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Throughout August of 1974, Ted Bundy attacked the DES budget in
the haphazard fashion so characteristic of his school work. As his
early September departure date approached, he’d bear down for several
days, then go flat and do nothing. His last night in the northwest
was spent at the DES office with Liz, and it wasn’t until the
early hours of the next morning that he at last completed his work.
Ted and Liz drove back up to Seattle, where he hurriedly packed
his VW. They breakfasted together and afterward he humored her when
she asked him to pose for her camera. Ted was exhausted and Liz was
near tears during these final moments. They embraced and kissed,
then he jumped in his bug and drove off.
Within days Elzie Hammons, the grouse hunter, stumbled across the
desiccated bones and sinews of Denise Naslund and Janice Ott. In a
brief news conference, Nick Mackie of the King County police
officially acknowledged what the Seattle newspapers had been suggesting
for months. “The worst we feared,” Mackie told reporters, “is
true.”
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