Most Read Stories. Bundy grew up in Tacoma, went to Temple University in Philadelphia and came back to Seattle in 1969 for law school. He was executed in Florida’s electric chair in 1989 for the 1978 kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl.

1. Washington Serial Killers

One of the most famous serial killers of all time, Ted Bundy, was a former University of Washington student and Tacoma man who confessed to murdering at least 30.

Washington Serial Killers

He also was convicted in Florida for the murder of two sorority sisters. Before his execution, Bundy confessed to killing 23 young women in the 1970s in Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Washington, though some investigators say he may have murdered dozens more. John Allen Muhammad The one-time Tacoma resident and Army veteran has appealed the death sentence he received for his role in a 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area. Muhammad and an accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, have been linked to 21 shootings in all, including 14 deaths in D.C., Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Washington state.

1. The Pacific Northwest has been home to a number of serial killers. John Douglas, the FBI profiler of the Green River killer, once called.
2. List of serial killers in the United States Identified serial. Raped and strangled six young women and girls in Washington, D.C. In the early 1970s.