With the LA newspapers publishing lurid headlines about the "Sunset Strip Slayer" another victim was discovered, this time near Sylmar, in the San Fernando Valley. Clark had carried it from the scene to use as a sex toy. The missing head would later be found in a Hollywood alley. She was identified as Exxie Wilson, 20, another prostitute. Later that morning, police were called to Studio City, where a headless female body had been discovered. In the early hours of June 24, 24-year-old prostitute, Karen Jones, was found behind a Burbank restaurant, killed by a gunshot to the head. Clark confessed the murders to Bundy, gleefully describing how he’d forced the girls to perform fellatio on him, and shot them in the head as he climaxed. Each had been shot in the head with a small-caliber pistol. They were found beside the Ventura Freeway near Griffith Park the following morning. On June 11, 1980, half-sisters Gina Narano, 15, and Cynthia Chandler, 16, vanished from Huntington Beach. Bundy made no complaint, not even when Clark started talking about murder and mutilation. Soon he’d introduced her to his taste for kinky sex, including an ongoing relationship with an eleven-year-old girl who lived across the hall. That same night Bundy took Clark back to her apartment and he never left. The pair met at a country and western in January 1980, and things moved quickly from there. Still Bundy was just Clark’s type, a vulnerable woman with low self-esteem who he could easily manipulate. Bundy plea bargained and, in return for her testimony, received a moderated sentence.īundy died in prison of heart failure in 2003.Doug Clark and Carol Bundy made an odd couple, he a part-time gigolo with a taste for underage girls, she a frumpy, overweight nurse, pining for a lost love. That evidence was mentioned but not introduced at Clark's trial. The evidence included a piece of bloody scalp found in the ceiling of Murray's van.
Moreover, no forensic examination was ever performed comparing the body of the girl who had been beheaded with Murray's body. Bundy's testimony was critical all other evidence introduced against Clark was circumstantial.
#DOUG CLARK SERIAL KILLER TRIAL#
However, the highlight of the trial was Bundy's account of how Clark had taken the head of one of his victims, had oral sex with it in a shower and stored it in his ice box. Clark himself had engaged in a long sexual relationship with the 13-year-old girl who babysat Bundy's children. Both agreed that they had disposed of the body together.Ĭlark has always claimed that Bundy and Murray committed the murders and he was merely Bundy's fall guy.Ĭlark's trial was a pitch-black portrait of the San Fernando Valley underworld of the late 1970s, a world in which Bundy and Clark went on endless sexual adventures. Bundy had hired the girl for Clark's birthday. Bundy claimed Clark shot a prostitute in the head while the prostitute was in the act of fellatio. That murder took place in a car parked behind a gas station in East Hollywoodmarker. Later, Bundy also admitted that she had been present during one of the murders for which Clark was charged.
Bundy eventually confessed to that murder but claimed it was self-defense. Shortly before going to police, Bundy, who worked as a nurse, had shot to death, stabbed and beheaded another lover, Jack Murray. Bundy claimed initially that she knew nothing of the murders, "only what (Clark) told me". All had been shot with a gun Bundy had purchased.
The case seemed to be solved after Bundy, a divorcee with two children living in the San Fernando Valleymarker, went to police claiming that her lover, Clark, had told her he had killed several young women. The victims were young prostitutes or runaways.
#DOUG CLARK SERIAL KILLER SERIES#
Bundy (Aug– December 9, 2003) was an American serial killer.īundy and Doug Clark became known as "The Sunset Strip Killers" after being convicted of a series of murders in Los Angelesmarker during the late spring and early summer of 1980. Tags: Carol Bundy, Serial Killer, Sunset Strip, Doug ClarkĬarol M.
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