How to Catch a Killer Using Mathematical Science
Pamela Lillian Valemont*
Forensic Numerological Criminal Profiler, Australia
Submission: May 06, 2017; Published: June 30, 2017
*Corresponding author: Pamela Lillian Valemont, Forensic Numerological Criminal Profiler, Australia, Tel: 61 07 5545 2888; Email: Email: pvalemont@bigpond.com
How to cite this article: Pamela Lillian Valemont . How to Catch a Killer Using Mathematical Science. J Forensic Sci & Criminal Inves. 2017; 3(4): 555620. DOI: 10.19080/JFSCI.2017.03.555620
Opinion
During the hunt for Ted Bundy, the head of the operation, in desperation, asked detectives gathered at the specially called convention, if they could come up with anything, anything at all - numerology, astrology - any kind of different perspective that might help to find the killer more quickly. Ann Rule, a former policewoman turned journalist, put forward the name of a female astrologer who had contacted her with moon phase indicators. In the short term, these did point to a pattern of behaviour; but the astrological findings ultimately proved to be without benefit to the operation, as they lacked consistency and therefore dependability. Even if it could be proven that a serial killer operated during specific moon phrases and cycles, how would that help us find the perpetrator? It would not separate him at all from the herd of suspects; and therefore, such information becomes nothing more than a frustration; and indeed serves to put the science of alternative forensic practitioners into further disrepute.
By contrast, my research findings over the past decade have proven conclusively to me that forensic numerological criminal profiling is a very valuable tool and would help to quickly bring to the top of the heap the most likely perpetrator/s of a crime, especially of a sadistic sexual nature. Mathematics is a readily provable science. Anyone who can do basic arithmetic can clearly see how numbers add up. In the case of Ted Bundy, prior to his apprehension, the list of suspects had been narrowed down to about 200, and these names lay in a file on the desk of the head detective. Had I known then what I know now, and had I been given access to those files, you will see from my deliberations to follow, how I could have brought Bundy straight to the top of that list of suspects.
Look at the analysis below. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to its place in the alphabet and carries that mathematical value. For example, the letter "U" as the 21st letter has the value 21, which can further be reduced to 3, and is written 21/3. (2+1=3). Note the Personality Number of 59/5 at birth under the name Cowell and later under the name Nelson. (Single mother Louise later changed their surname to Nelson to avoid public embarrassment) (Figures 1 & 2). The remarkably handsome young man posed by the photographer to look pleasantly away from the camera in the photograph above, gives no indication of what he had already become or was in the process of becoming. The deep set eyes add to the allure of his film star good looks. Standing slim and lithe at 1.83 metres, or just over 6 feet tall, Ted Bundy would have set any young girl's heart aflutter. He was described by one who knew him as "a young Cary Grant". Taken in 1965 when he was a senior in high school, the camera image captured, yet masked and hid the face of a would-be serial killer, a veritable monster. It gave no indication of the evil perpetrator of sadistic, perverted sex crimes against female children and young women developing or lurking beneath the surface.
Did Bundy start killing at age 14
Although a DNA match was unable to be obtained, it is strongly suspected that even at 14 years of age, the teenage Bundy had already killed 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr, who lived down the street from Ted's Uncle Jack's house. Bundy did a paper route in the neighbourhood, and the Burr house was on his run. Uncle Ted was Ann Marie’s piano teacher. When Ann Marie Burr vanished from her Tacoma home on the night of 31st August, 1961, the victim's father is certain he saw Bundy in a ditch at a construction site on the nearby UPS campus the morning his daughter was found missing. Other circumstantial evidence implicates him, but detectives familiar with the case have never agreed on the likelihood of his involvement. Bundy repeatedly denied culpability and wrote a letter of denial to the Burr family in 1986. Forensic testing of materials from the Burr crime scene, in 2011, yielded insufficient DNA material for comparison with Bundy's.
DNA Evidence Failed To Link Bundy
Hopes for closure for the relatives of missing Ann Marie Burr were dashed when authorities told them there was not enough amplifiable DNA to link her disappearance to Ted Bundy. The young Washington State girl, long considered a possible victim of the notorious serial killer, has never been heard of since she went missing as an 8-year-old girl. There was a glimmer of hope that this 1961 mystery would be solved when police sent the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory several key pieces of evidence from the case (Figure 3).
