313 P1Death in Utah. P1--------------- P7The Mormon community in Salt Lake City, Utah,lies almost 100 miles south-east of Seattle.Six girls vanished in the autumm of 1974, but another escaped-she was the only one who lived to tell the tale.P7 P7The good-looking man walked up to Carol DaRonch in the shop- ping centre in Murray, a suburb of Salt Lake City. It was a damp November evening in 1974 and the attractive 17-year-old was peering at a window's display when the young man intro- duced himself as a police officer. He asked her whether she had left her car in the store car park, and she replied that she had. After requesting and taking down the licence number he explained that he and his colleague had apprehended a man breaking into a car. He asked her to accompany him to it, to see if anything had been stolen.P7 P7The car park was some distance away, and as they walked to- wards it through the drizzle, Carol noticed thet the police officer was allowing her to lead the way. She asked him for some identification. The man drew a wallet from his inside pocket, and opened it in the semi-darkness, she could see something that looked like a police badge. She was relieved to see that her car seemed to be undamaged, and that it was still locked. She opened the door, and told him that nothing was missing. As the man bent over to try the passenger door, she noticed a pair of shiny handcuffs in the inside pocket of his green sports jacket.P7 P7He explained that his partner had taken the suspect to the sub-office on the other side of the mall. and asked Carol if she would mind going there with him to make a statement. The policeman, who was about ten years older than Carol, seemed so serious and self-assured that she lacked the confidence to ask further questions. On the far side of the mall, they approached a small building, which the man ident- ified as the sub-office. Carol was unaware that it was really a laundromat. The man tried the side door, and announced that his partned must have taken the suspect back to the police headquarters, and told Carol that he would drive her there to sign a complaint. She asked him for his name as they approached an old, battered-looking VW. He told her he was officer Roseland of the Murray police department.P7 P7The vehicle certainly did not look like a police car, It was scratched and dented and, as she climbed in,she observed the back seat was torn. In the enclosed space, she noticed alco- hol on the man's breath. When he made a U-turn and went in the opposite direction to the police station, vague anxiety suddenly turned to alarm. Minutes later, the VW turned into a dark side street and screeched to a stop outside a dark- ened High School, the front wheelbouncing up the pavement.P7 P7It had taken Carol a long time to realizethat she was being kidnapped, but as soon as she did, she made a dash for the handle and threw open the door, With terrifying speed, the man seized her wrist and snapped a handcuff on it. But as he tried to grab the other wrist of the screaming girl, he made a mistake and closed the handcuff on the same wrist. Then he pulled out a gun, pointed it to her head, and threatened to blow her brains out if she made another move.P7 P7To terrified to care, Carol grabbed the handle, opened the door again, and fell out. The man was following her, with a metal bar in his hand, when they were illuminated by the headlights of an oncoming car. As Carol ran towards it, screaming, he VW accelerated away. Half an hour later, the frightened girl told her story to a sergeant at police head- quarters. He noticed a few spots of blood on the white fur trim of her coat-blood from scratches that Carol had inflic- ted on the face of her would-be abductor - and he clipped them of for forensic examination.P7 P7In Viewmont High School, a few miles north of Murray, an audience of students and parents were preparing to watch a comedy called The Red Head, presented by the school drama society. The drama teacher, Jean Graham, was similar in app- earence to Carol DaRonch - tall, pretty, long brown hair parted in the middle. Minutes before the curtain was due to rise, Jean was walking towards the dressing rooms, when she was approached by a tall good-looking young man who asked her if she would go to the car park and identify a car for him. Jean Graham was in a hurry, so she did not have time, but she took a good look at him, and observed that he had brown wavy hair and a moustache, and wore a well cut jacket, dress-trousers and patent leather