When Ms Patricia Wu-Murad checked out of the Mandokoro guesthouse in Nara, Japan, on the morning of April 10, she was believed to be headed towards a mountainous pilgrimage trail. That was the last time the 60-year-old Taiwanese-American from Connecticut in the United...
“We have not come up with any clues, nothing from the investigative side, nothing from the search and rescue side.”
Local police have since April 18 restarted the search, after the family spent hours speaking to the police in Gojo, the closest major city, and a personal intervention from US Senator for Connecticut Richard Blumenthal. “You can see it on their faces that they’re upset that they can’t find her,” said Mr Murad, who coached the Singapore women’s national basketball team at the 2017 SEA Games and was also a visiting lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic from 2000 to 2003.
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