Assumed Deceased: Marsilene Smith--TN--12/06/2007

[Denise]

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Marsiline is in center

Woman Missing After Shopping Trip

Posted: Dec 7, 2007 05:24 AM CST
Updated: Dec 7, 2007 11:56 PM CST
 
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - The search continues for a missing 69-year-old Murfreesboro woman, who was last seen before she went shopping Thursday.

Murfreesboro police found Marsilene Smith's Lincoln sports utility vehicle Friday morning in a Wal-Mart parking lot on Rutherford Boulevard. Smith was not inside the vehicle.

Investigators said Smith called her husband around 1:30 p.m. to tell him she was going Christmas shopping around town.

Smith is a diabetic who depended on insulin.

Her husband Glover Smith called police when his wife didn't return home.

"Whether somebody abducted her, I think that started it because I think if she had a reaction, she would have gone somewhere to get something to drink or eat," he said. "Or maybe, under the circumstances, she can't go get it now."

She owns a cell phone that she took with her, but police said there weren't any calls made from it since her disappearance.

Two towers in Murfreesboro have detected a signal from the phone's GPS tracking device, but investigators cannot find it someone uses the phone.

"It could be that this is the result of foul play," said Kyle Evans, an officer and spokesman for the Murfreesboro Police Department. "We're looking into all those possibilities, but it's too early to speculate how that vehicle got there."

Detectives reviewed surveillance video from Wal-Mart Friday.

Smith's daughter LeAnn Barbes said she is worried because her mother cannot go for long time periods without her insulin.

"I'm just afraid that I'll never see my mom again," Barnes said.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents will process the car.

"We've been married 51 years," Glover Smith said. "I don't know what life's going to be like without her. I still hope that she's going to come home."

Marsilene Smith is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 139 pounds. She has short brown/red hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing glasses, a long-sleeved top, a blue-jean jacket, denim jeans and black zip-up boots.

If anyone sees any sign of Smith or has any information on her whereabouts, call Murfreesboro police at 849-2670.

[Denise]

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Local woman's mother missing
Saturday, December 8, 2007

The mother of a Shelbyville woman was reported missing Friday in Murfreesboro after her SUV was found abandoned.

Marsilene Smith, the 68-year-old mother of Leann Barnes of Shelbyville, was last seen shopping at K-Mart or Old Time Pottery on Thursday afternoon, but was reported missing by her husband Glover Smith after she did not return home after dark.

Murfreesboro police found her champagne-colored Lincoln Navigator in the Wal-Mart parking lot on South Rutherford Boulevard at 7 a.m. Friday morning. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations was asked Friday afternoon to examine the vehicle.

Police spokesman Kyle Evans would not say if evidence of foul play was discovered but added that Smith would normally come home from shopping after dark.

Smith is insulin dependent and is at risk of going into shock and suffering from disorientation without her medicine, authorities said.

She is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, 139 pounds, with short brownish red hair, blue eyes with glasses and was last seen wearing a long sleeve top, a blue jean jacket, faded blue jeans, and black zip-up boots.

Authorities are also examining hours of surveillance tapes from Wal-Mart for clues to the disappearance as well as footage from a nearby gas station.

[Denise]

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Still photos of surveillance video at link

Man gets bicycle out of missing woman's SUV

By Lisa Marchesoni - Dec. 8, 2007 - 6:54 PM

Wal-Mart cameras showed an unidentified man removing a bicycle from a missing woman's SUV about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, just an hour after she left her home to shop, a Murfreesboro Police spokesman said.

Police hope information about the man will lead to his identity so detectives can ask him about how he obtained the Lincoln Navigator owned by missing woman Marsiline Smith, said spokesman Kyle Evans.

The cameras do not show Smith, 68, of Village Green getting out of the vehicle. Her husband reported her missing about 6:30 p.m. Thursday after she didn't come home from shopping. Smith is a diabetic. Without her insulin, she gets disoriented and goes into shock.

Parked between two Budget trucks, man removes car from Smith's SUV

Cameras showed the man driving Smith's champagne-colored Lincoln Navigator into the parking lot where he cuts off a car, possibly a gray Audi with a sunroof, with two people inside. The people in the car are asked to call Murfreesboro Police at 893-1311 to determine if they have any information about the man driving Smith's SUV.

