American Homicide - S1: E14 – The Disappearance of Danny Burroughs, Part 1

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

High school sweethearts Danny and Loretta Burroughs seemingly perfect reunion takes a dark turn when Danny vanishes. Loretta says Danny left her for a waitress, but Danny’s friends aren’t convinced he’d leave his life behind.  Reach out to the American Homicide team by emailing us: [e-mail]. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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in 2025. We will be releasing more bonus episodes onto the feed as the season goes on. So again, thank you for your continued listenership. High school sweethearts, Danny and Loretta reunited decades later and picked up right where they left off. She had a crush on Daniel her whole life.

And then eventually they got back together. And of course, if it had worked out, we wouldn't be talking today. He left her for a waitress in Florida. And we were all in shock, all in shock. Danny had a way of just, he found something wrong with everybody. But there's plenty more to this story.

Danny just disappears in thin air. This whole thing just didn't feel right. And made everyone question what they knew about Loretta and Danny. I was definitely not expecting to find what we found. Today, we're in Maysland in New Jersey for part one of The Disappearance of Danny Burroughs. The disappearance of Danny Burroughs. My name is Sloane Glass and this is American Homicide. And just a warning that this episode contains graphic content.

Please take care while listening. The generation known as the Baby Boomers came of age during the 1960s, and for most of them, it happened in suburban America. It's kind of a fun time, easy, not a lot of crime. Chris Gagan grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Front doors were left open all the time. A lot of the neighborhood, they'd sit out on the front step, the kids would play, so it was nice.

That was back in an era when kids played outside until the street lights came on. We used to go ice skating or dancing all the time because they had these little dances in the Catholic churches. We formed a Beatles group because we were into the Beatles all the time, so we had like a club. It was a very simple life. One of her neighborhood friends was a girl named Loretta. Loretta lived so close and there was a candy store across the street, so a lot of times

we would take a walk down there. Sometimes the boys would be there. Danny Burrows was one of those boys. Danny was a year older and he was popular with the girls in the neighborhood. He was really cute, like nice eyes, and Loretta really had a thing for Danny. Like she was, you know, infatuated with him, maybe even more so than infatuated, but I know she really liked him. Loretta and Danny dated in high school, but like most young love stories, it was short-lived. The two split up after graduation and went their separate ways.

Danny moved to New Jersey, Maze Landing. Danny lived in Maze Landing, a quiet community of about 2,000 people, which sits about 15 minutes from the bright lights, bustling clubs, and numerous casinos of Atlantic City. It's also about an hour from Philadelphia. He lived down by the shore, and then he met someone else. Then he met a girl who he eventually married. They had two children. Loretta also got married, divorced,

and then married a second time, but her husband passed away in 1993. Fast forward to the mid-90s. Loretta was a widow and Danny was divorced. Loretta had a career in nursing. She took care of the elderly. When the paths of these former high school lovers crossed yet again, they started dating. She was very happy to be back with him. By that point, they were both in their late forts. But they picked up right where they left off.

She always wanted him and she got him and she kept him. When the two got back together, it was big news for Ruth and Tovanny, who also grew up with Loretta and Danny. Loretta liked Danny from the time she was little. This was her lifelong dream, and it finally happened. And I thought, you know, he's got it made. He's got somebody who totally adores him.

Loretta moved into Danny's vintage three-bedroom, three-bathroom house in Maze Landing. And in 1997, she finally became Mrs. Danny Burroughs. Now considering their history, it was the kind of news you'd certainly expect everyone to know about. That's the thing, we never heard anything about being married. I never knew they got married.

It was odd. I said, when do you get married? I had no idea. But quietly getting married kind of fit Danny's under-the-radar personality. He was a guy who liked to spend hours working in his shed. He owned just about every tool he could get his hands on and loved to fix things. Cars, boats, motorcycles.

Danny worked on them all. Danny was also happy behind a set of drums. This is actual audio of him performing. He was in his own band for a little while. We used to have a pool party, and he would bring the band, and they'd play. We used to laugh at the way he danced. We couldn't stop laughing.

Danny left a big impact on your life. His laugh, his manners, he was just not a forgettable person. While Danny spent his time working on cars and flying his expensive model airplanes, Loretta was more of a people person. She was a caregiver and worked at a nursing home. Her patients and their families adored her. And after work, it was all about family. She was the doting grandmother. She did everything with the grandkids. And her daughter, they were very close. Loretta's daughter, Nicole, and her grandchildren were the light of Loretta's life.

