Information related to the 1992 TB Multi-Agency Investigative Team Report Conference that was held at Quantico between February 20 and February 24, 1992.
Colorado.
Caryn Eilene Campbell.
Caryn Eilene Campbell was born on September 20, 1951 to Robert and Audrian (nee Merryman) Campbell in Garden City, MI. Robert Campbell was born on on July 23, 1917 in Pana, Illinois, and Mrs. Campbell was born on April 16, 1918 in Kansas. The couple were married on October 22, 1937 and went on to have four children together: Sandra (b. 1938), Sandra (b. 1938), Caryn (b. 1951), and Robert ‘Bob.’ A petite woman, Caryn was 5’4” tall and weighed s mere 105 pounds; she had brown eyes, and at the time of her death wore her brown hair at her shoulders. She graduated from Dearborn High School in 1969, and according to the bio underneath her senior year picture, she was in ski club, choir, and ‘intramurals.’ Ms. Campbell went on to attend nursing school, and eventually became a RN.
In early 1975 Caryn was working as a registered nurse at Hospital and was engaged to a co-worker named Ray Gadowski, a divorced cardiologist with two children, Gregory (eleven) and Jenny (nine). Dr. Raymond Francis Gadowski, DO was born on June 19, 1943, and despite the nine year age difference between the couple Caryn got along well with both children, and the couple seemed happy. Ray and ‘Car,’ as he called her (or on occasion ‘Cams’) had been living together for around a year when she was killed, and were residing in Farmington, MI (Winn, 63).
On Saturday, January 11, 1975 Caryn, along with Dr. Gadowski, Gregory, and Jenny, traveled from Michigan to The Wildwood Inn in Snowmass Village, Colorado for a medical conference turned impromptu ski vacation. Friends of the couple told investigators that she was looking forward to getting some skiing in, however other reports said they were arguing about their wedding date as well: unlike her, Gadowski was not particularly in any particular rush to get married, which upset her. Despite arriving with a slight case of the flu, she was still able to take the kids skiing and sightseeing the following day. According to an article published in The Ann Arbor News on January 25, 1975 the couple had ‘purchased five days worth of ski passes.’
On the evening of January 12, 1975 the quartet went to dinner at a restaurant down the slope from the lodge called ‘The Stew Pot,’ along with some other medical professionals they met at the conference (including Campbell’s one time boyfriend, Dr. Alan Rossenthal). At dinner, Caryn ordered beef stew, and while everyone else imbibed on beer and cocktails she was still feeling ‘queasy’ and stuck with milk. The meal ended around 6:30/6:45 PM, and despite the frigid temperatures they decided to walk back and forth from their hotel to the restaurant, leisurely walking the busy street window shipping on their way home, and the group stopped at a Walgreens to browse their magazine section, and according to Kevin Sullivan’s ‘The Bundy Murders:’ ‘apparently Brinkman (a pseudonym for Dr. Rosenthal) had a Playboy to keep him company on the trip, and as he and Caryn were joking about it, Caryn offered to switch with him what she insisted was a much better magazine, her current issue of Viva. With a laugh, Brinkman agreed to the offer.’
When they arrived back at about 8:30 PM everyone settled in front of a large fire in the front lounge: Dr. Gadowski read the evening paper, and it was then that Dr. Rosenthal reminded Caryn about the copy of Viva up in her room. With a sigh, and a small hope that her fiancé would offer to run up and get it (he declined), Campbell announced that she was returning to their room and would return shortly, taking with her the family’s only room key. Greg and Jenny trailed behind her and tried to tag along, but she left them at the elevator and told them to stay by the fire. As she left the lounge, so did Rosenthal, as he returned to his room to get that Playboy. It was the last time Dr. Gadowski ever saw her alive.
After getting off the elevator at the second floor, Campbell briefly chatted with several physicians that she’d met up with at the convention, including a nurse that she worked with at the hospital, and at the time, she had been wearing blue jeans, a light brown ‘wooly jacket,’ and boots. Two of her friends that were staying in the inn that night told investigators that they saw her walk out of the second-floor elevator going in the direction of her room, and was last seen in an open corridor overlooking the pool. According to court records (and Kevin Sullivan), a couple named Dr. and Mrs. Yoder ‘observed Caryn Campbell, with whom they were familiar, exit the elevator on the second floor of The Wildwood Inn. Miss Campbell told the Yoders that she was going to her room to get a magazine and that she would return immediately to the lobby, and they watched her walk down the hallway towards room 210.’ There may however, be some discrepancy as to the extent of the interaction that the couple had with Caryn: according to an article published in The Daily Sentinel on April 5, 1977: ‘Ida Yoder, whose husband is a Physician in Littlejohn, commented that she only saw Caryn and that they didn’t speak, and didn’t know what floor she got off of.’
Dr. Gadowski and the kids waited for Caryn to return in the lounge, and in the first few moments he wasn’t immediately concerned, however as the time passed by with no word from her he decided to go looking for her and returned to their room. As he didn’t have a key, upon arrival he knocked on the door, wondering if perhaps she was in the bathroom, as he knew that she wasn’t feeling well. After running to the front desk and getting a duplicate key, upon entering Gadowski found no signs of a struggle, and the room looked exactly as it did when they’d left earlier. Caryn’s purse was nowhere to be found, however the magazine that she’d intended to get was still on the nightstand next to their bed. Gadowski called the Aspen Police Department shortly after ten PM, and two Pitkin County Sheriff’s deputies arrived roughly an hour later.
When police arrived, they interviewed Dr. Gadowski, and almost immediately began searching the inn, inspecting elevator shafts and crawl spaces, but found no trace of Caryn. On January 13, 1975 uniformed members of the sheriff’s department conducted an extensive search of the buildings and grounds of The Wildwood Inn, including all 140 rooms. They came up with nothing. According to Kevin Sullivan’s ‘Ted Bundy’s Murderous Mysteries,’ ‘background information was obtained on all the employees of The Wildwood Inn and checked against the NCIC (National Crime Information Center) network for reported criminal records locally and out of state. No leads were developed (Sullivan, 158).’
In addition to staff, investigators obtained complete lists of registered lodgers in the general Aspen area around the time Campbell was last seen (starting on January 10), as well as the passenger manifests from Denver to Aspen (then back again) on the only two commercial airlines that served the area at the time. Chief Criminal Investigator for the Ninth Judicial District of the state of Colorado Michael Fisher and the other detectives did extensive background checks on Dr. Gadowski and Alan Rosenthal, as well as all of Campbell’s old boyfriends and male friends/co-workers/acquaintances, and came up with nothing (Sullivan, 158). Ultimately, Investigator Fisher interviewed more than 100 people in relation to the Caryn Campbell case, and he came across no evidence that would indicate that anyone was involved in her disappearance.
When Campbell disappeared it was well past sunset, and weather conditions had dropped significantly: according to historical records, the temperature in Snowmass Village on the evening of January 12, 1975 hovered around -2, therefore it stands to reason that the lot where Bundy parked his car was pretty deserted and absent of any people lingering. Additionally, in the days following her disappearance conditions were below freezing, and by January 15th detectives were fairly certain that the young nurse hadn’t left Colorado by any form of commercial transportation (plane, train, or bus). They also had checked out all of the area’s medical facilities and hotels/inns/resorts, and no unnamed young woman that matched Caryn’s description had been admitted or checked in. Airports and bus companies around the general Aspen area were notified of the missing young woman, and were given photos and a description of her (Sullivan, 159).
While staying in Colorado the couple did not rent a vehicle, and Caryn’s skis were found left behind in her room. It is strongly believed by those that knew her that she would never have never wandered away on her own, and because of the harsh weather Investigator Fisher said that ‘most people couldn’t walk more than 30 feet’ from the road.
In the early part of the investigation detectives focused on Dr. Gadowski, but he was quickly cleared. Additionally detectives did an extensive look into Dr. Rosenthal’s background as well, and he was also cleared of any wrongdoing. Both Gadowski and Dr. Rosenthal was polygraphed by Investigator Fisher (Raymond twice), and both men passed. According to Mike Fisher, ‘I’ve seen some gals take a quick walk on their boyfriends when they’ve got a beef, but this is another thing altogether.’ … ‘I’ve ruled out gypsies, flying saucers, occult people, and cattle rustlers.’
After Caryn disappeared, Dr. Gadowski stayed behind at The Wildwood Inn for a week with hopes that she would somehow return to him, but sadly that never happened and he returned home to Michigan. After weeks of combing the general Aspen area investigators determined that there was no evidence pointing towards Campbell having met with foul play, and called off their search. Almost immediately after her disappearance Investigator Fisher reached out to Campbells dentist and got a copy of her dental records and x-rays, a Dr. Richard H. Mentzer of Dearborn, MI.
Looking at the layout of The Wildwood Inn and its surroundings, at the time of Caryn’s abduction there were a number of smaller parking lots on the western side of the building, and when you consider Ted’s modus operandi (specifically the murders of Georgann Hawkins and Susan Rancourt) it is likely that he purposefully parked his Bug in the most out-of-the-way spot that he could find. After Bundy (somehow) convinced Campbell to come with him, he got her in his 1968 VW Bug and drove the 3.1 miles away to Owl Creek Road, which was (at the time) covered in snow and was most likely why he didn’t put a lot of effort into hiding her body. Although her body had been somewhat disrupted by scavenging animals, Caryn’s autopsy showed that she had died about two hours after she was abducted due to the level of digestion of the stew and milk in her stomach.
