I wanted to add a couple of things to the discussion I didn't see. First is a KSL News, UT report from March 12th, 2019. Somehow, this story completely snuck by me. DNA testing helped police confirm missing Utah teen was killed by Ted Bundy (Archived Version: Click Here)

"SALT LAKE CITY — Renewed interest in notorious serial killer Ted Bundy led police to announce on Monday that DNA testing helped them confirm he also killed a Bountiful teen.

In November 1974, 17-year-old Debra Kent was with her parents at a Viewmont High School play when she left during intermission to pick up her brother at an ice skating rink, Bountiful Police Sgt. Shane Alexander said.

"After she left, she never returned," he said.

The public interest evoked by the recent Netflix documentary series "Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes" and the movie "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" prompted police to announce the discovery that was made more than three years ago.

Thirty-six hours before his execution, Bundy confessed to killing Debra and other young women and told police where he left Debra's body, according to Alexander.

But her body wasn't found, Alexander said, and police were not able to officially close the case.

That is, until 2015, when human remains were found in Fruit Heights, leading investigators to review missing persons files. Two of the cold cases for the city were women who'd gone missing, Alexander said..." I thought this was pretty interesting. Not sure what to make of it. I do know that I am interested in seeing those DNA results. Now for the other thing...

I have been working on a expose of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). Part 5 of my series, adeptly named, "The Beast & His Savior", involves Ted as one of his "expert witnesses" was none other than Ms. False Memory herself, Elizabeth Loftus. It's not Bundy focused, as that wasn't the intent, but I thought it was still of value. One thing has stuck with me as I'm becoming more familiar. With Bundy's confirmed connection to Harborview Medical Center, his ability to practice as a healthcare professional with zero license while being given the go ahead by a well respected doctor, AND the high potential of his involvement in MKULTRA/behavior modification as patient and perpetrator; it is starting to make A LOT more sense why Loftus was the one who came to Bundy's rescue. These monsters try to protect their own, until there is no helping them and they must take the fall.

Here is a alternative link (threadreader.com) Here is a PDF Copy

Rich Bundy

Rich Bundy Ted Bundy’s brother

Louise Bundy - Mother

Jan 24, 1989 Ted Bundy’s mom Louise Bundy talks about confessions & execution

Louise Bundy interview

Ted Bundy's mother Louise "my father is not his father"

Most sorcery is sex magic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L9xwn8cZokU

I am in contact with the writer Bernard East from the book: A Dramaturgical Approach to Understanding the Serial Homicides of Ted Bundy: Impressions of Murder. And he shared this very rare Justice Newsletter edition with me which was originally released back in 1992! :) More will follow! 🕵️

Stanley Bernson and an accomplice in snuff photography who was likely Ted Bundy

From p.414 of his pretrial hearing (on September 9, 1986), which has the sheriff in Oregon reading off the notes of his interview with a cellmate of Bernson:

Then on p.474-475, we have this same cellmate testifying, talking about how Bernson claimed to have traveled with Teddy (who the cellmate believed to be Bundy) and been jointly involved in snuff photos. The photos were allegedly sold through Bernson's cousin in New York state.

Another possible parallel: Cary Hartmann

There is yet another probable murderer (likely serial murderer) who had an unusual fascination with Ted Bundy to the point of almost seeming like he knew Bundy personally. His name is Cary Hartmann of Utah. A laborer and also a cop for a very brief time, he belonged to the "Supper Club": a sex club that included prominent people in the city of Ogden. Hartmann allegedly told a jailhouse informant about murdering his former girlfriend Sherre Warren. He told this same informant that he had been acquainted with Nancy Baird, a murdered woman initially assumed to be a Bundy victim (though it's quite unlikely) and who disappeared from a gas station operated by the company of the father of alleged Bundy victim Debra Kent.

Hartmann, speaking to this informant, questioned why Bundy was believed to be responsible for Nancy's murder, while also referring to him as "Theodore". A very familiar way of addressing Bundy that makes me wonder if the two knew each other. And like Bernson, Hartmann was (per this informant) obsessed with Bundy.

I have a fair amount on Hartmann and the related cases: https://cavdef.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Bundy#nancybaird Thank you to Patrick for first introducing me to the podcast by Dave Cawley that led down this rabbit hole.

This is interesting

Did Bundy knew Tom?

(Source: https://archive.org/details/tedbundyfbifiles0000unse/page/n53/mode/2up?view=theater)

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Some of these women were strangled to death in his car then left in a remote area; others were forcibly taken to a cave he had located high in the Cascade Mountains in Washington State (McKenna 1995, 36). Those taken to the mountains were made to suffer terribly. The exact location of the cave was never revealed to the author, but it was said to be in a "rocky cleft high above an abandoned logging road" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, December 4, 1993).

The Donna Manson Murder 

Ted Bundy met Donna Manson at a cafeteria on the campus of the Evergreen University located at Olympia, Washington. They had arranged to attend a jazz concert together, but "she never made the concert" (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). After leaving the campus on March 12, 1974, she was driven to a remote part of Washington State. There she was left hanging in a remote cave by a chain for several days, during which time Bundy tortured her repeatedly. Bear in mind Bundy's claim that he "received no pleasure from harming or causing pain to the person he attacked" (Michaud and Aynesworth 2019, 81), an absolute falsehood compared to what he told friends. Sadism, meaning sexual arousal from physical suffering, humiliation, and control of the victim, is posited as being at the core of serial homicide (Schlesinger 2000, 10), and that is certainly correct in this case. Kenneth McKenna reported that initially this torture involved being sexually assaulted with a medical instrument (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). This was a credible assertion considering Bundy had worked at a medical supply house and was known to take items for personal use. For example, in 1972 his girlfriend Liz found plaster of Paris in his desk drawer, which he had taken while working at this establishment (Kendall 1981, 56). It is also consistent with how previous victim Karen Epley was sexually assaulted with a speculum in January of 1974 (Philbin 2011, 24), in what radical feminists have conceptualized as a gynecological fetish (Caputi 1987, 127). A portion of the bed frame was also used (Sederstrom 2020). Foreign object insertion is indicative of ritual behavior. The details of Donna's fate become increasingly sadistic. Bundy's torture would progress to removing portions of her flesh while she was still alive (Schaefer 1993a, 11). It can be no surprise that he remembered her as the girl who "screamed endlessly" while she turned in slow circles while attached to a chain (Schaefer 1994, 22). This horrendous torture continued across multiple days, but not before she was reduced to a state of "babbling insanity" by the time death arrived (Schaefer 1994, 22). The narrative Bundy gave to prison friends was one where torture was a featured theme of several of the murders before 1974, and continued as a theme in some of those that occurred in 1974 and 1975. Torture is rendered silent in some of the official discourse, the urban myth being that Bundy was not overly sadistic. The level of manipulation is evident when he speculated about the kind of person who had committed the crimes as not being someone to torture, humiliate and terrorize them elaborately, or who would use foreign objects (Michaud and Aynesworth 2019, 129– 30), although, backstage, this is exactly what he claimed to have done to Manson. Bundy wanted Donna Manson to agree to become a spiritual guardian over the cave; applying obscure logic, he is said to have believed that through the physical torture the cave would become an area subject to metaphysical protection-her "shade" would remain in the area beyond death to prevent it from being accidentally discovered (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). All of Donna Manson's clothing was kept and her corpse buried in the floor of this remote cave (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). Donna Manson is still listed as a missing person indicating that Bundy did not reveal anything useful about her remains. Ted Bundy's words, albeit as related by his prison friends, give an insight into the way he, in the first person, would relate the most horrific stories, relishing every sordid detail with an appreciative audience. In the realist sense, the minutiae of the Manson homicide are yet another case where informal backstage conversation posited Bundy as enjoying the process of murder, of having total power over the victim in a most sadistic manner. When the audience was nonjudgmental, the narrative is free of the front stage manipulation necessary to keep the wholesome image of an innocent man going. Robert Keppel has expressed the view that Bundy's victims usually died quickly (Keppel and Birnes 1997, 25) but that was absolutely not the case here. Further, Bundy told detectives that Donna Manson's body was the fifth left on Taylor Mountain (Rule 2004, 481), which also runs entirely contrary to what he told his prison friends.

The cave in the Cascade Mountains contained a large iron ring in the ceiling, and chains attached to one wall, a domain modified by Bundy to suit his agenda. The "treasures" contained within included victims' clothing, jewelry, and purses (McKenna 1995, 36). This becomes another point of difference between the front stage and the Ted Bundy definitely had the implements of the sadist. He explained to McKenna that at least two of the 1973 victims were subjected to tortures involving a hot iron poker. He would heat the instrument on a Hibachi grill or a Sterno stove, both of which he had in the cave. The torture involving the poker he referred to as the "Bundy brand" and the effect was so agonizing that it would produce convulsions in the victim (McKenna 1992, 13).

The names of the girls Bundy tortured in the Cascade Mountains cave, during 1973 were not revealed by either Schaefer or McKenna. Two Oregon victims who have been mentioned by detectives as possible victims come to mind (Rule 2004, 486). The first is Rita Jolly, aged seventeen, who disappeared from West Linn, Oregon, on June 29, 1973. She left her home on Horton Road at approximately 7:15 p.m. to go for a walk and was last seen about an hour later (doenetwork.org). Her case is notable here, particularly because she disappeared while hitchhiking in that particular year and her remains were never found. In light of both informants stating that Bundy definitely murdered hitchhikers that year and that he drove substantial distances in search of victims, the likelihood of Bundy's guilt is heightened.

Vicki Lynn Hollar is another potential victim. A seamstress who worked at Bon Marche, she was last seen in Eugene, Oregon, on August 20, 1973. Vicki had planned to attend a party that evening but was last seen getting into her black Volkswagen Beetle at 5 p.m. in a parking lot (Smith 1989). She was known to have the habit of picking up hitchhikers. The VW connection raises the intriguing possibility of a point of contact with Bundy, noted for his ongoing fascination with this type of car. Just exactly what the nexus would have been in this instance remains in the realm of speculation. Perhaps he accosted her while she was getting into her own car then she drove them both to his own vehicle. What became of Vicki's car is unknown.

Another potential victim is Suzanne Justis, aged twenty-three, who disappeared from Portland, Oregon, on November 5, 1973. She phoned her mother that day, saying she planned to travel back to Eugene the next day to pick up her son from school, but was never heard from again. She may have hitchhiked (charleyproject.org). It would seem naive not to think they were the only young women he killed from Oregon that year.

Another case was the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Sue Curtis who went missing from a Mormon banquet at Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah (Stapely 2016).

