VA VA - Israel Smith, 28, Wytheville, 10 March 2008

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Missing Since: March 10, 2008 from Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia
Classification: Missing
Date Of Birth: January 18, 1980
Age: 28
Height: 5'8-5'10"
Weight: 160
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Race: White
Gender: Male
Clothing: Black leather jacket, blue jeans, white dress shirt, white tennis shoes
AKA: Is
Case Number: 2008-004374


Details of Disappearance:

Smith was last seen on March 10th when he visited his brother after work. He had been living in an apartment on Fulton Street in Wytheville prior to his disappearance.
He might have been sighted on March 11 at 11:30 pm at the Kangeroo Gas station located on the corner of 4th street and Holston road.

On March 14 when a welfare check was done nothing appeared to be missing from Smith’s apartment. His car was parked next to his apartment unlocked and with the keys inside. The front door of his apartment was open and the TV was on and a game controller was plugged in and left laying in the middle of the living room floor. Keys left on coffee table. Israel Smith reported missing by grandmother on 3/23/08.

In the weeks leading up to his disappearance and even on the last day he was seen, his family and co-workers said they did not notice anything unusual about Smith's actions or demeanor. Smith's cell phone has not been used since his disappearance.

He worked at the Radio Shack in Wytheville at the time. Smith had worked as a sales associate at the store since September 2007 and had been a model employee. Smith has a young son who lived with his mother in Pulaski County.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Wytheville Police Department
Investigator Gary Davenport
(276) 223-3307
(276) 223-3300
 
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Thirteen years after the 28-year-old’s 2008 disappearance, Wytheville investigators still consider Smith’s the most bizarre and mysterious case they’ve encountered. They have received no new leads in several years and have never been any closer to finding out what happened to him.

“I still, today, get asked, ‘whatever become of the Israel Smith case?’ It’s sort of become the one that got away, that we never did catch,” said Wytheville Deputy Chief Gary Davenport. A detective in 2008, Davenport led the investigation into Smith’s disappearance.

The Disappearance

Smith was last seen on March 10, 2008, after he finished his Monday shift at the Radio Shack in Wytheville around 8 p.m. and later visited with his brother after work. His supervisor, Charles May, told the Enterprise in 2008 that he noticed nothing out of the ordinary in Smith’s actions or demeanor while at work.

“He said, ‘I’ll see you tomorrow,’” May said. But, Smith didn’t show up for his shift the next day and didn’t call his employer, which May said was uncharacteristic of him.

A Smyth County native who moved to Wytheville from Bristol in 2006, Smith had been working at the electronics retailer for six months. On the few occasions he had been late or couldn’t make his shift, Smith called ahead to let them know, May said. That inconsistency concerned his employer.

Meanwhile, Smith’s mother, Debbie Sexton, also wondered why she hadn’t heard from her son. They usually talked a few times a week if not every day. She’d gone by his East Fulton Street apartment on March 11 and 12, leaving sticky notes on his door for him to call her.

On March 13, his brother Daniel’s birthday, Smith’s family grew more concerned about his absence.

“I was at [Daniel’s] house and he made the comment that it was strange his brother wasn’t there, that he’d been there on Monday night,” Sexton said. After a late-evening trip to Walmart with Daniel and his girlfriend that day, the trio stopped by Smith’s apartment once more. His green Ford Explorer was parked outside, but they got no answer. Sexton said a neighbor told Daniel that they hadn’t seen Smith.

The next evening, March 14, Sexton stopped in again. This time, it occurred to her that her son’s vehicle had not been moved.

“That’s when I ended up going to check the doors of his SUV,” she said.
More:
Family, police still search for answers 13 years after Wytheville man's disappearance
 
Bump for Israel

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Smith, circa 2008

<<Smith had worked at Radio Shack since September 2007 and was considered an ideal employee who never missed work or was late without calling. It's also uncharacteristic of him to leave his doors unlocked or to leave his video game controller lying out; he kept his belongings well-organized with everything in its particular place.

He left behind a seven-year-old son. Smith and his son's mother never married and had ended their relationship years before. The child lived with her, but Smith was close to him and visited him most weekends. His cellular phone hasn't been used since his disappearance and all calls are transferred to voice mail, and he hasn't used his bank account or logged into his MySpace account.

Authorities interviewed a woman he'd recently dated; Smith had been thinking of ending his relationship with her. The woman has been cleared as a suspect in her case.

Police stated there's no hard evidence of foul play in Smith's disappearance, but they don't believe he left of his own accord. His mother said he would never have left without warning or abandoned his son, and she fears he came to harm. His case remains unsolved.>>
 

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