BLAINE, Minn. — Investigators launched a renewed search at a park in Blaine Monday, hoping to find out what happened to a woman who disappeared nearly 30 years ago and hasn't been seen or heard from since.
Blaine police say 30-year-old Tamara Colleen Bradley left work on Sept. 30, 1994. She was supposed to pick up her young son from her ex-husband's parents but never showed, something her family said was extremely unlike Tamara. Her vehicle was found several days later at the Greyhound Bus Station in Minneapolis with her keys and several uncashed paychecks inside.
“Her son was everything to her. Everything,” Bradley’s sister Wendy Edwards told Dateline NBC back in 2019. “She would never just leave. Someone did something to her.”
Investigators said they've always considered it an open case and re-examined the files several times as the years moved on. Many people were questioned in Tamara’s disappearance, but no arrests have been made.
Two weeks ago, Blaine police said, they received a tip on where Bradley's remains might be. On Monday, they teamed up with the BCA Crime Scene Team and Anoka County Crime Scene Unit to scour the northern part of Laddie Lake Park and an area just south of 89th Ave NE in Blaine. The search began at 7 a.m. and as of noon, no evidence had been located.
At the time of her disappearance, Tamara Bradley was 30 years old. She would be 59 today. Family described her at the time as 5-feet-4-inches tall and 135 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. Bradley has a scar on her pinky finger from reattachment surgery. She also has surgical scars on both knees and one on her jaw. Her ears are pierced and she has a mole on the left side of her upper lip.
Anyone with information about what happened to Tamara Bradley or the circumstances of her disappearance is asked to call Blaine police at 763-785-6168. Her employer, Federal Foam Technologies, is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the whereabouts of Tamara's remains or the filing of criminal charges in her disappearance.
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