By Lisa Marchesoni - Dec. 11, 2007 - 2:52 PM

TMP Photo by Kelly Hite. Lee Ann Barnes, second from left begs for information about her mother's disaperance.

A missing woman’s daughter pleaded for information about an older man riding a bicycle removed from her mother’s Lincoln Navigator at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Wal-Mart on Rutherford Boulevard.

Marsilene Smith, 69, who lives behind Kroger’s on South Church Street, was reported missing last Thursday. Her Lincoln Navigator was found about one hour later at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart videotape showed an older man retrieved a bicycle from the back of the vehicle and rode toward Applebee’s.

During a press conference Tuesday, Smith’s daughter, Lee Ann Barnes, flanked by her daughter, Christina, sister-in-law Debbie Barnes and friends, distributed a flyer with her mother’s photograph and the bicyclist’s grainy photograph. Locating the man on the bicycle will hopefully lead to her mother, she said.

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“I beg you viewers, be my eyes and ears today,” Barnes said. “Help us find this individual. Keep us in your prayers.”

She described the bicyclist as an older white man wearing a dark cap and tan jacket. The bicycle appeared to be a girl’s or woman’s bicycle. She hopes someone who saw the man riding the bicycle will recognize him and call police with information. The bicycle was not her mother’s bicycle and she didn’t know why the bicycle was inside her mother’s SUV.

“We do think he might have some details,” Barnes said of the bicyclist, adding he might have contacts with someone who knows about her disappearance. “I don’t know where she is.”

She and other family members distributed flyers with different photographs of her mother Saturday, Sunday and Monday in hopes someone might recognize her and have information about her whereabouts. “I do anything I can,” Barnes said while trying to keep her composure. Tennessee Highway Patrol’s pilot and helicopter conducted an aerial search Tuesday of the Barfield community while uniformed officers and detectives searched on the ground. Barnes said Murfreesboro Police are “doing an excellent job.”

People who have information about the bicyclist or Smith’s disappearance may call the Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717, Murfreesboro Police Department’s communications center at 893-1311 or Crime Stoppers at 893-STOP.