A little over a month since she was last seen alive, on February 17, 1975 Caryn Campbell’s frozen remains were found face down on a dirt road just outside Aspen on the south side of Owl Creek Road, just west of Sinclair Divide. A passing recreational employee stumbled upon her remains when the weather began to warm and he noticed birds of prey flying above her. The young victim had suffered extreme decomposition and damage to the upper body, most likely the result of animal predation (probably coyotes), which made immediate identification impossible. There were no footprints or tire tracks found at the scene, however according to Kevin Sullivan,’approximately three and a half feet from the south shoulder of the road was a deep depression which perfectly matched that of a body, which had laid on its side, head pointing west. It was also apparent that the body laid facing the open field (????) both earrings, small gold earrings for pierced ears, were found where the head had been positioned. Surrounding the depression were several coyote tracks. Leading from the depression were several coyote tracks. Leading from the depression (head position) were drag marks (Sullivan, TB’s Murderous Mysteries, 161).’ An extensive search of the area by law enforcement failed to locate Caryn’s clothing.
Upon arrival at the crime scene, Investigator Fisher spoke with Pitkin County DA Steve Waters, who told him, ‘Fish, you’ll never find out who did this. You’ve got nothing to work with’ (Sullivan, 124). According to her autopsy, Ms. Campbell had been badly beaten, and the back of her skull had sustained three heavy fractures. She had also suffered from deep cuts from an unknown sharp weapon, and her hyoid bone had been cracked; her left earlobe was slit. The ME was unable to determine if she had been strangled or sexually assaulted due to the advanced level of decomp, however the nude condition of her remains pointed to sexual gratification as a motive. Additionally, the pathologist was able to find phosphorus on the remains, however when interviewed Gadowski said that he and Caryn had sex on the evening of January 11th.
Almost immediately after her body was discovered Dr. Gadowski was interviewed by a reporter, and regarding the tentative identification, he said, ‘that’s kind of what we expected. We’ll have to wait and see what happens… This endless waiting has been very difficult for everyone involved. But I hope it’s not her.’ After a positive identification was made, Caryn’s remains were flown to Detroit for burial. In February and March 1975 Pitkin County investigators traveled to Michigan on multiple occasions in order to dig into Campbell’s background (as well as Dr. Gadowski and Dr. Rosenthals’).
The day after the discovery was made the remains were taken to Denver General Hospital, where Pathologist Dr. Donald Clark performed an autopsy and a positive ID was made thanks to dental records.* Also, Caryn’s dentist determined that ‘in his unqualified opinion, after comparing the dental charts and x-rays with the dental work on the body, that the body is in fact Caryn Eilene Campbell.’ *Just as a side note, Kevin Sullivan reported that she was flown to ‘Howards Mortuary,’ located in Denver.
After allowing the body to thaw out for roughly 24 hours, Caryn’s autopsy revealed that ‘the cause of death was blows to the back of the head with a blunt object combined with exposure to sub zero elements.’ She also had a cracked tooth, and suffered extreme tissue damage in her face, head, and one of her arms due to exposure to wildlife, and had bite marks on her cranium. She also had ligature marks on her wrists, which pointed towards her being tied up at one point. Based on the contents of her stomach, it’s strongly suspected that Campbell was killed within two to five hours after she disappeared, and according to (retired) Colorado DA Frank Tucker, ‘all indications are that this is a homicide.’
For some of the detectives that were familiar with the large amount of recent homicides in the general part of the US, it was suspected that Campbell had possibly fallen victim to a violent predatory killer who by that time had already claimed the lives of (at least) twelve other young women in the west. However when pressed about a possible connection in the cases Frank Tucker said that he was ‘interested in convicting someone of this crime, not in hearing someone’s pipe dreams. We have no evidence to tie this murder to any other we’ve had in the West at all at this point.’
Seven months after the murder of Caryn Campbell, Utah Highway Patrol Sergeant Bob Hayward arrested twenty-eight-year-old law student Theodore Robert Bundy after a brief police chase. Inside Ted’s VW (which they were given verbal permission to do, a fact that Bundy later denied), officers found several items that commonly doubled as burglary tools, including a pantyhose mask, crowbar, (off-brand) handcuffs, and an ice-pick. While searching his apartment later that same day, detectives found a list of Aspen ski resorts with an x next to The Wildwood Inn, as well as a program from the play ‘The Redhead” that was performed at Viewmont High School, which is the school that Deb Kent was abducted from on November 8, 1974. Credit card receipts from January 12, 1975 seem to point towards Ted buying gas in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, which puts him in close proximity to The Wildwood Inn.
According to the ‘1992 TB Multiagency Team Report,’ on October 2, 1975 Bundy stood in a lineup in SLC for the attempted kidnapping of Carol DaRonch (which occurred earlier in the day that Deb Kent vanished), and after she picked him out he was arrested two hours later. Additionally, Ted’s Volkswagen matched the description of the vehicle that was used by the kidnapper.
At the time of Caryn’s murder in January 1975 Ted was a full-time law student at the University of Utah, and was living in his first SLC apartment located at 565 1st Avenue. He was unemployed at the time, and remained that way until June 1975 when he got the position of night manager of Bailiff Hall at the University of Utah (he was fired for showing up intoxicated). He was also in a long term relationship with Elizabeth Kloepfer, even though they were on the down swing of their romance.
Ted was bailed out of jail on November 20, 1975, and his trial for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch began on February 23, 1976. During the trial Bundy decided to act as his own attorney, and openly admitted to having no accountability for his whereabouts on November 8, 1974, when DaRonch was abducted. Despite being adamant that he never met Carol DaRonch, he was ultimately found guilty and sentenced to between one and fifteen years in prison.
With a possible suspect behind bars, detectives in Washington and Colorado began to piece their cases together, and hunted for more proof that linked Bundy to the homicides in their state. Ted’s tan 1968 Volkswagen was impounded and picked apart by forensic technicians, and despite multiple deep cleanings he had missed important pieces of evidence. On January 29, 1976 investigators were told that a hair sample that was found in the vehicle matched that of Caryn Campbell, as well as three additional suspected victims. It was also determined that the wounds found in Campbell’s skull matched the pattern made by the crowbar that had been taken from Bundy’s vehicle on the night of his arrest.
On October 21, 1976 Ted was officially charged by Pitkin County for the murder of Caryn Campbell, and on January 28, 1977 he was transferred from custody in SLC to the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs to stand trial. Once again, he decided to act as his own attorney, which allowed him access to the make-shift ‘law library’ located in the back of the second story courtroom, which he escaped from on June 6, 1977, and the rest is history… (in reality, I’ve already written about it a half dozen times before).
According to Kevin Sullivan’s 2016 book, ‘The Trail of Ted Bundy,’ a woman named Elizabeth Harter (who I’ve also seen called Lisbeth) was staying at The Wildwood Inn at the time of Caryn’s murder, and she said the evening she disappeared she happened to notice Ted standing next to a ‘outdoor service closet’ and across from an elevator because he looked so out of place, saying that he: ‘certainly wasn’t dressed for it (meaning the cold temperatures), as he was wearing dress slacks and a shirt. His appearance looked so odd that Elizabeth Herter noticed him and immediately wondered why he would be doing such a thing. He stood out, she later told police investigators, and she thought it was weird.’
In a way there’s a lot of parallels to the Campbell murder and the disappearances of Georgeann Hawkins from the University of Washington in June of 1974 and Sue Rancourt from Central Washington University on April 17, 1974 in Ellensburg. Both young women were most likely approached by a man that was using an injury ruse looking for help, and were lured away to a secondary location that involved his waiting vehicle. Did Ted lure Campbell from the second-floor hallway of The Wildwood Inn, perhaps pretending to have a broken appendage…? But why would anyone be at a ski resort with a broken arm or leg? I guess it would have made for an interesting conversation starter.
According to a 1979 KOMO news report, in the early portion of the investigation there was another suspect that was looked at for the disappearance of Caryn Campbell: an individual Ruth Walsh dubbed ‘Jones’ (a pseudonym), who happened to be in the Aspen area for at least eleven days prior to her murder and one day after. After about thirty seconds of investigating (reading through the documents related to the case that were recently released by the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Department), Jones’ real name is Hugh Joseph Michael Temos.
Temo had been employed (and fired) as a maid/dishwasher at (at least) four hotels/reports in the general Aspen/Snowmass Village area, specifically at the Holiday Inn (for three days), The Pomegranate Inn (for three days), The Plum Tree Inn (for seven days), and ‘The Top of the Village’ (for one week). His former coworkers testified that he was disruptive, weird,’ a sexual deviant, athletic, ‘physically attractive,’ hyperactive, scary, not playing with a full deck, crazier than hell, and hostile towards women.’ On January 13, 1975, Temos picked up his final paycheck and walked out, leaving the Aspen area for good. The next time he surfaced was at the city jail in Roseburg, Oregon, where other inmates described him ‘bursting into spontaneous laughter at empty space,’ and drinking his own urine, with one man even admitting he was ‘terrified of him.’
Chris Haper, one of the managers at ‘The Top of the Village,’ told Pitkin County investigators that the day before Campbell’s disappearance on January 11, 1975 he had tried to fire Jones, who had consequently became aggressive, and turned into an incident that made him ‘fear for his life.’ On the 12th of January Haper said that when Jones left work at The Top of the Village he announced that he was going to go watch cross-country skiers, and perhaps it’s worth mentioning that the TotV is only one block away from The Wildwood Inn. A maid at The Wildwood testified that she saw Temos near the pool on the night Campbell vanished, and it was because of this tidbit that detectives brought him in for a polygraph. The results found no indication that he killed the pretty young nurse and he was officially cleared, however it was determined that the test was administered without a blood pressure cuff, which may have affected the results.
