Who is Ted Bundy?
Ted Bundy was a man who was born in Burlington, Vermont, on November 24th, 1946. Bundy’s mother was ashamed of giving birth to him because of her religious background so Bundy ended up getting raised as the adopted son of his grandparents and was told that his mother was his sister. Bundy was a very intelligent child and did well in school but didn’t do as well around his peers.
Education
Ted graduated from the University of Washington in 1972, with a degree in psychology. He was accepted into law school in Utah, but then he never earned his degree.
While Ted was in college, he fell in love with a beautiful, rich woman from California. He was extremely sad after the breakup. In the future, Bundy’s later targeted victims who resembled his college girlfriend (attractive college students with long, dark hair.)
Later in Bundy’s life, he ended up getting more involved with politics and even ended up getting a letter of recommendation from the Republican governor of Washington after working on his campaign.
January 31, 1974: Lynda Ann Healy, 21
Bundy abducted Lynda from the University District of Seattle. She was abducted and strangled. Lynda was 5’7″ at the time of her death and was 21 years old. She was just about to graduate that semester. She lived in a house on the University of Washington campus. On Friday, February, 1, 1974, Lynda never showed up to work at the Northwest Ski Reports. She was always responsible and never late, knowing that she had to be awake at 5:30am. Lynda’s roommate woke up to her own alarm half an hour after Lynda’s alarm was supposed to go off and she had noticed that Lynda had never turned her alarm off. After her roommate received a call from the Northwest Ski Reports about Lynda not showing up, she began to get extremely worried. Lynda’s parents got very worried that something was wrong that night when she didn’t show up to the dinner she had planned with them. When looking at Lynda’s room, there were a few things that were off about the way her room was made up. She was known to make her bed everyday and her bed wasn’t made that morning. There was dried blood on the pillow at the top of her bed where Lynda’s head usually laid. There was also blood on her nightgown that had been hung up in the closet and some of her bed. Ted had snuck into the house during the night and raped and killed Lynda.
Lynda’s roommates had noticed that the clothes she had been wearing the previous night were missing. Lynda was believed to be the first one killed by Ted Bundy because she was the first body that was found.
Ted Bundy lived down the street from Lynda and took a psychology class that Lynda was also taking. Lynda had been stalked for an amount of time before she was taken and brutally raped and murdered.
http://tedbundyexpert.tripod.com/id18.html
March 12, 1974: Donna Gail Manson, 19
Donna Gail Manson disappeared on her college campus on her way to a jazz concert that was at the school library at around 7pm.
She had a habit of disappearing whenever she felt something new and exciting has come her way and most of the time no one knew where she was for hours or even days.
Donna’s lifestyle wasn’t consistent because she liked to party and let loose rather than go to class everyday on time. She wasn’t reported missing until seven days after she disappeared.
Donna’s body was never found. The only thing that we know about her death is that Bundy allegedly burned her skull in Kloepfer’s fireplace.
https://crimepiperblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/ted-bundy-the-cases-donna-gail-manson/
April 17, 1974: Susan Elaine Rancourt, 18
Susan was studying biology at CWU. In highschool she was very invested into clubs and teams at her school like cheerleading and she was nominated homecoming queen. One night on April 17th, Susan does not go back to her dorm room that night and so her room mate calls local police to report a missing person. Susan grew up caring heavily about her teeth and would floss constantly. One of the signs that Susan had left but not on her own doing was that her dental floss was left behind and her parents had told authorities that she would not have left it if she knew she was going out.
The search for Susan lasted nearly a year when four skulls were found on Taylor Mountain in King County. One of the skulls had belonged to Susan while the others belonged to other females including Roberta Parks, a woman who had a missing persons out on her from OSU a month after Susan went missing.
A garden was built in honor of Susan’s life in place of a memorial.
May 6, 1974: Roberta Kathleen Parks, 20
Late one night, Roberta stepped out of her dorm room late around 11pm to go get her usual late night dinner from the cafeteria. At the time of her abduction, she was known to have been struggling with classes and alcohol because of an incident with her father having a heart attack. Roberta was in love with her boyfriend Christy McPhee at the time but was also worried about him wanting to move too quickly in the relationship and settle down too fast. Later in the future, Bundy admitted to approaching her in her school’s cafeteria that night. Ted Bundy drove Roberta to a remote location where he raped her and then brought her to Taylor Mountain where he raped her again and then murdered her.
https://crimepiperblog.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/ted-bundy-the-cases-roberta-kathleen-parks/
June 1, 1974: Brenda Carol Ball, 22
Brenda was out visiting her usual hangout, the Flame Tavern. She stayed until close that night because after getting out of college two weeks prior, she had been in a phase of partying like crazy. When leaving the Tavern, Bundy approached her and began his abduction. Bundy later admitted to bring her home with him to the Rogers’ rooming house where he had consensual intimate relations with her before he ended up strangling her to death.
https://crimepiperblog.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/ted-bundy-the-cases-brenda-carol-ball/
June 11, 1974: Georgeann Hawkins, 18
Georgeann Hawkins had walked to her boyfriends dorm the night that she had gone missing. Her boyfriend had only lived six houses down from where her sorority house was. When she did not return home by 2:00 am, her roommate had called her boyfriend to find out where she was and he had said that she’d left an hour prior to that. The police show up the next morning and take action on looking for her immediately because of the pattern of missing girls around that time. Hawkins was never seen again after that night and later Bundy confessed to the murder of Georgeann. Bundy had told authorities that he had seen her behind her house in the early morning and asked her for help with his briefcase and when she went to help him, he hit her over the head knocking her out and leaving her unconscious.
