Ashley Nicole Smith, a 31-year-old White woman, was found dead inside her apartment on Town and Country Circle in eastern Jefferson County, Alabama after neighbors noticed she had not been seen for several days. When people went to check on her, they saw her lying on the floor; deputies responded and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the death was being investigated as a homicide and the coroner gave the time of death as 6:12 p.m. on Sunday, November 14, 2021.

Public details released at the time were spare and officials did not describe how she was killed or what may have happened inside the apartment. Early reports said no arrests had been made and the sheriff’s office asked anyone with information to come forward.

If anyone knew Ashley, her routines, or has information about what happened at that apartment, please share what is known with investigators.