{"id":328479,"date":"2026-07-03T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328479\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:38:10","slug":"florida-woman-missing-for-month-was-last-seen-at-publix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328479\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman missing for month was last seen at Publix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stripper has been missing for more than a month after she was last seen walking into a Florida Publix  \u2013 with her anguished mom saying the \u201cunexplainable\u201d disappearance is \u201ckilling\u201d her.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Bonnell, 30, was last seen at the Jupiter store on May 26 \u2013 two days after flying from Michigan to Miami alone on a one-way ticket on the hunt for a new club to work at, local reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnell suddenly shut down her social media, her mom Michelle Clauw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mclauw0032\/posts\/pfbid02MMbEhYagSPtWkyjCeCSHEWph898WNezcCieHFSzTzievjWU2Uz7gktkKiFhDBN1al\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said in heart-tugging online appeals<\/a> \u2014 and has had no contact with her family for more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Bonnell, 30, has been missing for more than one month.  Michelle Clauw \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>But her credit card was used at a Dunkin store, heightening the mystery and leaving her mom agonizing over her whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unexplainable,\u201d Michelle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/florida\/2026\/07\/02\/family-searching-for-missing-michigan-woman-last-seen-in-jupiter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told WPLG<\/a>. \u201cIt hurts, and it\u2019s killing me because this is not her. She would call one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething doesn\u2019t feel right, especially as a mother. We\u2019re worried. It\u2019s been hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bonnell, from Michigan\u2019s Clinton Township, previously worked as an exotic dancer at Legends nightclub in Detroit \u2013 and went to Florida to find extra work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/wwjnewsradio\/news\/local\/missing-woman-chelsea-bonnell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">her family told WWJ<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the radio silence has sparked fears something sinister may have happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like her, and we do fear that she may be with somebody that\u2019s not allowing contact to us because this is just not her,\u201d Clauw said.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnell went into the Publix store on May 26 and she was \u201calone, buying food that was very, very minimal,\u201d the mom said.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Clauw, Bonnell\u2019s mom, said her daughter\u2019s disappearance is \u2018unexplainable\u2019  Local 10<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe then did leave Publix in Jupiter and headed out to the parking lot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clauw doesn\u2019t know where her daughter headed and she tried to message on June 1 but her phone was off.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnell\u2019s card was used at a Dunkin store in West Palm Beach \u2014 around 22 miles from Jupiter \u2014 the next day, but it\u2019s not known who made the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Clauw jetted out to Florida last week trying to retrace her daughter\u2019s steps, but her efforts have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnell was seen walking into a Publix store in Jupiter \u2014 two days after arriving in Florida. Local 10<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m finding it hard to put into words how sick I\u2019m feeling,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mclauw0032\/posts\/pfbid0KxmztnycsjnUTt9srtA3D9vX6M6uCDGo79YBYyF6uaNwQKpM6TDp79We7YeW7WBJl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing down to West Palm Beach, everything in my heart told me we would lead to a connection, somehow, someway to Chelsea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t how my trip should be ending, it should be a joyful homecoming. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emptiness in my heart is gut-wrenching, no leads, nothing that gives me hope she\u2019s here for a fresh start. My concerns for her safety are stronger than ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody can convince me that after 30 days, she wouldn\u2019t be in contact with anyone in our family, no way. NO WAY!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stripper has been missing for more than a month after she was last seen walking into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,3428,4278],"class_list":["post-328479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-missing","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}