UT UT - Nancy Wilcox, 16, Holliday, 2 Oct 1974

[John/Jane Doe]

Nancy Wilcox – The Charley Project

 

[theshadow45]

Bumping, today is Nancy’s birthday.

 

[theshadow45]

Nancy has been missing for 50 years today.

 

[mlhenn]

Nancy Wilcox – The Charley Project

Last updated October 9, 2024; date of disappearance corrected, two pictures added, distinguishing characteristics, clothing/jewelry description, details of disappearance updated.

 

[Mysteries1974]

Ted Bundy myths: folklore surrounds case of first Utah victim

Susie Nelson vividly remembers the night her big sister Nancy Wilcox vanished 50 years ago.

ksltv.com

from link:

MILLCREEK — Susie Nelson vividly remembers the night her big sister Nancy Wilcox vanished 50 years ago.

“We were in watching TV,” Nelson said. “She was waiting for her boyfriend.”

Nancy Wilcox, 16, lived near 2300 East and 3900 South, in what is today the city of Millcreek. She’d just started her junior year at Olympus High School and was dating a boy named John, who was a star athlete a grade above.

On this particular autumn evening, John arrived at the Wilcox house to pick up Nancy. He pulled his truck into the driveway, and was met by Wilcox’s father. Herbert Wilcox didn’t care for his daughter’s boyfriend, or the oil stains John’s truck left on the concrete. Herbert told John to move his truck to the street.

“I don’t know what happened. Maybe [John] got mad and he took off,” Nelson said.

Nancy’s mother, Connie Wilcox, informed her daughter that Herbert and John had argued, and John left in a huff. Susie, who was 10 years old, recalled her sister Nancy becoming upset.

“I could hear her talking to my dad and he says, ‘I just asked [John] to back up his truck. That,’s all I asked,’ And she just goes, ‘Well, did you yell,’” Nelson said.

Nancy then rushed out of the house.

“She was hoping that she’d just find [John] because he just barely took off,” Nelson said. “That’s all I saw, was her going out of the house, down the driveway, and then we didn’t see her again.”

Case File: Nancy Wilcox, 1974 » Killer in the Archives

On the first evening in October in 1974, Nancy Wilcox had the kind of typical teenage argument with her parents that countless families have experienced—this one about a boy. It was a Tuesday night after dinner, and her boyfriend had come by to visit, but her father sent him away before Nancy...

killerinthearchives.blog

from link:

On the first evening in October in 1974, Nancy Wilcox had the kind of typical teenage argument with her parents that countless families have experienced—this one about a boy. It was a Tuesday night after dinner, and her boyfriend had come by to visit, but her father sent him away before Nancy could see him.
Hurt and frustrated, the 16-year-old stormed out of her suburban Salt Lake City home, perhaps hoping to find her boyfriend, or maybe just seeking a moment alone to clear her head in the cool night air. What should have been a brief, calming walk through the quiet familiarity of her own neighborhood turned into a nightmare. Nancy never came home that night, or ever again— instead she tragicallybecame Utah’s first known victim of the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.

Note^^ Nancy went missing on October 1st 1974, not 10/2 so I think the date should be corrected if possible.

 

[cenazoic]

Nancy left her high school to buy a package of gum and never returned.

@Mysteries1974 ’s post above tells a very different story than the ‘circumstances of disappearance’ posted on Namus as reported in post #1 (quoted above).

 

[Mysteries1974]

@Mysteries1974 ’s post above tells a very different story than the ‘circumstances of disappearance’ posted on Namus as reported in post #1 (quoted above).

That’s because it is wrong. Nancy never left school to get a pack of gum. She disappeared after she left home following a slight argument with her father on October 1st 1974. She did not go missing on the 2nd or 3rd like some accounts claim. The second link is written by a Bundy researcher who wanted to find the true details of Nancy’s life story and how she ended up falling victim to him.

 

[Richard]

Ted Bundy myths: folklore surrounds case of first Utah victim

Susie Nelson vividly remembers the night her big sister Nancy Wilcox vanished 50 years ago.

ksltv.com

from link:

MILLCREEK — Susie Nelson vividly remembers the night her big sister Nancy Wilcox vanished 50 years ago.

“We were in watching TV,” Nelson said. “She was waiting for her boyfriend.”

Nancy Wilcox, 16, lived near 2300 East and 3900 South, in what is today the city of Millcreek. She’d just started her junior year at Olympus High School and was dating a boy named John, who was a star athlete a grade above.

On this particular autumn evening, John arrived at the Wilcox house to pick up Nancy. He pulled his truck into the driveway, and was met by Wilcox’s father. Herbert Wilcox didn’t care for his daughter’s boyfriend, or the oil stains John’s truck left on the concrete. Herbert told John to move his truck to the street.

