ABSTRACT
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On January 4, 1974, an eighteen-year-old freshman studying at the University of Washington was assaulted in her basement apartment. The perpetrator entered her bedroom through a window, struck the sleeping victim in the head with a metal rod from the bed frame, and sexually assaulted her with a foreign object. As a result, the victim suffered extensive internal injuries, permanent brain damage, and remained unconscious for approximately ten days. About a month later, the perpetrator broke into another victim’s home, beat her unconscious, removed her night gown and hung it in the closet, dressed her in another outfit, made her bed, and wrapped the victim in sheets before carrying her out of the house. The victim’s skull and mandibles were recovered months later, along with partial remains of three other victims, who also exhibited extensive physical injuries from a blunt object. These assaults were a few of the first documented string of victims for serial killer, rapist, and kidnapper, Theodore Robert Cowellalso known as Ted Bundy.
