The Crimes Of The Notorious: book 1

May 1974

Seattle,Oregon

Early Life

Roberta Kathleen Parks was born on the 27th February, 1954 in Lakewood, Ohio.

Her disappearance 

On May 6, 1974, 20-year old California native Roberta Kathleen Parks, better known as Kathy Parks, was abducted from the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, approximately 250 miles away from Seattle. Bundy, intending to throw off investigators, stepped outside of his usual hunting ground in Washington state that night.

A friend, Cherrell Smith, who spotted Parks coming out of her room shortly before 11 P.M., learned that she was about to grab her usual late dinner at the cafeteria. 

The timeline is also supported by Lorraine Fargo who stopped to talk to Parks not far away from the dining hall. 

Fargo notes that her friend looked preoccupied and sad that night, and the conversation they had – according to Fargo – supports this impression.

Roberta and her father appeared to have a strained relationship. Like Manson, Parks was reported to have struggled emotionally at the time of her abduction; she was consuming too much alcohol and calling behind in her classes

Remembering Bundy's statement that vulnerable people had a certain posture and mimic about them, maybe inviting in more abuse that way, Bundy, adept at quickly changing tactics, could have done just that after settling on Parks.

Parks had previously relied some of what she was going through not only to those who were close to her but also to a grad student, 50-year old Carl Hoffman, whom she was not otherwise personal friends with.

So Bundy, maybe even overhearing what Fargo and Parks had talked about, and pretending to be willing to engage her, offering to lend an ear and give less fatherly and more "modern" advice from equal to equal, used a cleverer and personally targeted ruse this time around- Parks may have been more willing to share her vulnerabilities. To her detriment unfortunately.

As he was outside of his usual hunting ground he may have felt safer experimenting with a conscious victim.

For even if Parks escaped and gave a description of him, the fact that he wasn't native to Oregon would have prohibited him being connected to this case. Had she been shown mug shots they would have been of Oregonian offenders only. 

Her skull was later found on Taylor Mountain. Bundy confessed to her murder shortly before his execution.