After graduating from high school in 1965 , Bundy spent a year at the University of Puget Sound ( UPS ) before he transferred to the University of Washington ( UW ) in 1966 to study Chinese . In 1967 , he became romantically involved with a UW classmate who is identified by several pseudonyms in Bundy biographies , most commonly " Stephanie Brooks . " In early 1968 he dropped out of college and worked at a series of minimum-wage jobs . He also volunteered at the Seattle office of Nelson Rockefeller 's presidential campaign and became Arthur Fletcher 's driver and bodyguard during Fletcher 's campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Washington State . In August of that year , Bundy attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami as a Rockefeller delegate . Shortly thereafter Brooks ended their relationship and returned to her family home in California , frustrated by what she described as Bundy 's immaturity and lack of ambition . Psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis would later pinpoint this crisis as " probably the pivotal time in his development " . Devastated by Brooks ' rejection , Bundy traveled to Colorado and then farther east , visiting relatives in Arkansas and Philadelphia and enrolling for one semester at Temple University . It was at this time in early 1969 , Rule believes , that Bundy visited the office of birth records in Burlington and confirmed his true parentage
1968 Republican National Convention
1968 Republican National Convention
Ted Bundy