Valerie Elder Smiley

Additional details from the official case record, provided for identification.

Clothing Last Seen Wearing

A yellow or beige polo shirt and shorts. CP

Distinguishing Characteristics

She has a tattoo of her name, Valerie, in cursive on the outside of her right calf. CP

Medical

Shortly before she disappeared, she had started a medication for vertigo and an ear infection. Her family said the medicine changed her behavior, in that she slept more, had less energy, repeated herself a lot, and did not seem like herself. CP

Vehicle

Red 2004 Ford Expedition with Tennessee license plate 079BFQD and a TSU Mom sticker on the passenger side door. CP

Timeline, June 28, 2024

She left home at about 2:00 p.m. and planned to attend her twin sons' baseball game, but she never arrived there. She told her husband by phone that she was on her way home, but she never came home, and he reported her missing late that evening. CP

Timeline, June 29 to 30, 2024

Police tracked her cellphone to Fayetteville, Georgia the day after she vanished, and a day after that the phone was about thirty minutes from Union City, Georgia. Her family said she might have gone to Georgia to shop, but would not have traveled that far into the state and rarely traveled far from home. CP

Her family does not believe she would have left her four sons or Sak's Wing Shak, the restaurant business she co-owned. They believe the medication may have left her confused and unable to find her way home. CP

What Would Help Most

Anyone in Fayetteville, Georgia, or on the roads toward Union City, Georgia, who saw a red 2004 Ford Expedition with Tennessee plate 079BFQD, or a woman matching Smiley, on June 29 or 30, 2024 could hold the missing piece. CP

Sources: The Charley Project · Courtroom Insider