Programmed to Kill by David McGowan

Author:David McGowan [McGowan, David]
Language: deu
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

her estranged husband was a convicted felon. Meg/Liz apparently did not have

the best taste in men.

In 1971, Ted began working at the Seattle Crisis Clinic as a paid work/study

student; he remained there through May 1972. His work partner at the clinic was

none other than Ann Rule, a policewoman cum ‘true-crime’ reporter whose

brother had been recently killed, allegedly by his own hand, at—where else?—

Stanford University. Ted left the crisis center to intern at Harborview County

Hospital as a psychiatric counselor; his salary there was funded by a federal grant.

He also worked that year as a key organizer of Washington Governor Dan Evans’

reelection campaign. His job was, specifically, to spy and gather intelligence on

the governor’s opponent. Governor Evans later personally wrote Ted a glowing

letter of recommendation to a Utah law school. As noted earlier in this chapter,

Ted next worked for a variety of city, state and county law enforcement entities.

In April 1973, he became a special assistant to Washington’s Republican Party

Chairman, Ross Davis, whom Ted frequently dined with and whose children,

amazingly enough, he occasionally babysat.

In July of that same year, Bundy again flew to the San Francisco area, just as

the dust was settling from the flurry of ritual murders that had terrorized that

city. Just after his return to Washington, women began disappearing from the

Seattle/Tacoma area. Before that time, the Seattle area had experienced very few

murders—but that was about to change dramatically. The body of the first vic-

tim attributed to Bundy was found on December 6, 1973. Katherine Merry

Devine had last been seen two weeks earlier getting into a pick-up truck after

running away from home. The man from whom she willingly accepted the ride

was not Ted Bundy. Her body was found to be missing its heart, lungs and

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liver—purportedly attributable to scavenging animals. If so, those scavengers

were very selective.

Next to disappear was Lynda Healey, in the early morning hours of February

1, 1974. According to the official version of events, Lynda was abducted from the

home that she shared with others. Bundy allegedly entered the house, undetected

by any of the home’s other occupants, crept noiselessly downstairs, overpowered

and killed Lynda without waking a roommate sleeping just on the other side of a

thin plywood partition, and without leaving behind any signs of a struggle,

wrapped Lynda’s body, carried it back upstairs undetected, and then returned,

still unnoticed, to make Lynda’s bed, hang up her nightgown, and grab a change

of clothes for her. Nothing unusual about any of that.

Later that same day, Lynda’s roommates received three phone calls from some-

one who made only breathing noises before hanging up. One of those very same

roommates later roomed with one of Ted Bundy’s cousins—a cousin with whom

Ted had been very close since the age of four. The brother of that same cousin,

with whom Bundy was also quite close, was a teacher of what were described as

‘disturbed youngsters.’ Lynda herself did volunteer work at the Camelot House,

described as an experimental school for ‘retarded’ youth. The only remains of

Healey ever found was her skull, based on which investigators speculated that she

had been bludgeoned to death.

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