A Compassionate Girl, A Devastated Community. What Happened to Lynn Burdick?

Another unsolved disappearance

Lynn Burdick lived in Florida, Massachusetts with her parents. She has been described as shy, reliable & compassionate and also a good student.

As well as spending a lot of time looking after her mother, who was poorly with emphysema & asthma, she did lots of volunteering and charity work in her community.

At 15 she began to work in a local store, the Barefoot Peddlar, which was less than a mile from her home.

At 18 years old, it has been said that Lynn had become more outspoken and independent, although still remained fairly straitlaced, preferring to help out in her community rather than go out drinking and partying.

The disappearance

On Saturday, April 17th 1982, Lynn had been shopping with her mother, who dropped her at the Barefoot Peddlar at 4 pm where she was working the closing shift alone until 9 pm.

During her shift, Lynn spoke to her sister at around 7.30 pm, who said she sounded a bit strange but didn’t think too much of it.

Her cousin Suzanne also called and during their conversation, a customer entered the store so Lynn ended the call to serve customers, she hung up the phone around 8.05 pm.

At around 8.10 pm Lynn’s cousin Roy came into the store with some friends. He is the last known person to have spoken to her.

Lynn’s family tried to call her at the store between 8.10 & 8.30 pm, there was a storm coming and they wanted to see if she needed a ride home, the phone was never answered.

Reported missing

At around 8.40 pm, a customer entered the store, the doors were open, the lights were on, but the store was empty, he knew the family and contacted them to let them know Lynn wasn’t around and Lynn’s brother went to the store to look for her, he then called the police.

When the police arrived, they noted that the store appeared to look normal, with no signs of a struggle. Next to the counter was a half-empty bottle of drink and a book face down.

However, when they looked at the cash register, it had been rifled and it was calculated that $187 was missing, unfortunately, at this time there were no time stamps on receipts so it could not be determined when the last purchase…