Some Pocatello cold cases may be nearing closure, as a group

Shortly before he was executed, Ted Bundy confessed to having killed a girl in Pocatello, back in 1975. Lynette Culver was her name. Her body was never found.

But since 1989, when Bundy died, he has been attributed with her death. The only thing is, there’s not a single piece of evidence linking them.

Now the Pocatello Police Department considers her death a cold case, just one of eight the department is currently investigating.

But there’s an interesting connection with several of these cases.

Between 1975 and 1983, five Pocatello girls, between the ages of 12-15, were either killed or went missing. These girls all lived decently close to each other and most attended Alameda Middle School.

“We’ve made all those connections and the time period,” Pocatello Lt. Bill Collins said. “There’s a few leads that our detectives are still working on and they’ve pretty much come to some of the same conclusions as far as them being related.”

While many would think Bundy, the notorious killer had been locked up in Florida since 1978.

Local law enforcement has been looking into these cases for years, exploring every possible lead and suspect they can.

But even though Bundy couldn’t have been involved with most of these, a serial killer isn’t out of the question.

“There is that possibility,” Collins said.

Due to the fact that all of these cases are still under investigation, and investigators are out doing work on them daily, the specifics of many of these cases could not be revealed to me. Still, Collins told me that he believes they are close to closing some of them.

“I think that there’s three or four of them that are going to be linked together.”

A link of the cases could mean several different things. But under current circumstances it appears that someone, or a group of people, will be brought into connection with several of Pocatello’s coldest cases.