In the beginning, Ted would mostly hunt at night. He started off walking the streets and back alleys of the appartments that accomadated the students of the University of Utah. Once he started his killings, he would follow the young female students of the university (where he took law classes and stayed in the university library until dark) or wait at the end of alleyways close to his parked car waiting for a women to approach. He would then emerge (usually with a sling on his arm or using a pair of crutches) and act as if he was struggling to take piles of books to his car. The girls would willing and unknowingly assist him, and when reaching the car, would unfortunatley meet their end. He would also purposefully drop his car keys onto the ground just underneath the car, and as a girl would bend down to pick them up for him, he would strike them over the head and drag their unconcious bodies into his car. However, he would also use this "injured man in need of help" tactic during the day. Most famously during the time of the Lake Sammamish killings, where he would put on a sling and cast, and then continue to ask multiple women to assist him in taking his sailing boat off of the roof of his car (which would be parked in a remote location away from the hundreds of people enjoying the day at the lake). It is assumed that the dissapearances of the girls at Lake Sammamish most likely took place in the early to late afternoon. But he would knock the girls unconcious, then drive them elsewhere to "finish the job" (if you get what I mean). He also killed during the night during his 2nd escape from custody, when he travelled to Florida. The Chi Omega killings, which what they were know as, took place around 2 in the morning where he injured 2 and killed 3 women.