Ring video doorbell captures missing mom the night before she disappeared

Erica Hernandez, 40, was last seen leaving a friend's house in southwest Houston in the early morning hours of April 18.

A doorbell camera recorded video of a Texas mother the night before she vanished without a trace. Erica Hernandez, 40, was last seen leaving a friend's house in southwest Houston in the early morning hours of April 18. She was wearing a teal T-shirt with jeans and was driving a black 2020 GMC Acadia with Texas plates, according to officials and her family. Hernandez's sister-in-law, Eldia Hernandez, said she came to their house on the evening of April 17 to drop off food while her three children -- ages 3, 15 and 19 -- waited in the car. Hernandez then drove her kids home before leaving for a friend's house later that night. She left the friend's house at around 2:30 a.m. CT the following morning and hasn't been seen or heard from since, according to her family. "She was fine. I mean, she was happy," Eldia Hernandez recalled in an interview with Houston ABC station KTRK. "She was a little tired, but that was about it."