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Early victim of Ted Bundy, 1970, speaks out on sealed evidence in the case and an official narrative that isn’t supported by original case records

Reconstructing Sara: The Lost Victim of Ted Bundy was published September 16, 2016.

There are two parts to this discussion: the first is an overview of several issues and events and the second part is a specific discussion of what Bundy did to me as a victim during the four years he stalked me and repeatedly kidnapped me. There was a short period of time in those four years where he switched tactics and actually courted me but my coercion into dating him was just that: coercion by a traumatized victim who had a broken family situation and nowhere to go. That too is in the memories going back years and also this period didn’t last long -it quickly escalated into power and abuse behaviors, stalking and control and in the spring of 1974 escalating episodes of kidnapping which left me injured and having memory problems from being hit on the head and drugged.

The book “Reconstructing Sara” is currently being rewritten with case facts never before made public that reveal evidence that was thrown away, lost, and denied for decades…evidence which changes the face of the case and raises serious questions about conduct and responsibility to the public by WA State.

My emails date and time stamped precede the records by many years, and lined up to case facts many of which were in the sealed area – there are over 50 direct points of correlation in my experiences back then all of them predating the records release to me by years if not decades. Sealing away critical evidence in a homicide series of investigations is called Spoilation of Evidence. WA State also per internal memos ordered evidence destroyed and failed to protect other evidence critical to the cases. To me, those actions should be crimes. But when I issued complaints about it for several years now I was told over and over they had no plans to investigate it.

[image error] Sara: Ted Bundy Victim [high school, 1972]

I resembled closely Laura Aime, Georgann Hawkins, and other Utah victims and WA State victims – Laura Aime was the same age I had been and she had a very similar haircut and his actions towards her per witnesses were very similar to what he did to me. I resembled several other victims – My blog post on the scatter plot of points alignment is list of correlations that span a four year period

Critical evidence: Taylor Mountain is a very critical crime scene in what it originally contained. WA State has claimed over the years that only jaws and skulls and a few bunches of hair were found on Taylor Mountain, skeletal remains were logged in personally by Robert Keppel in March of 1975 and assigned evidence numbers which allow them to be tracked internally over the years. There is no question that the girls were there on site – it was not a dumping ground. Neither was Issaquah. The sites were very similar.

The skeletal remains of Taylor Mountain were sent forward to Superior Court in 1975 before Bundy was caught in Utah and after that the records show the remains were then moved to the ME office in March of 1984 where they sat until 2005 when they were sent to TX and were confirmed by DNA to be three of the girls found at Taylor Mountain. There was no decapitation. Additionally there was another set of bones which were not identified by DNA in 2005 and which did not match Hawkins. At the same time the skeletal remains with evidence numbers were moved to the ME Office, another set of human bones, tibia and fibulas, were moved to the ME office but these were in a box of elk bones and these were NOT assigned numbers. Leg x-rays were being requisitioned by several detectives in March of 1975. Hawkins had a deformity of these bones which could have identified her. What happened to the bones in the box of elk bones? Given there was no decapitation and the 1989 interview seems rehearsed about Hawkins, it makes you wonder why the specific tibias/fibulas are missing and why they were moved without any paperwork. That is sloppy internal chain of custody if nothing else.

Multiple people on site were on site at both Taylor Mountain and Issaquah – these were professionals and not “kids” as has been the story put out publicly. These professional ESAR personnel were witness to the large amount of evidence removed from Taylor Mountain during the initial searches conducted in March of 1975. Over 300 pieces of evidence from Issaquah and Taylor Mountain were removed combined. I have the records of each of the search days there and the lists are specific and very detailed even the maps. Keppel wrote “Riverman” under color of law and was still employed by the State of WA AG Office when he wrote it so why is it that he was allowed to write the book for profit when not all cases were known about Bundy and not all had been solved and certainly the evidence of Taylor Mountain and of Issaquah had been suppressed and hidden from the public. His book does not line up to the original records.

That evidence collected from both sites was extensive and the two sites mirrored each other and included clothing, jewelry, evidence of the killer, weapons, skeletal remains, possible bondage and possible drug and alcohol related activity [Bundy was known through the autopsies of other victims to imbibe his victims with alcohol and other possible drugs]. It was a pattern and it indicates that Bundy was very well developed as a killer by 1974 and should have been looked at closely for his activity in previous years especially with a report of rape against him in 1972 and when considering some of the witness statements against him which Washington has suppressed over the years.

