battled cancer for seven years, going through chemo and radiation but was cancer-free. dealt with mental health issues, had recently stopped eating. Lori's brother, Tim Cockrell, both say on the morning of August tenth, a neighbor at the Mill At McCullough Apartment complex where Lori lived, saw Lori parking her car, taking up two spaces. Her apartment door was found partially open, and she had left her phone, ID, and other personal items behind. The private investigator says Lori was seen getting into a 2015 Maroon CRV, with a man and woman multiple times before her disappearance. Family members and even her doctor warned Cockrell that if she didn't resume eating, she would again be hospitalized. That warning, it is theorized, is what caused her to elect disappearing.