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Authors: Rebecca Morris
Boss, Pauline
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Old Tacoma
(Arcadia Publishing: 2006) and with Karabaich, Ron
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(Arcadia Publishing: 2006).
Holmes, Ronald M. and Holmes, Stephen T.
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(Sage Publications: 1998) and
Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior
(Sage Publications: 2008).
Keppel, Robert
The Riverman—Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
(Pocket Books: revised edition 2005) and
Signature Killers
(Pocket Books: 1997).
Michaud, Stephen G. and Aynesworth, Hugh
The Only Living Witness
(Signet: 1989) and
Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer
(Authorlink Press: 2000).
Morgan, Murray
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(University of Washington Press: Columbia Northwest Classics edition 2003), and
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Documentaries
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A&E Biography, 1995.
Inside the Killer’s Mind,
A&E Investigative Reports, 2000.
Ted Bundy
, A&E Biography, 2002.
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Audio Recordings and Transcriptions
Tacoma Police Department, Missing Person Report on Ann Marie Burr, case #176685, August 31, 1961–October 16, 1967.
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THERE IS A saying that journalism is the first rough draft of history. This book would not have been possible without the work of reporters who covered the disappearance of Ann Marie Burr and the crimes of Ted Bundy over the last 50 years. I especially want to acknowledge the reporting of: Chuck Doud, Russ Carmack, Cheryl Reid, Stacey Mulick, Don Hannula, Pat Winkler, Jack Pyle, Lila Fujimoto, Mark Higgins, Dick Monaghan, Greg Heberlein, and Gary Larson of the
Tacoma News Tribune
; Eleanor Bell, Ken Fleming, Herman Hunt, Stan Reed, Bill Prochnau, Arthur C. Gorlick, Robert M. Cour, Michael A. Barber, Gordy Holt, and Steve Miletich of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
; Don Duncan, Eric Sorensen, Arthur Santana, and Richard W. Larsen of the
Seattle Times.
Before them, these reporters covered the Tacoma Police Department, the vigilante years of the 1940s and early 1950s, and the careers of Ted Strand and Tony Zatkovich: Jim Faber, Ed Garrison, Larry Shanklin, Paul O. Anderson, Lenny Anderson, and Lee Irwin of the
Tacoma News Tribune
; Burt McMurtrie, of the
Tacoma News Tribune
and the
Tacoma Times;
Sam Angeloff , Robert N. Ward, Murray Morgan, Stub Nelson, Herman Hunt and William Schulze of the
Seattle PostIntelligencer
; Art Burgess of the
Seattle Times
; and Dick Yost, George A. Miller, Carey Wiler, and C.R. Maybin of the
Tacoma Times.
I’m grateful to the
News Tribune
and the
Seattle Times
for the opportunity to use two of the most important and iconic photographs associated with this story: images of the two women at the heart of it, Beverly Burr and Louise Bundy. Thank you to Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth for permission to quote from their interviews with Ted Bundy, published as
Conversations with a Killer— The Death Row Interviews.
I’m also indebted to the work of the late Washington state historian Murray Morgan and his research and insights into Tacoma’s history.
I have tried to sort the myths from the truth of Ted Bundy’s life and the abduction of Ann Marie Burr. There were many. I hope to dispel them.
The use of Beverly Burr’s personal letters, essays, and short stories, as well as her photo albums and years of newspaper clippings, were invaluable. Her nephew, Jeff Leach, further expanded the photographic history of the family.
Thank you to Jerry Bullat for memories of his teenage friend, Ted Bundy, and to Sandi Holt, for so bravely sharing her childhood memories, as well as family photos.
I especially thank: Jeanie Fisher, of the Tacoma Public Library; Ann Rule; Gregg Olsen; Raleigh Burr and Bonnie Taschler; Julie Burr; Dick and Susan Zatkovich; and Ted Strand. Dozens of people were interviewed for this book, many more than once. I am very grateful. Thank you: Beverly Burr; Julie Burr; Laura Hinkel; Greg Burr; Raleigh Burr; Bonnie Taschler; Jeff and Pam Leach; Ann Rule; Stephen Michaud; Hugh Aynesworth; Edna Cowell Martin; Bob Keppel; Polly Nelson; Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis; Sandi Holt; Jerry Bullat; Dr. Ronald Holmes; Bill Hagmaier; Chuck Doud; Russ Carmack; Neil Chethik; Kay Kenwisher; Linda Bussey; Betty Drost; Robert Bruzas; Fran Bruzas Trierweiler; Roland Otis; Dick and Susan Zatkovich; Ted Strand; Patricia Strand Jerkovich; Kather
Thank you also to: Elizabeth Steele and the Portland, Ore. office of the FBI; Ed Nolan and the staff of the Tacoma History Museum; the Washington State Historical Society; Tacoma Police Department; author Leslie Rule; The Omaha Public Library; the Oklahoma Department of Corrections; The University of Puget Sound; Sharon Berg; Matthew Murry of Dog Ear Publishing; and the staff at the Greenwood branch of the Seattle Public Library, the best place to write in all of Seattle.
It was psychotherapist and author Dr. Pauline Boss’ studies on ambiguous loss which led to my articles on the Burr family in 2007 and 2008 and my relationship with Beverly Burr. Thanks to family and friends, especially Sterling Morris, Margret Murphy, Bernice Gotta, and Lee Buxton. Whitney Anspach and journalists Ginger Adams Otis and Shirleen Holt shared their wisdom and important editorial advice. Deanah Watson and Brad Arnesen guided me through the myriad of technological decisions an author faces these days.
Rebecca Morris is an award-winning journalist who has worked in radio and television news in New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. A native Oregonian, her reporting has appeared in
The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, People, Entertainment Weekly,
and many other publications. She lives in Seattle.