Was WA State avoiding having to charge Bundy? No charges were levied at Bundy by WA State despite multiple witness statements, a prior rape complaint against him in 1972 that law enforcement knew of and which is noted multiple times in the records and despite him lining up on multiple levels [VW, age/appearance and locations]. WA State even ran a DMV report on all persons named Ted who drove VWs with similar height and weight and description and his name should have come up – this was shortly after the girls disappeared from Sammamish. They also had a credible witness statement against him in October of 1974 and did nothing. The FBI received multiple hair samples from Taylor Mountain and so potentially knew more had been found. The FBI was meeting with Bundy while in prison without his attorneys and so were officials from WA State and it was not adversarial as has been claimed publicly. They were facilitating his contacts with officials. He was being treated more like a celebrity than a criminal.

Bundy’s Political Associations: Records also show that Bundy was very active with the Republican Party and Justice System: working on the Crime Commission, acting as a consultant on a recidivism study which he completed and was paid several thousand dollars for by the WA State justice system with the knowledge of the FBI; acting as a small Republican party precinct chairman; working closely with high ranking officials of the Republican Party during the years 1969 to 1974. They are not responsible for his killing if they did not know but if they covered up his crimes to avoid association or discovery of his deep involvement that is a crime and so is the continued suppression of the evidence that was sealed away.

False public narrative and the tremendous harm to myself and families: The public story continues and the cases in WA State have been permanently compromised by all the disclosures of evidence and creative editing of evidence by officials in WA State. It is time for the surviving victim, myself, to be heard and for the evidence that was sealed away and hidden to be revealed to the public. An independent investigation by others not associated to WA State, to its friends or allies, would be the only type of investigation that would be objective. WA State has demonstrated its willingness to cover up the truth by the very act of sealing away evidence and allowing an inaccurate and embellished account to become part of the public record.

The following is a summary of what he did to me: I have the documents to support all of this and when all of this is aligned against the evidence, including that which was with held, there is no doubt that I am who I say I am and it raises serious questions about this case in general:

Bundy did not constantly hit his victims while in captivity – at least he did not do that to me. Bundy used drugging and alcohol imbibing in WA State just as he did in Utah and that is supported in my memories going back to 2001 as well as what was found on site in Issaquah and Taylor Mountain.
He hit me on the head during the initial capture of me, usually coming up on me from behind; but once I was in his possession I was bound and/or restrained until release and I was never fully aware. A few times he did hit me on the head while in captivity if I came to and jolted all of a sudden or if I was coming out of the unconsciousness state and was trying to stand or get away. It was all about control and hitting me once I was restrained and contained during capture, at least by memory, seemed to me by memory and feelings associated to those memories, to be done out of anger and containment of me or out of frustration. I was young and active back then and metabolized any drugs [even antibiotics] rapidly. His dosing of me didn’t always work the way he intended. He also brought me out when there was activity he wanted to do and he needed me to be semi-aware of it and able to be responsive. But I never had control ever – and I was never free, never unbound, until I was eventually released – and there was never any talking. It was always silent. He never told me ahead of time what he was going to do – he just did it. I was never fully aware of all that happened to me when I was released – I could barely walk and my memory was severely impacted.
I was in and out of consciousness nearly all the time while held by him and this is in my memory fragments years before anything about him was released and years before I got the records. He was using date rape drugs and alcohol to ply his victims proven by autopsies, more than likely either home-made date rape drugs or that he’d stolen while working at a medical supply business. My memories date and time stamped going back years refer over and over to loss of consciousness while in captivity and to his actions with me as a victim which included bathing and repeated types of sexual assault which were very repetitive and organized in terms of progression and what he did and how he did it. It was ritualistic.
Records sealed away for decades support me in the above statements. There was no decapitation and I doubt, based on the actual case files, if there was ever necrophilia. His intent to me, having lived through it multiple times, was to keep the victim alive somewhere secured, out of view, and immobilized by drugging or imbibing. I personally was never gone long enough to arouse alarm but I was also never fully conscious during all of it and I was released in a manner where my slurring and staggering would be perceived as part of a party atmosphere and not as anything suspicious.
Chemical bottles were found at the sites of both Issaquah and Taylor Mountain where the victims were found [skeletal remains]. There was NO decapitation at either site but there was evidence of animal activity and scattered remains. There was also a thermos found by a skull, snug tie, and rope. Liz found him with a date rape drug in Utah and that is in her book.
There was evidence of the killer on site at each location and evidence of potential bondage and that the victims had been kept alive possibly for at least awhile. At Taylor Mountain a lean to had been found, a thermos, food wrappers, chemical bottles and girls’ clothing including bras.
In the autopsies of victims in Utah, there was evidence of plying with alcohol and one victim at least per autopsy was shown to have alcohol poisoning and she’d been held for several days in his possession. There was evidence of bathing per a victim autopsy in Utah, something I had been stating for years before that information had been released. There were abandoned homes nearby – I question whether they were ever thoroughly checked for evidence that the missing girls had been held there. My memories clearly included a location that “smelled musty” and this had been stated years before the records were released to me.
My experiences that I had been coming forward with were mirroring what he’d done to victims in Utah and WA State knew it. He had been using me as a repeat victim, toying with my life and releasing me in a state of awakening where I was unable to remember what had happened to me and barely able to walk and the release of me was always at night and around parties where people would think my stumbling was due to alcohol and not due to kidnapping and sexual assault. Bundy told Hagmaier behind the scenes that he was picking up a woman and releasing her unharmed but he never named the person: it was me.
Bundy was known to have weapons. Contrary to what has been put forward by WA State, he was known to have a knife and had been reported to have a gun by at least one witness who was credible at the time. Evidence at the scene also showed weapons.
A knife sheath was found on site in WA State at one location. A knife was reported as stolen in WA State and then returned and the person implicated was Bundy. There were gun shell casings found at Taylor Mountain and witness statements that gun shots were heard in that area. Victims had evidence of wounds in very specific spots in their anatomy when found – their skeletons showed these wounds. A weapon had been used on them, more than strangulation. Strangulation also was done not manually but with a weapon used for that purpose – a very specific type that is noted in the records as found in Utah and also one was found in WA State. That ligature weapon was taken into custody in spring or summer of 1975. It matched by description a similar ligature noted with at least one Utah victim. Again the correlations – WA State had the evidence and failed to act. This is never discussed publicly.
I told a person connected to this case that I had an unnatural fear of knives long before I received the records which verified weapons associations to Bundy.
Bundy talked behind the scenes to authorities about a woman [I was a girl of 16 when this all started] that he had been kidnapping and releasing to test his skills. I was that woman and I line up to the case in over 50 points of reference, characteristics and proximity and locations over four years.
I had been stating for years that he had been surveilling my parents’ home, that we’d had things stolen, including pots and pans which were expensive and a set of such pots and pans was noticed by Liz and also was found at Bundy’s apartment in Utah. Bundy was known to surveille some of his victims before abducting them and entering their homes ahead of time clandestinely. I could not have known of this back in 2001 when I started coming forward.
Records sealed away indicate that Bundy may have been researching victims he took in 1974 earlier than 1974. Evidence shows that there was activity in Linda Healy’s area within a few doors of where she lived before she disappeared. There were break in attempts at several locations on young girls and one time it was called in to the police to come out as there were fingerprints on the window ledge that could have been collected but they did not come out. There was activity in that area noted by police as far back as 1973. Keppel knew of these as he had the records of that time period but these records were with the Seattle police and he was with King County and there were some political competitive issues between these jurisdictions back then that make me wonder whether the Bundy cases were compromised in WA State long before the 1974 series of disappearing girls began.

