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By the time the remains had been discovered near Lake Sammamish, Bundy had already left for the University of Utah. It was not long before he began to kill young women there also.
Nancy Wilcox-The 16-year-old cheerleader disappeared on October 2, 1974. She was reportedly last seen riding in a VW similar to Bundy's. Her body was never found.
Melissa Smith-The 17-year-old vanished from Midvale, Utah, on her way home from a night out in Midvale, Utah, on October 18. She was last seen attempting to hitch a ride. Her body was found on the 27th in Summitt Park near Salt Lake City. She was nude and had been beaten, raped, sodomized, and strangled with her own stocking. Dirt and twigs had also been stuffed inside her vagina and it seemed as if her killer had touched up her make-up before dumping her body.
Laurie Aimee-Last seen on Halloween in Lehi, Utah. Aimee, 17, was not reported missing for four days and not found until Thanksgiving by a hiker in American Folk Canyon. Also found naked and had been raped, sodomized, and beaten beyond regognition. Died from strangulation and may have had her hair washed before her corpse was dumped.
Bundy was about to make his first big mistake, however. On November 8 he approached Carol DeRonch at a shopping center in Murray and, posing as a police officer, claimed her car had been broken into. DeRonch got into Bundy's car the mistaken belief that she was going to a police station to file a report. After abruptly stopping the car he pulled a handgun and handcuffed her wrist. She struggled and broke away before Bundy could secure the other end of the handcuffs and DeRonch flagged down a passing motorist who took her to the police. A similarity to the Smith murder was noted but no prints could be lifted from the handcuffs that still clung to DeRonch's wrist. Though some blood that was probably from her potential abductor was found on the her coat, it was not sufficient for any testing.
Bundy was nothing if not determined though.
Debbie Kent-Only hours later and 17 miles from the botched DeRonch abduction, Kent, 17, disappeared after leaving a school play in Bountiful, Utah. The girl had left early and alone to pick her brother up, but her car never left the parking lot. Residents nearby heard screams from the area of the lot at around the same time. A handcuff key that fit the cuffs left on DeRonch's wrist was later found on the ground nearby.Kent was never found alive or dead.
Bundy had taken huge risks in the Kent abduction though. He had been clearly seen lurking in the back of the auditorium where the play was heald and had boldy appeared backstage, confronting a teacher. Drama teacher Raelynn Shepard reported that a strange man had approached her several times during the play, once trying to convince her to come out to the parking lot with him to allegedly identify a vehicle, the same ruse Bundy had tried earlier in the day with DeRonch. Knowing this Bundy must have felt like a change of scenery and began taking trips north as the new year began, cooling down his Utah activities a bit.
Caryn Campbell-On January 12, 1975, the 23-year-old Campbell left her boyfrined in the lobby of the Wildwood Inn in Apsen, Colorado, to get something from the couple's room. She was seen walking down the second floor hallway towards the room but she never returned to the lobby. She was found dead on February 18 alongside a road a few miles from the motel. She had severe head injuries and deep cuts on her body.
Julie Cunningham-Disappeared from the streets of Vail, Colorado, while walking to a nearby tavern on March 15. Her body was never found.
Denise Oliverson-After leaving her home for her parents house on April 6 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Her bike and sandals were found under a nearby viaduct.
Melanie Cooley-The 18-year-old was last seen in Nederland, Colorado, on April 15. She was found eight days later and 20 miles away dead from head injuries, her hands bound and a pillowcase tied around her neck.
Lynette Culver-Only 13 years old, Culver was snatched from a school playground in Pocatello, Idaho on May 6. She would never be found.
Susan Curtis-The 15-year-old Curtis was abducted from the campus of Brigham young University while attending a youth conference on June 28. She left her friends to walk back to a dorm and was never seen again. Tragically, Curtis was from Bountiful, Utah, the same town from which previous victim Smith had been abducted from in November of the previous year.
Shelley Robertson-Last seen in Golden, Colorado, on July 1 talking to a man in a pick-up at a gas station. The 24-year-old was found nude and decomposed near Vail, Colorado, placed 500 feet inside an old mine entrance.
Nancy Baird-Disappeared from a service station where she worked only three days after Robertson. She was never found.
Debbie Smith-Found dead in February of 1976 at the Salt Lake City International Airport.
At this point Washington had realized they had a multiple killer on their hands and Utah authorites had a strong suspicion of the same, but because of Bundy's traveling it was difficult to say for sure and the killings between the seperate states had not been linked at all. Bob Keppel started his investigation of a second major Washington dump site in the Taylor Mountain area. Before it was over searchers had discovered the skulls of Healy, Parks, Ball, and Rancourt. All the skulls had been crushed. Amazingly, Rancourt's skull had been transported over 260 miles from her abduction site at the Oregon St. campus. No other bones of the four girls were ever found.