Abducted woman found alive
PONCA (AP) — The father of
a man arrested in the four-day dis
appearance of his ex-girlfriend
said Wednesday that his son led
authorities Tuesday to a wooded
area where she was found shot sev
eral times but still alive.
“He was looking for love and,
he couldn’t handle it, I guess,” said
Don Anderson of his son Brian.
Anderson didn’t elaborate on
what happened in the relationship
his son had with Laura Kucera, 19.
Anderson said he knew Kucera
had filed a protection order against
his son and that he had spoken
with his son about it.
“He confirmed to us that it was
over,” said Anderson, a farmer in
Concord.
Kucera had allegedly been ab
ducted at gunpoint by Anderson
and had been missing since Satur
day.
She was found alive Tuesday
evening lying in a wooded area
near Macy, but had been shot sev
eral times, her mother said
Wednesday.
“We don’t know how she sur
vived other than she must be very
strong,” Mary Kucera said. “She
spent 3 1/2 days out exposed.”
Laura Kucera was clothed but
had no other protection from the
elements, Mary Kucera said. Her
daughter was in stable condition
with multiple gunshot wounds, she
said.
Laura Kucera was found by po
lice and investigators using a he
licopter from Marion Health Cen
ter in Sioux City, Iowa, took her to
that hospital, Mary Kucera said.
Her daughter apparently was
found where she had been left, she
said.
Members of the family were at
the hospital Wednesday morning
until 4:30 a.m., Mary Kucera said.
She said her daughter had been
slipping in and out of conscious
ness.
The next days will be difficult
for her, her husband, David, and
their seven other children, Mary
Kucera said.
“I don’t know how we’re going
to cope,” she said. “It’s going to
be a tough haul here.”
Brian Anderson, 22, had told
authorities that he dropped Kucera
off outside a fast-food restaurant in
South Sioux City on Saturday and
then turned himself in to Dixon
County authorities.
He was charged in Dixon
County Court on Monday with
kidnapping, false imprisonment,
use of a firearm to commit a felony,
and operating a motor vehicle to
avoid arrest, an authority said.
Don Anderson said his son had
thrown the gun off a bridge some
where.
Mary Kucera said her daughter
and Brian Anderson had a vola
tile relationship but it didn’t start
out that way.
Brian Anderson allegedly had
kidnapped her daughter in the past
and assaulted her before the latest
incident, Mary Kucera said.
“I can say she did have a pro
tection order against him,” Mary
Kucera said. “He threatened her
life twice before,” she said.
Under the protection order, the
family reported any contact or in
formation they had on Anderson,
but it apparently wasn’t any help,
Mary Kucera said.
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dead id two Swiss towns. The
victims are believed to be
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chapel hidden beneath the burning
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Ten had plastic garbage bags tied
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