Father’s Day Spirit In Search of Lost Daughter

Byriehlifegrace

Karim Khan, our man from Pakistan, honors father Michael Bradbury in an interview about his four-year search for his missing daughter Laura. In October 1984 Laura, 3 1/2 years old, was kidnapped from a remote campground. What happens after that is recounted in Michael Bradbury’s book Laura Ann Bradbury Missing: A Father’s Search (Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2010) This painful story gives us a glimpse of the agony and persistence needed to search for a lost chidld.

After 25 years Bradbury is now reopening the case of his kidnapped daughter Laura Ann in his unending search for his daughter. Read Karim Khan’s interview with Mike Bradbury online.

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