Document courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department. Over the years Karen has been given various pseudonyms, including ‘Joni Lenz,’ ‘Mary Adams,’ and ‘Terri Caldwell’ (in an attempt to protect her identity) and told her story for the first time in the 2020 Amazon docuseries, ‘Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer.’
In the early morning hours of January 4th, 1974, Ted Bundy brutally assaulted college student Karen Sparks at 4325 8th Avenue NE in the University District of Seattle; she was his first known victim. Miraculously, he didn’t kill her, but he did leave her with numerous long-term injuries that she still struggles with to this day. The house she used to reside in no longer exists as it was torn down sometime in 1985 to make way for a new four-story apartment block called ‘Westwood Apartments.’
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