Ted Bundy's Murderous Mysteries
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EMPLOYMENT:
1-10-71 to 12-3-71 Pedline in U District.
1972:
COLLEGE:
Jan. – 6-10-72 at U of W.
Graduated with B.S. in Psychology.
RESIDENCE:
4143 12th N.E.
EMPLOYMENT:
June – September – Counselor at H.V.H. – Mental Health Center.
REPUBLICAN:
Sept. – Nov. – employed by Citizens for Evans/Governor.
Seattle Crime Commission - November – 4/73
Law & Justice Planning – Sept. – Dec. in Seattle.
SPRING:
LIZ has abortion.
Registered in same (1) research class as LYNDA HEALY.
Registered in (2) research class as LYNDA HEALY.
SUMMER:
Bike rides at Green Lake with SANDY GWINN.
Goes sailing on Lake Washington with SANDY GWINN.
Went to Lake Sammamish State Park with SANDY GWINN.
Goes to Alpental Condominium with SANDY GWINN (her parents).
KAREN COVACH met BUNDY.
FRIENDS:
SANDY GWINN – met him – 4-22 at H.V.H. Mental Health. Her car was stolen in 6-72.
2/25/72 DR. SCOTT FRASER wrote letter of recommendation.
4/3/72 Letter from Utah Law School to BUNDY telling him of an indecisive area of qualifications for admission.
2/22/72 Sent application to Utah Law School.
4/12/72 BUNDY wrote letter to Utah Law School responding to his indecisive area.
5/12/72 Rejection letter from Utah Law School to BUNDY.
6/? /72 Recommended for Seattle Crime Commission by PATRICIA LUNNEBORG.
6/72 EDNA COWELL visited HEALY’s roommate, KAREN COVACH.
6/72 – 9/74 EDNA lived at 903 N.E. 43rd.
SUMMER ’72 – Summer ’73 took frequent trips around Preston and North Bend areas, drove in country looking at old barns.
12/72 Had dinner with LIZ at KEIGH DEARBORN’s house and he was upset about being rejected at U of W Law School.
5/16/72 UW transcript sent to U of Cal at Berkeley; UW transcript sent to Hastings College; UW transcript sent to Univ. of Oregon; UW transcript sent to Utah; UW transcript sent to Univ. of Southern Calif.
BEHAVIOR:
LIZ threatens suicide.
BUNDY belittles himself and says he’s inferior.
At Crime Commission he was meticulous, aloof, tardy. Wore wig and moustache during Rossellini campaign.
1973:
JANUARY:
Law & Justice Planning. Lived at 4143 12th N.E.
1-9-73 King County Program Planning; signed contract.
1/31 $400 invoice.
1/26 Report of Recidivism.
FEBRUARY:
Employed King County Program Planning.
2-15 Application to Utah Law School.
2-15 Got $400 invoice.
2-27 Governor Evans sends letter to Utah Law School.
2-28 Got $400 invoice.
MARCH:
Employed by King County Program Planning.
3-16 Recidivism Progress Report.
3-19 Recidivism Summary Report.
3-2 Letter of Recommend from DR. EZRA STOTLAND.
LIZ saw TED’s 4” bladed knife in her glovebox (given to him by VORTMAN).
S.P.D. detained for outstanding warrants.
Her car was stolen and she thought he took it.
3-30 Had VW key made at FREEWAY in at 1630, checked clutch, and added transmission oil.
3-21 $400 for work.
APRIL:
Republic Central Comm. at Olympia and Tukwila.
4-5 Accepted to Utah Law School.
4-16 Final invoice $400 – Corrections Consultant.
4-2 Received $400 for consulting work.
Employed 4-15 to 4-30 King County Program Planning.
JUNE:
6/14 – His application received at U.P.S. Law School.
6/13 – 15 Stayed at MARK HOPKINS’ motel in San Francisco.
6/28 TOM SWAYZE wrote letter of recommendation.
6/21 UW transcript sent to University of Puget Sound.
6/21 UW transcript sent to University of Utah.
AUGUST:
8/3 Received letter from Utah of first acceptance to Law School
8/24 Wrecked LIZ’s car in U District.
