The alley where Georgann Hawkins was abducted

This is the alley where Ted Bundy abducted Georgann Hawkins.

It is situated on Greek Row in the University District of Seattle.

Abduction

In the early hours of June 11, 1974, Hawkins left the Beta Theta Pi House on Greek Row after visiting her boyfriend, Marvin Gellatly.

Gellatly had offered to walk her back to her sorority house, but she declined, as it was just 350 feet away.

After stepping out into the alley, Hawkins began walking toward Kappa Alpha Theta.

Despite the short distance, the 18-year-old never arrived.

As Hawkins was walking through the alley, Bundy hobbled toward her on crutches and pretended to struggle with a briefcase.

This was a common tactic he used to garner sympathy from his victims and lure them away to a more secluded spot. The crutches also made him appear vulnerable and less dangerous.

Once he was close enough to his target, he dropped his briefcase and asked if she could help him carry it to his car.

Believing the "injured" young man was in need of assistance, she obliged.

The pair then turned around and walked to a dark parking lot that was roughly 500 feet north of the alley.

Upon reaching Bundy's Volkswagen Bug, Hawkins leaned over to place his briefcase on one of the seats. While her back was turned, he quickly struck her over the head with a crowbar, knocking her unconscious.

After bundling her into the passenger-side footwell and handcuffing her, he drove to a secluded dirt road in Issaquah.

Bundy spoke about the abduction shortly before his execution in 1989:

"About halfway down the block, I encountered her and asked her to help me carry the briefcase, which she did. We walked back up the alley, across the street, turned right on the sidewalk in front of the fraternity house on the corner, and rounded the corner to the left, going north on 47th. Well, midway down the block, there used to be one of those parking lots they used to make out of burned-down houses in that area. The university would turn them into parking lots. Instant parking lots. There was a parking lot there. It had a dirt surface, no lights, and my car was parked there."

Disappearance

Hawkins' roommate raised the alarm when she failed to return to Kappa Alpha Theta by 3 a.m.

The following morning, TV reporters and crowds of students started to gather at Greek Row. Meanwhile, the police cordoned off the scene and carried out a search.

Hawkins' disappearance confirmed suspicions that a pattern was emerging.

Although Bundy was an unknown name at the time, the public was aware that young women were disappearing in the Washington State area at an alarming rate.

A college student named Lynda Ann Healy had recently gone missing from her house in the University District.

Donna Manson and Susan Rancourt had also vanished from their respective college campuses.

Bundy's confession

During his confession, Bundy claimed that Hawkins regained consciousness while they were en route to the site at Issaquah. Disoriented, she started rambling about her upcoming Spanish exam.

He laughed and said:

"It's funny... it's not funny, but it's odd the kinds of things that people will say and under those circumstances."

He then recalled that she believed he was her Spanish tutor.

Shortly afterward, he knocked Hawkins unconscious again and continued driving to Issaquah, where he undressed her and strangled her to death using a piece of rope.

Bundy claimed that he broke out of his "fever" following the murder.

Panicked, he drove south, past his site at Taylor Mountain, before tossing evidence down the embankments along the highway. This included the briefcase, crutches, and the rope used during the murder.

He explained that he often did this after killing someone because he didn't want to bring the items back to his apartment. However, he'd soon get "mad" at himself because he'd eventually have to buy most of the items again.

"I threw away the briefcase, the crutches, and all that stuff. And the crowbar. Everything. The handcuffs. I'd get mad at myself a few weeks later because I'd have to go out and buy another pair. I mean, it's not comical, but that is what would happen."

Returning to the body

The following day, he returned to check on Hawkins' body and noticed that one of her shoes was missing.

Immediately, he began to worry.

If it had fallen off in the parking lot, then there was a chance that someone might remember seeing his Volkswagen parked in the area.

He was also anxious because he had recently pulled the same ruse on someone else.

Two weeks prior, he had drunkenly approached a young woman in the alley behind Beta Theta Pi and lured her to the same parking lot where he abducted Hawkins. However, on that occasion, his target reportedly grew wary of him and decided to leave.

He became paranoid about the missing shoe, as he knew the woman might report the encounter if Hawkins' belongings were discovered in the same lot.

The morning after Hawkins' disappearance, the police cordoned off Greek Row and searched it for clues. They also started checking parks in the area. However, they did not inspect the parking lot on 17th Avenue.

Consequently, Bundy was able to return the next evening at 5 p.m., watch the police from afar, and retrieve her missing shoe and both of her earrings.

Bundy said that he returned to her body again on June 14, 1974, and severed her head with a hacksaw. He explained that he did this to hinder her identification:

"It was sort of a crude attempt to disguise the identity or avoid, I mean, the identification of the remains as such."

His third and final visit occurred a week or two later, when he returned to the site to "see what was going on."

During his confession, he alluded to necrophilia, the "possession" of victims, and his fascination with death. However, he did not elaborate.

Hawkins' remains have never been found

Bundy claimed he left Hawkins' remains in a wooded area near Issaquah, in the same place where he later dumped the bodies of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund.

The police discovered five femurs at the Issaquah site, indicating the presence of a third victim. Unfortunately, the medical examiner's office lost the bones before DNA testing became available.

Although Bundy told investigators that he buried Hawkins' skull beside a nearby "rocky hillside," a dig at the suspected site failed to find anything.

To this day, she remains listed as a missing person.