Jane Curtis and Kathleen D'Olivo were both students at Central Washington State College in the spring of 1974. In April, Susan Rancourt vanished from the CWSC campus without a trace-- the third victim in what would become a terrifying series of disappearances. By July, clues to the epidemic of mi...
2025-02-03 07:48:12 +0000 UTC View Post
“Your Honor had the opportunity to observe Ted Bundy for over a year and a half. He has been before you on numerous occasions, arguing points of law, and he has conducted himself in such a fashion that makes it inconceivable that he could have been the person who committed such terrible acts. T...
2025-01-20 07:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A collection of interesting letters from concerned citizens, sent to Seattle Police Captain Herb Swindler in the fall of 1974.
One is from Wesley "Red" Millet, a former Utah resident and retired Seattle police detective. He astutely observed the similarity between the Lake Sammamish "Ted" ...
2025-01-07 07:31:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Ted's public school transcript includes report cards, personality notes from his teachers, health records, and aptitude/IQ tests. Some of the more interesting takeaways include IQ scores consistently measured around 120, documentation of a head injury in March 1965, and these quotes from his teac...
2024-12-05 07:51:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"For lunch I was given one sandwitch attached as Exhibit A... In the twelve hours between the time I received breakfast and the time I will receive dinner, I cannot be expected to function properly one a one-sandwitch lunch..."
I wonder if Bundy attached the actual sandwich to this motion w...
2024-11-28 05:57:52 +0000 UTC View PostLast week, I returned to the Debra Kent burial site near Fairview, Utah. With special permission from the ranch's owner, my friend Dave and I drove the dirt road into the Fairview Canyon property again, this time after sunset.
The absence of moonlight created eerily similar conditions to ...
Hi all, the new case file is up! Tonight would mark exactly 50 years since Bundy buried Nancy Wilcox somewhere in the vast Utah desert, and sadly to this day her remains have never been found.
The story was covered on KSL News in Salt Lake as well, check it out! And thanks for all of your ...
2024-10-03 02:19:16 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, sorry I’ve been a little MIA but I’ve been working hard on a new case file article for the blog that will drop within the next week.
I’m proud to share that I was able to gain exclusive access to this victim’s case file, which has never been available before— I went befor...
2024-09-22 16:43:45 +0000 UTC View Post
A 1978 detective magazine article on the Bundy case: "Suspected of 36 sex slayings, Ted Bundy pleads 'I'm as innocent as a newborn baby!'"
This article is chock-full of inaccuracies. How many can you find?
I recently found this uncut news footage from the Carol DaRonch trial in early 1976. Other B-roll shots include the McMillan Elementary School and Fashion Place Mall. KSL News journalist Lynn Packer also interviews Detective Jerry Thompson and inspects Bundy's VW.
2024-08-29 04:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Some questions prepared by the King County Police to ask while door knocking neighborhoods in Issaquah after the Lake Sammamish incident.
"Ok, last question... do you know anyone who is a pervert?"
2024-08-15 05:05:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I ran across letters between Bob Keppel, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, and Jerry Thompson discussing the possibility of charging Liz Kloepfer with obstruction of justice after the release of her book "The Phantom Prince" in 1981. I've also included copies of the newspaper clippin...
2024-07-25 05:50:39 +0000 UTC View Post
"I am writing this letter in regards to your investigation of Mr Ted Bundy. I met Mr. Bundy when I moved into a rooming house at 4143 12th N.E. Seattle Wash... I was shocked to hear that Ted was being investigated as a suspect in the "Ted" murders. During the time I knew him, he was easy to g...
2024-07-10 07:01:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This tape of Bundy taking to Keppel and Reichert in 1984 reminds me of why I value actually listening to an audio recording over relying entirely on a transcript. Keppel transcribed large portions of these recordings for his book The Riverman, and injected substantial amounts of his...
2024-07-02 04:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostKOMO News coverage of the Hawkins abduction on June 12, 1974. Interviews with the Kappa Alpha Theta house mother, Mary Bates, and sorority sister Phyllis Armstrong. Phyllis would later recall Bundy's attempt to pick her up ten days earlier, in the same area, using the same MO.
2024-06-17 05:50:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I found some interesting reports in the Hawkins case file. None of them proved useful in identifying Bundy, but they are intriguing footnotes nonetheless.
2024-06-13 05:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Police interview Susan Taylor, Lynn Rusch, and Suzy White about their memories of the victims, that night, and their own personal theories of the crime. (Suzy White is the woman staring out from behind the curtains in this famous AP photo.) Notice the consistent questioning about "lesbian activit...
2024-06-11 07:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in 2021, my friend Leto MK researched and wrote the following interesting post on the KITA Facebook page about Bundy's sling ruse. I've uploaded an interesting addendum to the story-- after the Lake Sammamish false injury ruse became well publicized, someone called the King County Police tip...
2024-06-04 03:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Clarence "Andy" Anderson came forward with his eyewitness account of the abduction of Kimberly Leach in late July 1978, over six months after her abduction. He would later prove to be the prosecution's key witness for the positive identification of Ted Bundy as the suspect at trial. The Bundy def...
2024-05-22 06:29:27 +0000 UTC View PostA KIRO News interview with Louise Bundy on the day before Ted's execution (extended cut).
"The only other reason I think that it was logical to do it ["Bones for Time"?] I guess, was because of the families of the girls. They wanted to know more and they deserve to know more. I'm sure he's...
You see, now I’m really in the public eye. And I'm gonna be going to court for appearances and this whole thing. And uh, you see I, I think you know this part of it. And you know that it's important to how people perceive me.
Now, they've got Theodore Bundy out there, master...
2024-04-23 17:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re dealing with such a unique individual, who knows what it is that sets him off, specifically? Generally, what set him off are the young teenage prostitutes. But beyond that, whether he likes to keep a photograph of them or collect newspaper clippings, whether he gets off by going back t...
2024-04-16 02:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all, check out my newest video!
During my trip to Utah in October 2023, I made a point to personally visit as many of the Bundy victim gravesites as possible. Using original police reports, old news footage, and the killer's own words, I was able to pinpoint several of the locations....
A diagram of the interior of the Chi Omega house, illustrated with Nita Neary's path on the night of the murders.
2024-03-31 04:42:33 +0000 UTC View Post
January 17, 1989
Dearest Ted,
I just heard the worst possible news a few hours ago (about the warrant being signed). I was totally shocked because I hadn’t expected this until next week- the governor’s office gave me the wrong date.
I am extremely distraught...
A new color photograph of Ted's maternal grandfather, Samuel Cowell, circa early 1970s. I received this recently from the archivist at the Roxborough Historical Society in Philadelphia, along with this description:
The enclosed group photo is of the Roxborough Garden Club. Mr. Cowell is the...
2024-03-16 06:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's my 2021 interview with retired King County Sheriff Lieutenant Dick Kraske, who was a part of the original Ted Task Force in Seattle in 1974, and one of the first on the scene at the discovery of the Issaquah dumpsite. Kraske can be seen in the top left of this image at King County police h...
2024-03-07 08:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostBy request, the long version of the 1989 Dobson interview in full. Apparently these are being removed from YouTube.
2024-03-02 09:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I've done some enhancement work on a rare color Melissa Smith picture I came across. I've included two versions and the original. Which do you like better, 1 or 2? I'm going to be using it in an upcoming video.
2024-03-02 09:12:18 +0000 UTC View Post