Ted Bundy: A Killer in the Archives

Richard Larsen Interview

Added 2021-04-19 03:23:20 +0000 UTC

Richard Larsen interviews Ted on May 27, 1977, at the Garfield County Jail, less than two weeks before his first escape.

TB: I can’t be generating publicity. The only thing that bothered me about the Grossman and Sieverson interview was that while I thought I was playing to a Utah market, obviously it was for all over, they played it up here in Colorado on the Denver Post.

RL: What would be problematic in there, was there discussion of, um… nothing relevant to the case, more like “how are you feeling, what’s your attitude”…

TB: Well there were the wife-beating questions, you know, “how do you explain all the circumstantial evidence?,” Sieverson asked me, and I said, “what circumstantial evidence?” That’s what we’re talking about. The problem is what they’re doing in that interview, it’s the context they’re placing it in which is beginning to bother me. Barbara Grossman is running it with a whole series of interviews and stories about the missing girls, and who do they have sitting there saying he doesn’t beat his wife but me? See what I’m saying? Here’s my interview saying I’m innocent, and then “here we are with all these missing girls, folks” and here are their teary-eyed parents and here are their solemn face depictives, and Ted Bundy is the one put in a position of denying it, again and again and again. And that doesn’t do me any good. And people think “well he’s obviously a sociopath” or something…