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The FBI has been using these Bundy tapes to train criminal psychologists in Quantico, Virginia since they were recorded in 1989. A confidential source handed them to KIRO Team 7 Investigators recently in hopes that local police and the public could benefit.
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Former King County detective Bob Keppel is the guy interviewing Bundy. We asked for -- but he did not provide -- his audio tapes of Bundy's confession. He did, however, agree to talk with us about that day.
"His eyes are shut. He's trying to relive this kind of videotape going in his head of what happened. It's hard for him to describe it," Keppel said.
Keppel: "Did you ever bury anybody?"
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."
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