Chapter 7 

Ted Bundy's First Murder 

This chapter will examine the first murder in which Bundy was a suspect, highlighting differences between what he told various people in the front stage area compared to what he disclosed to his prison associates. The importance of voyeurism as a seminal influence will also be addressed. The number of Bundy's victims is an area of substantial contention for anyone with an interest in Bundy's criminal career, with estimates of the total varying widely from 35 to 100 plus (Ressler and Shachtman 1992, 77; Rule 2004, 485). When did Ted Bundy start his spree of murder? The lead detective at the time of his officially acknowledged serial murders, Bob Keppel, believes that Bundy had committed murders prior to the Lynda Healy case in early 1974 (Keppel and Birnes 1997, 329), possibly starting in 1968 (crimelibrary.com). According to the information furnished by Schaefer and McKenna, the murders certainly began much earlier, in all likelihood in 1961. THE ANN MARIE BURR CASE One of the last pieces of information received from Schaefer and McKenna was also one of the most explosive. It concerned the case of nine-year-old Ann Marie Burr who vanished in Tacoma, Washington, on August 31, 1961. Ted Bundy grew up in north Tacoma and lived three miles from the Burr home. Aged fourteen at the time, Bundy lived on SkyLine Drive, and through his paper round he knew Ann Marie Burr, who resided on 14th Street (Morris 2011, 13, 60). On the front stage, Bundy claimed to the authorities and others that he was "too young" to have committed the crime (Rule 2004, 481). In 1986, he wrote to her parents denying that he had wandered the streets late at night and claimed he was not responsible (Rule 2012, 546). His denials convinced some, including the FBI's Bill Hagmaier (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 352), Bob Keppel (Morris 2011, 270), and a local detective named Tony Zatkovich, who was convinced that Bundy was innocent and the real killer was still free. Zatkovich spent a great deal of time investigating this crime, with his preferred suspect being a then-fifteen-year-old neighbor Robert Bruzas (Morris 2011, 158–59; 268). It is worth noting here that the FBI believes that the first attack in a serial murder series is the one most likely to be closest to the offender's home (Rossmo 2000, 103). As for age I note that Mary Bell, one of the world's youngest serial killers, was only ten at the time of her first murder (Howard 2014, 66). In contrast to those denials, Bundy verified to McKenna who later told Schaefer that his first murder experience or "kill" was indeed that of Ann Marie Burr (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, August 22, 1994). Ted Bundy told Keppel that there were some murders the killer was too embarrassed to discuss, or there was something about the victim that precluded any discussion (Keppel 2003, 192). This case was probably one of these. By the early 1960s Bundy was often doing the rounds as a Peeping Tom, seeking out women to watch in the act of disrobing. Ted Bundy told both informants that on the evening of August 31, 1961, he managed to find a woman undressing and became sexually aroused. In this heightened state he went to the Burr home and managed to lure Ann Marie out of a window. He then took her to a field. A sexual assault followed in which he tried to enter her vaginally but could not, which led to him engaging in anal intercourse with the victim. According to McKenna, Bundy always had an "overly long" penis, at approximately 11 inches as an adult, and was "very sensitive" about it even as a teenager. After the sexual assault, he killed her by strangulation, largely to conceal the crime. She was left overnight in the field, but he returned the next morning before sunrise, where he sexually assaulted the corpse and then buried her (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, August 22, 1994). Sunrise occurred at 6:27 a.m. that morning (Morris 2011, 271). Kenneth McKenna claimed that Bundy told him how she acted "puzzled and bewildered" during the crime, rather than expressing the terror more typical of a teenage girl or young woman aware of her impending death. He found this credible (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, August 22, 1994). Bundy posited the details of the first murder in a clinical manner, expressing the details of what was necessary to affect the murder in a practical and successful way. From a realist perspective, the evidence involves both the practical concerns of the crime from the killer's perspective in addition to the victim's behavior. One of the reasons this version is persuasive is that Bundy was familiar with the fields of Tacoma, having often picked beans with his stepfather (Rule 2004, 10). These details reveal the level of sophistication that killers apply in deciding what to believe of each other's stories. Backstage their criteria of credibility involves paying attention to the minutiae, which can, among other things, include the victims' reactions. The identity work of the killer who made an opportunistic first murder which impacted deeply upon him speaks to process and outcome and reveals the importance of talk as action. Carrying out a crime close to a victim's home, like other elements in Bundy's front stage accounts, seems a completely unnecessary risk, and is more likely a recurring front stage fabrication, Bundy constructing himself verbally as an omnipotent, intelligent, controlling serial killer. According to Schaefer, Bundy revealed that the Tacoma field where Ann Marie was buried was covered over by a car park "some years later" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, September 15, 1994). When asked if he knew exactly where the burial site was, Schaefer replied that he would need to see a 1960s map of Tacoma with a 1990s overlay to pinpoint it, but added that there would only be "a few small bones left" by now anyway (1994 at that time). In other words, he had no intention of disclosing the whereabouts of Ann Marie Burr. The implication was that this information would be disclosed in his forthcoming book about Bundy. Schaefer was very annoyed that McKenna had provided the author with details about this case, sarcastically referring to how McKenna had "wheedled” the information out of Bundy, and Schaefer had no intention of revealing anything else about it before his own book was released (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, September 15, 1994).

The contrast between backstage of the killer who reveals unknown locations of actual victims is emblematic of conversation as a realm of identity claims with factual evidentiary claims in contrast to the public image. It serves to contradict the official narrative, contributing to the urban myth, of his innocence regarding this case. Despite a search at the time of her disappearance involving some eight hundred people, Ann Marie was never found, and she is still listed as a missing person by the Tacoma Police Department. Her father, Donald, was sure that he saw Bundy in a ditch at a construction site at the University of Puget Sound campus on the morning that Ann Marie vanished (Morris 2011, 31-32). The ditches were on the western edge of the campus (Morris 2011, 94). Author Rebecca Morris believes that she is probably buried under one of them (Morris 2011, 266). Given the proximity of the University of Puget Sound to the Burr home at the time and considering how some of its fields have been modified since the 1960s, it is possible that this was indeed her final resting place. A DNA profile was made in 2011 from a vial of blood stored in a courthouse for thirty years. The profile was uploaded into the FBI's DNA database named Codis in August 2011 but due to insufficient amplifiable DNA however, the DNA failed to link Bundy to the disappearance (Lohr 2011).

Despite the version he gave to Dr. Lewis, the information from his associates in prison suggest that Bundy had committed at least three murders by the time he first started accessing "violent pornography." While he mentioned violent pornography to Dr. James Dobson (Dobson 1989), it was left ill-defined. Bundy made it known to both Schaefer and McKenna that the type of pornography he was referring to was of the "snuff" genre, a pictorial depiction of female murder (Caputi 1987, 91). From a radical feminist perspective, in a snuff movie a woman becomes less than human and merely an object (Radford in Radford and Russell 1992, 5). It has been called gore-nography in the sense that it presents "violence, domination, torture, and murder in a context that makes these acts sexual" (Caputi in Radford and Russell 1992, 210).

As argued earlier, it was his first homicide, that of Ann Marie Burr, where he came to associate sex with death. After this, he progressively sought out pornographic material which reinforced his own attitudes. Eventually, according to Kenneth McKenna, Bundy found snuff pornography. McKenna explained that Bundy had obtained magazines from him with suitably sinister titles as "Blood," "Sudden Demise," and "Strangler's Fancy," all of which Ted believed were of the snuff genre (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). Ted Bundy's private version given to prison friends was far more explicit and Ritual, related to signature, is a product of the imagination (Hazelwood and Michaud 1999, 11; Schlesinger, Kassen, Mesa and Pinizzotto 2010). It has been claimed that ritualistic offenders, such as Harvey Glatman or Bundy, shop assiduously for their pornography, which they regard as among their most prized possessions (Hazelwood and Michaud 1999, 16). This is indeed true of Bundy but needs to be qualified. He regarded snuff pornography as valuable because to him it was both rare in that it was hard to locate and a lot more expensive than other forms of pornography. The fact that he had obtained a mere three snuff magazines (or at least what he believed to be) by 1973, even though he had searched for years, is testament to how very rare this material is. Acquiring it brought a sense of satisfaction because it involved genuine effort on his part and gave him a sensation of progressively adding to his rare collection.

In contrast, Bundy explained to McKenna that one of these magazines involved photographs of a woman during the process of being hanged to death. He could tell that the photographs in this magazine were not posed, dismissing the claim made inside the magazine's cover to that effect. He believed them to be genuine depictions of a life being extinguished, due to two separate criteria. Firstly, there was evidence of substantial salivation (what McKenna called "drool"), which Bundy knew to be evidence that the person was in fact dead or in extremis (the death throes), as a result of strangulation. Further, Bundy knew that petechia, visible in some of the photographs, was evidence of strangulation and could not be faked (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). Petechia, the tiny pinpoint hemorrhages caused by burst capillaries in the whites of the eyes, is the ocular indication of strangulation (Miletich 2003, 107). Ted Bundy, the personification of perverted desire, had all of his senses enflamed by the act of murder, and would scrutinize every minute detail of the photographs of what he believed to be murder victims. He posited a preferred identity of a man sophisticated and knowledgeable of the finer points of murder. He verbally actioned himself as a man invested in murder, taking the time and effort to sample it in the way a connoisseur would. The preferred identity work and the realist evidentiary element complement each other rather than being mutually exclusive. In relation to dramaturgical context, Bundy had little to fear when talking to McKenna as the latter had expressed the belief to Bundy that snuff was a genuine form of pornography and not simply an urban myth. Specifically, the 'stars' of this material were prostitutes who had outlived their usefulness to the Florida Mafia (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). This is consistent with feminist critiques that posit organised crime selling "snuff" films, where women were indeed murdered, to private collectors of pornography in the United States in the 1970s (Dworkin 1981, 71). Backstage it was the secret pleasures that once more came to the fore, where details could be shared about such an interest without fear of the judgment which would surely emerge were it to be divulged on the front stage. He allowed himself the preferred identity that he was a connoisseur of murder who enjoyed its constituent elements. The FBI's Roy Hazelwood claimed that Bundy used pornography to validate his deviance (Michaud and Hazelwood 1999, 16), and this is supported by what Bundy told McKenna. The Bundy evidence also offers support for John Douglas's contention that individuals already prone to violent, sexual thinking, "did have their passions inflamed" by sadomasochistic pornography, and they obtained some of their ideas from it (Douglas and Olshaker 1999, 37). The inflammation comment is true of Bundy. As criminologist Eric Hickey says, it may be dangerous to suggest facilitators are causal factors (Hickey 1991, 69), and it is validation- an attempt to normalize and reinforce the process-rather than causation, that is evident from what Bundy told his friends. His alternative narrative was that he killed women prior to accessing snuff pornography for the first time (circa 1972, according to what he told McKenna), and he was aroused by these images as they reminded him of his previous actions. It is certainly credible to assert that pornography had an impact on Bundy, but it was far from being the only antecedent in propelling him toward his violent acts.

