Hey everyone, want to hear me nerd out about the Ted Bundy story for two hours? Then I’ve got a treat for you!
KITA friend and fellow Bundy aficionado Mario Lanza runs an excellent podcast dedicated to exploring some of the lesser known movies of the past that deserve more recognition. 2024-02-24 08:47:09 +0000 UTC View Post
"Although Mr. Bundy had attended law school, his legal skills were very poor. He had only limited legal knowledge and insufficient practical experience to be effective as a lawyer. He was unqualified to represent himself in a case as complex as his own. In addition, he lacked the judgment to ...
2024-02-24 08:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post
He said if he left Washington and went to Utah, he hoped a change of climate would help him get rid of his problem. Fell in love in Utah, wanted to change his life-- but couldn't, started it all over again.
Two years in prison, thought he'd cured himself.
Said he couldn't control it-- he h...
An early police interview with Detective Jerry Thompson and Captain Hayward from the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office. Ted was in the Salt Lake County Jail at the time, pending trial for the DaRonch kidnapping. He'd be released on bail a couple weeks later-- his parents took out a second mortgag...
2024-02-01 06:24:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The 1978 version of a meme. I'm not totally sure of the origin, but my educated guess is that it was made by people in the Leon County District Attorney's office.
2024-01-28 07:03:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Bundy: I'm not voluntarily consenting to this.
Souviron: Right, I understand that. You're not gonna bite me now are you?
Bundy: Oh, hell no. I'm a pretty non-violent person.
2024-01-27 05:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
By request, crime commission publications written while Bundy was working for the Seattle Crime Prevention Commission in 1973.
Contrary to what was reported in the media, Ted never actually wrote the rape study report. It was the work of Donna Schram and Philip Sherburne, other member...
2024-01-22 07:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post
"I KEPT HEARING this noise... and saw this guy with a cast on his leg and on crutches, carrying a briefcase," she said. "I swear, he dropped that briefcase every five seconds."
Although suspicious, she offered to help. "It looks like you're having problems, could I help you across the st...
Ed Harvey was one of Bundy's court-appointed public defenders in 1979. Along with Bundy's other defense attorneys Mike Minerva and Millard Farmer, Harvey assisted in negotiating his client's aborted plea agreement. He was quickly convinced of both Bundy's mental instability and incompetency to st...
2024-01-08 19:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
A letter Frank Fender wrote to Governor Martinez, asking to be present at the execution. He was Kimberly Leach's uncle, her mother's brother.
Also a list of phone calls to the governor's office overwhelmingly voicing support for the execution.
2024-01-06 08:18:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Checks from Ted's meals at the Holiday Inn of Tallahassee in the week following the Chi Omega murders. All purchased with stolen credit cards. He had a hearty appetite.
2023-12-31 07:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Defense attorney Mike Minerva doubted Bundy's mental competency to stand trial from the start. Judge Cowart ordered a hearing with two well renowned psychiatrists to address the issue. The expert for the prosecution was Dr. Hervey Cleckley, who wrote the seminal book on the phenomenon of psychopa...
2023-12-12 05:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post
During my trip to Salt Lake City in October, I paid a visit to the Mormon Church Archives for Bundy research.
Why would the Mormon Church have archives about Ted Bundy, you may ask?
Well, the Deseret News paper is actually owned by the LDS Church, and so their archives are technicall...
2023-12-06 21:10:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Nita Neary's description of the man she saw leaving through the front door of her sorority house on the night of the Chi Omega attack, rendered by a police sketch artist.
I've also uploaded a transcript of Nita's hypnosis session, and an interesting piece of expert analysis hired by B...
2023-11-30 06:42:08 +0000 UTC View Post
With no reason to stay any longer, and plenty of reasons to leave, a rational Ted Bundy would have left the state immediately — and probably still could have escaped detection if he had. Instead, Bundy could not stir himself for three days. He did steal a green Toyota on Friday, February 10, an...
