Hi Cindy,
It’s been said she never made it to the mall. But when a pi hired by Dunlap miraculously someone saw her. But no one else did. Apparently this witness remembered her black shoes!
Colleen

Hi Anthony,
That’s a great question! I think there was a lot of blocking him by her parents.
I am surprised it’s not solved yet!

I’m wonder why the steering wheel was never swabbed! DNA today is a great technology.

Hi Thomas,
I never heard about the burglary ring. Gosh Minneapolis pd has sure had their problems.

Did you see this:

Fireplace log
The records reveal something else that has never been reported.
In the garage, the police found a bloodstained fireplace log. A lab report says Anne’s DNA was on that log, too.
In addition to the stab wounds, the medical examiner found evidence of a “blunt force blow to her head.” He concluded Anne was apparently hit with “something broad and flat.”
Was Anne knocked out – then stabbed?
“This is the first time I’ve ever heard about the fireplace log,” said Caroline Lowe, a former Twin Cities crime reporter who covered the case extensively in 1996 and still keeps tabs on it today.
“Those seem like critical pieces of their puzzle – that they think Anne was somehow knocked out, stunned, so whoever killed her could get control of her,” Lowe said.

Kare11 [https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-11-investigates-new-details-revealed-in-dunlap-murder-mystery/89-70f6dc98-9660-4687-a2b4-0458532bccfc]

This from the same article: “There is nothing that leads it to him. And we know him too well. He couldn’t grieve like he could, if he did it,” Donn Barber told KARE 11 in 1996.

I was just curious about a relationship because if they were friends the Kmart worker would have probably been questioned. It just seems weird that he waited until 8pm to call her parents. Heck my husband would have been calling the police especially if we had a dinner date. I’m am surprised her parents shielded Brad. It doesn’t seem they cared much to find the murderer of their daughter. There is a lot of deception in this case mostly by her parents. Jmo.

Sorry it slide in moderation, it’s out.

Hi Thomas,

That’s very interesting! I’ll need to do some research. Many believe that Brad did it and her family shielded him from the police. I’ll have to do some research into what you posted about Kmart employee! Since you know the name, [I’m not asking for it] but was the person an acquaintance of Anne?

Hi Sean,

Thanks for commenting! I don’t believe Brad is innocent. This right here, the parents had excuse after excuse for blood in the garage:

Sgt. David Voss sworn affidavit:
Forensic evidence indicates that the murder of Anne Dunlap occurred in the garage of her parents’ home because Anne Dunlap’s blood is found in three locations in the garage. Furthermore, there were positive presumptive indicators of blood found in the washtub and lint trap located in the laundry room of Anne Dunlap’s parents’ home. This forensic evidence suggests a clean-up by the murderer.

So far Brad has gotten away with murder, it would be nice if there was some hard evidence against him!

I’ve never felt that anyone but Brad was a reasonable suspect. She was killed as a byproduct of some long-simmering private disagreement, with Brad planning to take the money and start over elsewhere (as he actually ended up doing). Her car was dumped with the keys in it and in a bad neighborhood in order to misdirect the police, if not get indirectly frame someone, probably a black person, found driving her stolen car.

What’s always bugged me is the unwavering support from Anne’s parents for Brad. If your daughter gets murdered, at some point you must naturally have to wonder if her husband killed her, particularly when there’s such emphasis on him as a suspect by the police. But they never stopped supporting him. I always wondered if Brad purposely acted out some deception while he lived with them.

Anne was, perhaps rightly lauded, as something of a saint, with her many friendships, amazing career, but I also wonder — was there a dark side to her? Something hidden from everyone else but obvious to Brad and unlikely to be believed by anyone else? Did moving in with her parents while their house was built result in their relationship regressing and becoming chaste, perhaps fueling Brad’s resentments? Did Anne refuse or decide to delay having children due to her career? It’s sort of hard to come up with a motive for *why* Anne was killed, even by her husband, who probably could have kicked back and benefitted from someone likely to put them into a lofty economic status at a young age.