Ted Bundy - Serial Killer - 1974-1978

[imstilla.grandma]

*48 Hours" Live to Tell: Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy targeted three young Florida women in one of his final attacks. They survived, and share their terrifying ordeal and long road to recovery

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1834264338347245884

The remains of Spokanite Janice Blackburn Ott were found 50 years ago. She's so much more than a Ted Bundy victim

Sep. 12—Fifty years after the remains of Janice Blackburn Ott were found in Issaquah, Washington, her urn sits inside a glass case at Fairmount Memorial Park in Spokane, still empty. King County lost ...

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[Betty P]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1834264338347245884

The remains of Spokanite Janice Blackburn Ott were found 50 years ago. She's so much more than a Ted Bundy victim

Sep. 12—Fifty years after the remains of Janice Blackburn Ott were found in Issaquah, Washington, her urn sits inside a glass case at Fairmount Memorial Park in Spokane, still empty. King County lost ...

news.yahoo.com

How sad that King County lost Janice and Denice Naslund’s remains. It was good to hear from Janice’s sister. I hope it makes her feel better to know many of us still remember Janice, Denise and Bundy’s other victims. Their faces are familiar. Such terrifying murders of bright, kind young women who had so much of their lives yet to live.

 

[youngsleuth95]

Well, Ted Bundy murdered at least 30 women in the 1970s, but where exactly did this come from?
Of course, you might say he was a psychopath. I do not deny that (I do not know if there were any tests), so I say it is fairly possible that he murdered far more than 30. Investigators estimate that he could have murdered 100.
I have scoured the Internet for missing and murder cases. Some are on the East Coast due to relations to Vermont. Now, some of these are extremely unlikely to have been committed by Bundy, but I will put ALL POSSIBLE CASES out there.
I got all the missing from NamUs, the rest from other sites.

