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"It just isn't like Lynda"
It was February 1974, a cold winter morning when the roommate of Lynda Ann Healy discovered her missing. From the evidence at the scene, it appeared someone had entered and carried off the young woman into the night. She was one of several young women who had gone missing during the first half of 1974, women who would never be seen again.
It would take many decades before the full truth of what happened to Lynda Ann Healy became apparent. From Florida’s death row, convicted serial killer Ted Bundy made his shocking confessions, claiming Healy as one of his first Washington victims. Bundy would go into detail about what happened that night.
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Lynda Ann Healy: Missing in the Night
On the morning of January 31, 1974, Lynda Ann Healy rose like always at 5:30am, then bicycled over to the Reports office located just a few blocks away from her home. That day, the 21-year-old UW undergraduate who was a senior majoring in psychology, spent the day in classes and other college activities.
At one point during the day, Lynda composed a letter for a good friend, describing how she was going to make dinner for her parents the following evening. It was a positive letter, telling her friend how happy she was. Indeed, with her dark hair and blue eyes, the tall, slender and pretty Healy was content with her life, her studies and her work.
She worked as a Northwest Ski Reports forecaster, broadcasting morning radio weather reports for skiers, and had aspirations of pursuing her passion, working with mentally handicapped children. Healy had always lived in Washington, having grown up in a sheltered middle-upper class home near Seattle.
By early 1974, Healy was living in a house share with four other young women, all of whom were college students, and occupied the basement bedroom. Each of the women there had heard of the awful and horrific account of what happened to a young woman who was attacked in her own apartment. Although she survived, Karen Sparks was severely injured by the intruder. It made each of the housemates cautious about security and their own welfare.
On the afternoon of January 31st, Healy visited a local Safeway store, then ran some errands before arriving home. She went to bed at her usual hour, and was last seen around midnight by one of her housemates. At 5:30am, the next morning, Lynda’s alarm went off as usual. Her housemate in the next room woke and heard it, before going back to sleep.
At 6:00am, Lynda’s roommate woke to her own alarm, and curiously could hear Lynda’s still sounding. She entered the room, switched it off, and noticed the room had been tidied to an immaculate standard. She thought this unusual, as Lynda never made her bed until she returned from work.
Shortly after, Lynda’s employer called and said she never made it to work. It was then discovered that her bike was still in the basement, and the side door was unlocked. This caused fear and panic among the housemates, who began to fear the worst. Lynda was normally very dependable, and never missed a day of work, never left the side door unlocked, and never went anywhere without informing someone of her plans.
Lynda’s parents arrived for the dinner she had planned for them, and hearing what had transpired, they knew something the situation was serious. They immediately called police, and when officers arrived at 5517 12th Ave N. E., a search was made of her room. When an officer pulled back the duvet covers of her bed, they found heavily a bloodstained pillow and blood-soaked sheets.
In her closet was found stuffed her nightgown, with dried blood on the neckline. The clothes she had worn the day before were missing, and there was no sign of where she had gone. From the evidence in her room, it seemed as though something awful had befallen Lynda Ann Healy. Her housemate said she last saw her at midnight on the Thursday. “It just isn’t like Lynda,” her housemate said. She wasn’t one to miss work. “She was just 15 minutes late once, and she felt terrible about it.”
The police investigation soon came up with nothing, as more and more young women started to go missing, with seven alone in the Puget sound area over the next few months. A little over five weeks after Healy vanished, Evergreen State College Donna Manson left her dormitory on her way to a Jazz concert, but never arrived.
On February 4, 1974, several days after she went missing, a call was made to the emergency service number 911 by an unidentified male who told the operator, “Listen, and listen carefully. The person who attacked that girl on 8th last month and the person who took Lynda Healy are one and the same. He was outside both houses. He was seen.” When the operator questioned the caller’s identity, the man replied, “No way are you going to get my name” and promptly hung up.
Nothing further came from this incident, and Lynda’s parents hired a private investigator, but after some time, he reported that several leads had all reached “dead ends.” A reward was offered for information leading to her safe return, and while her parents believed she might be in Oregon where the family have relative, police strongly suspected foul play.
