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built the what drives them to commit
horrific crimes them victim had been Cup open
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or nurture the father student perot
to mothers fingers one by one in front of the children
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0 ted bundy with savagely snuff out the lives of america's brightest
and most beautiful it was almost as if he was on a mission
this better surcharge we've got to get you die the charismatic killer who
fooled even his closest friends
on I just been with the most dangerous man in
in them western states never had a column
and ran rings around law enforcement 0
he was a master predator it was as well planned as
military actions he's become the most infamous serial killer
in American history but was ted bundy
born to kill mom
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ted bundy was born Theodore Robert Cal
in 1946 at the Elizabeth lund home for *** mothers
in Vermont
the 22 years old at the time
his mother Louise face the social stigma having a child out of wedlock
to a mysterious absent father
in order to protect his mother her parents
felt that they could not acknowledge the three months that she had spent on the
home front with mothers in vermont
so he was raised believing that his grandparents were his parents his mother
was his older sister
and in his life that had to have been very confusing to him
he didn't know who he was when Ted was full
the mother he thought on this is sister took him to Tacoma Washington
to start a new life there she married a military coke
johnnie bundy who adopted Ted has his own
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it was in this environment have half-truths and uncertainty
the 10 Dundee grew up
his high school days he was in a a crowd work
everybody else we should be be a he never works
all we do know that he was terribly teased
he was considered have not a nerd although in this ep
somewhat handsome young child but he didn't fit
his basic personality
if it was such a thing is them
she I afraid to take chances if
probably afraid to give away his inner
that in adolescence
bundy finally discovered for himself the truth
about his parentage everything he previously
being told to believe was in fact ally
in those circumstances it would be natural to distrust
it would be natural to find it very difficult
to form lasting attachments to those people
who had lied to Hans
the young bundy began to get in trouble with the law committing a number of
petty crimes
and struggling to hold down a job
I'll but in 1966
he enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle
and suddenly appear to blossom
the he was considered
charming he was considered well-dressed he was considered
educated and at that time that
was the only thing that people really paid much attention to them
head was popular at the University
lashing chain his professors thought he was great
13 is million research has shown
that the prettier people get the better grades and better placements
and the not so pretty people don't do quite so well and
that I think came to the point where people
because he was such a handsome young man basically
overlooked any typeof emptiness that was the core
him an room
now a bestselling author was a volunteer the crisis clinic
a suicide helpline when she met the attractive
charismatic young bundy kidding I would work as a team
kid was wonderful on the phone he was sounded caring
I he was interested in people alike and
I can still picture him hunched over the desk with the phone to his head
and many times and we say plaques
which seems very right to mean I am are
but I got the this week Ted who walk me out to my car
at two in the morning my shift was over anything am please lock the door is shut
down when anything bad to happen to you and the way home
well I just been locked up with probably the most dangerous man in
in the western states never had a cold
Danvers armies the young law student share the same boarding house
as the seemingly bright and gifted bundy ted bundy that I knew
there were things about him that were word special I would wanna say
charisma I remember thinking what a handsome
man he wasn't probably was fully myself ok
wishing that I shall I remember him being well-spoken
intellectual arm unassuming
arrogant but unassuming instanceof I would say disarming
Parkhead was at the University he met
the woman up his dream and he told me he's everything I want
she was beautiful
she was rich she was popular and
a human he was really in love with her but after more than a year's romance
done his dream girl began having second thoughts
should realize
head wasn't going anyplace you can have any real
he talk about politics in *** about being a liar
getting really wasn't going anyplace in mind carrying out
her things and then
she broke up with him
and that just devastate him
that was the catalyst I only step
bundy to that rejection right badly
and then went artifice way to find the way
all were going how back Dundee threw himself into the dynamic world up a
little and politics
gaining a reputation as a rising star at the Republican Party
all the while he refused to give up on his dream girl
by early 1974 the now seemingly high-achieving bandy
had won her back so completely they began talking at marriage
then abruptly and unexpectedly
he broke off or contact I
them on the first to February 1974
beautiful and musically gifted 21-year-old student
Linda and he did had been due to record a daily ski report for the local radio
station
