The Abduction and Murder of Ann Harrison
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Season 8 New Release: My special guest is author Marla Bernard who's here to discuss the murder of 15 year-old Ann Harrison and how it shook Kansas City. Get her book now from Amazon.
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The true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a Missouri teen and her family’s journey to justice.
In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends—career criminals with violent felony convictions—drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter.
A little before 7 a.m., fifteen-year-old Ann Harrison walked to the end of her driveway on Kansas City’s east side to wait for the bus to take her to Raytown South High School. Ten minutes later, she disappeared but no one saw what happened. As if waiting for her return, her belongings were still stacked carefully by the side of the road.
By the Side of the Road is the true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Ann Harrison and the long journey forced upon her family who had to wait nearly three decades to see her killers brought to final justice.
About Marla:
Marla Bernard is a passionate victim’s rights advocate, author, and public speaker.
She received her Master of Arts with honors from Baker University. She serves as adjunct faculty for a national university where she has written several criminal justice courses and has been a contributor to national law enforcement publications.
She was recently filmed for an upcoming true crime series in the United Kingdom for an episode based on her first book, Through the Rain.
Her work has been published in two volumes of Chicken Soup for the Soul. She is writing her third book, a collection of short stories about individuals whose positive influences significantly impacted her life. Additionally, she is conducting historical research to develop a fictional biography of her ancestor, Margaret Stephenson Scott, the last victim of the Salem Witch Trials.
Marla and her husband, retired Sgt. David Bernard, reside in the Midwest near the loves of their lives – their two children and three grandchildren.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm K-Town, and on this edition of Mysterious Radio. |
| 0:04.6 | My background is law enforcement and by |
| 0:34.5 | way of being a police reserve sergeant for Kansas City for 10 years and my husband |
| 0:41.4 | was law enforcement in Kansas City. He was a homicide sergeant for 22 of his |
| 0:48.4 | 28 years. So there's a lot of opportunity for material and research. This case |
| 0:57.0 | however, was because we are personal friends with the victims, the parents, and at |
| 1:05.8 | the time my husband was not in the homicide unit, this case is by virtue of the |
| 1:12.0 | fact that we know them and they had suggested, offered to allow me to write the |
| 1:21.8 | story. The victim's name is Ann Harrison and they are just the best people |
| 1:30.4 | you would ever want to meet and that's how I came to write the story was through |
| 1:37.4 | our friendship with the Harrison and because it was such a high profile case in |
| 1:45.1 | the Kansas City Missouri area, to this day, if you mention the Ann Harrison |
| 1:52.6 | case, somebody always seems to know where they were, how they heard about it or |
| 1:58.6 | possibly even a connection to the case in somewhere or another. And well those |
| 2:06.4 | cases really do stick out in your mind. I'm curious to know without you telling too |
| 2:12.0 | much to begin with, why it was so prolific in that area. In 1989, stranger |
| 2:23.4 | abductions were very rare and in the area where the victim was abducted, it was a |
| 2:33.0 | very quiet side of Kansas City, almost to the suburbs if you will. This was a |
| 2:43.6 | little girl who went out just to stand at the end of her driveway at 7 o'clock |
| 2:50.2 | in the morning and wait for her butt and suddenly vanished and people were |
| 2:57.4 | appalled. They were instantly terrified. They did not understand who could do |
| 3:06.6 | something like this, how this could happen, how a 15 year old girl could |
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