Crime & Safety

Missing Local Girl Found

Heather Smith had been missing since Sunday morning, police said.

By Tim Jensen

A teenage girl missing since Sunday morning was found around 9:30 a.m. Monday.

Heather Smith of Ellington was discovered by a hiker in a wooded area of Soapstone Mountain. The hiker called 911, and an ambulance transported Smith to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford.

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Hundreds of volunteers had been searching for Smith since Sunday, when she crashed her car into a tree on Tree Top Road in Ellington and fled into the woods.

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