I was always under the impression that LE were unable to give out information related to unsolved cases, so when I requested the case files for the murder of Brenda Joy Baker I wasn’t expecting much. This is the first installment of records that the Thurston County Sheriff’s are sending me.
Back in April I began the process of requesting the case files related to the murder of Katherine Merry Devine from the Thurston Co. Sheriff’s Department out of Washington state. I found the entire ordeal to be not only simple but also incredibly inexpensive, so logically I thought to myself, ‘what else can I get from these fine people?,’ and after looking into it I realized that confirmed Bundy victim Donna Gail Manson was also abducted from the same county. These are the documents that they sent me. Last night I registered with neighboring King County and requested some documents from them as well. This is outstanding.
Notes from TB’s final days, as well as Fred Lawrence’s notes from the night before his execution; Lawrence was the Reverend that sat with Ted on the night before his death. Document courtesy of Maria Serban.
This is some information related to the Bundy case from Garfield County in Colorado from 1976.
I have been searching for Bundy’s gas receipts for YEARS. I’ve always struggled with insomnia, and last night at around 4 AM found a TB website I never came across before and read through EVERYTHING. Thank you to the ‘Ted Bundy Archives’ WordPress page and Kevin Sullivan for this information.
A .PDF document of reports related to the extensive searches made in the Issaquah and Taylor Mountain areas in relation to Ted Bundy.
According to the Issaquah Dump Site report, the skeletons were badly scattered by animals and no evidence of trauma, dismemberment or assault could be detected, and no clothing, jewelry, or other personal effects were near the scene. The report concluded that the victims were probably killed elsewhere and dumped at the dump sites shortly after they disappeared. After the search made in the area, three sets of bones were found, and two of them were determined to have belonged to Janice Ott and Denise Naslund. The skull of Janice Ott was still missing as were the skull and mandible of the third person, and for the third set of bones the two possible victims were thought to have been Georgann Hawkins and Donna Manson. A large quantity of immature elk bones were found 1/4 mile east of the scene on ‘Sunset Highway.’
According to the Taylor Mountain DS report, the skulls and/or mandibles of Lynda Healy, Susan Rancourt, Kathy Parks, and Brenda Ball were found at this location; several other bones were also found at this location, but were eventually determined to be non-human. The report specifies that this gave rise to the theory that the girls had been decapitated, but no cervical vertebrae were found in the search. The report further specifies that animals in the area included coyotes, bears and rodents, adding that the possibility of their consuming all bones of the body was slim.
The Taylor Mountain Dump Site report also states that the area at all times of the year was very brushy and would have been extremely dense during June when Brenda Ball disappeared, positing that the killer could have dumped the bodies in an area of evergreens nearby where there was less underbrush but no grease spots were found in that area either.
Courtesy of ‘archives.org’ user ‘Marionumber’ and the Pitkin County DA.
Ted Bundy’s Last Will and Testament from 1989, courtesy of Erin Banks/CrimePiper.
This is the complete autopsy of Caryn Campbell. Document courtesy of Erin Banks/CrimePiper.
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