Ted Bundy Timeline

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Ted Bundy Timeline

Below is a timeline of events in the Ted Bundy case, including birth dates, trial dates, dates of disappearances and murders, and assorted dates pertinent to the case.

(This case file is an ongoing project and will be updated periodically.)

November 1946

24 November 1946

Ted Bundy is born in Burlington, Vermont.

January 1949

10 January 1949

Julie Cunningham is born in Winchester, Massachusetts.

July 1951

24 July 1951

Shelley Robertson was born in Arvada, Colorado.

November 1951

08 November 1951

Brenda Ball is born in Washington.

January 1952

14 January 1952

Nancy Baird is born in Provo, Utah.

July 1952

03 July 1952

Lynda Ann Healy is born in Seattle, Washington.

December 1952

14 December 1952

Ann Marie Burr is born in Del Norte County, California.

August 1955

04 August 1955

Sandra Weaver is born in Arcadia, Wisconsin.

20 August 1955

Georgeann Hawkins is born in Tacoma, Washington.

October 1955

12 October 1955

Susan Rancourt is born in La Conner, Washington.

December 1955

06 December 1955

Rita Jolly is born in West Linn, Oregon.

October 1956

27 October 1956

Melanie Cooley was born in Boulder, Colorado.

May 1960

18 May 1960

Susan Curtis is born in Bountiful, Utah.

August 1961

31 August 1961

8-year-old Ann Marie Burr went missing from her home in Tacoma, Washington.

July 1962

31 July 1962

Lynette Culver is born in Washington.

September 1969

26 September 1969

Bundy meets his future girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer at a tavern in Washington.

June 1973

29 June 1973

17-year-old Rita Jolly went missing from West Linn, Oregon.

August 1973

20 August 1973

24-year-old Vicki Lynn Hollar went missing from Eugene, Oregon.

September 1973

02 September 1973

Bundy proposes to his first love Diane Edwards, while maintaining his relationship with Liz Kloepfer.

January 1974

04 January 1974

18-year-old Karen Sparks is attacked at her home, but survives being sexually assaulted.

31 January 1974

21-year-old Lynda Ann Healy is abducted from her Seattle home.

March 1974

12 March 1974

19-year-old Donna Manson went missing from Evergreen State College, Washington.

April 1974

12 April 1974

A sorority girl reported being accosted by a man with his arm in a sling outside the campus library at Central Washington State University in Ellensburg, Washington.

17 April 1974

Jane Curtis is approached by a man with his arm in a sling outside the Central Washington State University in Ellensburg, Washington.
21-year-old Katherine Clara D’Olivo is approached by a man with his arm in a sling outside the Central Washington State University in Ellensburg, Washington.
18-year-old Susan Rancourt went missing from the Central Washington State University in Ellensburg, Washington.

May 1974

23 May 1974

Bundy begins working for the Washington State Department of Emergency Services (DES) in Olympia, Washington.

25 May 1974

14-year-old Brenda Baker ran away from home and was reported missing.

27 May 1974

Runaway teenager Brenda Baker was last seen getting into a blue pick-up truck near Puyallup, Washington.

31 May 1974

Phyllis Armstrong encounters a man with his arm in a sling on campus at Central Washington State College.

June 1974

01 June 1974

22-year-old Brenda Ball went missing in Burien, Washington.

05 June 1974

Ted Bundy removes the body of Brenda Ball from his apartment and dumps her remains at Taylor Mountain.

11 June 1974

18-year-old Georgeann Hawkins went missing from outside the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority house at the University of Washington.

17 June 1974

The body of Brenda Baker is found in Millersylvania State Park, Washington.

July 1974

01 July 1974

18-year-old Sandra Weaver went missing in Salt Lake City, Utah.

02 July 1974

The body of Sandra Weaver is found in the De Beque Canyon in Colorado.

06 July 1974

Liz Kloepfer and Bundy go river rafting, during which he pushes her into the water.

07 July 1974

Bundy is seen by witnesses at the Lake Sammamish State Park.

