ORIGINAL Inter-Agency CA List by SCSO, May 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 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 55, 63-64, 68-70, and 111-136 from Box 25, Folder 11, "924-25-11 California Criminal Intelligence" of the King County Archives' Dropbox. 

The second and third pages of this pdf consist of a letter sent from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) sent on May 11, 1974 to other jurisdictions in California regarding unsolved female homicides (UFHs); sent alongside this letter was a list [pg.s 1 and 4 of pdf] of both SCSO cases and other UFHs that the SCSO had managed to find out about. The fifth and sixth pages of the pdf are a list of all of the agencies that were sent this letter, as the listed UFHs fall under their jurisdictions (+ CA DOJ). The remainder of the pdf has individual summaries on each of the UFHs listed.

This set of records seems to be the first correspondence between agencies to compare their UFHs, which expanded into other states and eventually led to the publication of the 1975 CA DOJ report. Copies of this packet was eventually (c.Aug. 1974) sent to the KCSO.

[Note: The first and fourth pages of this pdf have the same list contents; I have included both of them, however, due to minor differences between what information is redacted and what is not between the two pages.] 

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.