Hugh Aynesworth, Ted Bundy and the 1969 Parkway Murders

Hungh Aynesworth, Ted Bundy and the 1969 Parkway Murders - By Bill Kelly

NOTE: : I am still "on maneuvers,:" as Dr. Wecht put it, and will be until Monday, but we had a break in the action so I am posting a few items that I have on the shelf that I think you may enjoy and fit the JFKCountercoup mold, though somewhat on the fringe.

The Opposition keeps trying to say that we are promoting "conspiracy theories," but that's not true.

It's not the idea of conspiracy we are studying - figuring that out is a result of our study of political assassinations - one of the most influential and lest studied aspects of contemporary politics.

It is the MURDER - not the Conspiracy that is the focus of study and analysis.

Of all the unresolved cold case political assassinations on record - the assassination of President Kennedy fifty years ago is the one that still has the most relevance - the one that is most easiest solved, and the one that garners the most public attention, though the other major assassinations of the 1960s - RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, et al., are all significant and will be the most studied historically.

But the assassination of President Kennedy is still HOT - as President Trump continues to withhold JFK assassination records in contrivance of the JFK Act, so this is not ancient history but is still a contemporary event - and one that can be legally resolved, if only the effort is made.

I've always avoided getting into the details of assassinations other than JFK as I thought it best to try to stay focused and resolve one assassination at a time.

But in the course of my journalistic career a few other murders have cropped up on my turf - my beat, and two of them I believe are cold case homicides that can and should be resolved to a legal and moral certainty, though Justice will never be done.

The first one that I think can be solved, as it already basically has by those familiar with the players is the Labor Day 1964 murder of Boardwalk Fudge King Harry Anglemeyer, a successful gay businessman who was garnering support to end the Ocean City (N.J.) Blue Laws ban on commercial businesses on Sundays.

That case has many twists and turns, and for those who are interested, figures into my non-fictional novela - "Waiting on the Angels - the Long Cool Summer of '65 Revisited - [ Blogger: Waiting on the Angels - The Long Cool Summer of '65 Revisited - All posts ].

Anglemyer's killer turned out to be a cop who was protected by the Director of public safety, and whose brother became chief of police, very similar to the obstruction of Justice we see in the JFK case.

But I am currently more interested in the 1969 Parkway Murders of two college coeds, that I think can be positively pinned on Ted Bundy, though the official investigators are reluctant to pursue that possibility, and for good reason.

I have been investigating and reporting on the Parkway Murders since Ted Bundy was executed in 1980, so the 50th Anniversary of the killings and a recent Netflix TV documentary has revived interest in these murders.

Since Dallas journalist Hugh Aynesworth, who most people know from his reporting on the Kennedy assassination,  was one of the two reporters on the Netflix show - "The Bundy Tapes,"  I'll take that as a loose connection to the JFKCountercoup - that gives me the opportunity to see how particular investigative techniques can be developed and used to solve such cold case homicides - like the assassination of JFK.

TED BUNDY AND THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY COED MURDERS REVISITED

Due to the resurgence of interest in mass murderer Ted Bundy due to the Netflix TV series “Conversations with a Killer -The Bundy Tapes,” and the 50^th anniversary of the 1969 Garden State Parkway Coed murders, I have decided to revisit the evidence in the case to see if it can be positively determined that Bundy was responsible.

For starters, I re-read two of the more responsible books on Bundy’s murderous career – Richard Larsen’s The Deliberate Strangers and Ted Bundy – The Killer Next Door by Steven Winn and David Merrill.  

The Netflix documentary is based on the work of two journalists – Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth – the Dallas reporter who is best known for his prejudicial reporting on the assassination of President Kennedy.

Aynesworth was all over the place on the weekend of the assassination, at the scene of most of the major events during the weekend of the assassination, - at Dealey Plaza, Oak Cliff and the Dallas PD basement shortly after the murders of JFK, Tippit and Oswald occurred. 

