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.
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