History's Hidden Killers

She crossed the courtroom. She walked directly at Richard Speck. She stopped close enough to touch him. And she said: "This is the man." Then Corazon Amurao disappeared from public life for sixty years.On the night of July 13, 1966, Speck killed eight of her roommates in a Chicago townhouse. Corazon survived by hiding under a bed for six hours while he worked room by room. Her description of his "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo identified him within days. Her testimony convicted him.But the real story isn't the trial. It's what she did afterward — or rather, what she refused to do. She went home to the Philippines. She turned down every book, every interview, every film deal. She chose silence over spectacle and carried eight names quietly for the rest of her life. Surviving Serial Killers on History's Hidden Killers tells the story the world almost never heard.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#CorazonAmurao #RichardSpeck #SurvivingSerialKillers #HistorysHiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Chicago #NurseMurders #TrueCrimePodcast #CrimeOfTheCentury #JusticeServed

She told him she'd be his secret girlfriend. She told him her father was dying and she was his only caretaker. She asked him questions to build rapport. She was seventeen years old, blindfolded, in a serial killer's apartment — and she was running a psychological operation designed to keep herself alive. Every word Lisa McVey said to Bobby Joe Long during those twenty-six hours was calculated. And it worked.Long had already killed at least eight women across Tampa Bay. He confessed to ten murders total. But Lisa McVey survived because she identified the one crack in his psychology — a single word in his threats — and exploited it until he drove her home and apologized.The series premiere of Surviving Serial Killers tells the story most people have never heard in full. Not just the kidnapping, but the suicide note she wrote hours before. The three years of horror at home that prepared her, in the worst possible way, for what Long did. The sergeant who rescued her from both. And the execution she attended thirty-five years later with a T-shirt that said everything: "Long... Overdue."Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LisaMcVey #BobbyJoeLong #SurvivingSerialKillers #HistorysHiddenKillers #TrueCrime #SerialKillerSurvivor #Tampa #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #JusticeServed

On February 16, 2005, a purple Memorex floppy disk arrived at KSAS-TV in Wichita. The disk had been mailed by Dennis Rader. It contained a Microsoft Word file titled Test A.RTF. The file's content was unremarkable. The file's metadata was not.The metadata showed two things. The file had been last saved on a computer at Christ Lutheran Church in Park City, Kansas. The user account that had saved it was named Dennis. Wichita Police called the church. The pastor, Michael Clark, confirmed there was a council member named Dennis. He confirmed it was Dennis Rader, the church's council president.The case ended in a single phone call.For BTK case followers, this fifth and final chapter of host Tony Brueski's investigation walks through the entire trap Lieutenant Ken Landwehr built over the eleven months of Rader's 2004 communications. The classified ad system Landwehr used to engage Rader through the Wichita Eagle. The lie Landwehr placed in the ad that read "Rex, it will be OK." Rader's typewritten cereal-box question asking whether a floppy disk could be traced. The forty-day gap between the question and the disk. The DNA confirmation from Rader's daughter Kerri's medical records, obtained under warrant without her knowledge or consent. The February 25 arrest at Rader's compliance officer truck near his Park City home. The thirty-plus-hour confession in which Rader corrected detectives when their facts were slightly off and asked, at one point, if they wanted him to draw a diagram.The August 18, 2005, sentencing. The hour-long courtroom speech. Judge Greg Waller's ten consecutive life sentences. The closing roll call of the ten people Dennis Rader killed, named in order. The five uncomfortable truths the series exists to put on the record.He caught himself.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BTK #DennisRader #ChristLutheran #FloppyDisk #BTKArrest #KenLandwehr #BTKCase #SerialKillers #ColdCase #HiddenKillers

