On the night of May 6, 1974, 20-year-old Oregon State University student Roberta Kathleen Parks, known as Kathy, left Sackett Hall shortly before 11:00 p.m. to meet friends for coffee and never returned. There were no immediate signs of struggle and no clear leads at the time, and her disappearance remained unsolved for months amid several similar disappearances in the Pacific Northwest.

On March 3, 1975, forestry students found human remains on Taylor Mountain southeast of Seattle. Subsequent recovery and dental identification linked those scattered remains to Roberta Kathleen Parks and other missing women. Roberta’s remains were badly decomposed, making an exact cause of death hard to determine; investigators believed bludgeoning was the likely cause.

Ted Bundy later became a suspect in the related disappearances. In a confession given shortly before his execution on January 24, 1989, he said he encountered Kathy in the university cafeteria, persuaded her to get into his car, bound and gagged her, drove her to Taylor Mountain, sexually assaulted her en route, and murdered her there.

Does anyone have memories of Kathy on campus that could help fill in what happened that night?