“I noticed a VW Bug coming out of the alleyway behind Oscar Woerners Restaurant (no headlights). I came up behind it and I activated my blue lights at the same time I was running the tag, and the tag came back as a stolen vehicle. I didn’t have a backup anywhere close by, there was only three of us working in the entire city of Pensacola that night. I got him out of the car, and had him lay on the pavement. He kept saying, ‘officer, what’s wrong? officer, what’s wrong?'” … “Initially when I was placing the handcuffs on him he kicked my feet out from under me and struck me with a handcuff that had been placed on one wrist. And it of course knocked me off my feet and that’s when it started.” … “I was chasing him hollering ‘halt’ and so forth, well he turned and all I’d seen was a nickle and thought it was a gun. So I leveled down and fired… so I said wow, my God. I killed him.” … “well I went and seen if he was shot. And I bent down and he grabbed my wrist and we had a struggle for my revolver. And it’s a heavy pistol and when I broke it away I swung and slapped him on the cheek. And if you see pictures right after the suspect was arrested there’s a big bruise on the side of his cheek, and thay was from my pistol barrel. There’s no doubt in my mind he would have killed me if he would have gotten my gun away from me.” – David Lee.
Rick Garzaniti’s stolen VW. Rick Garzaniti’s stolen VW.The tags on Rick Garzaniti’s stolen VW.Officer David Lee.Ted’s bruise (circled in red), photo courtesy of OddStops.Oscar Woerner’s Restaurant in Pensacola, Florida.
The third installment of Ted Bundy-related records released by the King County Sheriff’s Office’s Public Disclosure Unit. On July 14, 1974 twenty-three-year-old Janice Ann Ott disappeared from Lake Sammamish State Park, after having been last seen leaving the area with a young man that called himself ‘Ted.’ Her skeletal remains were found by two grouse hunters four miles away on September 7, 1974.’ Photos courtesy of the ‘Internet Archives’/Maria Serban.
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In April 2022 when I went to Seattle I arrived very late in the evening, maybe around 11:30 PM or so. I was far too excited to go to bed (despite not sleeping well the night before and flying across the country) so I explored the neighborhood I was staying in and found a 7/11. While Ubering from the Sea-Tac Airport to my Air BnB one of the places we drove past was the Harborview Medical Center and I knew right then and there that I made the right choice in coming (traveling alone across the country is completely out of character for me and I was hoping my husband would talk me out of it).
An interesting tidbit about Bundy’s time at Harborview: he interned there as a mental health counselor from June 1972 to September 1972 with Kathy Swindler (daughter of the former Captain of the Seattle Police Department), who may have introduced him to her good friend Kerry May-Hardy (an unconfirmed TB victim that disappeared from Seattle on June 24, 1972).Wow, that was the longest run-on sentence ever. Additionally during his brief stint there he stole some patient files from Dr. Jim McDermott (who was the losing Democratic primary opponent of Albert Rosellini) with zero repercussions.
Is that the Harborview Medical Center peeking out at me?Harborview Medical Center, April 2022.Harborview Medical Center, April 2022.The shot of Harborview Medical Center I saw as I was coming into Seattle in April 2022.One of the entrances to Harborview Medical Center, April 2022.Harborview Medical Center, April 2022.Harborview Medical Center, April 2022.Bundy was an intern at Harborview from June to September 1972 according to the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992.’Bundy was an intern at Harborview from June to September 1972 according to the ‘Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992.’A blurb mentioning Ted’s time at Harborview from ‘Ted Bundy and File 1004 documents from Seattle PD,’ courtesy of internetarchives.A blurb mentioning Ted’s time at Harborview from ‘Ted Bundy and File 1004 documents from Seattle PD,’ courtesy of internetarchives.Photo courtesy of KIRO-7.Harborview Medical Center in its entirety. A post card featuring Harborview Medical Center.Harborview Medical Center.Herb Swindler next to some of Teds confirmed Seattle victims.Kerry May-Hardy was a 22 year old woman who disappeared from Seattle on June 24, 1972. Her remains were discovered at a golf course in September 2010 after a construction crew disturbed her burial site.Albert Dean Rosellini was an American politician who served as the 15th governor of Washington from 1957 to 1965. He was both the first Italian-American and Roman Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River. During hi s 40 year political career Rosellini was an activist leader who worked to reform the state’s prisons and mental health facilities, expand the state highway system, create the University of Washington’s medical and dental schools, and build the second floating bridge across Lake Washington. He holds the record as the longest-lived US state governor in American history, having reached the age of 101 years, 262 days when he passed away on October 10, 2011.James Adelbert McDermott is a Psychiatrist and Washington state politician who was the US representative for Washington’s 7th congressional district from 1989 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was born in 1936 (making him 86 years old).