She would do anything for them. As for Danny, he had a son and a daughter, but they rarely saw him. Being a father was a role Danny struggled with. Loretta urged Danny to spend more time with his kids. But by then, Danny's kids were all grown up and living in Florida. In fact, Florida played into a long-running argument between Dani and Loretta. Dani wanted to move to Florida. He didn't like the cold. And Loretta was unhappy about it.

She told me she did not want to go to Florida, because her family's here. And her daughter and her poor grandchildren, they were all here. Loretta needed family. She loved her family. But Danny kept telling his friends that he and Loretta were retiring to Florida. And this was usually met with Loretta standing behind him, shaking her head no. It became a joke among their friends. I'm sure she was really upset and dug her heels in and says, you know, I'm not going to go. She had a couple grandchildren at home and, you know, I don't blame her. I won't

want to leave either. The battle over Florida cooled off during the summer of 2007 when Danny had surgery on his rotator cuff. It was a slow and painful recovery process for Danny. But even with his arm in a sling, there was Danny outside working in his yard. He was out mowing the lawn, and the neighbor laughed like, what are you doing mowing the lawn

with your arms in a sling? He was anal about stuff like that. That was around the time Loretta took a weekend trip with her daughter and grandchildren. But when she returned, she said she found Danny with another woman. There was a yellow Hummer pulling out of their driveway. And there was a woman driving it and he was in the passenger seat. Ed Dwyer was a neighbor who consoled a devastated Loretta. She was just crying uncontrollably.

And I asked her what was wrong. And she said that her husband had left her for a waitress that they ran across in Florida when they were down there. So not only did Danny get his wish to move to Florida, but according to Loretta, he was going with a waitress he met during their last visit together to the Sunshine State. She said, he kept wanting to go back to this same restaurant. They ate lobster every day. And she said, how much lobster can you eat? But apparently, it wasn't the lobster

that Danny was craving. It was the young blonde waitress with the yellow hummer. And this was the woman that drove up from Florida to pick him up and bring him back to Florida. One thing about Danny, when he sets his mind on something, that's what he does. So he wanted to go. Danny had a way of just, he found something wrong with everybody, you know, but it would

eventually be never his fault, and he had to move on. But still, it was hard to understand because Danny not only left behind his wife, but also his truck, motorcycle motorcycle and shed loaded with his expensive tools and model airplanes. In fact, Danny didn't take his cell phone or even his toothbrush. His keys were left in the house. So why would he just leave his keys? The only thing Danny did take was money.

Loretta said Danny cleaned out their safe before leaving. Maybe he dropped off the face of the earth for a reason. Who knows? I don't know. He wasn't, you know, the most predictable person. His friends and family wondered. Was Danny having some sort of midlife crisis or leading a double life? This whole thing just didn't feel right.

He was close to his neighbors. Even his own brother. He would have told his brother. They were close. I had my suspicions. Something, something went wrong. Everything Danny and Loretta's friends and family thought they knew about the couple was about to change. Everyone's forgotten who runs this valley.

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They see it on TV as Sopranos, North Jersey, cities and smog. Down here, it's not like that. Detective Frank Schalek spent his whole life working and living in South Jersey. There's small towns, there's farms, there's woods. To me South Jersey is a small community part of the state, you know, where everybody knows each other and you know it's more beautiful than people think. We have the beaches, you know, we have the forests, we have the pine lands, and we have the Philly sports teams, which we've adopted. Detective Shalek was investigating the disappearance of 61-year-old Danny Burroughs.

Danny was just kind of like your basic all-around guy who could fix anything and, you know, was very handy. Danny and his wife Loretta were high school sweethearts. Everybody knew Loretta. She was in the auxiliary of the local fire department. She was friendly with her grandkids and you know her neighbors. People knew Loretta and people knew Daniel. Daniel was really well known in the community.

And as we said, the two reconnected some 20 years later. She had a crush on Daniel her whole life. They had split up for a period of time, and then eventually they got back together. Danny and Loretta married in 1997 and lived in the quiet south Jersey town of Mays Landing. But right around their 10-year anniversary, Danny disappeared. He had left with a girl and went to Florida in the Yellow Hummer and

that was all we had. Okay, so husband leaves wife and runs off with a younger woman. It's not exactly something unheard of, but it's where Danny went that played into this story. Danelle for years, had talked about moving to Florida. And Loretta had been putting her foot down. She did not want to leave. She said she wanted to stay around her grandkids. Danny kind of put that off going to Florida because Loretta was not OK with it.

