KCSO Full Interstate Victim List, Mid-May 1975

Important Background Info on KCSO Files 

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 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 "KCSO File Index." 

Info on the Source of this Specific File

The record below specifically consists of pages 1-2 [rotated], 3-4, and 6-9 from Box 25, Folder 11, "924-25-11 California Criminal Intelligence" of the King County Archives' Dropbox.

The first two pages of the pdf are scans of the covers of the original physical KCSO manila folder, the contents of which were scanned to become the file folder "924-25-11 California Criminal Intelligence." The pdf pages that follow consist of the full, most comprehensive list of victims across states (and British Columbia) from the King County Archive/KCSO files. 

[Note: This list, for whatever reason, does not include the four girls missing from Rawlins, Wyoming as detailed here.] 

Determining A Date

This list only concerns women and girls who went missing between January 1969 and April 1975, inclusive. Because KCSO's investigation concerned any then-recent (and then-unsolved) disappearances and homicides of women and girls from the surrounding areas, it can be assumed that the list was not purposefully constrained based on end date, i.e., that the KCSO didn't make this list in, say, 1978 and decided to only look at cases up to April 1975.

Instead, it's reasonable to assume that some certain cases (especially ones that are commonly attributed now to Bundy) were not included in this list simply because they hadn't happened yet. 

For example, #79 on this list is 17-year-old Laura Aime, who a) went missing 10/31/74 and was found 11/27/74, b) was — and still is — believed to be a victim of Bundy and therefore connected to the many KCSO cases central to this investigation, and c) was investigated by the Utah County SO. 

It therefore follows that 15-year-old Susan "Sue" Curtis, missing from Provo, Utah County, UT since June 27, 1975, and is widely believed to be yet another victim of Bundy, should also be included on this list. However, the fact that she isn't indicates that, in this instance, the "deciding" factor was that Susan simply wasn't missing yet at the time the document was created; this list concerns UFHs so far. Because of this, the latest date in the document corresponds to when it was created.

The latest case from the leftmost column of the list, concerning dates of last contact, is #90, Hallie Anne Seaman, who went missing on April 29, 1975, so it is known that this document was created sometime after that. However, we can get more specific than that.

The body of victim #89 on the list, Melanie Suzanne Cooley, is noted to have already been found at the time of publication. Her remains were found on May 2, 1975, and were identified as hers by May 4th of that year. This therefore places the creation of this document as occurring after May 4, 1975.

Furthermore, Vonnie Stuth, victim #81, is labeled as still missing on the list. From this it can be ascertained that this document was created prior to the discovery, then identification, of Vonnie's remains on May 27, 1975.

It is therefore known that this list was created sometime between May 4th and May 27th of 1975.

A Warning

Please be aware that these investigative records contain details of violence — primarily of a sexual nature — against women and girls aged anywhere between 10 and 44 years old (though primarily 27 and under), 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.