Susan Elaine Rancourt was an 18-year-old biology student at Central Washington State College in Ellensburg, Washington. Described as bright and hardworking with a 4.0 GPA, she attended a dorm advisor meeting on the evening of April 17, 1974, then began walking back to her dorm and never arrived. A load of her laundry was later found left in a washing machine.

Other female students later reported encounters with a man with his arm in a sling who asked for help carrying books to his tan or brown Volkswagen Beetle, sometimes identifying himself as Ted. Nearly a year after Susan disappeared, on March 3, 1975, her skull was found in a wooded area on Taylor Mountain in Issaquah and she was identified that month. A definitive cause of death could not be determined from the remains, but the case was officially ruled a homicide.

Ted Bundy was identified as the man who used a fake sling to lure women and was arrested in 1975; he later confessed to abducting and killing Susan, saying he struck her with a crowbar before abducting her. Does anyone have information about Susan’s last evening on campus or recall seeing someone matching that description near the dorms that night?