Ted Bundy: A Killer in the Archives

Charles Shearer, 1976

Added 2021-10-06 07:00:53 +0000 UTC

A particularly interesting interview transcript from Feb 19, 1976 with Chuck Shearer, Ted's neighbor at his Salt Lake City apartment in the Avenues. [The interview update is about halfway down the post.]

Shearer: ...I walked over to his apartment. It was right close to noon. I knocked on the door and the door was open, the door went open, you know, when I knocked. He was sitting on the couch and he told me to come on in. I went in and I said, “Ted, I got to ask you, I have a right to know. I don't know what's going on with you or the police or if they're bothering you or what the heck is going on, if they're looking for me or what, but I'm worried about it and I want to know what's going on. I'd like to know why."

He really wasn't even looking at me, it didn't even feel like he was there. I felt like I was talking to the wall, like he wasn't even paying attention. That's when I knew he was drunk cause I could smell it when I sat down. Like he'd been drinking liquor either from the night before or that morning and he did have beer and be offered me one and I said, "No."

I asked him and he started mumbling subconsciously… I don't know how or why or anything, about these girls. He says something about getting caught and now they're trying to bust me and I'd ask him, "What are you talking about, Ted, what do you mean?" He just looked at me real starey-eyed and he just stopped for a minute and looked at me like, you know, he had caught himself or something, and the next thing I know I asked him again, and he said, “I don't know, I don't know. Don't bother me." So I just walked out and I left and that was all there was to it...