Other victims included Janice Ann Ott and Denise Marie Naslund. She was found strangled to death on October 27, 1974, with her body dumped at Summit Park. Two weeks later, 16-year-old Melissa Smith disappeared after visiting a pizza parlor in Salt Lake City. Two months later, he kidnapped teen girl, Nancy Wilcox, 16, in Holladay, Utah. Linda Healy’s roomIn August of the same year, Bundy moved to Salt Lake City to attend law school, albeit briefly, when he attacked 18-year-old Karen Sparks after he broke into her apartment, beat her with a metal rod and raped her, leaving her in a coma for almost two weeks.Īround the same time, Bundy took a hiking trip to Idaho, where he strangled and he raped an unidentified woman. Authorities later found her skull around Taylor Mountain.
In February 1974, Bundy kidnapped Linda Ann Healy from her basement bedroom in King County, Washington. Women in Oregon also began disappearing in alarming numbers. Bundy admitted to killing 36 women, but experts think the numbers reach into the hundreds.ĭuring the mid-1970s’, when Bundy lived in Seattle, numerous young women in the area began mysteriously vanishing. The body was found on November 29, 1977, on the west side of Mount Washington at 1217 Cliff Drive in Glassell Park.Although it’s debatable when notorious serial killer Ted Bundy began his murderous spree, it’s widely-known that he raped and killed numerous women throughout the 1970s. Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives investigate the murder site of Lauren Rae Wagner. What people did not expect was that the brutal murders were committed not by one but two insatiable killers – cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono. The covered body can be seen in the center of the photo, with police personnel and residents of the area in the background.įollowing the murders of three sex workers, the Hillside Strangler began abducting young women regardless of race or background, before ultimately disappearing without a trace.īody of Kimberly Diane Martin is being loaded into the van by the coroner's office. Alvarado in Silver Lake, where Kimberly Diane Martin’s body was found. In the background on the boom shows the photographer from the Coroner's Office photographing the body.įor four months, starting in October 1977, the residents of South California were gripped in terror, haunted by a monster who strangled and raped women as young as 12, and scattered their naked dead bodies around hillsides.Ģ006 N. Alvarado Street in Silver Lake where Kimberly Diane Martin's body was found. William Bonin, the “Freeway Killer,” prowled the streets in a beat-up van, killing at least 21 boys and young men. Randy Kraft roamed Southern California's seemingly endless network of highways, murdering young men.
In the late 1970s, Los Angeles was a hotbed for serial killers.
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