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Grieving parents find strength to comfort parents of missing teen

Wednesday, August 17, 2016
1997 story on Laura Smither

Bob and Gay Smither, parents of 12-year old Laura Smither, who was murdered in April of 1997, stand with the parents of Jessica Cain, who disappeared in August of that year.

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