There were also validations in popular culture. Kenneth McKenna reported Bundy's two favorite mainstream films were Peeping Tom, and Alfred Hitchcock's, Frenzy (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). Peeping Tom is a 1960 psychological thriller in which a man kills woman while filming their dying expressions of terror with a portable movie camera (Ebert 1999). The plot concerns a man who works in a film studio who shoots snuff films at night (Caputi 1987, 171). Bundy regarded both films as resonating with his own lifestyle. He could relate to the protagonist's quirks in each film. Frenzy, features a serial killer who rapes and strangles women to death in London (Lee and Reid 2018, 48). Released in 1972, it is a combination of titillation and violence in keeping with the spirit of "slasher" films (Mondal 2019, 87). It shows a victim being killed as seen through the killer's eyes, rather than from a third person perspective. The key, however, is that Bundy could relate to what was being depicted in both films, having lived out in grotesque reality what was being portrayed on the screen. Again, his narrative about pornography and popular film suggests validation rather than causation as a key theme running throughout his criminal career. This seems clear in the case as Frenzy, released in 1972, with Bundy already killing women by strangulation at this time. Prior to 1974, Ted was fond of carrying out strangulation from the front, as depicted in Frenzy, using the technique of crushing the windpipe and esophagus (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). He enjoyed experimenting with different types of strangulation (Schaefer 1995, 125). McKenna explained to Bundy how to strangle by constricting blood vessels, which when done correctly, causes the victim to climax while dying (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). The orgasm accompanying execution by strangulation was symptomatic of brain dysfunction (Schaefer 1995, 126), and is not due to arousal. Bundy would inhale the aroma, become aroused and then "sexually attack the corpse" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, January 21, 1994).

In 1974, an aborted line of inquiry originated with Herb Swindler, the police officer in charge of the Lynda Healy and Georgann Hawkins cases, who had compiled an occult file on such crimes in Washington State. An astrologer friend of Ann Rule's established that the murders from February to July 1974 had involved the moon being in the houses of Scorpio, Taurus, or Pisces, information that was shared with Swindler (Rule 2004, 78–79; Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 39-40). However, this angle was not pursued after the Lake Sammamish double murder. In 1975 Swindler was transferred to another precinct amid rumors that his preoccupation with occult links to crimes was irritating his superiors (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 40). However, there are consistent and intriguing patterns around this claim, to be explored shortly. There was no comment regarding While the assertion that Bundy held such beliefs was grotesque enough, Schaefer revealed that Bundy sometimes found it enjoyable to remove victims' hearts and livers, in addition to removing portions of the back and flanks, which he roasted over an open fire and ingested (Schaefer 1992b, 17). The open fire sounded credible as Bundy was an experienced hiker.

Bobby Lewis, housed in the Florida Death Row cell next to Bundy's in 1979 when Ted first arrived, recalled waking one night to hear an aroused Bundy having a vivid and vocal dream based around holding a human heart in his hands, an encounter that Lewis found extremely frightening (London 1993, 53-54). Lewis was still Bundy's best friend in 1981 on Death Row (Michaud and Aynesworth 2019, 278).

When Kimberley Leaches body was found there was a large area of missing internal organs (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 248), in addition to the uterus, ovaries, trachea, vagina and neck (Dekle 2011, 74), and Schaefer claimed this was due to cannibalism.

Kimberley Leach was extensively eaten, her organs having been roasted over an open campfire in a Florida swamp (Schaefer 1992b, 14). The location may well have been at Osceola National Forest, which contains a great deal of swamp land (fs.usda.gov). Bundy had recently bought a Buck General knife (Dekle 2011, 10), and it is quite possible this was used for evisceration. For example, despite claims of Leach being half eaten by hogs (Browne 2016, 115), she had actually been left in an abandoned pigsty (Rule 2004, 324; Dekle 2011, 58; Douglas and Olshaker 2013, 155). The condition of the pen and fences indicated that the sty had not been used for some time. The body and clothing had been shoved under the pen (SAS TJ Bondurant, April 7, 1978). However, some claim that she was murdered at the hog shed (Sullivan 2017, 151-52).

Kenneth McKenna felt the loss; when contacted about the murder of Schaefer, he stated simply, "I miss Jerry: he was a good friend" (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, June 10, 1996). McKenna has provided a study in contrasts. From late 1994 until mid-1996, he was a born-again Christian, helping out in the prison chapel, which is where he was at the time of Schaefer's murder (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, June 10, 1996). Despite filing several appeals against his sentence, McKenna remains in the Florida prison system to this day.

(Source: A Dramaturgical Approach to Understanding the Serial Homicides of Ted Bundy: Impressions of Murder by author Bernard East)

Can someone please join helping me finding these newsletters/magazines so we can read this in full?

I did found this: https://www.murderauction.com/auction/listing/the-vampire-lust-of-ted-bundy-by-gerard-john-gj-schaefer/485782 But there should be digital scanned pdf files somewhere on the Internet of them.

This is my first post on the Bundy forum and I thank you all for the contributions to sort out the truth from the lies. I wanted to post here the documentary I made about Bundy with all of this info at the forefront in case any of you are interested or would like a better way to share the info. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPQHsMbzTY&t=618s

Gary Addison Taylor was another serial killer operating in the Seattle area at the same time as Ted Bundy and Thomas Creech. I was told by a source a while back that he was involved in a local satanic cult alongside Bundy and Creech. Reportedly, they were all associated with Richard Alan Miller, who taught parapsychology at the UW experimental college, ran an occult bookstore (Beltane Books) in Seattle, and was northwest regional director for CIA front Mankind Research Unlimited.

As far as Taylor's background, he also spent time at various Michigan mental institutions including Ionia State Hospital. His stay at Ionia partially overlapped Henry Lee Lucas's own stay there. Lucas also had previously served time at the Chillicothe prison in Ohio, where Charles Manson served time a few years prior and Creech would later serve time in 1969.

In this Michigan police report, which appeared in the King County (Seattle) Sheriff's Office files on Bundy, we see that Taylor had confirmed Nazi and occult interests.

As to why Toole would make a false confession, another significant fact came to light, adding a further layer of complexity to matters when one considers that Bundy and Toole were physically intimate in prison (Schaefer 1992b, 19). It had been rumored among Seattle investigators that Bundy might be same sex attracted (Sullivan 2016, 119). He was not primarily homosexual in orientation but was capable of being bisexual. Bundy and Toole would discuss elements of their crimes that became their foreplay before sexual intimacy (Schaefer 1992b, 19). Factoring in the backstage context that not only were Bundy and Toole friends but at times also sexual partners, it is possible that Toole had a hidden agenda in leading police away from Bundy as a suspect. The method of disposal in the Shelley Robertson case was emblematic of many of Bundy's disposals during the year of 1975, and he held a sacred regard for these dump sites.

These cases help to illustrate the favorite highways that Ted Bundy traveled. For example, he often took the 1-70 to go east from Salt Lake City to Denver. In 1974, the I-70 was a relatively new highway, and after moving to Salt Lake City in September, 1974 he spent much time on it, either looking for victims or using it to get to his predetermined dump sites. This highway, which runs through Colorado, is connected to the states of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky. Another highway he frequented was the I-15, which goes both north of Salt Lake City and south to Mexico. The area of Layton, where Nancy Baird disappeared, is on the 1-15 just north of Salt Lake City.

Schaefer specified that Bundy's true crime hero was Charles Manson (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, December 4, 1993). As Manson's crimes were committed during people on consecutive nights in August 1969. Bundy certainly found Manson's power over the minds of others to be deeply intriguing (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, December 4, 1993).

Ted Bundy's reportage of his own whereabouts at any given time before 1974 was, as has been mentioned, often partially true, and often misleading, to various degrees. An example of the difficulties with establishing timelines is that McKenna is adamant that Bundy visited him at his Manasota, Florida home some time in 1973 (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, March 30, 1994), mentioning to Schaefer that it was early (Schaefer 1995b, 35), and while no month was forthcoming with this assertion, it is certainly possible. Bundy was familiar with the state, having traveled to Miami in 1968 to attend the Republican national convention that year (Rule 2004, 15). The 1992 task force found it impossible to establish just where he was from February 11 to March 4 of 1973 (Multiagency Investigative Team Report, 1992), which lends credibility to McKenna's claims.

Bundy claimed he had cremated several victims' skulls in his girlfriend's fireplace (Ted Bundy confession to Bob Keppel). The amount of heat required to disintegrate bone is approximately 1400 to 1800 degrees Farenheit (cremationresource.org), which renders this version particularly unlikely.

Another equally odd claim is postulated by criminologist Ronald Holmes, namely, that Bundy kept one Utah victim at his residence for nine days, specifically under the bed, on the bed, and in his closet, ultimately sexually assaulting the victim for eight of those days (Holmes and Holmes 2001, 151). This would have needlessly victims' heads and bodies home with him (Nolasco 2019). Some still believe he could have carried victims upstairs late at night (Sullivan 2017, 95). Bear in mind that this was an apartment building, with multiple neighbors nearby, and not a house. There was a cellar underneath the apartment building, but it was cramped, and the nearby utility shed was also small (Dielenberg 2016, 173). There seems to be little likelihood of this, considering the elevated risk of detection through the possibility of neighbors seeing him with the victim, or at the very least, a suspicious looking bundle. Urban myth is palpable here. 

While Schaefer did not respond to questions about the murder of flight attendant Lonnie Trumbull on June 23, 1966, nonetheless it is likely that she is the person to whom he was referring in his remark about regression to an earlier pattern. Lonnie Trumbull was fatally bludgeoned in her Queen Ann Hill, Seattle apartment. Her roommate Lisa Wick survived after spending several weeks in a coma. A blood covered piece of wood was found in a nearby vacant lot. Ted Bundy, aged nineteen at the time, was known to be employed at a nearby Safeway (Rule 2004, 419).

