Seven of the known Ted Bundy victims are still missing. And because their remains haven’t been recovered, these women are technically only suspected victims no matter that he admitted to killing them. In the case of Lynette Culver and Donna Gail Manson, there are even missing person pages on The Charley Project still available for information related to their cases. And strangely so, Cowboy State Daily says that Utah authorities actually recovered the patella of one missing person, Debra Kent. As the story goes, they determined via DNA analysis in 2019 that it was her kneecap. But, private investigator Jason Jensen believes they didn’t dig deep enough or well enough to confirm that the site was where Bundy had left her.
Cowboy State Daily also lists the potential locations of not only Kent, but Nancy Wilcox, Julie Cunningham, and Susan Curtis. Bundy himself provided the burial sites of these women, all near the Moab desert in Utah, but authorities have been unable to locate the remains. Private investigators like Jensen have even gone on the prowl for these victims.
As for the other undiscovered victims, Find a Grave says that Georgann Hawkins’ remains were not only recovered but “accidentally cremated … along with unidentified persons.” This looks like an erroneous claim, however, as The Charley Project lists her as still missing. As for Denise Oliverson, Bundy claimed to have dumped her in the Colorado River. And in the case of Manson, Bundy claimed to have burned her skull in the fireplace of his girlfriend and murder attempt survivor, Elizabeth Kloepfer, whom we mentioned earlier. Out of all these missing women, only Wilcox and Kent have known memorial markers in a cemetery.
[Featured image by Family portrait, commissioned c. 1973 via Wikipedia | Cropped and scaled]
