Rex Reed Jr
Illinois State University student James Doughty is bringing news of a seventies unsolved murder of a co-ed on campus and as a crime reporter I have always known about this case. Carol Rofstad was beaten outside her sorority house in December of 1975 and this murder bears the trademark of Americas most evil,twisted, and infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy was arrested in late 1975 but was released as preparation for a trial on a kidnapping charge was occurring and this time period is very murky in studying Ted Bundy's possible connection to the hundreds of unsolved and missing girls that were turning up dead everywhere in this time period.
They don't even know if he killed 34 women or 134 women as he hinted and confused in several interviews and Bundy was or was not still on the loose in late 1975 to early 1976. Some revisionists wonder if he even killed half of the thirty four women often claimed and whether the creation of Ted Bundy as a successful serial killer was fake news to put fear out of women and end their hitchhiking methods. He may have killed no more than ten women but relished the attention the high and absurd number given to him. There were many evil sick men killing women out there in the mid-seventies as police work was pathetic and there was little fear of capture and some really bad chemically tainted beer and drugs being served in America.
Bundy liked to drive and moved about frequently and detectives suspect him of murders in at least twelve states as gas was cheap and he had a beetle car with great milage. Ther eis even a famous picture of Ted Bundy washing dishes with an unknown blonde who has never been identified through long research and some have suggested this woman is indeed carol Rofstad herself. In an era before there was internet and date sites how a serial killer based in Western states was able to meet a co-ed from Illinois remains a mystery. Ted Bundy though has to be suspect number two of our top ten list of potential suspects in Central Illinois University seventies era co-ed murder
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