The alley where Georgann Hawkins was abducted

This is the alley where Ted Bundy abducted Georgann Hawkins.

It is situated in an area called Greek Row in the University District of Seattle.

In the early hours of June 11th, 1974, Hawkins left the Beta Theta Pi House after visiting her boyfriend. She then proceeded to walk back to her sorority house at Kappa Alpha Theta, which was only 350 feet away.

Despite the short journey, the 18-year-old never returned.

Bundy used fake crutches

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

This was a common tactic that 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 her if she could help him carry it to his car.

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

At that point, the pair 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 bent over to place his briefcase on one of the seats. While she was doing so, he quickly struck her over the head with a tire iron and knocked her unconscious.

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

"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."

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

Notably, he laughed and stated:

"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 how she thought that he was her Spanish tutor.

Shortly afterwards, he knocked Hawkins unconscious again and continued driving to the site at 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 by what he had done, he drove southward, past his site at Taylor Mountain, and started tossing evidence down the embankments at the side of the interstate. These included the briefcase and crutches that he used during the abduction, as well as his victim's clothes and the rope he had used to strangle her.

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."

He returned to the body

The following day, he returned to see if Hawkins' body was still there 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 girl 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 weary of him and decided to leave.

The missing shoe filled him with paranoia, as he knew that the girl in question 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 14th, 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 about a week or two later, when he returned to the site to "see what was going on." During his confession, he alluded to things such as necrophilia, the "possession" of victims, and his fascination with death. However, he did not go into any further detail.

Hawkins' remains have never been found

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

The police discovered five femur (thigh) bones at the Issaquah site, which suggests that they did in fact find the skeletal remains of a third victim. Unfortunately, the medical examiner's office lost these bones before DNA testing became a thing.

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.