Friend describes last known movements of missing American in Grenada

Elizabeth Waddell, a 44-year-old mother from North Carolina, was visiting Grenada when she disappeared, according to an account provided by a friend who is also speaking for her family. Her last reported sighting was on July 22. The account places her at Grand Anse Beach in St. George’s, Grenada’s capital, turning a stretch of Caribbean shoreline into the final publicly described location in the case.

Amanda Romano-Harmon, identified as Waddell’s friend and the family’s spokesperson, said police have obtained video connected to Waddell’s final known movements. The footage is significant because it offers a sequence of events rather than only a reported sighting. It also supplies a more specific account of where Waddell went during the period immediately before she was reported missing.

According to Romano-Harmon’s description, the recording shows Waddell heading toward a pier near the beach. It then shows her entering the water. The Royal Grenada Police Force recovered the surveillance material, Romano-Harmon said. No further account of the video’s contents was provided in the information available, and the description does not say what happened after Waddell went into the sea. It also does not give a precise time for the sequence shown.

The date and setting give the case a defined starting point: July 22, on Grand Anse Beach in the capital city. But a last known location is not the same as an explanation for a disappearance. The known details establish that Waddell was at the beach and that video apparently captured her movement from the pier into the water; they do not, by themselves, establish why she did not return or where she went afterward.

Video can narrow the period investigators and relatives are trying to understand, particularly when a person’s reported movements are otherwise uncertain. In this case, the material described by Romano-Harmon may help distinguish confirmed activity from later assumptions. At the same time, a recording is limited by what it captures. The available description does not identify anyone accompanying Waddell, any subsequent location, or any conclusion drawn by police from the footage.

Romano-Harmon’s role brings together two parts of the public account: she is described as both a personal friend and a representative for Waddell’s family. Her statement attributes recovery of the footage to the Royal Grenada Police Force, while relaying the family’s understanding of its contents. That distinction matters as the public information remains limited to the movements she outlined rather than a fuller explanation of the disappearance.

Waddell’s disappearance involves an American visitor on a Caribbean island, with the last known events tied to a beach in Grenada’s capital. The case therefore has an international dimension for relatives seeking answers far from home, but the details released so far remain narrowly focused. They identify Waddell, the date, the beach, and the apparent movement into the water, without offering a confirmed account beyond that point.

The footage may become an important reference point as authorities assess the circumstances surrounding Waddell’s disappearance. It can place her at a particular location and show part of a timeline, but it cannot answer questions that fall outside the images described by the family spokesperson. Any additional understanding would depend on information that has not been included in the account so far, including whether officials disclose further findings or clarify the video’s full sequence.

For now, the clearest public account is a concise one: Waddell was last reported seen on July 22 at Grand Anse Beach in St. George’s, and surveillance video recovered by Grenadian police reportedly shows her going to a pier before entering the water. The account leaves unresolved what followed. As the case develops, further verified details from authorities or Waddell’s representatives would be needed to clarify the events after her last documented movements and to establish a fuller timeline.

Source: CBS World