The Crimes Of The Notorious: book 1

June 1974 (Part Two)

Washington, Oregon

In the same month Bundy kidnapped and Killed Georgeann Hawkins.

Early Life

Georgeann was an 18 year old student at the University of Washington in 1974 and a member of the on-campus sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.

Georgeann's mother Edie Hawkins describes her daughter as a wiggle worm who loved to talk and just couldn't sit still. Edie called Georgeann the "Pied Piper" because people loved to be around her.

"She had quite the following, but she was not the kind of person who stuck to one group of cliques. She had friends among everybody, older than her and younger than her," Edie said.

Georgeann attended Lake High School, was a cheerleader and was named Princess of Washington Daffodil Festival. The 81-year-old festival is still one of the biggest events in the state.

Georgeann was regularly in the newspapers, riding in parades, signing autographs at charity events. The highlight of her trips was the trip to the State Legislature, where Georgeann addressed lawmakers in spring 1973.

Georgeann lived on campus at the University of Washington. Her mom and dad paid for tuition, her room, and books while Georgeann worked a summer job to pay for everything else, Edie told a Green Valley News reporter.

Georgeann was studying television journalism. Edie said the Watergate hearings were going on that year, but she doesn't think that is what made Georgeann decide to go into journalism. Georgeann loved the camera and being in the middle of the action.

Her Disappearance 

On the evening of June 10, 1974, Georgeann Hawkins was on her way back to her sorority house and stopped by her boyfriend's dormitory, only six houses down from her own. She talked to him through an open window and continued down an alley that was brightly lit toward her own dorm. She hurried as she had to cram for her Spanish final a few hours later.

Her roommate became worried when Georgeann did not return by 2:00 a.m. and called Georgeann's boyfriend  said she had left at approximately 1:00 a.m.

Police were notified and a search ensued. Because there had been other disappearances of young women, police conducted an extensive search of the school and area.

It was later learned, that a campus housemother had heard a woman's scream in the early morning hours of June 11, but she thought maybe students were playing a joke and went back to sleep.

Georgeann was never seen again.

What Bundy Told

Bundy placed Georgeann on the passenger side of his vehicle and sped away toward Lake Sammamish, approximately 20 miles away. Bundy said Georgeann woke up while he was driving, so he knocked her out again.

Bundy went on to tell Seattle Detective Robert Keppel that Georgeann was quite lucid in the car. "And she thought she had a Spanish test the next day, and she thought I had taken her to help tutor me for a Spanish test. It was kind of odd. An odd thing to say," said Bundy.

Once at the location, Bundy claims he took Georgeann out of the car and knocked her unconscious, then strangled her with an old piece of rope.

By sunrise, Ted packed up his car and drove east on Interstate 90, throwing everything out of his car, the briefcase, crutches, the ropes, Georgeann's clothing, and shoes.

Trying to convince Keppel that he was telling the truth, Bundy told him personal information about Georgeann that only he would know. "She said everyone called her George," Bundy told Keppel. "Or how about this; she used a safety pin because apparently her blue slacks were a bit too big."

When Keppel asked Bundy why he returned to the scene, "Were you going back to that scene to commit sex acts?"

Bundy responded, "Well, I don't wanna talk about that right now. We will talk about it someday, but I don't have enough to give you background on that. I want us to work into that."

Bundy proceeded to whisper to Keppel, "The Hawkins girl's head was severed and taken up the road about twenty-five to fifty yards and buried in a location about ten yards west of the road on a rocky hillside. Did you hear that?"

Police were confident they knew what happened to Georgeann, but they just weren't sure of the location. To date, Georgeann is still listed as missing.

At one point, Bundy told investigators that, in fact, Hawkins was located by police one mile east of an old railroad trestle just outside of Issaquah, a popular burial ground for Bundy where several other bodies had been located but the remains located have never been identified as Georgeann's.