14 July 1974

23-year-old Janice Ott went missing from Lake Sammamish, Washington.
19-year-old Denise Naslund went missing from Lake Sammamish, Washington.

22 July 1974

A composite drawing of the Lake Sammamish “Ted” suspect is released by the Seattle Times.

September 1974

02 September 1974

Ted Bundy moves to Salt Lake City, Utah to study at the University of Utah Law School.
An unidentified hitchhiker is abducted and murdered by Bundy in Idaho.

October 1974

02 October 1974

16-year-old Nancy Wilcox went missing from Holliday, Utah.

11 October 1974

21-year-old Rhonda Stapley claims to have been raped by Ted Bundy.

18 October 1974

18-year-old Melissa Smith went missing from Midvale, Utah.

27 October 1974

The body of Melissa Smith is found at the Wasatch Mountains near Summit Park.

31 October 1974

17-year-old Laura Aime went missing near Lehi, Utah.

November 1974

08 November 1974

18-year-old Carol DaRonch escapes an attempted kidnapping by a man impersonating a police officer.
17-year-old Debi Kent is abducted.

27 November 1974

The body of Laura Aime is found in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah.

December 1974

20 December 1974

The horror film Black Christmas, the plot of which features a killer stalking and killing sorority girls, is released to cinemas in the U.S.

January 1975

12 January 1975

Ted Bundy purchased fuel from a gas station in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
23-year-old Caryn Campbell went missing from the Wildwood Lodge in Snowmass, Colorado.

14 January 1975

Bundy returned to Seattle, Washington to spend time with Liz Kloepfer.

23 January 1975

Bundy returned to Salt Lake City, Utah from his trip back to Washington.

February 1975

17 February 1975

The body of Caryn Campbell is found on a road along Owl Creek near Aspen, Colorado.

March 1975

01 March 1975

A human skull is found on Taylor Mountain, believed to belong to missing Brenda Ball.

03 March 1975

Human remains are found on Taylor Mountain…

15 March 1975

26-year-old Julie Cunningham went missing from Vail, Colorado.

April 1975

04 April 1975

Bundy purchased fuel from a gas station in Golden, Colorado.

05 April 1975

Bundy purchased fuel from a gas station in Silverthorn, Colorado.

06 April 1975

24-year-old Denise Oliverson went missing from Grand Junction, Colorado.

15 April 1975

18-year-old Melanie Cooley went missing from Nederland, Colorado.

May 1975

02 May 1975

The body of Melanie Cooley is found in Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.

06 May 1975

12-year-old Lynette Culver went missing in Pocatello, Idaho.

June 1975

02 June 1975

Bundy visited Washington for a week, spending time with Liz Kloepfer.

26 June 1975

Susan Curtis went missing from Brigham Young University, Utah.

July 1975

01 July 1975

24-year-old Shelley Robertson went missing from Golden, Colorado.

04 July 1975

23-year-old Nancy Baird went missing from her workplace in East Leyton, Utah.
Ted Bundy visited the family of his girlfriend Leslie Knudson in Fruitland, Utah.

August 1975

16 August 1975

Ted Bundy is arrested during a traffic stop and police chase by Utah Highway patrol officer Bob Hayward.

21 August 1975

Ted Bundy’s Salt Lake City apartment is searched by Utah police following his arrest.

23 August 1975

The body of Shelley Robertson was found inside a mineshaft at Berthoud Pass, Colorado.

September 1975

16 September 1975

Liz Kloepfer, Ted Bundy’s girlfriend, is interviewed by detectives Jerry Thompson, Dnnis Couch and Ira Beal at the King County Police Major Crimes Unit building.

17 September 1975

Ted Bundy sells his tan-colored Volkswagen Beetle to an ex-classmate of Melissa Smith, one of his Utah victims.

October 1975

02 October 1975

During a line-up, Carol DaRonch picks out Bundy as her attacker, he is then re-arrested.

November 1975

20 November 1975

Bundy is released on $15’000 bail, and retrieves the shoebox of Polaroids he took of his victims and destroys them.

February 1976

23 February 1976

Ted Bundy goes on trial for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch.

