{"id":9702,"date":"2017-09-25T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2020-09-28T21:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:40:52","slug":"bob-ted-two-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/25\/bob-ted-two-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Hansen & Ted Bundy: A Tale of Two Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I lived in Seattle in the mid-70s, when young women started disappearing, when warnings were broadcast against hitchhiking, when every woman I knew moved in a bubble of fear. Reports soon emerged that a witness had seen a man on crutches, wearing a leg cast, struggling to carry a briefcase. Another reported the man had asked her to help him carry the briefcase toward his Volkswagen. Soon, a name emerged. “Ted.”
Several years later, in the late ’70s, I took a job at the Washington State Energy Office. It was a successor agency to the Department of Emergency Services (DES), where Ted Bundy worked in the mid-70s. Ted had been arrested in Florida by then and many of my colleagues had worked with him. They all thought him guilty. All but one: Carole Boone.
Carole Boone was the tall, whip-smart woman who resided on the other side of my cubicle. She was also in my car-pool for the one-hour commute from Seattle to Olympia. In everything she was articulate, rational and grounded. Except for her blind spot.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ted Bundy waves<\/strong> (courtesy Biography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Ted Bundy Rogue<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ted was seen by many as handsome, charismatic and well-spoken. He’d worked in Republican politics in Washington state — which partially explained his job at DES — and, based on recommendations from party figures, he was accepted into law school at the University of Washington. That Carole Boone could fall for him — they were married during his Florida homicide trial and she bore him a daughter — says volumes about Ted Bundy’s powers of persuasion, even as most of our DES colleagues rolled their eyes at her obsession with Ted’s innocence (1).<\/p>\n

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He’s No Bundy<\/h4>\n

Bob Hansen was no Ted Bundy. He was homely, could barely speak without a stutter and charmed no one, expect perhaps his wife, Darla — and even that was dubious.<\/p>\n

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Robert Hansen Police Lineup Photo<\/strong><\/p>\n

What Hansen relied upon was the willingness of young women to perform sex acts for money, that being the only “charm” that Bob Hansen owned. Once he’d captured them, Hansen depended on fear to control them. For that, he had much in common with Ted Bundy.<\/p>\n

As the following video and excerpt from Hansen’s 1984 confession reveal, Hansen\u2019s attempts to induce fear in his victims was unrelenting. [FR = Frank Rothschild]<\/p>\n\n\n