As of now, I have been to Seattle three times: In April 2022, April 2024, and May 2025… During my first trip I couldn’t find the Issaquah burial site and was driving around the same two mile radius for almost two hours with absolutely no luck. During my second trip in April 2024, I had a friend help walk me through exactly where to park and how to navigate to the actual site (his name is Cole Kaiser, and he is awesome and deserves another shout out). Like with Taylor Mountain this time around I decided to explore ALL of it, and to my surprise learned it was quite a bit bigger than I previously thought.
The bridge that takes you to the Issaquah burial site outside of Seattle, Washington. Picture taken in May 2025.The bridge over the roadway that takes you to where the Issaquah burial site is located. Picture taken in May 2025.The well-worn trail in the Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.A fallen tree at the Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.A fern at the Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The end of the well-worn path at the Issaquah burial site that leads you to the paved bike path. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.The trail around the Issaquah burial site. Picture taken in May 2025.
I needed to take a break from uploading the documents from the King County Sheriff’s Department and decided to post some pictures from my recent Seattle trip. Even before I checked in to my Air BnB, the first thing I did after leaving the Sea-Tac Airport was drive straight to Taylor Mountain, because I knew my time in Washington was limited and I wanted to make the most of it. When I went in 2022 and 2024 I didn’t venture in very far, and just took my pictures and left. This time I made sure to wear appropriate footwear and walked through the entire area, and I learned that it was much larger than I previously thought, and even had a lake and separate walking path.
The sign for Tiger Mountain, which is very close to Taylor Mountain (I incorrectly thought they were one in the same, but they are not): while they are very close to one another and are considered to be ‘neighbors,’ they are two distinct geographical areas that are separated by the Raging River and offer ‘different trails and elevations.’ Picture from May 2025. The pull off for Taylor Mountain is almost right after this road sign.A sign for a missing dog at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A close up of the entrance to Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Another shot of the entrance to Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Another shot of the entrance to Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A sign at the entrance to Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.The main roadway on Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A lake at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A lake at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A trail at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A plant at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.The main roadway at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.The roadway after the electric towers on Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A path at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A path at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.A path at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Another picture taken at Taylor Mountain. Picture taken in May 2025.One of the paths at Taylor Mountain. Picture taken in May 2025.The main roadway at Taylor Mountain. Picture from May 2025.Taylor Mountain. Picture taken in May 2025.Almost at the top of the main road at Taylor Mountain. Picture taken in May 2025.The view looking down on the top of the main road at Taylor Mountain. Photo taken in May 2025.Driving away from Taylor Mountain, if you look closely you can see an Army vehicle, (most likely) from the nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord, which is just outside Lakewood, Washington and encompasses both Fort Lewis Army Base and McChord Air Force Base. Picture from May 2025.
Railroad tracks near Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.A path leading to Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.The path leading to Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.The search party at Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.The search party for Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.The search party at Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Another shot of the search party at Ted Bundy’s Issaquah burial site, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.After Ted’s death row confession, investigators in King County went back to the Issaquah burial site to search for the remains of Georgann Hawkins, where Ted claimed to have left her in 1974. Photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.A backhoe near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.A man digging near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.A bulldozer near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.A bulldozer near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.A path near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.Near the Issaquah burial site in mid-February 1989, photo courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s.
Information from the King County Police Department on TB’s Lake Sammamish murders: on July 14, 1974 Bundy abducted then killed Denise Naslund and Janice Ott, mere hours apart from one another. Document courtesy of Maria Serban and Dr. Rob Dielenberg.
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.
Where Bundy’s very first home once stood in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, where he lived with his mother, aunt, and maternal grandparents until he was three years old; it was formerly located at ‘7202 Ridge Avenue’ and is now ‘499 Domino Lane.’ Picture taken in May 2023.The Cowell family’s second home. A diabetic (and agoraphobic), Eleanor Cowell had suffered a stroke in the mid-1950’s and underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression. She passed away at the age of 76 in April 1971, and in December 1983 Samuel passed away at the age of 85.Ted’s Uncle Jack Cowell’s house, located at 1514 South Alder Street in Tacoma, WA. Louise and Ted lived here briefly when they moved to Washington state in 1951. Picture taken in April 2022.The Bundy family’s first home, April 2022. During an interview with author Stephen G. Michaud, Ted talked about his time living here: ‘Our house was on Sheridan Street in Tacoma. It was the second house from the corner, on the west side of the street. We moved there, I would guess, in about 1951. My boyhood on Sheridan Street was not an unpleasant one. I remember those days, of roaming with my friends. The adventure, the exploration. Those were the days of frog hunting and marble playing.’The Bundy family’s second home, located at 658 North Skyline Drive in Tacoma; Ted spent a good portion of his adolescent years living here. Picture taken in April 2022.The former house of eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr, located at 3009 North 14th Street in Tacoma, WA. The oldest of five, on the morning she went missing on August 31, 1961 her mother, Beverly, woke up early and noticed that Ann wasn’t in her room, and after walking downstairs, she noticed that the front door was slightly open along with the living room window. There’s so many rumors about Bundy and Ann Marie Burr: my favorite is that his Uncle Jack was her piano teacher, and where she did take lessons, he wasn’t her instructor. Also, it’s said that Ted was her neighbor as well as the Burrs’ paperboy… and where he did deliver newspapers as a youngster, he was not hers, and where they didn’t live super far away from one another they were hardly neighbors (I made the 3.3 mile walk from the Ann’s house to Ted’s during my first trip to Seattle). Picture taken in April 2022.The front of Ann Marie Burrs house, picture taken in April 2022. I thought the trees were beautiful.The third and final home of Johnnie and Louise Bundy, located at 3214 North 20th Street in Tacoma. The family moved here in 1968 after selling their second house on North Skyline Drive and lived there until the late 2000’s. In May 2007, Johnny died at the age of 86 and two years later, Louise sold the property for $305,301. In December 2012, Mrs. Bundy passed away at the age of 88. Picture taken in April 2022.This is the front of Silas High School, formerly Woodrow Wilson High School, where Ted graduated from in 1965. Picture taken in April 2022.Ted Bundy’s alma mater: Dr. Dolores Silas High School, located at 1202 North Orchard Street in Tacoma. From its founding in 1958 until July 2021 it was called Woodrow Wilson High School. Picture taken in April 2022.Dr. Dolores Silas High School, in Tacoma, WA. Pictures taken in April 2022.The music building at Silas High School in Tacoma, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.The entrance to the University of Puget Sound, a school that Ted attended twice: right after he graduated from high school (then dropped out) then again for his (first attempt) at law school (he once again dropped out). Picture taken in April 2022.The University of Puget Sound, picture taken in April 2022.Another shot of the entrance to the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.While getting a cup of tea at the University of Puget Sounds coffee shop, one of the baristas reminded me that Louise Bundy used to work at the school, and that she had a brick on campus near the water fountain. Picture taken in April 2022.A broader shot of Johnnie and Louise’s brick on the campus of the University of Puget Sound, picture taken in April 2022.McMahon Hall located at the University of Washington. In 1966 during Ted’s first year at the school he lived on the 4th floor of the dormitories South Tower, and reportedly kept a key after ‘officially’ moving out and would return there on occasions to take naps. Picture taken in April 2022.The apartment building where flight attendants Lisa Wick and Lonnie Trumbull lived when they were attacked in the early morning hours of June 23, 1966, located 2415 8th Ave North in the Queen Anne district of Seattle. Ted is still considered a suspect in their attacks (Wick survived but Trumbull sadly did not). Picture taken in April 2024.Another shot of ‘The Sherri Lee Apartments,’ picture taken in April 2024. The back portion of ‘The Sherri Lee Apartments,’ picture taken in April 2024.The Seattle Yacht Club, where Ted worked as a busboy until he was fired for stealing food. Its strongly thought he began his employment there in September 1967, but how long he was there for seems to be a bit of a gray area: Mrs. Ferris said he was there for roughly six weeks, but Ann Rule wrote in ‘The Stranger Beside Me’ that he worked there for six months. Additionally, Dr. Robert Dielenberg’s true crime masterpiece ‘A Visual Timeline’ said he parked cars at the club and left in January 1968.The Seattle Yacht Club, located at 1807 E Hamlin Street in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle. Picture taken in April 2022.A sign at the entrance of The Seattle Yacht Club, picture taken in April 2022.A memorial outside The Seattle Yacht Club, picture taken in April 2022.5015 16th Street Seattle, WA, Picture taken in April 2024. According to the ‘1992 FBI TB Multiagency Report,’ Ted lived here sometime in 1967. Picture taken in April 2024. One of Bundy’s residences, located at 5015 16th Northeast Avenue in Seattle. The dates and circumstances of Ted living here are unknown, however according to the ‘1992 TB Multiagency Report 1992,’ he lived here at various intervals between 1966 and 1967 (which is before his relationship with Liz and roughly around the time he started seeing Diane Edwards). I will say, I’m not sure if this address is a mistake, as it is incredibly similar to 5015 16th Street, but who knows. Picture taken in April 2024.The (former) Olympic Hotel in Seattle, where Ted worked in March 1968. This is where he met his friend Sybil Ferris, who was employed here as a pastry chef. The establishment, now called The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, was built in 1924 on the original site of the University of Washington and was originally part of a larger development plan that included the Metropolitan Theatre. He was fired for stealing from lockers. Picture taken in April 2022.The sign outside the entrance for The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.The entrance to The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.The fountain in the plaza outside The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.Some plaques on the side of the entrance of The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.The Safeway that Bundy worked at as a stock boy in the Queen Ann neighborhood of Seattle from April 12, 1968 to July 26, 1968. According to his friend Sybil Ferris: ‘I helped him get a job at Safeway for a short while and he just quit, not even going back to work to tell them he was leaving.’ Picture taken in April 2022.The inside of the Seattle Safeway where Ted Bundy worked, picture taken in April 2022.This is Ted’s Aunt Julia’s house, and he stayed here while attending Temple University in Philadelphia during the late 1960’s, located at 4039 South Warner Road in Lafayette Hill (in the outskirts of Philadelphia). Picture taken in May 2022.The University of Washington campus in Tacoma, picture taken in April 2022.The entrance of the University of Washington in the heart of Seattle. Picture taken in April 2022.What the former SandPiper looked like in April 2022.During his time at The University of Washington Ted was a psychology major, and the main building on campus for psych majors is Guthrie Hall. Picture taken in April 2022.The back of Guthrie Hall, picture taken in April 2022.A sign for Guthrie Hall, picture taken in April 2022.The University of Washington School of Medicine, where Liz Kloepfer worked when she was in a relationship with Ted Bundy. Picture taken in April 2022.When employed at The University of Washington, Liz Kloepfer worked for the Medical School on campus. Picture taken in April 2022.The University of Washington School of Medicine, which opened in 1946 and was founded as part of a larger School of Health Sciences. It quickly gained recognition and received full accreditation from the AMA and AAMC in 1949 and by 1970, it had become a national leader in biomedical research grants. Picture taken in April 2022.Another shot of the University of Washington School of Medicine, picture taken in April 2022.The parking lot where Dante’s once stood, April 2022.The former ‘O’Banion’s Tavern,’ where Bundy frequented during his time living in Seattle located at 5220 Roosevelt Way NE. As of April 2025,it is the home of the Laughs Comedy Club. In an interview with the King County Sheriff’s Department Elizabeth Kloepfer, told investigators that Bundy and his neighbor, John Neeler went to O’Banion’s Tavern a few times each month, along with Dante’s Tavern and The Pipeline Tavern. It’s also only a few steps away from where Dante’s Tavern once stood. Picture taken on April 2022.Harborview Medical Center, where TB interned from June 1972 to September 1972. He had a lot of jobs and never seemed to stick around for very long. Picture taken in April 2022.Harborview Medical Center, picture taken in April 2022.The Pike Place Market, located in Seattle, Washington. The open market was created on August 17, 1907 in response to public outcry over high food costs, and is one of the oldest continuously operating public farmers’ markets in the US. Picture taken in April 2022.Another shot of The Pike Place Market, Picture taken in April 2022.Another shot of the Pike Place Market, picture taken in April 2022.I love this shot, picture taken in April 2022.Another part of The Pike Place Market, picture taken in April 2022.Another part of The Pike Place Market, taken in April 2022.The front of the Rogers’ Rooming House, located at 4143 12th Northeast Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Bundy lived here from September 1969 to September 2, 1974. Picture taken in April 2022.The residence housed multiple tenants (along with the owners, Ernst and Freda Rogers) that shared the same facilities. Ted lived in a room on the second floor for four years until he left for his second attempt at law school on September 2, 1974. Picture taken in April 2022.This is the apartment where Liz Kloepfer lived in when her and Bundy began dating, located at 5208 18th Avenue NE in Seattle. She lived here with her daughter, Molly in an apartment on the first floor, on the right side of the building. Although Bundy was known to stay here a lot he still formally lived at the Rogers’ Rooming House. Picture taken in April 2022.
