Ted Bundy's apartment in Salt Lake City

Serial Killer House in Salt Lake City, Utah

This is the house where Ted Bundy lived while he was staying in Utah.

It is located at 565 1st Avenue in Salt Lake City.

Bundy stayed at this address between September 1974 and September 1975. At the time, he had recently started attending the University of Utah Law School.

Shortly after he moved here, women started to disappear from Utah, Colorado, and Idaho.

This is a rooming house, which means that it has multiple tenants who share the same facilities. Bundy lived in room #2. His old bedroom window is visible on the second floor, above the porch.

To the right of the building, there is a fire escape, which he may have used to come and go in the middle of the night.

On the left side, there is an entrance to a cellar. One roommate said that Bundy would sometimes go down into the cellar late at night. However, they didn't find it suspicious at the time because he was the designated property manager (in exchange for a reduced rent, landlords will sometimes appoint tenants to carry out maintenance and act on their behalf).

bundy utah house — The cellar was situated on the western side of the house (highlighted in red). Credit: Google Maps.

Following his arrest in August 1975, Bundy consented to a search of his residence, during which the police found a book containing illustrations of various forms of torture.

In the final hours before his execution, he confessed to bringing two of his victims back to this address.

Bundy claimed that he kidnapped 17-year-old Debra Kent from her high school in Bountiful before bringing her back to his apartment. He said that he kept Kent in his room for a "period of time" before dumping her body 100 miles away at a site near Fairview Canyon.

He also said that he kept Nancy Wilcox at the house.

There are some major doubts hanging over these claims, as the former law student was known to be untruthful at times.

Nancy Wilcox and Debra Kent — Bundy attacked and murdered Wilcox (left) on October 2nd, 1974. Then, roughly one month later, he abducted Kent (right) from her high school in Bountiful. Although he claimed that he brought the victims back to his apartment, there is no corroborating evidence to confirm this. Bundy was a malignant narcissist and a pathological liar who often made far-fetched claims. Therefore, it is probable that he was toying with investigators.

Bundy continued to live here until his move to Douglas Street in September 1975.

Address

The address and the GPS coordinates for this location are as follows:

Address

565 1st Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, UT 84103, USA

Map

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GPS coordinates

The latitude and longitude coordinates for the house are:

40.770744, -111.872394

Directions

It is just around the corner from the Governor's Mansion.

Details about the general area

The street is located in an affluent neighborhood called The Avenues, which is in the northeast of Salt Lake City. It is relatively close to the city center and Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Private Property Warning

This is private property, not a public space. Please respect the owners and do not enter without permission. Entry without permission is trespassing and may be met with legal or other serious consequences.

Photos

Photos of the house and other related images.

1978

This photograph of the property was taken in 1978. We have circled Bundy's bedroom window and the fire escape on the right side of the house.

Taking a victim back to his apartment would have been an extremely risky act on his part. For example, one tenant lived directly across from his room.

The bottom of the fire escape is roughly 5 feet off the ground. Carrying someone up this ladder would have been a difficult feat, especially if they were incapacitated.

On the other hand, we do know that he was willing to take bold risks on a number of occasions, especially when alcohol was involved.

Bundy had a "casual relationship" with one of the female tenants on the bottom floor. During one conversation, he told her about the time he stole a portable television from a store and got away with it.

Following his arrest in 1975, the police searched his apartment and found a program for the high school play that Debra Jean Kent attended on the night of her abduction.

Cellar

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There is an urban legend that Bundy used an old cellar on Emigration Canyon Road to torture some of his victims.

However, the cellar in question has no connection to the case.

It is not mentioned in any of the police files, interviews, or confessions. Furthermore, it does not appear in any reputable books.

If you research Bundy's Utah victims on an individual level, it becomes apparent that the cellar is just a random location that someone mistakenly attributed to him.

The origin of this myth is most likely rooted in the fact that there was a cellar at Bundy's rooming house in Salt Lake City, which he may have used to "keep" Wilcox and Kent.

However, over the years, the location of this cellar was somehow transplanted to this site off Emigration Canyon Road.

Coordinates: 40.751504, -111.801976

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