The Nation - News from March 19, 1989

Searchers in Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, following directions given by serial killer Ted Bundy before his execution, have found bones and the tattered remnant of a blouse near a site where Bundy said he buried a 17-year-old girl he killed in 1974. Wayne County Sheriff Kerry Ekker said the bones were recovered from three separate sites just outside the boundaries of the park, about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City. At one site, searchers found widely scattered bones and what appeared to be a piece of a tan blouse with lace, Ekker said, adding that the bones from two locations are suspected of being from animals. Officials said the items will be turned over to the Utah State Crime Laboratory for analysis. The bones and cloth were found in a general area described by Bundy to detectives who interviewed him at Florida State Prison shortly before his Jan. 24 execution in the electric chair. At that time, Bundy confessed to more than 20 killings, eight of them in Utah, including the murder of Nancy Wilcox, who disappeared from her Salt Lake City neighborhood on Oct. 2, 1974.