According to the ‘1992 TB Multiagency Report 1992,’ Ted lived here briefly with Marlin Vortman and his wife sometime in late 1973, located at 3510 West Elmore Street in Seattle. Photo taken in April 2024.A shot of where Sotria Kritsonis claims she was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.A shot of where Sotria Kritsonis claims she was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.A shot of where Sotria Kritsonis claims she was abducted from, picture taken in April 2022.The final resting place of Katherine Merry Devine, picture taken in April 2024.Kathy Devine’s diary, courtesy of Charlene Devine-Gonzales. Picture taken in April 2024.A picture of a page taken from Kathy Devine’s diary, courtesy of Charlene Devine-Gonzales. Picture taken in April 2024.Where the apartment of Karen Sparks once stood, who Bundy attacked and left for dead in her basement apartment on January 4, 1974. Picture taken in April 2022.This is the house where Ted Bundy attacked and abducted his first known murder victim, Lynda Ann Healy located at 5517 12th Avenue NE in Seattle, Washington. Picture taken in April 2024.A path located on the side of the house (and in the back) that Lynda Ann Healy was renting at the time of her murder. Picture taken in April 2024.A picture of Lynda Ann Healy’s former house taken in April 2022. On the evening of January 31, 1974, Healy and her roommates were drinking at Dante’s Tavern, but because she needed to be at her job the following morning at 5:30 to read the ski report they didn’t stay out late and returned home around 10 PM (their friend Pete also had to catch a bus back to his place). A picture of the side of Lynda Healy’s former house, taken in April 2022. Donna Manson’s former dormitory located on the campus of The Evergreen State Collegein Olympia, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.A path near Manson’s dormitory, picture taken in April 2022.A path in the back of the dorm buildings that Donna may have taken the night of her murder, picture taken in April 2022.Some interesting trees in front of the Daniel J. Evans Library on the campus of The Evergreen Sate College. Picture taken in April 2022.The Library on the campus of The Evergreen State College, picture taken in April 2022.A picture taken at the entrance of Central Washington University from April 2022. Susan Rancourt was abducted from campus on April 17, 1974.Before Bundy came across Sue Rancourt he approached two other young women, Jane Curtis and Katherine Clara D’Olivo. Earlier in the evening both women said they were approached by a man with his arm in a sling onthe schools campus.Another picture of the Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden located on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.Another picture of the Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden located on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.Another picture of the Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden located on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.Barto Hall, where Rancourt was living at the time of her murder. Picture taken in April 2022.Before her murder Sue Rancourt was attending a meeting about being a residential advisor the following school year, picture taken in April 2022.A safety phone on the campus of Central Washington University. Picture taken in April 2022.Millersylvania State Park as it looked in April 2022. This is where the remains of Brenda Joy Baker were discovered in May 1974. Most likely Brenda was killed by a man named William Cosden Jr., but because no DNA was ever taken at the crime scene we will most likely never know for sure who took her life.One of the signs for the entrance of Millersylvania State Park as it looked in April 2022.The sign for the entrance of Millersylvania State Park as it looked in April 2022.The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022. On May 31, 1974 Brenda Ball vanished without a trace after seeing a band play here, and was last seen in the company of a handsome man with his arm in a sling. The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022.The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022.The former Flame Tavern as it looked in April 2022.The alley where Bundy first encountered Georgann Hawkins, picture taken in April 2022.The alleyway where Ted first encountered Hawkins, picture taken in April 2024.The parking lot where Bundy abducted Georgann Hawkins on June 11, 1974 from outside the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority house on the University of Washington campus. Picture taken in April 2024.Another shot of the parking lot where Bundy first encountered Georgann Hawkins, taken in April 2024.A sign at the entrance of Lake Samammish State Park in Issaquah, WA. Picture taken in April 2022.The entrance of Lake Sammamish, picture taken in April 2022.Lake Sammamish, picture taken in April 2022.A beach at Lake Sammamish for Tibbetts Beach. Picture taken in April 2022.A beach at Lake Sammamish for Tibbetts Beach. Picture taken in April 2022.A sign at Lake Sammamish for Tibbetts Beach. Picture taken in April 2022.A sign for some King Country Government buildings, picture taken in April 2022.The King County Sheriff’s office, located at 516 3rd Ave in Seattle… To be honest, I went here right before I was due to come home, and as I was walking around taking my pictures I saw a young man smoking crack in one of the buildings alcove. In that moment, I was ready to come home, and I had enough of my vacation. Like so many other things I experienced that week, if was definitely a first. Picture taken in April 2022.Another shot of the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.The King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.The side of the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.A door to the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.Another door at the King County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in April 2022.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Issaquah burial site in April 2024.This is the former boarding house where Bundy rented a room in during his second attempt at law school in SLC, located at 565 1st Avenue; he lived here from September 2, 1974 to September 1975. Picture taken in November 2022.The house where Nancy Wilcox lived when she was abducted and killed by Bundy. It’s located at 2409 Arnette Drive in Salt Lake City, is 1,482 square feet in size and was built in 1957. I took this picture in November 2022.A picture of where the orchard once stood located across the street from Nancy Wilcox; I took this picture in November 2022.A picture of Big Cottonwood Canyon taken in November 2022. This is where Rhonda Stapley claims Ted took her after abducting her in October 1974.A picture of a couple signs from Big Cottonwood Canyon taken in November 2022.Where The Pepperoni Pizza restaurant once stood, where Melissa Smith died with a friend before she was last seen. Picture taken in November 2022.The intersection close to where the remains of Melissa Smith were found, picture taken in November 2022.On October 18th, 1974, Bundy abducted Melissa Anne Smith from outside of a pizzeria in Midvale, and her nude remains were discovered twenty-three miles away by deer hunters nine days later, on this hillside in Summit Park. The seventeen-year-old had a man’s blue nylon sock tied around her neck raped, beaten, and then strangled. She was found face down in some scrub oak. Picture taken in November 2022.The home of Melissa Smith, located at 527 Fern Drive in Midvale, Utah. Picture taken in November 2022.William S. Robinson Park in American Fork, which is one of the places Laura Aime was possibly last seen alive. Picture taken in November 2022.Where Laura Ann Aime was possibly last seen, this is where ‘The Knotty Pine’ was once located in Lehi, UT. Picture taken in November 2022.This white SUV is where Bundy left the remains of Laura Ann Aime and is located off Utah State Route 92 in American Fork (per the OddStops website). Pictures taken in November 2022.A beautiful shot in front of The Fashion Place Mall in Murray, where Carol DaRonch was abducted from. Photo taken in November 2022.A shot of front sign for The Fashion Place Mall in Murray. It’s where Bundy attempted to abduct 18 year old Carol DaRonch from on November 8th, 1974. At the time the store was home to Sears, now it is a Dillards Department Store. Photo taken November 2022.The ‘police substation’ that Bundy took Carol DaRonch to when he pretended to be a police officer in an attempt to abduct and most likely kill her. Picture taken in November 2022.The door to the entrance of the ‘police substation.’ Photo taken in November 2022.Where my rental car sits is where Carol DaRonch fled Bundy’s car. It’s on the western side of McMillan Elementary School, close to the intersection between South Fashion Boulevard and 5900 South. Photo taken in November 2022.McMillan Elementary School, located close to the intersection between South Fashion Boulevard and 5900 South. Photo taken in November 2022.Viewmont High School in Bountiful, UT. Picture taken in November 2022.Viewmont High School, located at 120 West 1000 North in Bountiful, UT. Photo taken in November 2022.Viewmont High School, in Bountiful, UT. Picture taken in November 2022.The doors for the auditorium at Viewmont High School, where Debra Kent was abducted from. Picture taken in November 2022.The parking lot in Viewmont High School that Bundy abducted Deb Kent from. Picture taken in November 2022.Where Deb Kent was abducted from, picture taken in November 2022.A broader shot of the entrance to Fairview Canyon, where Deb Kent’s remains were found. It’s about an hour and a half outside of Salt Lake City. Photo taken in November 2022.This is close to where Bundy buried the remains of 17-year-old Debra Jean Kent, near a dirt road in Fairview Canyon around 105 miles away from Viewmont High School. During one of his final confessions, he said he left her near a steep dirt road that ‘wound up to the left’ and buried her about three feet deep and then covered her with heavy rocks. Photo taken in November 2022.The entrance to where the remains of Deb Kent were foundA shot of the entrance to Fairview Canyon, where Deb Kent’s remains were found. Photo taken in November 2022.A sign for the Wildwood Hotel (formerly Inn) located in Aspen. I’m shocked at how squished together everything is, I imagined this beautiful, sprawling hotel… but it was all so close together. 