How Did Ted Bundy Walk Up to 40,000 People at Lake Sammamish and Take Two Women?
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The episode explores the chilling events surrounding Ted Bundy's early crimes and the investigation that followed.
Before the country learned his name, before the trials, before the cameras — there was a year in Seattle where young women kept disappearing and nobody could connect them to each other. Karen Sparks, beaten in her own bed with a metal rod from the bed frame, survived with brain damage and no memory of the man who did it. Lynda Healy vanished from a basement bedroom that somebody had quietly made up behind her. Donna Manson left her dorm for a concert in Olympia and never arrived. Susan Rancourt. Kathy Parks. Brenda Ball. Georgann Hawkins, eleven steps from her sorority's back door. Then July at Lake Sammamish — Janice Ott and Denise Naslund, taken from the same crowded beach four hours apart by a man who told witnesses his name was Ted. King County formed a task force. The tips exceeded two hundred thousand. Three different citizens reportedly called in the same name: Ted Bundy. The computer program placed him in the top hundred. He was filtered out for having no record. The families of the missing waited through fall, through winter, through a March morning when forestry students found four skulls on Taylor Mountain. Lynda Healy. Susan Rancourt. Kathy Parks. Brenda Ball. By…
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