That, Bratt-Smith has learned, is usually the radius people travel before they commit suicide. She believes if searchers stay within that distance from her home in St. George, they will find her son, Macin Smith.
“We’ve done many searches around the perimeter," Bratt-Smith said, "but there’s so much desert area and rock cliffs and terrain that we’ve never meticulously looked in.”
Smith disappeared at age 17. On Saturday, his family is organizing a search to find him on the eastern outskirts of St. George.
The search will begin 8 a.m. Saturday at 3000 E. Banded Hills Drive.