EFFORTPOST The Sunset Strip Killers (mention of minors being killed)

Information on Carol Bundy and Doug Clark

Let's talk about Carol first , shall we?

Carol Mary Bundy

Classification: Murderer

Characteristics: Decapitation - Accomplice of Douglas Clark

Number of victims: 2 +

Date of murder: July-August 1980

Date of arrest: August 11, 1980

Date of birth: August 26, 1942

Victim profile: Unnamed prostitute / Jack Murray, 45

Method of murder: Shooting

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Status: Sentenced to consecutive prison terms of twenty-five years-to-life on the count of participating in the murder of one of Clark 's victims and twenty-seven years-to-life on the murder of Jack Murray and the illegal use of a gun on May 31, 1983. Died in prison on December 9, 2003

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Carol M. Bundy (August 26, 1942 – December 9, 2003. was an American serial killer. Bundy and Doug Clark became known as "The Sunset Strip Killers" after being convicted of a series of murders in Los Angeles during the late spring and early summer of 1980. The victims were young prostitutes or runaways.

Bundy, a divorced mother of two residing in the San Fernando Valley, approached the police, asserting that her paramour, Clark, had confessed to her about a series of young women he had killed. All of these tragic incidents involved a gun purchased by Bundy herself. Initially, she professed ignorance about the murders, stating, "only what (Clark) told me."

Just prior to reporting this to the authorities, Bundy, who worked as a nurse, fatally shot, stabbed, and decapitated another lover, Jack Murray. She later admitted to the act but argued it was an act of self-defense. Additionally, Bundy eventually acknowledged her presence during one of the murders Clark was charged with. This particular crime occurred in a car parked behind an East Hollywood gas station. According to Bundy, Clark shot a sex worker in the head while she was engaged in a sexual act. It was Bundy who had arranged for the girl's services as a birthday gift for Clark. Both parties concurred that they had jointly disposed of the victim's remains.

Clark has consistently maintained that Bundy and Murray were responsible for the murders and he was unjustly blamed as a scapegoat in the matter.

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Photo's of Carol:

Let's talk about Doug !

Douglas Clark

Doug considered himself the "king of the one-nights stands." He loved sex with prostitutes, especially real young ones from LA's notorious Sunset Strip.

Carol, his girlfriend, was no Mother Teresa. She thought that murder was fun and liked photographing hookers sucking Doug's dick. He enjoyed shooting his victims as he came in their mouths. He also liked chopping their heads off.

Once, for kicks, Carol applied make-up to a severed head and Doug took it to the shower for a little necrophiliac fellatio. Carol told an old boyfriend about Doug's strange habits. When the old boyfriend threatened to tell police, Carol stabbed him to death and chopped off his head.

She then confessed and blamed Doug for everything. Doug denied it and claimed that Carol and her former lover were the killers. Strangely he also begged for the death penalty and taunted the judge whenever he could.

He was sentenced to death on February 15, 1983. Carol was convicted of two killings.

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Photos of Doug:

Now let's get to the TimeLine!

The 1980's were a violent period in the U.S. In one year, there were 1200 murders within the city limits of Los Angeles. (4 people murdered every day):

Cindy Chandler ^

Gina Moreno ^

Cindy Chandler, aged 16, and Gina Moreno, aged 15, were half-sisters hailing from a middle-class background. They embarked on a hitchhiking journey to Los Angeles, aspiring to forge a life in the bustling metropolis. The 1980s and 1990s marked a period in U.S. history where the risk of encountering violence was at its peak, even in comparison to the prevalent shootings in today's society. Ironically, the true extent of this danger was not widely recognized, as the overall number of homicides didn't garner the attention they do in contemporary times. Tragically, serial killers were often sensationalized, granted monikers, and given horrifying media coverage. This very phenomenon might account for the significant disparity in the prevalence of serial killers between then and now.

In my articles, I include images of the victims with the intention of etching in people's memories that these were young girls subjected to unspeakable torment, solely because some individuals derived pleasure from being cruel to satisfy their narcissistic cravings.

On June 1, 1980, Chandler and Moreno attended a gathering hosted by Mark Gottesman, an attorney, at his residence in Hollywood. The event was attended by a multitude of guests, including several of Gottesman's clientele. Mindy Cohen, one of the attendees, encountered the two girls. She engaged in conversation with Gina Moreno and provided her with her telephone number. Moreno diligently recorded the number in an address book she carried with her.

In the afternoon of June 10, 1980, Henry Brigges, operating a moving truck, encountered two young female hitchhikers. One of them, a blonde, identified herself as Cindy. The other girl had dark hair. Concerned for their safety, Brigges handed the blonde girl his business card, which bore both his personal contact number and that of his brother and sister-in-law. He dropped the girls off at the entrance to a freeway onramp. The girls possessed that youthful sense of invincibility that many of us recall from our mid-teen years.

