The Laura Recovery Center (LRC) is a non-profit organization[1] that worked to prevent kidnappings and abductions and to recover victims of such events.
Her body was discovered seventeen days later, on April 20, in a regional water retention pond ten miles from her home.
[2] In 2016, William Lewis Reece was indicted on charges of murdering Smither, and other missing Texas girls, and in 2022 he was sentenced to life in prison.
The change coincided with the retirement of Bob Walcutt, the center's executive director.
[8][9] The Laura Recovery Center organized numerous community led searches for abducted children, including those for Danielle van Dam and Morgan Harrington.