Seattle polygraph expert Lieutenant Joe Nicholas, while not directly commenting on Temo’s test specifically, took a ‘dim view’ in regards to the validity of a polygraph test administered without a blood pressure cuff, and when pressed by Walsh he admitted that if any one of the three key elements were omitted, it would definitely affect its accuracy despite there being other things to look at (breathing, for example).
Walsh also mentions that there was ‘a postscript’ in regards to this Jones individual: she said that he was living in Seattle during Bundy’s heyday in 1974, and on September 8, 1974 (a day after the discovery of Ted’s Issaquah dump site) he was arrested by the King County Sheriff’s on a charge of indecent exposure (he flashed a cops wife), and went on to serve 180 days in jail. After getting out, he made his way to Colorado, and it was around this time that he developed a reputation for violence, largely towards the opposite sex, and exhibited a large amount of mental instability. In an on-air interview with King County Sheriff Lieutenant Jim Harris, Walsh asked him about Temos and if he served time in the King County Jail on the dates she provided him with, which he did confirm.
In another report conducted by the FBI, Sergeant Ivan Beason commented that ‘in checking records, the Seattle area was having almost one missing girl per month, but after the suspect (Jones) was incarcerated, the missing girl stopped. In the opinion of the reporting detective, Jones looks good as a suspect.’ The missing girls referred to in this report are of course the eight confirmed Bundy victims from 1974.
But wait, it gets even weirder: Temos lived only two blocks away from the alley that Georgiana Hawkins disappeared from in June 1974, which is a murder that has a lot of parallels with Caryn Campbell. He also lived within two blocks of Lynda Ann Healy, who vanished without a trace in the early morning hours of February 1, 1974. At the end of the segment Walsh reported that at the time of the broadcast in July 1979 nobody knew what had happened to Jones, and he had seemingly dropped completely off the radar.
Another person that was investigated for the murder of Caryn Campbell is Pitkin County undersheriff Ben Meyers. The true crime website ‘CAVDEF’ pointed out something odd involving the eyewitness Lisbeth Harter took place at Bundy’s pretrial hearing, an event that Ann Rule detailed in ‘The Stranger Beside Me:’ ‘this time, the eyewitness was the woman tourist who had seen the stranger in the corridor of The Wildwood Inn on the night of January 12, 1975. Aspen Investigator Mike Fisher had shown her a lay-down of mug shots a year after that night and she’d picked Ted Bundy’s. Now, during the preliminary hearing in April of 1977, she was asked to look around the courtroom and point out anyone who resembled the man she’d seen. Ted suppressed a smile as she pointed, not to him, but to Pitkin County Undersheriff Ben Meyers (Rule, 230).’
The creator of the ‘CAVDEF’ web page seems to write around conspiracy theories, and the idea that Ted Bundy (at the very least) either had help with his murders or he wasn’t responsible for all of the ones that he is (or both). In a blog post written about Caryn Campbell, they creator mentions that at first Harter’s identification of Meyers was quickly dismissed as a mistake, however when one considers his rumored connection to several murders in Grand Junction later in 1975 it almost makes you wonder if he was the man that she saw at The Wildwood Inn on the evening of January 12, 1975. As the Grand Junction murders (including Denise Oliverson) seemed to center largely around local organized crime, this suggests that if Meyers was somehow involved, Campbell’s murder was then most likely a targeted hit. On that note, it is worth mentioning that Caryn’s brother Bob is a retired Fort Lauderdale police officer, which is an area that remains a major center for drug trafficking activity to this day.
Denise Oliverson was the first of many young women to either disappear or be murdered in Grand Junction in 1975. All of these crimes were suspected of revolving around the drugs and prostitution activity in the city, in which many officers including police chief Meyers were complicit. Oliverson was known to be a fairly heavy drug user, which put her in at least some contact with the local drug scene.
Vail Colorado ski instructor Julie Cunningham, who disappeared on March 15, 1975, also may not have been just a random victim: she was reportedly good friends with the daughter of Salem Oregon chief of detectives Jim Stovall, who worked directly under Ben Meyers when he was Salem’s chief of police. In fact, Stovall was the very first officer of the department that Meyers nominated for a national law enforcement award, and the two traveled together to Atlantic City in New Jersey for the ceremony. Eagle County, where Vail is located, was also a known center for the nationwide drug trade: Allen Riverbark, a known trafficker that operated in the area during the 1970’s until he died in a plane crash in November 1981, owned the Black Mountain Guest Ranch, which was located thirty miles outside of Vail. It doubled as a hideout for East Coast mobsters, and served as a distribution point for Rivenbark’s network of drug dealers, a ring that was based in Fort Lauderdale. FL (CAVDEF, 2022).
Harter was obviously the foundation of the state’s case, and they had no other ‘proof’ that placed Bundy inside of The Wildwood Inn on the evening Caryn disappeared, and that evidence disappeared with her identification of somebody other than him. The only things that the prosecuting attorneys had left in their arsenal was the gas receipt linking him to the general Snowmass Village area on January 12, 1975, an inconclusive (and since-discredited) DNA analysis conducted by the FBI that placed Campbell’s hairs in his VW, and an attempt to introduce cases in other states that he was only suspected of but never even stood trial for.
In an old audiotape that had been recorded by Bundy on February 2, 1980 for journalists Steven Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth (provided by Maria Serban on behalf of Dr. Rob Dielenberg), the killer talked about Mike Fisher’s dedication to his conviction in regards to the murder of Caryn Campbell: ‘And while this doesn’t have anything to do with Fisher, I think it’s interesting if you read the transcript of the preliminary hearing in the Campbell case, how thoroughly he was discredited as an investigator. This is chiefly with respect to the rather amateurish way in which he handled Elizabeth Harter who was allegedly the kingpin of the case: she was a woman who said she saw a man or men standing by elevator one evening at Snowmass, Colorado, on the evening that Caryn Campbell disappeared. It was a year later, when she returned to Snowmass for the same type of convention they have, that a photo display was shown to her and she picked up my photo as being the man standing by the elevator.’
‘You have to compare, to really appreciate how badly Fisher handled this situation… you must compare the language and the information in the Campbell case with the testimony which actually came out at the preliminary hearing. Basically, unusually, I guess, Fisher grossly exaggerated the statements made by Mrs Harter with respect to her photo identification and the set of circumstances which gave rise to that identification. Of course, when Mrs Harter was called in Aspen to make an identification, she failed to identify me… She also said that she had never told Michael Fisher that she was sure of what she was seeing and what she had seen, it was dark, she never got a good look at the man she had seen, that she was some 40 ft away from the man she had seen, and that the photo she picked out, she picked out as only remotely resembling the man that she had seen and she could not form an opinion that the man in that photo was exactly the man she had seen…’
‘Of course, the representation Fisher must have made toward getting the information in the first place is far different.’ … ‘The embarrassment suffered by the prosecution at that preliminary hearing as a result of Fisher’s half-hazardous, vague investigations, is the worst I’ve seen in any case that I’ve been the object of. Plus the bottom line of that handling of Miss Harter was that she not only failed to identify me in the courtroom – that is she did not identify me in the courtroom, but in fact identified the under-sheriff who had accompanied me from Utah to Aspen just a few weeks before. The name of the under-sheriff was Ben Meyers by the way.’
‘Anyhow, a law enforcement official of questionable character, he had held a number of jobs, he had been in a variety of law enforcement agencies throughout his career, and there were a number of rumors, most probably unsubstantiated of course as far as I can say, concerning his conduct in the various agencies that had employed him.
‘Interestingly enough, the last position he held before coming to Aspen was… before coming to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office as under-sheriff… was of chief of police in Grand Junction, Colorado, where there had been a series of murders of young women… And my understanding is that it took a great deal of pressure… and there was a failure of his department to solve these murders… I don’t believe that was the sole reason of him leaving.’ … ‘Ben Meyers himself was not effective in the investigation in the prosecution of my case, other than the fact that he was identified as most resembling the man that Mrs Harter saw the night of Caryn Campbell’s disappearance.’
‘I saw Fisher on numerous occasions: most in the courtroom, in Aspen, during the many months that I attended the pre-trial hearing there… The only occasion when he testified that I can recall was the occasion of the preliminary hearing. But it seems as though he was always present, whispering in the ear of Frank Tucker, the district attorney delegated to try the case for Fisher… Or sitting somewhere in the front row of the courtroom. It was clear he had a personal interest in this case. And I had been told, although I can say this from personal experience, that he had developed something of a close friendship with the former fiancé of Caryn Campbell. I always got the feeling that despite his rather laidback manner, his rather non-law enforcement demeanor, that he was deeply, deeply devoted and dedicated to obtaining a conviction of me in this case.’
‘After the preliminary hearing in Aspen, of course, there were numerous contacts with Michael Fisher which I will relate to you as I go on this tape… In many ways… I don’t know… certainly I had something of a dislike for him, because obviously, from where I stood… he did not seem to be equipped to handle the job that he had taken on for himself. It’s hard for me to describe that feeling any further… I wouldn’t call what I felt for him as a form of pity… that’s just not what I’m trying to say, but I just felt when I looked at the man and listened to him and watched him, I couldn’t believe that he was actually someone who had been delegated with the serious responsibility of a serious investigation of a serious criminal case. Certainly appearances are deceiving, but in Fisher’s case, his appearance, I think was reflected in his ability…’
‘After the day that I arrived in Aspen, Fisher asked me if I wished to talk to him. He and I never spoke directly again until I had been captured after my escape from Aspen jail in June 1977… I never saw him back in the jail area at the Pitkin County Jail where I was being held. I rarely saw him in the sheriff’s office. Mainly because the prosecuting attorney’s office where he worked was in a building maybe 15 yards away from the courthouse itself. But there is no doubt that whether he was experienced or not, whether he had the ability or not, or whether he was a policeman or a law enforcement officer or just someone who fancied themselves as a law enforcement officer… There is no doubt he had an active and major role investigating the Caryn Campbell case.’