2/10, would not recommend.The Wildwood Hotel (formerly Inn), where twenty-three-year-old Michigan nurse Caryn Campbell was staying with her fiancé when she disappeared on January 12, 1975; her body was found on February 17, 1975, 3.1 miles away on the side of Owl Creek in the outskirts of Aspen. Picture taken in March 2025.This is the GPS coordination’s where Caryn Campbells remains were discovered on Owl Creek Road in Aspen. Picture taken in March 2025.Bundy moved into an apartment on the right side of the top floor of this residence located at 364 Douglas Street in SLC on September 26, 1975. He claims that he moved here because it was within walking distance of the University of Utah. Picture taken in November 2022.A picture of where Caryn Campbells remains were found on Owl Creek Road, picture taken in March 2025.On January 12, 1975 Bundy bought gas in Glenwood Springs and Bundy abducted 23-year-old Caryn Campbell from the Wildwood Lodge in Snowmass, Colorado. Picture taken in March 2025.Bundy’s Douglas Street apartment, located at 413 ‘B’ Street in SLC, Utah. He moved here some time before March 22, 1976, during his trial for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, and was also under heavy police surveillance. He didn’t live here for very long: on March 1, 1976, he was found guilty of kidnapping Carol DaRonch and was immediately taken intp custody. Picture taken in November 2022.A photo I took of the entrance to the Taylor Mountain burial site in April 2024. On March 3, 1975 the remains of Lynda Ann Healy, Susan Rancourt, Roberta Parks, and Brenda Carol Ball were discovered by two forestry students at Green River Community College.A photo I took of the Taylor Mountain burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Taylor Mountain burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the Taylor Mountain burial site in April 2024.A photo I took of the road from the Taylor Mountain burial site in April 2024.On March 15, 1975 Bundy came across 26-year-old ski instructor Julie Cunningham near this covered bridge by Gore Creek Drive in Vail, Colorado. Picture taken in March 2025.An area close to the parking garage where Julie Cunningham was abducted from. Picture taken in March 2025.The parking lot where Bundy abducted Julie Cunningham from, picture taken in March 2025.The parking lot where Bundy abducted Julie Cunningham that is located at 395 South Frontage Road in Vail, Colorado. At the time of the murder, it was a regular ground-level parking lot however in more recent times it is home to a multi-story car park. Picture taken in March 2025.The underground parking lot where Bundy abducted Julie Cunningham from in Vail, Colorado. Picture taken in March 2025.The entrance to the Apollo Park Apartments, where Julie Cunningham was living at the time of her murder. Picture taken in March 2025.The Apollo Park Apartments, where Julie Cunningham was living at the time of her murder. Picture taken in March 2025.The back of Cunningham’s apartment complex in Vail, picture taken in March 2025.1619 LaVita Street in Grand Junction, Colorado, where Denise Oliverson lived at the time of her murder. Picture taken in March 2025.This is the South 5th Street Bridge in Grand Junction, where Bundy abducted Denise Lynn Oliverson from on April 6, 1975.A (blurry) shot of the South 5th Street Bridge where Denise Oliversons’ bike was found the day after she disappeared. Picture taken in March 2025.The South 5th Street Bridge, in Grand Junction. Denise Oliverson vanished after leaving her nearby house on April 6th, 1975, and the next day, a railway worker found her yellow bike and sandals underneath this overpass. Photo taken in March 2025.A shot of the alley next to the South 5th Street Bridge in Grand Junction, picture taken in March 2025.The entrance of Brigham Young University, where Ted Bundy abducted Susan Curtis in June 1975. Originally from Bountiful, the fifteen-year-old was attending the Bountiful Orchard Youth Conference at the school when she disappeared. She had ridden her bicycle fifty miles to Provo to attend the conference and was last seen on June 27, 1975, the first day of the conference. After a formal banquet that evening, Susan left her friends and made the quarter mile walk to her room to brush her teeth. No trace of Curtis has ever been recovered. Picture taken in November 2022.Brigham Young University, where Ted Bundy abducted Susan Curtis from in Provo, Utah On June 27th, 1975, Curtis attended the Bountiful Orchard Youth Conference at the Wilkinson Student Center. Picture taken in November 2022.The Wilkenson Student Center on Brigham Young’s campus, where Susan Curtis was last seen alive. Picture taken in November 2022.I had great plans of hiking Berthoud Pass, where the remains of Shelley Kay Robertson were found on August 23, 1975, but my rental car kept getting stuck so this was as far as I was able to go. On July 1, 1975, the twenty-three-year-old failed to come into work at her family’s printing business in Colden, and she was last seen earlier that same day and was in ‘the company of an unknown man.’ Picture taken in March 2025.A picture of a sign announcing my arrival in Pitkin County, taken in March 2025.The ‘Ted Bundy Murder Cellar,’ which is a urban legend of sorts where locals claim he brought victims to (there is no evidence that proves this). Picture taken in November 2022.The inside of the TB Murder cellar. Even though it was two o’clock in the afternoon when I visited this location this was as far as I would venture in. My momma didn’t raise no fool, taken in November 2022.This house was the focus of a Ghost Adventuress episode about Ted, and is located near Viewmont High School in Bountiful where Deb Kent was abducted from. Zak Baggins claims that Bundy brought her back her to torture her, but there’s no evidence to back this up (in fact, there’s proof that a family lived there at the time). The (fuzzy) picture was taken in November 2022.A current picture of where Bundy got arrested for the first time, taken in November 2022.A horrible quality picture of Bundy’s first arrest site (as I am no master photographer), taken in November 2022.The entrance to the Utah State Corrections Facility, picture taken in November 2022. I was actually wrong that Ted was housed here before he was transferred to Colorado to stand trial: he actually was in Utah State Prison, and in July 2022 (just a few mere months before I went there) it was replaced by the Utah State Correctional Facility.The Pitkin County Courthouse, where Bundy escaped for the first time on June 7, 1977.A close up shot of the side of the building Bundy escaped from, picture taken in March 2025.A (terrible) shot of the window Bundy would have jumped out of when he escaped from the Pitkin County courthouse on June 7, 1977. Picture taken in March 2025.A plaque on the Pitkin County Courthouse that it is in the ‘National Registry of Historic Places.’ Picture taken in March 2025.An inscripted stone on the Pitkin County Courthouse. Picture from March 2025.This is (roughly) the grassy area that Bundy would have landed on when he jumped out the second story window of the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen on June 7th, 1977. Picture taken in March 2025.A picture I took in March 2025 of a statue of a generic Civil War soldier that’s located in front of the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen. The monument, which is dedicated ‘to the soldiers of 1861-1865’ and is intended as a symbol of national healing, does not representing either the Union or Confederacy and was erected on Memorial Day in 1899 and is dedicated to all of the soldiers that fought in the Civil War.The Pitkin County Clerk and Recorder building located at 530 East Main Street next to the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colorado. Picture from March 2025.The Aspen Police Department, located two buildings down from the Pitkin County Courthouse. Picture taken in March 2025.The house that Bundy stole a Cadillac from in the early hours of June 13, 1977, located at 805 Bonita Drive in Aspen. Picture taken in March 2025.This is the only picture I was able to get that was close to where (I think) Fritz Kaeser’s cabin is located… I rented a piece of junk Ford Focus with bald tires and got stuck on a back road searching for it. I have no problem admitting I underestimated my husbands warnings of how bad Aspen winters can be, as I’m from Buffalo and have no problems driving in the snow… but what I have never encountered before is snow AND mountains. Where I hate admitting defeat, I knew I would have to take the L on this one. I didn’t have cell phone signal on top of it all and I was STUCK stuck, but thankfully the girls house I got stuck in front of helped me get out thanks to kitty litter and a board). It all worked out.The entrance to the Glenwood Springs government building, picture taken in March 2025.A picture of the Garfield County Jail, taken in March 2025.Another shot of the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department, picture taken in March 2025.A picture of the Garfield County Jail, taken in March 2025.The keystone on the Garfield County Court Building, picture taken in March 2025.The Chi Omega sorority house, located at 661 West Jefferson Street in Tallahassee. On January 15, 1978 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.Another shot of the Chi Omega sorority house.Where Sherrod’s night Club once stood, located next door to the Chi Omega sorority house at 675 West Jefferson Street in Tallahassee. Photo taken in May 2023.The road sign for Dunwoody Street and Pensacola Street, photo taken in May 2023.This is where Ted brutally attacked (and most likely left for dead) twenty-one-year-old dancing student Cheryl Thomas, in her residence located in one side of a duplex located at 431 Dunwoody Street in Tallahassee. Photo taken in May 2023.The area near Dunwoody Street where Cheryl Thomas was living at the time she was attacked by Ted Bundy. Photo taken in May 2023.The sporting goods store where Ted Bundy purchased a hunting knife on February 8, 1978, located at 8764 Normandy Boulevard in Jacksonville. Picture taken in May 2023.This is where the mall parking lot was once located on Blanding Boulevard where on February 8th, 1978 Bundy attempted to abduct-fourteen-year-old Leslie Parmenter. The daughter of Jacksonville PD’s Chief of Detectives, Parmenter was confronted by Ted (who had introduced himself as Richard Burton from the Fire Department) after leaving Jeb Stuart Junior High School, but said he backed down when her older brother showed up. Back in 1978 it was home to a Kmart, and today it houses an Amazon Hub. Photo taken in May 2023.This is the school where Bundy abducted twelve-year-old Kimberly Dianne Leach located at 372 West Duval Street in Lake City, Florida. Photo taken in May 2023.On the morning of February 9th, 1978, Kim left her gym class in the auditorium and walked over to her homeroom when she realized that she had lost her purse. After going back and getting it, Leach started back to the auditorium but never got there. Picture taken in Mat 2023.The house where Bundy stole an orange VW ‘Super Bug’ from its owner Rick Garzaniti. On February 12, 1978 Garzaniti and his wife parked their 1972 Volkswagen outside this residence located at 515 East Georgia Street in Tallahassee and went inside to pick up their toddler from the babysitter. He admitted to leaving the keys in the vehicle, as they weren’t sticking around for very long. Picture taken in May 2023.The location of Ted Bundy’s final arrest, picture taken in May 2023. This is where he was arrested by Officer David Lee at roughly 1 AM on February 15, 1978, located at West Cross Street in Pensacola.A broad shot of an area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.Another area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.Another shot of an area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.An area of the farm where Kim Leach’s body was recovered, photo taken in May 2023.A road named ‘Kimberly’ that is located close to the cemetery where Kim Leach is buried. Photo taken in May 2023.The entrance to the cemetery where Kim Leach is buried in Memorial Cemetery in Lake City. Picture taken in May 2023.The gravesites of Kim Leach and her brother, Michael. Photo taken in May 2023.The entrance to the Leon County Detention Center, picture taken in May 2023.The Leon County Courthouse, where Bundy stood trial in 1980 for the Chi Omega/Cheryl Thomas attacks. Picture taken in May 2023.The courtyard in front of the Leon County Courthouse, picture taken in May 2023.The entrance to the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, located at1351 NW 12th Street in Miami. Picture taken in May 2023.
