Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 03/15/1975
- Missing From:
- Missing From Vail, Colorado
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 01/10/1949 (76)
- Age:
- Age 26 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’5, 110 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A brown suede jacket, blue jeans, a ski cap and boots.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Cunningham appeared younger than her actual age in 1975.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On March 15, 1975, a woman named Cunningham disappeared from Vail, Colorado. She worked at a ski shop and taught skiing. She was last seen leaving her apartment to go to a bar.
Ted Bundy, a serial killer, confessed to killing Cunningham before he was executed in 1989, even though he was never officially charged with her murder. Bundy said he tricked her into his car by pretending to be an injured skier needing help. He then kidnapped, raped, and strangled her, burying her body in a shallow grave near Rife, Colorado. Despite a search with a bloodhound in 1989, her body has never been found.
Bundy is also suspected in the deaths of many other young women, whose bodies have also never been found. Cunningham’s case is sadly just one example of his many unsolved crimes.
- Agency:
- Vail Police Department 970-479-2200
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 03/15/1975