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Ted Bundy on the relationship between mental illness and violent criminal behavior

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Ted Bundy reasoned along these lines: a murderer who manages to not get caught and who leaves very little in the way of clues, cannot be mentally ill, but a rational individual. Bundy discussed the issue of “mental illness” in the context of murder investigations, and more specifically in relation to the Green River murders, when he consulted with the King County Sheriff’s Office in the Green River case. In Bundy’s opinion, the distorted mental processes which underlay the Riverman’s violent behavior would appear, from the facts and circumstances of the case, which Bundy analyzed, to be as well integrated as they were hidden from the view of those around him. Bundy shared these views in a February 5, 1985 handwritten letter he sent to Dave Reichert, in reference to a mental patients printout that the detectives included in the data that was being analyzed at the time in the Green River investigation. The detectives were compiling various lists meant to help them identify the likeliest ...

A flag-waving "anonymous" person made some derogatory remarks about my Bundy-related content

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On March 18, a flag-waving anonymous person who stressed that he/she is a US citizen, left me a one-star (poor) review on my Internet Archive channel, deriding or pretending to deride the Bundy-related content published on my IA channel and accusing me of “theft”, but without providing evidence. He / she also wrote that I “only heard of Bundy when Zac Enron’s movie came out”... Here is the link to this one-star review: https://archive.org/details/bandicam-2021-09-28-04-22-42-514 And also my screenshot of the review: Flying the flag when giving a review to a Bundy research page hosted by Internet Archive, and being fixated on the researcher’s nationality, kind of gives accurate representation as to what kind of person has left the review. And on the same day, March 18, Youtube notified me that a “Lena Lena” left this other review to one of my videos: ... also writing that I wasn't "alive or knew Ted Bundy until Zac Efron released his film in 2019". Lena is the w...

Defense witnesses who aided and bolstered the State’s case against Bundy

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  “The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide how he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.” - Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, "The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery", 1958       George Dekle, the prosecutor in the Kimberly Leach case, co-authored a book entitled “Cross-Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques”, which I’m   sharing on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cross-examination-handbook-persuasion-strategies-and-techniques        The other authors of the book are William S. Bailey and Ronald H. Clark.       The chapter “The Ted Bundy Illustration - Concession-Seeking Cross” illuminates the context and circumstances in which Bundy’s prosecutors enjoyed a significant advantage o...

Ted Bundy’s unease at being looked at by strangers

Larry Peoples, former correctional officer at Florida State Prison, said in a 2019 interview that Bundy was a very quiet person who kept to himself and didn’t like to be looked at: “On the outside of the cell block, we had this catwalk, we called it... where people can walk down in case we’d have to fire tear gas or whatever, or get scolded by staff or whatever... And people would come in for tours at the prison, and the very first thing they wanted to see was Bundy, of course. So they would walk down the row and every time they walked down the row, Bundy would have a sheet up over his bars, because he didn’t want to be seen. And he would get angry and say, ‘look, I’m not an animal in a zoo, I don’t want you coming down here and looking at me! Why don’t you just turn around and go back!’... And he’d close the sheet, and that would be the end of that. So after a while, they just stopped taking the tours down there because he just kept putting the sheet up over his bars. So he was very...

Larry Peoples talking about Ted Bundy’s 1984 failed escape, and about witnessing Ted’s execution

Larry Peoples was a correctional officer at Florida State Prison when Ted Bundy was a death row inmate there, and in 2019 he was a special guest of the podcast  “ Murder and Mysteries with Massnick” and talked about Ted. The podcast was uploaded on my Internet Archive site: https://archive.org/details/bonus-for-bundy Peoples can be heard saying: “Schaefer and Bundy were very similar in their intelligence, but they were different on the row. Bundy was a different person. He was a very quiet person. He kept to himself. On the outside of the cell block, we had this catwalk, we called it... where people can walk down in case we’d have to fire tear gas or whatever, or get scolded by staff or whatever... And people would come in for tours at the prison, and the very first thing they wanted to see was Bundy, of course. So they would walk down the row and every time they walked down the row, Bundy would have a sheet up over his bars, because he didn’t want to be seen. And he would get ...

Louise Bundy’s March 10, 1976 Letter to Judge Stewart Hanson

On March 10, 1976, Louise Bundy,  then a secretary at University of Puget Sound,  sent a letter to Judge Stewart Hanson on behalf of her son, Ted Bundy. Judge Hanson was the one who would sentence Ted n the Carol DaRonch case. When Louise Bundy wrote this letter,  Ted was accused of attempting to murder 17-year-old Carol DaRonch at a Salt Lake City area shopping center in November 1974.  In her letter, Louise invoked Ted’s “past history”, his relationships with his girlfriends and with the women in his extended family. Louise’s letter is a rather moving one. Ted was later convicted by Judge Hanson for kidnapping Carol DaRonch .  Judge Hanson died in 2008, and his grandson, Sean Papanikolas, digitized the letters in Judge Hanson's collection which were part of the DaRonch case, and kindly shared them with me in 2019 and I shared the Hanson letters publicly on Facebook soon afterwards. Louise Bundy’s letter is part of the collection of letters pertaining to th...

Ted Bundy’s legal studies

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Richard Gray in his paper "Psychopathy and Will to Power" published on Academia (https://www.academia.edu/17868303/PSYCHOPATHY_AND_WILL_TO_POWER_Ted_Bundy_and_Dennis_Rader) makes the claim that Ted Bundy failed the “grammar” section of the bar exam. I don’t think Ted qualified to take the bar examination, which required attendance and graduation with a first degree in law from a law school in the United States which was approved by the American Bar Association (ABA). To verify Gray’s claim, I checked the police files related to Ted’s studies, published on Internet Archive, which provide good insight about Ted’s law school studies. I have compiled here a selection of police files related to Ted’s law school studies: https://archive.org/details/he-was-to-attend-the-university-of-utah-in-the-fall-of-1973-but-didnt Ted entered Univ. of Puget Sound (Tacoma) on Sept. 1965 and left on June 1966, with no Law degree, because he never graduated (Ted’s only degree was a B.S. in P...