car. She was never seen again. Later, a girl named Denise Naslund was accosted by the same young man and also vanished. He had been heard to introduce himself as "Ted."
These killings were all in the same general area of Washington State and mobilized the police around the fear that a serial killer was operating in the area. However, the killings then shifted to Salt Lake City. In October 1974, three girls disappeared. In November 1974, the police had their first break in the case when a girl named Carol DaRonch was accosted by a young man who said he was a detective; he took her back to his car, snapped a handcuff on her wrist, and pointed a gun at her head. She fought him off and screamed, managing to jump from his car. That same evening, a girl student vanished on her way to meet her brother, and a handcuff key was found near the place from which she had been taken, suggesting this was a related incident.
In spite of the seeming normality of his facade, the Seattle police had by then fixed on a young man named Ted Bundy a
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