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Mar 26, 2012 · In the middle of an election campaign season, the front page of The Friendswood Journal was dominated by the search for Laura Smither in April 1997.
Apr 8, 1997 · About 150 volunteers searched rural areas of Harris and Galveston Counties today for a 12-year-old girl who disappeared on Thursday. The girl, Laura Kate Smither, was last seen by family...
Apr 1, 2017 · In their home, meticulously kept scrapbooks tell the story of a massive search where police, friends, neighbors and strangers worked together to find a girl who loved ballet and whose smile and...
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Apr 2, 2007 · Ten years after her death, no charges have been filed in the case of a slain 12-year-old whose disappearance transformed how searches for missing children are conducted. Laura Kate Smither...
Nov 29, 2022 · Authorities formed search teams along with local volunteers and left no stone unturned in the search. They even interviewed several of Laura’s acquaintances, but none of her friends knew where the 12-year-old might have gone.
Jan 20, 2023 · William Reece pleaded guilty today in Galveston County to the murders of 12-year-old Laura Kate Smither of Friendswood and 17-year-old Jessica Cain of Tiki Island.
A gifted student and ballerina, 12-year-old Laura Smither suddenly went missing on April 3, 1997. She left for a morning jog, yet never returned back to her Friendswood, Texas, family home,...
