List of ALL 1974-1975 KCSO UFH 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 at the bottom of this list under the name "Final CA DOJ Report on UFHs."
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 upon 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, which are available 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; these files are denoted with **.
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.]
I have included the above explanation in most, if not all, of the posts below. Each post also names the specific source (i.e., King County Archives Bundy Dropbox, a different public records request, another user-made site, etc.) and page numbers. Bits and pieces of many of these files are also available on other sites — such as the ZK Site, Another Bundy Blog, and the Internet Archive — however when in doubt I defer to the KCSO versions, which are the most complete and have not been taken out of context/uploaded alongside other files from different agencies.
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.
SRHM Files from SCSO to CA Agencies, c.May 1974 **
ORIGINAL Inter-Agency CA List by SCSO, May 1974 **
Pre-Report Double List by Dave Struve, June 1974 **
KCSO Files from Santa Cruz DA, Aug. 1974 **
Both BC Folders in KCSO's Possession, July 1974 to Mar. 1975
KCSO Full Interstate Victim List **
Final CA DOJ Report on UFHs, Feb. 1975
List of UFHs Compiled by NM State Police, March 1975
Misc. Multi-State UFH & MP List, c. July 1975
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