Elizabeth Kloepfer's house

This is the house that Ted Bundy's girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (aka Liz Kendall) was living in when he started his killing spree.

Kloepfer lived here at 5208 18th Avenue NE with her young daughter, Molly.

Her apartment was on the first floor, on the right side of the building. Although Bundy often spent the night here, he continued living at the Rogers' rooming house throughout most of their relationship.

This residence is a short 5–10 minute walk from the house where Bundy brutally attacked and abducted Lynda Ann Healy.

Kloepfer and Bundy met at the Sandpiper Tavern in 1969. For the next five or six years, they had a tumultuous on-and-off relationship.

In 1973, he started asking her to engage in "abnormal" sexual relations, which typically involved him tying her to the bed with nylon stockings. At first, she agreed to go through with it. However, on one occasion, Bundy put his hands around her throat and began choking her until it hurt. Following the incident, she decided that she didn't want to do it anymore.

Their relationship came under considerable strain in 1974. Notably, this was the same year that he started targeting young women in the Seattle area.

According to Kloepfer, he became distant and would often disappear for two or three days at a time. This, coupled with his low sex drive, led her to believe that he was having an affair.

Sadly, the truth was much worse.

By July of that year, she had started to suspect his involvement in the disappearances of several local women.

An unidentified man called "Ted" was believed to be the prime suspect in the Lake Sammamish abductions. When she saw the police sketch of "Ted", she immediately realized that it looked just like her boyfriend.

Her suspicions were raised even further when she read that the man who abducted Georgann Hawkins had been using crutches. According to Kloepfer, she had previously seen a pair of crutches in his room.

Unfortunately, the report about the Lake Sammamish abduction said that the suspect drove a metallic dark brown Volkswagen Bug. This planted doubt in Kloepfer's head, as her boyfriend's Volkswagen was pale brown. When she anonymously called the police from a telephone booth to question them about this, they confirmed that it was bronze, not pale brown.

As a result, she pushed her concerns to the back of her mind.

In September of 1974, Bundy moved to an apartment in Salt Lake City to study law at the University of Utah Law School.

Following his departure, the abductions in the Washington State area suddenly stopped. Then, roughly one month later, Kloepfer received word from a friend that a young girl named Melissa Smith had been abducted and murdered in Utah.

Although she did not want to believe that her partner of five years was a serial killer, there were now far too many coincidences to ignore.

Consequently, she decided to report Bundy's name to the police. However, when she spoke to a detective, he assured her that they had already looked into her boyfriend and concluded that he wasn't a good suspect.

At the time, the police didn't believe that a law student with no criminal record could commit such horrible acts.

Although the detective agreed to take Bundy's photograph and show it to one of the witnesses, it seems as though he didn't take the report seriously.

When Kloepfer called him again for an update, he struggled to remember who she was or what they had talked about in their previous conversation.

After finally realizing who she was, he abruptly said that the witness thought Bundy was too old to be the man at Lake Sammamish.

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