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she never arrived nor did he turn up for classes that day
when she finally failed to show for a family meal
her housemates began to worry in
the police were called and what they discovered was puzzling
she disappeared bid was made
but when they pulled in a bad back there was enough blood
staining the mattress and bedding that someone
had the EB get our seriously injured
she didn't know it down because there was blood
around the back of the neck down I am
he taken that often gesture she just got
over the next six months
the Seattle Police wrestled with the mystifying disappearance of the
21-year-old
then one after the other
more young female college students began vanishing
by 19-year-old on a Mason
was last seen heading to a concert she never called
18-year-old suzanne ran court disappeared as she walked across
Ellensburg Washington State College campus at night
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22-year-old roberta parks banished from
Oregon State University there
22-year-old printable disappeared as she left the flame to happen
in a district to Seattle in
and 18-year-old George and Hawkins
who was only days away from completing her first year studies
mysteriously vanished as she walked between sorority houses
after visiting fellow students all she had to do was come down
four houses between that and and her house
she never got down each victim
had center parted long dark hair of
each was slim attractive in broad
each resembled bundy's stream good
generally there is a lot of similarity
among victims serial killers serial killers in general have a
a type that was almost as upon the was trying to gain revenge
over this particular woman a particular class
a particular type of woman what it was almost as if he was on a mission
six young women had simply disappeared I
leaving behind only a question how have they been abducted
with seemingly no struggle no clues
and no witnesses on
has burned his reign of terror continues the chilling
answer would be revealed the 1974
in and around Washington State
six bright attractive young women had been abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy
the girls have simply disappeared
leaving law enforcement confused and without a clear suspect
how was bundy kidnapping his victims
unnoticed and without a struggle
he knew he had to create access
to a suitable victim how would he go back to being able to convince
this woman to come with him in the car to walk with them some way away
from where she might be socializing with
her friends the mystery
was about to be revealed
Lake Sammamish State Park was a popular hangout for Seattle's young men and
women
on july the 14th 1974
teenager dawn Sanders was one of many young girls heading to the lake
well as a nice sunny warm sunday afternoon
we always like to go down to the park as much as possible
and my girlfriend and I typical Taylor 14 15 years old
headed down to the park to see what who was there and
who welcome in trouble we could get into place claims
Sunday in July it was really hot
and the State Park was always crowded on hot weekends
in they would line up in their cars trying did get one of the few parking
spots at the same arguments very large part is one of the busiest in the state
a friend of ours was approached by
a young man in a cast yesterday helped him
get something out there with this car the girl was one of several to be
approached by a man with what looks like a broken arm
she was 17 beautiful shoulder length brown hair
brown eyes she didn't go with them anywhere didn't go any further than
now
it's likely the man was bundy wearing a fake plastic cast
witnesses saw the same approach made to an attractive
loaned 23-year-old d
janice was sitting on intel by herself in a good-looking
man came up to her and ask her if she would help
get his canoe of his car
know you can step in the parking
she said okay and she went with them d that's last time she was seen
the nature and Jenny salts disappearance we provide an insight into how bundy had
abducted at least seven young women
without so far drawing attention to himself what bundy did seem to me to be
incredibly clever
huge where casts on these armed he pretends to be
injured in some way and ask for help
now of course what this is doing is simply creating
access once he past that access
he uses the opportunity that by access
gives him to facilitate the Cal but the extraordinary events at the hot
July day would not end with the disappearance such an assault
only hours later
as 40,000 people reveled in the sunshine bundy was back
and roaming freely amongst them little later in
afternoon Denise Naslund was there with her boyfriend
in another couple and she had to go to the restroom its kinda concrete stand
little boxing up by itself
she wept
there came back
Sunday had abducted two young women from the same busy location
on the same day in broad daylight the psychological
gain he got from the first man to wasn't enough to sustain
he needed more serial killing starts as a consequence of a fantasy
the fantasy becomes refined overtime
so one ultimately wasn't enough
the fantasy demanded the to when necessary
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using helicopters and dogs 0 the police began a massive search have some 400
acres
around Lake Sammamish park
on
not a trace was found them
the girls had simply disappeared
I recall her boyfriend had been at the park with her that day
I remember him being there while during the search and leaning eyes car and
and just crying just sobbing
that it was you know fearing the worst them
but burned his audacity had betrayed him
