Huntington Beach : Laura Bradbury Show Brings Calls of Support

The day after a nationally televised re-enactment of the disappearance of Laura Bradbury, the storefront volunteer center set up to find the young girl reported receiving more than a dozen phone calls, most offering encouragement.

“We’ve had a quite a few calls urging us to keep going,” said Virginia Winters, Laura’s grandmother.

The show, “Missing III,” broadcast on NBC Wednesday night, featured a re-enactment of the girl’s disappearance at Joshua Tree National Monument on Oct. 18, 1984. Also broadcast was an “age-enhanced” drawing of Laura, who was 3 at the time she was abducted.

As a result of the show, two other featured children--taken by their mother in a 1984 custody dispute in Seattle--were found to be living in rural Kentucky.

In the Bradbury case, a member of the San Bernardino County coroner’s office said that his office had not yet received a report from the FBI laboratory in Washington, which has been examining a child’s skull fragment found last month less than two miles from where Laura disappeared near her family’s campsite.

“We haven’t heard anything from them yet,” said Deputy Coroner David Hammock. “We have no idea when they’ll be getting back to us.” An FBI spokesman in Washington said the bureau would not comment on any of the laboratory’s tests.