Yet, unlike Tom Alyea, Earl Golz, Wes Wise, Seth Kantor, and a very few other reporters who questioned the official version of events, Aynesworth bought and promotes the official story hook, line and sinker.

For me this goes against the grain of Aynesworth – the investigative reporter who exposed the head of the Dallas Crime Commission as a criminal himself.

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Why didn’t Aynesworth apply the same inquisitive nature to one of the great unresolved murder mysteries of all time - the triple murders of the President, J.D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald?

We learn the answer from the records recently released under the JFK Act where Aynesworth’s application for a job at the CIA indicates that while not accepted for employment, he served as a steady source of information, reporting regularly to Dallas CIA Domestic Contacts officer J. Walton Moore.

J. Walton Moore was also the primary CIA contact of the accused assassin’s best friend and benefactor George deMohrenschildt, when Oswald returned from the USSR.

The first time deMohrenschildt visited Oswald unannounced, he was accompanied by White Russian Colonel Lawrence Orlov, who routinely played racket ball with J. Walton Moore, and kept Moore informed on all the Russian refugees and defectors, including Oswald.

As an OSS officer during World War II, we learn from recently released records that Moore was sent on a special mission to China with OSS agent Charles Ford, who later became head of the CIA’s training division and worked primarily out of Quantico, Virginia. From the Training Division, Ford was temporarily assigned to Plans – Operations – for a two year period in the early 1960s when he was tasked with assisting Attorney General Robert Kennedy – ostensibly in dealing with Cubans and mobsters.

Charles Ford was also the CIA official given custody of an early copy of the Zapruder film, loaned to the CIA “for training purposes.”

So Hugh Aynesworth’s CIA contact was not just a casual one, as according to the CIA records released under the JFK Act, Aynesworth told J. Walton Moore in early November 1963 that he was preparing to take a trip to Cuba, and that he would keep Moore and the CIA informed of what he learned there.

Knowing all of this, I was quite surprised to learn that Anynesworth was so involved in the Bundy case.

Netflix’s “Bundy Tapes” indicate that there were two writers – Aynesworth, who went to the scenes of the crimes attributed to Bundy, and Michaud – who gained Bundy’s confidence and with Bundy’s permission he tape recorded hours of conversations that give insight into the mind of a real mass murderer.

Theodore Robert Bundy – who briefly attended Temple University in Philadelphia, was a college graduate who worked for the California Crime Commission and attended law school, was knowledgeable about the law and how it works – and avoided detection for so long by deliberately committing his crimes in different law enforcement jurisdictions, so the pattern of a mass murderer didn’t immediately emerge.

Bundy read law books, wrote legal motions, and served as his own defense attorney, and pleading his innocence and denying having committed any of the murders attributed to him, despite the mounting evidence against him.

In order to get around Bundy’s insistence of innocence, Michaud tried a different tack – asking Bundy how he thought the killer committed the crimes and why he did it?

Answering questions in the Third Person – as if the killer was another person – Bundy responded, revealing a new aspect of his personality and  character – that of a mass murder.

As described in a review: “Near the end of the first episode, we get a eureka moment from reporter Stephen Michaud, whose 1980 audio interviews with Bundy — recorded on cassette while he was on death row — form the spine of the documentary. Michaud tells (director) Berlinger that he realized a traditional jailhouse interview wasn’t getting him anywhere, because Bundy was weaving a false narrative about himself that tactically avoided describing his then-alleged crimes. Then he got the bright idea of asking Bundy to talk about himself in the third person — sort of a Hannibal Lecter – style killer-as-consultant scenario, undertaken a year before Thomas Harris published his first novel about the famous fictional killer. Being an insatiable self-dramatist, Bundy took the bait, analyzing himself in exhaustive detail, but always with plausible deniability because he was speaking not about himself, but of a hypothetical other person. But as ingenious as this gambit was, and as fascinating as Bundy’s analysis is, it doesn’t get us any closer to the core of what made him tick. In fairness, perhaps nothing could — not even a narrative device that gives a convicted killer permission to analyze himself….”

