MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — A Limerick Twp. woman who had been missing for more than two weeks was found dead Wednesday afternoon. Police say they discovered the body of Jennifer Brown, 43, partially buried near a warehouse in a Royersford neighborhood, not far from where she lived.
"She was a mother who was last seen on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Friends and family have not heard from her since that day," Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said at a press briefing Wednesday evening.
Steele had been answering questions from reporters about the gruesome deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a Jenkintown home earlier in the day, when he took a call confirming Brown’s discovery.
“We have been engaging in an intensive investigation — and I can't tell you how many people have worked through this and have helped in this case to try to locate her — and we hoped and prayed that she would be safe,” Steele said.
"So our thoughts and prayers go out to Ms. Brown's family and friends at this time.”
Police had been seen searching through a wooded area in Royersford on Wednesday, according to reports from KYW Newsradio partner NBC10. Aerial images showed investigators searching the area behind a warehouse on the 200 block of North 5th Street.
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Steele said the investigation into Brown’s disappearance and death will continue, with police working the scene in Royersford well into the night in order to get Brown’s body to the coroner's office for examination.
Since her disappearance, investigators have searched for Brown in several areas throughout Royersford and Limerick, including a landfill last week, NBC10 reported.
Brown, a mother of two, was last seen by friend and business associate Antonio “Blair” Watts-Richardson around 2 p.m. on Jan. 3, according to the District Attorney's Office. She was reported missing on Wednesday, Jan. 4, when she failed to appear at her 8-year-old son's bus stop to pick him up. Brown has another son who is 20.
“She was a devoted mother of an 8-year-old boy. And by all accounts, she would have never him unintended and unsupervised,” Steele said Wednesday.
At the time of her disappearance, Brown's car was still parked outside her home, and several personal belongings, including keys, wallet and purse, had been left inside, NBC10 reported. Her personal cell phone was missing, but police said it had been out of contact since the day she was reported missing.
In a statement posted to Facebook on Jan. 10, Steele said detectives had been looking at all aspects of Brown’s disappearance, having interviewed numerous people with connections to her and received hundreds of tips from the public — but unfortunately none had turned up any significant leads.
Anyone with information about Brown's disappearance or death is asked to call either Limerick Township Police at 610-495-7909 or the Montgomery County Detective Bureau at 610-226-5553.