No Decapitation in WA Cases - Bundy was NOT dumping heads at Taylor Mountain - records prove it

Here is a summary of facts of the case: These records included internal memos, case files on victims including autopsy reports, surveillance records, detective notes and detective street notes, internal documents such as DNA requests and evidence lists generated on site at both Issaquah and Taylor Crime scenes. What they reveal is a contradiction to the story that has been put forth publicly.
1-Taylor Mountain was a major crime scene and Keppel's comments that nothing were found there but heads and jawbones is false. His own detective notes show him logging in skeletal remains for evidence tracking. These skeletal remains per the paper trail of original documents show he forwarded them to Superior Court. The skeletal remains found on site at Taylor Mountain were eventually sent to the ME office in March of 1984 around the time he took over the Green River investigation. But why weren't they worked during that 1980 to 1984 period when they knew those skeletal remains existed?
2- In 1980 Keppel asked to get in touch with Bundy after interfacing with Michaud and Aynesworth. This is in his detective notes. He took into his custody in 1980 a 33 page critique of Ann Rule’s book “Stranger Beside Me” that Bundy had written – it was single spaced and which Bundy had turned over to Aynesworth per his detective notes. What did that single spaced large document say about the book? Bundy states he disputed her work. Why wasn't it put into the public record? Keppel also took into custody a transcription from their interview. Instead of noting that he put these into evidence he sent them per his notes to the department psychiatrist who had never met or interviewed Ted Bundy. The psychiatrist put together a profile that Keppel wrote to another jurisdiction was “surprisingly accurate”. Did the psychiatrist only have what Keppel gave him to work with?
3. Shortly thereafter Keppel began working for the AG Office. From 1980 to 1984, there is relatively little in the files related to the cases of Bundy in WA State. There is little if any documentation that evidence from the crime scenes was ever finger printed or actively preserved. A few pieces were sent forward for finger printing but the results were not in the files. They ran a DMV check on all persons named Ted of his age range who drove VWs shortly after Issaquah in 1974. Why wasn't his name on the list and if it was...why wasn't that piece of evidence used as it occurred before Taylor Mountain.

Even though many people were involved in the searches and had taken over 300 pieces of evidence off Taylor Mountain and Issaquah these sites were denied their significance. In fact the AG Office only shows one car at the Taylor Mountain site [or two cars in some photos] but in reality there were air patrols, and many cars from many people from several jurisdictions. Keppel claims nothing was found there even though there were human remains, multiple bodies at both locations, abandoned homes nearby, articles of clothing, jewelry, and evidence of possible grave and animal activity. Even though those human remains were noted by many professionals in the notes and those bones found on site and logged in by Keppel were confirmed by DNA years later to be the girls killed - he never sent them out to an anthropologist and the ME told him the heads were with the bodies. Even though Bundy had been charged in other jurisdictions outside of WA State since 1975. Bottom line - there was no decapitation at Taylor Mountain - so why the interview of 1989? Why didn't Keppel call Bundy out on the story of "throwing things out the window" and "cutting off a head". Hawkins body was never found and the evidence at Taylor Mountain shows conclusively that no decapitation happened there so why has Keppel put forth the false scenario over the years and why wasn't it questioned by those who were there that day? Why the silence and why the push back at me and attempts to hide the truth?
4. The skeletal remains of the victims sat in the ME office until 2005 identified only as “Bundy Bones” when these same skeletal remains, identified by internal documents with specific numbers which were assigned on site at the time of discovery in March of 1975, were sent to TX for DNA testing –DNA tests confirmed they were skeletal bones of at least three of the victims found originally on Taylor Mountain. Keppel also notes in his detective notes during the active investigation of Taylor Mountain in 1975 that he talked to the ME of that time and the ME told him that the heads “were with the bodies”. In other words there was no decapitation. So why the scenario in 1989 final interview that Bundy decapitated his victims and threw clothing out the window while he drove? The evidence doesn’t support it at either Issaquah or Taylor Mountain...so why didn’t Keppel challenge it? Why did he publish the scenario? He wasn't working at covering it up alone - so why sterilize all the evidence from these two crime scenes because that's what it was - a deliberate attempt to circumvent the truth. One oversight I can see, but not multiple and not to the extent that all of these occurred. What I still don't fully understand is the why.
5-The interviews of 1984 and 1988 differ from the public narrative. The interview of 1988 per the record in the sealed area of the Archives shows that Bundy was helping Keppel develop questionnaires. Were these questionnaires to be used in the HITS program?
6-The very act of sealing away evidence in a serial case where girls remain missing and a survivor is coming forward is highly suspect. Failure to disclose to the public all the evidence found at Taylor Mountain, noted by multiple people including those present that day of Search and Rescue, raises serious questions about violations of public trust. Otherwise, why hide it? This moving of evidence into a sealed area out of the jurisdiction of police, where they cannot access it, is proven by internal memos and shows the activity started in 1999 and again in 2012. This was the year I had contacted the FBI a second time complaining of witness and victim intimidation.
7-It has been denied that Bundy wrote a rape paper. He did. It was in 1972 while he served as Assistant Director of the Crime Commission in Seattle. I have the paper. I also have the witness statement of a superior who states and confirms that Bundy wrote it for the Crime Commission.
8-It has been denied that Bundy finished the recidivism study - but he did. I have the final formal report and Bundy was paid several thousand dollars for it. The recidivism study was also known of by the FBI. This is stated in an internal memo. I also have the records of the original contract and the payments to Bundy made by WA State.
9 -It has been denied that any clothing or weapons or jewelry that indicated a crime scene was found at Issaquah or Taylor Mountain and it has instead been put forward that Bundy was throwing items out of his window - was this scenario rehearsed as it isn't supported by the actual evidence and search and rescue logs of that time period.....the evidence was indeed there at Taylor Mountain including clothing found that by description matched at least one of the victims and taken together with the fact that their skeletal remains were found at Taylor Mountain and proven by DNA also raises questions about the public narrative put forth. Was the FBI aware of this?
10-Why did Ted Bundy get so much access to officials once he was in Florida? They circumvented his attorneys – why? Why did Keppel sue the state of Florida to get Bundy’s notes? It was reported in the papers and is part of the public record. He could have had copies. Why sue for the originals?
11-How with little or no money, did Bundy afford law school when he had no source of financial aid noted, no scholarships, and worked only part time random jobs. How did he afford the University of WA? How could he have possibly afforded a summer at Stanford? At the University of Washington, he afforded a private room in a rooming house [no direct room mates] had a car in 1973, and had unusual access to high ranking officials. They never checked his background?
12-Why did he retain a defense attorney in WA State when WA State never charged him with anything and how did he pay for those bills and why and how was he able to retain that attorney in the first place? In Utah and Florida he had attorneys assigned.
13. How does WA State, who never brought Bundy to trial and never prosecuted him for a single crime, and never caught him or tried to extradite him, seemingly able to continue to control the narrative about Bundy? None of this makes any sense when you see the totality of the evidence ...none of this in my opinion has been to serve justice or to help the victims and their families, myself included. None of this is what I think of when I think of what our justice system is supposed to be about. The WA State justice system and the Attorney General office needs to be held accountable for its failure to investigate and resolve what happened during those years. I have been told by authorities in the police jurisdictions that the AG Office did not plan to investigate even though this evidence clearly shows the public has been lied to about those years and I have that refusal in writing. Their response was "not at this time." Meanwhile the false narrative continues...in the media...at universities....and to the public...while the families and myself and those young girls thrown away at Taylor Mountain wait....
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Published on August 28, 2018 07:01
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