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Search crews get a briefing at Clingmans Dome on Sept. 29 during the hunt for Mitzie “Susie” Clements in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Clements’ body was recovered Tuesday. PROVIDED BY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Search crews in Smokies find body of missing Cleves hiker Travis Dorman and Max Londberg Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
The family of the Cleves woman who went missing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has issued a statement after her body was found late Tuesday afternoon. “I want to specifically thank the National Park Service for their incredible efforts. The cooperation shown between more than 50 agencies was amazing, comforting, and very supportive,” reads the statement, provided by the Park. Search crews found the body of Mitzie Sue “Susan” Clements approximately two miles west of the Clingmans Dome parking area and three-fourths of a mile south of the Appalachian Trail, according to a park news release. Clements, 53, had been missing since the afternoon of Sept. 25, when she and her daughter became separated during a hike on the Forney Ridge Trail, roughly a quarter-mile from Andrews Bald. The family thanked a number of parks employees for their dedication and support, including Chief Ranger Jared St. Clair, Incident Commander Joe Pond, Operations Chief James Latendresse and family Liasion Florie Takaki. “We also want to thank the countless
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Clements, left, had been missing since the afternoon of Sept. 25, when she and her daughter became separated during a hike. COURTESY PHOTO
other people who helped look for Susan,” the statement said. “The kids, her sisters, and I greatly appreciate the intense work they performed for us, and we will be eternally grateful.”
Search effort had manpower, technology Park officials searched the immediate area that night without success. They next day, a group of experienced search-
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ers spent the night on the Appalachian Trail, attempting to find Clements and interview any hikers in the area. The search continued to grow in size and scope as crews braved rain, fog, wind and temperatures in the 40s to scour the densely wooded, mountainous area of the park, which straddles Tennessee and North Carolina. Officials closed Clingmans Dome Road and set up a command post there. Verizon brought in a portable cell tower to help remedy the poor cellphone service. Crews employed helicopters, canine teams and specialized searchand-rescue drones as the number of agencies contributing to the effort continued to climb. By Tuesday, more than 100 people from 45 agencies had joined the search. Teams used satellite GPS units to keep track of which areas had already been searched. Scientists with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory stitched together aerial photographs from their drone, assigned coordinates to each pixel, and searched the photographs for colors such as the gray in Clements’ tennis shoes. Juleana Campbell, the park spokeswoman, said officials also worked with See HIKER , Page 2A
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The Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati will install 50 new Little Free Libraries in Cincinnati. They will be installed primarily in lower income areas, said Michele Guenther, president of the Literacy Network. A Little Free Library is a “take a book, leave a book” free book exchange, usually out of a wooden box installed on a street corner. Anyone in the community is free to take a book or bring one to contribute. There are more than 75,000 Little Free Libraries in 88 countries worldwide. As many as 400,000 people in Greater Cincinnati are functionally illiterate, according to statistics provided by the Literacy Network. Between 15 percent and 20 percent of the adult population cannot read well enough to complete an application or read a story. “The link between academic failure and reading failure is welded in reading failure,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and statistically 85 percent of juveniles who interact with the juvenile court system are illiterate. Children growing up without books are on average three years behind those who grow up in homes with lots of books, according to the Little Free Library webpage. See LIBRARIES, Page 6A
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