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“Ted Bundy told me things that he’s never told anybody before. Like he told me he killed more than 100 people … and not only women.” says Seattle’s attorney, John Henry Browne, an attorney for Bundy in the 70s. His new book will release never-before-heard details about one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Browne said Bundy also confided to him that he had killed a man. It was his “first” murder, according to Browne. “That’s never been known,” he said.

Before Bundy’s execution, he signed a release giving Browne the permission to publish the information about his secret confessions. When Browne was asked why he didn’t write these memoirs sooner, he replied with “It’s too creepy,” he said. “I didn’t want to visit those dark places again.” Browne bit the bullet and tackled the project. He admitted, “It really did depress me for six months,”

Browne said working on the book caused him to reassess his view of the killer. “I actually kind of got more scared of him after putting things together the last couple of years of writing about it,” he said.

Browne stated that Bundy “chose” Browne by researching him. “He knew where I lived, he knew what kind of clothes I had, he knew what kind of cars I had,” said Browne. The attorney was also chilled by the fact that a woman he was dating in law school was murdered, and the same kind of woman Bundy was killing. Bundy knew about Browne’s dead girlfriend too, admits the terrified attorney. When asked if he thought Bundy had anything to do with the unsolved case, Browne said he couldn’t be sure. “I pray to God that he didn’t,” he said.

Browne notes the murder was in a different part of California than where Bundy said he was at the time.

The night the killer was taken into custody in Florida for suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle he called Browne. The attorney realized that the authorities didn’t know they had Bundy in their midst. Browne knew if they released him “he would probably kill other people.”

The attorney was debating on whether to tell the authorities if they had Ted Bundy, the serial killer on the run. But, Browne said, “as a lawyer, I’m not allowed to do that.” By the next day, before he was released, the police figured it out. “Thank goodness,” Browne said.

Browne said that unlike most serial killers, Bundy did have at least some sense of right and wrong.

“I had a deal with Ted Bundy to avoid the death penalty if he plead guilty and to a life sentence in Utah, Florida, Colorada, Washington, etc.” says Browne. “He kept saying, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna do it. We’re walking in this court room and everyone knows we’re gonna do it, and then he turns around and says ‘I’m not gonna do it.’ So I believe he had a death wish.”

Days before the execution, John talked to Bundy for at least 4-5 hours.

“He started crying - which I’ve never seen before. You see, he’s a sociopath, and most sociopath’s don’t cry. And most of them never admit they’re a bad person. And Ted looked up to me and said ‘John, I want to be a good person, I’m just not.’”

“Ted really knew he was evil. Evil, evil, evil. And, believe me, really evil.”

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