‘I believe he was present… a peeping-tom policeman… No, I believe he was present at the autopsy of Caryn Campbell, although I can’t say for sure… I wish I’d known if he was present at the scene shortly after her body was discovered… I know that he examined a number of items in evidence or trace materials… One time a vehicle rented by a friend of Campbell’s fiancé was examined for dirt and other debris, which may have indicated whether Campbell was in contact with that vehicle. I know for instance that he tried to track down a number of suspects other than myself, and this would be reflected in the reports that you’ll find.’
And Ted seemed to be concerned with the things Fisher was doing during the period of time before Ted became a suspect in the Campbell case: ‘I know that he took a hair sample, sat in my car… As far as I know he came to take my statement…’ ‘He did a great deal of investigation, specifics of which I’m not familiar, but I believe that one time he represented to me that he and another investigator checked every hotel and motel in the Aspen vicinity to see whether there was someone like me who fit my description who registered there.’ … ‘I wish I had known everything he had done and that might be of some value to me in that case.’
Bundy then also says that he knows that Fisher traced down his credit cards and came up with a credit card that Fisher believed placed Bundy in Glenwood Springs, Colorado on the day when Caryn Campbell was last seen [according to press reports, police had discovered that Bundy used a credit card on Jan. 12, 1975, in Aspen, the day Caryn Campbell disappeared from her hotel room].
And Bundy then says that he believed Fisher also traveled back to Michigan, to the area where Caryn Campbell was from, and that Bundy’s discovery records indicated that Fisher sent out hundreds of letters to different law enforcement agencies inquiring about the Campbell case… ‘Many many letters to agencies followed up the lead on different suspects. No question he was chief investigator and he engaged in enormous amount of work in that case, both before and after the time I became a suspect. This portion should be reflected in many of the documents I collected in Colorado. So one cannot fault him for being diligent, being amateurish but diligent in pursuit of solving the Caryn Campbell murder.’
Bundy is then also heard saying that Fisher had no substantial case in the Campbell murder, and Fisher had ‘expectations, the unrealistic belief that given enough pressure of some sort, that I’d give him the easy way out, that I would confess to whatever it was that he wanted me to confess to. I think it’s interesting to know that following my arrest in Pensacola, Florida, in February of 1978, that he and Milt Blakey, special prosecutor from Colorado assigned to the Campbell case, immediately flew to Pensacola and were present while I was being interrogated by the police in Pensacola. But he [Fisher] never showed his face, I never knew he was there… or whatever made me aware of his presence there. Later when I was transferred to Tallahassee he too went to Tallahassee and was present during…’
Bundy ends the tape by saying that Fisher was absolutely convinced, in his own mind, that he was responsible for Caryn Campbell’s murder. And he is also heard, right before the tape ends, teasing that the real him would not be captured on those tapes… I received this tape from Rob Dielenberg, who had obtained it from David Von Drehle’s archive.
Before Bundy was executed in January 1989 Investigator Fisher flew to Raiford Prison in Starke and spoke with him regarding his Colorado murders, and according to ‘Ted Bundy’s Murderous Mysteries,’ he did a news conference in Aspen the following day to go over his findings: according to an article published in The Aspen Times, ‘Bundy told Fisher that he drive around Aspen several hours before the murder and then headed up to Snowmass Village carrying ski boots… Bundy told Fisher he stopped at the edge of The Wildwood’s pool and was hoping a woman nearby would help him carry his ski boots to the car. But the woman ignored Bundy and he waited for several minutes until Campbell, his second choice, walked across a balcony and asked Bundy if he needed some help.’ As the article continues, Bundy admitted to Fisher that it wasn’t long before he hit Caryn ‘with the boots’ (just incapacitating and not killing her) then ‘stuffed her into his vehicle (Sullivan, 163-164).’
The final thing that Investigator Fisher was asked by reporters was whether or not Campbell had been sexually assaulted, which was a question he briefly hesitated on then refused to answer (probably for the sake of the Campbell family and Dr. Gadowski). It wasn’t until he was being interviewed for Kevin Sullivan’s book, ‘Ted Bundy’s Mysterious Murders’ in 2009 that he finally admitted that he told him that he took her life ‘just like the others (hitting her in the head) just once,’ before mentioning that he ‘did his thing right there in the car (Sullivan, 124).’ Fisher also mentioned that Ted did confirm that he did kill Caryn away from The Wildwood Inn.
Raymond Gadowski remarried a woman named Marvelyn (née Moser) in 1979 and died at the age of 69 on February 20, 2022. According to his obituary, he graduated from Southfield High School in 1961 then went on to attend Michigan State University, graduating in 1965. He attended medical school at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, and after completing his cardiology fellowship in 1978 he went on to practice medicine for 44 years in the Greater Detroit area. He had another child with his second wife and his son Gregory went on to become a Doctor. In addition to working as a physician and teaching Dr. Gadowski had a very active life, and enjoyed fishing, skiing, and playing golf at his beloved Oakland Hills Country Club. He loved spending time with his grandchildren and always shared his ice cream with his dogs.
The day before the execution of his daughter’s killer, Robert Campbell did an interview with The Free Press, saying: ‘you never really forgive something like that. You just try to put it behind you… the thing I’d like to have back, I can’t.’ He went on to say that despite Caryn’s senseless murder that he didn’t feel strongly one way or another when it came to capital punishment, and that he was ‘not a vindictive person, but certainly you can’t go around killing people… reluctantly, but I don’t think executing Bundy will be a deterrent. People will keep killing.’
Audrian Campbell passed away at the age of 67 on March 10, 1986 in Detroit, and Mr. Campbell died at the age of 79 on July 28, 1996. Caryn’s sister Sandra Lee ‘Sandy’ Leabo died on September 27, 2017 in Northport, MI and Nancy Ann passed away at the age of eighty in Wyandotte on January 5, 2023.
Works Cited:
Sullivan, Kevin, ‘The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History.’ (2009).
Sullivan, Kevin. ‘Ted Bundy’s Murderous Mysteries: The Many Victims Of America’s Most Infamous Serial Killer.’ (2019).
Winn, Steven. ‘The Killer Next Door.’ (1979).
Shelley Kay Robertson, investigative documents regarding her murder from the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Department in Colorado.
Pitkin County District Court, out-of state-subpoenas, Bundy’s Colorado Trial.
Pitkin County District Court, no. C-1616: THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO v. THEODORE ROBERT BUNDY, MOTION FOR CERTIFICATE OF JUDGE REQUESTING ATTENDANCE OF OUT-OF-STATE WITNESS PURSUANT TO C.R.S. 16-9-203, 1977).
Ted Bundy Crime Scene Locations as they Appear Today, My Personal Pictures.
Up until about five years ago I lived paycheck to paycheck, and after getting two really good jobs I banked quite a bit of money and decided to start traveling. In April 2022 I went to Seattle and since then have been to Florida, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Colorado, Cobleskill (in NY, for a suspected Bundy victim) and Portland (on that trip I also went back to Seattle). I’ve been retracing the steps of Ted Bundy and taking pictures along the way.
Bundy entered the dormatory armed only with a piece of firewood, and killed twenty-one-year-old Margaret Bowman and twenty-year-old Lisa Levy; he also brutally harmed Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner, but thankfully both women survived. Picture taken in May 2023.
Chris Watts, Warrantless Arrest Affidavit, August 16, 2018.
Chris Watts, February 18, 2019 CBI Interview.
An interview that took place on February 18, 2019 at roughly 7:45 AM CBI between Chris Watts and Agent Tammy Lee, FBI SA Grahm Coder, and Frederick PD Detective Dave Baumhover at the Dodge Correctional Institute.
Ted Bundy, Garfield County Sheriff Files.
This is some information related to the Bundy case from Garfield County in Colorado from 1976.
Denise Lynn Oliverson.
Denise Lynn Oliverson (née Nicholson) was born on August 10, 1950 to Robert ‘Bob’ Dale and Nina Marie (nee Jackson) Nicholson in Missouri. Mr. Nicholson was born on June 12, 1927 in Saint Joseph, MO and served in the US Navy during WWII. Denise’s mother was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 15, 1923 and after graduating from high school enlisted in the US Navy. When the war ended, Nina enrolled at Denver Art Institute, where she met her future husband. The two got married on June 29, 1949 and had two daughters: Denise and her younger sister, Renee. The couple eventually relocated to Colorado and Robert got a job as a commercial artist at The Daily Sentinel. The family settled down in Grand Junction in 1963 after moving from Colorado Springs; after Denise was murdered Mr. Nicholson said he regretted moving there and said that it was ‘a mistake.’
Oliverson had blue eyes, brown hair that she wore long and parted down the middle, and stood at 5’4” tall. She had some lingering facial acne, pierced ears, and a discolored lump on the back of her right hand; she was petite, and only weighed around 105 pounds. After graduating from Grand Junction High School in 1968 she got a job with a company called Ultronix (at least, according to her engagement announcement published in The Daily Sentinel on May 20, 1970). Looking into them, Ultroni was a manufacturing plant that produces electronic resistors, components and log converters but they have since left the Colorado area and moved out of state.