Sent letter to Utah Law School saying he was in auto accident and couldn’t start Law School
8 – 20 – Freeway VW – 0915 – 1630 – Clutch repaired, parts furnished
8/31 to 9/4 DIANE in town
SEPTEMBER:
9/17 DIANE in town early Sept. and they stayed at Alpental. Had dinner at ROSS DAVIS’ home. Ted using party car, she using TED’s.
Got treatment for sprained right ankle.
Law School at U.P.S. Monday, Wednesday, Friday nights – commuted with 3 others.
Letter from Utah Law expressing sorrow that he wouldn’t be able to attend school there. BUNDY had a beard and shaved it off.
OCTOBER: During fall sometime – LIZ saw sack of women’s clothes in his room, bra was large and she thought it was Freda Rogers’.
Involved in campaign of BOB SANTOS and JIM MATTINGLY.
Had car accident with SPD Officer STEVE BUTLER at 45th and Cherry. (Author’s note: throughout Bundy’s adult life, he showed himself to be a lousy driver, and most individuals who follow the Bundy case have at least an inkling about it – but very few individuals are aware that he crashed one day into one of Seattle’s finest!)
NOVEMBER:
11/20 $5 check to MOLLY KLEOPFER.
11/25 Had beard and moustache.
DECEMBER:
12/2 – Car repaired at Freeway VW. Set points and fix gas leak. In at 12:30 out at 1630.
Around Christmas he was injured skiing at Crystal Mountain.
Ski mask/hat seen in car by CHRIS SHARPE.
Has access to MARLIN VORTMAN’s VW Bug.
12/6 Check to U. Bookstore.
12/6 ERNST ROGER (check).
12/8 University Auto Parts (check.)
12/19 Safeway (check).
12/28 Safeway (check).
Fidelity Ticket Office (check).
12/31 Tai Tungus (check).
12/31 Thriftway (check).
12/31 Shaga’s Imports Chess Set for Marlin Vortman (check).
12/24 to 1/1/74 DIANE in town. (Author’s note: this was three days before he attacked Karen Sparks, identified in The Bundy Murders as Terri Caldwell.)
Sparks: Assaulted 1-4-74 – Friday
4325 8th N.E.
This ends the package of King County information sent to the Leon County Sheriff’s Office.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Seattle Reports and Articles
This is the Seattle Police report containing notes of the interview of Steve Burnham, who witnessed a man (Ted Bundy) in a leg cast and hobbling on crutches along the front of Greek Row at the University of Washington, only minutes before Bundy would encounter Georgann Hawkins as she was returning to her sorority house.
Seattle Police Report
DATE: August 8, 1974, Rec. call 1900 Hours
STEVE BURNHAM, Phi Kappa Sigma
DETAILS: Saw man described in PI article that continually dropped his brief case. Man had leg cast & crutches. Was helped by girl matching Hawkins description. Will be at frat house 1400 hours
INTERVIEW: STEVE BURNHAM W-M-21 Lives at 4711 17th NE., Seattle, Wash.
His girlfriend is Pamela Joan Meade. Pamela lived at Kappa Delta, 4500 Block on east side of 17th NE.
On Tuesday night, June 11. 1974 ay approximately 1130 PM to June 12, 1974 at approximately 1230 Am (close to midnig
ht) Steve took his girlfriend “Pamela” to Kappa Delta. As he was returning, he was walking northbound on the east side of 17th NE in the 4500 Block as he observed a white male 20 to 22 5’11 to 6” tall, narrow face, med. build 170 to 175 # dark brown hair down over ears hanging in a regular manner. He had no mustache, no beard, and no sideburns. His clothing was Levis (bleached), light colored shirt (short sleeves) and he had a slit in his pants up the left leg. He had a wrapping or bandage (cast maybe) on his left leg and just the toes stuck out and it appeared to be up to his knee. He was dropping his briefcase as he was crossing the street from the southwest corner of NE 47th & 17th to the southeast corner of NE 47th & 17th NE going eastbound.
As Steve cut towards the center strip of 17th NE and was about up to the suspect a white female came from the east sidewalk and assisted the white male. (Note the white male was on crutches of the wood type). He kept dropping a black or dark brown briefcase that had a handle on top. Since the female was going to help him Steve kept on going and crossed over to the west side of 17th NE and continued home to 4711 17th NE.
