Ted Bundy Confessed To Killing Her, But Her Body Has Never Been Found.

Debra Jean Kent

She was born on March 12th, 1957 to Belva and Harvey Dean Kent in Bountiful, Utah.

She was kind and caring and had thought about becoming a social worker after being graduated from Viewmont High.

She was a member of the high school drama club.

On November  8, 1974,  17 year old Debi took her parents to a production of "The Redhead" at her high school.

Debi had already seen the musical but wanted her family to enjoy it, too. 

It would be her father's first outing since suffering a massive heart attack.

Her brother was at the roller rink and she was suppose to pick him up after the play.
When the play ran late, Debi was worried about her brother and left early to pick him up because the Rustic Roller Rink closed at 10:00 p.m and it was already 10:30 p.m.

Her parents would wait for her to drive back for them.

Debra was last seen in the school's parking lot shortly after she exited the building.

An hour passed and Debi wasn't back yet.

It was about midnight and the janitor locked up the school auditorium, so the Kents decided to walk to a nearby friend's house for a ride home.

The parents walked down the side walk and they went into the parking lot. 
They were surprised when their car was still there.

The doors were still locked, and Debi's purse was still inside where she had left it.

Debi never made it to pick up her brother either.

At the Bountiful police station that night, the Kents were told that Debi was probably just another runaway and that no search could begin for 24 hours, when Debi would officially be listed as a missing person.

Her parents were insistent that she wasn't a runaway.

That she would never have let her father wait outside in the cold when he was still so weak.

Neighbors and friends from the family's Mormon church organized their own search that night.

They searched the school grounds and the hills near Bountiful.

The next morning, the police found no evidence of a struggle and no trace of Debi.

They did find a tiny handcuff key outside the auditorium.

Later, witnesses told authorities that they heard one or two screams originating from the parking lot around 10:30 p.m. that evening. Another witness stated that he arrived at the school at 10:30 p.m. and saw a light-colored Volkswagen Bug speeding away from the lot.

Earlier on the night of the disappearance, 18-year-old, Carol DaRonch, 17 miles from Bountiful, stumbled into the Murry Police Station.

Handcuffs dangling from her wrist, she gave a horrifying story about being kidnapped and nearly killed by a handsome man who had lured her into his Volkswagen.

Bountiful police discovered that the key found at Viewmont High fit the type of cuffs used on Carol.

Ted Bundy was arrested after a routine traffic stop in Utah.

He was driving a Volkswagen.

Carol DaRonch identified him as the man that assaulted her and attempted to abduct and kill her.

Bundy was convicted, police had only circumstantial evidence but felt certain that Bundy had kidnapped Debi Kent also.

The drama teacher and some of students remembered seeing him in the auditorium that night.

In 1989, Just hours away from execution by electric chair, in Florida, serial killer Ted Bundy confessed that he had kidnapped Debi from the parking lot the night she had disappeared and killed her.

On a highway map, Bundy showed investigators the mountains where he said he had buried Debi and another Utah victim, Nancy Wilcox.

Their bodies were never found.
Three years before Bundy's execution, one of Debi's brothers, Bill Kent was killed by a drunk driver.
It wasn't until they had to bury their eldest son that the Kents decided to buy a grave for their eldest daughter.

A year later, they put up a headstone inscribed with ballet slippers and memories of Debi as a loving daughter, a caring sister, "a friend to everyone."

At the time she went missing, Debra was 5'1" tall, 110 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

She was dark blue waist-length coat with navy blue trim, a medium blue long-sleeved sweater with a white flower in the middle, long white pants, two-toned brown and black lace-up shoes, possibly white underwear, a small gold chain necklace and a Viewmont High School class ring. 

She had a mole on the front of her neck just under her chin, a fine surgical scar across her neck, a smallpox vaccination scar on her left arm, and pierced ears. 

Her rib-cage was very small, she is right-handed, and half of the nail on her right big toe is missing. 

Her dress size is 3 or 5, pants size is 5 or 7, shoe size is 6 and her bra size is 36 C.

She would be 61 years old today.

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