Dr. Ron Holmes

"What Holmes is saying around the country is so patently and outrageously preposterous that anyone who knows about serial murder and/or my background will quickly identify Holmes as a charlatan... I didn't discuss my background or the allegations about me, not so much as a single case, not in the first, second, or third person, not directly or indirectly..."
--Bundy to Bob Keppel, July 6, 1987
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Dr. Ron Holmes was a psychologist and professor in criminology at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. In late 1984, he began a correspondence with Ted Bundy, with an in-person interview that occurred in April 1985. 

Shortly after Ted ended their relationship in early 1986, Holmes began giving interviews and seminars about Bundy. His stories about what Ted supposedly shared with him in their interview grew more elaborate and sensational as time went on. For instance, the quote commonly attributed to Ted, "Murder is like changing a tire. The first time you're careful. By the thirtieth time, you can't remember where you left the lug wrench," is from Holmes. He also claimed that Bundy talked of murdering an 8-year-old girl when he was 11 years old and that he'd killed over 365 people.

Here I have provided a 1986 article interviewing Dr. Holmes about his correspondence with Bundy, his 1984-1986 letters to Ted, Bob Keppel and Ted's correspondence regarding Holmes, and a relatively recent police report in the Ann Marie Burr case file about Holmes' recollections of their conversation. Bundy's handwritten notes on some of the clippings Holmes sent him are particularly interesting.

I'd recommend reading the 1986 news article first to get an idea of what Holmes was about, then the Holmes letters to Ted, then the Keppel correspondence. Read them carefully and compare the different stories. Taken altogether, the documents paint a rather convoluted picture of their relationship and make one question some of Holmes' claims.