The following interview was with the mother of murder victim, Brittany Ann Brock Miller. Bridgett Green Brock was interviewed on Saturday, May 31, 2025 in the Smithville, DeKalb County, Tennessee area. This article is number three (3) in a series concerning Miller’s homicide-ruling in January, 2025. Previously, the young daughter/mother had been missing for 2.5 years. While all published information has centered around the sordid detailed autopsy findings of the murder case, this article focuses on the feelings and circumstances surrounding the life of Brittany’s mother, Bridgett, also a resident of Smithville, Tennessee, who had to endure almost three years plus of little to no information pertaining to her daughter’s whereabouts and condition. This is her story.
For Bridgett Green Brock, the mother of murdered victim, Brittany Ann Brock Miller, her excruciating pain and time-honored and everlasting memories never ceased nor ever will cease. It will remain with her forever. In all probability, it will remain untouched.
It’s comparable to a migraine headache that will never go away, and that Tylenol can’t touch. It is a lifetime of pain with no elimination from the constant aches and trickled-down horrific information.
Today, Brock is “Letting words do what tears could not.” During our recent interview, my first impression was that she is one of the strongest persons I’ve ever known. My second impression was that she is one of the strongest persons I’ve ever known. She has to be. She has more family to rear, albeit difficult. Brittany leaves to cherish her memory, her mother Bridgett, her siblings, and her two daughters – Samantha (Sam) and Chloe (her step daughter). Sam’s father is Shane Miller of Smithville, Tennessee.
Especially during this prior almost three-year time period, Brock has held her head high, although faced almost continuously with rumors, truths, innuendos and speculations. With each factional or fictional question released and/or presented, she again is/was stabbed in the heart. She has to be brave, saying “I don’t know what happened.” These facts make any and all information difficult to obtain as “The investigation is ongoing.” In a recent press release on May 29, 2025 from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), it reads, “At this time, we can confirm that, at the request of 13th Judicial District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway, TBI special agents began investigating a homicide. The victim has been identified as Brittany Ann Miller. That investigation remains active and ongoing.” It was signed, “Carley.” The second email from the TBI was paraphrased they would not comment because the investigation was active at the present time.
Last week when Brock came to see me for this interview, she was, externally, calm and composed. Death almost had silenced her. Brock’s facial features revealed hours of continuous worry lines. She was living a nightmare, controlled by external forces, and not by herself. Her only request was to have an ending to the murder of her daughter. It has been a long search period with no definitive answers – yet.
It was then she told me of her deep depression, uncontrollable anger, sleepless nights, loss of appetite, continuous sadness and guilt, social withdrawal, perplexing anxiety, worrisome nightmares, and the many other problems associated with a mother losing a child. The feelings were still rampant, yet time had somewhat healed these unabridged feelings and physical wounds - healed but not lessened. One wonders what the time limit will be for her grieving process to lessen?
Throughout this horrendous period in her life, she commented, “The children (Sam and Chloe) know their mother is dead.” She further elaborated that the local Sheriff and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) had kept them abreast of each step and current activity pertaining to the murder investigation. Because it is an ongoing investigation, now led by the TBI, there is limited information shared by Brock or the investigating agencies. Brock knew her daughter had been shot in the head (homicide) before the autopsy report recently was publicized and published.
On a recent personal Facebook page last Monday, June 2, 2025, Brock wrote, “We miss you so much, Brittany Miller. You can rest in peace now. I know you’re okay. But, oh how I miss you!”
For an untold number of precious years, Brock and Miller spoke by telephone and/or visited daily. They had an intractable bond. Today, her granddaughters somewhat fill that bond. For a large majority of the time, the two women traded employment secrets, as both were employed by the local Walmart conglomerate.
It is reported in Al Overview, “The death of a child is a devastating experience that leaves mothers with profound and lasting grief…Mothers grieve more openly. Their deep grief continues for a long period after death.
“It is one of the hardest things a mother can ever experience. Long-term grief after the loss of a child can be persistent and may continue for years.”
In conclusion, the phrase, “Letting words do what tears could not” suggests expressing deep emotions through carefully chosen words when the raw emotion is too overwhelming to express directly through tears.” It highlights the power of language to articulate feelings that may be too intense or complex for a simple weeping.
Another current example of this is one of Brock’s most recent postings, “Each day without me – fight a silent battle – surviving yet another day without you.”
To further encapsulate the above meaning, “It’s easier to write down your feelings in words than to express them in tears.”
It is with tears that Bridgett Green Brock has written, and continues to write, her life story.
NOTE: The above article entitled “Brock: The Pain Never Ends” is Part Three in this newspaper series about the life and death of Brittany Ann Brock Miller. Article One was entitled, “Autopsy Results Released,” while the second article was entitled, “Miller: Gunshot of the Head.” If reproducing or referencing anything in these three articles, please give correct reference and credence to this writer or to this newspaper. Thank you.