This wasn’t new to me either, as shortly after Bundy was executed I interviewed Utah State prison psychiatrist Dr. Albert L. Carlisle – who told me in a phone interview that he used the same technique in tape recording interviews with Bundy when he was in prison. He got Bundy to explain what he thought the murderer went through, which brought about some interesting insights that have yet to be properly explored.

Unlike reporter Steven Michaud however, Carlisle was restrained by his doctor-patient confidentiality until Bundy was dead, and then he revealed the fact that in one of his discussions with Bundy concerning how such murderous impulses are inspired, Bundy described a trip he took that was supposed to go from Philadelphia to the West Coast, where he was to deliver a Temple professor’s car. Instead however, he went to New York City where he visited the porno palaces at Time Square, and then visited the Ocean City, N.J. boardwalk, checking out all of the college girls on the beach.

Then Bundy said, “….there he took out two girls – and it was the first time he did it.”

When Carlisle checked in with the local authorities, he learned that there was a duel homicide on Memorial Day weekend 1969, exactly the time Bundy was in Philadelphia and driving to the West Coast in a professor’s Volkswagen, and with their gas credit card.

Dr. Albert Carlisle was quite alarmed when then Atlantic County prosecutor Jeffrey Blitz declined to investigate Bundy as a suspect in the case, saying the “standards of evidence is different for a psychologist and a prosecutor,” and that he considered the Bundy lead as hearsay.

Carlisle was flabbergasted saying, “I don’t understand – Bundy confesses to killing two girls at the Jersey Shore where he was in the spring of 1969, and they have two murdered girls at the same place and time and they don’t want to try to resolve this unsolved case?”

Carlisle just didn’t know the details of the Parkway Coed murders, or the nature of New Jersey law enforcement.

For starters, like all of Bundy’s murders, the bodies of the victims were found in the woods off a major highway sometime after the crime had been committed, so the hot trail is lost, leads are exhausted and it quickly becomes an unresolved cold case.

The police also screwed up when the otherwise very capable New Jersey State Police officer who discovered the victim’s car parked on the side of the Garden State Parkway, checked to see if it was stolen, and when it wasn’t, had it towed, but didn’t call it in. Then he and the tow truck driver went on holiday vacations, and it wasn’t until they returned when they learned about the missing college girls, reported they had towed the car, and the area was searched and the bodies of the girls were found three days after they were killed, leaving the trail cold.

So when Bundy’s name was mentioned as a possible suspect – the New Jersey State Police and the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s office didn’t want to know if Bundy was the killer because if he was, they would feel guilty if not responsible for the fifty to a hundred girls he killed afterwards.

New Jersey law enforcement officials at the time of Bundy’s execution did not want to know if Bundy was responsible for the Parkway murders, and didn’t bother to send any officers to Quantico, Virginia for the so-called Bundy conference where they tried to determine if Bundy was responsible for any of the other unsolved homicides in various jurisdictions.

But now, with different officials in responsible positions, it may be possible to determine with certainty whether Bundy did kill those girls in 1969.While that was a half-century ago, we now have a lot of new tools at our disposal that could help lead to a resolution – the internet, DNA, and new forensic scientific methods.

Certainly Bundy must be considered a suspect in the case, and the lead should be pursued. 

After all Parkway murders were carried out using Bundy's basic MO - Modus Operandi - kidnapping, kiling and sexually molesting young college girls, 19-25 years old, hair parted in the middle; a peeping tom and voyer who spied on his victims before abducting them, used a broken arm ruse to get their sympathy, gets them to accompany him or allow him to accompany them, incompasates them, kills them (blundgeon, strangle or knife), sexually molests them, leaves them naked in the woods off a major highway, disposes of their clothes away from the body(ies), and leaves the area and investigative jurisdiction before the crime is discovered. 