PHOTOGRAPHS

It was first revealed in Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth's book The Only Living Witness that Bundy had disclosed to FBI agent Bill Hagmaier that he had taken Polaroid photographs of his victims. This was subsequently perceived by investigators as being a personal, idiosyncratic form of souvenir keeping. Such behavior is certainly not atypical among serial killers. Jeffrey Dahmer, for example, kept photographs of victims both before and after death, in addition to their driver's licenses (Ressler and Shachtman 1997, 119– 20). Polly Nelson, Bundy's lawyer from 1986, asked him about the whereabouts of these pictures (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 317). Ted Bundy explained that he had destroyed a shoebox of photos while out on bail over the Carol Da Ronch case, adding that they had been hidden in a utility room of the Utah building where he had an apartment, on First Avenue (Nelson 1994, 258). Bundy was first charged on October 2, 1975, and was released on bond from November 1975 (Kendall 1981, 113), with his trial starting in February 1976 (Kendall 1981, 126), so the window of opportunity lasted a few months. Both my informants confirmed that Bundy took victim photos. McKenna also revealed that Bundy was in the habit of taking one photo of the victim alive and one of them deceased. He explained that Bundy did this for a total of 14 victims. In contrast to the dramaturgical version given by Bundy to his lawyer, the location of the photos was simply unspecified, according to McKenna who claimed that Bundy never actually destroyed them and they "were still in existence" (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, August 22, 1994). If correct, it is probable that the photographs, all of which were taken in 1974, were left at one of his several body dump sites. They were undoubtedly important to Bundy and it is unlikely that he would need to destroy them over police attention if they were kept in a secret location where the likelihood of them being found was minimal to non-existent. They were never kept at the apartment, which would explain why the authorities never recovered them, despite their best efforts, just as they failed to recover the remains, clothing, and jewelry of most of the victims. Assertions to the police and other authority figures, taken as truth, sometimes have as much validity as urban myth.

In contrast to Bob Keppel, McKenna claimed that Bundy believed that his arousal gave him unusual strength, such as being able to carry Lynda Healy's "unconscious form" outside. Bundy told McKenna that the Healy murder was the first in which he felt no remorse afterwards, a state of being which made him delighted and one which had been thirteen years in the making (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, March 30, 1994). Bundy's habit of taking one photograph of the victim alive and one after death was not without problems. The first of the 1974 spree marked an exception to this practice. Together with other idiosyncratic information, McKenna added that the flash on Bundy's camera did not work during the Lynda Healy abduction so Bundy "only had pictures of her after sunup" (meaning after her death) (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, August 22, 1994). Further, regarding the March 1974 murder of Donna Manson, Schaefer claimed to have been informed that "the photos of Manson are particularly offensive" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, September 15, 1994).

Ted Bundy related two October 1974 cases from Utah to McKenna, which were prominent in his memory as being among his most enjoyable. These were the murders of Melissa Smith and Laura Aime. Melissa was last seen at a restaurant by her father after she was given some money to buy a pizza and meet up with a girlfriend (Michaud and Aynesworth 1999, 92). She was the daughter of Midvale's police chief (Rule 2004, 111), which became a significant fact to Bundy. Her body would be recovered nine days later.

She had been kept alive for as long as a week before being killed (Leyton 2003, 79). The autopsy revealed that she had many bruises, acquired before death, and that she had been strangled and had sustained skull fractures (Rule 2004, 112). Ted Bundy liked to discuss the pleasure that he had with "a cop's daughter" (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, August 22, 1994). 



Shocking features were contained in the autopsy report of Melissa's murder. One factor that has never been satisfactorily addressed is where she was kept if she was indeed alive for a week after abduction. She had little blood in her body but had not bled at the scene where she was dumped-in a remote canyon. The backstage claims of mine shafts and caves seem particularly useful here. 

Missing time was also an issue with Laura Aime, who disappeared a mere two weeks after Melissa. Laura Aime left a Halloween party to buy cigarettes (Michaud and Aynesworth 1999, 93). She was warned by her mother to stop hitchhiking (Rule 2004, 113). She would be found in the wilderness, and it was determined that she had sustained skull fractures in addition to being strangled (Rule 2004, 113). McKenna knew her as "Laura Amy" (sic), and he disclosed that her physical appearance made Bundy particularly fond of her. Noted for her “model-like slimness" (Rule 2004, 134), she was remembered by Bundy as one of his most attractive victims, being a "six-footer with a good body" (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, August 22, 1994). I noted with interest that she was found only five hundred yards from Timpanogos Cave visitors center (Sullivan 2009, 113), so yet another cave reference emerges.

An important element of his souvenir keeping is that most of these items never left the death sites, which were usually caves and abandoned mine shafts. For example, the Washington State murder relics were kept at a cave "located in a rocky cleft high above an abandoned logging road" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, December 4, 1993). 

He preferred to relive the crimes in a very private area in which it was impossible he would ever be accidentally disturbed. This contrasts with his claims to authorities about taking evidence to his apartment or his girlfriend's house (Nolasco 2019), or placing it in dumpsters (Sullivan 2009, 131), and represents an important alternative narrative. It has been claimed that his normal method of killing victims was from behind (Sullivan 2016, 46). However, this was a later development. Prior to 1974, Ted was fond of carrying out strangulation from the front, using the technique of crushing the windpipe and esophagus (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, May 9, 1994). Bundy had mentioned that he enjoyed seeing a victim's eyes appear glossy and vacant (Schaefer 1995, 126), and expressed to Hagmaier the feeling of saliva coming onto his hands (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 350), also indicative of frontal strangulation.

Ted Bundy kept other physical trophies in addition to the photographs. One of the most bizarre was a collection of eighteen human eyeballs that he kept in a jar (Schaefer 1993a, 9). This was possibly influenced by Nazi Josef Mengele, who kept pairs of eyes from his experiments (Hickey 1991, 30). Mengele collected the eyeballs of his murder victims and preserved them in formaldehyde, in part to furnish research material to a colleague with an interest in eye pigmentation (Gutman and Berenbaum 1998, 326). Bundy was known to admire the Nazis (Rule 2004, 466), so this can be regarded as a potential influence. This was also ritual behavior as it exceeded actions necessary to cause death, and signature, as it was unique and distinct, facilitating the reliving of the crime.

In the Utah and Colorado cases, the relics were usually kept in mine shafts. The main body dump among several in Colorado was located at a mine shaft somewhere near a small town in Colorado. I was told this as a result of asking about the fate of Denise Oliverson. Gerard Schaefer was adamant that "there were several [body] dumps in Colorado" but the "main one [body dump] was a mineshaft somewhere near Idaho Springs" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, September 15, 1994). The reference to it being the most prominent one suggested that at least three victims were stored here, including Oliverson, and possibly more. This town, founded in 1859, located in Clear Creek County, is a remnant of Colorado's gold rush. There are numerous abandoned mine shafts nearby (thediggings.com). Ironically, years later, a map search of this area revealed that one of the roads was named Sky Line Drive-the same name as the street Bundy lived on as a child in Tacoma. Was this an example of Bundy's sense of humor, his taste for the ironic, or perhaps just an example of his arrogance, an in-joke to which only he knew the punch line? Given that Denise disappeared in April of 1975, I assume that this is likely also the final resting place of Julie Cunningham, who disappeared in March. Even Sue Curtis, who disappeared from Provo, Utah in June, is a possibility. Idaho Springs is a seven-hour drive along 1-70 so this becomes a possible resting place for her as well. It has been noted that he "thought nothing of traveling hundreds of miles away to find a victim" (Keppel and Birnes 1997, 311). For instance, Kathy Parks was driven 260 miles to where her remains were found (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 119). It has also been noted that Bundy traveled for victims over a three-hundred-mile radius (Keppel 2003, 15). It made me wonder whether he traveled similar distances in transporting victims to murder sites.

Given that Bundy left Shelley Robertson five hundred feet inside a mine shaft, these other victims may still be where he left them. In his book Killer Fiction, Schaefer used information likely sourced from Bundy in one of his stories-writing of hippie girls heading for the Haight, starlets going to Hollywood and prostitutes traveling to Las Vegas, who ended up in nameless mine shafts west of Denver (Schaefer 1995, 222). References to hippies heading towards the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco could point to Bundy having killed hitchhikers as early as 1967. Regarding the prostitutes and Las Vegas connection, it is instructive to note that the profession was legalized there in 1971, so this is another element of the timeline which was becoming clearer, again suggesting that he began killing well before 1974.

(To Be Continued…)

(Source: A Dramaturgical Approach to Understanding the Serial Homicides of Ted Bundy: Impressions of Murder by author Bernard East)

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The FBI also took a keen interest in Schaefer, particularly agents Roy Hazelwood and Robert Ressler. Hazelwood claimed that Schaefer was "easily the cleverest of the record- keeping sexual sadists" that he had studied (Michaud and Hazelwood 1999, 229). Having visited a psychiatrist, the “fantasies” recovered from his mother's house were covered by doctor-patient confidentiality, which meant that they could never be used as legal evidence against him (Michaud and Hazelwood 1999, 229-30). The Florida newspapers called Schaefer "the Sex Beast," claiming that he kidnapped hitchhikers who he then drove to remote locations deep within the Florida swamps. The authorities believed that once there, he would erect a stepladder under a tree limb, and force the naked victim at gunpoint to mount the ladder. The victims were told to drink beer and urinate then Schaefer would place a noose over the victim's neck, throw the rope over a tree limb, attach the other end to the car's front bumper, put the vehicle in reverse and back away slowly until the noose lifted the woman away from the ladder, hanging her. Detectives believe that he would have sex with the dead body, and then bury the corpse nearby. Police also believe that he would return to the scene, disinter, and have sex with the corpse (Michaud and Hazelwood 1999, 229). Not all his potential victims were hitchhikers. For example, Deborah Sue Lowe, aged thirteen, who disappeared from Pompano Beach, Florida on February 28, 1972 is believed by her family to be one of Schaefer's victims. According to her brother James, at some point Schaefer had worked with Deborah Lowe's father (Scouten 2011).

