Pre-Report Double List by Dave Struve, June 1974

From 1974 to 1975 the King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) worked with agencies in California (as well as other western states) to investigate whether each state's recent unsolved female homicides (UFHs) were related. Many, many files and records were generated during this collaboration, many of which list different combinations of possibly related UFHs. 

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; that report, written/compiled by Dave Struve of the CA DOJ, is available here.

I am interested in these files because many, if not all, of the CA victims are relevant to this blog. Furthermore, this is, as of September 2025, one of the — if not the — only official set of records I've been able to get my hands on for many of these cases, as California's Public Records Act (PRA) deems investigative files as exempt from disclosure, so I have been unable to obtain any when submitting PRA requests to the actual respective agencies.

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 CA cases have been attributed to him. 

Despite this, KCSO — unlike many CA agencies, including CA DOJ — not only retained all their files generated during this interstate investigation, but have also made them available among its other Bundy files in a Dropbox through the King County Archives. Due to the large volume of records in a semi-disorganized fashion, I have gone through and separated the relevant ones into related chunks, including the one below. Many of these files that I am sharing specifically originated from Box 25, Folder 11, "924-25-11 California Criminal Intelligence" of the King County Archives' Dropbox.

Furthermore, many of these files were more-or-less redacted by KCSO in accordance with laws regarding what can or cannot be disclosed when responding to a public records request prior to being shared. 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 (such as this one), please then open the pdf itself 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 found, 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." 

The record below specifically consists of pages 62, 65, 77-79, and 111-136 from Box 25, Folder 11, "924-25-11 California Criminal Intelligence" of the King County Archives' Dropbox.

The first page of the pdf explains how the subsequent files came into KCSO's possession, i.e., they were sent by the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) in August 1974. This first page mentions "copies of information [SCSO] ha[s] compiled regarding [UFHs] in our county" that were sent alongside the letter. That set of files can be found here.

The second page of the pdf is a copy of the "memo" mentioned on the first page that was created after a meeting between SCSO and Dave Struve of the CA DOJ. The following pages contain the two lists of CA UFHs created by Struve in June 1974, as mentioned on the first page. This double list was eventually narrowed down by Struve into the list of victims in his 1975 CA DOJ report.

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. Some individuals may find these details and descriptions graphic or disturbing. Reader discretion is advised.