Among the many strange coincidences in the Bundy case is this one: victim Susan Rancourt's older brother Dennis attended the same high school as victim Janice Ott, and even took her to prom.
2023-02-20 06:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Ted's daily appointments for 1973, plus acquaintance contacts.
Interestingly, he must have had this with him in jail in Colorado, as he left an enigmatic note to the FBI on May 23, 1977. That was the original target date for his first escape, which he abandoned and postponed to June 7.
2023-02-13 06:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
A King County Police interview with Diane Edwards in 1975.
"...Ted told her he'd gotten involved with another girl and he was trying to get loose of it, but it wasn't going to work out. Ted said that the girl had had an abortion (because of him) and that she called every so often. Diane didn't know the girl's name..." 2023-02-10 07:02:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all, just to let you know we had a major storm last week which knocked out power to my neighborhood, as well as hundreds of others around the city.
As of today it’s still not fixed. No power means no internet, which makes uploading anything from my laptop difficult (I’m on my phone right now using data). I’m a...
2023-02-07 15:34:19 +0000 UTC View PostOn June 15, 1978, six weeks before his famously public indictment for the Chi Omega murders, a jailed Ted Bundy composed a bitter, melodramatic letter to his ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer. The letter was then (mistakenly?) addressed and delivered to Carole Ann Boone, who was still living in Seattle at the time. Carole dut...
2023-01-31 06:08:04 +0000 UTC View PostA friendly letter from Dick Larsen, the author of the Deliberate Stranger and writer for the Seattle Times. They had known each other in political circles prior to Ted's problems with the law. Here he seems to be proposing a Hail Mary effort to save Ted's life, about six weeks before the execution.
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A 1978 local news spot touring the Hawkins and Healy crime scenes, as well as Bundy's rooming house.
(reupload)
2023-01-26 21:51:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Photos from the mountains outside Aspen, where Bundy hiked and hid during his first escape in June 1977. More info in the captions, and read more about the first escape here: https://hiimted.blog/the-cbi-escape-investigation-1977/<...
2023-01-23 02:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post
These crime scene photos were taken the day after Bundy's second escape, showing downtown Glenwood Springs, Colorado. I've also uploaded the photos I personally took while in Glenwood Springs last November. The bridge, railroad tracks, river, and some buildings remain the same, 45 years later.
More info in the captions...
In 1981, a delusional John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Reagan, wounding the president and several members of his entourage. A Washington, D.C. jury found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced him to residential treatment. Five years later, the failed assassin applied for a major pri...
2023-01-18 06:06:15 +0000 UTC View PostLouise Bundy interviewed in her home, October 1975, shortly after Ted's arrest for kidnapping in Utah.
"We still don't believe it. It just can't be. I keep shaking my head day after day, saying how can this be? Our son is the best son in the world. A very normal, active boy."
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This is my first on-location video, filmed in November 2022 in Snowmass, Colorado. My friend Vince Lahey is local to the area, and kind...
2023-01-09 06:11:37 +0000 UTC View Post"I don't like what happened. I mean, notwithstanding any speculation about the kind of personality that I might be, I, it's not gratuitous for me to say that I feel horrible about it. And not that, sadly enough, won't bring her back, but I do. And it's not enough to say it's an atrocity because it was. And not that anybody ca...
2023-01-07 06:39:34 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I think I've mentioned this before, but I often get overwhelmed by everything I have on this case. My Bundy hard drive just keeps growing, and I often don't know what to do with all of it, so I don't do anything. "Analysis paralysis," as it were.
Can you help me out, and tell me what kinds of materials you're most i...
2023-01-06 23:51:37 +0000 UTC View Post
On New Year’s Eve, 1977, Ted Bundy escaped from the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He removed a light fixture in his cell’s ceiling, crawled through the rafters, descended through the jailer’s closet— then walked out the front door.
A few days later, FBI agents interviewed David Sands, a 14-ye...
Stephen: I remember the guy having blue eyes .... a bluish-green color.
Parrish: You definitely remember the blue eyes. Is there any reason...?
Stephen: Not really there isn't. There is one thing that I don't know whether I can explain it enough for a man to understand… another woman would but… I don't know…...