Authorities were hoping to develop a DNA profile of the suspect that they could compare to a profile that was obtained from a vial of Bundy’s blood. It took several weeks for the tests to be conducted. Police said the evidence did not contain enough measurable DNA to yield a complete profile. "This avenue hit a dead end, but the investigation itself is not over," Tacoma Police Department spokesman Mark Fulham said. When Ann Marie was taken from her family's Tacoma home on August 31, 1961, police believe her abductor entered through an unlocked window, grabbed the young girl and left through the front door, which was left ajar. Investigators discovered a faint footprint outside the window, which they believe was from a size 6 or 7 sneaker.
"I was awakened early in the morning with men shining flashlights in my face. They were the police," Ann Marie’s sister, Julie Burr said "Seeing my parents running through the kitchen opening drawers and looking under beds for my sister - I remember that like it happened yesterday." She added, "I think we spent most of our weekends after that going out looking for her."Authorities interviewed several persons of interest, but were unable to determine what happened to Ann Marie. Bundy, who lived only a few blocks from Ann Marie's home, often visited his uncle, who lived in Ann’s immediate area. Because Bundy was only 14 years old at the time of Ann Marie's abduction he was not considered a potential suspect. He did have a juvenile record (since largely destroyed) and was investigated by police for stealing cars. It was not until years later, when Bundy was arrested for multiple homicides that authorities began to take a close look at him (Figure 4).
Bundy is believed to have murdered dozens of women in Utah, Idaho, Washington and Colorado throughout the 1970s. He was captured in Florida in 1978 following the murders of two college students and 12-year-old girl Kimberly Leach. Bundy received the death penalty for the Florida crimes. Some suspect Ann Marie from his home town of Tacoma was his first victim. During Bundy’s confessions, former King County detective Bob Keppel unsuccessfully tried to get the serial killer to talk about his first kill."We'll have to bring that up, do that some other time. If there is another time," Bundy replied, according to recorded confessions obtained. There was no other time. Ann Marie's father died in 2003 and her mother in 2008. Both the young girl's parents went to their graves without knowing what happened to their daughter.
On the 31st of August, 1961, when Ann Marie Burr disappeared, Bundy would have been in a Personal Year having a vibration of 51/6, and a 59/5 Personal Month. This corresponds with his Personality Number at birth under the name Cowell and also with the Personality Number of his later name of Nelson. 24+11+1960 (24/11/1960- Ted’s last birthday before her disappearance = 51/6.) To find the Personal Month, we add the month of August, the 8th month, to the number of the year, 51. Bundy's personal 8th month ran from 24th August to 24th September. Ann Marie was abducted on the 31st of August. 51+8=59/5.
Because the 6 rules the lower chakras of the body and therefore sex, and the number 59 is the main number I believe Ted manifested negatively, ruling abduction on the highway, funeral, burial and obsequies, I am of the same opinion as Ann Rule - Bundy definitely committed this murder, despite his denial. The numerological correlation and the circumstantial evidence combine to indicate strongly that he did. I would say this is where the fascination with dead bodies and necrophilia started: with the death of 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr. Bundy did not have his driver’s licence then as he was only 14, so he could not legally use a car; but there is the likelihood that he stole one to use in the abduction, rape and murder and then either discarded it or returned it without the owner ever being aware of its missing.
Initially incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault, Bundy became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed multiple additional assaults, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978. He received three death sentences in two separate trials for the Florida homicides. When Ted Bundy died in the electric chair at Raeford Prison in Starke, Florida, on January 24, 1989, Biographer Ann Rule described him as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human’s pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after." He once called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet." Attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defence team, agreed. "Ted," she wrote, "was the very definition of heartless evil."