Danny's ex-wife and children in Florida told the police they also hadn't heard anything from him. But they weren't exactly surprised to hear he went missing, because Danny had missed most of his children's lives. But Danny did keep in touch with his brother, Ray. He always would be in contact with his brother, Ray. Almost every other weekend he would go and visit,

play in a band that they had created, even stay overnight sometimes. So phone and personal contact was regular between both of them. Nearly a month after Danny went missing, Ray still hadn't heard a word from his brother. Ray said it was completely out of the ordinary. So Ray went to the police and filed a missing persons report. This put Danny into a database known as the National Crime Information Center.

That way if Danny Burr showed up anywhere in the country, he would show up as a missing person. Ray also told detectives he was upset Loretta didn't report Danny missing. But think about it. Why would she? Danny left her for another woman. She was not expecting to hear from him. Ray hated Loretta. I think that Ray felt that she kind of like was putting a stop to whatever Daniel wanted to do. Daniel had a dream of going to Florida after retirement.

And, you know, she put a stop to anything he wanted to do. Much like Danny, Ray had known Loretta since they were kids. And he felt Loretta knew more than she was saying. Ray said it was completely out of the ordinary. There's nothing that he would have suspected or that would have led him to believe that Daniel would have left without telling him, at least him. And most of all, Daniel would have never left with another woman without him knowing.

Yeah, brothers share those sorts of things. So Ray didn't buy Loretta's story that he left her for another woman. Danny Burrows went missing in August of 2007. We're estimating the date to be around August 5th to August 7th. Now keep in mind that Danny was recovering from shoulder surgery and his arm was in a sling. Just a day or two before Danny went missing, Ray had an unusual call with him. Ray called him and said his words were slurred. He was acting very unusual,

which he attributed to the pain medication he was given. Ray did ask Daniel what medication it was, and Dana replied, whatever she gives me, referring to Loretta. A week or so later, Ray called to check in on Danny. But Loretta answered the week or so later, Ray called to check in on Danny. But Loretta answered the phone and shared the news. Danny had left her for some waitress from Florida. Ray was very suspicious at this point. So he drove down to Mays Landing from his home in Pennsylvania and met with Loretta at the house. When he pulled in, he said Loretta looked completely startled and she also had her

niece there, which she ushered into the house very quickly. As Ray was going around the property, he noticed things of Daniel that were missing. Model airplanes, some equipment and tools. As he talked to Loretta, Loretta was doing a itemized list of all the property and it appeared that she was going to sell it to someone. Ray may have been angry seeing his brother's things being sold off, but it's not unusual after a relationship ends to clean house or to be startled by seeing your ex's brother appear at your front steps unannounced. Ed Dwyer was Loretta's neighbor. She sold his pickup truck, the backhoe she sold, all those airplanes.

Now I'm talking great big airplanes that you would take out in the field and fly them. And she sold every one of them. But Loretta was hurt. She was grieving and said she wanted to turn the page on Danny. She got to the point where if he was gonna live his life in Florida, she was getting rid of all his things that made him happy.

It's just a hard thing to go through. I've gone through it myself. And I think she felt lonely. Sure, she felt lonely. And frankly, she felt like a fool. Loretta was talking to her friends and other people that she worked with, and she would tell her friends that Danny would come back with the girl to be spiteful to the house. There were also a couple calls from a private phone number. She had said Danny would have called her shortly after he left with the other woman, and he had called the house.

Loretta said Danny told her he was doing just fine and that moving to Florida was really what he wanted. He also said to give his brother, Ray, any of his belongings that he left behind. Loretta said she was so hurt and told Danny not to contact her anymore. Detectives repeatedly visited the house and did follow-ups with Loretta. They looked around the house, they looked around the property, they didn't see anything suspicious. And Loretta cooperated and answered the detective's questions. But that changed when they explained that it was protocol to perform a polygraph test on her. At that point, she obtained a lawyer and stopped speaking with us. And once Loretta lowered

up, you know, that made our investigation 10 times harder. A few months later, a neighbor noticed a black tarp and something fishy in Loretta's backyard. So the neighbor had reported a smell by her back shed. There were mothballs by the back shed. When the officers had responded, they didn't smell anything, and she had claimed that there was a dead animal that she had discarded that was back there. Strange. I'd imagine police thought that was suspicious, but with no smell and a plausible explanation, there was nothing to do. By then, Loretta had distanced herself from her old life with Danny.

