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By: Lisa Marchesoni

Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 8:50 pm

Indictments handed down against Marcie Smith's husband | Marcie Smith, Missing woman

TMP Photo by Lisa Marchesoni - Lee Ann Barnes, center, appeals for help in finding her missing mother. From left are sister-in-law Debbie Barnes, husband David, Barnes, father Palmer Smith and daughter Christina.

Grand jurors indicted the husband of a missing woman on four charges of filing a false police report and one count of fabricating evidence but not on a murder charge, a Murfreesboro Police spokesman said Tuesday night.

Husband Palmer Smith of Village Green was not charged with murder of his wife, Marsilene "Marcie" Smith, 69, but charged with filing the false reports and fabricating evidence "stemming from his initial interview in December 2007," said spokesman Kyle Evans.

Marcie Smith, 69, a diabetic who relies on insulin to live, disappeared Dec. 6, 2007 after she left her Village Green home to shop for Christmas. Palmer Smith reported her missing. She has not been located.

Surveillance cameras at Wal-Mart on Rutherford Boulevard showed a man getting a bicycle out of Smith’s Lincoln Navigator and pedaling toward the Wine and Spirits store.

Murfreesboro Police Detective Mike Taylor presented evidence to the grand jury who returned the indictment Tuesday.

Smith was arrested and declined to give a statement. He was booked into Rutherford County Adult Detention Center and released on a $100,000 bond made by Chris Highers Bonding. He is scheduled to receive a copy of his indictment March 15 in Circuit Court.

Palmer Smith was present three days after the disappearance when the couple's daughter, Lee Ann Barnes, pleaded for anyone with information to contact Murfreesboro Police. Barnes, her extended family and friends mapped out grids and searched the Barfield community near her parents' home the Sunday after her disapperance.

A cell telephone belonging to a missing woman was located about a week after her disapperance on Barfield-Crescent Road near Barfield Baptist Church.

Murfreesboro Police and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation were tipped off to Smith’s possible location, when her husband Palmer Smith’s attorneys turned over a map Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008, the one-year anniversary of Smith’s disappearance. The origins of the map are unclear.

Officers combed the woods in Lauderdale County near Ripley, Tenn., in search of Marcie Smith’s body but did not locate her.

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Member Opinions:

By: BigPoppa on 3/3/09
"Grand jurors indicted the husband of a missing man"

Has the Post brought in the DNJ's editors and proofreaders ?

By: mikepirtle on 3/4/09
Sorry, BigPoppa

Fixed.

Mike PIrtle
The Post

By: lightchick on 3/4/09
Did I miss it? What was the "false report" and the "fabricated evidence?"

By: HuskyLover on 3/4/09
My prayers are with the children of this couple. They've lost their mother and their father is a suspect in her disappearance. It doesn't matter how old you are, losing your parents is TOUGH and I can't imagine the pain they are feeling today.

By: willis5038 on 3/4/09
I don't think that you missed it, lightchick. I don't think that they ever stated the specific grounds that the charges were filed on. Has anyone seen the entire video? I saw a clip on the news around the time that she disappeared. It was hard to get a good look on that tape. How did his Lawyers get the map? Anyone have any more Info?

By: JackieMoon on 3/5/09
Whatever happened to the young woman he was stalking? I remember seeing an article where he followed her to a bar and was trying to give her money. Very creepy!