Missing/Murdered Women in Washington state, 1965 to 1975.

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Here is a complete list of missing/murdered women from Washington state from 1965 to 1975.

Lisa Wick and Lonnie Trumbull (June 23, 1966, Seattle): Wick and Trumbull were twenty-year-old United Airlines flight attendants who were brutally attacked in their Seattle apartment in 1966: Lonnie Ree Trumbull suffered a fractured skull and severe brain hemorrhaging and tragically succumbing to her injuries, but Lisa E. Wick survived, but was left critically injured and suffered permanent memory loss regarding the incident. A third roommate, Joyce Bowe, was not home at the time of the attacks. It is a case famously suspected of being linked to Ted Bundy (who had been nineteen at the time), however he denied any involvement and there is no official evidence tying him to the case.

Ruby Agnes Schwanbeck-Lampson (reported as missing on June 6, 1967, Spokane): Lampson lived in an apartment above the Falls View Tavern (a popular local establishment with a rowdy reputation) and was known to frequent and even work at the establishment; she was last seen alive at the nearby Hi-Neighbor Tavern with an unidentified, much younger man. Four years after she vanished, on November 16, 1971, her skeletal remains were discovered in a shallow grave in the remote woods of the Seven-Mile ORV Park (a 600-acre off-road vehicle area located inside Riverside State Park near Spokane); due to the advanced decomposition of her body, medical examiners were unable to determine an exact cause of death. The suspected killer of Dorothy Fielding was Duke J. Pierson, a former detective for the Spokane County Sheriff’s Department.

Dorothy Fielding (reported as missing on August 19, 1967, Spokane): frequented the same local tavern as Ruby Lampson; found in April 1968. disappeared in August 1967 and was found in a shallow grave eight months later in April 1968 at the Seven-Mile ORV Park. She was an avid member of the tavern’s bowling team. The suspected killer of Dorothy Fielding was Duke J. Pierson, a former detective for the Spokane County Sheriff’s Department.

Susan Galvin (discovered on July 13, 1967, Seattle): the twenty-year-old records clerk for the Seattle Police Department had recently moved to the area from her childhood home in Spokane; after failing to show up for work, her body was discovered inside a parking garage elevator at the Seattle Center complex. Autopsy results revealed that she had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

Verla Helen Winter (October 21, 1968, Kent): Last seen at home after she had an argument with her estranged husband, who stayed at the residence and supposedly went to bed. When he awoke, his wife and all of her belongings had disappeared, as well as $400 in cash; she left behind two children who were raised by her parents. Prior to this, Verla was in frequent contact with her family by phone and mail.

Linda Mary Louise Garrison (November 19, 1968, Sumner): about a month before her disappearance the nineteen-year-old had been thrown from a horse and had been treated for back injuries; it’s unknown if the injuries she sustained resulted in scarring or indications of trauma to the bones. She left home after a horse ride.

Murders Linked to John Dwight Canaday (1968–1969, Renton): I am going to touch on the murders committed by John Canaday as a whole, who is a lesser-discussed serial killer from Washington state that killed three women between late 1968 and early 1969. On the evening of December 17, 1968, pregnant newlywed Sandra Darlene Bowman was stabbed to death in her home after she opened the door to her Ballard apartment and apparently let her killer in; she was later found in her bedroom, tied up, raped and stabbed repeatedly, court documents say. On the evening of January 4, 1969, twenty-one-year-old Mary Annabelle Bjornson was at her apartment preparing dinner for a friend when a man knocked on her door claiming he was experiencing car trouble to gain entry. Once inside, he threatened her with a knife, tied her wrists, and drove her to Seattle’s Seward Park, where he strangled her. Canaday’s final victim was twenty-year-old University of Washington junior (some records mention her attending Washington State University) Lynne Carol Tuski, who vanished while walking to her car in northern outside a north Seattle department store; according to her autopsy, he strangled her to death. John Dwight Canaday was apprehended by police on February 22, 1969; he confessed to the murders,saying he strangled his victims and left their remains in Snohomish County; he died on December 26, 2012, while serving his time at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center.

Laura Lee Asynithe Flink (February 21, 1969, Aberdeen): Flink was last seen driving her live-in boyfriend’s 1967 Red Ford Ranchero toward Moclips at about 4 PM on Friday, February 21, 1969 (where she was supposed to pick up some furniture and children’s clothing); she never arrived at her intended destination. Flink’s brown leather wallet was found on a Hoquiam, Washington sidewalk on February 23, 1969, and the vehicle was subsequently recovered on February 24, 1969 (also in Hoquiam). Flink’s wallet was mailed by the Hoquiam Police to her Aberdeen post office box, where it was never picked up. She never returned to her waitress job, and there has been no contact with any family or friends since; she had no alternate source of income, and she left behind a sixteen-month-old son, who she had just won full custody of through the courts.

Dorothy May Thompson (August 25, 1969, Walla Walla): Thompson was fifty-three-year-old at the time she was last seen alive and had been in the custody of Walla Walla penal authorities; upon her release, official records state she was provided with a bus ticket to travel to Vancouver along with explicit instructions to report to a designated officer immediately upon arrival. While penal authorities confirmed providing the ticket, investigators note there is no official verification or proof that she ever boarded the bus; she never checked in with the officer in Vancouver and has not been seen or heard from since.

Murders Linked to Gary Gene Grant (1969–1971, Renton): I am going to touch on the murders committed by Gary Grant as a whole, who is a lesser-known serial killer who raped and murdered four young women in the Renton area between 1969 and 1971. Often referred to as ‘Seattle’s Forgotten Serial Killer, Grant was only eighteen when he began his killing spree, targeting victims who were primarily children or young teenagers: he killed nineteen-year-old Carol Adele Erickson on December 15, 1969, while she was walking home from the Renton Municipal Library; she was stabbed and raped. Grant killed seventeen-year-old Joanne Zulauf on September 20, 1970 after she left her home to take a brief walk before dinner. When she failed to return, her family reported her missing, and her body was discovered two days later in a heavily wooded area; she had been attacked and strangled. On April 20, 1971, Grant committed his final two murders when he abducted two six-year-old boys that were in their front yard playing: he threatened Scott Andrews and Bradley Lyons with a knife and took them into the woods less than two miles away from the Bradleys’ residence; he beat them both and then stabbed Andrews then strangled Lyons. Their bodies were found two days later, and when examining the crime scene, investigators found footprints of the offender’s tennis shoes, of which plaster casts were taken. Following his arrest, Grant confessed to the four murders on April 30, 1971, however, during his trial, he denied legal guilt by claiming he was legally insane. On August 25, 1971, a jury rejected his insanity plea and convicted him of four counts of first-degree murder; he was sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison.