the park was so busy that day that it was
easy for them to put together some profiles
that quickly identified this person that they identified instead
people at the prior heard him introduce himself to
for genocide act and soccer lead with him
within that week they had a composite sketch
a I'm the man that they believed
who turned out to be ted bundy I'll
when I look back on that day now I don't remember it
ans as innocent as it was
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despite having a name and description for the suspect
I'll no one who knew him which connects the charismatic young Ted Bundy
with the man who now abducted least statement in the mail
me
my friend and myself commented went when it came up that summer
that the that there was a clue from the budding love to hear that had a
Volkswagen
and we commented and joked that no maybe it's
10 because he's never here but of course that there was really something we
didn't consider because I've
his characteristics you would never imagine
that he would be involved in something like this if serial killers came with
horns on their heads
we could avoid them unfortunately serial killers
often very charming by seducing
so we shouldn't imagines somehow serial killers
are Hollywood Devils because actually
it's the banality of evil that we're dealing with and serial killers
by mid September 1974 bundy was on the moon
he headed to Salt Lake City weighed in rolled at the University you to
to study law I
he went the you can and good health care the disappearing
in Salt Lake City suburbs around them
there much in the same way that ten
growth had been disappearing in an in Washington State
over the next three months four young girls were discovered sexually assaulted
and murdered
Dundee was seemingly unstoppable
I'll it was as well planners is I'll
non-military action their retirement
selected murdered he had procedures the faulty had certain
tools that brought with them at everything laid out
completely remove thought through all this started
he did very well get in the way avoiding being arrested mmm
and avoiding law enforcement and
he was a master predator ok
but in November 1974 I'll bundy made his first major mistake
are you to kidnap a young woman named
name Calderon in Salt Lake City armed
alleged her that he was a police officer that there have been attempts to her car
here on our when they couldn't get into
backdoor the mall where he said was a police substation
he took forever to cos Volkswagen and
attempted to drive away with her she figured something was happily
tried taking cover jumped out of the car moving vehicle was able to escape
are Carrollton ranch had escaped military attack and was still on the
loose
are
over the next seven months six more young women were abducted in yeutter
and neighboring Colorado ok
but on august the 16th bundy's luck
finally run out Nov to Utah State Police Officer
saw him probably around the neighborhood and volkswagen stopped and they charged
him with possession
burglar tools the more able to use this photograph a photographic lineup
Calderon she was able to pick them out ted bundy had been called
he was charged and convicted in the kidnapping of Calderon's
and sentenced to between one and fifteen years the new the Ted Bundy was about to
pull off an extraordinary feat
that would see him free again to kill
at will in 1977
ted bundy had been convicted for the attempted kidnapping
have Calderon church in Utah policemen are convinced
monday was a serial killer and moved him to colorado
to face charges for the abduction and *** a 24-year-old Karen Campbell
in Snowmass
bundy was to be tried in Aspen if convicted
he would face the rest of his life behind bars but Ted Bundy
had other plans
he petition the court to allow him to defend himself
and by doing so required that they were
take him out of the setting up as a normal in
and put him into saying the law library or places that one is
secure is what his cell might be on june the seventh nineteen seventy-seven
during a recess in the case Monday asked to be allowed access to legal research
material
he was acting as a Council you who work in law library the courthouse
he jumped out the window Fla
and they had outwitted his captors was free
be blended into the crowds on the busy Aspen streets and headed for the
surrounding mountains
Monday wouldn't Acrobat as his ability to overcome
the criminal justice system he would see himself as clever a
done all those police officers all those detectives
who allowed him access to the library
so that he could do research for his upcoming court case
for the next eight days
bundy hit in the wilderness sheltering in disused cabins
and stealing food from campus one in various law enforcement
frantically searched for him
there is a self-centeredness
about serial killers where they see themselves as the most clever
as the most talented the most intelligent
because the whole world revolves around them after days in the wild
bundy audaciously walked back into Aspen
and stole a car but his luck was about to run out
you approach police roadblock and was
was observed they went back when you turn when back chased down
placed arrest bundy was returned to Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs
Colorado
security was raised and authorities were confident
they had the prisoners safely entered again
bundy had other ideas I
there was always thinking you had to keep that in mind
help
on december thirtieth nineteen seventy-seven ted bundy
made his move I'm I
lost weight he was able to move aside ya
neon light fixture split up through the
ceiling went over to the ceiling power a closet into the