In the Bundy community children are usually considered “off-limits,” meaning (the handful of us that do know) about adult Rosa don’t share what they know (I’m loyal to who told me and I’ll never tell a soul) and we blur out her face in any early childhood pictures. After Amazon’s “Falling for a Killer” I had hopes that there’d be a season two featuring Carole Ann and Rosa… little did I know she passed away and Rosa completely dropped out of the public eye (good for her).
Ted met Carole Ann in 1974 in Olympia, WA when they were employed at theWashington State Department of Emergency Services. When the pair first met she was newly divorced, working full time and was raising her teenage son, Jamey/James; additionally one of her uncles had just recently died. Carole’s one time colleagues said she was very maternal, and often acted like a sister/mother figure to the department. Although competent, smart, and good at her job, the young Mother still reportedly had a goofy side and often would engage in office pranks and antics with her work friends (such as starting a rubber-band war or going on a three-hour bender in the middle of the afternoon at the Voodoo Room at the nearby Bailey Motor Inn). Bundy’s brief employment with the DES (he was only there from May 3, 1974 to August 28, 1974) caused quite a commotion with both men and women, as most people employed there found him charming and intriguing. As for Carole Ann, she was immediately dazzled by him: she felt Ted was an introvert and that he carried himself with “a certain dignity.” At the time she was reportedly in a complicated relationship with “a large, unpleasant man” and Ted was still with Liz Kloepfer (although that didn’t seem to stop him from straying); their relationship didn’t turn romantic until Bundy’s Florida’s trials started in 1978. The couple famously wed in January 1980 while Ted was on trial for the murder of Kim Leach. She got pregnant with Rosa while Bundy was on death row and the pair started a very unconventional family (she gave birth in October 1982); that didn’t last long as she divorced him in 1986. About Rosa, Ted said in a letter dated November 16, 1981: “my joy over Rosa remains too sublime for words, and it” …. “that it shall stay that way for as long as I live. I have had four visits with her since her birth and the sense of the miraculous had not worn off. The extraordinary beauty of what Carole and I have created is awesome. I am fascinated with watching her whether she’s asleep, nursing, crying or studying me with those curious blue eyes of her. I’ve become very proficient at changing her diapers, too. (another pen bites the dust. This one isn’t much better) I must add.”
Carole Ann was born on April 12, 1947 in Seattle, and sadly passed away at the age of 70 on January 13, 2018. After Bundy was executed she lived under an assumed name and eventually ran into some considerable health problems (it is speculated she had multiple sclerosis and in later years was confined to a wheelchair). She checked herself into a retirement community/nursing home in Seattle, where no one knew who she was. Carole’s friends there said she “enjoyed knitting and watching soccer,” and that she “she had attitude. She loved nature programs, especially ones about sharks.”
A younger image of Carole Ann Boone, photo courtesy of Erin Banks/CrimePiper.A younger image of Carole Ann Boone, photo courtesy of Erin Banks/CrimePiper.A still from an interview Carole Ann Boone gave when Bundy was on trial in Florida.
Carole Ann Boone.Carole and Ted in Florida State Prison.Carole and Ted in Florida State Prison.Carole, Rosa, and Ted in Florida State Prison. A happy little family…Carole Ann Boone in her later years. Bradley David Anderson, who Carole Ann was married to briefly in the 1970’s (they were wed in 1973).Page one of a letter where Ted talks about Rosa dated November 16, 1981Page two of a letter where Ted talks about Rosa dated November 16, 1981
I was looking into something and came across this ‘Quora” page with the question, ‘have you ever met/seen Ted Bundy?’ Some of the answers were pretty interesting. I included them in screen shots below.
