The Washington Confession, 1989, Part 4
Added 2021-12-05 05:52:02 +0000 UTCThe final portion of the Washington confession to Bob Keppel. Corresponds to pages 52-68 of the transcript.
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TB: So let me just tell you I'm, I know that, that part of her is buried up in there, but nothing identifiable, probably just literally bones. The head, however, the skull, wouldn't be there.
RK: Where is it?
TB: It's nowhere.
RK: It's nowhere?
TB: Well, I don't -- I'm not trying to be flippant. It's just, it's just nowhere. It's in a category by itself in that it was-- now I'd just as soon this is something that you just kept, I don't -- I can see the headlines now. But --
RK: Ted, there's not going to be any details. What you told me about Georgann Hawkins isn't going to be known. And I got parents out there that don't even want to know the details.
TB: Oh, I know. And I --
RK: He [Hagmaier] wants to know and I want to know for my own good.
TB: Well, it was incinerated and it was just an exception. A strange exception, but it was incinerated.
RK: Where did you incinerate it?
TB: Ahh (slight laugh).
RK: Come on partner. These are things I don't know about you.
TB: Yeah. This is, this is probably the disposal method of preference among those who get away with it.
RK: Yeah.
TB: But because of being -- agh, it's most bizarre, bizarre nature I've ever-- ever been associated with and I've been associated with some bizarre shit.
RK: Right. It's incinerated. Now--
TB: It's incinerated.
RK: Tell me about it. What the hell happened?
TB: Well, it -- don't know the address of the place. I never wanted to tell this -- I promised myself I'd never tell this because it would -- I thought, of all the things I did to this woman, this is probably the one she was least likely to forgive me for. Poor Liz.
RK: Uh huh.
TB: In her fireplace. That's not really not that humorous, but I mean, the fireplace at that house.
RK: Burn it all up?
TB: Down to the last ash, and in a fit of, you know, paranoia and cleanliness, what have you, just vacuumed down all the ashes.
RK: Uh huh.
TB: That's the twist.
RK: Yeah, that's a slight twist. Yeah.
TB: It's a twist. And it's a lot of work and certainly very risky, under the circumstances. I mean, the kids come home from school and there's a roaring fire in the fireplace and it's warm outside...
Comments
I agree. Completely unbeliveable. The point is: what a person who conffesed what he did may be scared off of telling after all ?
Lucas de la Fuente
2024-10-24 20:03:36 +0000 UTCThe whole burning of the skull story was definitely untrue. He did something weird with her head and didn’t want to talk about it so he just made up a story he thought they would eat up
Sophie
2023-07-07 12:21:51 +0000 UTCHow could he not remember Liz's address?
Joy Mulvaney
2022-07-28 02:31:29 +0000 UTCChiming in WAY late to say - I believe he tells Hagmaier (in a clip also available on this site!) that the girl in Tumwater in '73 was his first.
Tony
2022-06-13 06:31:52 +0000 UTCWhen he said "the kids come home from school..." he was most likely talking about Molly. The kid's come home, not the kids come home. I don't see how this whole scenario was possible. At our farm we slaughtered a pig and took it's head off and put it in a roaring fire and that thing was impossible to burn into ashes. It also stunk, it would have been noticeable.
Melanie Englert
2022-04-11 02:07:16 +0000 UTCJust wish we all could have more answers. They just couldn’t see the benefits of keeping him alive, in prison life.
Jennifer Elliott
2021-12-29 01:36:57 +0000 UTCOh wow... that's a really interesting theory! It certainly could be possible...
Tiffany J.
2021-12-10 03:49:42 +0000 UTCThe last line of the transcript where Ted is explaining the risk of burning a skull in a fireplace he says “burned her skull in the fireplace.” Ted slips and talks about how risky that was because " It's a twist. And it's a lot of work and certainly very risky, under the circumstances. I mean, the kids come home from school and there's a roaring fire in the fireplace and it's warm outside..." I believe he slipped and was talking about his childhood home. He said KIDS as in plural. I do tend to believe he was referring to his sibling. I wonder if he did used his parents property as location for murder or his activities afterwards. He did claim to have possession of 4 severed heads at once. If for some reason he was telling the truth I could not see him keeping them at his rooming house since the landlords had access as well as Liz.
jay bland
2021-12-10 02:54:20 +0000 UTCFBI profiler Bill Hagmaier as said in the past that when Ted killed his first victim he was so terrified he was going to be arrested the next day he didn’t leave his room for weeks. I wonder what room he was referring to? His rooming house or his childhood bed room which would infer he was younger when he committed his first murder. Maybe his late teens or early twenties when he was living at home.
jay bland
2021-12-10 02:53:53 +0000 UTCTed doesn't like that 1st murder question. Supports the position of those that prescribe to the theory that he did kill Burr. The timing of Keppel's question interesting too almost like if not Burr then who...I know the mysterious Tumwater case is the earliest case he acknowledges in one of the tapes but did he actually refer to it as his 1st ? I don't remember.....Healy wasn't the 1st you can be damn sure of that; that case way too brazen to be someone's first.
Joseph DeStefano
2021-12-05 16:06:27 +0000 UTC
