“...I avoided the Vietnam draft by the skin  of my teeth and a fortuitously broken ankle. I have ignored paying tickets, and two timed a faithful girlfriend...and have once or twice contemplated committing an unnatural act with Raquel Welch. But I have never maintained I should be nominated for sainthood...”

Ted in a letter to Jon Nordheimer, Chief of the “New York Times” Miami Bureau who has written extensively on the case of Ted Bundy. In July 1979 an article appeared in “Saga” Magazine written by Nordheimer which included snippets from correspondence from Bundy to the journalist from his maximum security cell in Tallahassee, Fla, as he prepared for his defence in the Chi Omega Sorority murder trial.

    “SHADOW Of A DOUBT” By Jon Nordheimer - “Saga Magazine” July 1979

Is Ted Bundy the All-American Boy or the sadistic Killer of 36 young women?

“...When I first came under attack by the legal system, l was 28, a bachelor, a law student, engaged to be married, and enjoying the brightest period of my life, I  liked the person I had become (as I do still), and had no regrets over anything I had ever done, since I believed that something good had always come from an occasional lack of good judgment or from disappointment... My friends argue that I am (was) a 'nice guy' , even though once a week you can read about some Indiana choirboy who stabs to death the neighborhood priest or garrots the widow next door. How could such a thing happen, people wonder? Everyone, including the experts, are baffled...(Ted then reveals in his letter to Nordheimer , a little coyly, he is not quite the good guy his friends so fondly remember! )... I have, on occasion, harbored thoughts of not paying my income tax. I avoided the Vietnam draft by the skin of my teeth and a fortuitously broken ankle. I have ignored paying tickets, and two timed a faithful girlfriend. I have filched grapes while shopping at the A&P and have once or twice contemplated committing an unnatural act with Raquel Welch. But I have never maintained I should be nominated for sainthood...What  I have said is that it takes an extremely active imagination to make a two-timin, ticket-dodgin; grape-filching professional student into a mass-murder type. It just is not so. I am not the psychological prototype for a homicidal maniac...You ask why the hell I didn't get out of town immediately after l learned of the Chi Omega murders? Nothing I do can possibly be interpreted innocently, can it? If, on the day of the murders, I had picked up and fled Tallahassee, you and everyone else would be asking: well, if you weren't guilty, why didn't you stick around, you didn't have anything to be afraid of, did you? I didn't have anything to fear. I was not responsible for what happened at Chi Omega, I didn't do it, I wasn't there, so there was no reason for me to suspect that my presence alone would be sufficient to indict me for something I was innocent of. No matter what I say or do at this point, I am damned if I do and damned if I  don't...”

Raquel Welsh Circa 1972