Karen Lee Sparks’ crime scene. She was attacked by Ted Bundy in the night of January 4, 1974. He left her for dead in her bed and her roommates found her only the day after. She survived with permanent brain damage.

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Kathy, who currently resides in New Orleans with her husband, Scott, has had to undergo several surgeries to repair the damage Bundy inflicted on her jaw.  In addition to surviving Bundy, Kathy has also battled breast cancer. "I’ve prayed to God: 'You know, it’s someone else’s turn.

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The last survivor of Ted Bundy actually encountered him much earlier, when he was on a rampage through the Pacific Northwest. Karen Sparks, named Joni Lenz in Ann Rule's book, The Stranger Beside Me, was among Bundy's first victims, though she wasn't linked to the string of missing co-eds in Seattle until much later. She was raped and bludgeoned while she slept in the basement of the home in the Queen Anne neighborhood she shared with several roommates.

Though she survived the savage attack, her injuries caused permanent organ damage as well as extensive brain damage that erased all memory of her attack.

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