RIGHT NOW: Police have just recovered Lia Smith’s phone from the bottom of the lake — and what appeared on the screen after it powered on has left investigators stunned.
According to official sources, divers from the forensic recovery team located the device early this morning, about three meters from the dock where Lia was last seen. Despite being underwater for days, specialists managed to carefully dry and restore the phone’s internal data.
When technicians finally accessed the gallery and message logs, they reportedly found a series of photos and short video clips taken just hours before Lia disappeared — including one final image that no one can explain. Investigators have not yet revealed what appears in that photo, but one officer described it as “something that changes everything we thought we knew about her last moments.”
The phone is now being analyzed frame by frame in the digital forensics lab, as police attempt to determine who was with Lia before the footage suddenly stopped.