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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- For one Brunswick County family, this Father's Day is extra tough a they continue to look for their loved one, 40-year-old Richard Bird.

He disappeared from Rocky Mount nearly three years ago. Now, family members and others continue to search for answers.

Jessie and Terry Dunn reminisce, looking at pictures and wondering what happened to their son.

Bird went missing in July of 2007.

"I took him up to the Shallotte Hardees to put him on a Greyhound bus,” said Jessie Dunn, his mother. “He had a few dollars in his pocket , he stayed at a hotel that night in Rocky Mount."

Then, he disappeared.

"We know the bus arrived on time, we know he stayed in a hotel, we know that the cab driver took him, we know he checked out on time, and then there's no further trace," said Terry Dunn, Bird’s stepfather.

Since then, police and the Cue Center for Missing Persons have picked up the search.

"He had just gotten to the area or a lot of friends up there to contact so that's where we're at,” said Monica Caison of the Cue Center. “He's terribly missed by his family."

She said there have been some sightings and a call into a dental office in Wilmington, but under further investigation, it was found not be Bird.

Bird's mom says it's especially hard this time of year. All she wants is to know what happened.

"I would like to know how and why, if it was a drug deal that went bad, did he die by himself, did someone shoot him, did someone stab him?,” said Jessie Dunn. “Everything that you can think of has been through my mind in the past three years."

She also knows her son is in need of his medication. He suffers from heart problems and Multiple Sclerosis.

"I miss him very much, and if he is ok he needs to let me know," said Jessie Dunn.

Authorities say there are very few clues as to what happened to Bird, but the family has not given up on the search.