Serial killer Ted Bundy drove a tan Volkswagen Bug. It was a run-down car, but he had thing for Volkswagens. He thought they were good for transporting cargo.
In 1974, a woman was on her way to a meeting at Northgate General, a hospital that used to be attached to Northgate Mall. She was headed north on Interstate 5 when she took the wrong exit and got lost. She saw a tan Bug in her rearview mirror. Seattle’s harrowingly narrow streets were hard for her to navigate, and she was desperately trying to find her way back to the freeway. Through it all, every wrong turn and backtrack, the tan Bug was behind her.
“I was frightened,” the woman wrote in an e-mail to true-crime writer Ann Rule years later. “The guy driving it couldn’t possibly be taking the same mixed-up path I was on. The last turn had no outlet—unless you backed up. I pulled up to where the pavement ended in a field of weeds and stopped. The guy in the VW parked behind me.”
