Third, Tuesday:
GC – Burley, Idaho - $3.80 (6.5 gallons).
Sixth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
New Residence:
565 First Avenue
Salt Lake City
Seventh, Saturday:
Skeletal remains of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund and an unidentified third victim are recovered from a hillside in Issaquah. In January of 1989, Bundy identifies the third victim as Georgann Hawkins.
Eleventh, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Seventeenth, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Tremonton, Utah.
Eighteenth, Wednesday:
Flies to Seattle to bring his furniture back to Salt Lake City by truck.
Buys gas in North Bend, Yakima, Hermiston, and La Grande, Oregon; and Burley, Idaho.
Twentieth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-third, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-fourth, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Murray, a Salt Lake City suburb.
Twenty-sixth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Murray.
Twenty-seventh, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Thirtieth, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
October
First, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Second, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Second, Wednesday:
Nancy Wilcox, 16, disappears from Holladay, a suburb just south of Salt Lake City. Her remains have never been recovered.
Eleventh, Friday:
Buys gas twice in Salt Lake City.
Fourteenth, Monday:
Buys gas, Murray.
Sixteenth, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Eighteenth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Eighteenth, Friday:
Melissa Smith, 17, of Midvale, near Holladay, disappears. Her nude, battered and frozen remains are recovered nine days later in a mountain canyon.
Nineteenth, Saturday:
Buys gas twice, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-fifth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-sixth, Saturday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-eighth, Monday:
Buys gas, Bountiful, a suburb of Salt Lake City.
Thirty-first, Thursday:
Laura Aime, 17, disappears after attending a Halloween party south of Salt Lake City. Her nude, battered and frozen remains are recovered late in November in a mountain canyon.
November
First, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Eighth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Eighth, Friday:
Carol DaRonch, 19, is assaulted by “Officer Roseland” and barely escapes the attack. Twenty miles away in Bountiful, Debra Kent disappears from a Viewmont High School theater presentation. Her remains have never been recovered.
Later that evening, Bundy telephones Liz.
Sixteenth, Saturday:
Buys gas twice, Salt Lake City.
Seventeenth, Sunday:
Buys gas in Heber, Utah, southeast of Salt Lake City.
Eighteenth, Monday:
Buys gas twice, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-first, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-second: Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Thirtieth, Saturday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
December
Second, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Sixth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twelfth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twentieth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-fourth, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Thirty-first, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Ogden.
1975
January
First, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Tenth, Friday:
Buys gas twice, Salt Lake City.
Twelfth, Sunday:
Buys gas twice, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 40 miles from Aspen.
Twelfth, Sunday:
Caryn Campbell, 23, a nurse, disappears from a ski lodge near Aspen. Her nude and frozen remains are recovered from a roadside snow bank in February.
Thirteenth, Monday:
Buys gas in Green River, Utah. Calls Liz at night.
Fourteenth, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Thirty-first, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
February
Ninth, Sunday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Tenth, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Eleventh, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Nineteenth, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-third, Saturday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
March
First, Saturday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fourth, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fifth, Wednesday:
Skulls of Lynda Healy, Susan Rancourt, Kathy Parks and Brenda Ball are recovered from Taylor Mountain.
Eighth, Saturday:
Buys gas three times, Salt Lake City.
Thirteenth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fourteenth, Friday:
Buys gas, Laramie, Wyoming.
Fifteenth, Saturday:
Buys gas, Golden, Silverthorne, and Dillon, Colorado.
Fifteenth, Saturday:
Ski instructor Julie Cunningham, 26, disappears from downtown Vail, Colorado. Her remains are never recovered.
Sixteenth, Sunday:
Calls Liz from Salt Lake City.
Twentieth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-second, Saturday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-sixth, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
April
First, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Third, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fourth, Friday:
Buys gas, Golden, Colorado.
Fifth, Saturday:
Buys gas, Silverthorne, Colorado.
Sixth, Sunday:
Buys gas, Grand Junction, Colorado.
Sixth, Sunday:
Denise Oliverson, 25, disappears from Grand Junction. Her remains are never recovered.
Sixth, Sunday:
Buys gas, Green River, Utah.
Tenth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fourteenth, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Seventeenth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twentieth, Sunday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-second, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-fifth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Thirtieth, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
May
Third, Saturday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fifth, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Sixth, Tuesday:
Lynette Culver, 12, disappears from Pocatello, Idaho. Her remains are never recovered.
