JAN 17, 2023
The family of Brittany Tee has tapped into extensive community friendship and goodwill to get the word out about the woman last seen at around 8:30 p.m. Jan. 10 leaving her Main Street home in Broo…
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“We do believe she’s in the area. There are multiple possibilities; that’s why we’re asking for help,” said Worcester DA Joseph Early Jr. in a short update to the investigation on Tuesday afternoon, in which he said police have expanded their search to a 3-mile radius of the home she shared with her boyfriend. “It’s not a crime scene, it’s a search.”
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“I can’t stress it enough how out of character it is that she didn’t contact friends but also family,” friend Jesse Melanson told the Herald on Tuesday, adding that to go without contact is “Impossible, of her own will.”
The North Brookfield man has known Brittany Tee for a very long time, as he said he dated her older sister throughout high school and a year or two afterward and thought of the younger woman almost as a bit of a younger sister at times.
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The outreach seems to be helping, as Early at the Tuesday press conference said the tips have been pouring in and have helped the investigation by pointing it in “the right direction” and has sped things up by eliminating false trails. ...
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The stretch of Main Street where Tee lived with her boyfriend runs along farmland webbed with what Melanson described as very thick woods. It’s a car-dependent area, he said, that’s not conducive to walking to work or for errands.
... she isn’t anyone’s definition of a hardcore outdoors person who would wander off through the woods and get lost.
Plus, he said, people in the area know her. She was a familiar face from her work at the liquor store up the road from the Main Street home and, before that, from years of waitressing at the Black and White Grille in town. She has an outgoing personality and a distinctive voice — “if she spoke and someone closed their eyes, they would know it was Brittany,” Melanson said.
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Tracking dogs, all-terrain vehicles and drones were used in the search Tuesday.
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The district attorney said investigators are in possession of Tee's laptop and her car.