In his fourteen years as the compliance officer for the city of Park City, Kansas, Dennis Rader designed a rain slicker for himself with the word POLICE printed across the back. He wore it on the job. He was not a police officer. He did not have arrest authority. His authority extended to grass height, junked vehicles, and other municipal code matters.The Park City police chief made him stop wearing the POLICE slicker. Rader's quoted response, in his own words: fine, put DOGCATCHER on it instead.In this third chapter of a five-part BTK investigation built specifically for case followers, host Tony Brueski walks through every official role Dennis Rader chose for himself and what each one actually gave him in operational terms. The ADT alarm installer position from 1974 to 1988. The Cub Scout pack leader role. The Christ Lutheran Church council seat that rose to council president. The Sedgwick County Board of Zoning Appeals seat. The Animal Control Advisory Board. The compliance officer truck with city plates and the legal authority to enter private property for code inspection without a warrant.The episode also walks through Rader's own confession description of his pre-killing reconnaissance method. He called it "trolling." Driving neighborhoods. Watching women. Mapping schedules. Picking houses. He had been doing it on his own time since the late 1960s. After 1991, the city of Park City put him on the public payroll to do exactly that, on the clock, with a badge.This is the third uncomfortable truth of the series. Dennis Rader did not need a separate hunting identity. The official roles he volunteered for gave him every legal permission and every community trust the hunting required. The costumes were not the cover. The costumes were the access.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BTK #DennisRader #ComplianceOfficer #BTKCase #ParkCity #SerialKillers #ColdCase #BTKKiller #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

In April of 1985, Marine Hedge was killed in her own bedroom in Park City, Kansas. She was sixty-three years old. She lived alone. Her body was found a week later in a ditch outside town.Marine Hedge lived on Independence Street. Dennis Rader lived on Independence Street. They were neighbors. On the night Rader killed her, he walked from her front door to his own back door. He went home. He went to bed.Park City Police investigated Marine Hedge's death. They did not connect her case to BTK. BTK was understood as a Wichita killer. Marine Hedge died in Park City. Different agency. Different file. The man who had killed her would not be officially connected to her death by anybody in law enforcement until he confessed to it himself, twenty years later, in 2005.For BTK case followers, this second chapter of Tony Brueski's five-part investigation walks through every confirmed Wichita-era piece of evidence law enforcement had on Dennis Rader and could not assemble. The Bright sketch. The Otero confession letter. The Fox 911 call. The Williams sealed package. The Hedge neighbor case in Park City. The Wegerle case that was filed as a domestic and put a grieving husband under suspicion for eighteen years.The episode walks slowly through what Wichita Police had, when they had it, what the legal and jurisdictional constraints of the era looked like, and the specific moments where pieces of Dennis Rader sat in different filing cabinets that no investigator at the time was authorized or able to bring together.This is the second uncomfortable truth of the series. The chase didn't close because the cops finally caught him. The chase closed when Dennis Rader, eleven months before his arrest, accidentally handed them the last piece.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BTK #DennisRader #MarineHedge #BTKCase #BTKKiller #Wichita #ParkCity #SerialKillers #ColdCase #HiddenKillers

Factor X was a phrase Dennis Rader typed in a letter to a Wichita television station in February of 1978. He used it to describe what he claimed was driving him to kill. He compared the feeling to a demon. He compared himself to Jack the Ripper. He compared himself to Son of Sam. He asked the press, in writing, to call him the BTK Strangler.The press said yes.For forty-seven years, every documentary, book, and podcast about Dennis Rader has repeated his own language back to him, as if it were a forensic finding rather than a typed press release. Factor X. The Minotaur. The BTK brand. The mythology of BTK is the mythology Dennis Rader composed about Dennis Rader.In this first chapter of a new five-part investigation built specifically for BTK case followers, host Tony Brueski takes apart the language of the 1978 letter line by line. What Rader was reading at the time he wrote it. What classes he was taking at Wichita State. What books on profiling were sitting on his shelf. What cultural figures he chose to compare himself to. And the inconsistencies inside the letter that read, in retrospect, as somebody trying very hard to sound like the killer he had read about in his college textbooks.The episode also walks through how the Wichita Police Department first responded to the letter, how Chief Richard LaMunyon coined the term BTK Strangler in public for the first time, and how that branding moment turned Dennis Rader's self-marketing plan into official law enforcement terminology that has stuck for nearly half a century.If you have been studying this case for years, this episode is the version of the story you have not heard. The next four chapters go deeper.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BTK #DennisRader #BTKKiller #BTKCase #FactorX #Wichita #ParkCity #SerialKillers #ColdCase #HiddenKillers

