Bundy’s occupations listed in the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report.’
During his time at Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma, Bundy had a grass cutting business with three friends; I couldn’t find anything else about it.
According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ Bundy’s first job was at Tacoma City Light: he was there from June 1965 to September 1965 and was as a forklift operator.The Tacoma City Lights Administration Building, picture taken on June 19, 1955.A newspaper article about the construction of two damns built by Tacoma City Light published in The Kitsap Sun on November 10, 1960.Per the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ Ted worked at The Seattle Yacht Club as a busboy beginning in September 1967; there is some uncertainty as to exactly how long he worked there, some reports say four to six weeks, others say six months, however according to Seattle police files, he ceased emp[lpoyment on January 13, 1968. The Seattle Yacht Club, April 2022. According to his friend Sybil Ferris, he was fired for stealing food. The Seattle Yacht Club, April 2022.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ in March 1968 Bundy was employed at the Olympic Hotel in Seattle; he was terminated for stealing from lockers.The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, picture taken in April 2022.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ from April 12, 1968 to July 26, 1968 Ted worked at the Queen Anne Safeway in Seattle as a stock boy. According to Mrs. Ferris, ‘I helped him get a job at Safeway for a short while and he just quit, not even going back to work to tell them he was leaving.’The Safeway Ted Bundy worked at, which was located at 2100 Queen Anne Ave North in Seattle, WA; the store no longer exists and was demolished sometime in 2022.The inside of the Safeway Ted Bundy worked at; picture taken in May 2022.Although I could not find it anywhere in the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ according to the blogger ‘tedbundy069063.wordpress.com,’Bundy worked as a driver for Art Fletcher, a Republican nominee for lieutenant governorinSeptember 1968; here he is standing with former Governor Dan Evans (who Bundy would later work for).A political ad for Art Fletcher published in The News Tribune on November 4, 1968.
I just want to make a note: although I can’t find it listed in the ‘TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ the blogger ‘tedbundy069063.wordpress.com’ said that from ‘September/November 1968: Ted ‘worked in a Seattle shoe store.’ I don’t know how accurate this is, and all I could find while researching were memes about Al Bundy from ‘Married with Children’ (who coincidentally did work at a woman’s shoe store).
Al Bundy sitting inside of his POE: a shoe store; ‘Married with Children’ took place in a ‘fictional suburb’ outside of Chicago, IL.Although not mentioned by name in the ‘1992 FBI TB Multiagency Team Report,’ the blog ‘tedbundy069063.wordpress.com’ says in May 1969 Ted worked at Export Pacific, a lumber mill in Tacoma.A want ad asking that anyone looking to sell alder logs to reach out to Export Pacific published in The News Tribune on June 6, 1969.I found a newspaper article that mentions the company ‘Export Pacific’ from the same year Bundy worked there published in The News Tribune on February 16, 1969 (it also mentions Pierce County’s Daffodil Festival, which one of his victims Georgann Hawkins was a part of in 1972/1973).Where Export Pacific once stood, located at 311 Middle Waterway located in Tacoma, WA.
Although not mentioned in the ‘1992 FBI TB Multiagency Team Report,’ according to ‘tedbundy069063.wordpress.com’ from September 1969 to May 1970 Ted worked as an ‘Attorney Messenger and Process Servicer’ for a company called ‘Legal Messengers, Inc; in Seattle: he was a file clerk and courier but was fired for unjustified absences (he claimed that he was baby-sitting Liz’s daughter).