Twelfth, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fifteenth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Eighteenth, Sunday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Thirtieth, Friday:
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Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
June
Fifth, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Sixth, Friday:
Buys gas in Idaho; Pendleton, Oregon and Ellensburg, Washington.
Twelfth, Thursday:
Buys gas in Pendleton and Boise.
Thirteenth, Friday:
Buys gas in Salt Lake City.
Twenty-seventh, Friday:
Susan Curtis, 15, disappears from the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo. Her remains are never recovered.
July
Ninth, Wednesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twelfth, Saturday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fourteenth, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Fifteenth, Tuesday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Twenty-first, Monday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
August
Eighth, Friday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City.
Sixteenth, Saturday:
Bundy is arrested.
Seventeenth, Sunday:
Bails out.
Twenty-first, Thursday:
Buys gas, Salt Lake City. Re-arrested.
Twenty-second, Friday:
Bails out again.
September
Eighth, Monday:
Carol DaRonch identifies Bundy’s Volkswagen.
October
Second, Thursday:
DaRonch identifies Bundy in lineup as her attacker. He is charged with aggravated kidnap.
November
Twentieth, Thursday:
Bundy bails out once more.
Twenty-seventh: Thursday:
On Thanksgiving Day, Bundy flies to Seattle.
December:
First-Eleventh:
Bundy is in Seattle.
Twelfth-Thirty-first:
Bundy is in Salt Lake City.
1976
January:
For most of the month, Bundy is in Seattle.
February:
Twenty-third, Monday:
Bundy’s trial for the aggravated kidnap of Carol DaRonch begins.
March:
First, Monday:
Bundy is convicted and sentenced to prison for up to 15 years.
October:
Twenty-first, Thursday:
Bundy is charged in Colorado with murder of Caryn Campbell.
1977
January:
Twenty-eighth, Friday:
Bundy is extradited to Colorado.
June:
Seventh, Tuesday:
First escape.
December:
Thirtieth, Friday:
Second escape.
1978
Residence:
The Oaks
College Avenue
Tallahassee
January:
Seventh, Saturday:
Arrives in Tallahassee.
Fifteenth, Sunday:
The Chi Omega assaults. Roommates Kathy Kleiner, 21, and Karen Chandler, 21, survive their injuries. Lisa Levy, 20, and Margaret Bowman, 21, do not. Cheryl Thomas, 21, is later attacked in her duplex.
February:
Ninth, Thursday:
Kimberly Diane Leach, 12, disappears from her Lake City, Florida, schoolyard. Her remains are recovered from beneath an abandoned hog shed in April.
Fifteenth, Wednesday:
Bundy is arrested in Pensacola.
1979
July:
Twenty-fourth, Tuesday:
In Miami, a jury finds Bundy guilty in the Chi Omega cases. He receives the death penalty.
1980
February:
Seventh, Thursday:
A jury in Orlando convicts Bundy of the Leach murder, and he is once again sentenced to death.
1989
January:
Twenty-fourth, Tuesday:
Bundy is executed at the Florida State Prison.
Bibliography
Dekle, George Robert. The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution and Execution of Ted Bundy. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2011
Kendall, Elizabeth. The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy. Seattle: Madrona Publishers, 1981.
Keppel, Dr. Robert D. with William J. Birnes. The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer. New York: Pocketbooks, 1995.
Lewis, Dr. Dorothy Otnow. Guilty by Reason of Insanity. New York: Ballantine Publishing Group, 1998.
Michaud, Stephen G., and Hugh Aynesworth. The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy. Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press, 1999.
Nelson, Polly. Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy’s Last Lawyer. New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1994.
Reichert, David. Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
Ressler, Robert K., and Tom Shachtman. Whoever Fights Monsters. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992.
About the Authors
Robert D. Keppel has more than 33 years of homicide investigation experience as a detective with the King County, Washington, sheriff’s department, and chief investigator with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. A foremost expert on serial murder, Keppel holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Washington. He has published widely on crime and criminals in the professional and popular press, and frequently consults in multiple-murder cases around the U.S. He and his wife, Sande, live in Western Washington.Visit www.bobkeppel.com.
Stephen G. Michaud, well-known for his detailed explorations of the criminal mind, is the author or co-author of 18 books, including Ted Bundy: Conversations With a Killer, a New York Times bestseller; Dark Dreams, an Edgar finalist, and The Only Living Witness, cited by the New York Daily News as one of the 10 best true crime books ever written. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Visit www.stephenmichaud.com.
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