Ann Marie Burr, 8, August 31 1961
Susan Pearson, 30, March 13 1966
Mary Greene, 34, December 10 1966
Lynn Bandringa, 21, May 29 1967
Deborah Spickler, 13, July 24 1968
Dixie Arensen, 20, August 25 1968
Mary Bostan, 23, September 1 1968
Verla Winter, 30/31, October 131968
Karen ODonoghue, 25, July 2 1969
Cynthia Constantine, 15, July 11 1969
Niki Britten, 15, July 16 1969
Rosemary Calandriello, 17, August 25 1969
Cindy Mellin, 19, January 20 1970
Bertha Burke, 30, February 20 1970
Denise Sheehy, 16, July 7 1970
Jeanette Miller, 17, September 16 1970
Christine Eastin, 19, January 18 1971
Debra Pscholka, 12, June 5 1971
Barbara Bryson, 19, July 29 1971
Mary Wesolowski, 13, August 18 1971
Cathy Moulton, 16, September 24 1971
Lynda Hanley, 23, November 4 1971
Jaime Grissim, 16, December 7 1971
Lynn Schulze, 18, December 10 1971
Sherry Pickle, 15, May 16 1972
Alice Pereira, 5, July 7 1972
Paula Pope, 19, September 3 1972
Pamela Burrows, 24, 1973
Kathleen Rodgers, 16, March 3 1973
Althea Blankinship, 23/24, March 27 1973
Jeffrey Blankinship, 3, March 27 1973
Rory Kesinger, 24, May 27 1973
Barbara Tolbert, 22/23, June 1 1973
Rita Jolly, 17, June 23 1973
Rose Cole, 16, July 1 1973
Janice Pockett, 7, July 26 1973
Bonita Bickwit, 15, July 27 1973
Rochelle White, 19, July 30 1973
Carol Rodriguez, 29, August 4 1973
Vicki Hollar, 24, August 20 1973
Sheryl Tillinghast, 17, September 24 1973
Sandra Hopler, 18, September 29 1973
Kim Mallon, 13, September 30 1973
Dorothy Bois, 22, October 3 1973
Barbara Aleksivich, 24, October 3 1973
Deborah Tomlinson, 16, October 15 1973
Patricia Seelbaugh, 17, October 26 1973
Suzanne Justis, November 5 1973
Helen Harrington, 26-27, 1974
VickeLamberton, 24/25, February 1 1974
Donna Manson, 19, March 12 1974
Diane Gilchrist, 14, May 29 1974
Georgeann Hawkins, 18, June 11 1974
Margaret Fox, 14, June 24 1974
Linda Lovell, 25, June 27 1974
Carlene Brown, 19, July 4 1974
Rhonda Labbe, 17, August 7 1974
Colleen Burgess, 25, August 31 1974
Martha Morrison, 17, September 1 1974
Katherine Jones, 29, September 27 1974
Laurie Partridge, 17, December 4 1974
Sylvia Lwowski, 22, September 6 1975
Julie Cunningham, 26, March 15 1975
Denise Oliverson, 25, April 6 1975
Lynette Culver, 12, May 5 1975
Edna Thorne, 15, June 24 1975
Nancy Baird, 23, July 4 1975
Robyn Pettinato, 14, July 5 1975
Kristina Perkins, 25, September 10 1975
Teresa Rhodes, 13, September 27 1975
Cherrill Miller, 27, October 12 1975
Murdered
Lonnie Trumbell, June 23 1966, Seattle, Washington.
Joanne Dunham, 15, June 11 1968, Charleston, New Hampshire. Her body was found off a dirt road near Unity.
Debra Horn, 11, January 291969, Allenstown, New Hampshire. At home alone when she vanished. The only clue was a studded snowtire track. Her body was found on August 10th.
Susan Davis, 19, May 30 1969, Somers Point, New Jersey.
Elizabeth Perry, May 30 1969, Somers Point, New Jersey.
Jody Miller, 13, vanished June 21 1971, body discovered November 2 1971.
Rita Curran, 24, July 19 1971, Vermont.
Gloria Crummett, 16, July 26 1971, Reno, Nevada.
Jane Doe, found deceased October 6 1971, near Bedford, New Hampshire. Aged 25-35, may have had brown hair. 51 to 55, died between one and three months prior. Found at the end of Kilton Road.
Kathy Lynn Gloody, 13, November 21 1971, Franklin, New Hampshire. Her body was found the next day, in the woods by Franklin. Raped and strangled, suffered blunt force.
Starr Valley Jane Doe, found June 1972, white female aged 20 to 25, near Elko, Nevada.
Diane Compagna, 15, and Anne Psardelis, 15, July 12 1973, from Merrimack, last seen at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. Found September 29 1973.
Kathleen Randall, 18, September 13 1972, Nashua, New Hampshire. Found October 1 1972 at a farm, on Route 111-A.
Brenda Joy Baker, 14, May 27 1974.
Thousand Springs Jane Doe, early 20s, found July 14 1974 near Wells, Nevada.
Carol L. Valenzuela, 20, August 2 1974, Washington.
Joanna Robinson, 23, in Oregon on or about August 9 1974, found along Interstate 80, near Reno, Nevada.
Mary Ann Pryor, 17, and Lorraine Kelly, 16, August 9 1974, New Jersey. On August 14, their bodies were discovered near Rolling Ridge Road in Montvale, New Jersey. They had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled.
Unidentified woman, body found October 1974, Washington.
Kim Benoit, 18, Florida, Massachusetts, November 1 1974, found November 16, strangled.
Katherine Kolodziej, 17, Cobleskill, New York, November 2 1974, her body found November 28 1974.
Melanie Suzanne Cooley, 18, April 15 1975, Colorado.
Gerri Ralston, 15, vanished May 21 1975, Clark County, Nevada. Found dead the next day.
Shelly Kay Robertson, 24, July 1 1975, Colorado.
Stephanie Olisky, 15, July 21 1975, Connecticut, died days later from head trauma.
Debbie Smith, 17, February 1976, Utah.

Who was Helen Harrington? I tried to find information about her, and I was given an already inaccessible namus and her full name with a brief summary of the circumstances of her disappearance.

 

[BraveMom]

One of the women he was suspected of killing Rita Curran's killer has been identified! She Was Strangled in Her Bedroom with No Witnesses. Some Suspected Ted Bundy — But Real Killer Was Just Steps Away. he was her neighbor and they had DNA,

 

[dotr]

April 15, 2025

1969 Ocean City N.J. Cold Case Investigation Considers Ted Bundy, Then Living in Lafayette Hill

A 54-year-old cold case murder outside Ocean City, N.J. may be linked to serial killer Ted Bundy, living in Lafayette Hill then.

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Susan Davis, l, and Elizabeth Perry. A 54-year-old cold case murder outside Ocean City, N.J. may be linked to serial killer Ted Bundy, living in Lafayette Hill then.
''A Oxygen network documentary may have chilling implications regarding Lafayette Hill and a 54-year-old double-murder cold case. A Post X News story reported the filmmakers’ theorized violent perpetrator: Ted Bundy.

The victims were Susan Davis and Elizabeth Perry, both 19, who spent Memorial Day 1969 in Ocean City, New Jersey.''

 

[mickey2942]

How about Valerie Percy for a Bundy murder? His style

I don't think so. That was in 1966. Bundy graduated from high school in Washington in 1965, and lived in Puget Sound area, going to community College. He didn't have the connections, or money to travel to Chicago, or even get into the area where the Percy's lived, Kenilworth, notices people who "don't belong".

I am convinced that the Percy's knew who killed Valerie. And that is why nothing has gone further with the case with DNA science.