After cutting off the other car, the man pulls into a parking space between two Budget trucks, "gets out a bicycle out of the Navigator and rides around the car and access road behind Applebee's toward Wine and Spirits" liquor store, the spokesman said. Police are considering the man a "person of interest," not a suspect, Evans said.

Police hope the driver of this Audi might have seen something.

"This guy is our best link of what happened to her. He may have the answers we're looking for." People who know the man and where he lives, saw him riding his bicycle about 2:30 p.m. Thursday near Wal-Mart or have any other information about him are asked to call Murfreesboro Police at 893-1311.

"That small piece of information may be what we need to find Mrs. Smith alive," Evans said. Police are still treating Smith's disappearance as a missing person case. "We are not ruling out foul play," Evans said. She is white, about 5-foot-4 and weighing 139 pounds. She has short, brown-red hair and blue eyes. She wears glasses. She was last seen wearing a long-sleeved shirt, faded blue jeans and a blue jeans jacket.

[Denise]

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PHOTO of person of interest at link

Person of interest emerges in case of missing woman

By TURNER HUTCHENS
trhutchens@dnj.com
 Turner Hutchens,

Murfreesboro Police are looking for a man who was seen riding a bicycle after leaving a missing woman's vehicle in the Wal-Mart parking lot on South Rutherford Boulevard.

Wal-Mart surveillance video shows an unknown man  not 69-year-old Marsilene Smith  was driving the woman's Lincoln Navigator sports utility vehicle when it was left in the parking lot Thursday.

"We are still considering this a missing persons case," Murfreesboro Police spokesman Kyle Evan said Saturday. "We have not ruled out anything, including foul play."

Smith's husband reported her missing Thursday around 6 p.m. when she did not return home from shopping.

The time stamp on the surveillance video  2:30 p.m.  is one hour after Smith was reported to have left her home.

The video shows a man parking Smith's vehicle, get a bike out of the trunk of the SUV, then bike south, going behind Applebee's.

Before parking the SUV, the man cut off a white sedan with a sunroof, Evans said.

Police believe two or more occupants of that car may have seen the man and be able to offer information about him, Evans said. Anyone who saw the man riding the bike in or around the Wal-Mart parking lot is asked to call police.

The man is considered a person of interest at this point  not a suspect, Evans said.

Evans said police want to know how the man came into possession of the vehicle, if he had contact with Smith and why he left it there.

"We have a bunch of questions for this guy," he said.

Smith is 5-foot-4, weighs about 139 pounds and has short, brownish-red hair. She was last seen wearing long sleeves, faded blue jeans and boots.

She normally shops at Kmart, Old Time Pottery, Kroger, Stones River Mall and The Avenue Murfreesboro.

Smith is an insulin-dependent diabetic and family members are worried about their loved one's health the longer she goes without her routine treatments.

Without medication, Smith could become disoriented or, worse, go into a diabetic shock, family members have said.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Marsilene Smith or the man who was seen leaving her vehicle in the Wal-Mart parking lot is asked to contact Murfreesboro Police at 615-893-1311.

[Denise]

Friends distribute flyers about missing diabetic woman

By Lisa Marchesoni - Dec. 9, 2007 - 2:17 PM
 
With her voice trembling, adult daughter Lee Ann Barnes pleaded for help in locating her missing mother, Marsilene Smith.

Smith, 69, a diabetic who relies on insulin to live, disappeared Thursday after she left her Village Green home about 1:30 p.m. to shop for Christmas. Surveillance cameras at Wal-Mart on Rutherford Boulevard at 2:30 p.m. showed a man getting a bicycle out of Smiths Lincoln Navigator and pedaling toward Wine and Spirits.

Please be my eyes and my ears, Barnes said during a press conference today as she struggled to keep her composure. I know someone is out there who can help me find my mother.

Brother-in-law Jamie Barnes said the family organized friends, co-workers and church members to distribute flyers with Smiths photograph and information on where people may call if they know her whereabouts.

They gathered Sunday afternoon near Barfield Elementary School to dispatch volunteers in a 5-mile radius to get as many people aware Mrs. Smith is still missing and we still need to search for her.