Over the years I’ve only come across a few pictures from Bundy’s crime scenes, for the simple fact that there’s not many of them. This is because he usually left little to no trace of himself behind, and there were no bodies recovered until they were completely decomposed (well, until the end in 1978). I came across a website last night on TikTok (as silly as that sounds), and it contained a bunch of pictures I’ve never seen before, I was pretty amazed. So, here they are. I also went through my own collection and found some additional crime-scene related pictures and included those as well. Because, why not? If anyone has more, please feel free out reach out to me. I will give you credit.
Edit: I wanted to thank Tiffany Jean for all of the hard work she does on the Bundy case. Because of her we have information never before accessible, and she is a wonderful educator and TB resource. Thank you for all that you do.
TB’s kill kit.Some more items from Bundy’s kill kit. Photo courtesy of Kevin Sullivan.The outside of Bundy’s VW Beetle. It’s confirmed that at least eighteen of his victims were transported in this vehicle.The inside of Ted’s VW Beetle. Bundy took out the cars passenger seat so that his victims could lie vertically without being seen by others.Another shot of the inside of Bundy’s VW.Bundy’s VW Beetle notes from the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992.’ He bought the infamous tan Bug in the spring of 1973 from a woman named Martha Helms.First confirmed Bundy victim, Karen Sparks-Epley (formerly known as Joni Lenz). Karen Sparks-Epley’s residence where was attacked by Ted Bundy on January 4, 1974. This is a police photograph of 4325 8th Avenue NE, Sparks’ bedroom is circled in white. The house was torn down at some time in 1985. These days the site of the house is now home to the Westwood apartments, which were built in 1985.The window at Karen Sparks apartment Bundy used to break in.The bedroom of Karen Sparks after her assault. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The close-up of Sparks bed after her assault. Photo courtesy of Amazon.The bedroom of Karen Sparks after her assault. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The doorway of Karen Sparks bedroom after her assault. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The floor of Karen Sparks bedroom after her assault. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The bedroom of Karen Sparks after her assault.The bedroom of Karen Sparks after her assault.The bedding of Sparks. Photo courtesy of Amazon.A crime scene photo from the assault of Karen Sparks.Lynda Ann Healy, TB’s first confirmed kill. Healy was born on July 3,1952 in Seattle and was abducted on January 31, 1974.Healy’s house as it looked in the 1970’s.Healy’s apartment in 2021.A photo of the trail behind Lynda Ann Healy’s apartment; her house is circled in red. Photo courtesy of OddStops.A King County Detective walking out of the side door of Healy’s apartment. Photo courtesy of Amazon.The entrance of Healy’s apartment, via the side door of the house. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The side door of Healy’s apartment. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.Lynda’s roommates standing around her bed. Photo courtesy of Amazon.The entrance of Healy’s bedroom and the stairs leading outside. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.Another shot of the entrance of Lynda Healy’s bedroom. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.One side of Healy’s bedroom. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.Another shot of Healy’s bedroom. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.A shot of Healy’s mattress. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.A close-up of the blood stain on Lynda Ann Healy’s mattress. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The blood stain on Lynda Ann Healy’s bedding. Photo courtesy of Amazon.A close-up of the blood stain on Lynda Ann Healy’s bedding. Photo courtesy of Amazon.The blood stain at the crime scene of Healy. Photo courtesy of Amazon.A close-up of the blood stain at the crime scene of Lynda Healy. Photo courtesy of Amazon.Susan Elaine Rancourt.Roberta Kathleen Parks.Brenda Ball’s drivers license. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The following is borrowed from Dr. Robert Keppel’s true crime classic ‘The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer:’ ‘The final tally of remains for Taylor Mountain paled in comparison to Issaquah: three crania, three mandibles, two small pieces of a skull, one tooth, and a small blond hair mass. Not one other remnant of a human skeleton was discovered. The remains of four women were identified from the sparse skeletal remains we had recovered: Susan Rancourt, who disappeared April 17, 1974, from the library at Central Washington State College; Kathy Parks, last seen May 5, 1974, at Oregon State University, over 260 miles from Taylor Mountain; Brenda Ball, who was last seen May 31, 1974, at the Flame Tavern in Seattle; and Lynda Healy, who was reported missing from her basement bedroom at the University of Washington on January 31, 1974.’ Powerline Road on Taylor Mountain. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.Another shot of the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.An aerial shot of Taylor Mountain. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.The skull of Brenda Ball at the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.Another shot of the skull of Brenda Ball at the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.Another shot of the skull of Brenda Ball at the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.A close-up shot of the skull of Brenda Ball. Photo courtesy of the KIRO-7.A shot of Lynda Ann Healy’s mandible with teeth taken from about 15 feet away. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives.A shot of Lynda Ann Healy’s mandible taken from roughly four feet away. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Susan Rancourt’s beautiful blonde hair. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Susan Rancourt’s skull. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Kathy Parks’ skull. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.One of the skulls recovered from Taylor Mountain. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.LE pointing out something at the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.A member of law enforcement pointing something out at the Taylor Mountain burial site.Members of law enforcement at the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.A green, military-style type coat, item #K-35. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Dense underbrush at the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.A shot from the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.A shot from the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of MSNBC.A shot from the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of MSNBC.A shot from the Taylor Mountain burial site. Photo courtesy of MSNBC.The tattered remains of a sloppily made, lean-to shelter found at Taylor Mountain. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Clockwise from the top left: Parks mandible, Parks mandible, Parks skull, Healy mandible, Ball skull, Ball skull, Ball skull, Ball skull, Healy mandible center. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Clockwise from top left: Parks skull and mandible, Parks skull and mandible, Rancourt skull, Parks skull, Parks skull, Parks skull, Parks skull, Parks skull, Parks skull at center. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Another group of bones found at Taylor Mountain. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7. I believe these are all bones in Susan Rancourts skull.Brenda Ball’s skull. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Susan Rancourt’s skull. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean. Kathy Parks’ skull. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Janice Ott.Denise Naslund.TB’s Issaquah burial site as it looks today.The entryway to Ted’s Issaquah burial site as it looks today.The Issaquah dirt road and grassy area in September 1974. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Denise Naslunds hair at the Issaquah burial site. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives.Another shot of Denise Naslunds hair at the Issaquah burial site. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives.A rib cage at the Issaquah burial site. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives.Another shot of the rib cage at the Issaquah burial site. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives.Denise Naslunds skull from the Issaquah burial site. It was found by two hunters on a hillside just east of Issaquah, less than ten miles from Lake Sammamish where she was abducted. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.A picture from the Issaquah burial site. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.A mapping of where the different bones were found at the Issaquah burial site.Ted at the Issaquah burial site; he was there with Liz that day.Georgann Hawkins.A snapshot taken at the Issaquah burial site on February 15, 1989. Investigators were looking for the remains of Georgann Hawkins, after Bundy confessed to her murder during his death row confessions. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives.Another picture taken at the Issaquah burial site on February 15, 1989.A picture of the possible burial site of Georgann Hawkins taken in February 1989.The ESAR map Keppel brought with him to the Florida State Prison for his final interview with Bundy. Photo courtesy of the King County Archives/Tiffany Jean.Susan Curtis.Joe Ruden from the Carbon County Search and Rescue team uses a metal detector to search for the burial site of Susan Curtis, who disappeared from the BYU campus in Utah in the summer of 1975. Bundy confessed to killing Curtis during his death row confessions and that he buried her about ten miles south east of Price, UT. Jim Simone from the Carbon County Search and Rescue team sets out in search for the remains of Sue Curtis. Debra Kent.Deb Kent’s patella. Photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean. Right before he was put to death in January 1989, Bundy finally confessed to killing Deb Kent. He said that he brought her back to his apartment and after ‘keeping her for a while’ murdered her. He then put her body in his car and drove 105 miles away to Fairview Canyon, where he buried her remains about 3 feet deep, under some heavy rocks. After searching the Canyon, law enforcement found a patella (kneecap), and it is likely that her other bones were scavenged and spread around by wildlife over time. Although the ME’s office determined that the bone was human, they weren’t able to test it beyond that until 2015, when a cold-case detective stumbled across Kent’s DNA that had never been entered into the NamUs database. At that point, he reached out to Mrs. Kent, who held onto the only piece of her daughter she had left and asked if he could take the bone for genetic testing. Although she gave the detective the patella, Mrs. Kent told him that she didn’t want to know the results. In her mind, it belonged to Debra and didn’t want to be told otherwise. Thankfully her fears were put to rest five months later, when the results came back that the bone belonged to Debra.Melissa Smith.Where the remains of Melissa Smith were found, on Kilby Road in Park City, Utah.Investigators at the scene where the remains of Laura Ann Aime were found. Caryn Campbell. Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.A shot of the remains of Caryn Campbell in the snow. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.The skull of Caryn Campbell. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Thank you to my friend Samantha Shore for letting me know the identity of this victim.Vince Lahey holding a crowbar over Campbells autopsy photo. Photo courtesy of Erin Banks.Caryn Campbell, Bundy’s MO. Photo courtesy of Erin Banks.An article about the discovery of Caryn Campbell’s remains, published by The Daily Sentinel on February 19, 1975.A photo of Bundy’s shoe print in the snow after his second escape on December 30, 1977. Photo courtesy of The Coloradoan.Margaret Bowman, a victim of Bundy’s 1978 Florida rampage.Lisa Levy, a victim of Bundy’s 1978 Florida rampage.Kathy Kleiner testifying at Bundy’s trial.Kathy Kleiner, today.Karen Ann Chandler testifying at Bundy’s trial.Karen Chandler, today.The crime scene of Chi Omega victim, Margaret Bowman. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Margaret Bowman, who was murdered while defenseless in her bed. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Chi Omega victim, Margaret Bowman. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Chi Omega victim, Margaret Bowman. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Chi Omega victim, Margaret Bowman. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Chi Omega victim, Margaret Bowman. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.A photo of Chi Omega victim, Lisa Levy. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.A bite mark on Chi Omega victim, Lisa Levy. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Another shot of Bundy’s bite mark on Lisa Levy’s buttock. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.The layout of the rooms at the Chi Omega sororiety house.The Chi Omega House right after the murders took place in 1978. Twenty year old Lisa Levy and twenty-one year old Margaret Bowman were brutally murdered in their beds by Bundy. He also viciously attacked and left for dead Karen Ann Chandler and Kathy Kleiner, but thankfully both women survived. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another shot of the Chi Omega House right after the murders. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another shot of the Chi Omega House right after the murders. I love the old LE vehicle parked out front. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.The unlocked door of the Chi Omega House that Bundy snuck into. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.An area outside of the Chi Omega house. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.A shot of the logs outside of the Chi Omega house Bundy used to attack the four sleeping co-eds. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another shot of the logs outside the Chi Omega house. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.One of the beds in the Chi Omega house. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another one of the beds from the Chi Omega house. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another bed from the Chi Omega house. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another one of the beds from the Chi Omega house. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another bed at Chi Oh.Another bed at Chi Oh.A picture of one of the bedrooms in the Chi Omega house after Bundy’s murders. A picture of a hallway at the Chi Omega house after Bundy’s murders. A photo related to Bundy’s January 1978 Tallahassee crime scene. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Cheryl Thomas. Bundy used the same log to attack Thomas that he used in the Chi Omega assaults. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.A photo of the house on Dunwoody Street Cheryl Thomas shared with friends from FSU. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another shot of the house that Cheryl Thomas shared with friends from FSU. Photo courtesy of OddStops.An aerial shot of where Cheryl Thomas lived and was attacked, located at 431 Dunwoody Street in Tallahassee; the house has since been torn down. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.What the area on Dunwoody Street looks like in 2023.The door at the residence of Cheryl Thomas in Tallahassee. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.The open window in Cheryl Thomas’s kitchen that Bundy climbed into. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.The fly screen on Thomas’ window that Bundy knocked loose when he climbed into her kitchen the night of her assault. Photo courtesy of Rob Dielenberg.The flower pot that Bundy knocked over when he broke into Cheryl Thomas’ apartment. Photo courtesy of Rob Dielenberg.The window in Thomas’s kitchen that Bundy crawled through.The back door at Cheryl Thomas’s apartment. Law enforcement took chunks out of the doors of both sides of the house; the perpetrator left his fingerprints behind on both. Photo courtesy of Oxygen. The crime scene of Cheryl Thomas. Photo courtesy of Oxygen. Pantyhose found in Cheryl Thomas’ apartment. According to court documents, a knotted pair of pantyhose was found in her bedroom with holes cut into the nylon to create a mask. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.The lath that Thomas used to prop her bedroom window open. Photo courtesy of Rob Dielenberg.The pantyhose mask found in Cheryl Thomas’ apartment. An expert holding up the pantyhose mask found in Cheryl Thomas’ apartment at Bundy’s Chi Omega trial. Kimberly Dianne Leach.The white van Bundy stole from FSU. It’s the vehicle he used to abduct Kim Leach with.The inside of the van Bundy stole from FSU.Another shot of the inside of the van Bundy stole from FSU.Another shot of the inside of the van Bundy stole from FSU.The hog shed Bundy used to dispose of Leach’s body.A screen shot from Leach’s crime scene. This was all could find, I apologize for the poor quality.The first three rows of butts were found discarded on the ground in Suwannee River State Park, and the single column on the right were the ones ground discarded in the FSU van. Photo courtesy of Rob Dielenberg. Bundy’s final mug shot from February 1978 after he was arrested in Jacksonville. The bruise on his face occurred after he got into a brief tussle with the arresting officer, who hit him in the cheek with his gun.Former Leon County Sheriff Ken Katsaris looking at pictures related to the Bundy case. A dentist taking a mold of Bundys teeth. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Another shot of a dentist taking a old of Bundys teeth. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Molds of Bundy’s teeth. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Molds of Bundy’s teeth. Photo courtesy of Oxygen.Bundy’s teeth. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.Bundy’s gross teeth.Bundy’s bite mark. Photo courtesy of Vanessa West.A photo of Ted arriving at the Medical Examiners office after his execution.A B&W of Bundy after his execution.Bundy after his execution.A picture of Bundy, post-mortem. Photo courtesy of the Florida state Department of Corrections.Bundy after his execution.The top of Bundy’s head after his execution.
I’ve been spending a good chunk of my time writing about the unconfirmed victims so in this installment of ‘All Things Bundy,’ I’m going over his confirmed kills.
Karen Sparks-Epley (eighteen). January 4, 1974. Survived, Seattle, WA.
Also referred to as ‘Joni Lenz,’ Sparks was brutally assaulted by Ted Bundy while asleep in her basement apartment in the University District of Seattle. She was his first known victim. Thankfully Bundy didn’t kill her, however she was badly beaten with a metal rod, sexually assaulted, and left unconscious for hours before her roommates discovered her later that night. Ted left her with a number of serious long-term injuries she still struggles with to this day.
Karen Sparks.Karen Sparks.Karen Sparks.Karen Sparks in the Amazon documentary, ‘Falling for a Killer.’
Lynda Ann Healy (twenty-one). February 1, 1974. Murdered, Seattle, WA.
On January 31st, 1974, Healy borrowed a friend’s car to go shopping for a family dinner she was preparing the next night and returned with her groceries at roughly 8:30 PM. Shortly after, Lynda and her roommates went drinking at a popular bar called Dante’s Tavern located at 5300 Roosevelt Way NE. The establishment was a five-minute walk from her apartment but the friends didn’t stay out long because Lynda needed to be up at 5:30 AM to be at her job giving the ski report for a local radio station. A number of sources report that Bundy used to go to Dante’s often and it is hypothesized that he first saw Lynda there then followed her home. In the early morning hours of February 1, 1974, he broke into Healy’s basement room, beat her, took off her bloody nightgown (making sure to neatly hang it up in her closet), dressed her then carried her off into the night. It is theorized that Ted only took clothes to make it appear as if Lynda left on her own but obviously, we’ll most likely never know the truth. Her body found in March 1975 on Taylor Mountain, near Issaquah outside of Seattle.
Lynda Healy, in the middle holding her little sister.Lynda Ann Healy (middle) with her siblings.Lynda Ann Healy.Lynda Ann Healy.
Donna Gail Manson (nineteen). March 12, 1974. Murdered, Olympia, WA.
On the day of her abduction, Donna planned on going to a folk dancing class at the College Activities Building at Evergreen State College (where she attended). Later that same night, she made plans to go to a jazz concert at the Daniel J. Evans Library (also on campus), which was scheduled to start at 8 PM. Donna departed her dormitory just after 7 PM and set out for the dance class, which was just a two-minute walk away. Despite how close the College Activities Building was to her dorm, no one recalls seeing her at either the dancing class or the jazz recital, making it highly unlikely that she ever made it that far. Manson was never seen alive again. After confessing to her murder, Bundy said he burned her skull in Liz Kendall’s fireplace.
Donna Gail Manson.Donna Gail Manson.Donna Gail Manson.Donna Manson.
Susan Elaine Rancourt (eighteen). April 17, 1974. Murdered, Ellensburg, WA.
Shortly before 8 PM the evening she disappeared from her college campus at Central Washington University, Susan Rancourt put some clothes in a washing machine in Barto Hall (her dorm building). She then went to a meeting about becoming a Residential Advisor at Munson Hall. When it ended at 10 PM Sue left to walk back to her dorm to switch out her laundry but was never seen alive again. She had plans later that night to watch a movie with a friend but never showed up. Rancourt’s skull was later found near Taylor Mountain, where Bundy placed several bodies during his reign of terror.
Susan Elaine Rancourt.Susan Elaine Rancourt.Sue Rancourt.The Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden at CWU. Photo taken in April 2022.
Roberta Kathleen Parks (twenty). April 17, 1974. Corvallis, OR.