An article about Legal Messengers, Inc published in The Daily Herald on November 1, 1972.According to the ‘1992 FBI TB Multiagency Team Report,’ on June 5, 1970 Ted started a job as a delivery driver for Pedline Supply Company, a family-owned medical supply company; he was once caught stealing a photograph from a doctor’s office but got off with a simple lecture. Bundy’s employment with Pedline is mentioned in the ‘Ted Bundy and File 1004 documents from Seattle PD’ document I found on ‘archive.org.’ A newspaper article that mentions Bundy’s former POE, Pedline Surgical Supply published in The Bellingham Herald on July 18, 1976.Bundy left Pedline Supply Company on December 31, 1971, when they moved their office to another part of Seattle.Although it isn’t listed in the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ it’s a well-known fact that from September 1971 to May 1972 Bundy worked one night a week at the Seattle Crisis Clinic with Ann Rule (who was an unpaid volunteer). Above is a picture taken in 1937 of the Victorian mansion on Capitol Hill that was later converted into the clinic, photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.The second location of the Seattle Crisis Clinic, located on the second story.A newspaper clipping about The Seattle Crisis Clinic published in The Kitsap Sun on August 24, 1965.A newspaper clipping announcing the Seattle Crisis Clinic was looking for volunteers published in The West Seattle Herald on August 11, 1976.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ from June 1972 to September 1972Ted interned as a counselor at Harborview Mental Health Center in Seattle; additionally, in June 1972 he was hired as the Assistant Director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission, where he was employed from September 1972 to April 1973. While there, he helped draft Washington state’s new hitchhiking law and wrote a rape‐prevention pamphlet directed towards women. From June 1972 to September 1972, Ted interned as a counselor at Harborview Mental Health Center in Seattle.Harborview Medical Center, picture taken in April 2022.
A Seattle PD Memorandum dated October 9, 1975 inquiring about the rape study Bundy wrote in 1972, courtesy of Tiffany Jean.
Ted sitting with the Director of the Seattle Crime Commission Tom Sampson and Dr. Ezra Stotland. Photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.The Seattle Crime Commission is mentioned in an article about a two-day conference that was published by The Kitsap Sun on September 23, 1970.An article about the director of The Seattle Crime Commission that was published in The Olympian on March 26, 1972.A three question ‘quiz’ about Ted Bundy that mention his time in the Seattle Crime Commission published in The News Tribune on August 7, 1977.
According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ from September 1972 to November 1972 Bundy was employed for Governor Dan Evans’ re-election campaign.A picture of Bundy taken in September 1972 while he was employed as a campaign worker for Dan Evans. Photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.Bundy at the Governor’s Ball, if you look on the outskirts of the pictures you will see him.A newspaper article about Governor Evans that mentions Ted Bundy, courtesy of Tiffany Jean.A letter of recommendation written by Dan Evans for Ted Bundy dated February 27, 1973.Ted being interviewed on local TV in regard to the part he played in ‘opposition monitoring’ in the campaign to re-elect Dan Evans in 1972. Screenshot courtesy of Tiffany Jean.An article mentioning Bundy spying on Dan Evans Democratic opponent before his 1975 arrest published by The Olympian on August 29, 1973.An article about Bundy admitting that he ‘tailed Rosellini’ that was published in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer on August 30, 1973.A newspaper article pre-Bundy’s August 1975 arrest that discusses his trickery in the Republican party published in The Daily Herald on April 18, 1974.
According to ‘tedbundy069063.wordpress.com,from September 1972 to January 1973 Ted worked for ‘Seattle’s Department of Law & Justice Planning.’
