Lynette Dawn Culver was a 12-year-old seventh grader at Alameda Junior High in Pocatello, Idaho, when she left school during the lunch break on May 6, 1975, and never returned. Early inquiries treated her as a possible runaway, with reports she may have boarded a bus toward the nearby Fort Hall Indian Reservation, but no confirmed contact followed and concerns about foul play grew.

In January 1989, Ted Bundy, shortly before his execution, confessed to abducting, sexually assaulting and drowning Lynette after taking her to a Holiday Inn, then disposing of her body in the Snake River north of Pocatello, and gave details he said only someone who had met her would know. Lynette’s remains have never been recovered, and some investigators note other Pocatello-area child murders between 1978 and 1983 occurred while Bundy was incarcerated, leaving open the possibility of a different offender.

No body has been found and the case remains officially a missing person matter; anyone with information about Lynette or her disappearance is asked to come forward.