Hi, I’m Tiffany Jean, a professional archivist, legal librarian, and researcher. I earned my master’s degree in library science at the University of Texas at Austin in 2009. I created “Killer in the Archives” (formerly known as “Hi, I’m Ted”) as a repository for accurate, fact-based, and rare information about the infamous serial killer Theodore Robert Bundy’s life, crimes, and victims. My work is mainly sourced from, and centered around, historical research from archival records.
I became interested in the case after watching Joe Berlinger’s documentary “The Bundy Tapes” in early 2019. It was the most fascinating, complex, tragic, and bizarre true crime story I’d ever heard. I read most of the books that were out there, but I still didn’t feel like I got the whole story. There was too much sensationalism, too much misinformation, too much mythology. I wanted primary sources. I wanted the truth. Alleviating that dissatisfaction required diving into the archives.
Poring through dusty case files in repositories across the country, I quickly realized that while “Ted Bundy” has become a household name, not many people understand the tragedy of what really happened. Even fewer know anything about who his victims were as human beings and their stories. My goal is to change that. Needless to say, while I may explore this often gruesome case and Bundy’s psychopathology in-depth, my work is forever dedicated to the memory of the women and girls he victimized. I seek only to educate from an objective, historical viewpoint, and never to glorify the man or his crimes.
In the past five years I’ve launched social media and Patreon companions to my blog with rare photographs, audiovisual material, original documents, and more stories not featured here. If you enjoy my work, please know that I invest a lot of time and resources into this painstaking research. Archival material generally isn’t free, I pay for access, and this content doesn’t generate itself. I need help from the people who enjoy my work in order to continue doing it.
If you’d like to support my research by joining, Patreon members will gain exclusive access to locked posts on my blog and the very rarest content not found elsewhere. All proceeds go toward research expenses. I hope you’ll consider joining our community.
I truly appreciate all of you who have helped me, collaborated with me, and respected my work, now and in the past. Thank you.
“The evidence is there. Look for it.” — Ted Bundy, February 1978