About 1:30 p.m. on June 12, 1980, police were called to the scene of a freeway ramp near the Forest Lawn cemetery, where a highway worker had found the bodies of two young girls.   Cynthia Chandler, a blonde 16–year–old, was found with a pink jumpsuit wrapped around her legs. The inseam of the jumpsuit was slit up to her genital area. There was blood on the jumpsuit, and a spot of grease. Chandler's half-sister, Gina Marano, age 15, was clothed only in a red tube-top pulled down around her waist. No underwear was found. Gina's address book was nowhere to be found. They were both sexually assaulted and shot twice. Investigators wonder if they are victims of the Hillside Strangler who was active in LA at this time. (They weren't.)

A woman calls investigators and tells them details about the shooting not released to the public. Gina was shot in the head and in the heart. The gun had been placed against her chest when it was fired. Cindy was shot twice in the head. The caller says she knows the killer but doesn't give his name or her name. Both victims were shot by a .22 caliber pistol called a Raven.

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Exxie Wilson is on the right , and Karen Jones is on the left

At 2:15 a.m. on June 23, 1980, an officer patrolling Sunset Boulevard met a sex worker named Karen Jones. He warned her not to loiter in that area. A resident of the area heard a scream outside his home between 2:30 a.m. At 3:15 a.m., Karen Jones's body was discovered lying by the curb in a pool of blood around her face and hair. She had been shot in the head with the same Raven pistol as the two previous victims.

At 7:15 a.m. that same morning, a decapitated body, later identified as that of Exxie Wilson, was discovered in the parking lot of a restaurant. A red dress with a sash was found in a dumpster next to the body. The sash was cut into pieces. No other articles of clothing were found at the scene.

Four days later, around 1:00 a.m., June 27, 1980, a wooden box was discovered in an alley. The severed blonde head of Exxie Wilson was inside the box, wrapped in a pair of blue jeans and a pink T-shirt with the inscription “Daddy's Girl.”  (These items of clothing were ultimately identified as belonging to another victim, Marnette Comer.) The head had been frozen and appeared to have been scrubbed.

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Marnette Comer ^

On June 30, 1980, the nude body of Marnette Comer, a blonde sex worker, was found in a ravine off Foothill Boulevard, not far from the freeway. Freeway lights were visible from the site in the ravine where the body was found. The ravine itself was dark at night. Comer had been dead for 20–40 days. The autopsy showed that Comer had suffered three gunshot wounds to the chest area. Two .25–caliber bullets fired from a Raven pistol were recovered from the body. Sabra Comer, the sister of Marnette Comer, last saw her on May 21, 1980.   At that time, Marnette was wearing a pink T-shirt with the words ``Daddy's Girl” printed on it. I feel bad when I think of the horrible circumstances that had to lead to her lifestyle, and death.

Another call from the woman comes in claiming she knows the killer. This time the police were able to keep her on the phone and identify her as Carol Bundy. Carol was employed as a nurse at Valley Medical Center in Van Nuys. Carol reveals she had been sexually abused by her father and sold for sex by her first husband. Her second husband was emotionally abusive before he left her. Carol reports she is now involved with a married man named Jack Murray who needs to dominate her during sex. Jack is also frequently borrowing money from her, ($10,000 at one time). Jack lives what I would call a parasitic lifestyle—finding a host to live off for as long as he can until he milks her dry. Still he ended up getting the worst of this relationship as Carol turned out to be a praying mantis.

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Jane King: King, 26, went missing in July 1980. Her body was found a month later in the Los Angeles River. She had been shot in the head.

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Jack Murray ^

Another decapitated body is found in a van. This time it's a male who had knife wounds in his scrotum. Carol calls and tells investigators the body is Jack Murray. Carol stated she enticed Jack into her van with oral sex, knifed him in the groin and then killed him. She further admitted decapitating him. However, she stated it was Doug Clark who killed 6 women during the summer of 1979.

Carol had met Douglas Clark in December of 1979. Doug has no male friends. He moved in with Carol. He shared his fantasies of capturing women and sexually assaulting them. Carol claims Doug Clark killed the three identified women, plus another unidentified woman by a water tower. Carol describes herself as a dainty housewife. Investigators were very aware that she was able to describe the smells and sounds near the homicides and investigators question her involvement in all the murders.

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Attempted Murder of Charlene A. :

Charlene A was hypnotized to get this info and it was not allowed, that autopsy reports showed the same cut patterns in the decapitations of Jack Murray and Exxie Wilson

It's sad that more people don't come forward when attacked. Killers are often not successful. Around 10:00 p.m., April 27, 1980, Charlene was on Sunset Boulevard. A man she later identified as Doug Clark approached, driving a blue station wagon, and solicited an act of oral copulation. After she entered the car, he suddenly began stabbing her repeatedly in the back, neck, arms, chest and stomach. In the ensuing struggle, Charlene grabbed the knife by the blade. The blade severed tendons in her hand. At one point, she said, “Mister, that's blood. You're hurtin' me.” He laughed and said, “I know.” She managed to yank open the car door and escape. Charlene identified Clark's photograph from a lineup. (There were probably a dozen more of these scenarios where the victims never came forward.)