In 1969 Denise was charged with a misdemeanor after being arrested in GJ for marijuana possession, and at some point in the early 1970’s she lived in Spokane, WA with an individual named JC Harrison. Described by her friends and loved ones as being a ‘great, kind person,’ she married Joseph Franklin Oliverson on September 26, 1970. Joe was born in March 1950 in Idaho but his family relocated to Alaska; he was a 1968 graduate of Dimond High School in Anchorage, where he grew up. Oliverson attended Mesa College and when the couple first got married he was employed in Alaska; he eventually relocated to Grand Junction to be with his wife and got a job in insurance and real estate. After going through a rough patch the couple divorced on March 13, 1972. When she was killed Denise was in a new relationship with a man named Raymundo Esteban Romero (who simply went by ‘Steve’). According to her dad, Denise was a frequent drug user and in the early stages of her disappearance he suspected that she may have imbibed in some sort of illegal substances and taken off. Despite a history of running away (she would always return after a few days), Oliversons history in the year prior to her disappearance hinted that she changed a lot and didn’t participate in that behavior anymore. In a letter to Denise dated March 27, 1975 sent from her behavioral health counselor, Lois Kanaly shared that the young divorcee was accepted by the Division of Rehabilitation for services because of her disability, and her anxiety diagnosis was considered ‘a handicap to her employment.’ From there, the letter stated that she had an upcoming therapy appointment on March 31 at 1 PM. At the bottom was a postscript that read: ‘I am pleased. Come in very soon as you can start school this quarter. Enclosed is the Mesa College application.’ Kanaly also advised Denise to look into the schools J.E.T. program. So, obviously Oliverson was in the process of making some big changes in her life, and seemed to be in the process of applying to go to college.
Denise and Steve weren’t together for very long, and seemed to have a healthy relationship at first, however cracks were beginning to show and according to Oliversons friend from high school Marie Parish she wanted him out of her house. At first it appears that she lived at her one bedroom house located on LaVeta Street in GJ alone, but was pressured by Romero to move in with her as a ‘safety precaution’ because of a dangerous former flame. It appears that he was a very jealous and controlling boyfriend and it’s speculated that his motives weren’t entirely gentlemanly and he did it more to get in her house so he could keep an eye on her versus doing it for her safety. Oliverson had a dog named Toma.
On Sunday, April 6th, 1975 Ted Bundy abducted Denise Oliverson at the South 5th Street Bridge in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to the missing persons report dated April 8, 1975, Mr. Nicholson said that the day that his daughter disappeared she stopped by his house with Steve at roughly 1:00 in the afternoon, and from there they went to Lincoln Park. They were taking advantage of a beautiful spring day and were enjoying being outside. Denise saw a friend at the park named Fred Gallegos, but the two didn’t interact. The couple then explored Grand Junction for a bit before returning home. That’s when they got into an argument and around 3 PM Denise said that she was going to ride her bike to her parents house. She left with no coat or personal possessions and Steve said that it’s possible she went back to the park to see her friend. Detectives strongly felt that she was biking down a short path on the east side of the South 5th Street Bridge in Grand Junction when she encountered Ted, which was about 1.7 miles away from her home on LaVeta Street. According to Kevin Sullivans ‘The Encyclopedia of the Ted Bundy Murders,’ several stories about what Denise was doing before she was abducted have emerged or the years since she disappeared, but authorities are certain that she had an argument with her boyfriend and left the one bedroom home she shared with him to go to her parents house, on her a yellow Coast to Coast 10 speed bicycle, serial number 2C174568 to go to her parents house. She never made it.
When Oliverson didn’t come home that night Romero just assumed she spent the night at her parents, as that was a typical occurrence when they had a disagreement. But he immediately became concerned the next day when he called her parents’ house to talk to Denise about coming home and he was told she wasn’t there. Consequently, Mr. Nicholson contacted law enforcement at some point early on April 7, 1975 and reported his daughter as missing; Denise’s parents gave them pictures of her but let them know that they wanted them back. Police didn’t wait to investigate and immediately sprang into action, mapping out the route Oliverson most likely would have taken and searching the road along it. They spoke with members of her family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances and were told nothing of value. Oliverson’s Dad contacted the FBI for further assistance but was told that they wouldn’t be able to assist in the case unless there was indication that she had been kidnapped or was killed as a result of foul play. At the time she disappeared Denise was employed with Dixson Inc. as an assembler; she wasn’t there for long and only got the position the year before.
On April 7, 1975 an unknown caller from the Denver and Rio Grande Railroads got in contact with the Grand Junction Police Department and told them about an abandoned yellow bicycle that was leaning against a pillar underneath the 5th Street viaduct near the railroad tracks. Retired GJ police officer Lew Fraser was dispatched to the scene at 8:48 AM, and upon arriving he met up with railroad engineer Wilbur M. Class, who shared with him that it had snowed the night before and he had seen what looked like sandals as well as some additional things sitting on the bike’s seat. According to a second railroad employee, the items were scattered haphazardly all over the tracks before he neatly set them out of the way (more on that later). According to Officer Lew there was nothing strange or unusual about the scene that jumped out at him, and it was just another lost bicycle to him. He made a property report, tagged it with a ‘lost and found’ sticker then turned it into the Grand Junctions ‘Old City Shop,’ classifying it as abandoned. When it was eventually determined that the items belonged to Oliverson, LE immediately suspected that foul play was involved but were unable to come up with much else. According to a deep dive by Bundy archivist Tiffany Jean, the investigating officer said in his report that ‘as I was checking it an engineer in a passing locomotive hollered at me and said it had been there since yesterday and that there were some clothes on it and it could have been stolen or something. I checked the immediate area and all I found was a light brown rolled up women’s belt. I checked the bike for stolen and it had not been stolen. Brought the bike to old city shop and filed an abandoned property report and put a found property tag on bike. No further investigation at this time.’
In the early stages of Denise’s disappearance the Grand Junction PD considered Romero a suspect due to his strange and suspicious manner, but nothing conclusive tied him to her disappearance and he was never charged. Law enforcement deemed that he was an unbalanced person but gave him the benefit of the doubt and said that maybe he acted that way because of his girlfriends disappearance. Unfortunately for Oliversons family they were forced to sit back and watch as her case grew cold, and there don’t seem to be any reports of any tips or leads until Bundy confessed on death row in 1989.
After Bundy was thrown into the spotlight because of his arrest in Granger, (retired) GJ Police Chief Ed VanderTook admitted that he was hesitant at first to acknowledge that Bundy was responsible for Oliverson’s disappearance, however after it was proven that credit card receipts placed him in the area he quickly changed his tune. I mean, thinking about it logically, it wasn’t like he could have easily hit her over the head with a crowbar and dragged her away: she was abducted in the middle of the afternoon. I’m leaning towards him using some sort of ruse to lure her back to his car and then he pounced. It’s strongly speculated that Bundy parked his VW underneath the overpass on South 5th Street, as it was a relatively secluded spot in the mid 1970’s. Did he fake a broken arm and tell her he needed help carrying something back to his car? Or perhaps a broken leg, somehow? Did he ask her to place his briefcase in his car then whack her over the head, shove her in then sped off? Or, was he fearless and blitzed her by the bridge, then dragged her back to his Bug, which was waiting nearby? The possibilities are endless, and we’ll never know what actually happened. There’s yet another theory that maybe Denise was experiencing mechanical problems with her bike and that Ted may have come to her assistance.
Oliverson was last seen wearing a long-sleeved green Indian-print blouse, a pair of Levi’s, sandals and a silver ring on her right pinky finger. According to (retired) GJPD Homicide Investigator Doug Rushing and his then partner Jim Fromm, many of Denise’s personal possessions didn’t make it to the evidence file: her purse, a light brown rolled up belt, and additional personal items were stolen by a Grand Junction officer, who gave the items to his girlfriend because of their high market value and the fact that they were considered ‘nice items.’ In addition to her personal things and handbag, Denise’s bike was taken to Grand Junctions ‘Old City Shops’ with the intent of being stored under ‘unknown owner,’ but unfortunately (according to journalist Steven Winn and multiple other sources), it vanished from police custody; it was also never dusted for prints. About it disappearing, a Grand Junction LEO commented that ‘kids had access to those racks,’ and in response to this, Denise’s father snapped back that it ‘was ‘the only piece of evidence that they had’ (I will discuss this in depth more later). Also according to Winn, shortly after Oliverson disappeared retired chief criminal investigator for the ninth Judicial District in the State of Colorado Mike Fisher received a call from police in Roseburg, OR about a man named Jake Teppler who he was interested in speaking with about her disappearance. After multiple interviews and a polygraph examination, it was eventually determined that Teppler had nothing to do with her case, and his alibi’s were successfully verified.
At around 11:00 AM on July 16, 1976, a sergeant from the Grand Junction PD was contacted by Robert Nicholson, who told him that he and his wife wanted their daughter’s bicycle returned to them, if at all possible. After some back and forth between internal departments in the Grand Junction PD, it was determined that the bike had been removed from the ‘City Shops’ and it was seemingly common knowledge that it was missing (and most likely had been stolen). After it vanished Mr. Nicholson was never informed of the incident nor was a report ever written and upon further investigation the theft took place sometime between April 7 and May 25, 1975. At approximately 4:00 PM later that same day the sergeant reached back out to Mr. Nicholson and shared with him that his daughters bike was missing and had been for some time. After hearing this Robert became very depressed and said that he should have been told about the theft immediately after it happened. He was given a formal apology from the GJ Chief of Police for not keeping him informed and in the loop and was promised that if the bicycle was ever found it would be immediately returned to him.