Interesting. I wish she elaborated. The “boys will be boys” comment is terrible. I do find it interesting she said he “pulled the potential victims hair out.” Was this intentional or accidental? It’s an interesting rare male take from a non-law enforcement related eyewitness. I don’t know, I find the “biting girls butts” comment oddly specific… why would he admit to that? Well, Ted did steal a white van from Florida State University. If this is real I bet that was what he was driving. Has anyone noticed that there’s always a LOT of “my Mom met TB in 1970-something walking home from school” type stories. The 20/20 Bundy special said something in their opening along the lines of “if you’re from the Pacific Northwest you probably have a Ted Bundy story.” Who knows if these are legit or not. Unless we get exact information as far as dates, times, and locations we’ll never know either way. Interesting… I never heard of Thomas Spillner and didn’t find anything on him when I googled him (I didn’t dig really hard, btw). He is very active in the prison/jail related message boards on ‘Quora’ and seems pretty well-versed in the topic. It would have been interesting if he elaborated a bit and told more stories. This was a lot to unpack… I often wonder if Ted contracted some sort of illness in prison. He looked horrible in his final years, super skinny and gaunt. Very unhealthy.
One neat thing about this project is I’m constantly finding new information and pictures of victims I already wrote about. I always update my pieces too (by the way) with the new things I learn and recently I discovered that there was an auditorium dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Perry located at the Humane Society in Golden Valley, Minnesota (she is one of the girls killed by the Jersey Shore in NJ during Memorial Day weekend in 1969).
Elizabeth Perry.A sign for the Elizabeth Potter Perry Memorial Auditorium.A second sign for the Elizabeth Potter Perry Memorial Auditorium.Elizabeth Perry and Susan Davis.In May 2022 Lewis and Clark CC dedicated a memorial bench in memory of Susan Davis and Elizabeth Perry.
Instead of another in-depth deep dive here’s a brief summarization of each girls case along with a few pictures of Bundy’s more frequently discussed unconfirmed victims. I’ve written about multiple other “suspected” victims (like Kathy Kolodziej or RitaCurran) but those I didn’t include in this list as they are “easily debunked” (obviously Bundy didn’t kill Kolodziej as he was in Seattle at the time and she was in school in Cobleskill, NY and William DeRoos killed Rita Curran in Vermont).
Ann Marie Burr, 8, August 31, 1961 (disappeared). Tacoma, WA
Ann Marie Burr was born on December 14, 1952, in Del Morte County, California, to Donald and Beverly Ann (nee Leach) Burr. Eight year old Ann Marie Burr vanished from her bed without a trace on a stormy night in late August 1961. She lived a little over 3 miles away from Ted and contrary to popular belief, he was not her paperboy and his Uncle Jack did not give Ann Marie piano lessons.
Beverly Burr pregnant with Ann.Ann Marie.Ann Marie at her first communion in 1961.
Lisa Wick (20) (survived) & Lonnie Trumbull (20), June 23, 1966. Seattle, WA.
Early in the morning on June 23, 1966, roommates Lonnie Trumbull and Lisa Wick were brutally attacked as they slept in their basement apartment in the Queen Anne Hill region of Seattle. Both victims were originally from Portland, Oregon and were employed with United Airlines as flight attendants; they had only been living in the apartment for a month and (for some reason) had intentions to move into another unit in the complex later that week. Trumbull and Wick had a third roommate (Joyce Bowe), who came home around 9:30 AM to find her roommates brutally beaten. Thankfully Wick was wearing large hair curlers which helped cushion the blows of the assailant that probably saved her life. Sadly Trumbull wasn’t so lucky and she succumbed to her injuries.
Lonnie Trumbull.Lisa Wick.Lisa Wick. and Lonnie Trumbull.Lisa Wick on her wedding day.
Susan Perry (19) & Elizabeth Davis (19), May 39, 1969. Ocean City, New Jersey.
On May 30, 1969, 19 year-old co-eds Susan Davis and Elizabeth Perry were stabbed to death near mile marker 31.9 of the New Jersey Parkway in Somers Point, NJ. The young women visited the Jersey Shore on vacation for Memorial Day since the Tuesday before. Susan had just completed her degree at an all-girls school in Godfrey, Illinois called Monticello Junior College and was set to graduate on May 25 with an associates of arts degree; Elizabeth started after her friend so she still had a ways to go in her studies before she graduated. Around 4:30 AM they left their boarding house to head back to Camp Hill, Pennsylvania in hopes of beating the holiday traffic, and before they hit the road stopped to grab a bite to eat at The Somers Point Diner. No one is really certain what happened after the girls left the restaurant roughly an hour later: A NJ trooper found their light blue 1966 Chevrolet convertible abandoned on the side of the Turnpike around noon that day and had it towed. On June 2 at about 1:30 PM, the bodies of the friends were discovered by a Garden State Parkway maintenance worker named Elwood “Woody” Faunce Jr. who searched the area of the parkway where the convertible was found. Their remains were found hidden under piles of leaves in dense woods roughly 200 yards away from the Parkway and about 150 yards from the abandoned Chevy. Davis was found completely naked and her clothes were found neatly folded in a pile nearby; Perry was fully clothed except her underwear was missing. There’s varying reports on whether or not the girls were sexually assaulted: some sources say that Perry was not raped but no determination could be made for Davis. Others claim that both girls remains were too decomposed to be able to tell, and still others that said there was “some evidence of sexual assault” but didn’t go any further in their explanation. Later news reports claim that neither girl had been sexually assaulted.
