Rachel Sharp
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And that is quite important because that delayed how quickly people began looking for her.
So it was the night of Halloween and she was at a friend's house at a Halloween party, like a lot of 17-year-old girls obviously would be at that time.
And she told friends she was leaving to go and buy some cigarettes and she just never returned.
And as I say, it took a little while before she was reported missing and searched for because she was staying with friends at the time.
And it would be a month before her body would then turn up.
Yeah, so it was around a month later and it was on November 27th, 1974.
Her body was found in an embankment up in the mountains near American Fort Canyon Road, so a really remote area.
She was naked and she'd been raped and strangled.
And her body had obviously been there for some time.
Her father could only identify her remains because of the scars that she had on her back from when she fell off a horse when she was younger.
So really horrific.
And, you know, her sister has said that that's something that stuck with her dad and she never really got over.
Yeah, so that does fit his MO for some of his victims.
But Bundy also killed and preyed on his victims in many different ways.
He bludgeoned some to death.
He strangled some.
He beat some to death.
He was very violent and on one of the victims there was really distinctive bite marks and that was how they actually identified him to that victim by leaving this horrific bite mark on their body.
So one of the things that he did was he, as you mentioned, he was very charming, he was quite good looking and he would drive around in his VW Beetle
And he often approached women under the guise of being injured.