Ann was invited to sleep over at a friend's, but her mother wanted her home as she prepared the children for the beginning of school. The children spent the day playing with friends in their neighborhood. Julie was 14 months younger than Ann and was entering second grade Greg was 5 years old, and Mary was 3. Ann, 8, her oldest child, was excited to start the third grade at Grant, the school Beverly had attended as a child. Beverly Burr, 33, spent the day getting her four children ready for the coming school year at Grant Elementary School in Tacoma. Ann Burr's disappearance remains an open case some six decades after she vanished.Īugwas the Wednesday before Labor Day weekend, and the unusually warm weather in the Pacific Northwest had turned muggy. Later, in a handwritten letter to Burr's mother, Bundy denies his involvement, and he is executed in Florida in 1989.
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With scant physical evidence, no witnesses, no body, no credible ransom demand, and no known motive, the case everntually goes cold - until more than 20 years later, when convicted serial killer Ted Bundy allegedly claims in prison interviews that he murdered Ann Burr when he was 14 years old and living in Tacoma.
When Ann Marie Burr, 8, vanishes from her Tacoma home in the wee hours of the morning of August 31, 1961, it sparks a massive search for the missing girl and leads police down a maze of dead-end leads.