Which LESSER known true crime case you can’t get out of your head and why?

Mine is Stacey Smart a 52-year-old woman from California, who was reported missing on the same day as Sherri Papini on November 2, 2016.

She had blonde hair with a pixy style haircut and likes to wear hats. Stacey has a tattoo of a red lotus bloom on her lower back. She was 5’8, and weighed 180 lbs at the time of the disappearance. Stacey had difficulty walking due to an injury and did not drive. Her friends gave her rides to run errands, and it seemed out of character for her to not tell anyone where she was going.

Stacey’s daughter, Nicole Santos, knows her mother was in the area on 15 October because Smart attended a housewarming party in Pine Cove Marina, in Lewiston, California, and she was seen with friends. Stacey had just recently moved from Weaverville, CA to Lewiston, CA to live with her boyfriend, Tony Brand. As far as her family knew, their relationship was going well until Stacey disappeared.

Since Brand was the last person to see Stacey, he was brought in for questioning by the police He claimed that Stacey had just left, and that she had done it before and that is why he didn't report her missing at first. But Stacy has still not been found as of 2023.

It’s so unfortunate that Papini's disappearance took over the media and news, and since we now know that Papini’s disappearance was faked, it makes it even worse. I think Sherri had the advantage over all other missing women since she was a pretty, young white woman with small children, which makes her more likely to have media buzz around her disappearance.

Stacey just didn't have all the advantages that Papini had. IMO Papini has a lot to answer for.

I hope she is found one day and her family and friends get the answers and closure they deserve.