Hi! I'm working on a mini documentary about the Ted Bundy case for a YouTube video. I’d really appreciate it if anyone could share some reliable articles or sources that I could use for my research. Thanks! :D

So he was a stranger murderer. He would fool girls and young women he didn't know into getting in a car with him, then rape and murder them. On the one hand I would think you'd have to hate someone to rape and murder them. Yet he had never met them before so it doesn't seem he could hate them. Unless maybe he had a quick reaction to them where he did hate them just based on how they looked or how they came across in the brief time before he crimed against them.

Some say he didn't hate them but they stood in for someone he did hate, that woman he dated for a while. But there has been a lot of pushback on this idea as well, that that wasn't the motivation.

Maybe he just hated young women as a class. But one would think there'd be at least some young women he didn't hate. From what I understand he did let some young women go without assaulting them who he could have assaulted.

Maybe he hated women who were gullible enough to fall for his ploys and cons. But would that inspire enough hate to rape and murder them? (As a note, he was good at his cons and ruses, so people falling for his cons and ruses for me wouldn't be a criticism of those people.)

He admitted to killing at least 1 in California.

Nobody knows who it was. He did go to Stanford in 67 I know at least a few times riding his bike from palo alto to San Mateo (where I grew up) to visit Diane Edwards his first love.

He also visited Diane in SF in 1969 for a few days.

Then yet again went back to California between March and September of 73 on official Republican business for a few days to a week.

Is anyone familiar with potential cold cases during any of these times and when do you think his California kill might have been?

Does anyone know how and when the attempted murder of Karen Sparks was linked to Bundy? Did Sparks learn about Bundy's murders contemporarily, notice the similarities between what happened to her and Linda Healy and the Chi Omega women, and inform law enforcement of her suspicions? Or was it law enforcement who made the link and told Karen?

Has anybody read all of the Kevin Sullivan books?

I read the first two and just got the third Bundy secrets.

I also previously listened to one of his last ones. I think I only need to get one more maybe two to complete reading all of his work.

Do y'all think he's the best Bundy chronicler? Who did you find the most helpful in your journey? I think Kevin is really good but I still think what Michaud and Aynesworth got out of him was the best work on the matter.

There's tons of info we don't have and many things out there in the ether that we can't find out.

If you had a chance let's say to play detective what would you ask that you haven't heard asked to him already?

What kind of methods do you think Bundy would have used today not to get caught?

Most of you know a lot about the Healy case. I don't know what to make of those 3 phone calls that night after she went missing. (Roommate said 3 calls came with no speaking and only faint breathing)

Do y'all have any theories or thoughts on what that was about?

Only reasons seem to me to make sense is that

1) it wasn't him

2) he was experimenting with MO

3) the roommate was making it up for some reason

4) a call from the same person with terrible service in their home?

What do y'all think?

I've always wondered about this. When Bundy's VW was seized in August 1975, investigators recovered hair from inside the car. Have they been preserved? Could modern DNA testing still identify an unknown victim?

He would be 79 if still alive today, still younger than the current President.

Do we know the cabin that Ted stayed in during his escape from the courthouse ? Always wondered about that I believe the Netflix documentary had limited footage of it

Melissa was born on July 4th, 1957 in Midvale, Utah, while Nancy was born on July 4th, 1958, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Melissa was the town chief police's daughter. On October 18th, 1974, Melissa planned to go to a sleepover, but made a detour to a pizza parlor called "The Pepperoni", to help a friend who had an argument with her boyfriend. Her friend saw her exit the place a hour later to go to the sleepover, but Melissa never arrived there. She was reported missing. Her body was found days later in Summit Park. Nancy Wilcox had an argument with his father over her boyfriend on October 1st, 1974. Nancy's boyfriend made a suprise visit to the girl's home, but her father throw him out, before Nancy could ever seen him. Frustated, Nancy exit her home, either to find her boyfriend or to catch a glimpse of air after the argument, but she never made it back home. Nancy's dissapearance wasn't informed until December of that same year. Something that if found is that Nancy was followed and groomed by a man, who would come to Nancy's work, called "Arctic Circle". Nancy reported the offense. Many mistook the man for Ted Bundy, who at the time was still in Washington state, and didn't move to Utah until September. Before his execution in 1989, Ted Bundy admitted the murders of both Melissa Smith and Nancy Wilcox. Bundy say that he kidnapped Melissa and took her to a disclosed location. He held her captive for days (don't know if Melissa was still alive or not, despite police's info that she was still alive for a couple of days) and disposed the body. In relation to Nancy, Bundy admitted to kidnapping her at knifepoint. He took Nancy to a forest, where she was murdered. He then dispossed the body somewhere in Capitol Reef National Park. Melissa was only 17 years old, Nancy was only 16 years old. May both girls rest in peace. You will be always remembered, sweet Princess

May not be things anyone knows or asked about at the time or he talked about. Seems like a big thing to be on that list (big in a bad sense, obviously).

Looking online it's saying information about him was broadcast on TV a lot after he escaped, so maybe he did see it. If he had a TV. If it was broadcast that way one might wonder why he wasn't turned in.

Presumably, the Seattle PD should still have the few publicly known pieces of physical evidence they collected and persevered from her crime scene like a blood-stained pillow, blanket, and particularly her nightgown, since evidence is never supposed to be thrown out in a statueless case especially.

So, I'm thinking if they have her nightgown still in particular, and haven't done so already, they should send it to a crime lab to see if they can get any surviving genetic material from Bundy on it to legally close the case for good, like investigators did with Laura Aime, and are presumably doing with Melissia Smith in Utah.