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Schaefer was indeed highly intelligent and quite articulate, most able at presenting truly shocking. For example, Schaefer wrote that the remains of two of Bundy's victims went missing from police custody in Washington State. This sounded too incredible and bizarre to possibly be true, yet a search of newspaper articles revealed that the remains had indeed gone missing. Whether they had been lost or stolen depended upon the source: the police claimed that they were mistakenly cremated. In 1987, King County, Washington paid US$224,000 to victims' families to settle lawsuits, as a result of King County officials acknowledging the loss of the remains of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund in 1984 (Ith and Guillen 2001). The devastation this caused the victims' families was unimaginable. Denise Naslund's mother, Eleanor Rose, gained little comfort from the successful litigation. She would ultimately bury an empty casket (Cooke 1989)

Kenneth McKenna

The seeds of Kenneth "Mad Dog" McKenna's criminal career were set quite early. The son of an unmarried sex-worker, he never knew who his father was. By his own admission, He grew up in a "bad" home environment in which his mother entertained clients in the apartment that the two of them shared. Because of this dysfunctional milieu, he was on the streets at all hours as a child. His entry into the crime world came after leaving school at the age of fourteen. He became a "numbers" runner for the Irish Mob on the South Side of Chicago, which he did until the age of sixteen (Schaefer 1993b, 36). Numbers, a type of daily lottery conducted in the ghetto areas of urban centers, is traditionally associated with organized crime. A runner was someone who had to carry money and betting slips between betting parlors and headquarters (Markoff 2017, 65). He started managing or “running" sex-workers at sixteen years of age and was a “whoremaster” in charge of several at the age of twenty-one. His appetite for violence began early. He once claimed to Schaefer to have killed several people by the time he turned twenty-one. His claim was that some were men who died in gang shootouts while the others were prostitutes who had overstepped the boundaries of "his" working girls, or committed the unofficial crime of “bogarting,” as he called it, meaning to selfishly appropriate something for oneself. McKenna ultimately moved to Florida permanently in the late 1950s to be clear of the chronically troubled Chicago area and its gang wars at the time His employer then became notorious mob boss Santo Trafficante (Schaefer 1993b, 36). Trafficante, head of the Florida Mafia based at Tampa, had myriad criminal interests, including bolita (numbers) rackets, arson, and murder for hire (Deitche 2004, 19). Drugs were another specialty, with the Florida mob being involved in marijuana and cocaine trafficking and Trafficante was also a major importer of heroin (Deitche 2004, 73, 135-36, 197-99). McKenna's criminal career, in service of Trafficante, allegedly included contract murders. He seemed knowledgeable regarding the 1982 slaying of a Caporegime (Captain) from the Colombo crime family, Caesar Vitale, particularly memorable, as Vitale's wife was also killed in the "hit" (Schaefer 1993b, 37). Gerard Schaefer described his physical appearance as "enough like Charles Manson physically to be considered a twin" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, October 12, 1994), so he was not the  most nondescript of men. It was possible to suspect McKenna of much but linking him directly to anything was another matter entirely. Once in the Florida State Prison, McKenna was put to work as a "runner," which entailed delivering food to the inmates on Death Row, in an area then known as Q-Wing (McKenna 1992, 11), or more informally to fellow inmates, in the "bug" wing (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 276). McKenna characterized this section as being populated by a variety of "maniacs," but it was to be a fruitful area for him (McKenna 1992, 10). It was here that he had the opportunity to have a variety of illuminating conversations with his old acquaintance, Ted Bundy.

COLD CASES

The first cold case partially relates to a victim who was unidentified for many years. A deer hunter found the remains of two women in rugged countryside between Olympia, Washington, and the Oregon border in October, 1974. One was identified as Carol Valenzuela, aged twenty. She vanished from Vancouver, Washington on August 2, 1974 (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 43). The second victim was between 5'5" and 5'7" in height, aged between seventeen and twenty-three and to have weighed about 125 pounds (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 43). The gravesites of Carol Valenzuela and the unidentified girl were located near large logs, and the bodies were found about one hundred feet apart. For many years, the victim found with Carol Valenzuela remained unidentified. She was finally identified as Martha Morrison, seventeen, last seen on September 1, 1974 (Prokop 2020).

Another significant, potentially related case is that of Jamie Grissim, who disappeared on December 7, 1971, from Vancouver, Washington, after attending school. Her purse, ID and some other belongings were found in 1972 alongside a rural road near Battleground, Washington (Trost 2017). This was approximately one mile from where Carol Valenzuela and Morrison were later recovered (charleyproject.org). She disappeared from the same town as Carol Valenzuela three years later, and was probably also killed in Clark County, as were both Valenzuela and Morrison. Warren Forrest emerged as the prime suspect in the deaths of Jamie Grissim and Martha Morrison. A native of Vancouver, Washington, he was a former Varsity President who went on to serve with the US Army in Vietnam. Forrest worked for the Clark County Parks and Recreation department, which meant he was familiar with the dumping area in question. Ultimately, he was convicted of the murder of Krista Kay Blake (Prokop 2020). Warren Forrest has been incarcerated since 1978, serving a life sentence. In 2017, DNA evidence obtained from a dart gun that Forrest had used in an attack on another woman was linked to Morrison (Tilkin 2020).

Kenneth McKenna confirmed that Ted Bundy "definitely" killed Valenzuela (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, July 12, 1994). Gerard Schaefer endorsed this by stating that by August 2, 1974, Bundy had killed thirteen women for the year (Schaefer 1994, 23)—the date of Carol Valenzuela's disappearance. His lawyer, John Henry Browne, also claims that he admitted that he killed a woman from Vancouver, Washington, in August of 1974 (Browne 2016, 83). Of course, this is problematic if it was Bundy who had killed Valenzuela and Forrest who killed Morrison. There is no evidence that Bundy and Forrest were known to each other. Had Bundy deliberately left a victim in the general vicinity of Jamie Grissim's belongings based on his knowledge of the case and area from detective magazines? Had Forrest then returned to his own pre-existing dumping ground a month after Valenzuela had been left there? I asked McKenna if he had any idea who the then-unidentified woman near Valenzuela was. It was not until 2004, and after substantial research, that verification came as to the name of the girl Bundy gave to McKenna in reference to the then anonymous Jane Doe. McKenna wrote that if he remembered correctly the victim's first name was "definitely Cindy and the surname sounded like Mueller or Miller, but was neither" (Kenneth McKenna, personal communication, July 12, 1994).

This is one piece of information that, if established, would definitely lend credence to anything else these informants had reported. This information was the basis of many fruitless internet searches between 1995 and 2004. However, the reward eventually came while examining a missing person's website called the Doe Network-the discovery of a case in the state of California—that of Cindy Mellin, a result of scrolling through disappearances according to geographic location and working backwards from 1974 in each of the American states. Cindy Mellin, aged nineteen at the time, disappeared from a parking lot in Ventura, California, 68 miles from Los Angeles, on January 20, 1970. She was employed at a local department store in the Buenaventura Shopping Centre. After finishing work that evening, she was seen with a tall, slim man aged 35-40 (Bundy was twenty-three at the time but tall and slim is consistent with his appearance), who was helping to change a flat tire on her car. The man drove a light-colored car (Ybarra 2016). After this sighting Mellin was never seen again. When her father later checked her car, he found that the flat tire remained attached and it was still up on the jack. One of the car's tires had been deliberately punctured with a sharp instrument (doenetwork.org; charleyproject.org). Intriguingly, Bundy had speculated that he had experimented with disabling distributor caps or letting the air out of tires, adding that the woman would be grateful for the appearance of a friendly stranger. However, he claimed that this method didn't work as others would also appear to help (Michaud and Aynesworth 2019, 69). Contrast this to a woman named Vikky whose car was deliberately disabled by Bundy in Seattle in May 1974 via tampering with the distributor cap (Rule 2018, 539–41), indicating that, contrary to what he told his biographers, he was indeed using these techniques for years after he claimed to have ceased doing so. It is possible that this Ventura College coed and part-time salesperson was clubbed on the back of the head with the tire iron Ted Bundy was using to "help" her and she was spirited away in Bundy's car, a noted and favorite modus operandi (MO) of his in the mid- 1970s. Another example of him doing this was the abduction of Georgann Hawkins in Seattle in June 1974. Exactly how Cindy died, and where, was not specified. Of course, it was never Cindy Mellin in this location. However, a key insight into the psyche of Bundy is that this would also have been his insurance, impressing McKenna with having murdered a victim whom he was never suspected of having killed. Even if McKenna had shared this information, Bundy knew that the crime could not be linked to him as it was not Mellin left next to Valenzuela. This demonstrates how Bundy would occasionally blend elements of truth and falsehood even with his closest associates, so that if they betrayed him, their contentions could be denied and plausibly refuted. Despite these inconsistencies, it is probable that Bundy was responsible for the death of Cindy Mellin. The multiagency task force noted that he was actually still living in California at 1252 15th Avenue, Marin County for some of 1970 (Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992), meaning he could definitely have been in the area at the time.

The year 1971 led to multiple suspicions emerging. Ted Bundy was a suspect in the death of Joyce Le Page, aged twenty-one of Pasco, who disappeared from her Washington State University campus apartment in July 1971. She had been camping in Stevens Hall while it was being renovated, and was found stabbed to death, rolled in a carpet at Wawawai Canyon, southwest of Pullman. The WSU student had last been seen on July 21 (Spence 2014). 

Another mystery relates to a homicide a mere two days earlier. On July 19, 1971, in Burlington, Vermont (Bundy's birthplace) Rita Curran was murdered. Rita, aged twenty- four, was a teacher at Milton Elementary School. She was murdered at Brooks Avenue in a downstairs apartment via strangulation (Rule 2018, 443-44). Bundy always denied responsibility. When asked about this, Schaefer's response was suggestive but non- committal. He stated that, “he [Bundy] may well have killed Curran, but I don't recall him mentioning that name exactly" (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, September 15, 1994). This response could be taken to mean that the calculating Bundy probably claimed that he had killed at least one woman on America's East Coast prior to 1974, either without naming the victim, or by providing a different name. Although the author had detailed the modus operandi-manual strangulation in addition to being beaten on the left side of her head and raped (Rule 2004, 417)—regrettably, at the time, this line of inquiry was not pursued further with Schaefer. This was because he was in the process of writing his own tome about Bundy. Schaefer hoped that this would be in print by the end of 1995, by which time my data gathering would be completed. His manuscript had the working title of "The Horrors of Bundy's Cave" (Schaefer 1994, 23)—the significance of this title will become apparent in later chapters. It was to be Schaefer's first work after acrimoniously severing ties with his previous publisher and former girlfriend, Sondra London, and finding another benefactor to publish his work (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, September 15, 1994). Schaefer was certainly convinced that the many backstage stories Bundy shared had validity in terms of being an insight into the man's influences, motivations, desires, and perversions. Author Ann Rule claimed that Bundy told her that he had been to Vermont in 1969 on a quest to establish his illegitimacy records, even though it was in 1971 when they had the conversation, later causing Rule to wonder whether the latter year was when he had in fact been there (Rule 2018, 445). Further, some assert that the Burlington police know that a young woman got into a Volkswagen and was never seen again while Bundy was there (Holmes and Holmes 1998b, 130).