Some may feel at this point it is a lost cause to revisit Bundy cases but the truth is, it is very important. The evidence sealed away raises questions about policy and procedure and cases that are still open in WA State and not closed. WA State issued an edict stating that only DNA would be considered in 2011 but DNA would degrade in any remnant of a site or remains and evidence found now unless it was in a property room and WA State made sure that would never happen when they ordered evidence to be thrown away per internal memo. Per the records there is not much that remains.

WA State has continued to silence me over the years, coming in behind media, attorneys and other even while it puts out its false narrative. But there is a story here…and it is very important to the understanding of what Bundy did to victims while he held them in captivity during those years 1970 to 1974 because that is what he did to me and it started not in 1974 but in 1970. He was active as a killer and rapist long before 1974. Not only was he raping me during that early time period but records show he had been reported for rape by another woman and that he was already using the imbibing with alcohol at that time. That too was in my memories and earliest recollections of him in 1972. Our statements support each other even though I never knew of her nor she of me and even though I’ve never met her. I knew what car he was driving in 1971 [never released] and I knew other important details never released. Profiling of him as a serial killer is off because of what was with held and because no one has ever yet listened to me or factored in to that time period what I am saying.

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Published on May 09, 2016 09:06

Early victim of Ted Bundy, 1970, speaks out on hidden sealed evidence, lost evidence in the case, misconduct by officials the cover up

Reconstructing Sara: The Lost Victim of Ted Bundy was published September 16, 2016.

The book “Reconstructing Sara” is currently being rewritten with case facts never before made public that reveal evidence that was thrown away, lost, and denied for decades…evidence which changes the face of the case and raises serious questions about conduct and responsibility to the public by WA State.

