The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History by Kevin M. Sullivan Page B
Authors: Kevin M. Sullivan
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three sorority), that made up the block known as Greek Row. She would also be the second student from the U District to seemingly vanish into thin air.
Hard-working and well-liked, Georgann Hawkins would die while assisting a man she encountered hobbling on crutches (courtesy King County Archives).
On Monday, June 10, she spoke to her mother by phone and seemed to be in a good mood as she discussed taking her final exams before her planned return home June 13. She was, her family later said, a bit upset about the possibility of getting a low grade on her Spanish test and was cramming hard. Although she hadn't been home for several weeks, she had kept in telephone contact with her parents, her father in particular, con cerning a job she had landed for the summer in her hometown of Tacoma. She was to begin her summer employment on the June 17.
On the evening of her disappearance, Georgann took time off from the books to attend, with friends, a frat party being held several blocks from her residence. She was going to enjoy herself for a while, have a few beers, and return home again to study for the next day's test. The academic year was all but over, she was wrapping up her first year at the university with a 3.5 GPA, and she'd be returning home to family and friends in just a few days.
Unlike some of her peers, Georgann was not keen on walking alone at night. She saw the wisdom in numbers and believed in the buddy system; that is, that two was better than one. And so around 12:30 A.M. she and Jennifer Roberts left the party and walked the several blocks back to Greek Row. Before going home, however, Georgann wanted to stop in and see her boyfriend, Marvin Gellatly, a member of the Beta Theta Pi house, located on the corner of 47th street and 17th Avenue N.E. As Georgann and her friend entered the well-lighted alley which runs behind Greek Row, and is in fact something of a main thoroughfare all night for the college crowd, she watched as Jennifer continued on the additional 100 yards to their house. Jennifer later told police that Georgann, who wasn't wearing either her contacts or glasses that night, asked her to "yell back that everything was OK." As she did so, Georgann yelled back that everything with her was OK too. The two would never see each other again.
For the next thirty minutes she visited with Marvin, the conversation apparently consisting of small talk and the upcoming test. After a brief kiss, George, as she was called by friends, walked out the back door and stepped into the alley. It was around 1:00 A.M. June 11. Duane Covey, whose secondfloor room faced the alleyway, heard the slamming of the back door and jumped up just in time to see Georgann leaving. Covey called out to her, and the two spent the next five minutes chatting, mostly about her Spanish test, now only hours away. As they talked, Covey said they could hear someone laughing somewhere down the ally, and Georgann would occasionally glance in that direction. Later, it would be established that her abductor had watched while she spoke to her friend in the window, so it is very likely this laughter came from him; a gleeful laughter, born out of his sociopathic delight at being able to deprive others of her friendship forever. The two friends bid farewell to each other in Spanish, and Georgann Hawkins continued the short walk to her residence. Covey watched her, he said, for about forty feet as she continued south towards the sorority house before losing sight of her in the darkness. Naturally, he then turned away from his window. Yet had he continued standing there for another minute or so, he would have seen Georgann reemerge from the darkness holding a briefcase and walking beside an obviously disabled man sporting a leg cast and hobbling on crutches. They would, in fact, pass just below Covey's window as they ambled their way up the alley to 47th, where they'd cross the street, turn right on the sidewalk, take a quick left at the corner, and
Hard-working and well-liked, Georgann Hawkins would die while assisting a man she encountered hobbling on crutches (courtesy King County Archives).
On Monday, June 10, she spoke to her mother by phone and seemed to be in a good mood as she discussed taking her final exams before her planned return home June 13. She was, her family later said, a bit upset about the possibility of getting a low grade on her Spanish test and was cramming hard. Although she hadn't been home for several weeks, she had kept in telephone contact with her parents, her father in particular, con cerning a job she had landed for the summer in her hometown of Tacoma. She was to begin her summer employment on the June 17.
On the evening of her disappearance, Georgann took time off from the books to attend, with friends, a frat party being held several blocks from her residence. She was going to enjoy herself for a while, have a few beers, and return home again to study for the next day's test. The academic year was all but over, she was wrapping up her first year at the university with a 3.5 GPA, and she'd be returning home to family and friends in just a few days.
Unlike some of her peers, Georgann was not keen on walking alone at night. She saw the wisdom in numbers and believed in the buddy system; that is, that two was better than one. And so around 12:30 A.M. she and Jennifer Roberts left the party and walked the several blocks back to Greek Row. Before going home, however, Georgann wanted to stop in and see her boyfriend, Marvin Gellatly, a member of the Beta Theta Pi house, located on the corner of 47th street and 17th Avenue N.E. As Georgann and her friend entered the well-lighted alley which runs behind Greek Row, and is in fact something of a main thoroughfare all night for the college crowd, she watched as Jennifer continued on the additional 100 yards to their house. Jennifer later told police that Georgann, who wasn't wearing either her contacts or glasses that night, asked her to "yell back that everything was OK." As she did so, Georgann yelled back that everything with her was OK too. The two would never see each other again.
For the next thirty minutes she visited with Marvin, the conversation apparently consisting of small talk and the upcoming test. After a brief kiss, George, as she was called by friends, walked out the back door and stepped into the alley. It was around 1:00 A.M. June 11. Duane Covey, whose secondfloor room faced the alleyway, heard the slamming of the back door and jumped up just in time to see Georgann leaving. Covey called out to her, and the two spent the next five minutes chatting, mostly about her Spanish test, now only hours away. As they talked, Covey said they could hear someone laughing somewhere down the ally, and Georgann would occasionally glance in that direction. Later, it would be established that her abductor had watched while she spoke to her friend in the window, so it is very likely this laughter came from him; a gleeful laughter, born out of his sociopathic delight at being able to deprive others of her friendship forever. The two friends bid farewell to each other in Spanish, and Georgann Hawkins continued the short walk to her residence. Covey watched her, he said, for about forty feet as she continued south towards the sorority house before losing sight of her in the darkness. Naturally, he then turned away from his window. Yet had he continued standing there for another minute or so, he would have seen Georgann reemerge from the darkness holding a briefcase and walking beside an obviously disabled man sporting a leg cast and hobbling on crutches. They would, in fact, pass just below Covey's window as they ambled their way up the alley to 47th, where they'd cross the street, turn right on the sidewalk, take a quick left at the corner, and
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