Early in the morning a few weeks after Denise disappeared on April 19, 1975 an officer from the GJPD was dispatched to Oliverson’s residence to look into a noise complaint: when they arrived at 5:18 AM, he spoke with the complainant, another resident of LaVeta Street (a Mr. Jeff Burns), who said he heard what sounded like a loud gunshot roughly 15 to 20 minutes before reaching out to LE. Upon first hearing the unusual noise, Burns looked out the window but saw nothing out of the ordinary and went back to bed. A few minutes later he heard a voice whimpering and groaning, and when he looked out his window for a second time he saw a man lying in Romero’s driveway, rocking back and forth while groaning; it was then that he decided to call 911. When arriving on the scene, the responding LEO first checked out the driveway as well as the yard in front of the residence but didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. When they peered in the front door and looked in, he noticed a light on and a dog that immediately got up and started barking at him; it was then that he noticed a man of Spanish descent sleeping on the floor.
The policeman knocked on the door several times and it took a couple attempts to wake Romero up. When he finally opened the door he appeared to be crying and distressed, and the officer explained that he was investigating a reported gunshot as well as an individual lying in his driveway. The man replied that he didn’t know anything about a gunshot but that he was the crying man that was lying in the driveway. When the officer asked if there was anything he could do to help he said no, because the police were unable to find his girlfriend, who was missing and he feared might never be found, and was even possibly dead. The LEO asked why he felt that way, and he replied that it was just ‘a feeling he had.’ Throughout the entire conversation Romero was upset and crying, and overall seemed very disturbed. After being given permission to look around the residence the policeman walked around; he saw nobody else and nothing out of the ordinary. Despite being allowed admittance on this occasion, in a separate event on a different day detectives reached out and asked him if they could look through the house for something that might help aid them in their investigation, but he refused them admittance. Although the LEO did feel that it was most likely Romero that shot off the gun they didn’t see a weapon in the house or feel that he was a threat in any way.
On May 25, 1975 that same officer was requested to do a follow-up visit with Romero after Denise’s father called the department asking if there was any movement on his daughters case. Investigators also spoke with a good friend of hers named Marie Parish, who last saw Oliverson on April 4, 1975. Parish told detectives that she reached out to Romero on April 27, 1975 and asked if there was anything she could do to help with the investigation. She reported that he got angry and said that it was none of her business but if she did learn anything new that she better get in contact with him, and not the Nicholsons. On May 18 she saw Steve riding a yellow boys 10 speed bike roughly three blocks from his house but he refused to look at her; she wondered if it was the same bicycle that Oliverson was last seen riding. She also shared that Romero seemed very possessive and jealous of her friend and the few times they did interact he seemed very angry and had a bad temper. Parish told investigators that Denise was recently hung up on by the young man named Fred that she ran into at the park earlier on the day she disappeared. A few days before she disappeared Oliverson had learned that he had recently gotten married, which greatly upset her. Marie also shared that she had mentioned his name a few times in front of Steve, and it made him very upset.
On May 29, 1975, Grand Junction investigators sat down with another one of Oliversons friends Lynn Kaufman, who shared that on occasion Denise would take off for a while but always came back after a few days. She said at the very least she would contact her mother to let her know she was ok. When asked if she knew where Oliverson might have gone to she replied that she didn’t know why but thought it possible that she may have wound up in California, and she had been there once before and enjoyed it there. Kaufman also said that she never learned how to drive and didn’t have a driver’s license.
On May 27, 1975 investigators spoke with Mr. Nicholson, who shared that his daughters friend Marie would probably be the best person to speak with about details regarding her life. By the time Denise disappeared she hadn’t lived at home for quite a few years and he wasn’t always aware of what she was up to, although she did have the habit of coming to visit every Friday and Sunday. He further told investigators that on the day his daughter disappeared it was on a Sunday and she got there after seeing ‘Tim and Fred Gallegos at Lincoln Park.’ After her sister disappeared Renee Nicholson turned herself in to Pueblo State Hospital ‘for treatment of an unknown ailment’ (I got the impression it was most likely mental health and/or depression related due to Denise vanishing without a trace). The officer reached out to Parish and asked if she knew if Oliverson showed up at the hospital to visit her, and was told no (Jean, 2019). I got the impression that Mr. Nicholson and Steve didn’t get along but it appeared that he was friendly and in contact with Renee. Thanks to Captain Borax (Chris Mortenson) I was able to find a copy of a letter he sent her which was basically just generic, filler sentences (you know, like ‘how are you. I hope you’re doing great, I don’t have a lot to say but I’ll write to you again soon’), but he did attempt to offer her some reassuring words and let her know that he would take care of her house and cats while she was away (it looks like it was sent while she was in the hospital).
On May 28, 1975 law enforcement sat down with Steve Romero, who volunteered that by that date in time Denise had been missing for 52 days. He told investigators that the afternoon she vanished they had gone to a local park and he witnessed her acknowledge a man that he didn’t know and became upset when he refused to talk to her. Oliverson appeared to have developed feelings for this individual, as she became visibly upset when she learned he had gotten married. At one point in the past the two apparently had a sexual relationship, but I don’t know if it went beyond that or if they dated at all. Romero said when they were done at the park (I’m not sure if they were walking or biking) they moved onto exploring the downtown area of Grand Junction before returning home. After the couple got home from their excursion Denise told Romero that she was going out for a bicycle ride and was going to stop at her parents house before coming home; He said it was the last time he ever saw her alive.
The following is an interview that took place on June 3, 1975 between former Grand Junction Police Officer James Fromm and Oliverson’s boyfriend at the time she disappeared, Steve Romero:* (I went ahead and put the important parts in bold).
Officer Fromm: Steve the day that Denise disappeared do you remember what day of the week it was?
Steve Romero: It was Sunday.
JF: It was definitely a Sunday?
SR: Definitely… at 3:30, about 3:30 pm.
JF: There was no possible way it could have been a Saturday?
SR: No sir, it was a Sunday.
JF: Did she take any money with her when she left?
SR: She might have had about $8, cause we went to go get her some shampoo for her hair, but that’s all if anything, that’s all, no identification at all.
JF: Was she wearing earrings?
SR: No she wasn’t, she was wearing only… all the jewelry that I can think she was wearing and maybe I’m not for sure, she was wearing a small band ring. It’s a silver ring. She was wearing it on her… I think it was her right hand. And she might have had a St. Christopher medal on.
JF: Around her neck?
SR: Yeah, she might have, I don’t know. She had a long shirt. She might have had it on, because it was mine you see and it had my name on it. It was gold. The whole thing is gold, the chain and the St. Christopher medal.
JF: It is my understanding that you and Denise were living in the same house is that right?
SR: Yes we were.
JF: Did you ever go to bed with her?
SR: No.
JF: Did you ever make a pass at her?
SR: Sure.
JF: Did you ever go out and get drunk together?
SR: Yeah.
JF: Party together?
SR: Yeah.
JF: Did you have another girlfriend Steve?
SR: Yeah, I know a lot of girls you know. I don’t know how to say it, I know she wanted someone to help her out with the rent so, and I didn’t want to stay at home anymore, so I moved over there.
JF: Are you actively seeing any doctor right now?
SR: Not since I got out of the service. I had a foot injury and that was about it.
JF: When you were in the service did you see any psychiatrist or psychologist or anything like that? Are you actively seeing one now?
SR: No, never, never, never. Never have.
JF: Did Denise entertain any boyfriends while you were living with her?
SR: I don’t know. I don’t know how to answer that really. She liked other people, she liked other dudes. We’re just good friends. She didn’t like me in particular, you know, not as a boyfriend. We had a mutual understanding. We could communicate with each other.
JF: When you were living with her, were there any guys who came over and spent the night?
SR: No, but there were some who wanted to. You see, that’s why she wanted me to move in. There was a cat that was bothering her and he was scaring her pretty bad I guess.
JF: While you were over there was there anyone going to bed with her that you know of?
SR: No, she wasn’t like that.
JF: Can you think of anybody she might have taken off with?
SR: No. I thought the guy from Delta (Gallegos), but it wasn’t.
JF: Did Denise take any other clothes with her when she left?
SR: No, just what she had on.
JF: Do you remember what kind of day it was?
SR: Yeah, it was a nice day then all of a sudden it was really cloudy and ugly. I didn’t report it for about three days because you know, we got into a hassle one time. She went out and told me she was coming home that night and I got worried about her when she didn’t come home that night. So I says, okay, you know, this chick took off on her bicycle and I figures she is 24 years old so she knows what she is doing. So I didn’t bother to report her until the third day. Then I went and told her parents.
JF: Did she take off with her girlfriends often and not come back at night?
SR: It happened before. I never knew her that well. I didn’t spend that much time with her but she did do it that one time so I figured I won’t call in because she… you know… she might get mad at me.
JF: Ok Steve, that will do for now.
SR: I’ll be glad to help you out, cause I’m concerned too. If there is anything I can do for you, let me know.
To summarize: it’s strange, in this interview the narrative he tells police seems to completely contradict everything else I heard about this guy. I mean, he denied him and Denise were a couple, and said that they never had sex, and according to every other source I read about this guy and their relationship, that is a complete and utter lie. Romero also said that he only moved in with her because ‘some cat was bothering her’ and he knew she needed help with paying rent, and that he wasn’t seeing anyone and that she wasn’t dating anyone else either.
