Black and Missing but Not Forgotten

An equine search team today is expected to help in the hunt for a missing Del City woman thought to be a victim of foul play.

Nakketa Smith, 31, has been missing since Sept. 13. Her ex-husband, Dontee Johnson, 34, was arrested after police found him with Smith’s car and two of Smith’s children, Del City police Capt. Jody Suit said.

Johnson is jailed on complaints unrelated to Smith’s abduction, but he is considered a suspect, Suit said.

Tim Miller, founder of Texas EquuSearch, said his group uses horses, four-wheelers and sonar equipment to scout wooded and hard-to-reach areas. The group has aided in more than 930 cases in the past seven years, many of them high-profile crimes, he said.

Miller started the group after the abduction and murder of his 16-year-old daughter, Laura Miller, in 1984.

“I know what this family is going through,” Miller said. “It gets harder every day there are no answers.”

Smith’s mother, Deborah King of Oklahoma City, has vowed not to give up searching until her daughter is found. In recent weeks, family members and friends formed large search parties and combed wooded areas and vacant buildings looking for Smith, King said.

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