Bundy was in the area at the time (attended Temple U.), drove a VW bug, appeared to live in it, paid for his gas with a credit card, visited porno parlors on Times Square in New York City after visiting Burlington, Vt., where he was born, and obtaining a copy of his birth certificate. 

At the time Bundy was under intense emotional pressure - having learned that he was born out of wedlock, the women he was told was his older sister was actually his mother, and his father was a fly by night Air Force man who he would never know. 

In addition Bundy had been jilted a few months earlier by the "love of his life," a beautiful, sophisticated heiress who was above Bundy's social stature. 

Although there was a young girl missing from Bundy's newspaper delivery route, that he is now also a suspect, it appears that if Bundy is responsible for the 1969 Parkway murders, it probably was the first time he did it, five years before his 1974 murderous spree of some 30 dead girls in some six states. 

For those interested in Bundy's psychosis - a more thorough review of the Parkway murders and possibly pinning it on him would certainly make sense, and give us an even more accurate picture of such elusive mass murders like Ted Bundy. 

First some basic questions must be answered:

1)      Where physically is the Parkway Coed Murder file. It was located at a NJ State Police Barracks in Absecon that is no longer in existence, so it must have been moved. Where is it?

2)      Who – what officer -  is assigned the responsible for keeping such cold case homicides an active investigation in the NJ State Police, Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office and Ocean City and Somers Point police departments/

3)      What became of the blue Chevy convertible?

4)      Was it dusted for fingerprints?

5)      Was it vacuumed for microscope hairs or other possible evidence?

6)      Is there any DNA evidence from the bodies preserved?

7)      Who is still alive today? Blazer the tow truck driver? Parkway worker who found the bodies – Woody Faunce? The State Policeman who had the car towed?

For an update on the 1969 Parkway Murders written on the 50^th Anniversary see:

From Jersey Shore Nightbeat Blog – May 17, 2019:

https://jerseyshorenightbeat.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-1969-parkway-murders-50-years-later.html

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NOTE: Unfortunately Dr. Carlisle passed away on May 29, 2018, but he did write two books on Bundy that I have ordered and will review for more info on this case. I will also try to locate the current whereabouts of the audio tape recordings of Dr. Carlisle's conversations with Bundy. 

Dr. Albert L. Carlisle                                                                           

https://geniusbookpublishing.com/al-carlisle.html

Al Carlisle, born and raised in Utah, got his BS and MS from Utah State University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Brigham Young University. The majority of his career has been as a psychologist at the Utah State Prison from which he retired as the head of the Psychology Department in 1989. He was a consultant for the Salt Lake Rape Crisis Center for several years and he has conducted workshops on serial homicide and other crime topics. He has done extensive research on serial killers and has interviewed Arthur Gary Bishop, Westley Allan Dodd, Keith Jesperson, the Hi-Fi killers, Ted Bundy, and many others.

In 1976, while working in the 90-Day Diagnostic Unit at Utah State Prison, Dr. Carlisle met and interviewed a man who forever changed his life: “Hi, I’m Ted Bundy. You must be Dr. Carlisle.”

Dr. Carlisle’s fourth book, Violent Mind, details the encounter with the serial killer and the assessment process he went through to determine that Bundy was violent at a time when many people felt that he was wrongly convicted of aggravated kidnapping.

Dr. Carlisle passed away in May 2018. He is deeply missed. 

Al Carlisle ISBN: 978-0-9982973-7-8 Violent Mind Media One Sheet

Ted Bundy was convicted of Aggravated Kidnapping. But was he violent?

