Bundy Confession Tapes Revealed For The First Time
Uncensored Audio Tapes Obtained By Team 7 Investigators
Updated: 1:28 pm PDT October 17, 2007
It's a haunting voice from beyond the grave: Serial killer Ted Bundy tells all, and you'll hear it for the first time.KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne recently obtained nearly four hours of raw, uncensored audio cassettes of Bundy taped just before his execution.
Bundy: "Oh yes. In my more coherent, when I was really going all out and took my time, yeah. I did."But it's this particular audio tape -- the fifth and last in the set -- that is indeed rare. It was recorded just hours before Bundy was executed.Bundy: "I don't want to beat around the bush with you anymore. I'm just tired."Listen to the difference in Bundy's voice. He is no longer negotiating, no longer in control."The only thing I can say is that there's probably some satisfaction to the victims' families to hear how scared and intimidated and how much he's lost the cockiness because he's facing that penalty," said Dr. Muscatel said.On this last tape, Bundy claims to have cremated the skulls of several victims in his girlfriend's fireplace.Detective: "Burned it all up?"
Bundy: "Down to the last ash."He also denies a police theory that detectives had a fuzzy photo of Bundy's light colored VW bug at Lake Sammamish the day two girls disappear.Bundy: "I don't want to burst your bubble. It is an interesting coincidence."He also tells detectives where he dumped Evergreen College student Donna Gail Manson's body.Bundy: "Oh yeah, right. She's up in the mountains."Attorney Mark Prothero listened to all Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway's confessions. He says future victims can benefit from understanding that successful murderers don't look or sound like killers."Even when they are on the prowl and their hunger to kill is past the boiling point, their victims weren't alarmed or concerned," Prothero said.In the end, Bundy kept one secret for himself.Detective Keppel's last question was about the murder of young Ann Marie Burr, Bundy's neighbor when he was a teenager. Bundy coolly shut down the interview for good.Detective: "When and where was your first murder?"
Bundy: "One more question right?"
Detective: "Yeah. I'm sorry. I was just curious."
Bundy: "We'll have to bring that up, do that some other time. If there is another time."We recently contacted Ted Bundy's mother, who still lives in Tacoma, asking that she break a 25-year silence in speaking about her son. She declined.
Bundy: "Oh yes. In my more coherent, when I was really going all out and took my time, yeah. I did."But it's this particular audio tape -- the fifth and last in the set -- that is indeed rare. It was recorded just hours before Bundy was executed.Bundy: "I don't want to beat around the bush with you anymore. I'm just tired."Listen to the difference in Bundy's voice. He is no longer negotiating, no longer in control."The only thing I can say is that there's probably some satisfaction to the victims' families to hear how scared and intimidated and how much he's lost the cockiness because he's facing that penalty," said Dr. Muscatel said.On this last tape, Bundy claims to have cremated the skulls of several victims in his girlfriend's fireplace.Detective: "Burned it all up?"
Bundy: "Down to the last ash."He also denies a police theory that detectives had a fuzzy photo of Bundy's light colored VW bug at Lake Sammamish the day two girls disappear.Bundy: "I don't want to burst your bubble. It is an interesting coincidence."He also tells detectives where he dumped Evergreen College student Donna Gail Manson's body.Bundy: "Oh yeah, right. She's up in the mountains."Attorney Mark Prothero listened to all Green River Killer Gary Leon Ridgway's confessions. He says future victims can benefit from understanding that successful murderers don't look or sound like killers."Even when they are on the prowl and their hunger to kill is past the boiling point, their victims weren't alarmed or concerned," Prothero said.In the end, Bundy kept one secret for himself.Detective Keppel's last question was about the murder of young Ann Marie Burr, Bundy's neighbor when he was a teenager. Bundy coolly shut down the interview for good.Detective: "When and where was your first murder?"
Bundy: "One more question right?"
Detective: "Yeah. I'm sorry. I was just curious."
Bundy: "We'll have to bring that up, do that some other time. If there is another time."We recently contacted Ted Bundy's mother, who still lives in Tacoma, asking that she break a 25-year silence in speaking about her son. She declined.
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