“I don’t know what happened. Maybe [John] got mad and he took off,” Nelson said.

Nancy’s mother, Connie Wilcox, informed her daughter that Herbert and John had argued, and John left in a huff. Susie, who was 10 years old, recalled her sister Nancy becoming upset.

“I could hear her talking to my dad and he says, ‘I just asked [John] to back up his truck. That,’s all I asked,’ And she just goes, ‘Well, did you yell,’” Nelson said.

Nancy then rushed out of the house.

“She was hoping that she’d just find [John] because he just barely took off,” Nelson said. “That’s all I saw, was her going out of the house, down the driveway, and then we didn’t see her again.”

Case File: Nancy Wilcox, 1974 » Killer in the Archives

On the first evening in October in 1974, Nancy Wilcox had the kind of typical teenage argument with her parents that countless families have experienced—this one about a boy. It was a Tuesday night after dinner, and her boyfriend had come by to visit, but her father sent him away before Nancy...

killerinthearchives.blog

from link:

On the first evening in October in 1974, Nancy Wilcox had the kind of typical teenage argument with her parents that countless families have experienced—this one about a boy. It was a Tuesday night after dinner, and her boyfriend had come by to visit, but her father sent him away before Nancy could see him.
Hurt and frustrated, the 16-year-old stormed out of her suburban Salt Lake City home, perhaps hoping to find her boyfriend, or maybe just seeking a moment alone to clear her head in the cool night air. What should have been a brief, calming walk through the quiet familiarity of her own neighborhood turned into a nightmare. Nancy never came home that night, or ever again— instead she tragicallybecame Utah’s first known victim of the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.

Note^^ Nancy went missing on October 1st 1974, not 10/2 so I think the date should be corrected if possible.

This month marks 50 years since Nancy Wilcox went missing.

Serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to her abduction and murder, and attempted to describe the location where he hid her body. However, her body has not been found to date.

Utah investigators linked her disappearance to three other abductions which they believed were committed by Bundy ( he confessed to only two of them - Nancy Wilcox and Debra Kent) and also another possible four cases.

 

[Richard]

Bundy gave investigators a lot of information about his crimes as his execution date approached. He was clearly trying to prolong his time, and also hoping that investigators would take him out of prison to lead them to the burial sites or places where he dumped his victims.

In some cases, victims of Bundy's separate abduction/murders were dumped in the same location, and because of that they were "connected" even before he was captured. Ted may have done the same with his Utah victims, so if one is located, perhaps others will be nearby.

It is interesting that a witness claimed to have seen Nancy Wilcox entering a yellow Volkswagen "bug". Ted was certainly a big Volkswagen fan and owned a tan one himself. It is possible that the witness misremembered the color or saw it in dim light and thought it appeared to be yellow. It is also possible that Ted could have stolen a VW that night - as he did on several other occasions and used it to abduct Nancy.

 

[Mysteries1974]

Bundy gave investigators a lot of information about his crimes as his execution date approached. He was clearly trying to prolong his time, and also hoping that investigators would take him out of prison to lead them to the burial sites or places where he dumped his victims.

In some cases, victims of Bundy's separate abduction/murders were dumped in the same location, and because of that they were "connected" even before he was captured. Ted may have done the same with his Utah victims, so if one is located, perhaps others will be nearby.

It is interesting that a witness claimed to have seen Nancy Wilcox entering a yellow Volkswagen "bug". Ted was certainly a big Volkswagen fan and owned a tan one himself. It is possible that the witness misremembered the color or saw it in dim light and thought it appeared to be yellow. It is also possible that Ted could have stolen a VW that night - as he did on several other occasions and used it to abduct Nancy.

It’s actually believed that the alleged sighting of her in the Volkswagen was a unconfirmed sighting that was over reported in news outlets

 

[Pennysmom1]

Nancy WILCOX

Nancy disappeared from her home on October 1st, 1974. Nancy was a junior at Olympus High School. She was active in her local church and had a job as a waitress. Authorities initially classified her as a runaway. This case parallels a sequence of times when several girls from the Salt Lake County...

bci.utah.gov

<<Nancy disappeared from her home on October 1st, 1974. Nancy was a junior at Olympus High School. She was active in her local church and had a job as a waitress. Authorities initially classified her as a runaway. This case parallels a sequence of times when several girls from the Salt Lake County area turned up missing. It is the fear that anyone familiar with this case that Nancy met the same fate.>>

Nancy Wilcox

Left and Right: Nancy circa, 1974 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: October 1, 1974 Missing From: Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date O…

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Left and Right: Nancy circa, 1974

Nancy Wilcox (1958-1974) - Find a Grave Memorial

Memorial marker. Murder victim, her body never found despite her killer admitting to the crime. This memorial marker is placed on her fathers grave site in the Murray, Utah cemetery.

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