Mail Coming To '74 Bundy Victim

Like what happened to Amelia Earhart when she disappeared over the Pacific, some mysteries never go away.

Now one's taking place in the University District.

The mystery is who's sending mail to Georgann Hawkins.

She died almost 21 years ago.

The man who killed her, Ted Bundy, was executed in 1989.

But beginning last April and continuing through this month, mail for Hawkins has been arriving at a University of Washington sorority house.

Police say they don't have any suspects or leads in the investigation, and have no idea what might have caused the mail to start arriving for a person who died in 1974.

Residents at the sorority house also say they have no definitive idea of what caused the new deliveries.

No memorial or other evidence of the death exists at the sorority. But the sorority's name, address and the room number where Hawkins lived were included in a book about Bundy, so it's possible someone read the book and placed her name and address on mailing lists.

When the mail, mostly from magazine companies and rock-video companies, began arriving nearly a year ago, the sorority threw some of it away, police reported.

But when the mail kept coming, sorority members finally contacted police this month.

No personal mail appears to have arrived, and most of the mail bore metered postal stamps.

Hawkins would be 38 now. She disappeared from an alley near the sorority house June 11, 1974. Bundy, a Tacoma law student, later confessed to killing her.

Hawkins had been a 1973 Puyallup Daffodil Festival princess, and more than 200 people attended a 1989 memorial service in her honor. Her parents moved to Arizona after her death.

Bundy confessed to killing at least 23 other young women.