Elizabeth Perry and Susan Davis.Susan Davis and Elizabeth Perry.
Kerry May-Hardy, 22, June 24, 1972. Seattle, Washington.
Kerry May-Hardy was born on April 3, 1950 in Seattle, Washington to John and Sheila (most recently Olson) Hardy. She grew up in the Capitol Hill district of Seattle, and attended Lincoln High School in Seattle before she dropped out her senior year. Kerry married James Garvey May on May 15, 1971 at Central Lutheran Church in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle but by the time she disappeared the couple were reportedly separated. The evening before Kerry disappeared in June of 1972 she spent the night at a girlfriends house in the Woodland Park area of Washington and from there (per a note she left behind) was going to a second girlfriends house roughly ten miles away on Beacon Hill. Years into the investigation Seattle cold case detective Mike Clestnski said that at some point it was reported she was last seen alive hitchhiking around the Woodland Park area on June 13, 1972 (a day after what was initially reported). Her remains were discovered at a golf course in September 2010 after her burial site was disturbed. May-Hardy physically fit Bundy’s victim profile, however he was executed in 1989 and never mentioning her name or claimed responsibility for her murder. Additionally Gary Ridgway has reportedly not commented on her case either.
Kerry May-Hardy in her high school yearbook.Kerry May-Hardy in her high school yearbook.Kerry May-Hardy.
Vicki Lynn Hollar, 23, August 20, 1973 (disappeared). Eugene, OR.
Vicki Lynn Hollar was born in Illinois on March 8, 1949, and after graduating from Southern Illinois University she moved to Eugene, OR in June 1973. At 5:00 PM on August 20, 1973 Hollar was last seen getting into her 1965 black Volkswagen Beetle with the running boards removed; she was leaving her job at Bon Marche (she was a seamstress) at 8th Avenue and Washington Street in Eugene, Oregon. Vicki and her supervisor walked out to their vehicles together after work and it’s suspected she may have been on her way to her apartment located in the 6600 block of West 27th Avenue. She had plans to attend a neighborhood party with a friend at 8:00 PM but she never came home. Vicki was never seen or heard from again. Her friends reported that she did have a habit of picking up hitchhikers and all of her possessions and clothes were found at her residence; she also never picked up her last paycheck. Vicki’s parents said that their daughter was a happy girl that was content with her life: she liked her new job and had no reason to just up and leave.
Vicki Hollar from her Southern Illinois University college yearbook, ‘The Obeslisk.’Vicki Lynn Hollar.
Rita Lorraine Jolly, 17, June 29, 1973(disappeared). West Linn, OR.
Rita Lorraine Jolly was born on December 6th, 1955 to Donald and Mary Elizabeth (nee Horner) Jolly of West Linn, Oregon. Jolly left her residence on Horton Road in West Linn, Oregon at 7:15 PM on June 29, 1973 to go for a nightly walk and vanished without a trace. The 17 year-old was last seen between 8:30 and 9:00 PM walking uphill on Sunset Avenue. Like so many other Bundy victims she was slender and had long, dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Jolly walked with a slight limp after a horse she was riding fell over and crushed her leg. Rita’s front teeth may have overlapped slightly and she had a small scar above her right eye just below the eyebrow.
Rita Jolly.Rita Jolly.
Joyce LePage, 21, July 22, 1974 (disappeared). Pullman, WA.
Joyce Margaret LePage was born to Walter and Florence Ethelyn (nee Ham) LePage on December 4, 1949 in Pullman, Washington. Described by her family as an athletic and intelligent student, after graduating from high school she decided to attend Washington State University, which wasn’t a surprise to the LePage’s as they had a history at the school and her grandfather taught there. Despite having an off campus apartment, Joyce enjoyed sneaking into Stevens Hall, a vacant dormitory on WSU’s campus (which was also under construction at the time in the summer): she hung out on the first floor and enjoyed the quiet atmosphere and would study, write letters to her long distance boyfriend, and play the baby grand piano when the stress from the vigorous, quick-paced semester became too much. At 21 years-old, she was last seen on the schools campus on July 22, 1971. Her remains were discovered nine months later in a deep ravine south of Pullman, Washington wrapped in military blankets and a piece of missing (stolen??) carpet from Stevens Hall bound with rope. Multiple suspects have never been cleared.
