“I just feel like I’m a person that’s trying to do the right thing,” said Ashley Smith after finding Matt Teeters
NEED TO KNOW
- Matt Teeters was hiking in the Eagle Rock Loop, near Albert Pike in Arkansas’ Ouachita National Forest, when he vanished on Sept. 23
- Ashley Lea Smith took the day off from work to find Teeters, which she eventually did the next day
- Teeters’ family launched a GoFundMe to help pay for repairs to her home
The family of a man who initially went missing while hiking in Arkansas has created an online fundraiser for the good Samaritan who found him.
Matt Teeters was hiking in the Eagle Rock Loop near Albert Pike in the Ouachita National Forest when he vanished on Sept. 23 after he was separated from his cousin, CBS affiliate KTHV reported. His disappearance prompted a massive search that began that day and continued into the night.
Word of Teeters’ disappearance reached Ashley Lea Smith, who decided on the morning of Sept. 24 to take the day off from work and find Teeters with her dog, Buckey, since she was familiar with the territory, according to KTHV…