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Keppel's files from the early 80's and the mysterious (and phony) "Ted B"-signed postcard

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  Awhile ago I received from the King County archivists a pdf file with Robert Keppel's notes, Bundy-related. The notes in this pdf file basically contain Keppel's 80's correspondence with people about Bundy, also notes from experts who claimed they might help Keppel decipher Ted's personality based on his handwriting (bogus claim, in my opinion), and also a postcard that was signed "Ted B". The postcard also spelled "Raiford" wrongly, and it had a taunting tone, very different from the tone Bundy was using with Keppel at the time, and it was signed "Ted B", whereas Bundy would usually sign his name "ted" (lower case), and the handwriting on the postcard wasn't Bundy's either. I dare say I'm 100% persuaded that the postcard was a phony one, not sent by Ted himself. I'll share a screenshot of the postcard in a comment. In his 80's correspondence with Keppel, Bundy tried his best to show Keppel that he had a gr...

The women who didn't fall for Ted's ruses

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On April 14, 1974, a Sunday evening, between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., a stranger with one arm in a sling encounters student Jane Curtis as she is leaving the Central Washington State College (now Central Washington University) library, and he asks her to help him carry some books to his car. The incident occurs on a Sunday evening, after she has worked a Curriculum Lab at Central Washington State College. She told Robert Keppel that the stranger told her that he had a skiing accident at Crystal Mountain: he ran into a tree up there and that's how he ended up with his arm in a cast, and also a metal type cast on a finger, silver, splint-like, but he didn't seem like a skier-type to her: she said he didn't look like the athlete out there skiing. She told Keppel she kind of stereo-typed skiers... “I would never say he was a good-looking guy.” And what was good-looking to her?... “Tall, good build, athletic type, just all-around good-looking, but he was the more freaky, hippie-ty...