In March 1976, Ted Bundy was convicted of the aggravated kidnapping of a young woman near Salt Lake City, Utah. Bundy had not been accused or convicted of any violent crime except this one. No one knew then how many women Bundy had murdered, and many thought him incapable of doing so.\

Dr. Al Carlisle was part of the 90-Day Diagnostic team at the Utah State Prison when Bundy was sent there after the trial. Dr. Carlisle’s assignment was specific: Determine to the best of his ability, without being biased by any of the reports previously done, whether Ted Bundy had a violent personality. The judge would use this information in deciding whether Bundy should serve time or be released on probation.

In Violent Mind: The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy, Dr. Carlisle takes the reader step by step through this previously-unpublished evaluation process, and shows how he concluded that Bundy had the capacity to commit aggravated kidnapping, and perhaps much worse.

Violent Mind contains never-before-seen interviews with Ted Bundy and those who knew him, including a letter Bundy wrote to Dr. Carlisle that has been locked away for more than 40 years.

Al Carlisle ISBN: 978-0-9908575-6-3 I'm Not Guilty 

Ted Bundy brutally murdered over 30 women

From his arrest until his execution in 1989, Ted Bundy was interviewed extensively by psychologists, journalists, and law enforcement. He offered insight into the thoughts and methods of other serial killers. It wasn’t until the last few days of his life that he confessed to his crimes, which he attributed to a mysterious Entity he claimed compelled him to kill.

Dr. Al Carlisle, Ph.D., evaluated Bundy for the Utah court in 1976. Ever since, Carlisle has painstakingly reconstructed Ted Bundy’s history through conversations with Bundy’s friends, lovers, neighbors, investigators—and through Bundy’s own words.

The only book of its kind, I’m Not Guilty gives a thorough analysis of the facts of Bundy’s life and crimes based on Carlisle’s research findings. Then, through an authoritative, speculative interview with Bundy, Carlisle enhances what is known about the origins of the Entity and Bundy’s need to kill, in which we learn why a “normal child” could grow up to be a serial killer.

Al Carlisle.com

https://www.alcarlisle.com/

Dr. Al Carlisle 1937- 2018, passed away suddenly on the morning of May 29, 2018 after spending Memorial day with family. His laughter and insight is greatly missed. 

Violent Mind contains never-before-seen interviews with Ted Bundy and those who knew him, including a letter Bundy wrote to Dr. Carlisle that has been locked away for more than 40 years.

In March 1976, Ted Bundy was convicted of the aggravated kidnapping of a young woman near Salt Lake City, Utah. Bundy had not been accused or convicted of any violent crime except this one. No one knew then how many women Bundy had murdered, and many thought him incapable of doing so.

Dr. Al Carlisle was part of the 90-Day Diagnostic team at the Utah State Prison when Bundy was sent there after the trial. Dr. Carlisle’s assignment was specific: Determine to the best of his ability, without being biased by any of the reports previously done, whether Ted Bundy had a violent personality. The judge would use this information in deciding whether Bundy should serve time or be released on probation.

In Violent Mind: The 1976 Psychological Evaluation of Ted Bundy, Dr. Carlisle takes the reader step by step through this previously-unpublished evaluation process, and shows how he concluded that Bundy had the capacity to commit aggravated kidnapping, and perhaps much worse.

Many books have been written about Bundy, but rarely have we had the opportunity to understand the inner workings of his mind. Now, Dr. Al Carlisle shares the step-by-step psychological assessment process regarding how he determined that Bundy was a very violent person and would likely continue to kill victims if he was set free. The assessments that led to Bundy’s incarceration are being published for the first time.

Violent Mind contains never-before-seen interviews with Ted Bundy and those who knew him, including a letter Bundy wrote to Dr. Carlisle that has been locked away for more than 40 years.

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NOTE: Now if anyone seriously thought Lee Harvey Oswald was a deranged nut case as Ted Bundy most certainly was, they would evaluate him as Carlisle evaluated Bundy. But Oswald wasn't crazy, he was a Covert Operational Personality (COP) profile, and not a sociopath as Hugh Aynesworth would have you believe. - BK