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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1997)
Tuesday • April 22, Search ends, police believe body is the missing Friendswood gi FRIENDSWOOD, Texas (AP) — Police Chief Jared Stout said Mon day he believes a body found in a Pasadena retention pond is that of a 12-year-old Friendswood girl who has been missing since April 3. Laura Kate Smither has not been seen since she left her home to go jogging more than two weeks ago. Pasadena is about 10 miles northeast of Friendswood. Stout informed Laura’s parents and volunteers, who have searched for her, before holding a news conference Monday in Friendswood. “The evidence at the scene in cludes a silver ring bearing her ini tials, and it is apparent that the woman wore braces both on her upper teeth and lower teeth,” Stout said. Stout said Laura’s parents, Gay and Bob Smither, remained in seclusion. "They ask for your understand ing, and privacy is what they wish most at this time,” Stout said. Investigators are awaiting au topsy results to determine how Laura died, Stout said. However, J.F. Ebdon, an investi gator with the Harris County Med ical Examiners Office, said Mon day that the body has not yet been positively identified. “We don’t do tentative, maybe (identifications),” said Ebdon, whose office expected to do an au topsy today. The decomposed body, de scribed as a female between the age of 7 and 15, had been in the water at least Five days, police said. Volunteers hugged and cried during Stout’s news conference. A tearful Mandy Albritton, the vol unteer coordinator, thanked all those who helped in the search. “Though we didn’t bring her home to live out the rest of, now she can rest, and we thankful for that,” Albritton Laura’s disappearance caused an extensive searcli involved hundreds ofvoluii and some 550 Marineresei who scoured Friendswooda: urban area about 20 miles si of Houston. GREAT DEALS EVERY TUESDA Y IN THE BATTALION t7 r •O ANC? TA<E Defensive Driving with a Punch (Line)! 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