More Taylor Mtn bone confusion...
Added 2021-08-17 05:23:43 +0000 UTCI just came across another strange twist in the Taylor Mountain long bone story. If you read my previous post about Taylor Mountain, and the fact that there were indeed victims' leg bones found at the site identified by DNA in 2008, you'll recall that I speculated that those were accidentally misidentified as animal bones by criminalist Kay Sweeney.
Recently I found these notes in the archives. Apparently the leg bones were identified as such by Keppel himself in his initial handwritten notes from Taylor Mountain, but that identification never made it into his later typed reports. I've included both excerpts to help y'all visualize what I'm talking about.
Of course Keppel publicly said for decades that only skulls were found on Taylor Mountain, even though he wrote down leg, shin, and "possibly femur" bones (K-19, K-20, K-21) at the time of their discovery. These were all confirmed to belong to Bundy victims in 2008. (Here's my Taylor Mtn blog post if you need a refresher on that: https://hiimted.blog/files-taylor-mountain-1975/)
I'm genuinely baffled.
Comments
It is baffling. Especially given that Keppel even confronted Bundy about it during his Washington confessions, saying they only found skulls!
Beth
2023-05-23 20:18:52 +0000 UTC
