taken Anna home, but he’d eventually gone back out with her. As
an agent wrote in a report, Bryan “perjured himself when he swore
before the coroner’s inquest at Fairfax...that he had left Anna
safely at her home in Fairfax between 4:30 and 5 p.m.”
White needed to establish where the two had gone after leaving
Ralston. Piecing together details from Agent Burger’s previous
informants as well as from witnesses located by the undercover
team, White was able to create a time line. Bryan and Anna had
stopped at a nearby speakeasy and stayed there until about 10:00
p.m. Then they headed to another hell joint, several miles north of
Fairfax. Bryan’s uncle was spotted with them, so perhaps the uncle
had been lying to Agent Burger, to cover not only for Bryan but for
himself as well. The owner of the place told agents that Bryan and
Anna had been drinking there until about 1:00 a.m.
Accounts of where Bryan and Anna went after that grew
murkier. One witness said that they’d stopped, alone, at another
speakeasy closer to Fairfax. Others reported seeing Bryan and
Anna leave the speakeasy in the company of a “third man” who
wasn’t the uncle. “Third man is said to have been present with
Anna Brown and Bryan Burkhart,” Agent Burger noted. The last
sighting of Anna and Bryan together that the investigators heard
about had been at approximately 3:00 a.m. A witness who knew
them both said that she’d heard a car stop near her house in
Fairfax. A man whom she believed to be Bryan shouted, “Stop your
foolishness, Annie, and get into this car.”