Hinckley-Bundy Correspondence
In the pdf file provided at this link: https://archive.org/details/john-hinckley-ted-bundy-correspondence ... I'm sharing Ted Bundy's 1986 handwritten correspondence with failed presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr.. Hinckley was the first to write to Ted Bundy on death row, and the two established a correspondence which spanned about four months. Two of Bundy's reply letters were discovered when Hinckley's room at St. Elizabeth's Psychiatric Hospital, where he was confined after being found not guilty by reason of insanity, was searched. The letters created a media sensation in April 1987, when federal prosecutors used them to protest Hinckley's request for a holiday furlough from the hospital, saying that they were evidence of Hinckley's obsession with Bundy. During the subsequent investigation, Bundy claimed to have destroyed his letters from Hinckley. He hadn't destroyed them however: he first gave the letters to a friend to hold for hi...