Glen Smith was murdered and left in shallow grave

Glen Smith

Two and a half months after he went missing, a Hattieville family is finally bringing closure to his disappearance.  Shortly after Glenn Smith vanished in December, the family found his slippers and suspected that he may have been killed. That appears to now be the case, as the tell tale signs were seen on his body when it was unearthed from a shallow grave on the Western Highway on Tuesday. News Five’s Jose Sanchez found the family grieving but comforted because they can finally put him to rest.

Jose Sanchez, Reporting

Thirty-eight year old Glen Smith disappeared from his Hattieville home on December nineteenth, 2009.  Tuesday evening, police visited the shooting range at mile eighteen on the Western Highway where they found in a shallow grave, the decomposing body of a man, relatives identified as Smith.

Stephanie Smith, Sister of Murder Victim

Stephanie Smith

“When I went there I saw his face. His face was disfigured. It was a body; the only difference was that his face was disfigured. He had a chop across his face. All his teeth was missing. His face was totally in a bad condition. Anyhow, we can recognize our brother body. So when they do everything—I wasn’t there when the policeman and the forensic officer was there; I got there after they left. The way I saw it, he wasn’t there from a long time ago. Ih look like they had him somewhere tortured and then they realized they couldn’t do anything else so better they finish with him. The hole that my brother was in wasn’t really a deep hole. It was a shallow hole like something that you would just sit in your yard and dig.  It look like his body had some burns; it looked like they wanted to burn him but they didn’t finish their job. They wrapped him up in a curtain. They wrapped him in a curtain so it seems as though it’s something that happened at a home. They didn’t do it at where we found him at the range. They did it at a home then they finished him where they buried him.”

When Delsie Smith visited News five in January to plead to the public for information about her brother’s whereabouts, she said she felt he was dead and only wanted to know what happened to him.

Jose Sanchez

“Does this put some closure?”

Delsie Smith

Delsie Smith, Sister of Murder Victim

“Yes it does. I’m very happy. My tears that I am bringing is for happiness and joy. Some people cry two years, can’t find their family; I’m happy that I found my bredda. I’m not satisfied about the way he is because then two months and eleven days  my bredda missing and that body just put there. We know, we se the fresh sand that digged up. We did our own investigation this morning when the police leave us and we could see everything that we wanted to know but whose to answer our question? Nobody.”

Less than twenty-four hours after his body was dug up, his family and friends dug a fresh grave for his funeral service.

Delsie Smith

“That was my second to my last baby brother. I never know him as no violent person, no bad person or whatever person. I know him as a loving person, give us jokes, dress up in skirt and dance and stuff. So I don’t know why somebody would want to brutally kill him like that. They actually chop up my brother, burn my brother, do him a lot of thing. I really would ah want know—the amount of people out here today I can’t believe that he has somebody that hates him.  I think he was a loving person, everyone talks good about him. So I want know who he did bad to?”

Glen Smith was uncovered in a shallow grave by the police on Tuesday evening and laid to rest by his family on Wednesday morning. Reporting for News Five, Jose Sanchez.

Glen Smith was laid to rest today in Hattieville.