A student at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Parks was abducted from her college campus, which is over a four-and-a-half-hour drive for Bundy (who was living at the Rogers Rooming House on 12th Ave NE in Seattle at the time). Shortly before 11:00 PM the night she disappeared, Parks encountered Bundy in the Memorial Union Commons cafeteria at OSU. During Teds interviews with journalists Hugh Aynesworth and Stephen Michaud, he ‘confessed’ in the third person that Kathy may have encountered her killer while in the cafeteria. Bundy then said he was able to convince her to leave with him and as soon as the opportunity presented itself, he immediately overpowered her. He most likely bound and gagged Parks during the 250-mile trip back to Seattle, where then killed her and left her body on Taylor Mountain.
Roberta Parks, second from the left.Roberta ‘Kathy’ Parks.Kathy Parks.One of the more frequently used pictures of Kathy Parks.
Brenda Carol Ball (twenty-two). June 1, 1974. Murdered, Burien, WA.
In the wee hours of June 1st, 1974, Brenda Ball seemingly vanished into thin air after seeing a band play at The Flame Tavern located at 12803 Ambaum Boulevard in Burien, WA. She arrived at the bar alone and stayed until closing. As the act was wrapping up their set at the end of the night Brenda asked one of the members she knew for a ride home back to her house, but he was heading in the opposite direction so he couldn’t help out. There are two conflicting reports about how she could have left the bar that night: one is that she left by herself and was planning on hitchhiking home, and the other claims that she left with an unidentified man wearing an arm sling. Despite law enforcement being hesitant to officially say her disappearance was related to the other missing girls in Seattle; her skull was the first discovered on Taylor Mountain in March of 1975.
Brenda Ball’s senior picture from the 1970 Mount Rainier High School yearbook.A barefoot Brenda Ball.Brenda Carol Ball.Brenda Ball.
Georgeann Hawkins (eighteen). June 11, 1974. Murdered, Seattle, WA.
A student at the University of Washington, Georgann Hawkins disappeared from an alley behind her sorority house in June 1974. The night before she vanished, Hawkins went to a party, where she had a few mixed cocktails. Because she had a Spanish final coming up that she needed to study she didn’t stay long; she did mention to a sorority sister that she was planning on swinging by the Beta Theta Pi House to pick up some Spanish notes from her boyfriend. Hawkins arrived at the frat at approximately 12:30 AM on June 11 and stayed for approximately thirty minutes. After getting the notes and saying goodnight to her beau, Georgann left the fraternity house for her sorority house, Kappa Alpha Theta. Before he was executed, Ted told law enforcement that he approached her in an alley on her way home, feigning injury with a hurt leg (using his crutches as a ruse) while dropping his briefcase. Bundy asked Hawkins for help carrying the prop to his VW Bug, which was waiting in a parking lot roughly 160 yards north of the alley. She agreed and as she bent over to put the briefcase in his vehicle, Ted grabbed a conveniently placed crowbar and knocked her out with a single blow to the head. He then pushed George into his car and drove off into the night. Bundy claimed that while driving she regained consciousness and started to incoherently babble about her upcoming final, thinking he was her Spanish tutor. He again knocked her out with his crowbar. Once at his intended location, Ted took her unconscious body out of his car and strangled her with an old piece of rope. According to him, the parts of Georgann’s body he had not buried were recovered in Issaquah with the bodies of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund. He confessed to murdering Hawkins shortly before his 1989 execution.
Georgeann and her pom poms, from her time at Lakes High School, in Lakewood, WA.A photo of George from the 1973 Washington State Daffodil festival.A b&w photo of Georgeann Hawkins.Georgann Hawkins.
Janice Ann Blackburn-Ott (twenty-three). July 14, 1974. Murdered, Issaquah, WA.
At the time she was murdered, Janice Ott worked as a probation case worker at the King County Youth Service Center in Seattle, WA. In December of 1973, she married Jim Ott, who at the time of her death was in California for graduate school. After her car was broken into while living in Seattle, she moved in with a roommate to 75 Front Street in Issaquah (she felt the smaller community would be safer). The morning she disappeared, Janice spent a few hours at doing laundry and having a cup of coffee with a friend. After her errands and chores were completed, she rewarded herself with a trip to Lake Sammamish. Ott was abducted by Bundy at around 12.30 PM, and just a mere three and a half hours later he returned to the same park and abducted Denise Naslund.
Janice Ott and her younger sister standing outside her VW Bug.Janice Ott.Janice and Jim Ott.Janice Ott.
Denise Marie Naslund (eighteen). July 14, 1974. Murdered, Issaquah, WA.
On a beautiful, picture-perfect sunny day, Naslund disappeared from a very busy Lake Sammamish State Park (that day was Rainier Beer’s annual picnic, there were over 40,000 people there). She was there with her boyfriend and another couple, and after telling them she was going to the restroom Denise was never seen alive again. Naslund lived with her mother in Seattle and was studying to become a computer programmer. Eleanor Rose said her daughter had the kind of helpful nature that would easily place her in danger. Denise’s remains were found on a hillside near Issaquah roughly two months later in September 1974, only two miles away from Lake Sammamish. Bundy confessed to her murder shortly before his execution.
Denise Marie Naslund.Denise Marie Naslund.Denise Naslund.
Nancy Wilcox (sixteen). October 2, 1974. Murdered, Holladay, UT.
The first of Teds confirmed Utah victims, Wilcox went missing after she went on a walk to buy a pack of gum (it’s also speculated that from there she was on her way to her high school to visit her boyfriend). She left the house in a huff after getting into a fight with her dad about her bf’s pick-up truck leaking oil on the family’s driveway. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox said that because of this law enforcement initially considered her to be a runaway even though they knew their daughter would never voluntarily leave home and had no troubles whatsoever in her personal life. Nancy left all of her personal belongings behind including some expensive jewelry that held deep sentimental value to her. Before he was executed Bundy confessed to sexually assaulting and strangling her, then burying her body about 200 miles away near Capitol Reef National Park. Sadly, her body has never been found.
Nancy Wilcox.Nancy Wilcox.Nancy Wilcox.
Melissa Smith (seventeen). October 26, 1974. Murdered, Midvale, UT.
Bundy abducted Smith shortly after she left a pizza parlor on West Center Street in Midvale at around 9.30 PM on October 26, 1974. One unconfirmed report suggests that he may have been asking women in the area to help him with a car issue. Melissa was the daughter of Midvale Police Chief Louis Smith, and her murder took place just sixteen days after Nancy Wilcox vanished from the nearby city of Holladay (and five days before Laura Aime). On the night she disappeared, Smith was supposed to sleep over at a girlfriend’s house, but those plans fell through after she didn’t answer the phone. After realizing she had been stood up, she decided to leave the pizzeria and walk back to her house on Fern Drive. At some point during her walk, it’s speculated that Bundy grabbed Melissa off the street and killed her. She never made it home.
Melissa Smith.Melissa Smith.Melissa Smith.
Laura Aime (seventeen). October 31, 1974. Murdered, Lehi, UT.
Shortly before she disappeared Aime dropped out of high school, left home (she frequently couch surfed at various friends’ homes), and worked a few menial part-time jobs. Surprisingly she still remained in contact with her family and according to her parents, they were just beginning to accept her ‘nomadic lifestyle.’ So, when she first disappeared no one really seemed overly concerned. Thanks to my newspapers.com subscription it didn’t take long for me to realize there were no news articles mentioning Laura Aime’s disappearance at first, and her name only began to appear in ink after two hikers discovered her remains in American Fork Canyon. Additionally, when her body was first discovered, law enforcement first speculated it belonged to Deborah Kent.
Laura Ann Aime, photo courtesy of ThisInterestsMe.Laura Ann Aime, photo courtesy of ThisInterestsMe.Laura Ann Aime.Laura Ann Aime.
Carol DaRonch (eighteen). November 8, 1974. Survived, Murray, UT.
The evening she was abducted Carol DaRonch parked her maroon 1974 Camaro on the southern side of The Fashion Place Mall in Murray, UT. As she was window shopping outside Walden Books, DaRonch was approached by Bundy, who was posing as a police officer. He said that her car had been broken into and asked her to drive down ‘to the station’ with him to file a report with him. However as they were on their way he attempted to subdue and handcuff her but was unsuccessful: she was able to fend him off and escape. Of the encounter, DaRonch said that she ‘thought he was kind of creepy … I thought he was a lot older than he was.’ She also commented that she could smell alcohol on his breath.
Carol DaRonch.Carol DaRonch.Carol DaRonch.DaRonch as she looks today.
Debra Jean Kent (seventeen). November 8, 1974. Murdered, Bountiful, UT.
After Bundy was unsuccessful in his attempts to kidnap Carol DaRonch he quickly realized he was going to need a new victim. So, he made the twenty-two minute drive away to Viewmont High School, where he successfully abducted Debbie Kent. Kent was watching a play with her family but left the school at approximately 10:30 PM to pick up her brother from the nearby Rustic Roller Rink. She never made it to the rink and was most likely abducted in the parking lot. According to an eyewitness, there was loud screaming coming from the area at roughly the time that Debra was last seen, and another person saw a light-colored VW Beetle speeding away from the school. After the Kent’s realized their daughter hadn’t even made it out of the parking lot, they found a handcuff key on the ground by their car. Bundy confessed to killing Deb and burying her body in the same area as Nancy Wilcox.
Debra Kent.Debra Kent.Debra Kent.
Caryn Campbell (twenty-three). January 12, 1975. Murdered, Estes Park, CO.
Bundy abducted the twenty-three-year-old nurse from the Wildwood Inn in Snowmass Village. While staying at the inn with her fiancé and his children, Campbell went missing after going upstairs to her room to retrieve a magazine. Although we will never know for certain how exactly Ted managed to abduct the attractive young woman, it is highly likely he feigned an injury and asked her to help him carry something back to his vehicle. After he lured her away from the hotel to a darkened parking lot, he hit her over the head then quickly snuck her into his Bug. Roughly five weeks after Campbell disappeared her body was found less than three miles away from the Wildwood Inn. Someone driving by her remains noticed a large number of birds flying over the area. Using dental records, police determined that the remains belonged to Caryn. The postmortem examination revealed that her skull had sustained three heavy blows. Before Ted’s run in with Ol’ Sparky, he confessed to Campbells murder.