Grace Foster (1970, Olympia): one-year-old Foster vanished during a family picnic in Olympia sometime in the summer of 1970. Despite the case going cold, Grace’s older brother, Daniel Foster, never gave up hope. He spent decades holding onto the belief that his little sister was still alive somewhere.

Patricia Garrison (January 5, 1970, Olympia): seventeen-year-old Patricia Garrison was found stabbed in a hospital parking lot on January 5, 1970 in Olympia; two days later she died from the over twenty stab wounds and injuries that she sustained in the attack.

Bertha Louise Burke (February 20, 1970, Port Angeles): Burke was a twenty-nine-year-old mother of three when she disappeared on a Friday night in early 1970: she had tucked her young children into bed at their East 13th Street home, and she was gone when they woke up in the morning. She left behind her purse, clothes, and all of her other personal effects.

Gladys Thelma Williams (February 20, 1970, Seattle): Williams was last seen on February 20, 1970 when she dropped her children off at her sister’s residence. Very little information is available about her disappearance.

Jeannette Rose Miller (September 16, 1970, Arlington): seventeen-year-old Miller was last seen walking on the Lincoln Bridge in Arlington, Washington.

Nancy Mae Richards-Winslow (July 26, 1970, Bellingham): twenty-three-year-old whose disappearance and murder became a noted unsolved cold case. Due to the timing, location, and nature of her disappearance, her case has frequently been studied by true-crime researchers investigating unconfirmed victims of the serial killer Ted Bundy.

Janice Marie Hannigan (March 1, 1971, Wapao): the sixteen-year-old was was discharged from a hospital on December 24, 1971. Janice was suffering from numerous bruises on her chest and head when she was admitted to a hospital three days prior. According to her hospital discharge summary, Janice was admitted to the hospital with multiple contusions around the head. It’s not known which hospital Janice was admitted to or the cause of her injuries. She was discharged in satisfactory condition. She never arrived home after her discharge and she hasn’t been seen since. At the time of her disappearance, Janice was living with her father on family land west of Harrah. Their parents were separated and the six younger children were with their mother in Buena.

Joyce Margaret LePage (July 22, 1971, Pullman): on the evening of Thursday, July 22, 1971, Joyce took a skydiving lesson with a friend, went out for a beer afterward, and was dropped off outside her off-campus apartment around 10:00 PM. This was the last time she was seen alive. She failed to show up for classes the next day and missed a planned weekend trip to visit her family in Pasco.

Marilyn Kay Pratt (October 8, 1971, Spokane): Marilyn was last seen on the evening of October 8, 1971 by her husband and friends at a local restaurant. Marilyn’s husband was working as a bartender at the race track. Marilyn was supposed to meet her husband at the track that evening, to bet on a race with him. She didn’t make it, so he placed the bet anyway and lost, which made him angry.

Jamie Grisim (December 7, 1971, Vancouver): climbing into Forrest’s light-blue van near downtown Vancouver. Her remains were found exactly two years later in a shallow grave on Clark County parks property at Tukes Mountain. Jamie Grissim has been missing since December 7, 1971, after she vanished while walking home from Fort Vancouver High School in Vancouver, Washington. Although she was initially categorized by police as a runaway, her high school identification card and purse were found months later along a rural road in the Dole Valley area, prompting authorities to treat her disappearance as a homicide. Her remains have never been found, and her disappearance stands as the oldest active missing person case in Clark County.

Ivah McDonnell (December 2, 1971, Pasco): the sixty-year-old was found dead inside her home at 5008 W. Sylvester Street; she had been brutally beaten with a blunt object, knocked unconscious, and strangled to death with her own pajama bottoms. Her wallet, a change jar, and items of lingerie were missing from the scene. DNA profiling matched Samuel Evans to the crime scene, though he died in prison for a separate murder.

Alisa ‘Lisa’ Francine Watson (January 1, 1972, Tacoma): Alisa had left the family home and may have been living at an apartment in the Seattle area. No contact with family since 1972.

Pamela Burrows (January 1, 1972, Seattle): Pamela and her boyfriend were going to visit her sister in Minnesota, but they never arrived and she was never heard from again; he later told her sister that she had been killed, but it was never confirmed and her body has not been found.

Barbara Ann Derry (disappeared on February 11, 1972, Vancouver): was an 18-year-old homicide victim from Washington State who is believed to be one of the earliest victims of Southwest Washington serial killer Warren Leslie Forrest. Derry was last seen on February 11, 1972, hitchhiking along State Highway 14. She was traveling from Vancouver toward her hometown of Goldendale, Washington. On March 29, 1972, her body was discovered by a woman hunting.

Althea Dayle Blankinship (March 27, 1973, Port Townsend): Althea Blankinship and her son Jeffrey, were last seen in the City of Port Townsend, WA, where they were residing at the time. They were last reported to have been dropped off at SeaTac International Airport. Althea had made plans to travel to Greece with Jeffrey to meet her parents who were already there on vacation. Family members became concerned when it was evident that Althea and Jeffrey never arrived in Greece. They have not been heard from or seen since. Foul play is suspected.

Salie Belle Maxi Signani (June 1, 1973, Renton): she was recently divorced and left home to live with another man. She failed to show up for work on a Monday in early June 1973. Investigation done at that time was apparently lost. A new case originated in 2003.