March 1976

02 March 1976

22-year-old Kathy Harmon disappears from the Better Days Bar in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

06 March 1976

The body of Kathy Harmon is found in the canyons north of Interstate 80 in Utah.

June 1976

30 June 1976

Found guilty of the attempted kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, Ted Bundy is sentenced to between 1 and 15-years in Utah State Prison.

October 1976

19 October 1976

Bundy is caught by prison guard in possession of a forged social security card, a sketch of a driver’s license, a road map and an airline schedule.

22 October 1976

Colorado police filed charges against Bundy for the murder of Caryn Campbell.

April 1977

13 April 1977

Bundy is transferred to the Garfield County Jail in Colorado.

June 1977

06 June 1977

Bundy escapes from the Pitkin Courthouse and remains free for six days.

12 June 1977

Bundy is recaptured and imprisoned at Glenwood Spring, Colorado.

December 1977

31 December 1977

Ted Bundy escapes from the jail at Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

January 1978

07 January 1978

Ted Bundy arrives in Tallahassee, Florida after his escape from jail in Colorado.

15 January 1978

Bundy enters the Chi Omega Sorority House at the University of Florida and murders 21-year-old Margaret Bowman and 20-year-old Lisa Levy, and wounds three others.

February 1978

09 February 1978

12-year-old Kimberly Leach went missing from Lake City, Florida.

10 February 1978

Ted Bundy is added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted List.
The Wichita serial killer known as the BTK Strangler send a letter to KAKE-TV Channel 10, in which is mentioned notorious serial killers such Ted of the West Coast, in reference to Ted Bundy.

15 February 1978

Ted Bundy is recaptured by Officer David Lee in West Pensacola, Florida.

June 1979

25 June 1979

Bundy’s trial for the Chi Omega murders begins in Miami, Florida.

July 1979

18 July 1979

Bundy’s teeth are compared to bite marks on the Chi Omega victims, confirming a match.
23 July 1979
Bundy is found guilty of the murders of Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy and sentenced to death, plus 196 years.

September 1979

14 September 1979

Bundy is caught pasting magazine pictures to the walls of his cell.

January 1980

07 January 1980

Ted Bundy’s trial begins for the murder of his last victim Kimberly Leach in Orlando, Florida.

February 1980

09 February 1980

Bundy marries his girlfriend Carol Ann Boone before the court.

10 February 1980

Found guilty of the murder of Kimberly Leach, Ted Bundy is sentenced to death for a third time.

13 February 1980

Ted Bundy begins his sentence on Florida’s death row.

March 1980

18 March 1980

Journalists Hugh Aynesworth and Stephen G. Michaud begin a series of interviews with Ted Bundy on death row.

April 1980

15 April 1980

Ted Bundy speculates for Michaud and Aynesworth how Brenda Ball was murdered.

August 1980

17 August 1980

Ann Rule, who worked with Bundy at the Seattle Crisis Clinic, releases a book, ‘The Stranger Beside Me’, about his life and crimes.

November 1980

12 November 1980

Bundy is interviewed by Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth.

February 1981

05 February 1981

Bundy is interviewed by Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth.

March 1981

31 March 1981

Bundy is interviewed for the last time by Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth.

October 1982

24 October 1982

Carole Ann Boone gives birth to Ted Bundy’s daughter, Rose Bundy.

July 1984

18 July 1984

Ted Bundy and another death row inmate are found to have planned to escape by cutting the bars of their cells.

October 1984

01 October 1984

Ted Bundy writes to Bob Keppel to offer his help with the Green River Killer investigation.

November 1986

18 November 1986

Bundy’s execution is stayed only seven hours before he is scheduled to die.

January 1989

17 January 1989

The U.S. Supreme Court denies Ted Bundy’s last stay of execution.

23 January 1989

Bundy confesses to previously unsolved murders, and takes part in an interview with evangelist James Dobson about the dangers of pornography.

24 January 1989

42-year-old Ted Bundy’s execution takes place in the electric chair ‘Old Sparky’ at the Florida State Prison.

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