The LePage family.Joyce LePage.Joyce and friend (James Krumstick) at a school event in 1968.
Brenda Joy Baker, 14, May 25, 1974 (disappeared). Puyallup, WA.
Bespectacled Brenda Joy Baker was born on July 13, 1959, to Benjamin and Margaret (Stephens) Baker in Enumclaw, WA. Fourteen-year-old Baker was attending Tahoma Junior High School when she ran away from home on May 25, 1974; despite her young age, Baker was a frequent hitchhiker. She was last seen near Puyallup, WA on May 2, 1974 trying to thumb a ride “south” to Fort Lewis; her remains were found 31 days later on the outskirts of Millersylvania State Park not far from the Restover Truck Stop. Before she vanished, the young lady told her friends she was “planning to meet a soldier.” Baker had a long history of running away from home, even living in a foster home for an unknown period of time. However, this time the young child’s absence was immediately noticed by her family, and a missing person’s report was filed the same day. On June 17, 1974, Bakers body was found on a small road located on the outskirts of Millersylvania State Park by hikers. The young girl was positively identified as Brenda Joy Baker by Thurston County sheriff’s investigators in part due to a police report filed by her parents with King County Police as well as dental records, clothing, and jewelry (two bracelets, an earring, and a ring) found with the body. Brenda seems to come from a tragic roots, having two brothers who also passed away extremely young: Benjamin was born in 1956 and passed away at the age of 25 in 1982 and Victor who was born in 1960 but sadly died in 1981 at the age of 21.
Brenda Joy Baker.Brenda Baker.
Sandra Jean Weaver, 19, July 1, 1974 (disappeared). Salt Lake City, UT.
Sandra Jean Weaver (who went by Sandy) was born on August 5, 1955 to Bruno and Marlene of Arcadia, Wisconsin. An investigator for Mesa County Colorado Sheriff’s office said that Sandra left Wisconsin in the summer of 1974 and moved to Salt Lake City; she hitchhiked the whole way there with a girlfriend and a male friend. After the friends arrived they went to Toole and either stayed with ‘a girlfriend and a couple boys in a trailer’ or in an apartment (I read conflicting reports). She got a job roughly forty miles away in Salt Lake and hitchhiked everyday back and forth to work. Sandra was last seen leaving the “Wycoff Building” from the Salt Lake area on her lunch hour around 10/11 AM on Monday, July 1, 1974 after two individuals picked her up at her residence around 8 AM and dropped her off at her place of employment. The body of Sandra Weaver was discovered the next day on July 2, 1974 around 4:00 PM by tourists hiking in the area near DeBeque, CO by the Colorado River about sixteen to eighteen miles east of Grand Junction. Her naked body was found beaten and strangled off a service road in the Palisades Canyon (some sources say it was DeBeque Canyon) in Colorado. She had been sexually assaulted and died by suffocation due to strangulation; her fingernails were freshly manicured shortly before her death. Unfortunately her body wasn’t identified until January 1975: according to an article titled “Services Pending for Murder Victim,” she was identified through a nationwide check of persons reported missing. Law enforcement also found a very particular type of contact lens on the victims remains, and using optemetric tests forensic experts were able to determine that lens belonged to Weaver; dental records were also used.
Sandra Jean Weaver.Sandra Jean Weaver.
Laurie Partridge, 17, December 4, 1974 (disappeared). Spokane WA.
Laura ‘Laurie’ Lynn Partridge was born on May 31, 1957 to Ken and Mary Partridge of Santa Monica, California. The family relocated to Spokane from Fountain Valley, CA when Mr. Partridge was transferred by the outdoor advertising firm that he worked for in August of 1974. At first Laurie was incredibly upset about the move to Washington state and had hopes of going back to California as soon as possible but she quickly settled into her new life. She even broke up with her old boyfriend in CA and started dating a new guy in Spokane. At roughly 12:30 PM on December 4, 1974 Laurie went to the administrative offices at her school after telling friends she was starting to experience menstrual cramps; she wanted to go home and lay down before her shift at work later. She didn’t have a car of her own so she called both of her parents for a ride, but they were working and told her to just hang out and wait for the bus (I read in a news article that it was rainy that day). Not willing to sit around and hoping the walk and some fresh air might help soothe her cramps, Laurie decided to trek the two miles home. She was never seen or heard from again.
