Laura was Bill Farren's wife and had become friends with MacGyver through her husband. Laura meet and married Bill while he was still hell-fighting and while she was always supportive of his job her worst nightmare was realized when Bill was badly burned in a well fire accident which saw three of his team killed and left him in the burns ward for three months. After that she gave Bill an ultimatum to choose either his job or his marriage. He choose his marriage and they moved to the outback of Wyoming to set up their own wildcat oil drilling operation with their partner Pete Torgut.