kitchen and told my mother about it. I remember thinking at the time that I was the only one who thought it was strange. Nobody did anything.”
In 1950, Louise and Ted moved to Tacoma, Wash-
ington, where she met and married John Bundy in May 1951. Despite good grades in school, Ted’s file was filled with notes from his teachers alluding to his explosive and unpredictable temper. By the time he finished high school, Ted was a compulsive masturbator and a night-prowling voyeur, twice arrested by juvenile authorities on suspicion of burglary and auto theft. In 1970, he seemed to shift gears, winning a commendation from the Seattle Police Department for chasing down a purse-snatcher. A year later, Ted was enrolled at the University of Washington, working part-time on a suicide hot line. Behind the new civic-minded facade, however, Ted’s morbid fantasies were building toward a Theodore Bundy being led back to prison in handcuffs lethal flash point.
(Wide World API)
Linda Healy was the first fatality. On January 31, 1974, she vanished from her basement lodgings in Seattle, leaving bloody sheets behind, a bloodstained night-gown hanging in her closet. Several blocks away, young BUNDY, Carol
See CLARK, DOUGLAS
Susan Clarke had been assaulted, bludgeoned in her bed a few weeks earlier, but she survived her injuries and would eventually recover. As for 21-year-old Lynda BUNDY, Theodore Robert
Healy, she was gone without a trace.
Ted Bundy is a striking contrast to the general image of Police had no persuasive evidence of any pattern a “homicidal maniac”: attractive, self-assured, politi-yet, but it would not be long in coming. On March 12, cally ambitious, and successful with a wide variety of Donna Gail Manson, 19, disappeared en route to a women. But his private demons drove him to extremes concert in Olympia, Washington. On April 17, 18-of violence that make the gory worst of modern year-old Susan Rancourt vanished on her way to see a
“slasher” films seem almost petty by comparison. With German-language film in Ellensburg. On May 6, 22-his chameleon-like ability to blend, his talent for year-old Roberta Parks failed to return from a late-belonging, Bundy posed an ever-present danger to the night stroll in her Corvallis neighborhood. On June 1, pretty, dark-haired women he selected as his victims.
22-year-old Brenda Ball left Seattle’s Flame Tavern Born Theodore Robert Cowell in November 1946 at with an unknown man and vanished as if into thin air.
a home for unwed mothers in Vermont, Ted never knew Ten days later, 18-year-old Georgeann Hawkins joined his father, described vaguely by Louise Cowell as a ser-the list of missing women, lost somewhere between viceman she dated several times. Poverty forced Louise her boyfriend’s apartment and her sorority house in and her newborn son to live with her strict Methodist Seattle.
parents in Philadelphia, where Ted spent the first four Now detectives had their pattern. All the missing years of his life pretending Louise was his sister. He women had been young, attractive, with their dark hair would later paint a sunny picture of those years, pro-worn at shoulder length and parted in the middle. In fessing love for grandfather Sam Cowell, but other fam-their photos, laid out side by side, they might have ily members describe Sam as a bitter racist and wife passed for sisters, some for twins. Homicide investiga-30
BUNDY, Theodore Robert
tors had no corpses yet, but they refused to cherish false swagen Beetle was parked. There was no sign of any illusions of a happy ending to the case. There were so sailboat, and his explanation—that the boat would many victims, and the worst was yet to come.
have to be retrieved from a house “up the hill”—had On July 14, a crowd assembled on the shores of Lake aroused her suspicions, prompting her to put the Sammamish to enjoy the sun and water sports of sum-stranger off.
mer. When the day was over, two more names would
In 1950, Louise and Ted moved to Tacoma, Wash-
ington, where she met and married John Bundy in May 1951. Despite good grades in school, Ted’s file was filled with notes from his teachers alluding to his explosive and unpredictable temper. By the time he finished high school, Ted was a compulsive masturbator and a night-prowling voyeur, twice arrested by juvenile authorities on suspicion of burglary and auto theft. In 1970, he seemed to shift gears, winning a commendation from the Seattle Police Department for chasing down a purse-snatcher. A year later, Ted was enrolled at the University of Washington, working part-time on a suicide hot line. Behind the new civic-minded facade, however, Ted’s morbid fantasies were building toward a Theodore Bundy being led back to prison in handcuffs lethal flash point.
(Wide World API)
Linda Healy was the first fatality. On January 31, 1974, she vanished from her basement lodgings in Seattle, leaving bloody sheets behind, a bloodstained night-gown hanging in her closet. Several blocks away, young BUNDY, Carol
See CLARK, DOUGLAS
Susan Clarke had been assaulted, bludgeoned in her bed a few weeks earlier, but she survived her injuries and would eventually recover. As for 21-year-old Lynda BUNDY, Theodore Robert
Healy, she was gone without a trace.
Ted Bundy is a striking contrast to the general image of Police had no persuasive evidence of any pattern a “homicidal maniac”: attractive, self-assured, politi-yet, but it would not be long in coming. On March 12, cally ambitious, and successful with a wide variety of Donna Gail Manson, 19, disappeared en route to a women. But his private demons drove him to extremes concert in Olympia, Washington. On April 17, 18-of violence that make the gory worst of modern year-old Susan Rancourt vanished on her way to see a
“slasher” films seem almost petty by comparison. With German-language film in Ellensburg. On May 6, 22-his chameleon-like ability to blend, his talent for year-old Roberta Parks failed to return from a late-belonging, Bundy posed an ever-present danger to the night stroll in her Corvallis neighborhood. On June 1, pretty, dark-haired women he selected as his victims.
22-year-old Brenda Ball left Seattle’s Flame Tavern Born Theodore Robert Cowell in November 1946 at with an unknown man and vanished as if into thin air.
a home for unwed mothers in Vermont, Ted never knew Ten days later, 18-year-old Georgeann Hawkins joined his father, described vaguely by Louise Cowell as a ser-the list of missing women, lost somewhere between viceman she dated several times. Poverty forced Louise her boyfriend’s apartment and her sorority house in and her newborn son to live with her strict Methodist Seattle.
parents in Philadelphia, where Ted spent the first four Now detectives had their pattern. All the missing years of his life pretending Louise was his sister. He women had been young, attractive, with their dark hair would later paint a sunny picture of those years, pro-worn at shoulder length and parted in the middle. In fessing love for grandfather Sam Cowell, but other fam-their photos, laid out side by side, they might have ily members describe Sam as a bitter racist and wife passed for sisters, some for twins. Homicide investiga-30
BUNDY, Theodore Robert
tors had no corpses yet, but they refused to cherish false swagen Beetle was parked. There was no sign of any illusions of a happy ending to the case. There were so sailboat, and his explanation—that the boat would many victims, and the worst was yet to come.
have to be retrieved from a house “up the hill”—had On July 14, a crowd assembled on the shores of Lake aroused her suspicions, prompting her to put the Sammamish to enjoy the sun and water sports of sum-stranger off.
mer. When the day was over, two more names would
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