Crime & Safety

Award-Winning Journalist, Ted Bundy Author Rebecca Morris To Appear Thursday At Library

The event featuring the author of "Ted and Ann: The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy," begins at 7 p.m.

Award-winning journalist Rebecca Morris, author of “Ted and Ann: The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy,” will talk and sign books Thursday at the.

Friends of the Libraries sponsor these free events is sponsoring the event, which begins at 7 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Was Ted Bundy’s first victim eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr, who disappeared from a Tacoma neighborhood in 1961? With new information about Ted Bundy’s childhood, interviews with those who knew him best, and the memories of the Burr and Bundy families, “Ted and Ann” is the story of one of the 20th century’s most fascinating cold cases.

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Morris pieced together 50 years of rumors, myths, facts and memories to solve the case described by Tacoma’s chief of detectives in 1961 as “a handful of nothing – it was like grabbing clouds.”

Ann Rule, New York Times best-selling true crime author, said, “This is the ONLY book to read to learn the full story of the disappearance of Ann Marie Burr in August 1961. Fascinating!”

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Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling true crime author, said, “While Ted Bundy might be the greatest evil enigma ever, author Rebecca Morris strips away the layers of the greatest mystery of his life – what was his connection to the disappearance of Ann Marie Burr? This is an astonishing achievement, the missing piece that readers of crime have long sought. Bravo for Morris!”

Based upon interviews and statements from family members, childhood friends and psychologists, Morris weaves a remarkably engrossing account of Ted Bundy. She maps his dark and troubling family history, correspondence with Ann Marie Burr's mother, and sessions with psychologist Dorothy Lewis that occurred near the end of his life.

Morris is an award-winning journalist who has worked in radio and television news in New York, Portland and Seattle. Her reporting has appeared in The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, People, Entertainment Weekly, New York Newsday, American Theatre and many other publications. She lives in Seattle.


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