tedbundyarchive:Lynda Ann Healy, who was Ted Bundy’s first documented murder victim, was abducted fr
tedbundyarchive:Lynda Ann Healy, who was Ted Bundy’s first documented murder victim, was abducted from her room in the basement during the night between January 31st and February 1st, 1974, in the house which she shared with her housemates in Seattle, Washington. Lynda, who was only 21, was already an accomplished young woman. At 7AM every morning, she announced the ski conditions for the major ski areas in western Washington on the radio, she was majoring in psychology at University of Washington where she was a senior, and she was working with developmentally disabled and intellectually disabled children. The evening before her abduction, the beautiful girl with the auburn hair and the big, blues eyes had been to Dante’s Tavern with some of her housemates. After they got back, she and the girls she lived with watched some TV together until Lynda went to bed around midnight.The next morning at 5:30, her alarm went off as it usually did, since she had to bike to the radio station to do her ski report. The radio station called her at 6AM when she didn’t show up. Her green bike, which she usually rode to work, was still in the basement. Lynda’s housemates noticed that her bed was perfectly made, although it wasn’t made the way Lynda usually did it. They also discovered that the door that let into the basement was unlocked, even though it was a door the girls always locked. Lynda had planned to have her parents over for dinner that day, so when she still hadn’t arrived during the afternoon, her housemates got worried and decided to call the police.Two detectives arrived, and when they examined Lynda’s bed, they discovered that the pillow and sheet under the bedspread were blood-stained. The blood had soaked through the mattress, and there was enough of it to determine that Lynda must have been seriously injured when she was abducted. As they continued to examine her room, they found the night dress she had been wearing the night before in the bottom of her closet. It had blood stains around the neckline. The clothes she had been wearing the day before was gone, and so was her backpack. When Ted Bundy finally confessed to murdering Lynda Ann Healy, he said that he found the front door open, gagged her and carried her to the backseat of his car where he covered her with something, then drove her to a secluded location - and that it was one of his first abductions of that kind. The blood came from Ted bashing her skull with a crowbar, possibly while she was still sleeping.On March 1st, 1975, Lynda’s skull and mandible was discovered at Taylor Mountain, west for Seattle. When the police started suspecting Ted Bundy in 1975, they found out that he had lived very close to Lynda back in 1974, and that both Lynda and Ted Bundy had cashed checks in the same neighborhood grocery store on the day she disappeared. Picture sources: Ted Bundy: a visual compendium by Robert Dielenberg -- source link