Cynthia Dawn Kinney walked out of her aunt and uncle's laundromat in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on June 23, 1976. She was sixteen years old. A cheerleader. Reportedly, she was last seen getting into a beige 1965 Plymouth with two women she did not appear to know. She has never been seen alive since. Her body has never been found. Almost fifty years later, her family is still waiting.In August of 2023, the Osage County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma released a journal entry in Dennis Rader's own handwriting. It described a fantasy of taking a young woman from a laundromat. Rader had titled the project. He had written the title on the page. "Bad Wash Day."Rader has denied the Kinney case. He has given investigators an alibi. He has told reporters the sheriff lacks solid evidence. In September of 2023, the Osage County District Attorney Mike Fisher told reporters that in his judgment, the evidence does not support charges, and that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was following a different lead.For BTK case followers, this fourth chapter of host Tony Brueski's five-part investigation walks through every cold case publicly named in connection with Rader during the years he was supposed to be silent. The 1976 Kinney disappearance. The 1990 Shawna Beth Garber case, officially attributed in March of 2024 to a different man. The August 2023 excavation of a property near Rader's former Park City home. The 2023 task force announcement by Sheriff Eddie Virden. The framework Dr. Katherine Ramsland developed in her decade of correspondence with him.Dennis Rader is eighty-one years old. His health is declining at El Dorado Correctional Facility. Whatever he has chosen not to confess is going to leave the world when he does.END LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#BTK #DennisRader #CynthiaKinney #BTKCase #Pawhuska #ColdCase #SerialKillers #BTKKiller #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

Twenty-six names ran through these five conversations. Karen Sparks. Lynda Healy. Donna Manson. Susan Rancourt. Kathy Parks. Brenda Ball. Georgann Hawkins. Janice Ott. Denise Naslund. Nancy Wilcox. Melissa Smith. Laura Aime. Debby Kent. Carol DaRonch. Caryn Campbell. Julie Cunningham. Denise Oliverson. Lynette Culver. Susan Curtis. Margaret Bowman. Lisa Levy. Kathy Kleiner. Karen Chandler. Cheryl Thomas. Leslie Parmenter. Kimberly Leach.That is who History's Hidden Killers is for.This is the final episode in a five-part series on Ted Bundy. It covers the Chi Omega trial in Miami, where the bite mark evidence convicted him on national television. It covers Judge Cowart calling a condemned man a bright young man. The marriage on the witness stand during the Kimberly Leach trial. Nine years on death row. Hundreds of hours of tapes where he never said I.In his final week, he gave confessions to detectives from four states — names, locations, details — as bargaining chips for one more day of life. FBI Agent Bill Hagmaier asked if thirty-six was closer to the true number. Bundy said: add one more digit and you have it.He was pronounced dead at 7:16 on January 24, 1989. Several hundred people cheered the white hearse from a field across Highway 16.He gave the country a count, an explanation, and a third-person confession. He did not give the country the why. He carried that into the chair on purpose.The disguise outlived the man. The question we keep asking is the one he made certain we would never answer.The last word is not his. It belongs to the women whose names were here first.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#TedBundy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #DeathRow #FloridaStatePrison #ChiOmega #BiteMark #Justice #TrueCrimePodcast #HistorysHiddenKillers

Nita Neary did not scream. She ran upstairs. She woke another sister. They turned on the lights. They opened doors. They found their friends.That is who acted first on the night of January 15, 1978, inside the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University. Not the police. Not a detective. A twenty-year-old woman who saw a masked man on the stairs and chose to go up instead of out.Margaret Bowman, twenty-one. Lisa Levy, twenty. Both killed. Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler survived with severe injuries. Four blocks away, Cheryl Thomas survived because her neighbor Debbie Ciccarelli heard thumping through an apartment wall at 3 AM and picked up the phone.The survivors of that night are alive because ordinary people did something. Nita Neary went upstairs. Debbie Ciccarelli made a call. Danny Parmenter wrote a license plate on his hand when a man approached his fourteen-year-old sister Leslie outside a Jacksonville school three weeks later.The cost of the weeks between those acts: Kimberly Leach, twelve years old, who walked back to a classroom for her purse on February 9 and was seen by a teacher's aide walking toward a white van. Her parents waited fifty-seven days.The man responsible was caught on February 15 when Officer David Lee pulled over an orange VW with a stolen plate at 1:34 in the morning in Pensacola. Not detective work. Not a manhunt. One stolen plate.This is the fourth of five conversations in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. The people who acted — the women who went upstairs, the neighbor who called, the brother who wrote down a plate — and the three weeks that had names no one will forget.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#TedBundy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #ChiOmega #FSU #Tallahassee #Florida #KimberlyLeach #NitaNeary #TrueCrimePodcast

