PROFILE: Ted Bundy Part 2 - Lake Sammamish, Chi Omega & Carol DaRonch

Forty thousand people were at Lake Sammamish State Park on 14 July 1974. Ted Bundy walked up to a woman with his arm in a sling and asked for help. Then, hours later, he came back and did it again.

Part two of three. The killing years, the two escapes, and the night in Tallahassee that finally ended it.

Dr. Cathy Barrett, forensic psychologist, walks the trajectory. Shannon asks the questions.

⚠️ This episode contains graphic descriptions of murder, sexual assault, mutilation and necrophilia, and the killing of a child. It is the most difficult of the three.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) The victim profile, and the sling

(02:25) Lake Sammamish, in broad daylight

(03:15) Janice Ott and Denise Naslund

(05:14) The sketch, and a professor's call

(07:47) Possession, and the crime scenes

(10:07) Carol DaRonch escapes

(11:04) Granger, Utah: the murder kit

(13:47) Convicted, and a fifteen year sentence

(16:43) Dr. Al Carlisle, prison psychologist

(17:38) Caryn Campbell, and Aspen

(19:32) Escape one: the law library window

(21:11) Escape two: the ceiling

(24:17) Chi Omega, January 1978

(26:17) Margaret Bowman

(27:05) Lisa Levy

(27:57) Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler

(29:24) Cheryl Thomas

(30:45) Leslie Parmenter's brother

(31:30) Kimberly Leach

(34:30) Why this was never a celebration

IN THIS EPISODE

Janice Ott and Denise Naslund, taken from the same park on the same afternoon in front of a crowd. Witnesses remembered the sling, the Volkswagen, and that he introduced himself as Ted.

Carol DaRonch, who got out of the car. She is the reason he was caught at all, and Cathy is blunt about it: without her, he may never have been stopped.

Two escapes. Out of a second storey law library window in Aspen with nothing but a hurt ankle, then, months later, out through a light fixture in a ceiling after starving himself thin enough to fit.

Chi Omega. Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy killed, Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler surviving, all in under an hour. Then Cheryl Thomas a few blocks away the same night. And the bite mark that would convict him.

Kimberly Leach, twelve years old, who fit nothing about his pattern, and what that tells you about the state he was in by then.

Plus Shannon on why the film version of the gleeful, hedonistic killer does not fit this man at all.

CORRECTIONS

Bundy was arrested in Pensacola on 15 February 1978. The 9 February date in the episode is when Kimberly Leach was taken.

The seventeen year old killed the night Carol DaRonch escaped was Debra Kent, from Viewmont High School in Bountiful, Utah.

Caryn Campbell disappeared from the Wildwood Inn at Snowmass, Colorado in January 1975.

THE SERIES

Part 1: Childhood, teenage years, college

Part 2: The killings, the escapes, Chi Omega

Part 3: The final trial, the interviews, the execution

Two licensed therapists, one forensic psychologist, one clinical LMFT, take apart the minds behind the crimes.

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