WRAL Posted 11:00 p.m. Jan 7, 1998 — Updated 11:00 p.m. Jan 7, 1998 RAEFORD — After a grueling search through the muddyterrain of a Hoke County wooded area, authorities discovered the body of5-year-old Brittany Lynn Locklear Thursday afternoon. Sheriff Wayne Byrd said that the body was found in a drainagepipe, only miles away from the spot where the kindergartner waskidnapped Wednesday morning. Brittany Lynn Locklear disappeared about 7 a.m. from her home justsouthwest of Raeford while waiting for the school bus. The Hoke CountySheriff's Department says that the girl was snatched by a man and put intoa brown pickup truck with a rack of overhead lights. Brittany's mother, Connie Chavis, said she had been watching herdaughter from inside her home as the child waited at a bus stop about200 yards away. Just after 7 a.m., Chavis said she went to the bathroom.When she returned, Brittany was gone. The disappearance has other parents very concerned for the welfare oftheir own children