Jody Loomis (August 23, 1972, Bothell): was a 20-year-old woman from Bothell, Washington, who was sexually assaulted and murdered on August 23, 1972. Her case went unsolved for nearly five decades until it was cracked using groundbreaking forensic genetic genealogy. On the afternoon of August 23, 1972, Jody left her home on her bicycle to visit her horse, Saudi, at a local stable. She never arrived. Roughly 30 minutes after she was last seen, two people discovered her disrobed and suffering from a gunshot wound to the head in a heavily wooded area of Snohomish County (in what is now Mill Creek Road). She was still barely breathing when found but was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

Teresa Kay Davis (November 1, 1973, Tacoma): Teresa was staying with her sister in Tacoma, Washington. On November 1, 1973, Teresa’s sister came home and found that Teresa was not there. The front door was left open and all of Teresa’s belongings remained in the home. Later, her sister reportedly received a letter from Teresa sent from Anchorage, Alaska, but there was no further contact.

Katherine Merry Devine (November 25, 1973, Olympia): fourteen-year-old Kathy was murdered after running away from her Seattle home and hitchhiking on November 25, 1973. Her remains were discovered on December 6, 1973, by caretakers at Camp Margaret McKenny in the Capitol State Forest near Olympia, Washington. An autopsy revealed she had been sexually assaulted and killed by a knife wound to the neck. The mystery was finally solved in 2001 when the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab utilized modern DNA technology to test physical evidence preserved from the crime scene. The DNA perfectly matched William Earl Cosden Jr., a convicted rapist who had already been serving a prison sentence since 1976.

Kerry Hardy-May (June 13, 1972, Seattle): in June 1972, Kerry was in a period of transition, having recently separated from her husband. After she failed to show up at her family home to help them pack for a trip, her mother reported her missing to the Seattle Police Department. Her whereabouts remained a complete mystery for nearly 40 years. On September 6, 2010, a backhoe operator digging a waterline trench near a golf course at the Suncadia Resort in Roslyn, Washington, uncovered human remains in a shallow grave. Along with the bones, investigators found a gold wedding band and remnants of blue material. In June 2011, the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office officially identified the remains as Kerry May-Hardy. The breakthrough came after her family noticed a striking resemblance between a forensic composite sketch circulated by authorities and Kerry. The identity was conclusively confirmed via DNA testing by the University of North Texas Center for Human Remains, using a profile her mother had proactively submitted in 2004.

Lynda Ann Healy (January 31, 1974, Seattle): a 21-year-old American college student who became the first widely confirmed murder victim of the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. She was known by her peers and family as a talented musician who was full of life, self-assurance, and compassion. She attended Newport High School before enrolling at the University of Washington (UW).At the time of her disappearance, she was a senior majoring in psychology and was scheduled to graduate that year. Deeply invested in helping others, she regularly worked with mentally handicapped children. Alongside her studies, she worked part-time for Western Ski Promotions, broadcasting morning weather and ski condition reports to 20 local radio stations across Washington and Oregon.Disappearance and MurderIn early 1974, Healy lived in a pale green off-campus house on 12th Avenue Northeast in Seattle’s University District with four female roommates.On the evening of January 31, 1974, Healy went out to a local establishment with friends, returned home, spoke to her boyfriend on the phone, and went to sleep. During the early morning hours of February 1, 1974, Ted Bundy broke into her basement bedroom. He knocked her unconscious, dressed her in blue jeans and a blouse, and carried her out to his vehicle while her roommates slept undisturbed upstairs.The next morning, her roommates noticed she was missing after her radio alarm clock kept buzzing continuously and she failed to show up for her scheduled morning broadcast. When police examined her room, they found her bed neatly made, but discovered her nightgown hanging in the closet with blood stains on the collar, along with blood on her mattress and pillowcase.

Heidi Birgit Peterson (February 21, 1974, Seattle): a four-year-old girl who was tragically abducted from the front yard of her Capitol Hill home in Seattle on February 21, 1974. Heidi was playing outside with her 2.5-year-old brother when she vanished. Her disappearance sparked one of the largest and most extensive law enforcement searches in the history of the Pacific Northwest at the time. Nearly a year later, on January 24, 1975, her remains were discovered in a park just a block away from her home. Investigators believed her remains had been moved there later, as the park had been thoroughly searched initially; o this day, her killer has never been identified.

Donna Gail Manson (March 12, 1974, Olympia): Manson was last seen at 7:00 PM on campus at Evergreen State College in Olympia by a college roommate whom she told she was going to attend a jazz concert being held on the campus; she was reportedly last seen between the dorms and library on the way to the concert. Ted Bundy confessed on death row to abducting Manson from the Olympia campus but never specifically said where he left her remains. As of July 2026 they have never been recovered.

Susan Elaine ‘Sue’ Rancourt (April 17, 1974, Ellensburg): an eighteen-year-old college student who became the third known murder victim of Ted Bundy. On the evening of April 17, 1974, Sue attended a meeting for future residence hall leaders at Munson Hall. After the meeting concluded around 10:00 PM, she began walking back to her dormitory. Witnesses on campus later recalled seeing a man with his arm in a sling wandering near the parking lots (which is a common ruse Bundy liked to use).

Brenda Joy Baker (May 25, 1974, Maple Valley): the fourteen-year-old was brutally murdered in Washington state in May 1974. She has long been suspected of being an unconfirmed victim of the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. The details surrounding her disappearance and the subsequent investigation include: Brenda lived with her family in Maple Valley, Washington, and had a history of running away from home. On May 25, 1974, she spent two days staying with friends in Sumner, Washington, who tried to convince her to go home. She refused, stating she was trying to hitchhike south toward Portland, Oregon. She was last seen alive getting into a pickup truck with two men at an on-ramp near Puyallup, Washington. Because her family immediately noticed her absence, they filed a missing person’s report the same day she vanished. On June 17, 1974, approximately three weeks after she went missing, her highly decomposed remains were discovered by chance in an isolated section of Millersylvania State Park in Thurston Count

Diane Sue Gilchrist (May 29, 1974, Vancouver): a teenager from Vancouver, Washington, who went missing on May 29, 1974, at the age of 14. Decades after her disappearance, she is heavily suspected by law enforcement to be a victim of convicted Washington serial killer Warren Leslie Forrest. She was last seen on May 27 or May 29, 1974, leaving her family’s home in the 1800 block of Franklin Street in downtown Vancouver, Washington.