The day before Bundy was executed Campbell’s father Robert did an interview with the Free Press saying that ‘you never really forgive someone for something like that,’ Robert Campbell said. ‘You just try to put it behind you. … The thing I’d like to have back, I can’t have.’ … ‘I’m not a vindictive person, but certainly you can’t go around killing people. I suppose I approve of his execution reluctantly, but I don’t think executing Bundy will be a deterrent. People will keep killing.’Caryn Campbell.Caryn Campbell.
Julie Cunningham (twenty-six). March 15, 1975. Murdered, Vail, CO.
Cunningham disappeared early in the evening on March 15, 1975 after leaving her Apollo Park apartment in Vail to go a nearby bar to meet up with a friend. Bundy told law enforcement that he pretended to be an injured skier on crutches that needed help carrying a pair of ski boots to his car. According to Ted, the pair walked over half a mile together before they finally reached his vehicle. Once there, Bundy knocked her unconscious, put her in his car then drove to a remote area roughly eighty miles west of Vail and sexually assaulted her. When finished, he strangled her to death and left her remains in a shallow grave near Rifle, CO. Julie’s body has never been recovered.
Denise Oliverson (twenty-four). April 6, 1975. Murdered, Grand Junction, CO.
On April 6, 1975, Denise Oliverson set out on a bike ride to her parents house but was never seen alive again. The next day, a search party found her bicycle and shoes under the Fifth Street Bridge by some railroad tracks. Just days before he was executed in January 1989, Bundy told law enforcement he abducted Oliverson then disposed of her body in a river about five miles West of Grand Junction. Her remains have never been found.
Denise Oliverson.Denise Oliverson.Denise Oliverson on her wedding day.
Lynette Dawn Culver (twelve). May 6, 1975. Murdered, Pocatello, ID.
Although the details surrounding Culvers murder seem to vary between sources, it’s strongly speculated she was last seen at Alameda Junior High School. It’s worth mentioning, this was a two-and-a-half-hour drive from where Bundy was living at the time in Salt Lake City to Pocatello, Idaho. Some places say that she left campus during her lunch period, where others claim, Lynette was last seen getting on a bus. When considering her healthy and happy relationship with family and friends as well as and her stellar academic performance, she most likely was taken against her will. In his death row interviews, Bundy confessed to killing Lynette then dumping her body in the Snake River. He also said he raped and drowned the twelve-year-old child in a hotel room after abducting her. Law enforcement didn’t fully accept his confession despite providing some convincing details.
Lynette Dawn Culver. Lynette Dawn Culver. Lynette Dawn Culver.Lynette Dawn Culver.
Susan Curtis (fifteen). June 27, 1975. Murdered, Provo, UT.
At the time she was murdered, Susan was a freshman at Woods Cross High School. She had a history of running away from home for days at a time but never was gone for very long. Susan was originally from Bountiful, Utah but at the time of her disappearance was attending a youth conference at Brigham Young University in Provo. A natural athlete, Curtis had ridden her bicycle 50 miles from Bountiful to Provo to attend the conference. She vanished on the first evening of the conference after a formal banquet: she left her friends to make the quarter mile walk back to her dormitory to brush her teeth but was never seen or heard from again. As Bundy walked down to the hall to be executed Curtis was his last death row confession. Since her body has not been recovered, she is still regarded as a missing person.
Susan Curtis.Susan Curtis.Susan Curtis.Susan Curtis.Susan Curtis.
Margaret Bowman (twenty-one). January 15, 1978. Murdered, Tallahassee, FL.
In the early morning hours of January 15, 1978, a group of young women residing at the Chi Omega house at Tallahassee’s Florida State University were asleep in their beds when evil crept in… Margaret Bowman was born in Honolulu and moved to Florida in 1973 after her father retired from the US Air Force. Bowman was one of four women Bundy attacked when he broke into the sorority house at around 3 AM on January 15, 1978. He beat her with a piece of firewood as well as a telescope and strangled her to death with her own tights. Despite the violent nature of the crime, the initial investigation failed to produce any evidence of sexual assault or struggle. The severity of the beating was so extreme that part of Bowman’s brain was visible.
A picture of Margaret Bowman from high school. I hate that it has ‘RIP’ on it but I couldn’t find another copy.Margaret Bowman.Margaret Bowman.Margaret Bowman.
Lisa Janet Levy (twenty). January 15, 1978. Murdered, Tallahassee, FL.
Lisa was born in St Petersburg, FL and attended Dixie Hollins High School, where she played flute in the band for two years. At FSU, she majored in fashion merchandising and worked at the Colony Shop near campus. When law enforcement got to the crime scene Levy’s was the first sister that officers found dead. Medical Pathologists discovered that she had been beaten on the head with a log, sexually assaulted with a hair spray bottle then strangled. Additionally, they found bite marks on her buttocks and one of her nipples had been so savagely bitten that it was almost completely severed from the rest of her breast.
Levy.Lisa Levy.Levy.Lisa Levy and her boyfriend.Lisa Levy and her boyfriend.
Kathy Kleiner-Rubin (twenty). January 15, 1978. Survived, Tallahassee, FL.
Kathy Kleiner-Rubin and Karen Chandler shared a room at the Chi Omega sorority house. That night she was attacked Kathy went to bed first, with Chandler following shortly after. After Bundy attacked and murdered Lisa Levy, he went into the room next door and brutally assaulted Kleiner-Rubin and Chandler. In an interview, Kathy said that was awoken that morning by the sound of her bedroom door opening. The assailant then tripped over a chest that was in-between the girls twin beds. Ted then assaulted her with a piece of firewood, which left her with a broken jaw, concussion, skull fracture, broken arm and finger. Miraculously, she survived her injuries and testified against Bundy in his death penalty trial.
Kathy Kleiner-Rubin at Bundy’s trial.Kathy Kleiner-Rubin.Kathy Kleiner-Rubin as she looks today.Kathy Kleiner-Rubin as she looks today.
Karen Chandler (twenty-two). January 15, 1978. Survived, Tallahassee, FL.
As I said earlier, Karen Chandler was Kathy Kleiner-Rubin’s roommate in the Chi Omega house. After Bundy was done brutally assaulting Kathy he moved onto Chandler. Bundy knocked out four of her teeth and beat her so severely that he broke her jaw and right arm. Somehow Chandler survived. She took the rest of the academic quarter off but later returned to the Chi Omega house at FSU.
Karen Chandler.Karen Chandler.Karen Chandler.Karen Chandler.Karen Chandler as she looks today.
Cheryl Thomas (twenty-one). January 15, 1978. Survived, Tallahassee, FL.
After Bundy was finished with his atrocities at the Chi Omega sorority house, he wandered a few blocks over and climbed into an open kitchen window in Cheryl Thomas’ apartment. He attacked her and Thomas barely escaped with her life: her jaw was broken in two places, her shoulder dislocated, and she had five skull fractures, which left her permanently deaf in her left ear. In 1978 Thomas was a student at FSU and a member of the school’s dance team. The night she was attacked was alone in her apartment but thanks to some attentive neighbors who heard the assault her life was saved.
Cheryl Thomas.Cheryl Thomas.Cheryl Thomas.Cheryl Thomas.A more recent picture of Thomas.
Kimberly Dianne Leach (twelve). February 9, 1978. Murdered, Lake City, FL.
In 1978, Kim Leach was a 12-year-old seventh grader at Lake City Junior High School, where she was a straight-A student and the runner-up Valentine Queen. Leach was one of Bundy’s youngest and his last victim. On the morning of February 9, 1978, Kimberly arrived at Lake City Junior high School on time. Just before 9 AM, she left her first period class to go and pick up her purse that she had accidentally left behind in her homeroom. After she recovered the purse, she headed back towards her classroom in the pouring rain but never arrived. That afternoon, Kimberly’s parents became concerned when their daughter didn’t come home after school. They called everybody they knew, but nobody could account for Kimberly. Their concern escalated to fear when they learned she had been at her first period class but then never returned. They immediately called law enforcement to report their daughter missing. A search party quickly formed and concentrated on Suwannee River State Park for weeks. Kims remains were eventually found on April 7, 1978, in an abandoned hog pen with a small metal lead-to. She was nude other than for a pullover jumper, her clothes were piled up beside her body. She was in an advanced state of decomposition, but she was identified thanks to dental records. Leach had suffered homicidal violence about the neck region.
Kim Leach.Kim Leach.Kim Leach.
Miscellaneous: there is no consensus as to when or where Bundy began killing. He told different people varying stories to and refused to give the specifics of his earlier crimes, even as he shared in graphic detail to dozens of later murders in the days before he was his executed. He told one of his attorneys Polly Nelson that he attempted his first kidnapping in 1969 in Ocean City, NJ, however, did not kill anyone until sometime in 1971 in Seattle. He told Portland forensic psychologist Dr. Art Norman that he murdered two women in Atlantic City while visiting family in Philadelphia in 1969. Bundy hinted to former homicide detective Dr. Robert Keppel that he committed a murder in Seattle in 1972 and another murder in 1973 that involved a hitchhiker near Tumwater, but he refused to elaborate. Rule and Keppel both believed that he might have started killing as a teenager. Bundy’s earliest documented homicides were committed in 1974, when he was 27 years old. By his own admission, he had by then mastered the necessary skills to leave minimal incriminating forensic evidence at crime scenes.
On September 2, 1974, Bundy drove through Boise while moving from Seattle to Salt Lake City and during that trip, he picked up a still unknown hitchhiker and killed her. Ted returned the next day to photograph and dismember the corpse then left her remains in the Snake River. Reports from Gonzaga University’s student newspaper ‘The Gonzaga Bulletin’ claim that Bundy stopped by a campus dorm for a party in the 1970’s and drove a female student to Pullman. She miraculously survived.
