When I first thought of creating a website for Anne Dunlap, I thought gathering information would be fairly simple. I contact the city of Minneapolis and requested the official police report. To my dismay, it literally consisted of 2 pages. 2 very bare pages. The public data consisted of a handful of details reported by Brad Dunlap on December 31, 1995. ~He called in the official missing person’s report at approximately 7:40 a.m. the morning following Anne’s disappearance, Case# 95-388534.
- Brad reported that Anne left to buy shoes at 2:30 p.m. on December 30, 1995.
- Brad reported that Anne did not say where she was going shopping, but stated that she would only go to the Mall of America.
- *In the past, I always thought her going to the Mall of America was a fact. Turns out, it was an assumption.
- Brad reported that Anne was in good spirits and there weren’t any unusual circumstances prior to her departure.
- Brad reported that Anne is scheduled to go back to work on January 4, 1996. *?Not sure why this detail was shared.*
- Brad reported that he called hospitals and Anne’s friends to try and locate her.
- Brad reported that Anne did not use alcohol or any other drugs.
I contacted the head of Minneapolis’ Homicide Unit via email to request an interview. His response was polite, but very canned and clipped, which I understand… Since this is still an active investigation, officers cannot discuss or share details. With all of the, “true crime” cases discussed on social media, so many more details are disclosed. I just figured with a case that has gone cold for 20+ years, why not share a few details? Get people thinking, and hopefully talking about what happened to Anne Dunlap on December 30, 1995.
“Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale
2 Comments
Laura · 03.22.19 at 7:26 pm
I always thought Brad definitely murdered Anne, I thought it was weird too that her car was found in the K mart parking lot, like this was the closest “unsafe” area! Down the road basically from linden hills and many other beautiful neighborhoods. But, omg, If you’re looking for a close “unsafe/dangerous “area then go to the Kmart area?!?! Oh brother! There’s no way somebody would put Anne in the trunk and stab her in the daylight. Brad killed her in her parents garage and drove her car to this totally “unsafe” area, what a joke! He planned this all out. He just wanted out. How convenient that this supposed bad area was so close to her parents house where Brad lived with Anne. She wasn’t robbed or raped. Come on!! It’s the Scott Peterson syndrome, “he looks like such a nice boy”.
triciafiske · 04.15.19 at 5:45 pm
Hi Laura,
Thanks for stopping by. It seemed like an open-&-shut case, didn’t it? I have faith that justice will be served one day.
The Scott Peterson syndrome (2002) seems to be quite commonplace today, unfortunately. 1995 may have been too early for people to fathom that a nice guy, a husband who’s never been violent could be capable of murder. 1995 was also a few years too early to electronically track movement -another handy tool of today. 🙂
Murder is such a cowardly, selfish, selfish act. Laci Peterson and Anne Dunlap (along with countless other women, most recently Shannan Watts) deserved to live their lives. Anne’s murderer would NEVER have slipped through the cracks today.