There wasn’t much for the police to go on. It had been a stormy night and they found a footprint on a rug, a bit of wool from a jacket — and not much else. “There were no signs of a struggle in her bedroom,” Bob Drost, who had been the lead investigator in the case, told The News Tribune in 1976. Neither a massive search involving over 800 people nor a $5,000 reward helped in locating the girl or revealing what had happened to her, per the AP and The News Tribune. The case went cold.
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During the mid-1970s, more than a decade after Ann Marie Burr disappeared, police in Utah, Colorado, and Florida charged Ted Bundy with a series of crimes from kidnapping to murder. The Burrs began to believe Bundy may have been involved in their daughter’s disappearance. In 1961, Bundy lived in Tacoma and was 14. Beverly had always believed it had been a teenager who abducted her daughter — the bench the perpetrator used to get into the home’s window was too flimsy for a full-sized adult, and a footprint outside made by a tennis shoe also pointed to a teen, per The News Tribune. Donald Burr recalled seeing a teenager who looked like Bundy at a construction site just after his daughter’s abduction. The serial killer would strenuously deny any involvement in the case on several occasions.
