Foulk, wrote in a Facebook message to the Citizen. Marshall, he said, was planning to walk from Henrico Jail West (on East Parham Road at the county’s western government center campus) to the Virginia Probation and Parole Office on Hungary Spring Road, about a mile away, to check in and get an address where her family members could pick her up.

But, “we never got the phone call that she had arrived at the probation office and to give us the address,” he said. “We have called the probation and parole office who states she never made it there.”

Police are calling Marshall’s disappearance “suspicious” and are asking anyone with information about her location to contact them at (804) 501-5000 or anonymously through Metro Richmond Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000 or by using the P3 Tips app or online at p3tips.com.

The Henrico Sheriff’s Office used surveillance video to determine that Marshall had in fact left the jail after hanging up the phone with her family and then headed left (toward the western government center) and out of the camera’s sight, cousin April Foulk told the Citizen. The family filed a missing person report.

April Foulk wasn’t sure exactly how or when Marshall ended up in Virginia but estimated that she had been in the area for a few months before her arrest. A male acquaintance of hers had been arrested with her, Foulk said, but he was released before her, and Foulk did not believe Marshall would have sought to meet him upon her own release.

“Her mindset was she was ready to get home, live a sober life, do what she needed to do to rekindle her relationship with her kids and her family,” Foulk said of Marshall, who she said has an 11-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter who live in Ohio with their father. “She was very adamant about coming home.”

Foulk described Marshall (pictured) as about 5-foot-3 or 5-foot-4 in height, possibly weighing about 210 pounds, with shorter-length brown hair. She has a cluster of stars tattooed on her right upper arm, Foulk said.

The family is worried about Marshall, who Foulk described as “a great person, very loving and caring. She trusts everybody.”