Roanoke County Police found the body of the 41-year-old former Halifax County resident Monday when they were called to her Fort Lewis Circle home in Salem.
While at the scene, police obtained information indicating Smith’s 12-year-old daughter was missing.
An Amber Alert was issued Monday afternoon for the young girl who had called South Boston home up until four years ago prior to her parents’ divorce.
Her father, Benjamin H. Smith, is a South Boston Police officer.
The series of tragic events have left the community reeling as relatives and friends of the family anxiously await any word of Brittany’s whereabouts.
The victim’s mother and missing girl’s grandmother, Liz Dyer of South Boston, said Tuesday she continues to wait for any information on her granddaughter’s safety.
“Police have not told us anything,” she said speaking from her Eastover Drive home.
“We know she was beaten, and they’re doing an autopsy,” she said of speaking her late daughter, Tina.
Dyer said she only met Brittany’s suspected abductor, Jeffrey Scott Easley, one time.
But she was quick to add, “We didn’t like what we saw.”
The worried grandmother said she had been unaware Easley was living with her daughter and granddaughter until two weeks ago when they came home for Thanksgiving.
Brittany Mae Smith Missing
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