The State - News from Jan. 22, 1989
The grandfather of Laura Bradbury, the 3-year-old girl who vanished in 1984 from a family campsite at Joshua Tree National Monument, angrily disputed a televised report that skull fragments found in the Morongo Basin were from the missing child. “Baloney!” Dana Winters said. “Don’t you think . . . they would have notified the parents?” he asked, adding that no laboratory has contacted Laura’s family. KCBS-TV reported Friday that recent DNA testing at an unnamed “eastern laboratory” indicated a “99% probability” that the skull fragments came from Laura. The station did not cite its sources for the report.
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