The Ted Bundy cases have been misrepresented to the public by officials for decades. It’s time the actual records and facts were known.
Records were sent to a sealed area of the Archives in WA State for years while Robert Keppel put forward a public accounting of the Bundy years in WA that was not true or accurate and he was aware of it as the facts were in his private detective notes and he personally bullied me, threatened me and silenced me by blocking my attempts to open investigations. Families were impacted, and victims who died on Bundy’s sites were never given their full justice. Some were never even identified.
Some of the lies: “nothing was found on Taylor Mountain except a few bunches of hair and jawbones/skulls”. Over 150 pieces of evidence including clothing, human skeletal remains [which in 2008 by DNA confirmed at least 3 of the girls found on Taylor Mountain], weapons, food items, items that could have been used to drug the girls, hold the girls captive [a lean to], clothing [including bras] were all found. Search teams involving multiple jurisdictions were on site at Taylor Mountain. Bundy wasn’t throwing anything out the window of the VW and Keppel knew it: it was all on site. Keppel personally documented the evidence found by photographing and listing it. He put his personal ID numbers on some of the evidence which included human skeletal remains and which proved he knew his public claims of nothing found as late as the documentaries and media he put out in 2019 was a lie. He also took in evidence via a Special Inquiry Judge on Bundy’s work history which connected Bundy to high level officials [and Keppel denied] so he knew Bundy wasn’t “mysterious”.
The FBI/BAU, WA AG office and investigators put forward an accounting of a serial case that was inaccurate for decades while they hyped their own roles in media to further careers and to make money. The cases per the FBI in 1992 were halted with “we’ll never know”. The evidence was not worked and neither were the cases. Over 50 girls were missing between 1970 and 1974 in WA. Bundy was active during that time. It did not start in 1974 but much earlier and officials knew it. Bundy admitted to killing in 1973 and in the behind the scenes interview before the execution with Keppel alluded to 1972.
It is a shame and a travesty that this betrayal of victims, families and the public continues to this day. It needs to stop.
"Reconstructing Sara" The Lost Victim of Ted Bundy
"Reconstructing Sara" is not written to be a novel. Instead, it is public testimony . I did not shy away from what happened back then, nor try to create a dramatic end in sudden revelations. I am telling the story in the way the memories remain -as they occurred over a time line of nearly four years – supported by never released case files.
I also included emails which express memory fragments and contain elements of the case which were factual. Each email in the book has its original time and date stamp noted. These were all saved as originally written to the servers. They exist in their original form.
"Reconstructing Sara" launches Sept 13 on my 62nd birthday.
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