Debbie Diane Smith, 17, birth date unknown. February 1975 (disappeared), SLC International Airport.
Not much is known about Deborah Diane Smith. Her stats on ‘bci.utah.gov’ website list her as 6’7” tall and 180 pounds but I wonder if this is a typo. Additionally the website says “the victim was located deceased in an open pasture located North/West of the Salt Lake International Airport. The victim was located by a Utah Power and Light worker checking on poles.”
One of the few pictures of Debbie out there, this is on her grave stone.A part of me wonders if this was from a bogus site but it’s from bci.utah.gov and looks legit.
Melanie ‘Suzi’ Cooley, 18, April 15, 1975 (disappeared). Nederland, CO.
Melanie Suzanne Cooley (also called Suzi by family and friends) was born on October 27, 1956 to Bob and Nina Cooley in Boulder, Colorado. The middle child in a family of six, Ms. Cooley was 18 years old when she disappeared close to the high school she attended in Nederland (which is about 50 miles away from Denver) on April 15, 1975. After classes were over on Tuesday, April 15, 1975, Melanie left the high school she attended in Nederland, Colorado where she was a senior and was never seen or heard from again. She was last seen by friends hitchhiking nearby campus, and it’s unclear where or when exactly she got picked up; no one saw the vehicle the young girl climbed into that day. On Friday, May 2, 1975 the body of Melanie Suzanne Cooley was discovered fully clothed and frozen by a maintenance worker on Twin Spruce Road near Coal Creek Canyon about 20 miles away from where she was last seen. Of the discovery, Jefferson County Sheriff Brad Leach said: “she had been bludgeoned, perhaps with a stone. Her hands were tied in front with a yellow nylon cord; many, many feet of it, wrapped around and around. She died from a blow to the head and strangulation. Her face had been beaten repeatedly with a rock … One contact lens was missing. The body was in pretty bad shape. What with freezing and thawing, and the wild things, two weeks lying there.”
Melanie ‘Suzi’ Cooley.Melanie Cooley.
Shelley Kay Robertson, 23, July 1, 1975 (disappeared). Golden, CO.
Shelley Kay Robertson was born on July 24, 1951 to Roberta and Elmer Robertson of Arvada, Colorado. She graduated from Arvada High School in Colorado in 1969 then spent a year doing missionary work for the United Church of Christ in Biloxi, Mississippi. After returning she attended Red Rocks Community College where she majored in Spanish. I’ve read varying reports that say she disappeared on either June 29 or July 1, 1975… what I’m deducing is she was last seen on June 29 and failed to show up to work on July 1, 1975 (I could be wrong). Seven weeks later her body was discovered in a mine shaft near Georgetown by mining students. Clear Creek County investigator Bob Denning went to Salt Lake City to discuss Robertson’s disappearance with Bundy and when asked about Robertson he said “I don’t want to talk about that.” Denning said he is 99% sure that it was Bundy who murdered Shelley.
Shelley Kay Robertson in grade school.Shelley Kay Robertson.Shelley Kay Robertson dressed up for graduation.
Nancy Perry-Baird, 23, July 4, 1975 (disappeared). East Layton, UT.
Nancy Perry-Baird was born on January 14, 1952 to Kenneth and Elna (nee Dee) Perry of Provo, Utah. Nancy was divorced and had a young son when she disappeared on July 4, 1975. She was working a 3-11 PM shift (some sources say it was until midnight) as an attendant at the Fina self-service gas station in East Layton, Utah. A little after five o’clock Officer David Anderson stopped and chatted with Nancy for a bit during her shift; he bought a soda water before leaving a few minutes later to investigate a potential alcohol violation at the Shamrock gas station on the other side of the highway. When Nancy’s manager Bonnie Peck popped in to get some soda water at around 5:30 she came into a line of customers and no cashier. What happened between Officer Anderson leaving and Bonnie Peck arriving? Somehow in that 15-20 minute time frame Nancy had vanished off the face of the earth. All of her personal belongings including her car, purse, and cashed paycheck were left behind. The only thing out of the ordinary was that $10 worth of gas on a pump that hadn’t been paid for. Nancy has never been recovered.
Nancy Perry-Baird as a child.Nancy Perry-Baird.Nancy Perry-Baird.
