The body ofmissing Pennsylvania motherJennifer Brown has been found after a painstaking two-week search.
“I can’t tell you how many people have worked through this and helped,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele told reporters. “We hoped and prayed she would be safe, and she is not.”
The Limerick Township resident disappeared on Jan. 3. Family members at the time said it was uncharacteristic for the woman not to be in touch with her loved ones. She was also due to pick up her 8-year-old son the following day from a bus stop.
Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office
Her friend and business partner, Antonio “Blair” Watts-Richardson, told NBC Philadelphia that he waswatching her son Noahthat day and overnight, but that Brown didn’t call at any stage.
He also told the station that Brown was dealing with family andwork-related stressin anticipation of opening a restaurant.
Brown’s car was later foundparked outside her homeon Stratford Court, reported 6 ABC News in Pennsylvania. Several other items — including her keys, wallet, purse and work cellphone — were located inside her home.
“She is a doting, I call her, helicopter mom. She loves her son. She would never leave her son,” Tiffany Barron, Brown’s friend, told NBC Philadelphia.
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In recent days, family membersincreased a rewardto $15,000 for anyone with information that helped locate Brown.
On Wednesday, policesearched a woodedarea behind a warehouse in connection with the 43-year-old’s disappearance, CBS Philadelphia reported. Despite this, Brown’s cause of death was not made immediately clear.
Prosecutors have also not revealed if they’ve identified a suspect, reported CBS Philadelphia.
source: people.com
