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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 8

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The Boston Globei
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The Boston Globe Wednesday, June 13, 1962 Mine-Month. Nightmare for Parents: Where Is Ann Marie? quietly by someone she rec-ithe missing child. As these ognized, or that she might appear, new reports come in. have stepped outside and been After her picture appeared grabbed by a sex deviate. Manitoba Province papers Whatever happened, nearly ct, HiHn-tUn Canada early in June, wander off alone, barefoot andiCanadian Polke were told that a girl answering Ann Marie's clad only in a nightgown description was seen in a cafe After the disappearance, the TACOMA, Wash.

(AP) Say you are the parents of four happy children, living In a pleasant home in a quiet neighborhood, then one morning you awaken find learn that your 8-year-old daughter is gone from her bedroom. There is a frantic search. Days, weeks and months pass and there are only false clues and dead ends. mother declared: I vj 't't i in the town of Portage La Prarie. The cafe operator said two women and a man were with the girl.

Like other such reports, nothing came of it. To Donald and Beverly Burr, who have tried to live a nor "I've tried to think otherwise, but I can only think it was one of those maniacs." it list v. II It Rewards for return of Ann mal life with their remaining Marie or arrest and conviction children, it is a mystery that must be resolved. of those responsible for her disappearance now total $5000. This happened to Mr.

and Mrs. Donald S. Burr the "We pray and pray," said Ann Marie's mother. "You've Watch Repair WEEKEND SPECIALS Newspapers, touched by morning of Aug. 31, 1961 got to help your own little pleas of the parents, have More than nine months later, periodically printed pictures of girl.

You just can't give up." AP Wirerh Air CnnAltlanetA Classrooms fe- 50 SITE OF DISAPPEARANCE This is the Burr family home in Tacoma, from which daughter, Ann Marie, vanished more than nine months ago. 1 STEMS CROWNS CRYSTALS HANDS Eiek NEW DAY and EVENING COURSES BEGIN AP Wrreohoto AGONIZED PARENTS Attempting to carry on their lives as normally as possible are Donald S. Burr and his wife. They refuse to give up the search for daughter, Ann Marie. Uncertain of the time and not DAY: June 25 Intensive 6 8 Week Her parents, not wealthy, were not a likely mark for a Courses in Gregg EZ Alphabetic fully awake, Mrs.

Burr sent the children back upstairs. It was the last time she saw Ann Ma kidnaper. The father is a ware EVENING: June 12, July 9 17 Ann Marie first disappeared, houseman at nearby Camp rie. Gregg IL Alphabetic Murray. hension hoping against mounting odds that their blond, hazel -eyed daughter may be alive.

No ransom TYPING: Special Short Programs. hundreds of searchers combed the city's wooded areas and vacant lots. No Signs of Struggle The night before the disappearance, the Burrs put their Day or Evening. Start Any Time. It Police made a house-to- ah a Work I UU Guaranteed JL per Sin All Age Groups.

Investigators lound no sign house check of the neighbor of a struggle in Ann Marie's four children to bed about 8 p.m. Ann Marie and Mary both had upstairs rooms. hood. All known child moles ever was asked. No cut-and-dried explanation is available.

Tacoma police are just as bedroom, and nothing disturbed in the house. ters and sex offenders were Have vour rinqs resized at questioned. A later check showed foot prints beneath the window but Sears by expert craftsmen. Platinum slightly extra No Kidnapping Proof the clue proved valueless. The parents, who were home all evening, went to bed about 11 p.m.

They said they locked and chained the front door, locked the back door and made sure all the windows were closed. With no proof Ann Marie Oldest In U.S. CO 7-5920 I I 1 puzzled. More than 1500 persons were questioned in the first 12 days of the search. Robert J.

Drost, detective captain, has a 500-page file on the Ann Marie case on a rack above his desk. "I've read every page in How anyone could have the girl out of the house was abducted, the mi could only stand by to assist. Today, while police are almost certain without awakening the pa (AP Wirphoo) rents remains a mystery. Individual Attention Individual Promotion at Arlington, Boston 16, Mass. OBJECT OF SEARCH Ann SEAR! there was an abduction, the Sometime during the night 367 Boylston Si case still has not been listed Some believe Ann Marie or early morning, Ann Mane officially as kidnaping.

brought her little sister down Ann Marie was described as might have wandered into thej living room and been taken' that file four times," said Drost, "and it reads the same each time." Marie Burr, 8, whose disappearance has puzzled authorities here and in Canada. the case of Ann Marie Burr still is an agonizing mystery. SAUGUS BOSTON stairs because she was crying a happy, intelligent child, Missing-person bulletins have somewhat shy. She was ready to enter the third, grade in a few days. been sent to every state and to Canada and Mexico.

When It was cold and rainy that Aug. 31. Mrs. Burr, 33, awakened shortly after 5:30 a.m. She heard their youngest child, Mary, 3, crying.

Mary 3 DAYS ONLY THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY ONLY .111 lyllUiiU UQJiiivD was merely bothered by a cast put on her arm after an accident. The other children, Greg, 5 Julie, 7, we're safe asleep in a basement bedroom. But when Mrs. Burr looked Plate" Glass Mirors In Ann Marie's bedroom, it was empty. The Burn searched every room and closet in the two-story brick home.

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