The number 59/5 historically equates with the pictorial symbolism of the Five of Swords in the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck of 1901, and rules respectively "exile, tomb and coffin" and "burial and obsequies, rites and masses said over the body of the dead". The number 59 in my experience has a particular connection with highways, (you can see the roadway on which the victor stands, those he has conquered walking away, dejected and crying) and it can rule death on the highway in a motor vehicle accident. In Bundy's case, (since he abducted women and girls in a car and travelled down the highway to the murder scene with them), over the last decade of study and research, I began to see that, in its negative expression, it could have a quite different connection with death related to highways: that related to abduction and murder and disposal of the body not far from or at the side of the highway. The 59 also rules "degradation, destruction, infamy, dishonour and loss" (Figure 5)
It is fascinating to note that the term "serial killer" was one invented specifically for Ted Bundy, when detectives all realized the man they were hunting in several states who was killing women at an amazing rate, was one and the same man. The words "serial killer" actually carry a 59/5 vibration (Figure 6). If your blood has just run cold, well mine did too when I discovered this. On the evening before his execution, Bundy reviewed his confessed victim tally with Bill Hagmaier on a state-by-state basis: Eight in Washington (including Parks, abducted in Oregon but killed in Washington), three of them unidentified
- Eight in Utah (three unidentified)
- Four in Colorado
- Three in Florida
- Two in Oregon (both unidentified)
- Two in Idaho (one unidentified)
- One in California (unidentified)
- Total tally = 28
Victim Kimberly left a clue behind identifying killer Ted Bundy
Just as Bundy left numerological clues behind, so too did his victims. Right here, right now, there are clues that the dead leave behind that will help us connect to the killer. I have been able to obtain the date of birth and full name of Bundy's last victim Kimberly Leach, from pictures of her headstone recorded on the Internet. I immediately noticed a glaring clue in the case of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, the conviction of whose murder put Bundy squarely in the electric chair. He had already been convicted of murder and sentenced to death twice and some said at the time, "How many times can you condemn a man to death?" Yet it was important from both a legal and moral point of view to try Bundy once again in a court of law; this time for the murder of this young girl who was abducted from her school yard.
It may be that it was the conviction for the murder of Kimberly Leach that was needed to ensure Bundy got the justice he deserved. Having said that, I am opposed to the death penalty; mainly because of the damage it does to the psyche of the living. The cause of death on Bundy's death certificate was "homicide" That says it all really, doesn’t it? (Figure 7) A grim reminder of the tragedy and heartbreak Bundy left in his wake. The grave of 12-year-old Kimberly Dianne Leach whose body Bundy left in a deserted pigsty. Bundy at a press conference in Tallahassee announcing his triple murder indictment, July 1978 (State Archives of Florida). Bundy was in a Personal Year having a vibration of the Number 59/5 when he killed this child. (Bundy's Personal Year running from 24/11/1977- 24/11/1978 - his last birthday before the murder fell on 24th November, 1977 = 24+11+ (1+9+7+7=24) = 59/5 Several people saw a distressed, crying child being forcibly led away by an angry young man, yet none intervened.
None even reported the fact to the police. They only came forward later when it was known what had happened to the young girl; after her body was found four months later. To reiterate what the number 59 means: it is one of the most telling numbers on Bundy’s chart, one that directly connects him to the kinds of crimes committed. Since the Number 59 rules abduction on the highway, masses and rites said over the body of the dead, and burial, I believe Bundy's motive for this particular crime was necrophilia. Bob Keppel believed that because Bundy was a necrophile, he could not orgasm unless his partner was dead. Bundy’s long term partner Elizabeth Koefler reported his having asked her to play "dead" on occasions, during sexual intercourse.
Perhaps in Bundy's warped, twisted mind, the abandoned farrowing shed constituted some sort of burial tomb. He in fact refused to tell detectives the whereabouts of Kimberly’s body; he said the reason was because the "site (or did he mean "sight"?) Was too horrible to look at." I believe that we must use whatever means at our disposal to catch killers. I know that forensic numerological criminal profiling can help us to do that. We must never reject any new science out of hand because of our prejudices. That would constitute denial of our potential progress scientifically. Furthermore, it indicates an intellectual laziness and slothfulness; a refusal to work ever harder to find new answers to old problems.
A word of admonishment to those who believe in "karma" and the inevitability of death by murder for some in this world. I believe we must never take things lying down; think we can never eradicate the evil in the world. Refusal to accept evil is the reason why this world has progressed and evolved into something better than it was hundreds of years ago; we are now on a higher spiritual plane because of the insistence of billions of people generationally that we must do better, aim ever higher. Pamela lillian valemont Forensic numerological criminal profiler.