Granddaughter Christina Barnes clutched a poster-sized photograph of Smith while her husband, Palmer, and other family members surrounded her during the press conference.

People who have any information about her are asked to call Murfreesboro Police at 893-1311 or the Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717.

Barnes thanked everyone who has called detectives with information.

The family placed flyers about Smith in Murfreesboro businesses. They intend to distribute the flyers to houses around her Barfield neighborhood.

Barnes thanked the businesses for allowing her to spread information about her missing mother.

I do want to find my mother, Barnes said.

She thanked Detective Mike Taylor for sticking with me Thursday night, and his supervisors, Detective Capt. Chris Guthrie and Detective Maj. Jim Gage. She thanked Wal-Mart for sharing the tapes on the cameras and everyone who has called with information so far.

Please be receptive to the flyers, Barnes pleaded, adding, We just want to find my mother.

Sister-in-law Debbie Barnes said the Murfreesboro community is a caring one so she hopes people with information will call with any information the police can put together to find Smith.

We just hope shes well taken care of because shes a diabetic, Debbie Barnes said.

 
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[Denise]

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Search Party Grows For Missing Woman

MURFREESBORO, Tenn.- There are new developments in the case of a missing Rutherford County woman. Marsilene Smith,69, vanished Thursday. Sunday, the search party grew by the dozens determined to find her.

It was an all-out search this weekend to find a missing Rutherford County woman. Marsilene "Marcy" Smith,69, vanished last Thursday while Christmas shopping alone. Sunday, an army of volunteers, armed with maps and a well thought out plan scoured every square mile of Murfreesboro.

They circulated pictures of Smith's SUV which was found Friday behind a Murfreesboro Wal-Mart and pictures of Smith who's diabetic and could be in need of life-saving insulin and food.

"We were out yesterday. All day, until about 9:30 at night. Putting fliers at businesses and door to door," said friend and volunteer Barbara Caldwell.

Over the weekend, Murfreesboro police released surveillance footage of a strange man parking Smith's SUV then riding off on a bicycle. Detectives desperately want to hear from anyone with information.

"She is a love, inside and out. She's a beautiful, loving, wonderful woman. And uhm, I just don't know of anything worse," said Caldwell.

The case is high priority for Murfreesboro Police, who just released surveillance video of a mystery man parking Smith's SUV.

"This person has traveled through the city. And we have this person on video. Please help me find this person!" LeAnn Barnes, Marsilene Smith's daughter pleaded.

A lack of time is fueling an already high speed search. Marsilene Smith's Lincoln SUV was found just before sun-up Friday in a far corner of the Wal-Mart parking lot on Rutherford Boulevard.

Since releasing that surveillance tape Saturday, Murfreesboro police have received a handful of tips, but nothing very promising.

Detectives are also reviewing surveillance tapes from surrounding businesses to try to get a better look at the man on that bicycle.

[Denise]

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Rutherford County: Family asks for help in finding woman

Family members of a missing 69-year-old Murfreesboro woman are going door to door to distribute fliers in the search for clues about her disappearance.

Friends, neighbors and others met Sunday outside Barfield Elementary School to ask for help in finding Marsilene Smith, who failed to return from a Christmas shopping trip Tuesday.
 
Family and friends have been posting fliers with Smith's description and photo at local businesses.

"We are still considering this a missing persons case," Murfreesboro Police spokesman Kyle Evans said Sunday.

Smith's Lincoln Navigator was found in the Rutherford Boulevard Wal-Mart parking lot. Surveillance video shows a man parking the SUV there Thursday.

Police are searching for the man, who rode away on a bicycle after leaving the SUV in the parking lot.

Smith is 5 feet 4, weighs about 139 pounds and has short, strawberry blond hair. She was last seen wearing a long-sleeved blouse, faded blue jeans and boots. She is an insulin-dependent diabetic.

Police ask that anyone with information about the missing woman or the man driving her SUV call them at 893-1311.

[Denise]

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Searchers for missing woman hit the streets

Monday, December 10, 2007

Volunteers and authorites in Murfreesboro are continuing the search for a woman who vanished Thursday afternoon while Christmas shopping.

Marsilene Smith, the 68-year-old mother of Leann Barnes of Shelbyville, was last seen shopping at K-Mart or Old Time Pottery on Thursday afternoon, but was reported missing by her husband Glover Smith after she did not return home after dark.