jailers home in droplet there by the time his jailers discovered he was gone
bundy was already a thousand miles away in Chicago
after spending New Year's Eve the bar in Ann Arbor Michigan
Dundee took a bus to Tallahassee in Florida
I'm
I'm with a new identity he rented a room in the Oaks lodging house
in the heart of the Florida State University student
after eighteen months imprisonment
Dundee's scheming had paid off he made fools are the No
and thus find free
to Ted Bundy it wasn't enough serial killers
love being at the heart of the drama that's unfolding I'm
Tom on bundy move to Florida he no longer had to status
that he was able to follow vicariously
in the print or broadcast media as he would have been able to do
Utah and Colorado or Washington he was on nobody again
rather than a somebody and that's what bundy
ultimately want to be sony has to do something again
to gain the attention to keep trains so he came
demonstrate his gross form of power
over the culture but he abhors
in the early hours and generate the fourteenth nineteen seventy-eight
just one week after arriving in Tallahassee ted bundy struck again
about three o'clock in the morning a young woman named mary was returning to
shore Rd house
she
entered the day last year's are she saw me and run out the house
carrying what appeared to be
on a stick unity she went upstairs and
you know what was for the president when Karen Chandler Walker
re returned here and said did you see
realize that the Cure was pleading jim sills
was a sergeant and assistant to the Chief of Police when his phone rang that
night
the dispatcher call answer charged
we've got to get him to die are
low
soule was the first plainclothes officer on the scene
I'll I got to the house upstairs I wouldn't about 130
Margaret Bowman had been strangled the end was dead
upon review by our officers
and nine on stocking was tied tightly around Margaret Bowman's neck
she'd been clubbed with the brunch so hard that her skull had been shattered
he was everything you think about it being what she would say
across the whole another victim was discovered
Lisa levy she'll also have been beaten and appeared to shrug
20-year-old Lisa Levy was in bed
ed lying on her side
the covers pulled up over his shoulders she'd been sexually assaulted with an
object
the attack had been savage Lee so
work and also wounded are on the on the breast
in on the box two more girls
Karen Chandler and Kathy kleiner had also been bludgeoned
they only just survived the brutal attack
the all that that will
guilt feelings personnel you know in a shark frenzy
that Georgas there was a sharp rinsing
all the serial murderer doesn't have boundaries so it's as if the trigger
is set of and they become not angry they become rage
mom to the point that when you see the viciousness
and the killings that they come in you
years taken aback you think oh how could this mild-mannered person
do such horrendous things to another person a human being
I'll it had been just two weeks since Monday had escaped from Colorado good
good
I'll almost three weeks after the Chi Omega attacks
a white Dodge van was reported stolen from the media department
a Florida State University
four days later it would resurface
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100 miles away in Lake City twelve year old kimberly leach
was attending junior high school about to start a ***
she realized she left her bag in her homeroom
she was given permission to return to the other building to get it
she did not return
Co
that morning the witness a young girl
close to tears being pushed into the passenger seat
at the white man by scouting man he assumed him to be an angry parent
that same morning another witness saw a white van swerving
almost out of control on the highway the angry driver
shouting towards the passenger seat and
just days later the white van that had been stolen from the University in
Tallahassee
was recovered we are very driven driven
are some five hundred or so miles here
we've got signed trauma in their the way were branches and leaves in
in here fiber evidence I'll
price tag with a 26 dollar figure on
we think that he went by Greenacre sporting goods store
in bought a very large knife which was a hunting knife
here we believe that we use that would kill Kimmel
it would be two months
before police officers discovered campbell is twelve-year-old body
damn in an unused take and words
25 miles from home
at 1:30 a.m. on the 15th of February in Pensacola Florida
a man was spotted in his VW Bug acting suspiciously
individual driving a Volkswagen
worlds are kinda lawyering behind such force over Penn skoal
was observed by police officer been possible tried to stop him
the guy reinforces the car then fled the vehicle on the altar chased him down
there was a
there was an altercation are shot was fired missed the persian
our body was taken in custody but
initially are he told us that his name was Ken meister
then later on he told us this thing was the robber buddy
well
those that had known the charismatic young Ted
but dumbstruck when Ted Bundy was arrested
I was absolutely flabbergasted just I'm
my stomach dropping out more Ted Bundy was in custody again
but his capture would spell just the beginning
on an extraordinary eleven-year circus 1979
Florida ted bundy had abducted and murdered dozens of young women
across five different states and escaped from captured twice
no
now he would stand trial
bundy would be tried twice
first for the brutal attacks on the students in the Chi Omega sorority house
in Tallahassee
then for the kidnap and ***
have twelve year old kimberly leach in Lake City the
