UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND

Story:

Walking through the lonely nighttime halls of the girl’s dormitory, you are only a few paces away from the familiar turn on the right that will bring you safely back to your bed. A small shuffling sound a ways behind you puts you slightly on edge. Writing it off as an irrational fear of the dark, you take a few more steps toward your destination. Then you hear it again and more distinctly; the shuffle of slippered feet. Except now it’s just around the bend. You turn the corner to see a young girl in a blue flowered nightdress. She is serene and doesn’t seem to see you as she walks past. When you turn to ask if she’s lost, you can hear the sound of her muffled feet, but stare back at an empty hall.

History:

Eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr went missing from her bedroom on the night of August 31, 1961. The front door to her house on N. 14^th and N. Junett was locked that night, but her mother found it unlatched the following morning. There was a small men’s shoe print left on the front porch. Ted Bundy’s Great Uncle Jack Cowell lived blocks away from Ann Marie and from the University of Puget Sound where he taught. Ted and his mother had lived with Jack Cowell for a spell and the young Ted Bundy visited his uncle frequently when they moved out. Bundy would have been 14 at the time of Burr’s disappearance and even up to his last interview in Florida before his sentenced death, he fervently denied playing a part in her supposed murder (her body has still never been found.) Rumor and assumption dictates that he kidnapped and murdered the young girl and dumped her body into the foundation of a building being constructed on the U.P.S. campus at the time. According to building records, ground was broken for a new women’s dormitory on August 16^th, 1961.