A newspaper article about Seattle’s Law & Justice Planning Office published in The News Tribune on January 8, 1973.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ in January 1973 Ted was ‘on contract’ with ‘criminal justice planning’ under the company name ‘T.R.B.’ located in Seattle, WA. February/April 30, 1973 – King County Program Planning.The first page of Ted’s contract for ‘personal services’ with King County’s Department of Budget and Program Planning, where he was brought on as a consultant.The second page of Ted’s contract for ‘personal services’ with King County’s Department of Budget and Program Planning, where he was brought on as a consultant.An article mentioning Bundy speaking in a daylong meeting of the Yakima County Republican precinct (before his August 1975 arrest) that was published by The Tri-City Herald on May 17, 1973.Bundy is mentioned in an article about being on the GOP payroll published in The Olympian on August 29, 1973.Ted in a picture with some law school friends in 1973 during his time at the University of Puget Sound School of Law.Bundy was unemployed from October 1973 to May 3, 1974.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ Bundy was unemployed from October 1973 to May 3, 1974.Bundy was unemployed from October 1973 to May 3, 1974.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ Bundy was unemployed from October 1973 to May 3, 1974.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ Bundy was unemployed from October 1973 to May 3, 1974.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ from May 3, 1974 to August 28, 1974 Ted was employed at the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia.Page one of an employment application with the state of Washington dated signed on May 20, 1974 that Ted filled out that had his job history on it, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.Page two of an employment application with the state of Washington dated signed on May 20, 1974 that Ted filled out that had his job history on it, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department.From May 3, 1974 to August 28, 1974, Ted was employed at the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia, WA. It is notated here that he went out ‘on unpaid leave’ on July 1, 1974 and there is no notation of when he officially returned to work From May 3, 1974 to August 28, 1974, Ted was employed at the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia, WA.From May 3, 1974 to August 28, 1974, Ted was employed at the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia; he left to go to law school in Utah.Ted at an event with what sort of looks like Carole Ann Boone sitting in the background (although I may be wrong). Photo courtesy of my friend, Hakim Attar.The Department of Emergency Services is mentioned in an article published by The Olympian on March 15, 1973.Olympia’s Department of Emergency Services is mentioned in an article about Ted Bundy published by The Olympian on October 3, 1975.What looks like a request for ‘the lowest tariff rate’ for a flight Bundy took that was related to work, courtesy of the King County Sheriff’s Department; notice, his job title is ‘Administrative Officer.’ On August 30, 1974, Ted Bundy submitted his letter of resignation to the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia, WA.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ in June and July 1975 Ted was the night manager of Ballif Hall, a men’s residence hall at the University of Utah; he was fired for showing up drunk.A newspaper article about the opening of Ballif Hall at the University of Utah that was published in The Salt Lake Tribune on May 21, 1956.A newspaper article about the opening of Ballif Hall at the University of Utah that was published in The Deseret News on May 21, 1956. Sadly, the building was deemed ‘unusable’ in March 2003 due to severe maintenance issues and an extreme mold infestation; it was eventually demolished.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ in July/August 1975 Ted worked PT as a security guard at the University of Utah; his job was terminated due to budget cuts.According to the ‘1992 TB FBI Multiagency Team Report,’ in September and October 1975 Ted was part of the custodial staff in plant operation at the University of Utah; his position was terminated after he was jailed in Salt Lake County.A newspaper clipping saying that The University of Utah is looking for a night custodian published in The Salt Lake Tribune on September 27, 1975.
Stephen ‘Buzzy’ Arnold Ware was born on January 23, 1943 to Arnold and Freda (nee Cowperthwaite) in Santa Maria, CA. Arnold Grassel ‘Barney’ Ware was born on June 11, 1915 in Butler, IL, and Freda Catherine Cowperthwaite was born on September 9, 1916 in Golden, CO. The couple were wed on March 7, 1941 in Denver, Colorado and had three children together: Stephen, Randolph ‘Stick’ Howard (b. 1944, Santa Barbara), and Mary Ann (b. 1949, Detroit). The elder Mr. Ware lived quite an extraordinary life: he earned his MS in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado in 1939 and went on to get his PhD from the same institution in 1942. He was an Army Captain in the Pacific during WWII (he served from 1941-1945), and upon returning home got a position as the director of a medical lab at a Los Angeles County Hospital, where he was employed until 1973. Later in the same year, he became the co-owner of Biocon Lab in Pasadena (he retired in 1984) and he was an assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Southern California’s Medical School.
After graduating from South Pasadena High School in 1960, Buzzy went on to receive his Bachelors from the University of Colorado in 1964, and earned a law degree from the University of Southern California in 1968. After he passed the bar exam, he opened a law practice in Aspen, and in July of 1977 he was appointed as Ted Bundy’s attorney in his first-degree murder case.
Stephen married Pamela Craven-Rutherford on December 13, 1974 in Aspen, CO. The daughter of a prominent General Practitioner in Boulder, Pam was born on August 23, 1946 in San Diego, CA (one source said it was Boulder, CO), and was one of nine brothers and sisters. She graduated from Boulder High School in 1964 and went on to attend Western State University, where she dually majored in Sociology and Psychology. While there, she was very active in extracurricular activities, and was a member of Ski Club, Water Ski Club, and the Association of Women Students.
