MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Authorities continued the search for a 69-year-old woman who vanished Thursday while shopping.
Marsilene Smith was last seen shopping Thursday afternoon in Murfreesboro.
Murfreesboro police found her Lincoln Navigator in a Wal-Mart parking lot on South Rutherford Boulevard Friday morning.
Police are searching for a man they call a person of interest. Store surveillance video shows him driving her sports utility vehicle in the parking lot. The unknown man is also shown pulling out a bicycle from the trunk and riding away.
Smith's husband Glover Smith reported her missing when she didn't return home by nightfall.
Police also want to speak to witnesses who may help identify the man.
A couple seen in surveillance viode riding in a nearby vehicle told polcie they didn't see the man. "Time is against us," said Maj. Clyde Atkinson of the Murfreesboro Police Department.
Anyone with information with this case or know the pair who may have spotted the man in Smith's Lincoln Navigator.
Smith's relatives spent the weekend handing out fliers and canvassing the area where she was last seen.
Police are also looking through surveillance video from nearby stores for clues.
Anyone with information about Smith is asked to call the Murfreesboro Police Department at 893-1311 or the department's Criminal Investigations Division at 893-2717.
Murfreesboro police plan to launch an aerial search Tuesday morning if the weather cooperates.