In the beginning of the investigation authorities originally felt that Oliverson’s boyfriend had murdered her and hid her body in a crime of passion, but witness testimonies claim that they saw Oliverson leave his house and he did not go after her. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation conducted a polygraph examination on Romero on July 21, 1975 in an attempt to determine if he knew what happened to Denise, her location at that current time, or if he knew whether or not she was harmed in any way (by either him or someone he knew). He said that on Sunday, April 6, 1975 he went to the store with Denise to buy more shampoo from a drug store on North Avenue, and from there they went to the park and visited with several of their friends. Romero then said from there they ‘just messed around town’ then went home, and it was then that she told him she was leaving to go for a bike ride. Denise got her yellow ten speed bicycle out from the front room (where she kept it) and left at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon. She said that she was going to swing by her parents house before returning home, and that was the last time he ever saw her. Romero told police that he didn’t know what happened to Denise but that he didn’t harm her in any way but he strongly felt that something bad happened to her. The officer that administered the polygraph said that it was in their expert opinion that the subject was being truthful. After this, the leads went dry and the case quickly went cold.
In an anonymous letter from an unidentified ‘psychic friend,’ postmarked February 10, 1976, they claimed they saw in a vision that, in addition to being kidnapped, raped, murdered and her remains thrown in river in Dubuque Canyon, Oliverson suffered a violent head wound (by a weapon made of either steel or iron) and her hands were bound in some way (again, using some form of steel or iron) when she was thrown into a river. The psychic also said that a car was also somehow involved in her murder and that her remains would not be found for a very long period of time, if ever. She also said that Denise’s body traveled a long ways downstream from where it was originally thrown in.
Joe Oliverson sat down with Grand Junction law enforcement on May 29, 1975 to go over some details about his ex-wife’s disappearance. He shared that he married Denise in late September 1970 but had divorced her by mid-March 1972; he remarried shortly after it was finalized. In April 1975, Oliverson was employed at a company called Steel Fabricating and the last time he had heard from Denise was about a year prior. He said after their split she always seemed to be in some sort of relationship and always appeared to have a boyfriend, and he knew that she was seeing a guy from either Portland or Seattle but wasn’t sure if he was ever told his name. Joe knew that his ex-wife had a few close friends in Grand Junction and was incredibly trusting, almost to the point of being gullible. He also said that she was a very independent person and was exactly the type that would ‘just take off’ (which strangely enough is the exact opposite of what her friend said about her).
Law enforcement was able to track down Fred Gallego and spoke with him by telephone on May 29, 1975. In the beginning of the conversation when he was asked about Oliverson at first he denied knowing her, then said that he didn’t recall her name (or at least her surname). After the officer refreshed his memory a bit he finally admitted that he did remember her and their fling. Gallego said that when they were together he saw her once or twice every two or three weeks and talked to her for the last time a few months prior to her disappearance in February 1975. He shared that the last time he saw her was the day that she disappeared in the park, but clarified that he had not interacted with her in any capacity. Gallego also said that the reason why he cut off all contact with her was that he had recently gotten married and didn’t want to encourage any future contact with her. When he was questioned if Oliverson had gone back to the park later that day that he last saw her to see him he said no because he never saw her again. Gallego told investigators that he was aware that she had fairly major mental health concerns and always seemed to be looking for an escape from her problems, but he knew that she was talking to a counselor and trying to work through her issues.
Early in the morning on the day his daughter disappeared an unidentified male called his residence and asked if Denise was there. When he answered ‘no’ and asked who was calling, they immediately hung up without answering. The morning after that (Tuesday, April 7) Mr. Nicholson said the same person called again and asked ‘if Denise Oliverson was there.’ Once again, he replied, ‘no, she is not’ and asked who was calling, and it was then that the caller finally answered, ‘this is Steve.’ Later that same day Romero told Robert in a separate phone call that Denise had ‘been hurt by a car.’ Considering this wasn’t true, it’s speculated that Steve said that because he was still incredibly distraught and upset about Denise missing and wanted to make her dad feel pain as well (as if he wasn’t already).
On June 2, 1975 GJ investigators sat down for an interview with railroad engineer Wilbur M. Class, who is one of the employees that found Oliverson’s bike at around 7:30 AM on April 7, 1975. When investigators showed Class the sandals that were found near Denise’s ten speed he positively ID’d them as the ones he saw. Steve Romero also identified them as the pair that belonged to Denise. Mr. Class told LE that the yellow bike wasn’t there the previous day, meaning there was a possibility that he may have overlooked it (which he felt surely was something he would not do). He strongly speculated that someone may have placed the bike there in the dark, late night/early morning hours of April 6th or 7th.
Investigators spoke with a second employee of the railroad named Fidel Lopez that took place on June 25, 1975. Lopez said that while he was switching an engine he noticed a yellow bike and a pair of red sandals laying across the railroad tracks, under the overpass; he retrieved the bicycle then leaned it against a pillar underneath the viaduct, and placed the sandals and other items on its seat. When asked to describe the items and events, Lopez responded that he remembers the bike being yellow and that the shoes were sandals however he didn’t recall on what day he found them (but records within the railroad department showed that he had reported finding the items on April 6, 1975). He specified that he found the bike laying across one rail of the far south railroad track with its front wheel pointing north. Both shoes were found between the two rails on the same track: one was on the east side of the bicycle and the other was on its west side. In his opinion, when he stumbled upon the items they weren’t on the tracks for very long, as they would have probably been noticed right away and removed by someone else. Lopez said he didn’t notice anything that would have made him think a struggle took place in the area and he had not seen anyone in the immediate area.
At the time of Oliverson’s abduction Bundy was a law student at the University of Utah and was living at 565 1st Avenue North in SLC. It looks like it’s roughly 285 miles away from his boarding house to the 5th Street Bridge in Grand Junction, which is about a four hour and forty minute drive, one way. Per my ‘handy dandy TB job chart,’ it appears he was unemployed in April 1975: the last place he worked was at the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia. He resigned on August 28, 1974. Bundy remained without a job until June of the following year, when he became the night manager in charge of Bailiff Hall at the University of Utah (he was fired the next month after coming in drunk). He was still in a long-distance relationship with Liz Kloepfer, although things were getting ready to fizzle out for the final time (they officially broke up after Ted went to prison for the attempted kidnapping of Carol DaRonch in 1976).
When Denise was murdered in April 1975 Bundy wasn’t on the run for much longer: Utah Highway Patrol Sergeant Bob Hayward pulled him over in Granger at around 2:30 AM on August 16, 1975 after he saw his unfamiliar tan VW Beetle pass by him while he was out on patrol. The officer knew the neighborhood and its residents well and had no memory of ever seeing that particular vehicle before. When Hayward turned on his lights to get a better view of its license plate, the driver turned off their headlights and attempted to flee. The Sergeant began to follow the car, which went through two stop signs and eventually pulled into a gas station. When he asked the driver why he was out driving around so late, Bundy replied that he was on his way home from the Redwood Drive-In after seeing the Towering Inferno but lost his way. Two more officers arrived on the scene, and after noticing that the passengers seat was missing they searched the car (with Bundy’s permission) and discovered some incredibly unusual items: a black duffle bag that contained a pair of handcuffs, an ice pick, rope, a crowbar, a flashlight, a ski-mask, a pair of gloves, wire, a screwdriver, large green plastic bags, strips of cloth, and a pantyhose mask.
In addition to his ‘kill kit,’ LE also found maps, brochures of ski resorts, and gas receipts in Bundy’s glove compartment box. When asked why he had such strange items in his car, Ted told the officers that he was in law school and was studying how to arrest criminals. While they weren’t completely convinced the law student was the ‘crazed mass murderer of young women’ that they were looking for, investigators did know he wasn’t completely innocent and arrested him for possession of burglary tools; they didn’t have enough evidence to detain him and he was ROR’ed.
It didn’t take long after his first arrest that investigators began to connect the dots between the attempted kidnapping of Carol DaRonch and the other Utah and Colorado abductions that were taking place during the same time, and they quickly began to suspect that the young law student was responsible. Perhaps one of the most damning pieces of evidence against Bundy were the handcuffs that were found in his car, which were the same style and brand as the ones found on DaRonch’s wrist after her attack. Additionally, the crowbar that officers found in his ‘murder kit’ was identical to the weapon used to threaten her the previous November, and his tan car matched the description of the one her abductor was driving. There were too many similarities for the police to ignore, but they also knew they needed more evidence to help support their case. A few days after Ted’s arrest on August 21, investigators searched his apartment and found various brochures from the areas where some of the women were missing from, however they failed to search the building’s utility room. Years later, the killer revealed to his lawyer Polly Nelson that he had kept a box of Polaroids of his victims inside that room in a shoebox, which he later destroyed.
On February 19, 1976 FBI forensics laboratories sent a letter confirming that they received a sample of Oliverson’s hair for comparison to evidence taken from Bundy’s Bug but nothing came back a match. She is Ted’s second to last confirmed victim (Sue Curtis was his last) until his second escape in late 1977 (although there are some suspected/unconfirmed victims that disappeared after, including Melanie Cooley, Sandra Weaver, Nancy-Perry-Baird, Shelley Kay Robertson, and Debbie Smith). Less than two weeks after Denise vanished on Tuesday, April 15, 1975 eighteen year old Melanie ‘Suzi’ Cooley disappeared out of Nederland, CO. After class was over for the day Cooley left the high school she attended where she was a senior and was never seen or heard from again. She was last seen by friends hitchhiking nearby campus, and it’s unclear where or when exactly she got picked up as no one saw the vehicle the young girl climbed into that day. Just a few weeks later on May 2, the body of Cooley was discovered fully clothed and frozen by a maintenance worker on Twin Spruce Road near Coal Creek Canyon about twenty miles away from where she was last seen.