Seattle Police Captain Herb Swindler worked the Healy case, and later the other cases of missing Washington women. In July 1973, Swindler announced there was no evidence linking any of the disappearances with the others, but admitted there were similarities. “But,” he added. “the real connection between the cases is not in the hard evidence, but in the LACK of evidence.”
“Usually in a series like this, bodies start to show up,” Swindler said. “There have been no bodies – none at all – and that is very unusual.” Swindler said there were many theories about what happened the young women. “We get people calling in to tell us ‘the flying saucers took them’ and ‘they’re being spirited away to white slavery’. Everybody’s got a theory – but no evidence,” Swindler said.
On March 1, 1975, over a year after her disappearance, human remains were found by two Green River College students in a thick wooded area on Taylor Mountain. A skull found there would later be identified as belonging to 22-year-old Brenda Ball, who disappeared on May 31, 1974. A further search by police of the area soon uncovered more discoveries. Just two days later, parts of the bodies of Lynda Healy, along with Susan Rancourt and Roberta Parks, two other women who vanished, were found on Taylor Mountain.
A skull determined as belonging to Healy was found, which bore marks indicating she had suffered a brutal beating. The decapitated skull of Rancourt was found severely fractured, and other bones were believed to be those of Donna Manson. Despite the discovery of these remains, it was, at that time, not understood what had happened to these young women and who was responsible for their deaths.
The Killer of Lynda Ann Healy
Ted Bundy and the Death Row Confessions
It was many years before the full horror of what happened to Lynda Ann Healy became known to law enforcement. Convicted for the murders committed at the Chi Omega sorority house, and also the slaying of young Kimberly Leach, suspected serial killer Ted Bundy was housed on death row at Florida state prison.
There, Bundy decided to co-operate with journalist Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth, who were working on a book. Bundy, who had never admitted his crimes, saw an opportunity to offer his interviewers an insight into his crimes, without directly implicating him in murders for which he had not been convicted. In order to accomplish this, Bundy spoke in the third-person about his crimes.
On April 4, 1980, Michaud and Aynesworth had their first meeting with Bundy, during which he discussed the abduction and murder of Lynda Healy. On that day in January 1974, Bundy said the killer had stalked Healy during the day, visiting a Safeway store at the same time as her, before breaking into her home whilst she was out running errands.
He planned to return later that evening, not knowing if she would be home, and what opportunity he would find. He elaborated that Healy was battered unconscious and then carried to his Volkswagen Beetle. Bundy had already removed the front passenger seat of his car, so he could better transport the bodies of his victims.
He then drove to Taylor Mountain, which was 20 miles east of Seattle and there made her remove her pyjamas and raped her. Bundy said he was then in a position where he couldn’t let her go, and had to kill her and bury her body there. Michaud and Aynesworth noted that although Bundy was mostly confident, he did stutter when nervous which was something they noticed when he talked about aspects of the murders which made him feel uncomfortable.
She was then bludgeoned to death and her body partially buried and left for scavengers. They said he claimed to show remorse over the act of killing Lynda Ann Healy, but it soon subsided. Bundy attempted to justify it by saying, “Well, listen you, you fucked up this time, but you’re never going to do that again. So let’s just stay together, and it won’t ever happen again.”
However, after a state of dormancy, he said his urge to possess, to rape and control would soon surface again and he would begin to stalk another victim. He also explained how with each murder, he would feel less confusion, fear and apprehension and the dormancy period would become less and less so that eventually his phase of remorse and self-loathing over what he had done, would only last a few weeks.
Taylor Mountain was one of Ted Bundy‘s dumping grounds, a graveyard where he left the bodies of his victims. Sometimes he said he would cut off the heads and take them home, where he applied make-up and shampoo. He confessed to keeping several heads at the same time, and even claimed to return to the burial site to commit Necrophiliac acts with the remains.
Shortly before his execution in January 1989, Ted Bundy confessed to investigators about several unsolved murders in Washington, Utah, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho. One of those he claimed to have murdered as Lynda Ann Healy, who was, according to Bundy, his first victim. In his confessions to police, Bundy claimed to have murdered as many as 36 women.
The true number of his victims would never be fully known, and on January 24, 1989, Ted Bundy went to the electric chair for his crimes. He was aged 42, and had spent much of the past decade on death row. He was once considered to have a promising career in politics, but he wasted his potential after becoming consumed with murder, to such an extent that it became his obsession.
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