Doug Clark is finally arrested. Clark is a narcissist who feels he can talk his way out of anything. Clark initially insists he knows nothing about the murders. A search found his home was loaded with pornography. In the apartment they find a photo album of Doug being sexual with a 11-year-old girl, “Shannon”, Carol used to babysit. Doug and Carol would take the girl along when he was sexual with prostitutes. A search of Clark's storage unit finds Cindy Chandler and Gina Moreno's blood. In addition, Clark's bloody shoe prints are found on the floor of the storage unit.

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On August 26, 1980 (after Doug Clark's arrest), another body was discovered near the Sierra Highway in Antelope Valley. (This was the identified woman Carol Bundy spoke of.) A worker inspecting some nearby water towers came upon some human bones, scattered in a 10–foot radius about an oily spot that smelled of decomposing flesh. A clump of blonde hair was found in the vicinity of the site where the remains were found. The victim, an unidentified young female who had died about one to two months earlier, was designated merely “Jane Doe 18.” The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the back of the head. The coroner removed a .25–caliber jacketed bullet from the temporal area of the skull fired by a Raven pistol. This young woman's identity was never established.

Doug Clark admitted he went to the Hollywood area “pretty much” on a regular basis, primarily to “troll” for prostitutes and to go to clubs. Sometimes he would go by himself, but other times he would go with Bundy. He picked up “hookers” on Sunset Boulevard and several other locations. One night, he and Bundy “cruised” Anaheim after reading news stories of the Sunset killings because they wanted to see other areas where prostitutes hang out. Bundy also sometimes went with the defendant and paid hookers for “threesomes.” (Carol Bundy is no relation to Ted Bundy.)

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Investigators don't believe Doug Clark got rid of the gun, as it was too much of a fantasy item for him. A search of Clark's worksite, the Andrew Jergens Factory in Burbank, revealed two Raven guns hidden behind loose bricks. During court, Mindy Cohen reveals Clark called her and threatened to kill her. Mindy was one of the last people to see Cindy Chandler and Gina Moreno. Even though Clark confessed to the murders, he later blames Bundy and claims he isn't guilty. After Doug Clark is convicted of 6 murders, he requests the death penalty. Investigators believe Clark may have killed 20 women. He is still on death row.

Clark and Bundy continue to write to each other during their incarceration. Carol was convicted of two murders, Jack Clark and the unidentified woman. (Carol admitted handing Clark the gun to shoot her.) Carol Bundy receives 52 years to life for her testimony against Clark. In one of her interviews, she described killing as fun and joked about the difficulties of putting lipstick on a decapitated head. She died in prison in 2003 of heart failure.

The victims were naïve teens and young women who struggled to survive. Some were so destitute, there wasn't even a good picture to share of them.

Image's of the Victim's:

Here are the women that were murdered , I personally am unable to tell who is who .. but if you can tell please comment below and I will edit the post naming them.

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Exxie Wilson ^

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Images of Jack Murrary:

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Conclusion:

Decades after the “Sunset Strip Killers” terrorized Los Angeles, it's still unclear who the mastermind was behind the serial killer couple's horrific crimes. Was it Carol Bundy, who called the Los Angeles Police in August 1980 to report the murders she and her lover Doug Clark committed? Or, was she looking for protection from Doug?

When Carol called the police, she confessed to killing her lover John Murray after he found out what she and Doug had been up to. She lured John to a van to have sex with him. Then, she shot him and even decapitated him.

Carol told police she would tell them all about Doug's crime if she was offered a reduced sentence. She claimed that Doug had a nasty habit of picking up underage sex trafficking victims, killing them and discarding their bodies. She even claimed he kept a severed head of one of his victims in their fridge.

Doug was charged with six murders, reported The Los Angeles Times. He was found guilty of six counts of first-degree murder. He was given the death penalty, while Carol was given a lighter sentence: 52 years. She died in 2003.

Some say that it was Carol who was behind the killings and that she framed Doug, who is still on death row. He continues to maintain that he is innocent. Doug says it was Carol behind the killings all along.

The two met just months before the killing spree. Doug was a factory worker, and Carol was a registered nurse. They seemed normal enough, and when they found each other at a tavern, they hit it off. In fact, they hit it off so well they moved in together almost immediately.

It didn't take long before they realized they both had sadistic sexual fantasies that they wanted to turn into reality.

According to The Los Angeles Times, Carol told authorities that it was "a situation that started out as a fantasy just got badly out of control."