Ted Bundy archive

       Excerpts from Felicity de Zulueta’s book “From Pain To Violence - The Traumatic Roots Of Destructiveness”           We are fed on such a regular diet of violence on our television screens, in our newspapers and books that we have come to see it as part of our way of life and, in a sense, this may well be so. Our Western culture may need violence to maintain itself and, as long as this is the case, the pressure to focus on man’s destructiveness will remain. However, people are beginning to realise that the price of violence is perhaps more than we can bear, that our survival and that of our planet are in danger. There is therefore a real need to find out if our species is capable of other forms of social interaction. What if violence is but one of our options? What if we human beings have the potential for far more co-operative forms of behaviour? What if the study of child development were to confirm our need for one another? ...

  In this article, I focus on the feelings of isolation, loneliness and need for power/control, and low self-esteem, that Ted Bundy may have felt, and also the feeling of betrayal (by Elizabeth Kloepfer, as evidenced in the Walrus Tavern episode), as part of my attempt to gather the factors that initiated and facilitated Bundy’s killings. Bundy felt completely isolated in his freshman year - "my social life was a big zero. I spent a great deal of time with myself. It was a lonely year for me, and it was worse because I didn't have my old neighborhood buddies around" (Michaud and Aynesworth, 1 999, p. 67-69). Bundy also said that he never spoke about any of the issues he faced in school with his mother or a counselor because he thought there was nothing wrong (Michaud and Aynesworth, 1 999, p. 64). Throughout Bundy's life, he questioned social interactions and relationships, and felt he would never be socially adept (Michaud and Aynesworth, 1999, p. 66-67; Michaud an...

  I am constantly searching for knowledge relating to Ted Bundy’s killings, and I now recognize that the worldview that portrays Bundy as a “hunter”, may be accurate. There is no reason to believe that Bundy wasn’t a “hunter”, after all the preparation and kit he used ahead of the murders, which Bundy himself described to detective Robert Keppel in January 1989, show that Bundy was a human predator. Whether at university campuses, parking lots or the Lake Sammamish State Park, Bundy adopted an interactive way to kidnap his victims. He would fake a fractured ann/leg (as in the case of Jane Curtis, Kathleen Clara D’Olivo, Phyllis Armstrong, Georgann Hawkins), ask for assistance with his boat or his books, or dress and adopt a persona of an authority figure. Bundy himself described to Keppel how he approached Georgann Hawkins on an alley near her sorority house, using a briefcase and some crutches and asking Georgann, who he had seen walking down the alley toward him, to help him ...

  In 1982, a serial killer started targeting sex workers and young women in Washington State. As dead bodies were being discovered near the Green River, the King County sheriff's detectives began spending more and more time investigating the Green River killings and realizing that they didn't have leads to follow. As a result, the Green River task force was formed, which included Dave Reichert, Robert Keppel, and other detectives.   In 1984, Ted Bundy wrote a letter to the Green River Task Force offering his help to detectives in catching the then-unknown perpetrator the “Green River Killer” (or the “Riverman”), whose identity would later be revealed - through DNA evidence - as Gary Ridgway. The task force accepted Bundy’s offer to be a consultant for the Green River case. On November 17, 1984, Dave Reichert and Robert Keppel flew to Florida to visit Bundy and they returned the second day, and they taped their conversations with Bundy. Long after Bundy was executed, Rid...

  I've recorded the documentary "Surviving Bundy With Nancy Grace", which aired on Fox in October, and I’ve uploaded it to my Internet Archive channel: https://archive.org/details/surviving-bundy-with-nancy-grace Fellow researcher Julia Larina told me about it. The documentary features interviews with Karen Sparks, Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas, who offer their perspective on surviving a murder attempt and their injuries. Karen Sparks, for instance, who had head injuries after Bundy left her for dead, talks about her aphasia (a condition which affected her speech and understanding, her ability to read and talk), and how she needed to relearn the alphabet, basically. Aphasia's severity depends largely on the extent of the brain damage, and people affected by it relearn and practice language skills or learn to use other ways to communicate. The documentary is interesting, but reporter Nancy Grace (formerly a prosecutor in a local district attorney's off...

An article published in Rolling Stone on Dec. 14, 1978, titled "Murder! Did Ted Bundy kill 36 young women and will he go free?", was sent to me by an archivist at Brigham Young University. I have uploaded it to my Internet Archive channel: https://archive.org/details/article-about-ted-bundy-published-in-rolling-stone-december-14-1978/page/n13/mode/2up The author of the article used a pseudonym for Elizabeth Kloepfer ("Ruth Arista"). The article was republished, with slight differences, in The Orlando Sentinel of Dec. 24, 1978, and was digitized by newspapers.com.

The episode “Fatal Compulsion” for the Discovery Channel Television show “The New Detectives”, aired in the US on December 2, 1997, directed by Mike Sinclair , has just been uploaded to my Youtube channel, courtesy of Julia Larina who found it and recorded it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_pqccRBvok “ The New Detectives” is an American docudrama, where world-renowned forensics experts and criminal investigators solve a wide range of cases. Forensic psychologists delve into the minds of Ted Bundy, Paul Bernardo and Aileen Wuornos, trying to determine their motives, where their “fatal compulsions” stem from, and forensics experts and criminal investigators explain how they solved the cases. Detectives show what forensic techniques and clever investigating have done to bring Ted Bundy, Paul Bernardo and Aileen Wuornos to justice. FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier, odontologist Richard Souviron and true crime author Ann Rule are seen in interviews talking about Bundy. As Bundy sat on Fl...