The first time, he went out a window. The second time, he went up through a ceiling. Both times, the building he left behind had believed it was holding somebody smaller than who was actually there.Utah had Ted Bundy for one kidnapping. Colorado had him for one murder. The man in custody had killed at minimum sixteen women across five states by the end of 1975. Nobody in either building had processed that yet. The courtesies they extended — library access, no restraints, holiday staffing — were appropriate for the man on the charge sheet. They were not appropriate for the man in the cell.June 7, 1977: he jumped from a second-story window of the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, landed on his ankle, and spent six days on the mountain before being recaptured in a stolen Cadillac.December 30, 1977: he crawled through a ceiling he had spent months widening, dropped into the head jailer's empty apartment, and walked out the front door wearing the jailer's clothes. He had lost more than twenty pounds to fit through the gap. He had hoarded over five hundred dollars taped into a book. He had planned every stop from the ceiling to the bus terminal in Denver.He was not discovered missing for seventeen hours. By then he was on a plane to Chicago, and by January 8, 1978, he was in Tallahassee, Florida — a state that had never heard his name.Andy Leyba, a Rifle, Colorado resident, reportedly gave a hitchhiker his own jacket in the snow that night. He didn't know whose face it was until the papers ran it.This is the third of five conversations in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. Two preventable escapes. One system that couldn't see what it had.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#TedBundy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PrisonEscape #Aspen #Colorado #GlenwoodSprings #Fugitive #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast

Carol DaRonch was eighteen when she fought her way out of Ted Bundy's car on a November night in 1974. She ran into the road. A couple stopped. She told her story to the Murray Police Department at ten o'clock that night. She would tell it again in a Salt Lake courtroom sixteen months later, and that telling would put him in prison.The system did not catch Ted Bundy. A survivor did. An accident did. Carol DaRonch and Sergeant Bob Hayward, in the right place in the same week, did what three state task forces had not been able to do in nineteen months.Between September 1974 and August 1975, Bundy moved across five states — Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and back again — taking women in jurisdictions that did not know about each other. Nancy Wilcox, sixteen. Melissa Smith, seventeen. Laura Aime, seventeen. Caryn Campbell, twenty-three. Julie Cunningham, twenty-six. Denise Oliverson, twenty-four. Lynette Culver, twelve. Susan Curtis, fifteen.The detectives working each case had their own stacks, their own leads, their own walls covered in photographs. None of them knew there were other walls in other states with other photographs.Hayward's 2:30 AM chase of a dark Volkswagen in Granger, Utah ended with a kit in the front seat and a name that would reach Washington and Colorado within forty-eight hours. The files finally crossed state lines.This is the second of five conversations in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. The year geography did his hiding for him — and the people who ended it.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#TedBundy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Utah #Colorado #CarolDaRonch #Survivor #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase

Before Ted Bundy was the most recognized name in American criminal history, he was a man nobody had connected to anything.In 1974, across the state of Washington, young women began to disappear. Not from dark alleys. From campuses. From parking lots behind sororities. From a state park on a Sunday afternoon in front of forty thousand people. Karen Sparks survived an attack in her basement bedroom with injuries that changed her life permanently. Lynda Healy's bed was neatly made by the person who took her. Donna Manson has never been found.The names accumulate across the year: Susan Rancourt. Kathy Parks. Brenda Ball. Georgann Hawkins. Janice Ott. Denise Naslund. Each one had a family. Each one had somewhere she was supposed to be.The King County Ted Task Force had his name. His girlfriend reportedly gave it to them. A coworker reportedly gave it to them. A professor reportedly gave it to them. The computer at the University of Washington kicked his name into the top hundred. He was filtered down and forgotten.The reason he stayed hidden that year is not complicated. It is not a story of brilliant evasion. It is a story of volume — too many tips, too many names, too many men who drove tan Volkswagens — and a picture in every investigator's head that did not match the law student living six miles from the task force office.By the time anyone realized there was one man to look for, the man was in a different state.This is the first of five conversations in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. The women's names come first. The man's name comes second. That is the order it should always have been.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#TedBundy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #Seattle #1974 #LakeSammamish #LyndaHealy #ColdCase #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast