Ted Bundy Victims: Death by a Serial Killer

Taken from Holladay, Utah. Skull eventually recovered.

October 18th: Melissa Anne Smith, age 17. Went on identify Bundy from police lineup.
It was at this point that Ted Bundy moved to Utah to attend the University of Utah Law School.
Skeletal remains recovered.
January 15th: Margaret Bowman, age 21. Power and possession. Disappeared from Oregon State
University. His killings weren't based on the sexual assault aspect, they were based on power. Taken
from Lehi, Utah. Attacked while asleep, a few blocks from the sorority house. Body never recovered.
(Please note that this list includes only 25 identified victims and survivors. He escaped on December
30, 1977 and didn't waste too much time in trying to go straight. Body never found.
May 6th: Roberta Kathleen Parks, age 22. These early victims were left as they lay, either
unconscious or dead. Disappeared from Lake Sammamish State Park. Body never recovered
April 6th: Denise Oliverson, age 25. Skull recovered.
Ted Bundy remains a suspect in a large number of unsolved murders and disappearances.
Kidnapped while walking to College Concert. Vanished after leaving a tavern in Burien.
March 12th: Donna Gail Manson, age 19. Bundy repeatedly denied any similarity between his
victims and his first love.
January 15th: Karen Chandler, age 21. Attacked while sleeping and body taken. Attacked while
sleeping, Chi Omega sorority. Body found.
Ted Bundy's reign of terror lasted from 1974 to 1978 and spanned six states, leaving behind 30
known murder victims, as confessed by Bundy. Officials saw this as a delaying tactic to push back
his execution date even further. Body recovered
January 15th: Lisa Levy, age 20. Bundy's first murders were forced entry followed by attack with a
blunt instrument, usually on a sleeping victim. Escaped and survived. Body never found.
July 14th: Denise Marie Naslund, age 19. Survived.
June 11th: Georgeann Hawkins, age 18. However many other murders Bundy may have committed,
he took that information with him to the grave. Neither did the fact that Bundy had an active social
life and dated many women from the area. Taken from a school in Bountiful, Utah. Taken from Grand
Junction, Colorado. Disappeared from school in Pocatello, Idaho. Attempted kidnapping in Murray,
Utah. Skeletal remains found.
February 1st: Lynda Ann Healy, age 21. Taken within hours after Janice Ott, from the same location.
Body never recovered.
Ted Bundy Victim List, in Chronological Order:

1978 (Florida)
October 31st: Laura Aime, age 17. Killed in her sleep at the Chi Omega sorority
Ted Bundy was seen by many people at Lake Sammamish on the day of
http://spookywaif3354.shutterfly.com/spookywaif3354 the abductions. It seems odd to say, but these
were his lucky victims. Attacked while sleeping, Chi Omega sorority. That arrest (and items found
https://www.justia.com/lawyers in Bundy's car) eventually lead to Bundy being tried and convicted of
aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault on Carol DaRonch. Skull recovered.

July 14th: Janice Ann Ott, age 23. Bundy confessed to 30 homicides, but no one truly knows how
many women Bundy really killed. Body recovered.. Taken from hotel in Snowmass, Colorado. Bundy,
an attractive charmer, would then approach the victim of his choice with a request for help. No less
than four people submitted Ted Bundy's name as a possible suspect. They became engaged, then
Bundy stopped the relationship. Body never recovered.
January 15th: Kathy Kleiner, age 21. Taken from her school in Lake City, Florida. As his execution
date grew closer, he started alluding to more and more murders. Survived, but with permanent
brain damage.
October 2nd: Nancy Wilcox, age 16. Taken from UW, behind her sorority house. Body never
recovered.
Here it should be noted that in August of 1975, Ted Bundy was arrested for failing to pull over on a
routine traffic stop. This took him behind bars until his final escape (his second) which led to his
flight to Florida. Skeletal remains found.
November 8th: Debra Kent age, 17. As his murders gained momentum, he became more organized
and c
unning.
June 1st: Brenda Carol Ball, age 22. It may have been the pressure of his long prison stay or the
thought of recapture, but Bundy reverted to his previous MO of forced entry and attacks on sleeping
victims.
January 12th: Caryn Campbell, age 23. His modus operandi evolved over the years. Skeletal remains
recovered.
1974 (Washington State and Oregon)
November 8th: Carol DaRonch, age 18. Abducted at Brigham Young University. Unfortunately the
study of law did not occupy Bundy's mind to the point where he gave up murder. He would then take
his victim to a second location where they were assaulted and killed. Skull recovered.
May 6th: Lynette Culver, age 12. Five women witnesses helped the police to come up with a
composite sketch which was distributed to the media. Some believe them all to be similar in
appearance to Bundy's college sweetheart who left him. After her rejection of him, he rebuilt himself
into a more respectable person (at least on the outside) and won her back. He was view it very adept

at gaining these young women's confidence. According to Bundy, he had just wanted to prove that
he could have married her free lsat practice questions if he had really wanted to. Survived.
All of his victims were young and pretty, most of them college students. Survived.

April 17th: Susan Elaine Rancourt, age 18. Murdered in her sleep at the Chi Omega sorority.
His most popular ruse was to fake an injury, either a sprained ankle with the use of crutches or a
broken arm with a fake cast. Disappeared from Midvale, Utah. Abducted from Central Washington
State College. Some of the bodies were never recovered, others only partially so.
1974 (Utah, Idaho, Colorado)
June 28th: Susan Curtis, age 15. Abducted from Vail, Colorado. The killings continued.
March 15th: Julie Cunningham, age 26. Bundy died by electrocution on January 24, 1989.
February 9th: Kimberly Leach, age 12. However, the police were receiving 100's of tips a day, and
the clean-cut law student didn't seem likely to be their killer.
January 15th: Cheryl Thomas, age 21. Some people have estimated the total could run as high as
more than a 100.)
1975
January 4th: (Name withheld) age 18, attacked while sleeping. One striking similarity among most of
the victims was their long hair, usually parted in the middle