Jana Wills, Marsha Brantley’s cousin, shows a missing person flier to a Wal-Mart employee Monday in Cleveland, Tenn. She and other family members handed out missing person fliers in hopes that Brantley, who has been missing two years, will be found.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Phyllis Dodd was working in her flower bed when she saw her neighbor shuffle down the street. Dodd remembers turning to her husband and saying, “Marsha looks so sad.”
Two years later, Dodd plays that scene over and over in her head because it was one of the last times anyone saw Marsha Brantley in Cleveland.
“I wished I had actually said something to her,” Dodd said Monday, shaking her head.
Brantley, 51, of Cleveland, hasn’t been seen or heard from since June 2009. She had no children, no siblings and both her parents died within three weeks of each other in 2000, family members said.
Dodd thinks something happened to Brantley, and she wants answers. On Monday afternoon, Dodd joined Brantley’s aunts, uncles and cousin at the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office to begin an effort to find clues about what happened.