shoes.P7 P7He was persistenet. In the first intermission, he was still there, and half an hour later, he again asked her to go to the car park. "It will only take a few seconds," he said. But she was still in a hurry and declined. In the audience that night sat 17 year-old Debbie Kent, together with her parents. Debbie was not entirely happy. She had keft her brother Blair at an ice rink. Promising to pick him up after the play. But the play was overrunning, and Blair would won- der what had happened to her. Debbie's father was recovering from a heart attack, and she was anxious not to worry him.P7 P7So half an hour before the end, she decided to skip the rest of the play, to drive over to her brother. Jean Graham was seated in the back row, glad the play was drawing to an end, when a man came in and sat down in the seat opposite. He was breathing heavily, as though he had been running, and the people in front of him looked round irritably. When the cur- tain finally came down, he stood up and hurried out. As the school slowly emptied, Debbie's parents waited nervously for her to return. Eventually, they decided to walk to the home of friends who lived nearby. It was as they were crossing the car park that they saw their car was still there, and realized that their daughter had not made the trip to the ice rink.P7 P7The following morning, police investigating Debbie's diss- appearance searched the school grounds. Just outside the south door, not far from the car park, they found a hand- cuff key. Residents in the nearby block of apartments desc- ribed hearing two piercing sreams comming from the car park, some time after ten the previous evening. It was when the police discovered that the handcuff key fitted the cuffs taken from the wrist of Carol DaRonch that they began to piece together what had probably happened. Carol's descrip- tion of the policeman and Jean Graham's description of the persistant young man were all to close for coincidence.P7 P7After the failure to seize Carol, he had tried again. Debbie Kent had been grabbed as she walked into the car park. She had time to scream before she was rendered unconscious-with the iron bar. Why did her attacker return to the auditorium? probably because he knew that her screams had been overheard and did not want to be seen driving away in his easy identi- fiable VW. If he had stayed where he was, ant watchers in the apartment building would loose interest. So he went back into the school, waited until the play was over, then drove off with his unconscious victim. All this indicated excep- tional coolness. In fact Debbie Kent was the fourth girl to disappear in the Salt Lake City area in five weeks. The first had been a 16 year-old high school cheer-leader, Nancy Wilcox. Nancy had quarrelled with her parents on 2 October, and accepted a lift in the VW. She has not been seen since.P7 P7On 18 October, Melissa Smith, the 17 year-old daughter of the Midvale police cheif, left a pizza restaurant late at night with the intention of hitch-hiking home. But she fail- ed to get there. Nine days later, her naked body was found in Summit Park, violated and strangled, her face was so bad- ly battered that even her father failed to identify her at first.P7 P7On 31 October, another teenager, Laura Aime, set out for a halloween party. She was six feet tall, and had a reputation for being able to take care of herself. Around midnight, she seems to have accepted a lift. Her body, beaten and violated was discovered in the mountains four weeks later, on the 27 of November 1974. Early in the morning of saturday,16 August 1975,Sergeant Bob Hayward drove slowly through a quiet neigh bourhood of Salt Lake City, on the lookout for drunken drivers. In Brock Street, he turned on his headlights,illum- inating a parked VW.The car lurched into motion and took off at high speed. Since it was driving without lights, Hayward followed it, switching on his red spotlight. After jumping two red traffic lights, the driver, realizing that he could not out run the police car, turned into an empty petrol station. The tall, good-looking young man who climbed out and walked towards the police car was dressed entirely in dark cloths.P7 P7When Heyward asked for identification, the man produced his driver's licence. It revealed him to be Theodore Bundy of 565 First Avenue. Asked why he had tried to evade a police officer, he explained, somewhat implausibly, that he had not realized that he was being followed by a police car. He had spent the evening, he