Audio slide show: “Closure . . . Finally, closure.”
Twenty-six years after Laura Bradbury disappeared in a campground at Joshua Tree, her father, Mike Bradbury, reaches a point of acceptance.
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During a family camping trip to Joshua Tree in 1984, 3-year-old Laura Bradbury had followed her brother to a portable toilet and vanished. The search for her became a national story and Laura was one of the first missing children to be featured on milk cartons.
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