The female that helped the suspect was 5’3” med. build, dressed in pants and shirt (it was a warm night). Steve looked at the Hawkins photo and he says it was not her that helped him. The last time Steve observed the suspect was when the suspect was on the southeast corner of NE 47th and 17th NE and he was handling the briefcase. Steve Burnham seemed to be accurate with his descriptions and information. Note also that as Steve observed suspect on corner he also observed the female then going westbound on NE 47th from 17th NE alone.
Det. Dennis Falk
The below excerpts are from an article from The Seattle Times describing a young girl who was murdered and decapitated in December 1974. This crime, of course, may not be the work of Ted Bundy, but the similarities with decapitation and the body not being recovered, should give one pause. If this wasn’t one of Bundy’s unknown murders, it clearly shows the work of someone just as diabolical.
The Seattle Times (Special to The Times), Tuesday, August 5, 1975, B16
EVERETT. A skull found under a tree near Paradise Lake Road Saturday night has been identified as Janna Marie Hanson, 13, of Montlake Terrace, who disappeared last December 26. Snohomish County Sheriff’s detectives were to return to a farm today where the skull was found. Police believed the girl to be a runaway. Mrs. Doreen Hanson, the girl’s mother, declared at the time of Janna’s disappearance that she would not have run away.
What follows are excerpts from the Seattle Post Intelligencer, dated Wednesday, August 6, 1975, which continues the search for answers into the murder of the Hanson girl.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, A 4F
Snohomish County Sheriff’s officers, aided by King County search and rescue teams, yesterday continued to search a 150-acre farm south of Snohomish. Meanwhile, yesterday, Capt. Nick Mackie of the King County Police who heads the investigation into the deaths of six Seattle-area women whose skeletal remains have been found, said his unit is not involved in the search near Snohomish. “At this point there is nothing that binds them (the cases),” Mackie said. Snohomish County Sheriff’s Officer Glenn Mann said the “only thing” in common between the Snohomish County case and the Seattle-area cases is that skulls have been found.
CHAPTER NINE
Don Patchen Reports and Investigative Notes
In the summer of 2008, when I was nearing completion of my book, The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History, I traveled to Florida to interview retired detective Don Patchen about his role in the Chi Omega investigation. He graciously brought me into his home where we spent a good number of hours discussing his role in the case and going over his case files, in some cases including the original documents, that were housed in a large clear plastic container. Most of the material consisted of copies of the police reports and what you’d expect to find in such a collection of investigative material.
But when I came to a number of pages that contained what appeared to be hastily scribbled quotes that were placed in no particular order on the page – some centered on the pages, while others were tilted along the edges. Don told me this was from a time when Bundy had asked them to turn off the tape recorder, believing he could speak more freely to them in this manner. Unknown to Bundy, these notes and the information contained therein, would ultimately become part of the case the authorities would present to the court to bring Bundy to justice. What is exceedingly interesting about this is that Bundy actually believed these statements were “between them,” as it were and, because of this, he started speaking truthfully about his internal issues, albeit for a brief time.
Here are the statements Bundy made to investigators while the tape recorder was turned off. I have italicized Bundy’s statements and left the detective’s notes or questions in normal font so as to differentiate between the two.
I want you to understand me so you can understand my problem.
Fantasies equal problems. Started out: What turns you on? It has to do with fantasies.
He would never tell what they were. It has to do with voyeurism.
Y’all want modus operandi – I’m not going to give it to you.
He never enjoyed the act – but he had to do it to keep the fantasies up.
The act is a downer. What was the act – I’m not going to tell you modus operandi.
He would drink beer and start driving; he was having personal problems.
He counseled people. He had a greater problem he couldn’t take care of himself.
Sometimes I feel like a vampire; I never hurt anybody I knew.
Psychological block to never tell anybody, he wanted them to break him.
Girl on bicycle: I had to have her at any cost.
He talked about defense mechanisms. In order to live with myself. I have made defense mechanisms. The person you’re talking to could never hurt anybody. He convinced himself it was another person who committed these crimes.
What turns you on, hard pornography? No, soft pornography.
