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Vanished: Missing Tazewell hunter case now being investigated as murder
Nov. 26—EDITOR'S NOTE — The following story is the first in a multi-part series on cold cases across Southwest Virginia. CEDAR BLUFF, Va. — At first Tazewell County investigators believed that a local man was missing, but now they believe he was murdered. Eric Smith, a 41-year-old coal miner...
CEDAR BLUFF, Va. — At first Tazewell County investigators believed that a local man was missing, but now they believe he was murdered.
Eric Smith, a 41-year-old coal miner, left his home on Nov. 8, 2013, to hunt along West Hurt Buggy Road, according to family members. He reportedly took his rifle with him, but left his cellphone and cigarettes inside the house and his wallet in the truck.
Smith has not been seen since.
Now, nine years later, the mysterious disappearance has taken a new twist.
"It is being investigated as a potential homicide," Virginia State Police Special Agent Russell Edwards told the Daily Telegraph.
Smith's case is one of several unsolved murder and missing person cases being pursued with renewed vigor as part of a special initiative by the Virginia State Police.