Carol DaRonch was just 18 years old when the now infamous killer Ted Bundy tricked her into the back of his car in 1974.
Incredibly, the teenager managed to escape his deadly clutches and inform the police about the attempted kidnapping.
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And now more than 40 years later, a black and white photograph of the chilling moment Bundy was called in for a police lineup has resurfaced.
The picture shows the bloodthirsty murderer dressed in a white roll-neck jumper, stood rigidly beside seven other men, waiting to be seen.
However, if it weren't for some quick thinking by officers, he may very well have walked away a free man, as Bundy had arrived at the line-up with a new haircut in the hope of evading detection.
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Police had to dismiss all the other men and wrangle together seven officers to stand in their place.
However, Bundy was eventually picked out by Carol and was later convicted of aggravated kidnapping.
More than four decades since the attack, Carol has opened up about how she almost became one of the killer's victims, as part of a new four-part series, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, which is now airing on Netflix.
Carol had been shopping when she was approached by Bundy, who was dressed in a police uniform.
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He told her someone had tried to steal her car and that she needed to file a police report. The teenager followed him to his car - but after she got inside, Bundy handcuffed her and tried to hit her with a crowbar.
Somehow Carol managed to fight him off and get away.
Recounting the traumatic experience during the docu-series, she says: "He headed down a side street and then he suddenly pulled over up on the side of a curb up by an elementary school and that's when I just started freaking out: 'What are we doing?'
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"And he grabbed my arm and he got one handcuff on one wrist and he didn't get the other one on and the one was just dangling. I had never been so frightened in my entire life.
"'I thought, my god my parents are never going to know what happened to me.
'My whole life went before my eyes. The next thing I knew, he had pulled out a gun and said, 'I'll blow your head off.'"
Eventually she was able to fight him off, managing to open the door and escape. "I just fought with all my life," she said.
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Four hours later, Bundy murdered another woman.
Carol later went on to testify against him in court, which in turn led to his first conviction for aggravated kidnapping - a useful tool for police, as they began to connect him to a series of unsolved murders.
Born Theodore Robert Bundy, the killer was sentenced to death after confessing to some 30 murders, however some detectives claim the actual number of Bundy's victims in the 1970s could be much higher.
The series comes from more than 100 hours of recorded interviews with the killer during his time on death row.
Released in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of Bundy's execution in 1989, it focuses on his murders, the media frenzy that surrounded his trials and his infamously charismatic way of charming women.
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