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Before the country learned his name, before the trials, before the cameras — there was a year in Seattle where young women kept disappearing and nobody could connect them to each other.

Karen Sparks, beaten in her own bed with a metal rod from the bed frame, survived with brain damage and no memory of the man who did it. Lynda Healy vanished from a basement bedroom that somebody had quietly made up behind her. Donna Manson left her dorm for a concert in Olympia and never arrived. Susan Rancourt. Kathy Parks. Brenda Ball. Georgann Hawkins, eleven steps from her sorority's back door.

Then July at Lake Sammamish — Janice Ott and Denise Naslund, taken from the same crowded beach four hours apart by a man who told witnesses his name was Ted.

King County formed a task force. The tips exceeded two hundred thousand. Three different citizens reportedly called in the same name: Ted Bundy. The computer program placed him in the top hundred. He was filtered out for having no record.

The families of the missing waited through fall, through winter, through a March morning when forestry students found four skulls on Taylor Mountain. Lynda Healy. Susan Rancourt. Kathy Parks. Brenda Ball.

By then, the man who took them was already in Salt Lake City, registered for law school, living under new plates and a new life. The Washington file stayed behind.

This is the first of five conversations in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. It is the year when the answer was already in the room and nobody could see it — because nobody yet knew there was one man to look for.

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