She sold the house and got all the proceeds from that. Sold all his property, which wasn't cheap property, including a boat, model airplanes, tools and construction equipment. After Loretta moved, the police got permission from the new owners to search the house. We scanned the property with an

x-ray machine to see if there's any irregularities in the ground where a body might be. We brought in canine dogs to detect any type of smell related to a body. We did thorough searches of the property for anything such as blood or evidence of any sort. We came up with nothing. There was absolutely no evidence that we could find.

A year and a half after Danny left, Loretta filed for divorce, claiming abandonment with no hopes for reconciliation. She had no contact with him, no way to contact him, and she was granted a divorce based on that information. So you're probably wondering, how do you divorce someone who's technically missing? Well, all Loretta had to do was simply put a notice in the local newspaper and serve him at his last known address, which was the house he lived in with Loretta had to do was simply put a notice in the local newspaper and serve him at his last known address which was the house he lived in with Loretta and When the court date arrived Danny never showed up and Loretta was granted a divorce

I've actually handled this in person cases for most of my career and Involves hundreds of cases and I've never seen anyone get a divorce after someone went missing, especially when that person was not found at that point. In addition, Loretta had completely shut out her now ex-brother-in-law, Ray. So Ray was very, very upset at times and understandable. His brother's missing and he's upset.

Ray was so frustrated that he started his own investigation. When it's your family, you want to do everything you can and do whatever it takes to find that person. So Ray did create a couple of websites with Daniel's information and information on the case. Ray even created a Facebook page to gather leads and share updates on his brother's case. He wrote,

The story of my brother's disappearance is something you'd see on TV. Unsolved mysteries or cold case files. Except now, it's happening to me. Ray made no secret that he believed Loretta knew more than she admitted. Out of nowhere, his now ex-wife told everybody that he ran off with another woman. He left without any of his belonging. Nothing. I say BS to her story and many, many lies. She never even called to tell me. I found out several days later when I called my brother's

home. With Loretta not talking, detectives turn to an unlikely source for help. Everyone's forgotten who runs this valley. Time to remind them. Yellowstone fans, step into the Yellowstone universe. Our family legacy is this ranch. And I'll protect it with my life. Hosted by Bobby Bones, the official Yellowstone podcast takes you deeper into the franchise

that's captivated millions worldwide. Action! Explore untold behind-the-scenes stories, exclusive cast interviews, and in-depth discussions about the themes and legacy of Yellowstone. You know, the first stunt to settle this valley fight was all they knew. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to the ranch, Welcome to the Yellowstone.

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their remarkable journey. Listen to My Legacy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is My Legacy. Danny Burroughs was last seen in the summer of 2007. His wife Loretta said he left her for a waitress in Florida. And then the police got involved when Danny's brother Ray reported him missing. Here's Detective Frank Shalek. So basically, in a missing persons case, we always start where the person went missing from.

And obviously, that would be the home where Loretta and Deanna lived. So a search of the property didn't reveal anything. Every couple months during the investigation, we would do a universal check throughout the country if he had done anything financially, if he had done anything with his name on it, you know, tried to buy a home or tried to buy a car. So we would do that on a couple-month basis and nothing would ever show up. — Even Danny's children in Florida hadn't heard from him. — It just didn't make sense. — Short of questioning every blonde waitress in Florida,

the police followed their basic protocols for a missing adult. But Danny's brother Ray wanted the police to do more. Ray wanted everything done possible. But what we tried to explain to Ray is that, you know, at this point there's certain way that we have to follow. Like, we just can't go in and search a house without a search warrant. We can't speak to Loretta because she has a lawyer. I understand where Ray's coming from, but the problem is there was no evidence that he didn't leave and go away with another

woman and just didn't want to be found. There's people in this country that do that all the time. If there was more to Danny's disappearance, Detective Shalek knew they were racing the clock. I've handled plenty of cases that are a couple of months, couple of years, but this was the longest one. And that did make it difficult because as time goes by, you know, the case was slipping away

and we had to find a way to end this. So detectives turned to an unlikely person for help, Loretta's daughter, Nicole. But just like Danny's children, Nicole wasn't at all surprised Danny skipped town. She did believe that Daniel might have left and went with another woman. Nicole explained that for years,

