Do you know who murdered Vicki Lynn?\n Vicki Lynn Hollar, a 24-year-old Caucasian female, was embracing a new chapter in her life in the summer of 1973. Having recently graduated from Southern Illinois University, she moved to Eugene, Oregon, in June and quickly settled into a life filled with new friends and prospects. She lived with five roommates and had just started a new job as a seamstress at the Bon Marche department store, a position she had held for only two weeks but already enjoyed.
Friends and family described her as happy and content, looking forward to being scheduled for full-time work the week following her disappearance.
On the evening of August 20, 1973, Vicki finished her shift at the Bon Marche around 5:00 p.m. She walked with her supervisor to her car, a distinctive black 1965 Volkswagen Beetle with Illinois license plates GR7738 and its running boards removed. Her coworker was the last known person to see her as she drove away from the parking lot near 8th Avenue and Washington Street, wearing a pink dress. Vicki had plans to meet a friend at her apartment around 8:00 p.m. before heading to a neighborhood party together. She never arrived. When she didn't show up, her friend left a note and went to the party alone, assuming Vicki had simply changed her plans.
As time passed with no word from Vicki, concern grew. An investigation was launched, but it quickly hit a dead end. Neither Vicki nor her Volkswagen Beetle have ever been located. Back at her apartment, all of her personal belongings, including her clothes, were untouched. She never returned to pick up her final paycheck from work. Investigators were told that Vicki had a compassionate nature and was known to sometimes pick up hitchhikers. Despite numerous leads in the months that followed, the case went cold, leaving her family and friends without answers.
No arrests have ever been made in connection with Vicki Lynn Hollar's disappearance. Over the years, law enforcement and researchers have theorized that she may have been a victim of the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Bundy was known to be in the Pacific Northwest during that period, and Vicki fit the profile of his other victims. Although he confessed to many murders before his execution in 1989, Oregon detectives were never able to question him specifically about Vicki's case. While he is strongly suspected, his involvement remains unconfirmed, and her case is officially classified as an endangered missing person, an unsolved mystery that has endured for decades.
