Police discover decomposing body on shooting range
Delsie Smith
The badly decomposed body of a man was discovered today by the Hattieville Police. Late this evening police were called out to the shooting range which is located past mile eighteen on the Western Highway. The male body was buried in a makeshift grave and sources close to News Five say that it appears the man was murdered. Though it is unconfirmed, it is believed that the body may be that of Glen Smith, a thirty-eight year old carpenter, who went missing after December nineteenth of 2009. Smith was last seen by his sister at their home on the Dollar Bank Road in Hattieville. The only sign of the man was his slippers which were found a few yards away from the family home. In an interview with News Five aired on January twenty-second, Delsie Smith already had a feeling that her brother might have been killed.
Delsie Smith, Sister of Missing Person (File: January 22, 2010)
“I’m here because I want to know what happened because we didn’t get nothing. His cell phone is just answering machine; we don’t hear anything about none of his friends that he hangs with. The police is doing a very good job because I understand they have placards of his picture on all the land posts going from seventeen miles up to the border. I thought they would have kidnapped him because we found his slippers on the roadside like if he was running away from somebody or something. On the twenty-sixth of December we usually have a family day and I went up to Hattieville cause my older sister told me that she hadn’t seen him, he had not come for his Christmas dinner. So on the twenty-sixth night, we had our day and I came back. The twenty-sixth night my sister heard someone screaming down the road and on the morning of the twenty-seventh they went out there and they found the slippers and that is when I called the police when my sister informed me of the slippers.”
Duane Moody
“So what you feel happened to your brother?”
Delsie Smith
“Well my thing is, my brother dead. Somebody took my brother away and took his life. I’m just appealing to anyone if they know anything the last time they see him. I wish someone could come to the family and say something.”
The reports are still sketchy and we’ll have more on this developing situation on Wednesday’s newscast. Another man, Hubert Tillett, also went missing on the Dollar Bank Road in December and on October twenty-third last year, he was found murdered inside a dug out pool in his back yard.