On June 16, 1977, Judge George E. Lohr appointed Ware as the new counsel for Theodore Robert Bundy for the murder of Michigan nurse, Caryn Campbell: at the time he was an ambitious young lawyer that looked ‘more like a ski bum than an attorney,’ and despite only being in his early thirties, he had already began to make a name for himself in Aspen: he had never lost a jury trial and flew his own plane and rode a motorcycle; he was also known as the man to have on your side in narcotics cases. Immediately after he was appointed as Bundy’s case, Ware flew to Texas as defense counsel in a major federal racketeering case.
According to Ann Rule’s true crime classic ‘The Stranger Beside Me,’ Ware was known around Colorado as ‘a winner,’ and Bundy somehow sensed that: in a phone call between Ted and the author, he sounded ‘jubilant’ when he talked about his new attorney, and she sensed that any residual feelings about his recent failed escape (which was between June 7th to June 13th, 1977) were quickly forgotten by August when he filed a motion for a retrial in Utah; this was done in relation to the Carol DaRonch case (due largely to what he felt were Detective Jerry Thompson’s suggestions to her that she pick out his photo from a line-up).
In an attempt to beef up its case against Bundy, the prosecution team brought in ‘similar transactions’ that were reminiscent of Campbells murder: they introduced testimony about the kidnapping conviction of Carol DaRonch, the murders and the disappearances of Melissa Smith, Laura Aime, and Debbie Kent in Utah, and the eight missing girls from Seattle. They tried to prove that the crimes attributed to Bundy fit some sort of ‘pattern,’ and they shared some commonalities, but when considered individually each one lacked ‘clout.’ Unfortunately (as we all know), Ted escaped for a second to Florida at the very end of 1977 and Campbell’s trial never happened).
One can only speculate what might have happened if Ted had had the continued support of his promising young attorney that fed new energy into his defense:on the night of August 11, 1977 Ware and his wife were involved in a motorcycle crash in the shale bluffs of Aspen, an event that killed Mrs. Ware on impact and left Buzzy with skull and facial fractures, countless internal injuries, and a broken leg. He was taken first by ambulance to Aspen Valley Hospital then was airlifted to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver.
According to one of the responding officers, James Loyd of the Colorado Highway Patrol, there was ‘no apparent reason for the accident,’ and the motorcycle veered off the left side of the pavement on a right hand curve, where he hit an embankment that stopped him at impact, throwing both Ware and Pamela off the bike, which caught fire shortly after the crash and was completely incinerated by the time help arrived. In the days that immediately followed the accident Buzzy was placed in a coma, and there were some worries that he could have possibly suffered from permanent paralysis.
There was no doubt about it: Ware would be in no shape to represent Bundy in court and once again, he was alone. Ted was devastated by the accident, as he had been counting on him to help clear his name in relation to the murder of Caryn Campbell. Although he never completely recovered from the accident, Buzzy continued to practice law in Denver and Boulder, and after he retired he relocated to Southern California, where he dabbled in pro-bono work, wrote several books, and ‘continued his lifelong fascination with fiction.’ He never remarried.
Buzzy Ware died of natural causes on September 3, 2006 in Portland, OR at the age of sixty-three (one source lists San Gabriel, CA). In his obituary, he was said to have had ‘a colorful character,’ and was loved by many close family members and friends, who said although his ‘injuries were deep both physically and emotionally, his generosity and the goodness of his heart were constant.’ Buzzy is laid to rest in the Ware Grove Cemetery located in Butler, IL.
Buzzy’s mother Freda passed away on August 11, 1977 in Denver, Colorado at the age of ninety-six. Buzzy’s father ‘Barney’ died at the age of seventy-one on January 25, 1987 in Pasadena, CA. His sister Mary Ann Ware currently resides in Portland, OR with her husband and is a retired Medical Doctor that specialized in internal medicine (some sources say she was a tuberculosis specialist). She graduated from the Utah School of Medicine in 1977 and completed her residency in Internal Medicine from University of Rochester Medical Center in 1980.