Reconstructing Sara is about my story as a survivor of multiple kidnappings by Ted Bundy. I have been coming forward to authorities for over a decade since as far back at least as 2001. My story, and my struggles with PTSD and brain damage from repeated concussion, is supported by details of the case which were never publicly released. My emails date and time stamped, lined up to case facts which had been sealed in an area hidden away for decades….evidence that was denied publicly as existing. Evidence that showed WA State failed in its responsibility to the public. Sealing away critical evidence in a homicide series of investigations is called Spoilation of Evidence and it is a sign of corruption. WA State also per internal memos ordered evidence destroyed and failed to protect other evidence critical to the cases such as over 100 pieces of evidence collected from each of the Issaquah and Taylor Mountain crime scenes. The girls were not decapitated there – Keppel’s public statement of this is not true to the actual records and search and rescue notes of that day – the skeletal remains were found there and confirmed to be the girls decades later in 2005….Keppel also has in his detective notes of that time period confirmation there was no decapitation from the ME who examined the skeletal remains shortly after they were removed from Taylor Mountain.

It took over 14 years before I was able to obtain the case files from the State of Washington to prove that my memories, time and date stamped for over a decade, contained details which I could not have known unless I was who I said I was: the girl he had told FBI about before he was executed. The case files, which I received through FOIA requests and which I paid for, I do not believe were ever intended to be released.

[image error] Sara: Ted Bundy Victim [high school, 1972]

These hidden case files show contrary to what WA State has claimed over the years that only jaws and skulls and a few bunches of hair were found on Taylor Mountain, skeletal remains were logged in personally by Robert Keppel in March of 1975 and assigned evidence numbers which allow them to be tracked internally over the years. The skeletal remains were sent forward to Superior Court in 1975 before Bundy was caught in Utah and after that the records show the remains were then moved to the ME office in March of 1984 where they sat until 2005 when they were sent to TX and were confirmed by DNA to be three of the girls found and identified initially by their skulls and jawbone fragments. Additionally there was another set of bones which were not identified by DNA in 2005 and which did not match Hawkins. Interestingly, at the same time the skeletal remains with evidence numbers were moved to the ME Office another set of human bones, tibia and fibulas, were moved to the ME office also in a box of elk bones and these were NOT assigned numbers. Leg x-rays were being requisitioned by several detectives in March of 1975. Hawkins had a deformity of these bones which could have identified her. What happened to the bones in the box of elk bones? Given there was no decapitation and the 1989 interview seems rehearsed about Hawkins, it makes you wonder why and who was behind the missing tibia/fibulas.

Multiple people on site, professionals and not “kids” as has been the story put out publicly, were witness to the large amount of evidence removed from Taylor Mountain during the initial searches conducted in March of 1975. I have the records of each of the search days there and it wasn’t “kids”as Keppel claims. He wrote “Riverman” under color of law and was still employed by the State of WA AG Office when he wrote it so why is it that he was allowed to write the book for profit when not all cases were known about Bundy and not all had been solved and certainly the evidence of Taylor Mountain and of Issaquah had been suppressed and hidden from the public. What was really going on and why isn’t this activity that seems very illegal to me being questioned more by the public instead of embraced? Keppel profited off the case while a public servant and his scenario is not supported by the actual records of the day – so why aren’t officials investigating it and why are they refusing to review the evidence that was released to me? How high does this cover up go? Because that is what it is – a cover up.

That evidence included clothing, jewelry, evidence of the killer, weapons, skeletal remains, possible bondage and possible drug and alcohol related activity [Bundy was known through the autopsies of other victims to imbibe his victims with alcohol and other possible drugs].

This evidence was critical to unsolved cases yet these cases were not actively worked and no charges were levied at Bundy by WA State despite multiple witness statements, a prior rape complaint against him in 1972 that law enforcement knew of and which is noted multiple times in the records and despite him lining up on multiple levels [VW, age/appearance and locations]. The FBI received multiple hair samples from Taylor Mountain and refused to issue me a case number or investigation – despite my direct referral from the DOJ and the submission of a victim impact statement direct to the victim officer of the regional WA State FBI….victim rights violations? Participation in a major cover up? Several people involved in those years with the Bundy cases held careers afterwards with the FBI. Were these people part of the original cover up or victims of it as well?

The public story continues and the cases in WA State have been permanently compromised by all the disclosures of evidence and creative editing of evidence by officials in WA State. It is time for the surviving victim, myself, to be heard and for the evidence that was sealed away and hidden to be revealed to the public. An independent investigation by others not associated to WA State, to its friends or allies, would be the only type of investigation that would be objective. WA State has demonstrated its willingness to cover up the truth by the very act of sealing away evidence and allowing an inaccurate and embellished account to become part of the public record.

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Published on May 09, 2016 09:06

Early victim of Ted Bundy, 1970, speaks out on hidden sealed evidence, lost evidence in the case, misconduct by officials