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On November 8, 1974, an attractive man claiming to be a police detective approached 18-year-old Carol DaRonch inside a Salt Lake City shopping mall. The man requested she tell him her license plate number, explaining that somebody had just attempted to break into her car. She followed the young man back to her car which appeared to be undisturbed. The man requested she accompany him back to the police station for her to look at suspects.

She got into his car, a Volkswagen, and they drove off. She noticed that the detective went down the wrong street and told him. He responded by slapping handcuffs onto one of her wrists and producing a gun, telling her to keep quiet. DaRonch managed to force the door open and jump out. He chased her with a crowbar and attempted to hit her over the head with the weapon, missing. She escaped into a nearby car and the man fled.

The young woman had just narrowly escaped one of the worlds most prolific serial killers, Ted Bundy.