You’re going to have to help me break these barriers down.
He was a law student at U. of Wash. While everybody else was in class, he was a voyeur.
You don’t understand significance of Lee catching me & Utah case – you will when it all comes out.
Detective Don Patchen was lead investigator for the Tallahassee Police Department in the Chi Omega case. This deposition of him, taken at 2:00 p.m. on February 26, 1979, was at the insistence of Ted Bundy and was conducted by lead defense attorney, Michael Minerva. It is of interest to note that the Q&A goes into some detail pertaining to the above statements Bundy made, as well as additional damning statements he’d made that were now being used against him. We will begin at page sixteen and continue from there.
STATE OF FLORIDA vs. THEODORE ROBERT BUNDY
Deposition of: DONALD PATCHEN
Q: In any event you did talk to Mr. Bundy beginning at 1:20 a.m. on the 17th?
A: Right.
Q: And that was the first time that you interviewed him other than those contacts when his lawyer was there since the early morning of the 16th?
A: Right.
Q: All right, sir. How long did the session take that began on the 17th at 1:20 a.m.?
A: It went throughout the night; it was after 10:00 in the morning I believe.
Q: Who was present?
A: Myself, Chapman, and Steve Bodiford
Q: Did Captain Pottinger come to Pensacola?
A: Yes, he did.
Q: During the time of that interview?
A: As far as I know, he wasn’t there when we started the interview. It was, I believe, the next day when we arrived.
Q: Was any of that session tape recorded?
A: Yes.
Q: Was that session recorded with the bugged tape?
A: No.
Q: And there would have
been periods of time when the tape recorder was turned off, is that right?
A: At the request of Ted Bundy.
Q: Yes, sir, I understand that. Did you start out tape recording the session?
A: Yes.
Q: Maybe you can help me here. I have this massive transcript here. Let’s go off the record.
(Thereupon, an off-the-record discussion was held.)
By Mr. Minerva:
Q: Now, in the course of talking with Mr. Bundy there on the 17th, he told you some things that were not tape recorded; is that right?
A: Right.
Q: Is there any way you can explain those to me in a narrative form, the essence of what he was talking about?
A: I’ll try.
Q: All right.
A: If I may see that again for just a minute?
Q: Sure.
A: I want to see where we left off without re-telling parts of it.
Q: All right. You can hang on to that if you want to.
A: Okay. He had – I believe most of that was that he had talked about a few of his other adventures in some of these other states, as far as to some other cases, as far as his escapes and what have you. He went into telling about his voyeurism.
Q: Did he use that word?
A: Yes, he did. He went into telling us about some of his girlfriends, his past girlfriends and problems that he had. He went into – let’s see - he talked about when he was working for some representative, or someone that was running for office that he had worked with, and some of the dirty tricks played there. He went into talking to us about that he had wanted to tell us of the things that happened to him, but that he had had a mental block that pretty much restrained himself or brought himself to never be able to tell anybody. Uh – do you follow what I am trying to say?
Q: Somewhat.
A: Okay. He kept telling us to keep talking to him, that this in essence helped him to come across with what he wanted to tell us. He at one point uh – I had asked him whether or not directly he had killed the girls at the Chi Omega house in Tallahassee, and he stated that if he was pressured into giving an answer that that answer would be no. And in that context of saying that, he would tell us that he didn’t want to lie to us. But again, if he was pressured into answering, he would have to say, no. Of course, he explained to us the facts that he had built up in his mind never to reveal certain information that he wanted to tell us but he couldn’t. He talked about, in his words, his VW that he had in Colorado, I believe it was. He used the word cargo, carrying cargo. He recalled an incident where he was riding down the street on a bicycle and he saw a girl, but that on this particular occasion he didn’t do anything to the girl, or anything at that point, but that uh – I don’t know exactly how to explain how he explained it. He stated that he had some feelings of the type that, you know, that he was controlling it at that time. In going over these feelings that he had, he stated that when he escaped from Colorado, that he felt that uh – this last escape that he had, when he came to Florida, that he felt that he could control his problem. And that having his psychology background, that he could be able to control his problems on the outside. And that he found out that he couldn’t control his problems, and in essence, you know, that more or less, scared him.