Some pictures of Margaret Bowman I don’t frequently see:
Margaret Bowman (far right) with her family.Margaret Bowman with her brother.Margaret Bowman from her St. Petersburg High School yearbook.Margaret Bowman from her St. Petersburg High School yearbook.Margaret Bowman from her St. Petersburg High School yearbook.Margaret Bowman.Margaret Bowman is in the front row, center.Margaret Bowman.Margaret Bowman in a pic from a Chi Omega party in 1977, photo courtesy of ‘hi: I’m Ted’.Margaret Bowman in a pic from a Chi Omega party in 1976.Margaret Bowman crime scene 1978.
Oh Mindhunter: the Netflix show based off a book (written by genius profiler John Douglas) that I logically should adore because I love all things true crime but I just CANNOT get into. The main character (Bill Tench) is based on FBI profiler Robert Ressler. In 1955, Mr. Ressler graduated from Schurz High School in Chicago, Illinois then attended two years at a community college before joining the US Army. After two years in the Army he enrolled at Michigan State University, focusing on Criminology and Police Administration. He earned a Bachelors of Science and attempted graduate school before eventually dropping out after a single semester. He then rejoined the Army, this time as an officer (thanks to the ROTC program at MSU). In 1970, Ressler joined the FBI and was quickly recruited into the newly formed Behavioral Science Unit, whose purpose was to come up with the psychological profiles of violent offenders that usually select their victims at random.
After Ted Bundy escaped through the light fixture of his Colorado prison cell on December 30, 1977 while awaiting trial for the murder of Caryn Campbell, Ressler helped to develop a profile of the serial killer in February 1978. In addition to putting the killer on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List they also released the profile to law enforcement. This was to help educate all policing agencies where the killer was most likely to gravitate to and who he was most likely to target. Only five days later on February 15, 1978 he was apprehended in Florida.
I live 1.2 miles away from Attica Prison where Ressler interviewed infamous Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz in 1979. Yes, THE Attica prison you hear about all the time in Law and Order and other procedural cop shows. In addition to Berkowitz, Attica Prison has been home to many other infamous murders over the years, including Mark David Chapman (he killed John Lennon) and Willie Sutton (famous bank robber).
Ressler and Douglas interviewed Berkowitz at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1979. When meeting the killer for the first time, Douglas was struck by how “his very blue eyes kept dodging between Bob and me.” … “He was trying to read our faces and gauge whether we were being sincere.” After he told the killer they were there for an interview to “help law enforcement solve future cases, and possibly help intervene with children who displayed violent tendencies,” he then pulled out a newspaper with a Son of Sam related headline. Ressler said, “David, in Wichita, Kansas, there is a killer who calls himself the BTK Strangler and he mentions you in his letters to the media and police.” … “He wants to be powerful like you.”
This flattery worked like a charm, and Berkowitz immediately was at ease with the profilers. He leaned back in his chair, allowed himself to get into a more comfortable position, and inquired: ‘what do you want to know?’” One of the more interesting insights Douglas gained from Berkowitz is that “he was always thinking about these murders, to the point that on a night when no victims of opportunity were available, he would return to the sites where he had successfully killed to masturbate and relive the sensation of power and sexual energy he derived from the crime itself.”
Berkowitz confessed to killing six people and wounding several others in New York City during the late 1970’s and has since become a born again Christian. He said because of this he should pay for the sins he has committed and will not seek parole. The killer is currently housed at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, NY.
Ressler became the first serial killer profiler in history and went on to interview some of histories most infamous and depraved murderers. Between 1976 and 1979, he interviewed thirty-six killers to help find commonalities between a criminals’ backgrounds and their motives, including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Kemper, and John Jobert. He was also crucial in the formation of Vi-CAP, also known as the ‘Violent Criminal Apprehension Program’. In 1990 Ressler retired from the FBI and published four books about serial murder. In addition to writing, he worked as a guest lecturer and often would speak on college campuses and to police agencies. On May 5, 2013, Robert Ressler passed away at his home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia from Parkinson’s disease. He was 76 years old.
In 2015 when I first moved to Attica I was curious as to what the prison looked like… so I hopped in my powder blue Dodge Dart, drove to the massive compound and just sat in front of it, staring… then all of the sudden out of nowhere I have very 4 official looking vehicles on top of me and I got the heck out of there. It’s a maximum security prison, the CO’s do NOT fuck around. They wanted to know who I was and what I was doing, and I completely get that. Now.