Loretta believed Danny would leave her because he had an affair once before. So she knew that there was a possibility that he could have left. Not only did she think it was possible, but Nicole said the two had a pattern of this behavior. Because it happened in the past where, you know, they had split up and gotten back together. So in her mind, you know, it wasn't unfathomable that that could happen. Few weeks before Danny went missing, Loretta actually told Nicole that Danny was leaving

her and moving to Florida. So Nicole went to the store and bought Danny a greeting card. Inside, she wrote, Good luck on your new life. Danny read the card and asked, What is this for? He said he wasn't moving anywhere. Nicole was caught in the middle and wondered,

Who was telling the truth? You know, it put her in a hard position. She loved her mother. she loved her stepdad. If you remember, Loretta joined Nicole and her family on a weekend getaway right around the time Danny went missing. It was a trip that Loretta planned and paid for. But according to Nicole, Loretta arrived late.

Nicole said she called her mom more than 40 times that morning. But Loretta never answered. When Loretta finally showed up, she was crying. And she said she had had an argument with Danny. And I think she became suspicious at that point. Six years after Danny's disappearance, a lot has changed. Loretta had divorced him,

sold his things, and their house in May's Landing. In fact, she moved two different times. That's when the Atlantic County Cold Case Unit started digging. In the months before he went missing, Danny named Loretta his power of attorney, meaning Loretta could make financial and medical decisions on Danny's behalf. We went to the attorney who created the power of attorney for Loretta and when we spoke with her, she was able to go onto her computer and see that the power of attorney was created on June 12th, 2007 according to the timestamp. The notarized date on the power of attorney was June 10th, two days before it was even created. according to the timestamp. The notarized date on the power of attorney was June 10th,

two days before it was even created. In other words, the power of attorney document was created fraudulently. Well, it was definitely a red flag that it was done in June and that he would miss it shortly thereafter in August. And speaking with Ray, it just wasn't something he would do. The notary claimed Danny wasn't there when the document was notarized, which raised his

suspicion, and Ray believed Danny's signature looked to be forged. And he was adamant that that wasn't a signature on the power of attorney. So it turned out to be a big red flag for us. This allowed Detective Shalek to get two search warrants, one for Loretta's current home in Vetner, New Jersey, and a second for Loretta's sister's house, for Loretta's current home in Vettner, New Jersey, and a second for Loretta's sister's house, where Loretta had also been staying. Our goal was to locate a copy of the power of attorney so we could compare signatures and the original information on the original paper.

This is insane. It's been six years since Danny went missing. On May 17, 2013, investigator Lynn Doherty and I went to conduct a search warrant on the home where Loretta was currently staying at her sister's house. We had warrants from both houses, so we were executing the warrants at both houses simultaneously. Sergeant Lynn Doherty joined Detective Shalick when they knocked on the door of Loretta's sister's house in a last-ditch attempt to locate anything about Danny's disappearance. So this at this point was going to tell us either what happened to Daniel or was going to leave the case unanswered and open.

If we found nothing in the search warrant, then there's a possibility we may never find out what happened to Daniel. It was a typical morning in New Jersey. It was cool out, the weather was clear. So, when we pull up, we knock on the front door. Loretta's sister came to the door first, and Loretta was right behind her. She's in a nightgown, it's early in the morning. She's not expecting us there.

And the minute we saw Loretta, her face just dropped. And we came in, and she had to get dressed. So I went into a room with her, and there was no furniture, no bed, no anything. She just had a small suitcase. And we sat her down, and we explained that we had a search warrant for the residents. And the first question she asked us is, are you searching my house in Vendner?

We told her yes. She was just like, oh, I'm sorry. for the residents. And the first question she asked us is, are you searching my house and vetting her? We told her yes. She was just like, and just the life just drained right out of her. Loretta was very quiet. She simply said, are you Detective Shalek? And I said yes. And she says, I want to talk to you.

So at that point, all our phones lit up on a table. Those incoming phone calls were from detectives who were at Loretta's house in Ventnor City, New Jersey. I got a phone call. It was my sergeant. It was a phone call that changed everything. I never imagined that she was going to tell us what she told us. I'm Sloane Glass. We'll get to that phone call and uncover the truth about Danny in Part 2 of The Disappearance of Danny Burroughs.

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Listen to this episode on the iHeartRadio, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm so sick of hearing men talk about women's basketball. This is Lexi Brown. And Mariah Rose. And we've got a new podcast, Full Circle. Every Wednesday, we're catching you up on what's going on in women's basketball. We've got you with analysis,

insight stories, and a little bit of tea. Full Circle is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Full Circle on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.