It is worth considering that Bundy could have confessed to the Cindy Mellin or Rita Curran crimes in 1989 but elected not to, keen to maintain congruence with his public persona, which was that he began killing in 1974. Ted Bundy stood to gain nothing by confessing in detail to any crimes committed prior to 1974, and ultimately did not, save for the brief mention of a hitchhiker murder from 1973 (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 349), holding to his front stage impression management strategies. The closest he ever came to acknowledging responsibility for pre-1974 crimes in a front stage sense was during a phone call to former girlfriend Liz Kloepfer in February 1978. Relating this to detective Bob Keppel after Bundy's final arrest in Florida, she claimed he said: "during '71 and '72 and '73 it was taking up more of his time” (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 239). Bundy never actually specified what "it" was, but the implication certainly seems sinister. From a realist view there are certainly cases in which he could have been a logical suspect.

So far, it has been noted that according to my prison informants, Bundy was definitely responsible for at least one homicide prior to 1974, that of Cindy Mellin. (Some of these pieces of information from McKenna were immediately significant, but others took several years to make sense of, for various reasons.) The "Miller'' reference also becomes important in trying to document his narrative of violent crimes. A seventeen-year-old girl named Jeanette Miller went missing from Bundy's home state of Washington in the same year as Cindy Mellin. She was last seen on September 16, 1970 on a bridge in Arlington (doenetwork.org). This was very close to home indeed for Bundy-only forty miles north of Seattle, where he lived at the time. As with so many Bundy victims, her remains have never been found, and she is still regarded as a missing person. Intriguingly she is never included as a Bundy suspect, as the official start date of 1974 for Bundy's murders retains hegemony many years after his execution. This is despite the fact that Liz Kloepfer found him in possession of a crowbar that same year (Kendall 1981, 103–4), a weapon he sometimes used to render victims unconscious in cases during 1974.

There is certainly no available evidence to indicate that in 1970 and 1971 Bundy was killing young women at the same frenetic rate as in 1974 and 1975. However, there is enough in his backstage prison discourse to, at the very least, raise suspicions that he may well have been the killer responsible for a variety of homicides committed in that period. Ted Bundy may have blended one of his crimes to fit in with another killer's crime spree occurring at the time. As he was a voracious reader of detective magazines, it is quite possible that he would be informed of murder sprees occurring in both Washington and other states. He was so cunning that this could not be ruled out as a possible explanation for Carol Valenzuela being found where she was, in the same general area as Jamie Grissim. Even if Warren Forrest was responsible for her murder, it is still likely that Bundy did kill Carol Valenzuela, which would mean Bundy deliberately involved himself in a pre-existing murder area. The deliberate blending of a crime with those of another killer is certainly possible.

After all, both informants specified that Bundy killed hitchhikers, not just college girls. When he killed transients, he would invariably rob them of their cash and possessions (McKenna 1992, 12). There were times when he did not need to use a credit card to travel as he was solvent as a result of stealing from his murder victims. Some of the distances he traveled were enormous, but there was sufficient cash to do it and not leave a plastic trail, essentially rendering him a phantom.

The frequent killing of hikers was a significant silence during his lifetime, and it was part of his preferred identity privately, revealing his ability to opportunistically shift from one victim type to another while confounding the authorities regarding this behavior.

Cold cases are difficult to solve (Moore 2011, 29). The difficulty for investigators, however, is that there may have been instances where Bundy paid for expeditions by using cash, meaning that there would be no trail for police to follow. It was once the usually meticulous killer became arrogant and cavalier by using credit cards to purchase gas that investigations into his activities were made easier for detectives tracking his movements in the months before his first arrest in August 1975 (Rule 2018, 171). Factoring in Bundy using cash to pay for his homicidal excursions into California could certainly take the victim count comfortably into the fifty-plus realm. This possibility will be advanced in later chapters.

Based on the narrative Bundy gave Schaefer, it makes more logical sense to look at missing persons cases from that era than it does to look at unsolved murders. This is because Bundy only on some occasions left the entire bodies out to be found. With his fondness for necrophilia (to be addressed later), he preferred to store his victims away so he could revisit them undisturbed, and often would not dispose of them until putrefaction had set in (Gerard Schaefer, personal communication, January 21, 1994). During putrefaction or decay, a very offensive odor is given off (Henry 2004), a smell so unpleasant that not even he could endure it.

The Volkswagen

Bundy had a particular fondness for this make of car, ultimately owning two Volkswagens. He obtained his first car in 1966, a 1958 Volkswagen bug (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 57), and later bought a brown Volkswagen in 1973 (Kendall 1981, 43). This second was a 1968 model, which he owned until October 3, 1975 (Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992). There is only one known exception to his using Volkswagen's usage while committing murders, which was when he used a white pickup truck for his Labor Day move to Utah in September 1974, albeit with the Volkswagen tied behind it (Rule 2004, 105-6). He owned the Ford pickup until November/December 1975 (Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992).

Other elements of his "official" series of murders were particularly intriguing. Bundy was certainly traveling huge distances by road prior to 1974, and the Volkswagens he so adored are the source of another mystery in relation to his abductions. This was the question of the passenger seat, which has been removed, a mystery with relevance to the murders, although its significance was somewhat elusive. The seat removal had double significance according to the backstage account Bundy gave Schaefer. A potential victim had noted the front seat missing from the car in April 1974 (Michaud and Aynesworth 1989, 23), and police noticed it was absent at the time of his August 1975 arrest in Utah (Rule 2004, 139). Some assumed that this was because it made it easier to hide a victim after abduction. Ted Bundy told a detective that it was easier to "carry cargo" if the seat was removed (Leyton 2003, 88). This was partially correct; however, the seat was removed to serve another, equally cunning purpose. This modification was necessary because Bundy had to keep washing the smell of urine out of the seat, as a result of some victims being strangled in the car. Several, particularly hitchhikers, were murdered several hours after being abducted, as they were driven to remote mountain areas where they could be killed at Bundy's leisure. When victims were strangled in the car, urine would seep through their clothing and onto the passenger seat (Schaefer 1993a, 10-11; Schaefer 1995, 126).

In some cases, removing the seat made the crime easier to enact, while in others it was part of evidence reduction behavior to allay suspicion. Given that it was absent at his first arrest, and on its side on the back seat (Rule 2004, 139), it is possible that he killed a victim during August of 1975, though the victim is unknown.

(To Be Continued…)

I really recommend this feature film about the case of Ted Bundy. It is directed by Joe Berlinger. Throughout the whole film it is actually implied that Ted Bundy was possibly railroaded. Which I think he was.

Of course, in the very end they spin it off like he was a serial killer. But it is all presented in a very subtle and thought provoking matter!

Following George from CAVDEF's 'The Farm' interview, Part 257; approx 21:40 -

George discusses a Dr Roy Prostermann re the 'Phoenix Programme.'

According to the 'World Justice Project' [Roy] 'left a rising career with one of the nation’s top law firms, Sullivan & Cromwell, for a teaching post at the University of Washington School of Law.'

As for Prostermann's former law student, Egil Bud Krogh...

After the mysterious crash of United Airlines Flight 553, 'Plumber' Egil Bud Krogh was made undersecretary of transportation. This enabled Krogh to oversee the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the FAA.

President Richard Nixon made his deputy assistant, Alexander Butterfield, head of the Federal Aviation Association (FAA). Butterfield was in charge of Nixon’s taping system.

United Airlines FLIGHT 553

On 8th December, 1972 approximately twelve people connected to Watergate were on board United Airlines flight 553. Those include CBS journalist Michelle Clark and Illinois congressman George W. Collins (D). Clark’s boyfriend was a CIA operative. She was trying to obtain information about the DNC break-in from Collins. Clark was sitting next to Dorothy Hunt.

(Q: was Michelle Clark part of Operation Mockingbird?)

Dorothy Hunt was both an OSS and then CIA operative who worked under Allen Dulles.

Dorothy was the ‘bagman’ for husband E. Howard Hunt and the Watergate burglars. Nixon’s White House believed Hunt was blackmailing them. Hunt believed they were owed more money for legal costs.

Dorothy collected the cash at telephone booths, left by Tony Ulasewicz - a former NY Police special bureau. He was hired as a Whitehouse private detective through John Ehrlichman.

Dorothy wanted out of her marriage and out of this role. Special Council/hatchet man Charles Colson believed Dorothy was murdered.

Coincidently, John Lennon was assassinated on 8th December 1980.

CBS Network News demanded Michelle Clark’s body be cremated; going against the Clark family's wishes. Later the mortician was murdered at his practice. It remains unsolved.

United Airlines at the time was owned largely by the Rockefeller family's Chase Manhattan Bank.

Also on board was attorney James W. Kreuger, who represented Northern Natural Gas Co. There was a gas pipeline lobbyist meeting as part of an American Bar Association meeting in Washington D.C.

Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co. and the Federal Land Bank in Omaha were also represented.

Former A.G. John Mitchell and others in the Justice Dept. were ‘putting the speer into’ Northern Natural Gas. Mitchell was under investigation for dropping, in 1969, anti-trust charges worth an estimated $300 million to competitor El Paso Natural Gas Company. Mitchell had recused himself.

(John Mitchell is mentioned in Dave McGowan's 'Programmed to Kill' pp 32: 'former Attorney General John Mitchell (who once co-hosted a party with [Craig] Spence).'

Through a law partner, Mitchell obtained El Paso stock interest.  El Paso, Gulf Resources, etc. contributed to Nixon’s ‘spy fund,’ overseen by Mitchell. Kreuger was carrying ‘irreplaceable’ documents. His widow sued to have the documents returned.

Dorothy Hunt was carrying $10k in untraceable bills, $40k in ‘Barker’ bills connected to Watergate burglar and CIA operative Bernard Barker, £2million in American Express traveller cheques, money orders, etc.

It was alleged Dorothy was taking the money out of the country via the mob.

Several people also on board who knew a labour union, gave a large donation to CREEP (Campaign to re-elect the President) to stem off the indictment of a Mob ‘hoodlum.’

Lawrence T O’Connor, a regular passenger on this flight received a phone call from someone he knew in the Whitehouse. He was warned not to take 553 but instead, attend a ‘special meeting.’

On board was a hitman, “Herald R. Metcalf,” who worked for Nixon.  “Metcalf” was pursuing Hunt and others. He left the plane wearing a jumpsuit and was identified as a CIA parachute spy by a former military intelligence investigator, who blagged his way onto the crash site.

Flight 553 was close to landing when witnesses stated it ‘literally fell out of the sky and burst into flames.’ The plane ‘ploughed’ into the home of Mrs Veronica Kuculich, killing her and a daughter, Theresa.

Sapphire, a German shepherd, was also killed. Seventeen people survived.

