That year he also saved a small child from drowning.
The man who turned out to be Ted Bundy.
She liked him immediately and they became friends.
The Stranger Beside Me
She said she witnessed him saving many lives.
It was never meant to be a book about the man she thought was her friend.
[*] No true body count exists for Bundy.
At one point he told detectives they needed to add a digit to their estimate.
Ann Rule thinks his count could be over one-hundred.
[*] Most of Teds victims where college-aged brunettes with long hair parted in the middle.
The “murder kit” found in Bundy’s car.Kmsullivan12
[*] 1974 Karen Sparks (called Joni Lenz in the book, 18).
Attacked, bludgeoned and sexually assaulted while she slept in her basement room.
[*] 1974 Lynda Ann Healy (21).
Ted Bundy’s Volklswagen Beetle,DCTWINKIE5500
Abducted from her room while she slept.
[*] 1974 Donna Gail Manson (19).
Abducted from campus at The Evergreen State College.
The hotel hallway Caryn Campbell disappeared from.Vidor
[*] 1974 Susan Elaine Rancourt (18).
Abducted from campus at Central Washington State College.
Hed had trouble managing his armload of books and had dropped several.
Florida Department of Corrections
Finally, he asked me if Id help him carry them to his car, she recalled.
The car, a Volkswagen Bug, was parked about 300 yards from the railroad trestle.
Shed carried his books to the car, and then noticed that the passenger seat was missing.
Bundy during his Florida trial.Donn Dughi
I put the books on the hood of his car, and I ran.
[*] 1974 Roberta Kathleen Parks (22).
Missing from Oregon State University in Corvallis.
[*] 1974 Brenda Carol Ball (22).
Abducted from the Flame Tavern in Burien, Washington.
[*] 1974 Georgann Hawkins (18).
Abducted from an alley behind her sorority house.
She had to walk only ninety feet between the house she was visiting and her own home.
[*] 1974 Janice Ann Ott (23).
Abducted from Lake Sammish State Park (a crowded beach area, in broad daylight).
After her death her husband received a letter she had sent before she went missing.
Isnt that a drag?
Someone could expire before you ever got wind of it.
[*] 1974 Denise Marie Naslund (19).
Abducted from Lake Sammish State Park only hours after Janice Ott.
[*] 1974 Nancy Wilcox (16).
Ambushed and strangled in Holladay, Utah.
Her body was never found.
[*] 1974 Melissa Anne Smith (17).
Abducted from Midvale, Utah.
[*] 1974 Laura Ann Aime (17).
Abducted from Lehi, Utah.
[*] 1974 Carol DaRonch (18).
Attempted abduction in Murray, Utah.
[*] 1975 Caryn Eileen Campbell (23).
[*] 1975 Julie Cunningham (26).
Abducted from a bar in Vail, Colorado.
[*] 1975 Denise Lynn Oliverson (25).
Abducted while riding her bike to her parents home in Grand Junction, Colorado.
[*] 1975 Lynette Dawn Culver (12).
Abducted from her middle school in Pocatello, Idaho.
[*] 1975 Susan Curtis (15).
Abducted from the campus of Brigham Young University.
[*] 1978 Margaret Elizabeth Bowman (21).
Killed in her sleep at the Chi Omega sorority house.
[*] 1978 Lisa Levy (20).
Killed in her sleep at the Chi Omega sorority house.
[*] 1978 Karen Chandler (21).
Attacked in her sleep at the Chi Omega sorority house.
[*] 1978 Kathy Kleiner (21).
Attacked in her sleep at the Chi Omega sorority house.
[*] 1978 Cheryl Thomas (21).
Attacked in her sleep.
[*] 1978 Kimberly Diane Leach (12).
Abducted from her middle school in Lake City, Florida.
[*] Ann Marie Burr (8).
This was Ted Bundys neighbor when he was 14.
She disappeared from her bed one night and her body was never found.