Bundy confessed to detectives from Idaho, Utah, and Colorado that he had committed numerous additional homicides, including several that were unknown to the police. He explained that when he was in Utah he could bring his victims back to his apartment, ‘where he could reenact scenarios depicted on the covers of detective magazines.’ A new ulterior strategy quickly became apparent: he withheld many details, hoping to parlay the incomplete information into yet another stay of execution. ‘There are other buried remains in Colorado,’ he admitted, but refused to elaborate. The new strategy (which was referred to as ‘Ted’s bones-for-time scheme’) served only to deepen the resolve of authorities to see Bundy executed on schedule and yielded little new detailed information. In cases where he did give details, nothing was found. Colorado detective Matt Lindvall interpreted this as a conflict between his desire to postpone his execution by divulging information and his need to remain in ‘total possession, and the only person who knew his victims true resting places.’
in Oregon, 2 (both unidentified)
in Idaho, 2 (1 unidentified)
in California, 1 (unidentified)
After being sentenced to death, Bundy spent eleven years on death row at Florida State Prison in Starke, before he was executed by electric chair on January 24, 1989.
On July 14th, 1974, Ted Bundy abducted two women from Lake Sammamish state park in Issaquah, Washington. That bright and cheerful afternoon, Bundy approached Janice Ann Ott and Denise Marie Naslund in broad daylight and asked them to assist him unload a sailboat at his parent’s house. Bundy donned a fake sling and explained that his arm was injured and that he was unable to unload it by himself. He also claimed that his parent’s house was ‘just up the hill.’
The abductions of Ott and Naslund occurred separately, just four hours apart. On both of these occasions, he convinced his victim to get into his Volkswagen Bug and accompany him to his sailboat, which in reality did not exist. Once his victims got into his car, it is likely that he immediately drove them to a secluded burial site in Issaquah known as Taylor Mountain and murdered them. This is the same site where Ott and Naslund’s skeletal remains were discovered roughly two months later.
Janice Ann Ott was abducted at around 12.30 PM; three and a half hours after her abduction Bundy returned to look for a second victim, Denise Naslund. At roughly 4:30 PM, he approached Denise Naslund by the restrooms and, using the same technique he used with Ott, was able to convince her to help him as well.
During the investigation into the disappearance of Ott and Naslund, it emerged that a man calling himself ‘Ted’ had approached multiple women at Lake Sammamish that afternoon in 1974. Bundy’s decision to kidnap two women within four hours of each other was a brazen deviation from the norm. Because of this, many Bundy Scholars have speculated that he was attempting to ‘increase his high’ by attacking two women at the same time. In other words, it is speculated that he may have incapacitated Janice Ott, gagged her (not killing her) and then returned to the park to search for a second victim. Although Bundy did insinuate that one had to watch the other die, this ‘confession’ was during one of his third-person pseudo-confessions to Stephen Michaud. We also know that Ted was a narcissist and a habitual liar who loved to paint himself as a bold and highly-intelligent serial killer. Therefore, we need to be extremely careful about taking his word as fact.
It has been hypothesized that Bundy tied Ott to a tree and then left her there. The area in question was pretty secluded and it is fairly unlikely that someone would have stumbled upon her, especially if she was gagged. Another plausible theory is that Bundy murdered Ott before he returned to Lake Sammamish with his second victim. There is a noticeable gap between the abduction of Ott at 12.30 PM and Bundy’s return to the park at around 4 PM and if we take into account the length of the journey between the park and the burial site, then it means that he was with Ott for 2-3 hours. That seems like a lot of time if the original plan was to kidnap two women and then attack them at the same time. His decision to hunt for a second victim may have also been driven by other factors. For example, an event may have occurred during the murder of Janice Ott which prevented Bundy from achieving sexual gratification. At this point in time we’ll most likely never really know.
Janice Blackburn-OttJanice Blackburn-OttJanice Ott and her husband Jim.1974 was an eventful time for 23 year old Janice: she not only graduated from Eastern Washington State College, but she also had to come to terms with her husband moving away to California for school. She remained in Issaquah and worked as a probation case worker at the King County Youth Service Center in Seattle.Denise Marie Naslund.An old, aerial photograph of Lake Sammamish State Park, photo courtesy of King County Archives.This aerial map of Lake Sammamish state park shows the exact locations where Bundy approached Janice Ott and Denise Naslund. It also pinpoints the general area where Bundy’s VW Beetle was parked. Bundy approached Ott at 12.30 PM while she was sunbathing on the beach. Then, four hours later, he lured Naslund away from the restrooms by the parking lot. In 2022, the restroom in question no longer exists, photo courtesy of OddStops.The afternoon of the abduction Bundy parked his VW Beetle in the middle of the car park, photo courtesy of thisinterestsme.com.This aerial image of Lake Sam shows where Denise and her friends were sitting. Additionally it highlights the location of the restrooms, photo courtesy of thisinterestsme.com.On July 14th, 1974, Ted Bundy abducted two women from Lake Sammamish state park in Issaquah, Washington, photo courtesy of OddStops.An aerial photograph of the park from 1977; not much about it has changed, photo courtesy of OddStops.This map from the King County Sheriff’s Office shows the exact locations where Bundy approached several women, photo courtesy of OddStops. A Google Maps Street View image of the parking lot at the park; during the abduction of Ott, Bundy’s VW was parked beyond the cars that are circled in red, photo courtesy of thisinterestsme.com.It would have taken roughly 10-15 minutes to drive between Lake Sam and the burial site at Issaquah. The route in question is about four miles long. Driving this exact same route yesterday it was eerily close, he truly was fearless.A newspaper article about the disappearance of Ott and Naslund.Following Ott and Naslund’s disappearance, the police released a composite sketch of the suspect. After Liz saw it in the newspaper along with the name ‘Ted’ she immediately began to suspect that it was him, photo courtesy of OddStops.An off-duty DEA agent named Kelly Snyder was at Lake Sammamish that day. He was close enough to witness Bundy approaching Janice Ott. ‘I noticed a guy that was walking down the beach. A young man. Probably in his mid-to-late twenties. He was wearing white shorts and they had a red stripe, which immediately caught my eye. When he got close, I noticed he had really curly hair and his left arm was in a sling. It piqued my interest because every time he approached a woman, or a group of two or three women, he was getting turned down. And I just kept watching him and he eventually ended up being right in front of me, where he approached a young girl. She was a young and attractive blonde girl. And he asked her… words to the effect of… ‘I need some help.’ She’s saying that she just got here… So obviously, going through her mind is ‘I’d like to help you out, but I’m here to relax.’ He kept on and on and on, and he talks her into whatever he talked her into. He said something about a catamaran. And ultimately, she gets up… reluctantly… because her head is down and she is like ‘I can’t believe I’m doing this.’ And then she started walking back past me. She had this frown on her face, like, ‘I’m helping this guy when I should be enjoying myself on the beach.’ And the end the result is she’s no longer with us because she was a nice person.’ Photo courtesy of OddStops.A picture of a younger Eleanor Rose, Denise’s Mother.Mrs. Eleanor Rose, Mother of Denise Naslund taken on July 28, 1974. Denise was studying to become a computer programmer and worked part time to help pay her way through night school. Mrs. Rose said Denise had the kind of helpful nature that could place her in danger with the man who called himself ‘Ted.’This is Eleanor Rose, the mother of Denise Naslund. Ms. Rose left her daughters bedroom the same as it was in 1974 for many years after her abduction. Regarding her daughters abduction Ms. Rose has said, ‘I don’t think anything will ever been the same again or anywhere near it. Part of me is gone and I don’t know what I’m going to do.’ Denise was the last of the known eight ‘Ted’ victims in Washington state.Dr. DE Blackburn and his wife while in Seattle looking for their daughter, taken on July 28, 1974.James Ott is showed here on August 18, 1974 posting the first of hundreds of missing posters asking for information about Janice, who had been missing for five weeks at that point. He posted this it in front of the King County Juvenile Court, which had offered office space as well as the part time help of a probation officer, Carol Hasman, to the ‘Janice Ott Committee to find the Missing Woman.’Police arrive at Lake Sammamish, photo courtesy of OddStops.A still image from a video taken at Lake Sam the day Ott and Naslund were abducted from. Just about 40,000 people visited the state park the afternoon of Ott and Naslund’s disappearance. It was sunny and the temperature ranged between 80 to 90 degrees, photo courtesy of OddStops.At around 4:30 PM, Denise Naslund went to the bathroom by the parking lot and never came back. It wasn’t long before her boyfriend and friends realized that something was wrong. Don’t forget that only four hours earlier Janice Ott went missing at the same park. Due to the fact that a few other women had recently gone missing in the Seattle area, everyone was well aware that a predator was on the loose, so the authorities immediately responded to the scene, photo courtesy of OddStops.A Picture of a VW parked in the front row of cars at Lake Sammamish on Sunday, July 14, 1974. Behind it is a line of police vehicles blocking it, as they dealt with a problem pertaining to a biker gang that was taking place close to where the car was parked. The photo appears to have been taken in the afternoon, obviously before Denise Naslund was led away by Bundy. Years later, when Bob Keppel questioned Bundy about the photo (Keppel believed it was Bundy’s Bug), Bundy recognized the scene and said ‘law-breakers,’ insinuating that he knew what was happening there. What follows is from the record: Keppel: ‘Is that you? It’s Lake Sammamish State Park, 1974. The tree, cops roll in and take care of the …’ Bundy: ‘Law breakers.’ Keppel: ‘Ya?’ Bundy: ‘Well, I mean, we’re in the ballpark.’ By saying ‘law breakers’ and telling Keppel he was in the ballpark, Bundy was admitting he had personal knowledge concerning what was taking place. When Keppel asked him about the car, believing it was his and wanting him to admit it, Bundy responded ‘Well, I—is it?’ Bundy knew that wasn’t his car, but he was telling the investigator he was in the ballpark, meaning hid own Beetle was nearby. Photo courtesy of OddStops.One picture taken at the park that day Ott and Naslund vanished that shows a light colored VW Bug in the background, photo courtesy of OddStops.The police showed up at the park to deal with a group of bikers, photo courtesy of OddStops.A sign at the entrance of Lake Sammamish Park, April 2022.Beach at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Beach at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Beach at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Beach at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Concession stand at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.A sign at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Beach at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Beach at Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.Lake Sammamish Park, 2022.
