Youtubers Find Missing Lakeland Woman
After 10 months a Polk County family finally gets answers. Margaret “Jan” Shupe Smith and the Kia she drove, went missing on April 2, 2021. After months of no clues, the family reached out to Youtubes “Adventures With Purpose,” a team that specializes in search and recovery missions.
The Youtube team checked different bodies of water around Lakeland, coming up empty. After a Polk County deputy told the team that Smith was in a car accident on the day she went missing and there was a retention pond down the road from the crash site, they went there to look. Just minutes into the dive, they found the Kia.
A body was inside but its identity has not been confirmed.