 

[Betty P]

I don't think so. That was in 1966. Bundy graduated from high school in Washington in 1965, and lived in Puget Sound area, going to community College. He didn't have the connections, or money to travel to Chicago, or even get into the area where the Percy's lived, Kenilworth, notices people who "don't belong".

I am convinced that the Percy's knew who killed Valerie. And that is why nothing has gone further with the case with DNA science.

I've thought the same, too. JMO. A young woman killed by an intruder, in her own bed in a house full of other family members and family dogs. According to the doctor next door who was called, the scene was somewhat staged with bedding pulled up over her chest.

They experienced terrible, lifelong grief, but the family left town for a private retreat shortly after the murder. Some felt they should have stayed to help LE with the investigation.

All files about the investigation have since been sealed from the public and news media. No testing of possible DNA evidence, etc.

Today, LE might have looked more closely at the people and events surrounding Valerie's untimely death.

 

[Bored_To_Death]

I think he had more child victims (prepubescent I mean). He was very sexually deviant with his girlfriend's daughter and killed two 12 year Olds.

 

[Ontario Mom]

It's finally been confirmed:

SPANISH FORK, Utah (KUTV) — The death of a Lehi teen has been definitely connected to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, the Utah County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday.

Laura Ann Aime was 17 when she first went missing on Halloween night in 1974. Her body was found by hikers less than a month later, undressed and in an embankment near American Fork Canyon Road.

Slain teen found in 1974 definitively linked to Ted Bundy murders

Laura Ann Aime was 17 when she first went missing on Halloween night in 1974.

kutv.com

 

[Mysteries1974]

It's finally been confirmed:

SPANISH FORK, Utah (KUTV) — The death of a Lehi teen has been definitely connected to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, the Utah County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday.

Laura Ann Aime was 17 when she first went missing on Halloween night in 1974. Her body was found by hikers less than a month later, undressed and in an embankment near American Fork Canyon Road.

Slain teen found in 1974 definitively linked to Ted Bundy murders

Laura Ann Aime was 17 when she first went missing on Halloween night in 1974.

kutv.com

I wonder with these recent developments in DNA testing… maybe the evidence from Anne Marie Burr’s case can be retested. IIRC, the evidence recovered from Burr’s case was tested against Bundy’s DNA in 2011 but the results were inconclusive.

I know everyone is split on whether he’s involved or not in the case but it would be nice to use DNA to conclusively rule him out in that case.

I’m glad Laura’s family has conclusive proof that their daughter’s killer was truly caught. I hope the other families of Bundy’s victims someday get the same.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Laura Ann Aime, 17, vanished on Halloween night 51 years ago after leaving a party alone to go to a convenience store.

About a month later, her naked body was found on the side of a highway, bound and beaten.

Investigators long suspected that Bundy was responsible. Police said he verbally acknowledged his culpability leading up to his execution.

But the case remained open until they could be sure.

Bundy was one of the nation’s most prolific serial killers, with at least 30 women and girls’ deaths linked to him in several states in the 1970s. His murders, which occurred in sorority houses, parks and elsewhere, set the nation on edge
Ted Bundy victim tally grows as DNA test links him to unsolved murder

 

[arielilane]

LAURA ANN AIME HOMICIDE CASE CLOSURE​

The Utah County Sheriff's office has definitive proof that Theodore "Ted" Bundy murdered Laura Ann Aime in 1974. The DNA Testing results will allow other agencies to have modern DNA results to assist in their open cases.

Utah County Sheriff's Office Media - News Details

sheriff.utahcounty.gov

LAURA ANN AIME HOMICIDE CASE CLOSURE​

04/01/2026 05:46:05 am

The Utah County Sheriff's office has definitive proof that Theodore "Ted" Bundy murdered Laura Ann Aime in 1974. The DNA Testing results will allow other agencies to have modern DNA results to assist in their open cases.


Laura Ann Aime

UCSO Press Release

On the evening of October 31, 1974, 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime (Laura) was last seen leaving a Halloween party in Utah County. Witnesses claim she left alone and wanted to purchase some items from a convenience store. On November 27, 1974, Thanksgiving, her lifeless body was found tossed several feet from the highway, near State Road 92 in the American Fork Canyon. Her body was discovered by two college students on a hike in the canyon. Her body was observed to be bound, severely beaten, and with no clothing. Deputies also discovered that a nylon stocking was utilized to strangle Aime and ultimately a major contributor to her death.