Gloria Nadine Knudson (May 31, 1974, Vancouver): Gloria Nadine Knudson (which I’ve also seen spelled Knutson) was a nineteen-year-old woman that went missing on May 31, 1974 and is a suspected victim of serial killer Warren Leslie Forrest. At the time of her murder she was almost finished with her senior year at Hudson Bay High School and was last seen after visiting a friend’s house on Grant Street, where she reported that an unknown man had chased and stalked her. She left to walk home and never arrived. Her remains were later discovered in 1978 near Lacamas Lake.

Brenda Carol Ball (June 1, 1974, Burien): twenty-two-year-old Ball is the fifth official murder victim of the American serial killer Ted Bundy.( grew up in Washington and graduated from Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, Washington. Described by friends and family as a petite, “free and fun-loving spirit,” she stood 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighed 112 pounds, and had long brown hair and brown eyes. She had taken classes at Highline Community College but decided to drop out a couple of weeks before her disappearance. At the time, she was living with roommates in an apartment in Burien, Washington. On the evening of May 31, 1974, during Memorial Day weekend, Brenda went out alone to the Flame Tavern, a neighborhood bar in Burien. She had mentioned to her roommates and friends earlier that day that she hoped to find a ride out to Sun Lakes in eastern Washington to join them at a campground later that weekend

Krista Kay Blake (disappeared on July 11, 1974, Vancouver): twenty-year-old Blake was kidnapped and murdered in Washington in July 1974 by Warren Forrest; she was last seen climbing into his light blue Ford Econoline cargo van near downtown Vancouver.

Georgann ‘George’ Hawkins (June 11, 1974, University of Washington, Seattle): Hawkins disappeared from the University of Washington campus after 1am on June 11, 1974. She was last seen in the alley outside of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. She had been to a fraternity party earlier in the evening, and visited her boyfriend, Marvin Gellatly, on the way back to her sorority house. As she left Beta Theta Pi, Georgeann spoke with another friend, Duane Covey, who spoke with her from his second-story window that faced the alley. After saying goodbye to her friend, she headed down the alley toward her sorority house, Kappa Alpha Theta. She never arrived. Ms. Hawkins is the victim of serial killer, Ted Bundy, who confessed to kidnapping and murdering her before his execution in 1989. He confessed to killing her in a remote area “across Mercer Island, east past Issaquah, up the hill, down the road, and up to the grassy area.” Bundy claimed that Georgeann’s remains were found with two of his other victims, Janice Ott and Denise Naslund, in Lake Sammamish State Park; investigators had found an extra leg bone and extra vertebrae at the site, but had been unidentified at the time and – so far – were never positively identified as Georgeann’s.

Janice Ott & Denise Naslund (July 14, 1974, Issaquah): Bundy abducted twenty-three-year-old Janice Ott and nineteen-three-year-old Denise Marie Naslund were abducted four hours apart from Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah; it quickly became one of the most notorious moments during the hunt for ‘Ted,’ marking the first time investigators realized the killer went by the name and approached multiple women in broad daylight on the same day That Sunday Lake Sammamish State Park was incredibly crowded, and had around 40,000 visitors, many attending an annual picnic held by Rainier Beer.

Joyce Tyer Jones (November 17, 1974, Bellingham): little is known about the final days of Joyce; she went for a walk and never returned home.

Vonnie Joyce VanDriel-Stuth (disappeared on November 27, 1974. Burien): was initially suspected to be another victim of Bundy, Vonnie was abducted and murdered by serial killer Gary Addison Taylor; the nineteen-year-old newlywed disappeared from her apartment in Burien, Washington. When her husband, Todd Stuth, returned home from work after midnight, he found the lights and television on, an unfinished Thanksgiving meal on the table, and his wife gone. Her only previous hint to family had been a mention of a neighborhood man coming to the door to offer her a dog.

Laurie Lynn Partridge (December 4, 1974, Spokane): on the day she disappeared Partridge left Ferris High School early, complaining about not feeling well walking at 37th & Havana Streets on Spokane’s South Hill. Unable to get a ride, she decided to walk the two-plus miles to the home where she lived with her parents and five younger siblings, saying the air might help her feel better. The family reported her missing after she failed to show up for work that evening at Lincoln Heights Theater. Initially, sheriff’s deputies thought she might have run away from home, given her displeasure when the family moved to Spokane from California, but by the time she vanished she had started to establish roots (she was also engaged to a twenty-year-old man). The couple planned to pick out engagement rings the day Partridge disappeared, and her fiancé was questioned extensively several times but never ruled a suspect.

Lorelee Sue Lhotka (January 1, 1975, Seattle): Lhotka was last seen on some unspecified date in 1975, when she left home to go to a doctor’s appointment; she was supposed to take the bus, but she may have hitchhiked instead, and she never arrived at the doctor’s office. She has never been seen or heard from again. In 1978, Lhotka’s wallet was found at Blewitt Pass in the Wenatchee National Forest.

Diana ‘Dinah’ Peterson (February 14, 1975, Shoreline): sixteen-year-old Dinah snuck out of her family’s home in the Innis Arden/Richmond Beach neighborhood to visit her older boyfriend (whom her parents disapproved of). Later that night, her dad discovered her body in their backyard; she had been stabbed. For decades, investigators primarily focused their attention on Peterson’s then-19-year-old boyfriend, Timothy Diener, who had been arrested shortly after the murder but was never formally convicted (investigators struggled with a lack of concrete evidence). In December 2007, King County Sheriff’s cold-case detectives arrested and charged James Eric Groth, who was also sixteen at the time of the crime and lived two houses away from the Petersons; authorities determined that Groth had been infatuated with Peterson and grew violently jealous of her dating an older guy.

