On August 31, 1961, 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr and the rest of her family hunkered down for the night. Ann, the eldest of four, and her sister went to sleep in their upstairs bedroom that night instead of in the fort in the basement where the other two siblings spent the night. It was a seemingly ordinary night for the Burrs; Beverly, the mother, chained and locked the front door as she usually did before heading to bed herself.
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The only thing is, this was the least ordinary night for not just the Burrs but the entire community in Tacoma, Washington. Why? Because the next morning, one of the girls was gone. The golden-haired, hazel-eyed Ann Marie simply vanished into the night – nowhere to be found ever again.