This is the house at 4143 12th Avenue in Seattle where Ted Bundy lived while he was living in the University District of Seattle. Bundy moved in September of 1969 after only recently returning to Washington after a six month stay in Philadelphia (where he attended Temple University).
The house at the time was a rooming house, meaning it has multiple tenants that shared the same facilities. Back during the time of the murders it was known as the “Rogers’ Rooming House” and was owned by Ernst and Frieda Rogers. This house is located in the heart of the University District, and Bundy would have blended in with the other students beautifully.
The fence that is currently around the outside is there to prevent “true crime tourists” from trespassing on the property. I had to hold my phone above the fence and was just waiting for someone to shoo me away. There was construction right in front of the house, and the workers had no idea what I was looking for.
Bundy lived on the second floor for four years until he left for Utah on September 2nd, 1974. We think Bundy started his crime spree while he was living here in January of 1974. He attacked his first known victim, Karen Sparks, in a house that was less than half a mile away. That site was in visual distance to The Sandpiper, where Bundy met his longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer.
While he was giving one of his third-person “pseudo-confessions”, Bundy tip toed around the concept that he may have picked Brenda Carol Ball up at a bar and brought her back to his rooming house. Once there, they had “consensual sex” before he strangled her to death in her sleep. If he was telling the truth (and that is a big IF), then it means that Bundy murdered at least one of his victims at this location.

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