Hallie Ann Seaman (April 29, 1975, Seattle): Seaman was an honor student just two terms away from finishing her master’s degree in architecture and was last seen working late at her drafting table inside the University of Washington’s architecture building. The following afternoon, a passerby discovered her body hidden in the bushes near a parking lot on Eastlake Avenue East; she had been sexually assaulted and repeatedly stabbed. Her case remained an unsolved mystery until advanced DNA testing identified her killer as Charles Rodman Campbell.

Jo Carrol Sanders (July 6, 1975, Camas): the fourteen-year-old was last seen alive near her residence, which was described as being ‘a tight-knit neighborhood where she lived with her father’ and investigators confirmed she was abducted in broad daylight by someone driving either a yellow or green van. Her body was discovered three days later in a gravel pit roughly ten miles east of Camas in Skamania County.

Donna Gail Manson: Information from the King County Archives.

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Donna Gail Manson, Case Files.

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Back in April I began the process of requesting the case files related to the murder of Katherine Merry Devine from the Thurston Co. Sheriff’s Department out of Washington state. I found the entire ordeal to be not only simple but also incredibly inexpensive, so logically I thought to myself, ‘what else can I get from these fine people?,’ and after looking into it I realized that confirmed Bundy victim Donna Gail Manson was also abducted from the same county. These are the documents that they sent me. Last night I registered with neighboring King County and requested some documents from them as well. This is outstanding.

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Thurston County Sheriff’s Office, documents related to their investigation into the disappearance of Donna Gail Manson.

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Bundy’s Confirmed Victims: A List.

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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 (18). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-28.png — Karen Sparks.

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This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-31.png — Karen Sparks in the Amazon documentary, ‘Falling for a Killer.’

Lynda Ann Healy (21). February 1, 1974. Murdered, Seattle, WA.

On January 31st, 1974, Healy borrowed a friends 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-26.png — Lynda Healy, in the middle holding her little sister.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-27.png — Lynda Ann Healy (middle) with her siblings.

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Donna Gail Manson (19). 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.

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Susan Elaine Rancourt (18). 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. Rancourts skull was later found near Taylor Mountain, where Bundy placed several bodies during his reign of terror.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-39.png — Susan Elaine Rancourt.

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This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-37.png — Sue Rancourt.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-40.png — The Susan Rancourt Memorial Garden at CWU. Photo taken in April 2022.

Roberta Kathleen Parks (20). 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 dumped her body on Taylor Mountain.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-43.png — Roberta Parks, second from the left.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-41.png — Roberta ‘Kathy’ Parks.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-42.png — Kathy Parks.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-44.png — One of the more frequently used pictures of Kathy Parks.

Brenda Carol Ball (22). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-48.png — Brenda Ball’s senior picture from the 1970 Mount Rainier High School yearbook.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-47.png — A barefoot Brenda Ball.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-46.png — Brenda Carol Ball.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-45.png — Brenda Ball.

Georgeann Hawkins (18). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-51.png — Georgeann and her pom poms, from her time at Lakes High School, in Lakewood, WA.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-52.png — A photo of George from the 1973 Washington State Daffodil festival.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-50.png — A b&w photo of Georgeann Hawkins.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-49.png — Georgann Hawkins.

Janice Ann Blackburn-Ott (23). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-54.png — Janice Ott.

Denise Marie Naslund (18). July 14, 1974. Murdered, Issaquah, WA.

On a beautiful, picture perfect sunny day, Naslund disappeared from a very busy Lake Samammish 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 Samammish. Bundy confessed to her murder shortly before his execution.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-56.png — Denise Marie Naslund.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-53.png — Denise Marie Naslund.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-55.png — Denise Naslund.

Nancy Wilcox (16). 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 families 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-59.png — Nancy Wilcox.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-58.png — Nancy Wilcox.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-57.png — Nancy Wilcox.

Melissa Smith (17). 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, its speculated that Bundy grabbed Melissa off the street and killed her. She never made it home.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-65.png — Melissa Smith.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-64.png — Melissa Smith.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-60.png — Melissa Smith.

Laura Aime (17). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-76.png — Laura Ann Aime, photo courtesy of ThisInterestsMe.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-77.png — Laura Ann Aime, photo courtesy of ThisInterestsMe.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-78.png — Laura Ann Aime.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-79.png — Laura Ann Aime.

Carol DaRonch (18). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-80.png — Carol DaRonch.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-81.png — Carol DaRonch.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-83.png — Carol DaRonch.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-82.png — DaRonch as she looks today.

Debra Jean Kent (17). 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 eyewitnesses, 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-86.png — Debra Kent.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-85.png — Debra Kent.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-84.png — Debra Kent.

Caryn Campbell (23). January 12, 1975. Murdered, Estes Park, CO.

Bundy abducted the 23-year-old nurse from the Wildwood Inn in Snowmass Village. While staying at the inn with her fiance 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 amount 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-103.png — 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.’

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-90.png — Caryn Campbell.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-89.png — Caryn Campbell.

Julie Cunningham (26). 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 dumped her remains in a shallow grave near Rifle, CO. Julie’s body has never been recovered.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-93.png — Julie Cunningham.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-92.png — Julie Cunningham.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-91.png — Julie Cunningham.

Denise Oliverson (24). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-95.png — Denise Oliverson.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-97.png — Denise Oliverson.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-96.png — Denise Oliverson on her wedding day.

Lynette Dawn Culver (12). 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 12 year old child in a hotel room after abducting her. Law enforcement didn’t fully accept his confession despite providing some convincing details.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-102.png — Lynette Dawn Culver.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-101.png — Lynette Dawn Culver.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-99.png — Lynette Dawn Culver.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-104.png — Lynette Dawn Culver.

Susan Curtis (15). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-108.png — Susan Curtis.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-107.png — Susan Curtis.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-110.png — Susan Curtis.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-109.png — Susan Curtis.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-106.png — Susan Curtis.

