Both BC Folders in KCSO's Possession

Background Info on KCSO Files 

From 1974 to 1975 the King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) worked with agencies in California, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming — as well as other western states to a lesser degree — as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in British Columbia, Canada (BC) to investigate whether each area's recent unsolved female homicides (UFHs) were related. 

On California's side of things, the list of likely victims was eventually narrowed down to 22: fourteen in CA — including seven SRHM victims — and eight in OR and WA (primarily KCSO cases). This investigation culminated in the CA DOJ publishing a report on the 22 victims in February 1975.

From what I could find, it seems that the agencies in California and Canada did not communicate with each other, likely due to the large physical distance between the two making it seem less likely that their UFHs were related. The common link between the two areas' agencies, however, is the KCSO, which did communicate and compare their UFHs with both areas. 

By the second half of 1975 it was determined that the cases under KCSO jurisdiction (as well as many others) were committed by serial killer Ted Bundy, though none of the cases in California or Canada, among others, have been attributed to him.  

Despite this, KCSO — unlike many CA agencies, including CA DOJ — not only retained all their files generated during this inter-agency investigation, but have also graciously made them available in a Dropbox among their other Bundy files through the King County Archives. Due to the large volume of records in a semi-disorganized fashion — including many repeated pages, incorrect page orientations, etc — I have gone through and separated the relevant ones into related chunks, including the one below.

Furthermore, many of these files were more-or-less redacted prior to being shared by KCSO/the respective agency in accordance with laws regarding what can or cannot be disclosed when responding to a public records request. I have gone through and either typed — in Helvetica/Arial/etc font — or commented — it varies — what I have determined to be the contents of the redacted information, primarily victim names that I deduced based on date, location, age, etc. All text in Helvetica/Arial/etc font is my work, and not part of the original case files.

Upon opening a post, please then open just the pdf in another tab in order to see my comments, which contain important information regarding cases that have since been solved, the contents of redacted details, missing persons who have since been located, corrections to typos/factual errors, etc.

[To open the pdf in another tab, hover your cursor over the pdf, then click on the box-and-arrow icon that appears in the upper right-hand corner of the pdf.]

A full list of all files pertaining to the above that I have made available on this site can be found here, as well as on the sidebar of this blog under the title "List of ALL 1974-1975 KCSO UFH Files." 

Contents of the Specific Files Below

The pdf below consists of sheets from two different folders: pg.s 3-18 and 19 [rotated] of Box 4, Folder 3, "Information about Canadian victims," and pg.s 1 [rotated], 11-12, and 15 of Box 27, Folder 4, "British Columbia" of the King County Archives' Dropbox.

The first page of the pdf is a scan of the cover of the original physical KCSO manila folder, the contents of which were scanned to become the digital file folder "954-27-4 British Columbia"; this folder has a lot of overlap with the contents of the "Info about Canadian victims."

Pages two through five of this pdf concern an unidentified murder victim known only as Naramata Jane Doe 1974. 

As detailed on page six of the pdf, the following pages consist of: a copy of an assault victim's report (pg.s 7-9), the fingerprints of the suspect in that case (pg. 10), and a police bulletin from July 1974 containing summaries of British Columbia's six (then-)unsolved murders (pg.s 11-17). The remaining pages in the pdf are miscellaneous sheets from the above folders regarding further attacks and disappearances.

Information on the Cases Below

Many/all of these cases are now considered part of the phenomenon called the Highway of Tears, a section of British Columbia's Highway 16 that has been the setting for many disappearances and murders of women and girls, many of whom are First Nations. Beacause of this, the Highway of Tears is associated with the MMIW/MMIP movement, though some of the victims are not Indigenous. 

It is generally agreed upon that maybe some of the Highway of Tears cases are related to each other through a common perpetrator, it is thought that most of them are unrelated to each other and not the act of a serial killer. While the name for the Highway of Tears was coined in 1998, the following files show that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have taken note of the phenomenon as early as 1974. 

While this blog is dedicated to California and other western states in the US, I am still uploading these documents in case they could potentially be useful or relevant in the future.

WARNING: Please be aware that these investigative records contain details of violence — primarily of a sexual nature — against women and girls aged anywhere between 11 and 27 years old, which is described using blunt police terminology, as well as some dated terms (especially regarding race and female sexuality) that were more-or-less typical of the time period. This includes examples of violence — both sexual and not — against Indigenous women and girls. Some individuals may find these details and descriptions graphic or disturbing. Reader discretion is advised.