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Rhonda Louise Burse
Missing since August 8, 1977 from Burien, King County, Washington
Classification: Missing

Vital Statistics

* Date Of Birth: December 11, 1955
* Age at Time of Disappearance: 21 years old
* Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7"; 110 lbs.
* Distinguishing Characteristics: Black female. Black hair; brown eyes.
* Fingerprints: Available
* Dentals: Not available

Circumstances of Disappearance
Rhonda Burse was a dancer at several Burien area taverns when she disappeared in 1977. She was last seen getting into a car after her shift at the Flame. Rhonda danced in Texas and Colorado, as well as Seattle. Her body has never been found.
The photo of Rhonda wearing a hat was taken the afternoon of her disappearance.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

King County Sheriff's Office
Detective Scott Tompkins
206-205-7810
Email

Agency Case #: 77-122703
 
Bumping case up...

Circumstances of Disappearance

Rhonda Burse was a dancer at several Burien area taverns when she disappeared in 1977. She was last seen getting into a car after her shift at the Flame. Rhonda danced in Texas and Colorado, as well as Seattle. Her body has never been found.

LINK:

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2780dfwa.html
 
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/13396

Anyone think she could've headed up to Alaska? I'm struggling to find a single case of an African American woman missing in Alaska, and I know that people headed in droves up to Alaska during the 1970's and 1980's. If so, she would have been in the state around the same time of Robert Hansen.
 
Very beautiful girl. according to doenetwork, http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2780dfwa.html the photo with the hat was taken the same day as she dissapeared. She dissapeard from the small town of Burien, King County, Washington, she got into a car. Who took that photo? what car did she got into? I doubt the police did much to solve this back in 1977. Just another black stripper. But im sure there are people that knew more. Good discussion on reddit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unresolved...dip/the_disappearance_of_rhonda_louise_burse/
 
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https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5896/
 
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This photo was te last one taken on her, she dissapeared the same day. I wonder who took it. She dissapeared from the city of Burien, Washington with apopulation of around 50.000. She worked as a topless dancer so there should be plenty of suspects here. I'm sure there are people that knew of her fate, but they are not talking. That's what makes it sad.
 
I'm wondering if she was a victim of Michigan serial killer, Robert Elmore Taylor? He escaped from a Michigan prison after killing a young woman in Port Huron, Michigan. After his escape, he fled to the Seattle and Bothell areas in Washington State. In December 1977, he abducted a local Bothell woman from a boutique clothing store where she worked and she was never seen or heard from since.

Taylor was linked to her crime after he was shot in the stomach by two dancers while to trying kidnap them from a Seattle dance studio not long after. You can review Taylor's history and information that I researched here:

WA - WA - Mary Patricia Burns, 30, Bothell, 13 Dec 1977
 


Rhonda Louise Burse – The Charley Project

Rhonda Louise Burse

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Burse, circa 1977

  • Missing Since08/08/1977
  • Missing FromBurien, Washington
  • ClassificationMissing
  • Date of Birth12/11/1955 (63)
  • Age21 years old
  • Height and Weight5'7, 110 pounds
  • Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA blue and white striped top, cut-off blue jeans, a straw hat, two gold chain necklaces, small gold earrings and four large, expensive gold rings.
  • Distinguishing CharacteristicsAfrican-American female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Burse may use the alias name Lisa Fisher and/or the last name Weeks.
Details of Disappearance
Burse was last seen in Burien, Washington on August 8, 1977. She worked as a topless dancer at several clubs and taverns in the area. She was last seen getting into a car after her shift at the Flame. She has never been heard from again.

Burse has danced in the Seattle, Washington area as well as Colorado and Texas. Few details are available in her case.
Investigating Agency
  • King County Sheriff's Office 206-205-7810
Source Information
I hope her case can be re-opened, somebody in that small town must know something. That photo with the hat was taken the same day as she vannished, who took it?

Interesting fact, This club the Flame was quite notorious as a rough but popular place, Ted Bundy met his victim Brenda Ball over there in 1974 and later killed her.

Criminal Misconduct: Remembering Brenda Ball


I don't think no serial killer is responsible here though, I think it was some local that she probably knew that frequented the bar often. She decided to go with and when he started making advances she didn't like, he flipped and killed her. Perhaps other locals helped him cover it up. Someone must have been able to describe that car and if there was a will to solve this it should have been solved easily. Imagin this is a small town where most people knew each other.

Street view
It's long gone
Google Maps
 
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Nothing much in terms of circumstance, but there was a Jane Doe that was possibly American but was found on the Canadian side of the water in Detroit Michigan. She also appeared to have a penchant for nice clothing and jewelry. The case would be under the radar for most US authorities, being that she is listed as a Jane Doe in Canada... Worth looking into?
Canada's Missing | Case details
 
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/13396

Anyone think she could've headed up to Alaska? I'm struggling to find a single case of an African American woman missing in Alaska, and I know that people headed in droves up to Alaska during the 1970's and 1980's. If so, she would have been in the state around the same time of Robert Hansen.
NamUs # UP13396 is a black female found in Anchorage, AK 12/15/02 which would be about 1977 when Rhonda Burse went missing.

Circumstances of Recovery: Skull found inside residence. Said to have brought in by dog.
 

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