Margaret Bowman (21). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-117.png — A picture of Margaret Bowman from high school. I hate that it has ‘RIP’ on it but I couldn’t find another copy.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-114.png — Margaret Bowman.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-113.png — Margaret Bowman.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-111.png — Margaret Bowman.

Lisa Janet Levy (20). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-118.png — Levy.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-119.png — Lisa Levy.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-123.png — Levy.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-121.png — Lisa Levy and her boyfriend.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-122.png — Lisa Levy and her boyfriend.

Kathy Kleiner-Rubin (20). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-115.png — Kathy Kleiner-Rubin at Bundy’s trial.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-125.png — Kathy Kleiner-Rubin.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-124.png — Kathy Kleiner-Rubin as she looks today.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-116.png — Kathy Kleiner-Rubin as she looks today.

Karen Chandler (22). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-134.png — Karen Chandler.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-128.png — Karen Chandler.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-127.png — Karen Chandler.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-129.png — Karen Chandler.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-126.png — Karen Chandler as she looks today.

Cheryl Thomas (21). 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 schools 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-135.png — Cheryl Thomas.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-133.png — Cheryl Thomas.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-136.png — Cheryl Thomas.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-131.png — Cheryl Thomas.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-132.png — A more recent picture of Thomas.

Kimberly Dianne Leach (12). 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.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-138.png — Kim Leach.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-137.png — Kim Leach.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-120.png — 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 dumped 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 11 years on death row, before he was executed by electric chair on 24 January 1989.

Donna Gail Manson.

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Donna Gail Manson was born on June 9, 1954 to Lyle Edward and Marie Elizabeth (nee Nilson) Manson in Olympia, WA. Mr. Manson was born on August 29, 1917 in Marion, Iowa and Mrs. Manson was born on May 9, 1923 in Auburn, WA. The couple were wed on December 4, 1952 and had two children together: Donna and her younger brother, James. An eagle scout and troop leader, Mr. Manson served in the Navy during World War II (he was a Pearl Harbor survivor), and upon returning home he continued with his education and graduated with his BA in music education from Coe College in June 1949; he went on to earn his Masters from Central Washington University in 1952 (which is the same college Susan Rancourt was abducted from), and after graduating he got a position as a music teacher for the Seattle school district. Marie Manson graduated from the University of Washington in 1949 with a BA in music education, and worked PT as a legal secretary; she was also the choir director at Auburn First United Methodist. Both Mr. and Mrs. Manson spent two years performing with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra.

Donna Manson is Ted Bundy’s third (known) victim. It was said by those that knew her that at the time she disappeared Donna was going through a rough time and was struggling with depression, but she showed interest in overcoming these obstacles. Despite suffering from bouts of melancholy and anxiety, Donna’s loved ones called her a ‘free spirit’ and said that she was known to hitchhike and frequently ‘couch surfed’ among friends. She was an intelligent young woman and earned good grades over the course of her academic career, and was working towards a Bachelors degree in English. Much like her parents, she loved music and the arts and was an accomplished flutist. Manson graduated from Auburn Senior High School in 1972 and attended Green River Community College for a short period of time before transferring to Evergreen State College. She had pale blue eyes and chocolate brown hair that she wore long and parted down the middle; she was small in stature and stood at only five feet tall, and weighed a mere 100 pounds.

The campus at Evergreen State College is less than ten miles east of Olympia and was built in an isolated, remote spot surrounded by a dense forest of evergreen trees. A small, liberal arts school, in the fall of 1974 its enrollment wasn’t even at 3,000, and some of the more conservative Washington state residents complained about its high per-student cost of operation and ‘hippie-like atmosphere.’ One lawmaker even complained during a speech about how the students’ dogs were peeing on the expensive carpets in the schools library (which was ironically named the Daniel J. Evans Library, after the state governor that Bundy worked for).

On the day of her abduction, Donna planned on going to a folk dancing class at her schools activities building, and later that same night, she made plans to go to a jazz concert at the Daniel J. Evans Library (which was also on school grounds), which was scheduled to start at 8 PM. She lived in room 206 of the C building on Evergreens campus, and according to her roommates earlier in the evening Donna played her flute a bit and ate some beef vegetable soup (she even left some of it out in a pot on the stove). They also noticed that she seemed unusually focused on her appearance that evening, going so far as to switch outfits several times before eventually settling on a red, orange, and green striped shirt, blue (or green) slacks, a fuzzy black full-length coat (that used to belong to her grandmother), an oval-shaped brown agate ring, and a Bulova Caravell wrist watch. Despite this detail, Manson did not share any details about a date or meet-up with her friends. The night prior to her disappearance Donna spoke with her mother on the phone, and the two discussed her idea of taking a trip to the ocean during her upcoming spring recess. Regarding this, Marie Manson said it sounded like a good idea that they get away for a few days, and despite the ongoing gas shortage of the 70’s said that the family would ‘find a way.’

Donna departed her dormitory shortly after 7 PM on March 12, 1974 and set out for the dance class, which should have been just a two minute walk across campus. However, despite how close the College Activities Building was to her dormitory no one recalled seeing her at either the class or the jazz recital, meaning it is highly unlikely that she ever made it that far. She left behind all of her personal effects, money, and clothing.

Perhaps it was because of her free spirit and habit of hitchhiking and leaving for days at a time, but when Manson didn’t return home that night no one seemed very alarmed: it took her roommates a full six days to report her missing to the authorities, which is why newspapers didn’t start reporting on her disappearance until March 22, 1974, a full ten days after she was last seen. Several days after her disappearance some local police officers went to the Manson family home in Auburn to tell them that Donna had run away from school, news that made her mother immediately feel uneasy, and she immediately knew that: ‘she hasn’t run away, something’s happened to her.’

Perhaps it was because of her free spirit, her habit to leave for days at a time, or her habit to hitchhike but when Manson didn’t come back that night no one was very alarmed. In fact, it took her roommates a full six days to report her missing to the authorities, which is why newspapers didn’t start reporting about her disappearance until March 22, a full ten days later. Following Donna’s disappearance, on four different occasions search teams of up to 200 people combed the 990 acre college campus with the assistance of tracking dogs. Despite their best efforts, investigators were unable to find not one single trace of the missing girl: she had literally vanished out of thin air.

After he got the news that his daughter was missing, Lyle Manson immediately drove to the Evergreen campus to see if he could find out more information about what may have happened to her. When he arrived, Thurston County Detective Paul Barclift tried to reassure him by saying: ‘maybe she just went off somewhere with some boyfriend. That’s the way these things usually turn out around here.’ Manson’s stern Scotsman’s face showed cold disagreement, and in response he said: ‘no, Donna had no need to run away. We’ve always given her freedom.’ He and the detective walked from the parking lot to her residence hall, and together they looked through the items in her bedroom: she had left behind all her clothes, toiletries, and other personal items one would need if leaving for any period of time, and amongst her belongings Mr. Manson found her camera and flute, and it was then that he knew that something was seriously wrong. Following Donna’s disappearance, search teams of up to 200 people combed the 990 acre college campus with the assistance of tracking dogs on four separate occasions, but despite their best efforts not one trace of her was ever recovered: she had literally vanished out of thin air.

The guard also told investigators that he remembered seeing Donna around campus prior to her disappearance and recalled that when he last saw her she was wearing a long fur coat, a fact that her roommates corroborated. This strongly hints that he wasn’t mistaken and did in fact see Manson on the night she was abducted, meaning that she either got sidetracked by something (or someone, like a man with his arm in a sling asking for help) on her way to the dance class, or she lied to her roommates about what her plans were. Many Bundy sleuths believe that Ted approached the 19-year-old asking for help as she was walking toward the library, where others strongly feel that the two may have been acquainted previously (somehow) and that they had made plans to meet up that night. He liked to frequent college campuses, did he go to Evergreen at an earlier time and run into Donna? Maybe the two planned a secret rendezvous and she told her roommates that she was going somewhere else in an attempt to get them off her back? Obviously they would have started asking questions had they known she was going out with a guy, and when they found out she had plans to meet up with a 27 year old that she barely knew, then surely they would have persuaded her to not go.

Donna was into many things that would typically be considered ‘mysterious and dark,’ and had an interest in topics like death, the occult, and alchemy; when investigators searched her room they found several class listings on positive thinking and mind discipline from a local Olympia business called ‘The Institute of Insight’ (casual Bundy acquaintance Ann Rule incorrectly referred to it as the ‘Institute of the ESP’ in her 1980 book ‘The Stranger Beside Me’). It was mostly because of Manson’s unconventional interests that detectives initially wondered if maybe she had killed herself, and it wasn’t until a psychiatrist read through her journals and said that it was in his professional opinion that she wasn’t suicidal and most likely did not take her own life that they changed their minds. Donna’s habit of hitchhiking put her in a higher risk pool compared to other coeds, and it was very concerning to detectives, who felt that there was a possibility that she was picked up by the individual that killed her. Because her roommates did not see her take a backpack or a change of clothes with her on the evening she disappeared, LE deduced that she was not planning on going anywhere that evening and had no plans on hitchhiking.

The most widely believed theory was that Bundy grabbed Donna in a Georgann Hawkins-esque grab as she was on her way to the dance class that evening in March 1974: the route that she most likely took from her dormitory to the folk dancing class was only 350 yards away, and should have only been about a two minute walk, and because of the short distance involved it has been theorized that Ted grabbed Manson almost immediately after she left. One possible scenario could be that he may have approached her (perhaps while using crutches or an arm sling) in a nearby parking lot (lot F) and asked her to assist him with carrying something to his car. Another idea is that Bundy parked his car on Hidden Springs Drive, which is close to the c-dormitory and connects the area around the library with Driftwood Road, and is incredibly close to the route that Donna would have walked to get to the folk dancing class. But because traffic on campus was unusually high that evening because of three different events taking place, it stands to reason that both areas would have been pretty busy at the time, and a careful Bundy wouldn’t have taken the chance of getting caught. But at the same time… he was a known risk taker, especially while under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, so we can’t completely rule it out (and keep in mind that it worked out for him).

Mostly because Olympia is over an hour away from where Bundy’s other Washington state victims were abducted from, Manson’s case was not immediately connected to the other Seattle disappearances, and it wasn’t until more women started to disappear that it became clear that her case was a part of a much bigger puzzle. There was a (brief) period where (former) Thurston County Sheriff Don Redmond wondered if maybe there was a slavery ring nabbing young women from the area, but this was quickly ruled out. Unfortunately, we will never know exactly what happened to Donna on the evening she disappeared, as there are very few confirmed details regarding her disappearance. Due to the abduction taking place right before spring break detectives were not able to interview many of the eyewitnesses until weeks later, after their memories were dulled by time (maybe if her roommates reported her abduction earlier LE would have stood a chance of getting some worthwhile information).

In his previous two abductions/murders, Bundy broke into his victims’ houses and assaulted them while they were sleeping, but in the case of Donna Manson he completely switched up his MO and took her from a public place… I also wonder if perhaps this was the first time that he used the fake injury ruse? The dates of credit card receipts that were listed in the ‘TB Multiagency Report 1992’ prove that Bundy frequented the Olympia area at least 25 times in 1973 alone, so it would be reasonable to assume that he knew the area fairly well; this also falls in line with the theory that (most) serial killers prefer to operate in places that they are familiar with, and feel comfortable being in.

On August 29, 1978 two fishermen that were walking on Highway 7 southwest of Eatonville, WA discovered a human skull in the foothills of Mount Rainier; further searches by local investigators turned up additional bones, hair, and clothes that matched the description of the ones that Donna Manson was last seen wearing four years prior. Unfortunately, law enforcement lost everything before a positive ID could be made (although apparently color photographs were taken) and to this day she is classified as a missing person. Bundy confessed to her murder as a last ditch effort to avoid the electric chair in January 1989 and told investigators that he buried her remains at Taylor Mountain but burned her skull to ashes in his then-girlfriends Liz’s fireplace. He also told Robert Keppel that he didn’t remember much about the event because he was so drunk but did recall that it was ‘nightmarish, blurry, and incoherent.’