Barnes was in Murfreesboro Sunday, thanking the community and members of law enforcement for their efforts to find Smith. She asked the community to be her eyes and ears in the search.

She said authorities were keeping her apprised of their progress, sometimes hourly. The family has been putting up flyers in Murfreesboro businesses and planned to go door-to-door on Monday. Murfreesboro Police spokesman Kyle Evan told the Daily News Journal and the Murfreesboro Post on Sunday that the department considers it a missing persons case.

Police found Smith's champagne-colored Lincoln Navigator in the Wal-Mart parking lot on South Rutherford Boulevard at 7 a.m. Friday. They are searching for a person of interest -- an unknown man seen was driving the woman's SUV when it was left in the parking lot Thursday, according to a surveillance video at Wal-Mart.

The man in question was seen riding a bicycle after leaving Smith's SUV in the parking lot.

"We are looking for anyone who may have seen him and give us a description of him. On the tape we can see him cut off another vehicle. We want to know who that person was and to know if they have a description of him," Evan told the Murfreesboro media. "He is a person of interest, not a suspect."

The person was seen on the tape cutting off a white sedan with a sunroof, Evan said.

Anyone who saw the man riding the bike in or around the Wal-Mart parking lot is asked to call police.

Smith is insulin dependent and is at risk of going into shock and suffering from disorientation without her medicine, authorities said.

She is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, 139 pounds, with short brownish red hair, blue eyes with glasses and was last seen wearing a long sleeve top, a blue jean jacket, faded blue jeans, and black zip-up boots.

Anyone with information about Smith is asked to call Murfreesboro Police at (615) 893-1311 or the Criminal Investigations Division at (615) 893-2717

[Denise]

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New security photos released

By Lisa Marchesoni - Dec. 10, 2007 - 3:08 PM

An unidentified man and woman carrying a baby into Wal-Mart Thursday may hold clues to the disappearance of a missing Murfreesboro woman.

Diabetic Marsilene Smith, 69, of Village Green was reported missing Thursday night by her husband, Palmer. Her Lincoln Navigator was located Friday parked between two Budget trucks at Wal-Mart on Rutherford Boulevard. Wal-Mart surveillance tapes showed a man parked the Lincoln at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday at Wal-Mart, removed a bicycle and rode away. During a press conference Monday, Murfreesboro Police Maj. Clyde Adkison said a man and woman driving a small, silver or white compact car with a sunroof were right behind the man driving the Navigator. Videotape showed the woman carrying a baby gave the man a baby blanket he draped over his shoulder when they entered Wal-Mart just after seeing the man in the Navigator.

We believe these two folks might have some possible information, Adkison said. It is imperative we identify these two. They are not suspects but potential witnesses, he said. We do not believe they are associated with the lady missing, Adkison said.

People who recognize the couple are asked to notify police about their names, addresses, telephone numbers, where they work or any other information so detectives may talk to them. People may call the Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717.

Detectives need citizens help to solve the puzzle of Smiths disappearance by identifying the couple at Wal-Mart. As far as Adkison knows, detectives did not receive any calls about the man on the bicycle. When asked about detectives beliefs about the disappearance, Adkison said the longer a case remains unsolved, the harder the case is to be solved.

Time is against us, Adkison said. We are looking for all the help we can get. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents processed the Lincoln for evidence. Detectives were reinterviewing family members in the hopes of obtaining more clues.

Smiths family called a press conference Sunday to announce they were circulating flyers with Smiths photographs in the hopes of locating her. 

[Denise]

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Person Of Interest Sought In Disappearance Case

Posted: Dec 10, 2007 04:34 PM CST

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Authorities continued the search for a 69-year-old woman who vanished Thursday while shopping.

Marsilene Smith was last seen shopping Thursday afternoon in Murfreesboro.

Murfreesboro police found her Lincoln Navigator in a Wal-Mart parking lot on South Rutherford Boulevard Friday morning.

Police are searching for a man they call a person of interest. Store surveillance video shows him driving her sports utility vehicle in the parking lot. The unknown man is also shown pulling out a bicycle from the trunk and riding away.