The National Transportation Safety Board found there was no record of mechanical failure, and at the time of the crash, the skies were clear, so weather as a cause was ruled out. Moments after impact, over fifty FBI agents appeared from unmarked cars parked on side streets. They ‘pounced’ on the crash site.

They were there before the Fire Department. This was confirmed by the FBI. It is thought they were there to arrest Dorothy.

At the time, Nixon’s personal attorney, Herbert Kalmbach also worked for United Airlines.

United Airlines board chairman Edward Carlson was very close to Nixon.

Five weeks before the crash, Nixon’s appointment secretary, Dwight L. Chapin became a top executive of United Airlines (again, the Rockefellers were the largest stockholder). He ‘had no prior business experience.’

And so it goes...

Patrick... can you do a video that breaks down why everyone is so obsessed with Bundy and why his case is so sus? I feel it's the one case I dont quite understand.. danke dir!

(Idaho_State_Journal_Thu__Apr_24__1975)

(Morning_News_Tribune_Thu__May_18__1989)

(The_Miami_Herald_Fri__Apr_25__1975)

(The_Capital_Journal_Fri__Oct_3__1975)

(The_Daily_Sentinel_Tue__Feb_21__1978)

(The_Tacoma_News_Tribune_Sat__Oct_4__1975)

(The_Los_Angeles_Times_Wed__May_3__1978)

A third escape attempt?

(The_Bridgeport_Telegram_Tue__Apr_13__1971)

(The_Minneapolis_Star_Tue__Jul_4__1972)

(Tucson_Daily_Citizen_Thu__Mar_7__1974)

(Omaha_World_Herald_Fri__Mar_23__1984)

(Source: https://creativehomelife.com/the-1974-disappearance-of-my-aunt-laurie-partridge/)

(Tri_City_Herald_Sat__Mar_8__1986)

(Tri_City_Herald_Tue__Oct_1__1985)

(Tri_City_Herald_Sat__Mar_8__1986)

According to Marjorie, Bundy “hadn’t had much contact with women” before they started dating.

The couple often argued after she discovered that he had been lying to her, she said.

“Did you see any other times or any other occasions where his behavior seemed weird or odd?” Al Carlisle asked.

“Well, he was odd to begin with,” Marjorie replied. “You know, he popped up all the time in weird places.”

She went on to tell Carlisle that Bundy would “just show up on the streets” where she was.

“It was just a weird feeling, you know? Sometimes I felt like he was watching me. I just wasn’t comfortable with the things he did,” she said. “He could have been living three lives and I wouldn’t know it.”

Marjorie eventually ended the relationship.

“He cried, you know? He really cried,” she said of Bundy’s reaction. “I mean, he was really falling apart over me.”

Liz Kloepfer her story on the river was eerily similar to the account another woman shared with Carlisle. A woman named Sandy dated Bundy in 1972 while he was still seeing Kloepfer.

Sandy Gwin is last on the far right.

In 1972, after starting work counselling mental health clients, Ted started a fling with Sandy Gwinn a colleague at the ‘Harborview Hospital Mental Health Center.‘ They dated only a handful of times before Ted’s mood swings and sexual aggression ended the relationship for good.

In a police report dated September 1975, the investigating officer states :

... She (Sandy) describes him as sexually aggressive; that he had several plants in his room and had a great desire to buy a sailboat...

Sandy was spending a day at the river with Bundy when he became obsessed with the idea that she climb a tree and jump into the river.

“That is sort of where the antagonism began. It grew during the day. Because that was a stupid thing to do. And then to press for it, it didn’t seem at all necessary,” Sandy told Carlisle.

Sandy finally jumped into the water from the shore and Bundy jumped in too and began “dunking” her in the water, holding her head under for about a minute.

“I asked, I said, ‘What are you trying to do? Drown me?’ And he just laughed. I thought he doesn’t realize what he’s doing,” she remembered.

In another terrifying incident, Sandy said Bundy placed an arm on her throat during a sex act.

“I was in sheer terror,” she said. “I was really frightened at that point.”

On 29 June 1974 Ted Bundy, accompanied by his date Becky Gibbs, joined friendly acquaintances Larry Voshall and his date Susan Reade for rafting down the Yakima River. Larry talked to psychologist Al Carlisle about what happened that day in a phone conversation.

“...The thing about this raft trip is I had always seen Ted as a gentleman’s gentleman, rather suave, the type of person that would never step out of line. As this raft trip progressed his personality went from that to a type of personality that none of us really wanted anything to do with. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I’ve seen Ted since. That was about two years ago this summer. At any rate, there was one incident where Becky was in an inner tube tied onto the raft and he untied her halter top and let it fall away. It was an embarrassment to her. It clearly was out of character with his personality. But more than that, we got in a couple of really tight situations which were very unpleasant. He put his head under a waterfall and almost overturned the raft. Becky almost went under. He just seemed to enjoy seeing people frightened. As the trip progressed we went over a waterfall. ( At one point Ted let Becky drift in the inner tube over to the waterfall knowing she couldn’t swim ) Then he got in the inner tube and cut himself loose and floated by himself for a while. He decided he was tired of us and went down ahead of us in the river. When we got down to where the car was he went up to pick up the other car. It was only about seven miles and it took him a long time to come back. His personality went from a very pleasant person to someone who was practically unbearable to be with. I don’t know whether he was tired of his amateur partners or what, but it was one of the most unusual personality transformations I’ve seen. I’ve been a reporter for about ten years and it’s one of the strangest things I’ve seen. I believe he’s got a split personality, a dual personality. It was so strange because he was the kind of person who would come to a party and he was so intelligent and he could easily carry on a conversation and he was so polite. Then to see the other side of him was so shocking. His two personalities were so different that after that the three of us really didn’t want anything to do with him.“

Dr Carlisle asked Larry if he had any ideas as to what prompted this strange phenomenon from Ted.

“Do you have any idea why he untied Becky’s halter? “

“No, that has always seemed to be a real strange thing. I don’t think I was initially looking in that direction. Then I turned and I saw the halter fall. She was a very proper gal. That surprised me. I’ve taken other trips where that happened and we didn’t think anything of it, but with his personality and with Becky it seemed very strange. “

“Had he dated her much?“

“I don’t think more than a couple times. That night after he finally came back we headed back to Seattle, about a two-hour trip. We wanted to stop to get something to eat. He didn’t want to and he wasn’t talking to anybody. Becky said it probably was because he didn’t have any money with him. Becky said she’d buy. God, he didn’t say a word! When he’s talkative he’s very talkative. I always thought that something happened in that hour and a half when he was gone. He was a completely different person.“

‘Why should I want to attack women? I had all the female companionship I wanted. I must have slept with at least a dozen women that first year in Utah, and all of them went to bed with me willingly…’” - Ted Bundy

Ann Rule, clearly flabbergasted, admits -

“I didn’t doubt it. Women had always liked Ted Bundy. Why indeed would he have needed to take any woman by force?”

Sybil Ferris, an elderly neighbor, who once worked with Bundy at the Seattle Yacht Club, also described him as a "pellicular boy" who often borrowed her car for long trips at night.

"I was scared to death when he was gone. Something was up because he just wasn’t running true to form of where he was going or what he was doing," she said. “He was always kind of sneaking around.”

King County Det K McChesney interview with Sybil Ferris. She gave Ted $100 for trip to PA, she tried to get it back, called Louise Bundy who called her a fool to give Ted $ bc she’s never going to get it back Ferris talks about Ted’s black wig:

(Source: Violent Minds: Killers on Tape)

Someone, who knew Ted reasonably well at this point, was 70-year-old Mrs Sybil Ferris, an elderly nurse who had much to tell Dr Carlisle who was making his evaluation for the court in 1976, as part of the diagnostic process in the DaRonch kidnapping case. Carlisle spoke with Mrs Ferris over the phone :

“...I don’t know if he was high on dope or liquor, but he was sure a peculiar person...He was going with a girl from San Francisco. He would portray himself to be a really big politician to try to get in good with her family. He borrowed Havilland China and Sterling Silver and linen from me, and he had her there for dinner, and he was going to show her what a fine cook he was, and what a man he would be around the house. He got her drunk and they spent the night there...He borrowed my car several times to go out on night trips. I was scared to death when he was gone. There was something up because he just wasn’t running true to form of where he was going or what he was doing. He got him a job at the Olympic Hotel and went through the men’s employee lockers and found some old tuxedos. It was waiter’s clothes: pants, coat, and other things. He got them fixed up and he would dress himself up as if he were a headwaiter in some restaurant. He lived for a short while with an elderly couple and they were going to go to Norway. They finally had to ask him to move...He got a job at Safeway for a short while and just quit, not even going back to work to tell them he was leaving...He borrowed a hundred dollars from me. I tried to get him to pay me back but he always had some reason why he couldn’t pay me back right then. He never did pay me back...One of the men Ted was going around with got some furniture from me to sell for me but I never got the money for it. He is a very, very peculiar boy. He was just kind of sneaking around. He’d be on the telephone when you’d least expect him to be on the telephone. He would tell me he was going to be one place and he would be somewhere else... He left the area on a plane one time. He said he was going to Colorado to be a ski instructor there. Something happened and he came back. He went to Pennsylvania and drove his uncle’s Cadillac and came back flat broke looking for a job. All in all, he’s just a very weird boy. I talked to his mother once. I asked her if she would appeal to him as a man to return the hundred dollars I loaned him. His mother said, “He doesn’t live here anymore and we’re not responsible for anything he does... I worked with him at the Seattle Yacht Club when he was a busboy and I got him a job at the Olympus Hotel. Then he got a job at Safeway. Then he got into politics. I called and told them he was a strange boy and a little on the crooked side... He was six weeks at the Yacht Club and they let him go. He wasn’t supposed to eat the food, but he was always in the pantry eating all the fresh foods and whipped cream he could get and all the fancy foods he could eat. He would grab them and take them to his locker. He was always in trouble with them... Oh, he was distant! He had kind of a running game of his own. He didn’t have too much to do with his family. He borrowed my car a couple of times saying he was going home. Ted never talked about his family or showed much affection for them. I moved him twice using my car to haul his things to a new location. Ted spent quite a bit of time at a friend’s house, an antique dealer who had been in prison. Ted told me he was studying Chinese at the University of Washington. When the draft seemed to get close, he told me he was going to skip out and go to Taiwan... I have been suspicious from the day those two girls were killed at Lake Sammamish with that “Ted.” I remember seeing him in an Albertson’s store in Green Lake with a cast on his arm. I was going to do something about it, but living alone I was afraid to do more than what I had already done...He seemed to have mental problems, although I couldn’t place him in any diagnostic category. He had ways of getting money. He had a very expensive overcoat with a fur collar that came from the Yankee Peddler, one of the men’s best dress shops in the University District. He had a key to the men’s dormitory at the University of Washington long after he left there. He carried the key with him and he used to go in there and sleep on the lounge couches when he didn’t have any place to go and he would take clothing and things from the dorm... I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because I felt he needed help. I felt there was something very, very wrong in his life. It seemed as if he was quite an unloved child the way that it hit me. I just kind of felt I could help him, but I finally decided I was just knocking my head against a wall and I just had to stop it and I couldn’t have him taking my car and keeping it out until 3:00 a.m. or 4:00 a.m. in the morning and telling me he would be back at midnight and me sitting up waiting...He told me he was going on trips. He would be gone all these hours and would come back all hepped up. He did this two or three times. I thought he might be trafficking dope...”

