The Washington confession to Bob Keppel, with Bill Hagmaier and Diana Weiner present. Corresponds to pages 1-17 of the transcript I posted earlier, in case you'd like to follow along. The first of four parts.
2021-10-30 23:36:24 +0000 UTC View Post
A detailed timeline of Bundy's life and yearly activities, created by the King County Police in 1975.
2021-10-30 02:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post“My guess is, he’s doing a lot of driving… Doing a lot more driving than what’s necessary. My guess is he would be, if nothing else, be hunting for sites. Or going back to other places where he’s left bodies. But there’s a good chance he feels somewhat constrained. I mean, there’s n...
2021-10-25 05:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Colorado arrest warrant issued Feb 21, 1978, several days after Bundy's recapture in Florida. Includes a detailed timeline of the second escape.
2021-10-23 04:08:58 +0000 UTC View Post
"Caryn and Allen had discussed a magazine that they were apparently looking at in the store, and I believe I had a copy of the magazine in the room, or a similar copy and Caryn volunteered to-- or told Allen that she would get the magazine, or one of us would get the magazine for him to look at, ...
2021-10-20 03:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
"Your Honor, how ludicrous, how fallacious, how ridiculous it is to assume that Andy Anderson is to be believed, that the abduction that occurred and the manner in which the state alleged that it occurred. How totally ridiculous that some person would drive a van and park it in the middle of a hi...
2021-10-15 05:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 kn...
2021-10-06 07:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostKing County Police Report by Detective Roger Dunn on surveilling Ted while he was in Seattle in the winter of 1975-76:
I got two impressions as to why Bundy uses a tactic of parking the car and walking away:
a. He hoped that I would immobilize the operation of his car so he...
2021-10-02 05:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Over the years I’ve had an opportunity I’m sure you’ve had, to read about cases where a man accused of mass murders had his belongings examined. Some of them had the effort, you know, newspaper articles on the wall and everything. The Riverman is not flamboyant in the way that the Son of S...
2021-09-27 00:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Upon request, Ted's academic transcripts in full.
2021-09-24 04:39:51 +0000 UTC View Post
"Lickity-split, cleaner-than-a-whistle, I vanished into thin air - freer than the birds! I had my chance. I knew what it would. take to remain free and I had rehearsed it a thousand times lying in a cell through hundreds of lonely nights. That night two months ago in Pensacola I wish those police...
2021-09-22 22:26:31 +0000 UTC View PostSince the Darksider Press website run by Richard Duffus seems to have gone down, I'm reposting the FBI tapes featuring Ted and Bill Hagmaier here for those who haven't listened to them yet. Richard Duffus acquired them from the FBI.
2021-09-19 21:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Patchen: For the record, uh, Cheryl's mouth is wired so it's difficult to understand her at times. Um, she has two black eyes and complains of an injury to the ear, and she has a noticeable bruise on her left hand.
Thomas: [Mumble indiscernible]
Patchen: And her ears are bruised.
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A collection of Seattle Times clippings by Richard Larsen, who would later go on to write "The Deliberate Stranger." Primarily covers the Chi Omega trial.
Bundy: “Why he would do something to one victim as opposed to another—sometimes it may be baffling, maybe even to him... I’d say that if he’s just raking stuff over some of them and burying others, that may be just the fact that he just happened to have a shovel in the car this time. And ...
2021-09-01 23:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe full transcript of the 1976 Carol DaRonch trial, as well as the court transcript from Thompson's lineup affidavit, the transcript of the Oct. 2, 1975 lineup itself, and an excerpt from the preliminary hearing transcript.
2021-08-30 04:33:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis report was written in addition to the presentence report by the same Utah investigator, Don Hull, during Bundy's 90-day evaluation phase.
Some of it is similar to the presenten...
2021-08-23 18:47:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I 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 accidental...
2021-08-17 05:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostTed directly and graphically questions Dr. Thomas Wood, the coroner who autopsied Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, on November 14, 1978. He frequently asks the doctor to point out the victims' injuries on their autopsy photographs, and describe in vivid detail the injuries to their genitals.
2021-08-15 05:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The final portion of the interview with Nita Neary, after she is brought out of her hypnosis:
What did you think when you saw him?
Neary: I thought we had a burglar, but I never suspected anything as bad as… what happened. So when I got my roommate up, I was asking her, should we ca...
2021-08-11 22:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostAn enlightening news clipping dated 12/27/87 describing Ted's daily life on Death Row, with an especially interesting portion about Carole Boone's visitation in 1987. She definitely visited him that year, several times, unlike what is commonly reported that she stopped visiting after 1986. <...
2021-08-11 05:25:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I found this very interesting article recently, written right before the execution in 1989. The journalist tracked down the surviving Chi Omega sisters for interviews about that terrible night in 1978, and what life was like for them afterwards.
Really moving and emotional stuff.
Updated the Other Girlfriends blog post to include some newly discovered reports on Utah girlfriends Leslie Knudson, Anne Swensen, and especially Margith Maughan. Anne Swensen has a new correct name spelling and photo (the last one was incorrect!). Margith has some particularly interesting (juicy...
2021-08-05 22:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostA post-execution memo to the Attorney General of Florida, March 1989. Summarizes the known info on the Bundy case, with occasional errors and assumptions not supported by evidence. Let me know what you find interesting, or what you noticed he got wrong.
"Bundy was sensitive to law enforceme...
2021-07-28 05:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
"This guy obviously thought that dumping bodies in the river was a good way to get rid of bodies. And sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. And as anyone who's searched for people who've fallen in the river knows that oftentimes bodies just disappear in rivers, under the right conditions. And I th...
2021-07-25 04:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Near the end of 1975, the Bundys had bailed Ted out of the Salt Lake County Jail and back to Washington. By then Bundy was a hot topic of local conversation, after the shocking news of his Utah arrest for the Carol DaRonch kidnapping hit the papers in early October. While in Seattle, Ted spent mo...
2021-07-18 08:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Excerpts from Keppel's Notes; Dec. 11, 1975
0840 hrs:
Anonymous Caller Tip:
Ted was arrested as a juvenile in Pierce County (burglary). Expunged, but [arrest?] card still exists. The man who arrested him still works there- [Remann] Hall, Juvenile Dept.
Will ...
2021-07-16 04:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
In late October 1987, US District Judge Kendall Sharp held a competency hearing to determine whether Ted Bundy was legally competent at the time of his 1980 trial for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach. Ted Bundy’s lawyer, Jim Coleman, argued that Bundy had a serious psychiatric illness t...
2021-07-12 05:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
July 13, 1974
Dearest Jim,
Hello! Here I sit supping on the delicious fruits of summer- in other words, I am sitting in the gorgeous warm sunshine on our front porch. After a week of such disgusting wet weather it has cleared off and is glorious. Hon, I am sorry I did not get to call y...
Which victim should I focus on for the next case file? (please choose only one)
2021-07-03 17:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post