# Ted Bundy Stalked These Seattle Streets — And You Can Walk Them Today
In the mid-1970s, serial killer Ted Bundy used Seattle's Capitol Hill neighbourhood as his base of operations, living in a house where investigators would later learn he had stored four human heads. Today, Private Eye on Seattle Ghost & True Crime Tours leads visitors directly to those addresses on a walking tour that has been active and reviewed as recently as 2025.
The Tour: Capitol Hill True Crime
Private Eye Tours operates the Capitol Hill True Crime Tour year-round, threading through Capitol Hill, Madrona and Madison Park — the same streets Bundy and other perpetrators once moved through largely undetected. The tour runs approximately three hours and includes a mid-way restroom break, making it accessible for most participants.
Pricing for the related Haunted Seattle Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour is listed at $38.67 per adult, with a private and luxury group option (up to six people) at $605.27 per group. Pricing for the Capitol Hill True Crime Tour specifically is not published on the operator's site — contact the operator directly or check the current listings at privateeyetours.com/capitol-hill-tour for confirmed rates. You can also browse and book Seattle crime tours through Viator.
The tour holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating on TripAdvisor, based on 418 reviews as of 2025.
What You Will See
Ted Bundy's Capitol Hill House
The tour visits the house on Capitol Hill where Ted Bundy lived and — according to investigators — stored four human heads before his eventual capture and execution. Bundy was active in the King County area from approximately 1974 onward, using the Pacific Northwest as an early hunting ground before spreading his crimes across multiple states. Standing outside this address, guides contextualise Bundy's methods: his use of fake injuries and a meek demeanour to gain the trust of victims, a pattern he later described himself.
Bundy's Unexpected Role in the Green River Investigation
One of the more unsettling historical details on the tour is the connection between Bundy and the Green River Killer investigation. On October 1, 1984, Bundy wrote to the Green River Task Force from Florida's death row, offering a profile of the unknown killer. In that letter, Bundy advised investigators that the perpetrator likely revisited body dump sites to perform necrophilic acts on victims, and that he would project a meek, non-threatening exterior to lure women. Gary Ridgway, later confirmed as the Green River Killer, was ultimately found to have killed approximately 49 victims — mostly women — along the Green River south of Seattle between 1982 and 1998. Bundy's insights, drawn from his own psychology, proved accurate.
Additional Capitol Hill Cases
Bundy is not the tour's only subject. Private Eye Tours covers a broader catalogue of Capitol Hill-area crimes, including cases listed on their site as the Christmas Eve Massacre, Devil's Dip, Reservoir Man and the Mystic Reverend — a mix of solved and unsolved cases that map a longer history of violence onto the neighbourhood's residential streets.
Practical Information
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Operator | Private Eye on Seattle Ghost & True Crime Tours |
| Tour area | Capitol Hill, Madrona, Madison Park |
| Duration | Approx. 3 hours |
| Season | Year-round |
| Booking | privateeyetours.com or Viator |
| Price | Contact operator for Capitol Hill True Crime Tour pricing |
Getting There
Capitol Hill is a walkable, centrally located Seattle neighbourhood easily reached by light rail (Capitol Hill Station on the 1 Line) or by car with street parking available on evenings and weekends. The tour operates outdoors, so dress for Seattle's weather — layered clothing and waterproof shoes are advisable regardless of the season.
Who This Tour Is For
Private Eye's Capitol Hill tour is not a ghost tour dressed up in crime fiction. It is a walking examination of documented cases at their actual locations, guided by operators who have been running Seattle true crime programming long enough to build a near-perfect satisfaction rating. For readers of *truecrime.news* who want to move beyond podcasts and into the physical geography of these crimes, this is one of the most substantiated options currently operating in the Pacific Northwest.
Book through Viator's Seattle Crime Tours listings or directly via privateeyetours.com.
