Authorities have recovered the body of Holly Fischer, a missing North Carolinian whose car was found at the bottom on an 800-foot embankment Sunday Night, the Huffington Post reported. Investigators had been searching for Fischer since last week when she left her parents' home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"It is with unbearable sadness that we can confirm that she was not found alive. Our hearts are broken... We are all devastated to lose our beautiful daughter, sister and friend," the Fischer family said in a statement posted on a Facebook page, which was created to share information on the case.

A family friend who was searching for Fischer contacted authorities Sunday night and told he spotted car tracks going off the road in an area of N.C. 16 in Millers Creek, North Carolina, according to the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office. Investigators spotted Fisher's 2004 Inifiniti Suv at the bottom of a 800-foot ravine.

Family members reported Fischer missing on May 29 when she failed to make it home after spending the weekend with her parents. Bank records indicated she had stopped stoped at a store in Newport, Tennessee, and cell phone records indicated her phone had pinged a tower Thursday, along N.C. 16.

"She was under duress. Before she left her parents, she received a message from her ex that he wanted her to return home, 'effective immediately,' to turn over her car. That text upset her. She was angry and frustrated," her close friend Larisa Markanian said.