Bundy's marriage certificate

The Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State of Florida has sent me an electronic copy of Ted Bundy’s marriage certificate, that also bears the date when they processed my request, October 26, 2021, and I am sharing it on my archive.org channel:

https://archive.org/details/marriage-certificate

If you republish this certificate, please don't add any watermarks to it and link the URL.

This copy of the official record was purchased from the Bureau of Vital Statistics, State of Florida by me and fellow researcher Julia Larina.

The marriage did indeed take place on February 9, 1980, and was recognized by the State of Florida and filed under number 011687. I'm surprised that Rebecca Morris wrote in her book “Ted and Ann” that the State of Florida didn't recognize the marriage:

"He invoked an old Florida law still on the books allowing him to make a declaration in court and marry his former co-worker, Carole Ann Boone. The two had worked together at Seattle’s Department of Emergency Services, a job that enabled him to continue the study of his favorite subject, crime and police procedures; he even reportedly wrote a pamphlet for the agency on rape prevention. Boone was in touch with Ted after he was arrested in Utah, and she and a group of Ted’s friends raised some money for his defense. Soon, she and her teenage son moved to Florida to be closer to Ted. She and Ted reportedly consummated their marriage in a corner of a visitor’s room, having bribed a guard to look the other way. Boone became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. They may have considered themselves married, but the State of Florida never did."

Rebecca Morris could have obtained a proof of the official registration of the marriage from Florida Dept. of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. Ted's and Carole's marriage is also included in the index of marriages performed in Florida from 1970 to 1999 published on myheritage.com, and this would have also been enough proof that the marriage was valid and legally recognized in the State of Florida, but perhaps Rebecca Morris was like a conspiracy theorist who negatively predicted that the State of Florida would have never recognized Bundy's marriage, because he was a serial killer caught and put on trial in Florida. Rebecca Morris made assumptions about Bundy, but her assumptions were essentially unexamined beliefs grounded in illusory pattern perception. She also rehashed the sensationalized story of how Ted and Carole allegedly consummated their marriage.