Ryan Burton Part 2: The Discovery

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Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Part 2 of 2. The year 1984 was the most active year in the investigation of the September of 1981 abduction of 3-year-old Ryan Nicole Burton. Leads the FBI chased seemed like a major stretch, specifically one that appeared as though it was ripped from the script of a made for television movie. But the investigation didn’t begin as it should have until almost three years after Ryan disappeared. The day after President Ronald Reagan christened the newly formed National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at a White House ceremony, a tragic discovery was made, one that changed the trajectory of the case completely. Still, years again passed until another break in the case came in the form of a confession.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cole podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:05.8	is advised.
0:09.0	When Helen and Bud Burton traveled 100 miles from Breckenridge, Texas to Arlington to cheer
0:15.2	on their baseball team, the Texas Rangers on the evening of September 8, 1981, they left
0:21.9	their two children, 10-year-old Jason and three-year-old Ryan, under the care of a trusted friend.
0:29.6	Ryan and Jason's 12-year-old baby sitter Tina put them to bed and dozed off on the
0:34.6	living room sofa.
0:37.0	Tina heard a door shut and what sounded like a baby whimpering in the dead of night,
0:42.6	and after checking out the house, nothing seemed to miss.
0:46.6	When she woke up the following morning, however, the front door was open, and three-year-old
0:51.8	Ryan was gone.
0:54.8	From 3,000 Breckenridge residents joined the search for the missing girl, nearly half
1:00.0	the population of the town, but after extensive and thorough search efforts of nearly every
1:05.5	brushy field, thicket, creek bed, and abandoned structure, Ryan could not be found.
1:13.5	Police believed someone entered the Burton home and took Ryan directly from her crib,
1:18.8	sneaking past Tina both ways.
1:21.8	As strange as it sounded, especially for a town with almost no violent crime, it was also
1:28.0	the only scenario that made sense.
1:31.6	As the weeks, months, and years went on, Bud and Helen Burton did everything they could
1:36.9	think of to progress the investigation and keep Ryan's name and picture in the media.
1:43.0	Still, the many tips the Breckenridge police received led nowhere.
1:48.9	The Burton's joint forces with John and Rave Walsh, whose six-year-old son Adam was
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