According to Kevin Sullivan’s true crime classic, ‘The Bundy Murders,’ when Ted was asked about his possible involvement in Oliversons disappearance during his death row confessions by Detective Fisher, he ‘told me again of his tiredness and his wanting to get back to his cell to rest. I explained simply that he had promised to resolve all the questioned murder cases and now at the last minute he wasn’t keeping his side of the deal.’ As Fisher was walking out of the room the condemned man told him, ‘I’ll get back to you on that, I promise.’ The two men never spoke again. In a last minute, taped confession that took place less than an hour before he was put to death at 6:16 AM, Bundy confessed to Florida State Prison Superintendent Thomas Barton that he killed Denise Oliverson (it’s also listed on her ‘Charlie Project’ page that Dr. Robert D. Keppel, PhD was present as well). He said that he killed her in his car then transported her to the state border between Colorado and Utah and dumped her body in the Colorado River, about five miles west of Grand Junction. We don’t know if she was sexually assaulted, and he never shared exactly how he abducted her or took her life, but he specified that she ‘was not buried.’ In a sad, semi-related note, shortly after she disappeared Oliversons dad shared that she didn’t like water and wasn’t a big fan of swimming.
Bundy also shared that he came across Oliverson when he was returning from his second round of dumping Julie Cunninghams remains. Per Tiffany Jean in her case file of Denise, ‘Bundy claims that he encountered Oliverson as he passed through Grand Junction after he had buried Cunningham about 50 miles to the east’ (I have the link to the webpage below in my works cited). The twenty-six year old ski instructor was last seen the evening of March 15, 1975 after she left her apartment in the Apollo Park neighborhood in Vail. She was on her way to a local bar, and was last seen wearing jeans, a ski cap, brown suede jacket, and boots. On crutches and faking a ski injury, Bundy told investigators that he asked her for help carrying his ski boots to his VW, and when they arrived he knocked her unconscious, drove her to a remote area about eighty miles west of Vail and sexually assaulted her. He then strangled her to death then dumped her body in a shallow grave in a high desert area near Rifle, Colorado. Although Ted confessed to killing her on the morning he was executed, Cunningham’s remains have never been found, and her missing persons case still is considered open with the Vail Police Department.
After Bundy’s confession police said that they didn’t bother going to check out the potential dump site, as fourteen years had passed by and upwards of hundreds of thousands of people have walked through the area, trampling through evidence and destroying anything of possible value. Oliverson disappeared in early April, and according to environmental experts that is the time of year that the ‘runoff of the river would most likely have swept anything in it well downstream.’ It also gave local wildlife a good amount of time to pick apart her bones and disperse them throughout the area. Experts determined that if any trace of Denise were to turn up it would have happened by then.
The following is the transcript of a recording by Bundy regarding Denise Oliverson, dated the day of his death on January 24, 1989 at Florida State Prison; it took place in a five minute conversation roughly 45 minutes before his execution: ‘To the ah… Mike Fisher and the, the Colorado detectives ah… the last girl they wanted to talk about, Denise Oliverson, I believe, I’m not sure… out of Grand Junction that Mike Fisher wanted to discuss… ah, I believe that the date was in April 1975. Ah… the young woman’s body would have been placed in the Colorado River about five miles west of Grand Junction. It was not buried. That’s all the uh… the ones that I can help you with… it’s all the ones that I know about that uh… no missing ones outstanding that we haven’t talked about.’
In the same conversation Ted also volunteered that he abducted Susan Curtis from BYU on June 27, 1975 and gave investigators information as to where they would be able to find her body. Gas receipts placed Bundy in Grand Junction on the day that Denise disappeared: he put $3.16 in fuel at a gas station in Grand Junction on his Chevron card right before he abducted her. That same credit card was used to pay for fuel in Aspen and Vail on days his other victims Caryn Campbell and Julie Cunningham (respectively) were abducted as well. It was FBI agent Bill Hagmaier that Bundy confessed his total kill count to: eleven young women in Washington state, eight in Utah, three each in Colorado and Florida, two each in Idaho and Oregon, and one in California. The Oliverson family found out with the rest of the world that their daughter was murdered by the serial killer: they heard it on the news after he was executed.
In May 2019, the Grand Junction PD changed Denise’s disappearance from a missing persons case to a homicide after they reviewed Bundy’s confession tapes and talked to investigators that spoke with him while he was on death row.
In an interview with The Coloradoan in 2019, former Grand Junction detective Jim Fromm said ‘at the initial time we started the investigation, we didn’t believe that she was anything other than a missing person. And the more people we interviewed, the more concerned we got. It just, it did not make sense.’ With the news of Oliverson’s case closing, Julie Cunningham’s murder is now the only unsolved case directly linked to Bundy in the state of Colorado. A friend of Oliversons from high school named Linda Pantuso told the Coloradoan in the same article that she remembered hearing about her disappearance from Nina Nicholson, who she worked with: ‘We were just in the bathroom one day and I asked how Denise was doing. She went, ‘You haven’t heard? She’s been missing.’ I was just in shock. She was just a really great person.’
Dubbed by locals as ‘The Year of Fear,’ 1975 was a rough period for Grand Junction when it came to missing and murdered women: in addition to Oliverson, on July 28 twenty-four year old Linda Benson and her five year old daughter Kellie were brutally murdered in their residence at the Chateau Apartments. Just as a (strange) side note, according to the website cavdef.org, there is also a possibility that Bundy was present when the young mom and her child were killed: when a neighbor of Benson named Steve Goad saw him on TV after he was arrested in August 1975 he recognized him as a man that was in the apartment complex’s parking lot the evening Benson was murdered. In 2009 DNA linked serial rapist Jerry Nemnich to their murders. Strangely enough, she was friends with another Grand Junction woman that got murdered on August 23 in 1975: Linda Miracle. Twenty-four year old Miracle and her two young sons were killed by a neighbor, Ken Botham Jr. after he killed his wife at the home they shared. On December 27, Deborah Kathleen Tomlinson (not to be confused with Deborah Lee Tomlinson, who disappeared with a friend on her 16th birthday in October 1973 from Creswell, Oregon) was killed in her apartment complex in the 1000 block of Belford Avenue in GJ. She was found lying partially nude in her bathtub and had been sexually assaulted, bound and strangled. In December 2020 using DNA technology investigators identified Jimmie Dean Duncan as the man who killed Tomlinson.
In 2013, the Grand Junction PD collected DNA samples from Denise’s mother just in case they ever found remains. About his daughter missing, in 1986 Mr. Nicholson said ‘people need to finalize it in their minds, otherwise they’ll be bouncing back and forth. You don’t have a funeral, you can’t have a funeral. When the body is never found. A tragedy like this just tears the whole family up. I’ll never be the same. You raise a child, of course she wasn’t a child anymore. She was a young woman. It’s quite obvious when he got away from Glenwood Springs that he’s sick There’s something wrong up in the attic. There’s always the possibility that he’ll get out and do it again. They say he’s an intelligent young man, but it was channeled in the wrong direction. In the worst way’ Robert Nicholson also felt that Bundy ‘definitely’ should have been executed, and he was ‘just happy he’s been executed because it should have happened a long time ago.’
Denise’s father died at the age of 74 on October 2, 2001 in Grand Junction. Her mother passed away at the age of 94 on December 28, 2017. Nina remained a generous and kind woman despite the plethora of tragedies that took place during her life, and she loved to dance and was fascinated by Koala bears. Always hospitable, she wanted to make sure everyone around her was taken care of. Sadly, right before she passed Denise’s sister Renee died in the summer of 2017. Described in her obituary as a ‘gentle and loving soul,’ as a young woman Renee studied to be a dancer but was very ill in the final few years of her life, which restricted her activities. She died at HopeWest and Hospice Care Center on August 24, 2017. It looks like Steve Romero married a woman named Sandra on February 17, 1982 but they divorced just a few years later on May 22, 1984. He remarried a woman named Wilma on August 17, 1977 and died on November 3, 1996. Although her case has officially been closed, as of January 2024 no trace of Denise Lynn Oliverson has ever been found.
* Thank you to Archivist and Bundy researcher Tiffany Jean for the transcript of this interview.
Jean, Tiffany. November 20, 2019. ‘Case File: Denise Lynn Oliverson, 1975.’ Retrieved January 17, 2024 from https://archive.ph/2020.07.02-052035/https://hiimted.blog/2019/11/20/case-file-denise-lynn-oliverson-1975/#selection-211.0-211.38
Mortenson, Chris. July 16, 2020. ‘Ted Bundy Location/Denise Oliverson Tour With GJPD Homicide Investigator Doug Rushing (2020 Update). Taken January 19, 2024 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBVac81zFZY
Sulivan, Kevin. August 12, 2009. ‘The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History.’
Sulivan, Kevin. 2020. ‘The Encyclopedia of the Ted Bundy Murders.’
Courtesy of the Grand Junction PD/Tiffany Jean.
The Autopsy of Caryn Campbell.
This is the complete autopsy of Caryn Campbell. Document courtesy of Erin Banks/CrimePiper.
Another Bundy Blog. 