A Peeping Tom Was Hanging Around
There wasn’t much evidence at the scene. Aside from the shoe print, investigators found a strand of red thread that was stuck inside the window jamb. The cops went door to door, asking neighbors if they saw anything, and it turns out that the Burrs’ neighbors reported seeing someone in their yard.
This person was seen peeping into windows a few days prior to Ann Marie’s disappearance. The front page of that day’s first edition newspaper (The Tacoma News-Tribune) was a story about the night’s storm. Half an inch of rain had fallen, and hundreds of people lost power.