2023-11-13 00:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostMy friend Dave who lives in Salt Lake City made us a video last week exploring the Laura Aime dumpsite. We were able to identify the exact location from her case file. The site, near Timpanogas Cave National Monument, would have been about the same in 1974, and even the time of year is close to h...
2023-11-08 01:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Ted bought a full tank of gas from Carl Egan's gas station in Bountiful, Utah- a suburb about 20 minutes north of Salt Lake City- on October 28, 1974. The gas station is about a mile from Viewmont High School, within easy walking distance. Ted was undoubtedly scouting for victims there, because D...
2023-10-30 02:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Murray Police Dept Victim Interview, Nov. 9, 1974:
Detective Riet: Would you give me your name please?
DaRonch: Carol DaRonch.
Riet: Approx. what time were you over at the Fashion Place Mall last night? Do you remember?
DaRonch: About a little after 7:00.
Riet: Where...
2023-10-26 05:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Excerpt from the written statement of Raelynn Shepherd, drama teacher at Viewmont High School in Bountiful, Utah; November 10, 1974:
"I got to school for the musical at 7:30 p.m., seated my husband in the auditorium, and started around the corner to the dressing rooms. I think it was about ...
2023-10-21 19:41:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Ted Bundy accurately described Debra Kent's burial site as Fairview Canyon, a rural area about 2 hours' drive from Salt Lake City. A single patella, found in a wash in 1989 and DNA verified as Debra's in 2015, proved that Bundy was telling the truth about where he'd buried her. His verbal descrip...
2023-10-21 00:33:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a little tidbit- the interagency baseball schedule for the Dept of Emergency Services, where Ted worked in the summer of 1974. Carole Boone makes an appearance as well.
2023-10-20 06:16:41 +0000 UTC View Post
A few more of my photographs from the Florida State Archives, Leon County Jail, and FSU campus.
2023-10-16 05:30:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The Oak at 409 W. College Ave in Tallahassee as it appeared in 1978, news articles about its demise, and my photographs from September 2023. The rooming house, which burned in 2001 and again in 2002, was finally torn down in 2003. Today the location is a parking lot, and only the massive oak tree...
2023-10-16 05:05:56 +0000 UTC View PostBy request, re-uploading this video of Ted's police escort in Tallahassee.
2023-10-03 05:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
August-December 1988 letters from Dr. James Dobson to Bundy on death row.
"...John tells me that your spiritual conversion is real, and that you are motivated now to serve the Lord even at great personal risk. I understand the situation with which you are confronted and admire your de...
2023-10-03 04:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The transcript of Bundy's clemency hearing before Governor Graham on December 19, 1985. In a clemency hearing, usually, the governor listens to testimony from the state in favor of the death penalty, and testimony from a defense attorney in favor of commuting the death sentence to life in prison....
2023-09-26 22:47:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Photos from my trip to Tallahassee last week. Here's the Chi Omega sorority house as it looks now, and as it looked then in crime scene photos. They were having some kind of rush event, and girls were lining up outside to get in. I got in line, because I'll do anything for my followers lol, but i...
2023-09-18 05:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry I’ve been a little MIA recently y’all. I’ve got a goldmine coming down the pipeline, though. I took a special research trip to Tallahassee and I’ll be here for the rest of the week, elbow deep in archives.
Here’s a small sneak peak. More to come, stay tuned.
2023-09-12 04:01:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Colorado investigator Mike Fisher arranged to interview Ted Bundy in March 1976, shortly after his conviction for the Carol DaRonch kidnapping. Bundy was still being held at the Salt Lake County Jail when Fisher, Pitkin County Sheriff's Detective Bill Baldridge, and Ted's defense attorney John O'...
2023-08-28 03:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A collection of Evergreen State College student newspapers related to the disappearance of Donna Manson and the other missing and murdered girls throughout the Northwest.
2023-08-19 06:02:54 +0000 UTC View Post