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So far, no suppliant stranger has been reported near the scenes of four other disappearances, three of which involved students. Lynda Ann Healy, 21, a fourth-year psychology major at the University of Washington, vanished during the night of Jan. 31 from her basement bedroom in an old residence in Seattle's University District, leaving blood on her sheet and pillow. At Evergreen State College in Olympia, Freshman Donna Gail Manson, 19, headed across campus to a jazz concert on the evening of March 12, but never arrived. In the early hours of June 11, another University of Washington student, Georgann Hawkins, 18, disappeared from a busy, well-lighted alley near her sorority house. A 22-year-old girl named Brenda Ball vanished from a Seattle-area tavern on June 1.
Link Doubted. Because he spoke with a slight English accent and said that he had hurt his arm playing racquet ball, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been asked about Ted. Racquet ball is played in Seattle, but it is much more popular in adjacent British Columbia, which has been plagued by a series of unsolved rape-murders. "We've got a bloody sick one," said one R.C.M.P. sergeant, but another officer doubts that there is a link with the Washington mystery. "It seems to me the guy down there makes sure his victims aren't found. Ours just dumps them openly on old logging roads and such."