A young mother - disappeared from a gas station in Layton nearly 50 years ago.
It's a cold case.. many
believe serial killer Ted
Bundy might've had a hand in.
But KSL's COLD podcast has
made a startling revelation..
suggesting otherwise.
Here's host Dave Cawley.
It happened in East Layton,
on the 4th of July, 1975.
Nancy Perry Baird vanished
from the gas station where she
worked.A few weeks later, a
trooper in West Valley City
arrested a young law school
student named Ted Bundy on an
unrelated case.UTAH WAS HIS
DOWNFALLTHEODORE ROBERT BUNDY
THE MOST NOTORIOUS KILLER OF
THE LAST 15 YEARSCALCULATED
KILLINGSKIDNAPPINGA VERY
DANGEROUS MANWELL EDUCATED
SMOOTHONE OF THE MOST KILLERS
TED BUNDYTED BUNDYBUNDYTED
BUNDY TIFFANY JEAN: EVERYONE
KNOWS THE NAME TED BUNDY
TIFFANY JEAN: VERY FEW PEOPLE
KNOW THE NAMES OF HIS
VICTIMSTiffany Jean is a
government archivist who's
done a lot of research on the
Ted Bundy cases.She's focused
on the unproven ones, like
Nancy Baird's. TIFFANY
JEAN: EVEN FEWER PEOPLE KNOW
THEIR STORIESCOLD obtained the
Nancy Baird case files,
knowing Bundy has long been
the lead suspect. TIFFANY
JEAN: "WHICH IS INTERESTING,
BECAUSE IN THE CASE FILE THAT
YOU SHARED WITH ME, HIS NAME
DOESN'T APPEAR AT ALL."But
speculation about Bundy's
possible involvement took root
almost from the start.
ARCHIVE: RICHARD BINGHAM: HERE
IN UTAH HE'S A SUSPECT IN THE
MURDERS OF MELISSA SMITH AND
LAURA AIMME. ALSO THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF NANCY WILCOX
AND NANCY BAIRD. ARCHIVE:
SLCO SHERIFF: I DON'T THINK
WE'VE SCRATCHED THE BUNDYIt
would take years, and a series
of murders in Florida that
landed Bundy on death row,
before the notorious killer
started talking about his Utah
victims.ARCHIVE: DENNIS COUCH:
HE WAS A DEFEATED PERSON. AND
HE INDICATED THAT HE WAS
APPALLED BY THE SENSELESSNESS
OF IT ALLStill, just days
before his execution, he
denied knowing anything about
Nancy Baird AUDIO ONLY: TED
BUNDY: NO, I DIDN'T HAVE
ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT
TIFFANY JEAN: DENIED EVER
HEARING THAT NAME. DENIED
KNOWING WHO SHE WAS AUDIO
ONLY: DENNIS COUCH: CAN WE GO
BACK TO NANCY BAIRD? YOU
INDICATED THAT..TED BUNDY:
NANCY BAIRD. WHO'S THAT?No
hard evidence has ever linked
TIFFANY JEAN: IF THE
EVIDENCE DOESN'T POINT THAT
WAY, THEN YOU SHOULD KEEP
WORKING THE CASEBundy wasn't
the only.. or even the best
suspect in the Nancy Baird
case.COLD has uncovered other
unexplored possibilities..
like some still unidentified
suspects..Leads abandoned once
Ted Bundy picture.
TIFFANY JEAN: DIDN'T DO ENOUGH
WORK ON THIS CASE...like the
account of two siblings who
saw Nancy minutes before she
Nancy minutes before she
disappeared. DAVID WILLIAMS:
WERE ONE OF THE VERY, IF
LAST JANA WILLIAMS GROW:
O WILLIAMS GROW: ALIVE."David
and were just kids when their dad gas station all those
years ago. DAVID: IT'S NOW
BEEN CLOSE TO 50 YEARSThey
told a detective two men had
been talking to ncy at the
check-out counter. JANA
WILLIAMS GROW: "THEY TOOK ME
DOWN TO THE POLICE STATION.. I
REMEMBER MOM AND DAD TAKING US
DOWN THERE AND I WENT THROUGH
THE DAVID WILLIAMS: "IDENTI-
KIT."JANA WILLIAMS GROW:
EAH, THE IDENTI
CAWLEY: THIS IS AN INDENTI-KIT. IT'S A TOOL POLICE USED TO BUILD
COMPOSITES OF SUSPECTS BACK IN
THE 70's A witness would pick
out facial features.. Then the
investigator would stack them
layer by layer to build a
face.. like this one, of me.
DAVE CAWLEY: "THE COMPOSITES
POLICE BUILT IN THE NANCY
BAIRD CASE WERE NEVER MADE
PUBLIC, AND THEY WEREN'T
PRESERVED IN THE CASE FILE.
."But codes necessary to
rebuild the composites were.We
bought our own Identi-kit to
see the two faces for DAVE
CAWLEY: AGE LINES 2, NOSE 14,
EARS 63David and Jana were
ALSO never shown the finished
faces they'd helped create..
DAVID: THIS IS GONNA BE KINDA
COOLJANA: I KNOW!Until now.
sheet offTheir memories came
flooding back DAVID: I KIND
OF REMEMBER THAT DAVID:
IT'S AMAZING WHAT YOU THINK
YOU FORGET.. BUT THEN YOU SEE
THESE THINGS.. IT BRINGS BACK
MEMORIES.JANA: YOU REMEMBER IT
DAVID: THEY LOOK FAMILIAR TO
ME.JANA: YEAH, THIS ONE WITH
THE LONGER HAIR. I GOT A
LITTLE BIT SICK TO MY STOMACH
WHEN i SAW HIM BECAUSE I DO
DAVID: THEY ALMOST LOOK LIKE
BROTHERSWho are these men? It
isn't clear.The composites
could resemble a lot of
different people.What IS
clear? DAVE CAWLEY: TO ME,
NEITHER OF THESE MEN LOOK
ANYTHING LIKE TED BUNDY.DAVE:
NOJANA: NODAVE CAWLEY: THERE'S
NO RESEMBLANCEDAVE/JANA: UH
HUH. David and Jana have held
out hope for nearly 50 years
Nancy would be found. Now they
hope their story - will bring
a break. DAVID: THESE IMAGES
BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES TO US.
WE HOPE THAT THAT WILL DO THE
SAME FOR OTHERS. MAYBE SOMEONE
ELSE WILL SEE THAT AND GO OH,
OH YEAH JANA: SHE DESERVES
TO BE FOUND
Archivist Tiffany Jean
also pieced together a
potential -alibi, putting Ted
Bundy far from East Layton the
day Nancy Baird disappeared..
She shares her
discovery with Dave Cawley in
a bonus episode of the COLD
podcast - season 3.. That
episode is available now,
wherever you listen to
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