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.
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