Retired Pierce County detective Roy Durham said that he felt the bones did not appear to go back as far as 1974 and did not appear to suffer from any blunt force trauma to the head (which is common in Bundy victims). Unfortunately, the skeletal remains were destroyed after being examined by a forensic dentist (who determined there was a strong possibility that the skeleton belonged to Manson) and most additional information (such as x-rays) related to the case were lost during a ‘routine purge’ of the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. Personally, I wonder if the remains found in 1978 belonged to a different (unknown) Bundy victim. I know people will argue that he was in prison by that time and wouldn’t have been able to commit a murder in his home state, but even law enforcement admitted they weren’t sure when victim was killed, just that it probably wasn’t in 1974.

During Ted’s interview with Dr. Keppel he claimed that he left Manson’s body ‘up in the mountains,’ and although it was the same place where he disposed of Brenda Ball, Lynda Ann Healy, Susan Rancourt and Roberta Parks, he specified that he left her in a slightly different place than the others:

Keppel: ‘OK. How about Donna Manson? The girl from Thurston County, Olympia. Where is she?’
B: ‘Where is she? She should be… on Taylor Mountain.’
K: ‘Was she dumped out along the power line too or on a different road?’
B: ‘That was different. That was different.’
K: ‘What was different about it?’
B: ‘Well, where she was, relative to the power line road.’
K: ‘You told me before that Donna might be buried.’
B: ‘Yea. Do you have any pictures of the site?’

Bundy then pointed out a spot on a map where he thinks he left Donna’s remains, but clarified that search teams would never find her skull because it was ‘nowhere’ (Bundy’s words, not mine). When Keppel pressed Ted about that he claimed to have completely incinerated it then vacuumed up the ash that remained behind. Later searches of that area failed to find anything related to a human skeleton (keep in mind he admitted to being inebriated at the time of the abduction so he probably directed them to the wrong place). He explained: ‘it’s a lot of work and certainly very risky, under the circumstances. I mean, the kids come home from school and there’s a roaring fire in the fireplace and it’s warm outside.’

Now, there are holes in that story so big I can drive my VW Beetle through them: throughout the duration of his murder spree Bundy was (surprisingly) good about avoiding detection (although I firmly believe he may never have been caught if he wasn’t such a shitty driver), so I have a really hard time believing that he smuggled an entire HUMAN HEAD into his girlfriend’s apartment (which goes without saying is a huge risk). Additionally, burning a skull in a residential fireplace would not have been an easy feat: in order to transform human bone into ash, the fire would need to get to somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (which can be done with the use of an accelerant), and even if he was able to get it that hot, there would still be pieces of bone left behind.

What I think most likely happened: Ted attempted to burn Donna’s skull in Liz’s apartment but partway through realized how difficult of an ordeal it was (plus, burnt hair smells ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, and at the time of her murder she had a lot of it) and took the pieces that didn’t turn to ash and disposed of them in a different way (as awful as this sounds, perhaps they were so small he was able to put them in the household garbage?). Another reason to doubt Bundy’s story is that he said it was ‘warm outside’ when be burned the skull, and according to records the temperature range during the week after Mansons disappearance in Seattle was between 49°F to 57°F, and it remained on the cooler side until March 26th. So, that makes me think Ted was either lying about the weather or he got his dates mixed up and the event took place roughly two weeks after the murder. It is often wondered if Bundy made up the incident entirely just to hurt Kloepfer, who had cut all ties with him by the time he shared that information… but, at the end of the day, he was a habitual liar that rarely told the truth. And let’s say this ONE TIME Ted wasn’t lying: he has evaded telling anyone what really happened for so long, why would anyone actually believe him (especially when he was trying to avoid the electric chair). Keep in mind that only minutes before he told Keppel about incinerating Manson’s skull, he cracked a ‘joke’ about how much press his confession would generate.

The following is a conversation between Bundy and Robert Keppel regarding Manson:
Robert Keppel: ‘What about Donna Mason?’
Bundy: ‘I won’t beat around the bush with you anymore because I’m just tired and want to get back to sleep. So let me tell you, I know part of her is buried up there, the head however, wouldn’t be there.’
RK: ‘Where is it now?’
TB: ‘It’s nowhere. I’m not trying to be flippant. It’s in a category all by itself. It was incinerated. It was an exception, a strange exception.’
RK: ‘Where did you incinerate it?’
TB: ‘I promised myself I’d never tell this. In her fire place. That’s not really that humorous , but I mean , the fireplace at her house… that was the twist . It’s a lot of work and certainly very risky, under the circumstances. I mean, the kids come home from school, there’s a roaring fire in the fireplace, and it’s warm outside.’

On August 28th, 1978, two fishermen discovered the skeleton of a young female in the foothills of Mount Rainier near Eatonville, about 60 miles away from Bundy’s Taylor Mountain dump site. Despite multiple newspapers reporting that the missing skeleton belonged to Manson, the facts do not seem to line up: ‘The News Tribune’ reported that the skeleton Pierce County sheriffs discovered was 5’7”, and Donna was only 5 feet tall. Also, the remains were discovered wearing blue jeans, where Donna’s roommates said she was wearing a pair of green (or blue) pants the night she disappeared. Investigators also showed photographs of the clothing found on the skeleton to Manson’s parents and her mother was quick to say that she didn’t recognize the top as belonging to her daughter. The report also said the victim was somewhere between 12 and 17 years old where Donna was 19 at the time she disappeared.

Mr. Manson passed away on December 31, 2007; Donna’s mother died on May 26, 2014 in Auburn, WA. James Manson is still alive and currently lives in Seattle; he is the owner of ‘Axis Stainless Fabrication,’ and works with metal, and just by doing some quick research it appears that he is an expert in his field and has his work on display at the Seattle Art Museum. It doesn’t surprise me that Donna’s brother turned into a successful artist, it’s in his genes.

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