Evidence photos from the bedroom of Lynda Ann Healy located at 5517 12th Avenue NE, Seattle. 

Evidence found: a small blood stain (Type A-positive, Lynda’s type) on her pillow and bottom sheet, and another blood stain on a nightgown that was found neatly hung up in her closet.

Missing: her top bed sheet, a red decorative satin pillowcase, her red knapsack and a change of clothes.

The initial conclusion was that Lynda had suffered a late-night nosebleed and had gone somewhere to have it attended to. Because the idea of a late night intruder seemed farfetched at the time, police did not dust the room for fingerprints, process it for hair/fiber evidence, or test a semen stain found on her sheet.

It wasn’t until nearly two months later when Donna Manson seemingly vanished from Evergreen State College (60 miles south of Seattle) that police began connecting disappearances. 

Her partial remains were later discovered at the Taylor Mountain Site along with those of Brenda Ball, Susan Rancourt, and Roberta Parks. (x)