Ted Bundy archive

From a January 27, 1989 article by J. Craig Crawford, published in The Orlando Sentinel:   Ted Bundy probably "sabotaged" any hope of persuading the courts to stop his execution when he made a calculated last-minute bid to trade murder confessions for his life, the killer's lawyer said Thursday. Attorney James Coleman, who knew for some time that Bundy had committed "two or three dozen" murders, said he advised his client against "trading over the victims' bodies." "I told him it was a waste of time, and that it would look offensive because it was offensive," Coleman said in his first interview since Bundy's execution. When Bundy ignored his advice and began confessing to 23 murders, Coleman began his last desperate attempt to keep the killer alive. He arranged for Bundy to meet with his psychiatrist on Monday instead of more det...

  I have found a link to the August 1985 FBI Bulletin, which reported findings of a study on serial murders: "Their (the 36 subjects studied) visual interests (pornography, fetishism, and voyeurism) reinforced the sex and aggression” (pg 5). Bundy himself referred to this very FBI Bulletin in his March 4, 1986 letter to Keppel, commenting that for the serial murderer, one form of voyeurism is watching a movie of someone committing serial murder. And Bundy was also suggesting that the police hold a serial murder movie festival, as a proactive tactic to attract voyeurs, sexual sadists, porn addicts who might be committing homicide... The August 1985 FBI Bulletin that Bundy referred to in his letter is available publicly courtesy of the FBI: https://leb.fbi.gov/file-repository/archives/august-1985.pdf Bundy’s own March 4, 1986 letter to Keppel is transcribed in the book “Reflections on Green River: The Letters of, and Conversations with, Ted Bundy" by Sara A Survivor. ...

In preparation for the book “The Only Living Witness”, published in 1983, Ted Bundy made some tapes and also talked personally to Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. He was both interviewed by Michaud and Aynesworth in 1980, in the prison interview room (while the guards were periodically looking in on them through a glass pane in the door), and he also prepared tapes for the authors, speaking into a tape recorder from his own cell: it’s these tapes that he made in his cell that I’m sharing publicly, courtesy of Rob Dielenberg who obtained them and shared them with me. I will start by sharing the first of Bundy's prison tapes. I have also transcribed most of the prison tapes. At the beginning of this first tape I’m sharing on my archive.org channel, Bundy can also be heard saying that he had developed a procedure of hiding from the guards the fact that he was recording himself, by leaving the tv in his cell on... He made this tape in the evening, and on the tape he can be...