Like his brother, Stick Ware graduated from the University of Colorado: he earned multiple Bachelors degrees in Math, Chemistry, and Physics, his MS in Physics, and his PhD in Experimental Nuclear Physics. He is the Founder and Chief Scientist of Radiometrics, which is a manufacturing company that deals with appliances and electronics that is based in Boulder, CO; per his LinkedIn profile, it is a ‘world leader in the development of ground-based remote sensing.’ Stick is also the ‘founder emeritus’ of Boulder Beer, which was established in 1978. He currently resides in Boulder with his wife.
Buzzy in elementary school.Stephen Ware’s picture from the 1943 University of Colorado yearbook.Buzzy standing with his motorcycle with some of his friends. A photo of Buzzy and Bundy, photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.A second photo of Buzzy and Bundy, photo courtesy of Tiffany Jean.Buzzy.Buzzy posing by a truck.The site of Buzzy’s former law office, located at 940 Logan Street in Denver, CO.A newspaper clipping that mentions the fact that Buzzy’s birth certificate was filed published in The Santa Maria Times on January 28, 1943.Ware in a list of graduates from the 1961 class of South Pasadena High School published in The South Pasadena Review on June 12, 1961.An article about Buzzy getting a fine for passing a stop sign published in The Fort Collins Coloradoan on September 26, 1962.A newspaper clipping about Buzzy earning his Bachelors degree published in The South Pasadena Review on June 2, 1965.An article about a case Ware was trying published in The Daily Sentinel on December 14, 1972.Buzzy is mentioned in a list of names that got traffic infractions that was published in The Daily Sentinel on July 22, 1974.An article about a trial that Buzzy Ware was trying published in The Daily Sentinel on May 27, 1975.An article about a case that Buzzy trying published in The Nevada State Journal on January 9, 1976.Part one of an article about the trial of Ted Bundy that was published in The Straight Creek Journal on October 26, 1976.Part two of an article about the trial of Ted Bundy that was published in The Straight Creek Journal on October 26, 1976.Part three of an article about the trial of Ted Bundy that was published in The Straight Creek Journal on October 26, 1976.An article about Bundy’s trial that mentions Buzzy Ware being his attorney published in The Daily Sentinel on July 30, 1977.An article about Bundy’s trial that mentions Buzzy Ware being his attorney published in The Daily Sentinel on August 1, 1977.An article about Bundy’s trial that mentions Buzzy Ware being his attorney published in The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph on August 4, 1977.An article about Ware’s accident that mentions Bundy published in The News Tribune on August 11, 1977.An article about Ware’s accident published in The Daily Sentinel on August 11, 1977.An article about Ware’s accident published in The Pueblo Chieftain on August 12, 1977.An article about a trial Buzzy was involved in after his motorcycle accident that was published in The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph on June 16, 1978.An article about an accident Buzzy was involved in published in The Pueblo Chieftain on August 22, 1980.The Ware family in the 1950 census.Buzzy and Pamela’s marriage license.Buzzy and Pamela’s marriage certificate.Stephen and his family mentioned in a book about the Ware family history.Pamela Craven from the 1962 Boulder High School yearbook.Pamela Craven’s senior year picture from the 1964 Boulder High School yearbook.A picture of Pam from the 1968 Western State College yearbook.The entrance to the Ware Family Cemetery, located in Butler, IL.Buzzy’s parents final resting place.Arnold Ware.Arnold Ware (top left) with his family before he married Freda.Stephen’s mother, Freda.Buzzy’s mother is society section of the The Daily Sentinel, which was published on June 13, 1938.Arnold Ware’s WWII draft card. The birth announcement for Stephen’s brother Randolph published in The Santa Maria Times on June 22, 1944.A picture of Buzzy’s brother ‘Stick’ from the 1964 Colorado College yearbook.David Hummer, Stick Ware, and Al Nelson standing with a brew kettle on top of a vehicle during Boulder Beer’s early days, around 1979. A picture of Dr. Mary Ann Ware published in The Oregonian on April 8, 1998.Stick Ware’s marriage license from April 1992.Stick Ware’s LinkedIn picture.An article about Stick Ware’s brewery published in The Daily Sentinel on September 20, 2009.Boulder Beer Company as it looks today.
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