2022-12-24 23:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the transcript of a 1983 Senate committee hearing on the problem of serial murder and the need for a program called VI-CAP to apprehend the killers. Ann Rule testifies as an expert, as well as John Walsh and a representative of the FBI. Their efforts were successful- the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program within th...
2022-12-22 05:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostPost second escape footage (no sound) from KOAA News, and Garfield County Sheriff escape documents.
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Memo to: Under Sheriff Robert Hart
From: Frank Perry, Jailer
The following is the absolute happenings of 12-30-77 at 1730 hrs, the date and time of my arrival at the Garfield County ...
2022-12-11 01:47:53 +0000 UTC View Post
"I started walking, and I think his looking at me for such a long time then starting to follow me gave me ideas like he's going to grab me when there's nobody around. I don't know how I got that idea in my head. But after I saw him looking at me and starting to approach me I got scared. Not the fact that he looked mean, he di...
2022-12-03 23:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post
"It's really hard to associate his face with what you would think of as a murder/rapist - it just doesn't fit."
After the murders at Lake Sammamish, psychologists Donna Schram and John Berberich were hired by the King County "Ted" Task Force. They were tasked with creating a psychological profile of "Ted," in a desperat...
2022-11-27 23:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostHugh Aynesworth interviews Ted in this recording, dated June 24, 1980. They discuss the psychology of "a person" who could have committed the murders, as well as the Chi Omega and Caryn Campbell cases.
"In our urban society we don't know a lot of people. So, uh… Then I suppose there's also like, "He would've got me if...
2022-11-20 23:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostRe-uploading videos...
In this news clip from June 8, 1977, a KIRO reporter interviews Ted's psychologist, Dr. Al Carlisle, outside the Utah State Prison. Carlisle had written the psychiatric report which Judge Hansen used to sentence Bundy to prison. Ted was on the run at the time of this interview, following his first...
2022-11-09 00:17:40 +0000 UTC View PostRe-uploading a compilation of interviews with Eleanor Rose, Brock Naslund, and the Rancourts from 1986 and 1989.
2022-11-08 23:03:03 +0000 UTC View PostRe-uploading some of my previous videos, sadly now watermarked, to the new Patreon Video...
KIRO News footage from October 3, 1978, featuring an interview with Millard Farmer and Bundy "sticking with the man he knows best."
"This man is Millard Farmer, an Atlanta attorney whom Bundy wants to represent him. But Fl...
2022-11-08 20:58:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Another tape from the Florida post-arrest interviews. I've attached the transcript of this portion, but I did notice some errors in this transcript, so listen carefully. The below portion is a small example where my interpretation didn't exactly match the original transcript.
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"I sat down and said some things to m...
Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer articles for 1982 and 1983. The 1983 articles are particularly interesting and include interviews with Bob Keppel, Ann Rule, and a long piece on John Henry Browne by Richard Larsen..
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"Keppel disputes Bundy's main claim that the killer derived more satisfaction from st...
2022-10-25 22:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A January 1991 edition of the Florida Dept of Corrections newsletter. This issue focused on a seminar led by FBI Agent Bill Hagmaier for criminal justice groups in Florida. It includes several interesting bits of information from Bill's conversations with Ted.
"Several people have asked Hagmaier why Bundy killed Kimberl...
2022-10-20 02:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe FBI forensic analysis reports for Bundy's VW sent to Utah investigators.
Updated to include the FBI's hair specialist Robert Neill's testimony at Bundy's pretrial hearings in Aspen, 1977.
"With respect to the pubic hair which I found to be microscopically like the known sample from Meliss...
2022-10-13 05:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I'm considering relaunching my Bundy "franchise" of content with a new name. Someone suggested "Hi I'm Ted" is too lighthearted of a name for a serious research blog. I suppose that could be true. What do you think?
I'm worried about the "branding" since HIT's been the name since the start. I've come up with a coup...
Check out this unusual article, written in 1995 by college professor Bernard East and published in the professional journal "Criminology Australia." Most of the stranger information stated as fact in this article originated with the author's personal communication with Florida State Prison inmates, who claimed intimate knowle...
2022-10-07 19:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