Prior investigations support that Laura’s body was recently placed in relation to its discovery, suggesting that Laura was kept alive for several days or more after her abduction. Case evidence similarities indicated that the manner of abuse and the likely cause of death was comparable to the modus operandi of Theodore “Ted” Bundy (Bundy). Other victims were believed and known to have been discarded in Northern Utah and throughout the Western United States, including Florida where he was apprehended, tried, and incarcerated. Bundy was believed to have acted alone and shared mental traits associated with a psychopathic serial killer who may have killed more than twenty people of various ages and gender. Bundy was known to utilize all types of ruses and tactics to lure in his victims. Although Bundy had a desired common physical female preference and attraction, he ultimately killed viciously and indiscriminately to please his desires. He was executed in Florida on January 24, 1989.

In the days and hours leading to his execution, Bundy, verbally acknowledged his culpability in the death/disappearance of Laura and others. However, Bundy would not elaborate or give any detail to his actual involvement with the deaths or abductions of the women. At the time of his admission, the Utah County Sheriff’s Department and Utah County Attorney’s Office both declined to accept Bundy’s verbal accountability for Laura’s homicide, as the open Utah County case was unable to satisfactorily convict Bundy based upon the evidence in possession and with the available investigative sciences for the time. The Sheriff’s Department elected to keep this case open until investigators could prove, without a shadow of doubt, that Bundy was the composer of these heinous crimes to Laura. In addition, other leads indicating additional suspects have also been considered.

Laura is remembered by her family and friends to be a tall, beautiful, outgoing free spirit who enjoyed outdoor activities and shared a passion for riding horses, hunting, and caring for her several siblings. Her family said that Laura was one who found joy in everything she did, making the most of her time with her family. Laura’s younger siblings told stories of her abundant compassion and warmth for her family. An example is when Laura spent personal funds to buy candy for her brother and sister’s because she enjoyed watching the happiness in the eyes of her siblings getting something sweet.

Utah County Sheriff's Office Media - News Details

sheriff.utahcounty.gov

 

[arielilane]

Update on murder of Laura Ann Aime

The Utah County Sheriff's Office provides new information on the murder of Laura Ann Aime in 1974.

 

[arielilane]

Slain teen found in 1974 definitively linked to Ted Bundy murders

Laura Ann Aime was 17 when she first went missing on Halloween night in 1974.

kutv.com

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2039427448291402169

 

[Seattle1]

New DNA testing links 1974 unsolved death of Utah teen to serial killer Ted Bundy, sheriff says

Investigators long suspected that Bundy was responsible — police said he verbally acknowledged his culpability leading up to his execution — but the case remained open until they could be sure.

www.pbs.org

4/1/26

Laura Ann Aime, 17, was bound, beaten and without clothing. Authorities said the evidence indicated that she had likely been kept alive for several days after her abduction.

New DNA testing confirms serial killer Ted Bundy killed a Utah teen in 1974

A Utah sheriff's office says DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.

apnews.com

4/1/26

 

[truenoblesavage]

New DNA testing links 1974 unsolved death of Utah teen to serial killer Ted Bundy, sheriff says

Investigators long suspected that Bundy was responsible — police said he verbally acknowledged his culpability leading up to his execution — but the case remained open until they could be sure.

www.pbs.org

4/1/26

Laura Ann Aime, 17, was bound, beaten and without clothing. Authorities said the evidence indicated that she had likely been kept alive for several days after her abduction.

New DNA testing confirms serial killer Ted Bundy killed a Utah teen in 1974

A Utah sheriff's office says DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.

apnews.com

4/1/26

From the second article…

“The state crime lab got new technology in 2023 that allows investigators to extract DNA from samples even if they are small, degraded from age or contain DNA from multiple people, he said. That technology allowed them to identify a single male DNA profile, which they submitted to a national law enforcement database.

Bundy’s DNA was a match, Mason said.

That profile can now be used by other law enforcement agencies who have long suspected Bundy of additional unsolved killings, he said, adding that more families could get similar closure.” (bolded by me)

Does this mean we didn’t have a DNA profile for Bundy prior to this??

 

[Seattle1]

Does this mean we didn’t have a DNA profile for Bundy prior to this??

Ted Bundy's DNA profile did exist and was entered into the national database (CODIS) in 2011, derived from samples taken during his 1978 Florida prosecution. However, 2023 forensic breakthroughs allowed Utah investigators to test old evidence with new techniques, creating a fresh profile (the newer profile definitively linked Bundy to the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime).

 

[Betty P]

He did mention this victim in his interviews just prior to his execution, but, IIRC, he couldn't recall the details of where she was buried. He was dumping victims in that general area outside of Salt Lake City. There's a partial transcript of this interview at this link:

The Utah Confession, 1989 » Killer in the Archives

This is my transcription of Ted Bundy's confession to Salt Lake City Sheriff's Detective Dennis Couch, dated January 22, 1989. Utah victim names mentioned in this confession include Nancy Wilcox, Debra Kent, Melissa Smith, Carol DaRonch, Laura Aime, and Nancy Baird. I attempted to transcribe...

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