‘ … Running late following a morning of campaigning in Lynwood , Fletcher strode into the Rotary gathering accompanied by a campaign aide, Ted Bundy, a youthful white worker …’

As members of the Republican Party Louise and Johnny Bundy, along with Ted’s name, are clearly visible on this news clipping from the TNT dated November 4 1968.

Ted met and dated Cathy Swindler after being appointed Seattle Chairman Of The New Majority For Nelson Rockefeller.

Whilst studying at Temple University in Philadelphia from January 1969 for just one Semester, Ted becomes gripped with the concept of the rape and control of a woman. He intensifies his night stalking and tells Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis, much later in 1989, that he chose to put his fantasies into actions and purchased hair dye, a fake moustache and wig and made plans to attack a young woman whilst in New York on 42nd St visiting the strip clubs. The strategy, crude and not thought through sufficiently, is to pursue a woman to her hotel room, ambush her and then attack with brute force. This falls through as Ted becomes scared of being caught.

“Thinking of you Ted” Card of support from 30/40 LDS members and friends of Bundy sent to support him whilst on a kidnapping charge of Carol DaRonch.

The inscription reads: “...Sorry this cards so long getting to you. We want you to know our thoughts and prayers are with you...”

June 1975 saw Ted dating Leslie Knudson, a single mother with a young son. They would date for just a few months. Ted would hang around at her house quite often and enjoyed kicking around with Knudson’s young son Josh, frequently taking him and a friend swimming or to the mall. Working nights, as a University Security Guard to make a little extra money, Leslie would recall how Ted would enjoy wearing the uniform and often refused to get changed once his shift was over - even going on dates wearing it, something Leslie found bizarre. The relationship fell apart once Ted began to show signs of being emotionally unstable and his drinking became excessive.

(Source: https://www.ted-bundy-i-was-trying-to-think-like-an-elk.co.uk/1156877_detailed-timeline-of-the-girlfriends-and-many-women-in-bundy-s-life)

DA Brings in Ted Bundy Lab Experts to Research Atlanta Child Murder Suspect Wayne Williams 6/22/81

A long-form writeup of the evidence that Bundy was part of a larger organized crime group (with links to the corruption in Grand Junction CO and quite possibly some CIA drug rings in Florida) operating throughout the US: http://blog.cavdef.org/2022/10/ted-bundy-didnt-act-alone-down-grand.html

This is intended to be Part 1 of at least three articles total.

(Source: The News Tribune Tacoma, Washington 11 Aug 1977, Thu • Page 2)

''Ted'' Lake Sammamish suspects:

Molly Kendall met Bundy when she was just 3 years old. He quickly became a “fixture” in their lives, taking Molly and her mother to the zoo –– where he’d playfully pretend he was going to feed her to the crocodiles –– or heading with them to nearby lakes around Seattle to relax.

Bundy even played the role of hero when Molly's cat gave birth to kittens and one appeared to have been stillborn. Bundy quickly picked it up, massaged its chest and the small kitten soon began to breathe.

“Ted brought so much joy into our lives,” Molly writes. “We felt really lucky that he was our guy.”

But other interactions weren’t always so joyful.

Molly recounts a disturbing incident when she was just 7: Bundy had been babysitting her for the night while her mother was out and they were playing hide-and-seek. When she spotted Bundy lying under a blue afghan and pulled the blanket away, she found — to her surprise — Bundy naked.

“You’re naked!” she told him frowning, according to the book.

Bundy allegedly told her that shedding his clothes had just been a part of his strategy in the game.

“I know, but that’s because I can turn invisible, but my clothes can’t, and I didn’t want you to see me!” he playfully said, Molly recounts.

Molly says she was “confused” but also didn’t want to be “it” and the two quickly started to run back to the base they had established for the game.

“I tried to shove him out of the way, and comedically, Ted fell down to the shower mat where he sat cross-legged, covering his penis with his two hands,” she writes.

As the two continued to laugh and wrestle, Molly says she saw that he had an erection—although as a young child she didn’t realize what that was at the time. She just noticed its reddish purple color and thought Bundy was hurt, asking him whether he was okay. Bundy replied that it didn’t hurt, but Molly says there was a noticeable change in his eyes and demeanor.

“The pupils of his eyes had become tiny, almost as small as the point of a pencil,” she writes, adding that she saw “something dangerous” in the eyes staring back at her.

Molly told Bundy she was tired and wanted to go to sleep, but he insisted on reading her a bedtime story and they both climbed up into her top bunk, she writes in the book.

She soon noticed the sheet was “all wet.”

“You peed!” she remembers shouting, not truly understanding what had just happened.

“My next memory is of him leaving my room,” she writes. “I lay awake in fear for a very long time, watching the door. Hoping he would not come back. He did not.”

Molly says she never told her mother about the incident because Bundy had become such a positive and integral part of their family.

“I knew it wasn’t right that he had been naked. I did not, at this point, understand the concept of sexual arousal,” she writes. “It was long after this that I figured out that penises were not always erections. Still, I did not want him to have to go away. I kept Ted’s weird behavior to myself.”

But it wouldn’t be the only troubling incident between the pair.

Molly says she also remembers Bundy being very physical with her—tickling her and carrying her—and that she was often unsettled by the placement of his hands.

She also recalls a time she and her mother were at Green Lake with Bundy. He had brought a yellow raft to the lake and the three were enjoying a relaxing afternoon.

Molly jumped into the water to swim, but when she began to tire and wanted to return to the raft, Bundy kept pulling it just out of her reach.

“Floundering, I gave up and turned to swim the longer distance to the shore,” she says.

She arrived “exhausted, panting and crying” and threw herself on the blanket where her mother had been sunbathing.

Elizabeth confronted Bundy but he said he simply thought Molly was a stronger swimmer and was just joking around.

“She accepted this as the truth. So did I,” Molly writes. “I had been wrong in my perception. Why would Ted try to hurt me? He loved me.”

There were other times over the years that Molly questioned his motives—like when she was hit in the face with a football or knocked to the ground while they were walking—but Bundy always denied any intentional wrongdoing and claimed the incidents had been an accident.

"Each time, I felt he had done it on purpose, but I chose to believe his explanations for why I was wrong," she writes.

Molly adds that Bundy always made it difficult for anyone to question him and often used "gaslighting" to manipulate the women in his life.

“You were always wrong if you thought Mr. Perfect could have had any ill intent whatsoever,” she writes. “You ended up feeling bad for questioning the integrity of such a marvelous person.”

Despite the incidents, Molly says Bundy remained a vibrant part of their lives until he was arrested in 1975. He’d eventually be charged and convicted for the attempted kidnapping of Carol DaRonch in Utah and Molly and Elizabeth had to come to terms with the realization that Bundy had been keeping dark secrets from them.

“I had loved Ted with my entire heart, but when forced to accept the truth of who he really was, I could no longer sustain that love,” she writes. “I cannot love a person who enjoys torturing, raping, maiming and killing women.”

(Source: https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/molly-kendall-shares-disturbing-memories-of-ted-bundy-in-book)

(Source: Beauty Queen Murder by author Allison Baden Clay)

(Source: The Enigma Of Ted Bundy: The Questions and Controversies Surrounding America’s Most Infamous Serial Killer by author Kevin Sullivan)

Ted Bundy crime prevention/spying on democrats

Ted’s maternal grandfather, Samuel K. Cowell, aged 52.

Part of a photo published in The Review, April 5, 1951.

Aged 73.

Part of a photo published in The Review, May 4, 1972.

Samuel, a member of the Roxborough Garden Club, is listening attentively while a girl scout reads aloud a poem about trees, as a part of a three-planting ceremony in Leverington Cemetery, in honor or Arbor Day.

‘’...his own brothers wanted to kill him. He said that the brothers wanted to grow up to beat him up…’’

Ted’s great-uncle David E. Cowell Sr. [1903-1985]

Ted’s great-uncle Lawrence ‘’Larry Cowell [1906-1983]

Photo from the Penn State University wrestling team that included Larry Cowell in the 125 lb weight category. ‘’La Vie’’ Penn State University yearbook, 1930.

Ted’s great-uncle John Rowland ‘’Jack’’ Cowell [1924-2007]

Johnnie Bundy, an Army hospital cook.

Elizabeth Kloepfer

Lynda Ann Healy

Georgann Hawkins and the Daffodil Princesses, 1973.

Georgann Hawkins at the state Capitol, 1973.

Kathy Parks and Christy McPhee. Special thanks to Addy Jones

Psychological profile of ‘’Ted’’ by Bebberich and Liebert, Courtesy King County Archives

The suspect composite drawn from Janice Graham’s description of the man in the sling.

Composite sketch in the file. Origin known.

Mugshots of potential suspects in the police file.

Denise Oliverson on her wedding day in September 1970. Courtesy Grand Junction Police Dept.

Margaret Bowman and friends at a sorority party, October 1977, Courtesy Leon County Sheriff

[A warning to somebody?]

Alternative suspects for the Chi Omega Murders

This is an original trial exhibit of a Polaroid photograph suspect sketch of the man who attempted to abduct Leslie Parmenter, the daughter of Jacksonville Police Department's Chief of Detectives. The original trial exhibit tag is stapled to the back of the Polaroid and was among the evidence used at Bundy's February 1980 trial which resulted in a death sentence for the murder of Kimberly Leach for which Bundy was executed for on January 24, 1989.

[Predictive programming]

Sgt. Bob Hayward, circa 1960s. Courtesy Rob Dielenberg

Midvale Police Chief Louis Smith, 1977. Courtesy Rob Dielenberg

Ted Bundy: Curiosities & Coincidences:

https://crimepiperblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/ted-bundy-curiosities-coincidences/