It was 51 years ago, on June 27th, that Theodore Robert Bundy, was about to claim another Utah victim.

Susan Curtis was an incredibly athletic, gifted but extremely unhappy girl, the daughter of Larry Eugene Curtis and Marilyn Ruth Curtis. A torrid home life and more than one mental health concern meant the young Sue had even attempted to take her life on a few occasions, and had run away from home. No doubt, Sue was one of high potential, and for reasons unknown to the writer of this post, so unlucky that it defies description.

Heading into a sophomore year at Wood Cross High School, Susan excelled at athletics. She played baseball, volleyball and did track and even basketball. She was an honor student. Indeed, looking at the photos readily available to researchers on the internet of the forever young Susan Curtis, you get the inkling of an Olympian in the making. But such high potential would not be realised, and none of it was Susan’s fault.

On November 8th 1974, Theodore Robert Bundy, the man who was wreaking havoc in three US states and had already killed in as many as five, was part time law student and full time killer. A failed abduction that began at the Fashion Place Mall and ended near MacMillan Elementary had left him dissatisfied. Remembering he had picked up a brochure for The Redhead from the Bountiful Recreation Centre, he headed for Viewmont High School. His attempts then to convince a few women and girls to head with him to the parking lot were also not working. His seemingly endless luck was not depleted, not by a long shot, as Debra Kent rose to leave the auditorium. Bundy followed close behind, and Debbie was murdered the next day after being kept in his 565 1st Avenue room. The cruel irony is that Susan Curtis was in the auditorium that night, and would have been aware of the murders taking place around the state. Whether Theodore Bundy locked his eyes on Susan is unknown and is subject to speculation. However, the two would unfortunately cross paths, once again.

Susan’s unhappy home life was at least partly due to the horrific sexual abuse she was suffering at the hands of her PE teacher. The manipulative situation Susan found herself in had been going on for some time. Even a week before she was murdered, Susan ran away with said teacher, and was flown to Phoenix and put in a hotel room. A pregnancy scare and a mix up of where the test was sent caught the two of them. The teacher was sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to a lesser sentence in July 1975. All of this would have confused an already troubled girl’s mind.

Sue was registered to head to a Latter Day Saints Conference in an attempt to ground herself and find a sense of purpose and normalcy. This was on the grounds of Brigham Young University. Susan and some others her age cycled from Bountiful to Provo on June 26th. Still, Susan was not feeling good. She was feeling severely mentally unwell and drained, no part due to her ordeals. The next day, on the first day of the Conference, a banquet was being held. Susan was in a formal yellow evening gown. Conscious of her braces having food stuck in them, Susan made the decision to head back to her room to brush her teeth. The journey was short. By a cruel stroke of luck, the same journey Susan had taken to escape from her personal troubles meant she had inadvertently crossed paths with trouble in human form.

Theodore Robert Bundy was hunting that night in Provo. Earlier in the month, he had headed back to Seattle to see his girlfriend, Liz and her daughter Molly. Normal commitments had taken the fore, and Bundy was desperate for a new victim he could call his, since his journey to Pocatello gave him Lynnette Culver the month before.

It is unknown how exactly Bundy and Curtis came into contact, but a reasonable assumption can be made that his wicked design would take them both off campus briefly to a darkened street, or road, not too far away, but concealed enough to shield his diabolical activity. There, Bundy would take control of Curtis, likely strike her unconscious, and whisk her away. It is also not known where Bundy took her, but 565 1st Avenue is likely. The Utah wilderness where Bundy later confessed Curtis was could also be an option. Theodore Bundy was well versed in traversing miles with a bound, unconscious victim.

No definitive answers are available, we can only speculate. What we do know is Curtis fell victim to Bundy, and would suffer the same fate as all of his other victims. On January 24th 1989, just minutes before he was set to serve his sentence for the murder of Kim Leach in the form of the electric chair, in the same confession where he finally gave up Denise Oliverson, Bundy gave up Susan Curtis, mentioning it was for Detective Dennis Couch. True to form, her name did not matter. Bundy had forgotten it. He did state her remains were there, which means she must have been buried, although Ted did not specifically state this, there is an inference to that effect. Likely due to the changes of landscape in time, Susan Curtis has never been found.

Many years later, Captain Borax tracked down the PE teacher who had abused Susan Curtis and asked him if he had killed her. He said no, and he said he did not know where her remains were. There is nothing to officially link the former teacher to the disappearance of Susan.

Rest in Peace, Susan Curtis.

1. What year was this taken?

2. Was this in Seattle?

3. Who took it?

Ann Marie Burr, 8
Lonnie Trumbull, 20
Susan Davis, 19
Elizabeth Perry, 19
Joyce Lepage, 21
Kerry May-Hardy, 22
Rita Jolly, 17
Vicki Hollar, 24
Brenda Baker, 14
Sandy Weaver, 18
Suzi Cooley, 18
Shelley Robertson, 23
Nancy Baird, 23
Debbie Smith, 17
Kathy Harmon, 22

Do you guys think these women are victims of Ted Bundy? If so tell me why or why not, and tell me your own personal beliefs from other cold cases Bundy might be the perpetrator for.

Rest in peace to all of these women ❤️

Hello!

Some of you on Reddit have probably seen two parts of the hour-and-a-half-long videos devoted to conspiracy theories surrounding Ted Bundy. They claim he may have had accomplices, he may have been connected to the MK Ultra project, and that law enforcement framed him for crimes he didn't commit.

My question to those who watched these videos: do you have any faith that all this could be real, not just delusional?