July 1974: Janice Anne Ott, 23
Janice Ott was out at a park on a beautiful sunny day. Janice was pretty short with long blonde hair and green eyes. Janice was a newlywed who had just gotten married to her husband Jim the year prior to 1974. When Ott’s car was broken into, she was moved to a smaller community. Since her husband was in school in California, she lived with a roommate.
That day, Janice decided to put her swimsuit on along with some shorts and a t-shirt and make her way down to Lake Sammamish after leaving her roommate a note explaining where she would be. She had taken her yellow bike with her as her form of transportation. Janice was noticed by a man in a sling and went over to talk to her. Witnesses say that she got dressed and followed the man with her yellow bike and was never seen again.
July 1974: Denise Naslund, 19
Denise was also at the lake that day. She had dark hair and dark eyes. She had spent most of that day with her boyfriend and another couple. Denise had gotten to the lake after Janice had walked away with the unknown man. Denise and her friends had all fallen asleep in the sun and when she woke up, she noticed her dog was gone and went to go find it along with a restroom. She was last seen walking out of the restrooms and many bystanders claimed to have also seen the man with his arm in a sling. Naslund’s friends all said that she would have always been willing to help anyone who needed it including the man with his arm in a sling.
Two months after Denise and Jan went missing, a hunter in Issaquah had found their remains and a third body as well who had belonged to Georgann Hawkins. The bodies were all found two miles from Lake Sammamish State Park.
https://criminalmisconduct.blogspot.com/2018/07/remembering-janice-ott-and-denise.html
Oct. 18, 1974: Melissa Smith, 17
Melissa’s father was the town’s police chief. Melissa had plans to have a slumber party with her friends that night. That night, she walked to a local pizza place to talk to a friend who was dealing with relationship problems. From the pizza place, she went back to her home to gather clothes for her sleepover but she never ended up making it home. She was found nine days after this naked and beaten. Her head had been severely beaten with what looked like a crowbar and her body had been beaten before her death. She had been strangled, raped and sodomized.
https://serialkillertedbundy.weebly.com/the-utah-murders.html
Oct. 31, 1974:Laura Ann Aime, 17
Laura went missing four days after halloween. She had gone to a cafe on halloween night to participate in an activity there and ended up leaving around midnight to go to the park. She was found a month after than on the bank of a river in the Wasatch Mountains. Her face was beaten so bad that they couldn’t recognize her and she was found naked. She had been drinking just enough to be intoxicated but not enough that she couldn’t scream for help or run or fight back.
November 8, 1974: Carol DaRonch, 18
Carol was shopping at Waldens Books, when a handsome, well dressed man approached her. He had asked her if she’d parked near the Sears, and she had told him yes. He then asked for her licence number which she proceeded to give him. He then lied to her and told her that someone had tried to break into her car and she needed to go look. She trusted him and assumed that he was a security guard. She followed him outside into the dark and rainy night but felt nervous and asked him for his ID. When they got to the car there was nothing wrong and he insisted that she needed to go down to the station to see if she knew the suspect. She then followed him to a side building which he told her was a substation. (It was the backdoor of a laundry mat). He told her that he thought the suspect must have been taken to headquarters. He then told her she needed to come with him to headquarters with him and it wasn’t until she was in his Volkswagen that she smelt alcohol on his breath. When he told her to wear her seat belt she told him no and was ready to jump out of the car but he had already driven off and was going too fast for her to jump out of the car. He then stopped the car and tried to handcuff her but in the struggle, he accidentally attached both cuffs to the same wrist. She was then threatened with a small gun. She accidently fell out of the car into the dirt and by the time she got up, he was coming at her with a crowbar. She was then pushed up against the car and managed to break free and run into the road. An older couple came upon her just in time and took her into the station leaving her the first living victim of Ted Bundy.
https://serialkillertedbundy.weebly.com/the-utah-murders.html
Same day: Debra Jean Kent, 17
Debbie dropped her younger brother off at a local skating rink and then went to the high school with her mother to see a play. Debby called her brother in the middle of the play to let him know that it wouldn’t end until well after 10 p.m. then went back to watch the rest of the play. She then told her mother that she would pick up her brother while her mother stayed at the school and hurried to the parking lot around 10:30 p.m. Her brother waited at the rink and her parents waited until midnight and began to get irritated. When her parents saw that the only car in the parking lot was theirs, they notified the police. A father from the school said he had arrived late to the play and saw a light colored VW bug racing away from the school. A small handcuff key was found in the parking lot, which fit the cuffs that Carol DaRonch had brought in.
July 4, 1975: Nancy Baird, 23
Nancy disappeared from a gas station where she was working at the time. Bundy was a customer and her work environment just happened to be a high risk type of job. She was never found.
June 28, 1975: Sue Curtis, 15
There was never any information about Sue. After she went missing, she was never found and no information was found out.
February 1976: Debbie Smith, 17
There was never any information about Debbie other than she was found April 1st, 1976
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