Smith's husband Glover Smith reported her missing when she didn't return home by nightfall.

Police also want to speak to witnesses who may help identify the man such as a couple seen riding in a nearby vehicle. They were in a white or silver sedan driving behind Smith's SUV.

"They're somebody, we think, that may know something about the vehicle or him or they may could recognize who he is or could tell us who he is," said Maj. Clyde Atkinson of the Murfreesboro Police Department.

Anyone with information with this case or know the pair who may have spotted the man in Smith's Lincoln Navigator.

Smith's relatives spent the weekend handing out fliers and canvassing the area where she was last seen.

Police are also looking through surveillance video from nearby stores for clues.

Anyone with information about Smith is asked to call the Murfreesboro Police Department at 893-1311 or the department's Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717.

[Denise]

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Police Take To The Air In Search Of Missing Woman

Posted: Dec 11, 2007 08:04 AM CST

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Officials decided on the aerial search for Marselene Smith, a missing Murfreesboro woman, after a promising lead turned out to be a dead end.

Monday night, police identified a man and woman who were caught on surveillance tape at Wal-Mart at about the same time a male suspect dropped off Marselene Smith's SUV.   

The couple spoke with detectives, but said they didn't see anything.

Marcy Smith is 69-years-old and diabetic. Smith is a constant concern for the men and women working the case.

"Well, unfortunately I think as with any crime - and I think what you have to do is take a look at any crime - the longer a crime goes unsolved the harder it is to solve. I am not a detective, but I think any investigator is going to tell you that. Time is against us," said Clyde Atkinson, Murfreesboro Police.

The outside camera shot of the mystery man parking Smith's SUV and riding off on a bicycle, is sketchy at best. That's why investigators were so intent on finding the two shoppers who might have looked him in the eye.

[Kelly]

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UPDATE: Missing woman's cell phone found

By Lisa Marchesoni - Dec. 11, 2007 - 8:33 PM

A cell telephone belonging to a missing woman was located Tuesday night on Barfield-Crescent Road near Barfield Baptist Church, the Murfreesboro Police spokesman said.

Locating the telephone eliminates police using the device to track the whereabouts of missing Marsiline Smith, 69, of Village Green, said spokesman Kyle Evans.

"She doesn't have the cell phone on her," Evans said. "It definitely eliminates the possibility of using the phone to locate her. It adds extra questions to the investigation."

Smith, who lives behind Kroger's on South Church Street, was reported missing last Thursday. Her Lincoln Navigator was located Friday at Wal-Mart on Rutherford Boulevard. Her husband, Palmer, told police his wife left about 1:30 p.m. Thursday to shop. Wal-Mart video cameras showed a man parked her car about 2:30 p.m., retrieved a bicycle from the back and pedaled away.

In a press conferecne Tuesday, Smith's daughter Lee Ann Barnes asked people who know information about the bicyclist to call police.

Evans said no other evidence was found on Barfield-Crescent Road to help in the search for Smith.

"We're not going to stop until we get answers in this case," Evans said.

People who have information may call the Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717.

Barnes said Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopters searched the Barfield area while police officers searched the ground for Smith.

Evans said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents and the U.S. Marshals helped in the search Tuesday.

"We want to extend our gratitude for their assistance in this investigation," Evans said.

[Denise]

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Missing woman's daughter begs for info on bicyclist

By Lisa Marchesoni - Dec. 11, 2007 - 2:52 PM

A missing womans daughter pleaded for information about an older man riding a bicycle removed from her mothers Lincoln Navigator at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Wal-Mart on Rutherford Boulevard.

Marsilene Smith, 69, who lives behind Krogers on South Church Street, was reported missing last Thursday. Her Lincoln Navigator was found about one hour later at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart videotape showed an older man retrieved a bicycle from the back of the vehicle and rode toward Applebees.

During a press conference Tuesday, Smiths daughter, Lee Ann Barnes, flanked by her daughter, Christina, sister-in-law Debbie Barnes and friends, distributed a flyer with her mothers photograph and the bicyclists grainy photograph. Locating the man on the bicycle will hopefully lead to her mother, she said.

I beg you viewers, be my eyes and ears today, Barnes said. Help us find this individual. Keep us in your prayers.

