Denice Smith, 51, disappeared from her Woodland Township, New Jersey, home on Route 563 in the pre-dawn hours of October 9, 2023. She walked away at about 1:04 AM and an eyewitness last saw her roughly an hour later on Cedar Road. That night she wore a gray sweatshirt, gray sweatpants and white Nike Monarch sneakers, and had an Apple AirTag pendant on a necklace; the device has a limited detection range of about 33 feet.

Denice lives with long-term effects of a traumatic brain injury that family describe as dementia-like, and she requires medication to control aggressive seizures. She left that crucial medication at home. Family members say she can be easily disoriented, has the mental capacity of a young child, sometimes uses her maiden name Denice Johnson, and often repeats I want to go home. She has wandered before but was previously found near a road.

Searches led by the New Jersey State Police and aided by community volunteers covered the New Jersey Pinelands where she is familiar; a K9 unit lost her scent near a road. Her daughter and husband have expressed concern that she may have been picked up by a vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to contact the New Jersey State Police Red Lion Station or the Missing Persons Unit.

Did anyone in Woodland Township or along Cedar Road see Denice that night or capture her on a camera?