said, at a drive-in movie -The Tower- ing Inferno at Valley View. But Heyward recalled passing the drive-in earlier that evening, and had noticed that it was playing a triple bill of westerns. He asked Bundy if he could look inside the car. The passenger seat had been re- moved, and in the open bag on the floor beside it, Hayward discovered a brown knitted ski balaclava and a mask made of a ladies stockings with eye-holes cut in it. Nearby on the floor lay a steel bar, and in the boot of the car, he found a pair of handcuffs. Hayward turned and snapped handcuffs on the young man's wrists. P1"You're under arrest." P7He said. P1Key Dates OCT 74-AUG 75 P3 2.10.74 Nancy Wilcox disappeared. 18.10.74 Melissa Smith abducted. 31.10.74 Laura Aime abducted. 8.11.74 Carol DaRonch kidnapped. 8.11.74 Debbie Kent Disappeared. 12.1.75 Caryn Campbell disappeared. 16.8.75 Bundy arrested.P5 P5"Ted is a mature young man...responsible and emotionally stable...I am at a loss to delineate any weakness." (PSYCHOLOGIST on Bundy in 1972)P5 P3The Victims.P1 P1Debbie Kent. She was a student, aged 17 years-old, at the Viewmont high school, in Murray, Utah. She was abducted from the school car park. Melissa Smith. The 17 year-old daughter, of the police chief of Midvale, Utah. She was abducted while hitch-hiking on the 18 October 1974. Laura Aime. Almost six foot tall and 17 years-old, Laura was seized on halloween, 31 October 1974, after leaving a party to hitch-hike home. Nancy Wilcox. A cheer-leader for her high school, Nancy aged 16, was last seen on 3 October 1974, in a yellow VW. Her body has never been found.P1 P1Criminal Characteristics.P7 P7In 1961, two Americans psychologist, Samuel Yochelson and Stanton D. Samenow, began a programme to study criminals in St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC. Both were liberals who believed that criminals were really "victims"of society, people with "deep psychological problems". The conclusions they reached dismayed them both. In their book The Criminal Personality, they admit that they have found that the chief characteristics of the criminal are weakness, immaturity, vanity and self-delusion. Criminals lacked self-discipline and were often cowards. For example, they would rather let their teeth go rotten than face the dentist's drill. They also say that the greatest fear of these criminals was that others would see some weakness in them. they were hypersen- sitive to what was said to them and reacted angrily to being put down. The book,written a decade before Bundy was caught, gives a disturbingly accurate picture of Bundy's person- ality, he found himelf unable to cope with the normal chall- enges of life. Rejection and humiliation led to obsession.P7 P1A Colorado Killing.P1 P7On 11 January 1975, Caryn Campbell, a 23 year-old nurse, and her fiancee Dr Raymond Gadowski, a divorcee, and his two children, checked into the Wildwood inn in Snowmass village Colorado. Caryn took the children skiing while Gadowski attended a medical symposium on cardiology. The following wvening they went out to dinner with another doctor. On the way home, Caryn and the doctor began arguing about the rel- ative merits of two magazines. Back in the wildwood inn, she asked Raymond Gadowski to go to their room to fetch a copy of the magazine she preferred. He protested that he was too tired and handed her the key. Twenty minutes later Gadowski said, "come on kids, let's see what's keeping Caryn." But the room was empty. Caryn Campbell had disappeared.P7 P7On 17 February, the attention of a driver was attracted by the frantic cawing of crows. He saw a woman's naked body lying face down in the melting snow. Caryn Campbell had been raped, and killed by blows with an iron bar to the back of the head.P7 P1True Friends.P7 P7When Ted Bundy moved to Salt Lake City in September 1974, he quickly found himself a room in a house full of college stu- dents, With his charming manner, he soon had a large circle of friends, and also started a series of love affairs. Two of his friends were Mormon missionaries. A few weeks after his arrest by patrolman Bob Hayward in August 1975, Bundy was baptized a mormon and became a sunday school teacher.P7 P7When his friends learned of his arrest they were angry, con- vinced that ted had been "set up" by a policeman. Ted told them that the patrolman had found a ski mask and a crowbar in his car. He neglected to mention the stocking mask and the handcuffs.P7 P1BP1y P3BP3uP3lP3lP3yP3BP3eP3eP3fP1/P3SP3DP3TP1/P3NP3FP3AP7.