Ann Rule says that she thinks he killed Ann Marie.
[*] Lisa E. Wick and Lonnie Trumbull (both 20).
[*] Susan Davis and Elizabeth Perry (both 19).
Both women were stabbed in 1969.
While this wasnt Bundys M.O., he has been considered a strong suspect in the case.
[*] Rita Curran (24).
Murdered in her apartment in 1971.
[*] Joyce LePage (21).
Abducted from Washington State University in 1971.
[*] Rita Lorraine Jolly (17).
Abducted from West Linn, Oregon in 1973.
[*] Vicki Lynn Hollar (24).
Abducted from Eugene, Oregon in 1973.
[*] Brenda Joy Baker (14).
Abducted from Washington in 1973.
[*] Sandra Jean Weaver (19).
Abducted from Salt Lake City, Utah in 1974.
[*] Carol L. Valenzuela (20).
Abducted from Vancouver, Washington in 1974.
[*] Martha Morrison (17).
Abducted from Eugene, Oregon in 1974.
[*] Melanie Suzanne Suzy Cooley (18).
Abducted from Nederland, Colorado in 1975.
[*] Shelly (or Shelley) Kay Robertson (25).
Abducted from Golden, Colorado in 1975.
[*] Nancy Perry Baird (23).
Abducted from Farmington, Utah in 1975.
[*] Debbie Smith (17).
Abducted from Salt Lake City, Utah in 1975.
[*] Ted Bundys fingerprints were never found at any crime scene.
He even wiped his own apartment so that fingerprints could not be taken if it was searched.
I managed to fight him off and run into the brush, she remembered.
I crouched behind a clump of sagebrush for hours until I heard his car start up again.
I ran to a ranch house and they let me in.
Her car wouldnt start, so she accepted a ride home with friends.
She didnt want to leave it vulnerable and open in the tavern lot.
He tried to start it, and then he told me that I needed jumper cables.
He didnt have any, but he told me he had friends in Federal Way who did.
We went to this store and he sent me in to get some.
The guy inside thought I was nuts, and said he didnt have any jumper cables.
Well, the man who was helping me said, I know someone who has jumpers.
Before I could say no, we hit the freeway in his car, heading someplace northtoward Issaquah.
I sat there stark naked, and I tried to talk to himto use psychology.
He said, I dont want thatI want a little variety.
I grabbed for the knife, and he was furious.
He shouted, Dont do that.
He changed all of a sudden.
He drove onto a street with tall trees.
He said, This is itthis is where you get out.
He threw my clothes out of the car, but he kept my purse and shoes.
I got to a house and they let me in, and called the police.
They found that someone had pulled the distributor cap on my car.
They never located the guy who pulled the knife on me.
I yelled to my friend, Look!
Thats the guy who almost killed me.
When they said his name, it was Ted Bundy.
Usually he juggled women with Meg Anders being his long time serious partner.
[*] Stephanie Brooks.
Stephanie Brooks was his first serious relationship.
[*] Elizabeth Kloepfer/Meg Anders.
She planned to marry him.
Then, suddenly, he dropped her.
He had planned the whole thing as revenge.
She supported him through all his trials (even after the Florida murders).
They married during his Florida trial.
[*] Ted has a daughter who was conceived while he was in prison with Carole Ann Boone.
That year he also saved a small child from drowning.
[*] St. Petersburg Times as Ted to reviewThe Stranger Beside Me.
He said he would only if he received their normal book critic rate of $35.
[*] We know most of Teds victims because of his confessions, not because of police investigation.
He changed into the jailers clothes and walked away with $500 in cash he had smuggled in jail.
He would not be missed until lunch time the next day.
[*] While in a Florida jail he threw an orange at a light outside his jail cell.
Later it was found that he had hidden shards of glass from the broken light in his cell.
[*] In his Florida cell, it was discovered that he had gotten hold of a hacksaw.
