Ted Bundy FBI Files, Court Documents, Confession-Interview Recordings, Research Documents

Ted Bundy FBI Files, Court Documents, Confession-Interview Recordings, Research Documents

This collection contains 2,025 pages of material and 1 hour and 50 minutes of audio. All computer recognizable text in the collection can be searched. One search can cover all documents in this collection.

FBI Director William S. Sessions wrote in 2005 about Bundy, "Theodore Robert Bundy has become, perhaps, society's most infamous and notorious serial killer. By committing his crimes in many different jurisdictions, he wittingly or unwittingly complicated the investigative efforts to identify, locate, and prosecute him."

Bundy's killing spree was underway in 1974. In the state of Washington, young female college students began disappearing. witnesses reported a Volkswagen Beetle and a man on crutches or with an arm in a sling. In the summer of 1974 Bundy moved to Salt Lake City where the murders continued there and in Colorado. In August 1975, police arrested Bundy for the first time after pulling him over in his Volkswagen and finding suspicious items—including handcuffs, rope, and a ski mask investigators later linked to missing women. In February of the following year, he was found guilty of kidnapping and assaulting a Utah teenager who had managed to escape from him. He was sentenced to prison for up to 15 years.

On June 7, 1977, after Bundy was convicted of kidnaping Carol Daronch in Salt Lake City, he was in the Aspen Colorado courthouse for a hearing dealing with a first-degree murder charge for killing a vacationing nursing student. Bundy was allowed to move about the courthouse freely, he jumped from a window and escaped. He was captured in Aspen a few days later.

On December 31st, 1977, Bundy escaped from Garfield County Jail by losing 30 pounds and slithering through a crawl space. Bundy murdered at least three victims while free. He made his way to Tallahassee, Florida where he rented an apartment near Florida State University under the name Chris Hagen. On Saturday, Jan. 14, 1978, Bundy broke into Florida State University's Chi Omega sorority house and bludgeoned and strangled to death two women. On February 9, 1978, Bundy killed 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, who he kidnapped and then mutilated.

In June of 1979, he went on trial for the sorority house murders acting as his own lawyer. Prosecutors feared he may have won over some of the jurors, so they offered Bundy a plea bargain where he would receive a 75-year sentence for the murders. Bundy declined the offer and was convicted and sentenced to death. Bundy was executed on January 24th, 1989.


Ted Robert Bundy FBI Files

339 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C., covering serial killer Theodore Robert Bundy. This collection contains two sets of FBI files one from a 1999 Freedom of Information Act request containing 314 pages and a 2017 release containing 339 pages. Files contain at least 339 unique pages. The first release has newspaper articles and approximately 90 pages of narrative material. The files give an overview of the FBI's hunt for Bundy while free after his two jail escapes.


FBI Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992

A 50-page report published in 1992.

Abstract: “In March 1989, under the auspices of the FBI's NCAVC Violent Criminal Apprehension Program investigators involved in BUNDY's final revelations and other knowledgeable law enforcement officials attended the BUNDY Multi-Agency Investigative Team conference at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The purpose of this meeting was to assess and share intelligence among the participants, inasmuch as the BUNDY interviews at the prison preceding his execution were specific as to individual crimes. Following the Quantico meeting, specialists from, the FBI's Visual Investigative Analysis Unit consulted with investigators throughout the country in an attempt to formulate a singular data base reflecting BUNDY's documented whereabouts over the years. They hoped that such information, coupled with information derived by investigation and BUNDY's own revelations, might lead to the solution of additional unsolved murders.

The NCAVC and BUNDY conference members have responded to numerous inquiries from investigators who are attempting to determine BUNDY's culpability in unsolved matters. It is the purpose of this report to share, within the law enforcement community, information relative to BUNDY's crimes, furnish insight into his activities, and provide the most accurate timeline possible for establishing his whereabouts during any known period.”
 
Information provided in the report includes:
Homicide Admissions
Modus Operand!
Conclusion
Timeline
Criminal Information Numbers
Fingerprint Classification
Alias Information
Alias Dates of Birth
Alias Social Security Numbers Used
Residences Where Lived
Driver's License Numbers
Occupations
Items Used or Taken During Crimes
Vehicles
Homicides to Which Bundy Confessed
Pictures of Bundy's VW
Items in Bundy's VW 
Photos of Bundy 
Bundy Lineup Photo Pensacola 


FBI Report Serial Murder Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators (2005)

A 71-page book produced in 2005 by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit-2 National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. It covers serial murders and killers in general and was distributed at the 2005 Serial Murder Symposium U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Antonio, Texas August 29 - September 2, 2005.


FBI Report Serial Murder Pathways for Investigations (2011)

A 79-page book produced in 2011 by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit-4 National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. It covers serial murders and killers in general.

Abstract: This monograph represents five years of empirical research gathered by experts at the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime Our hope is that it will give our law enforcement partners the resources they need to better understand the motivations and behaviors behind these crimes, to discover the necessary correlations between potential suspects and cases, and to more expeditiously identify, arrest, and convict serial killers.


Court Documents

1,000 pages of documents from 7 appellate court cases heard in Florida and Utah. 


Congressional Hearings Reports and Transcripts

Testimony was given at the following hearings with some information regarding Bundy.

Serial Murders - Hearing Before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on The Judiciary, United States Senate July 12, 1983

Serial Killers and Child Abduction - Hearing Before the House Subcommittee on Crime of The Committee on The Judiciary September 14, 1995


Audio Interviews/Confessions

FBI Copy of Audio Interview/Confession Tapes

21 minutes of audio drawn from 4 hours of recordings of a 1989 interview of Bundy by former King County, Washington detective Bob Keppel, used in training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

During the interview at Florida State Prison Bundy brags and laughs about murdering 11 young women in the state of Washington. Criminal psychologist Dr. Ken Muscatel has commented about Bundy recorded responses. "Pure performance. Pure manipulation. Utterly narcissistic and there was no emotion expressed there, no feelings," Dr. Muscatel said.


Ted Bundy Interview by Salt Lake County Sheriff's Detective Dennis Couch 1-22-1989

1 hour and 30-minute interview of Ted Bundy at Florida State Prison by Dennis Couch, conducted on January 22nd,1989, 36 hours before Bundy's execution.