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On Sunday, July 14, 1974, 23-year-old probation caseworker Janice Ann Ott rode her yellow ten-speed bicycle to Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah, Washington to sunbathe. She left a note for her roommate saying she’d be at the lake. That afternoon she was seen speaking with a polite, clean-cut young man who introduced himself as Ted and asked for help with his sailboat. Janice was last seen leaving the beach with him.

Four hours later Denise Naslund also disappeared from the same beach after an encounter with the same man. Skeletal remains of both women were found on September 6, 1974, near a service road a few miles east of the park; cause of death could not be determined from the remains, but both deaths were ruled homicides. The man who called himself Ted was later identified as Theodore Robert Bundy, who confessed to killing Janice Ott and Denise Naslund and described taking Janice to a secluded spot where he assaulted her before abducting Denise.

Did anyone who knew Janice, her routines, or the people she socialized with that summer ever notice someone matching that description around Lake Sammamish?