Inmates in Attica’s D yard shortly after state troopers regained control of the prison on September 13, 1971. Photo courtesy of Bettmann Archive.“Prisoners Solidarity Committee: A Report From Inside Attica.” Taken July 27, 2022 from https://www.workers.org/2020/08/50465/Attica Correctional Facility.Attica Correctional Facility, 2022.Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — Minneapolis Field Office. Photo courtesy of Tony Webster.David Berkowitz, the serial killer known as the Son of Sam, being taken into a Brooklyn precinct station in August 1977. Photo courtesy of The New York Times.A photo of ‘Son of Sam’ killer taken from the article, “David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam, Continues to Claim He Acted Alone.” Written by Josh St. Clair and published on May 7, 2021. Robert K. Ressler with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.Robert K. Ressler with serial killer John Wayne Gacy.Robert K. Ressler (left) and John E. Douglas (right) with serial killer Ed Kemper.Ted Bundy’s booking photo after his arrest by the Leon County Sheriff’s Department in Tallahassee, Florida on February 27, 1978.A wanted poster of serial killer Ted Bundy, who was added to the FBI’s Top 10 Fugitives list on February 10, 1978. On February 15, 1978 he was arrested in Pensacola, Florida by local police after he was stopped for speeding while driving a stolen vehicle.Ted Bundy Wanted Poster.
When I went to Seattle my schedule was jam packed: I was there for EIGHT DAYS and barely had enough time to do everything (no wonder why I came home exhausted). I briefly considered taking a day trip to Oregon so I could retrace the last steps of Roberta Kathleen Parks and take some snapshots of Oregon State… but I couldn’t find the time. I’ll probably do a deep dive on her eventually and tie it into Taylor Mountain somehow but for now here’s a short piece from Kevin Sullivan about Ms. Parks along with some pictures.
“In 1974, Kathy Parks (1954-1974), originally from California, was a student at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. And it would be here, a little before 11:00 PM on May 6, 1974, that she would encounter Ted Bundy in the Memorial Union Commons cafeteria. And because it was closing at 11:00, besides a worker or two milling about, Bundy and Parks may have been the only two people still there. It seems certain no one noticed them. And her disappearance would remain a bit of a mystery for a number of years until Bundy conveyed to a writer in the third-person that Parks may have encountered her abductor in the cafeteria. He then spoke of convincing her to leave with him, and once the opportunity presented itself, he took control of her.
Later, investigators would interview Lorraine Fargo who stopped to speak with Kathy on the corner that is just across the narrow side street that runs beside the Memorial Union Commons. Lorraine was aware of the issues Kathy was having with her boyfriend (he wanted to settle down, she didn’t), and she asked her to come back to her room in Sackett Hall, but Kathy didn’t want to just yet. She wanted to walk around the campus, she told Lorraine, but promised to come over in a little while. As Lorraine watched Kathy cross the narrow street, she dropped a letter in the mailbox. That letter, postmarked May 7, 1974, was addressed to her boyfriend, Christy McPhee, telling him that she loved him and was looking forward to seeing him. She ended it by saying:
I’m feeling down right now, due to a combination of things, I suppose. To tell you the truth, I don’t even feel like finishing this letter. I think I’ll go for a walk outside a while. I’m sorry this is such a bum letter. I really am. But, after all, everyone has their ups and downs. This day has especially had its share of bad news. Well- I’m looking forward to seeing you – very much. When you come, please put your arms around me and make me feel like everything is OK. I really miss you. I’m needing the comfort of your presence now. I love you, Kathy
Bundy most likely kept Parks alive, tied up and gagged, for the 250-mile trip back to Washington State, where he soon killed her and dumped her remains on Taylor Mountain.”
An except from Kevin Sullivans, “The Encyclopedia of the Ted Bundy Murder” published in 2020.
Roberta is on second on the left, photo courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’A picture of a young Kathy Parks, courtesy of ‘Ted Bundy: I was Trying to Think Like an Elk.’A picture of a young Kathy Parks.Kathy Parks in her school yearbook.Kathy Parks. Roberta Kathleen Parks. Kathy Parks. Kathy Parks yearbook.Another picture of Kathy showcasing her long, flowing locks. Kathy Parks. Kathy Parks. Kathy Parks. Kathy Parks and her boyfriend.Another picture of Kathy Parks and her boyfriend.Kathy holding a baby.A missing persons poster for Kathleen Parks.Kathy Parks father.A picture of Kathy’s Mom in her youth.Mrs. Parks before she passed away. An article about the disappearance of Kathy Parks.
Another Bundy Blog. 