ington area. The remains of the missing women were later found in a region of Taylor Mountain off Route 18, five miles south of Interstate 90. The police immediately notice the trend and begin to work together. In the fall of 1974, police agencies from Utah, California, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho, and Nevada met to exchange information. Being County and Seattle area police agencies formed the Ted Task Force, which was under the command of a captain from the King County Police. Due to a lack of leads and manpower the task force only lasted for four months before the members were reassigned to different cases. The police was able to bring together evidence that formed a general idea of what kind of suspect they were looking for. Witnesses played a vital role in the evidence that help identify what kind of suspect they were looking for. Ted’s modus operandi was to meet his victims in largely crowded places. While investigating the whereabouts of the missing women, investigators interviewed college students and people within the area of where the women were last seen. The students had reported seeing a “stranger struggling with books and asking young women nearly for assistance” (Bell). On another occasion A couple walking had witnessed one of the murdered women speaking with a “handsome man named Ted who was asking for assistance loading his boat onto his car due to a broken arm” (). The witnesses had supplied helpful information that gave them a good description of the suspect and also a possible name. The investigators now had a name and mo of the murdered. Three months after the abduction of Susan Rancourt, two different women not knowing at the time of the crime that what they had seen was important. Had reported to investigators, “that a man with his arm in a sling and a metal device on his finger had dropped something and then asked them to help him. He was driving a yellow Volkswagon with...