She described the bicyclist as an older white man wearing a dark cap and tan jacket. The bicycle appeared to be a girls or womans bicycle. She hopes someone who saw the man riding the bicycle will recognize him and call police with information. The bicycle was not her mothers bicycle and she didnt know why the bicycle was inside her mothers SUV.

We do think he might have some details, Barnes said of the bicyclist, adding he might have contacts with someone who knows about her disappearance. I dont know where she is.

She and other family members distributed flyers with different photographs of her mother Saturday, Sunday and Monday in hopes someone might recognize her and have information about her whereabouts. I do anything I can, Barnes said while trying to keep her composure. Tennessee Highway Patrols pilot and helicopter conducted an aerial search Tuesday of the Barfield community while uniformed officers and detectives searched on the ground. Barnes said Murfreesboro Police are doing an excellent job.

People who have information about the bicyclist or Smiths disappearance may call the Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717, Murfreesboro Police Departments communications center at 893-1311 or Crime Stoppers at 893-STOP.

[Denise]

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Daughter of missing woman makes impassioned plea

By TURNER HUTCHENS
trhutchens@dnj.com

 Turner Hutchens, 615-278-5161

The family of a missing woman is renewing calls for the public's help in finding an unidentified man seen riding a bicycle away from the woman's car.

In a press conference Tuesday in the parking lot of the Rutherford Boulevard Wal-Mart, where the woman's car was found, LeAnn Barnes pleaded for help in finding her 69-year-old mother, Marcelene Smith.
   
It was the second such family press conference since Sunday, when family members gathered media at Barfield School and distributed fliers describing Smith.

Barnes asked again for the public's help to identify a man seen riding a bicycle away from her mother's Lincoln Navigator sports utility vehicle around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, the afternoon she went missing.

"I beg you, viewers, be my eyes and ears," she said.

A Wal-Mart parking lot surveillance video released by police shows a man parking Smith's vehicle, then get a bike out of the trunk of the SUV before biking south.

"Please, watch the video again," Barnes said.

She said that the man on the bicycle could be the key to finding out what happened to her mother. The man's features are difficult to make out on the video because of the distance across the parking lot from the camera.

A couple seen on video following the SUV into the parking lot that afternoon before entering the store contacted police after a public plea Monday, but were unable to offer any useful information, Murfreesboro Police Spokesman Kyle Evans said.

"When that door closed, it allowed us to go down other avenues of investigation," he said. "We're still looking through video tape. We're still following any lead we can."

Evans said he couldn't confirm statements by the family that a helicopter had been used Tuesday to aid in the search for the missing woman.

"We're not giving up on this," he said.

Smith's husband reported her missing around 6 p.m. Thursday when she did not return home. She left her 406 Village Green home in the Barfield community about 1:30 p.m. that day to go shopping, he said.

Detectives have not disclosed what, if anything, was found inside Smith's vehicle, which the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation examined for evidence on Friday.

Smith is an insulin-dependent diabetic and family members are worried about their loved one's health the longer she goes without her routine treatments. Without medication, Smith could become disoriented or, worse, go into a diabetic shock, according to family members.

Smith is 5-foot-4, weighs about 139 pounds and has short, strawberry blond hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a blue jean jacket, faded blue jeans and black shoes.

Anyone with information about the man who rode a bicycle away from Smith's vehicle is encouraged to call the Murfreesboro Police Department at 615-893-1311 or Crime Stoppers at 615-893-STOP.

 

[Kelly]

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Wednesday, 12/12/07

Missing womans cell phone found

Police and state investigators found the cell phone of a missing Murfreesboro woman Tuesday, but the discovery may have presented more questions than answers, according to police.

Marsilene Smith, 69, has been missing for nearly a week after her SUV was found in a Wal-Mart parking lot Dec. 6. Smiths phone was found Tuesday afternoon on Barfield Crescent Road in the Barfield community, about nine miles away from the South Rutherford Boulevard Wal-Mart.
 
This answers one question but opens several more  how did it end up there? said Murfreesboro Police spokesman Kyle Evans.

Evans said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officials are going over the phone, but there were no phone calls from it. The TBI will likely try to see if there are fingerprints on the phone, Evans said.

Todays rainy weather will likely rule out any sort of air search for Smith, Evans said.