Former FBI agent Ted Gunderson wasn’t murdered. He died of cancer, according to family

Conspiratorial music plays while a man in an Instagram video appears to say: "I personally investigated the Oklahoma City bombing case — huge cover up. Jack Kennedy’s assassination, huge cover up. Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, huge cover up, World Trade Center, huge cover up."

Text flanking the video says, "FBI Ted Gunderson" and "This is why they killed him!!! Because anyone saying the truth out there on mainstream doesn’t last!"  

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Gunderson was a former special agent for the FBI and head of the bureau’s Memphis office who retired in 1979 —  before the Oklahoma City bombing — and started a private security and investigations firm. 

The Southern Poverty Law Center said that "he became fixated on the idea that children are regularly subjected to Satanic ritual abuse" and that he became a "leading conspiracy-monger," making videos "alleging an invisible cabal called the Illuminati had plans to run the world."

But he wasn’t murdered for his beliefs.

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stated on October 13, 2024 in social media posts

Video shows former Vice President Mike Pence endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

His son, Greg Gunderson, told The Associated Press in 2011 that his father died of cancer that year at the age of 82. 

We rate claims he was killed False.