I'll
on the 25th June ted bundy took the stand
used you rollin I'm
no the former law student
against the advice of his counsel had decided to defend himself
serial killers are desperate to be at the heart
of the story good
the defending yourself clearly is going to
a liar you to drawl a great deal of attention to yourself
and bundy of course had this fantasy but he was a very good
law student in could have been a good lawyer this is all part of a
the fact that serial killers often operates on a surface level
they don't have the debt to can net to appearance of studying for a law degree
source office it's all for of it's all fantasy
but by engaging in that fantasy by defending himself
he's at the heart of things the new
piano running on sixty 1975 around what we have to prove in a criminal case in
the United States
years in essence y'all 22 biondi's closed doors will help he thought he
could
job create this serious doubt in that he would be
popular he was very sure himself he asked very good question
but he didn't learn first loss in law school the first lesson learned law
schools never represent yourself
defending himself bundy chose to cross-examine vulnerable witnesses and
victims
a tactic that forever damaged his image in the eyes of the jury
and the adversarial wild of the courtroom
his lack of knowledge his inability to defend himself
because he's guilty is going to be laid bare
so this is really one other the miscalculations
it seems to me the bundy Manx here you're going to rate me
I'm
during the trial two events would seal his fate
Calderon's positively identified pending
as the man who tried to kidnap from the shopping mall in utero
the most amicable %uh would be the bite marks
recovered from the body and Lisa leading
Ann Rule attended the trial she still found it hard to believe the friend she
had once worked side by side with
on a suicide helpline could possibly be a savage
serial killer take afternoon testimony came from GAC you *** children who
is then Press Inc an against
it he testified take didn't either
Chi Omega and that keeps marks and breath combat ik
and wanted to get girls more I keep your eye on Morse's
great identifying a is their fingerprints and that is who burns
explaining
or are these maxine how they match exactly with kids get very unusual
p it and he said there's no question
the peg bundy if this girl the before after he killed him
court was over and head was working on it even means I was handcuffed
manacled any was carrying his his filed usually get
any let me know it like I didn't get
I have no had no part in this I know
he didn't do it I worked them hard through have because I had to accept it
at that point
theodore Robert Bundy
was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt ted bundy's fate is now in the hands of
Judge Edward Cowart
the judge will announce this afternoon whether he will send the former law
student to the electric chair
yesterday the jury heard bunnies mother asked that her son be spared
but the state reminded the jury I've the victims how nice it would have been
it lisa Lee Martin bones mother could have been there on the morning jan
Brewer did think
1978 and ask for mercy for them
Dundee was sentenced to death by electrocution
but the conviction would be just the beginning at the years have schemes and
appeals
husband is celebrity groom on death row
one would talk to you
you you have a long face the would be looking at you
but you always felt like there was a game going on
law enforcement had lists and missing girls that they and their families
wanted information on
but all the while bundy continue to plead his innocence
any the serial ***
doesn't necessarily want anything more than to demonstrate
that he is from most valuable
individual at that point in time getting them
all wound up getting them to the point where their frenetic
about getting him to confess to his crimes
back home the time he is in total control
world and that's basically what it is
total controlled
only when facing almost certain execution after 11 years on death row
did Dundee finally start to confess
lied to his family about it smaller meals
wife at that time completely thought he was innocent and the last
really in the last couple days he told them
truth had
committed these murders there was another
the humanitarian effort on his part wanna
something out of it sure was public it only took along his wife
for another few weeks or whatever it was that he was able to
manage
just days before he was to be executed ted bundy began admitting the hideous
murders
up at least 36 young girls across america
I'll who
he had dumped many of the body's in the mountains are in woods
do and he had often returned to them
to commit necrophilia it
he had sometimes brought the heads home
who the
Ted Bundy was executed by electrocution
on the 24th January 1989 but was this killer innocent young women created by
nature
or nurture was he damaged as a child
by the lie that his mother was his sister was his letter rejection by his
dream girl
the catalyst for his crimes was ted bundy
simply born to kill I've never mind I believe in the bad seed in a child is
doomed
from the beginning back if a child words the tendency to burn
is Brian into an abusive healthful
then you have the prefix sawyer grill
a sadistic sociopathic he wasn't crazy
he was not crazy he knew what he was doing he covered his tracks
but he he was a *** there seems to be some indication
and that even when he was a child he had no
real close emotional attachment to anyone
the basic personality is there when the child is born
it acted upon by the environment
so was he born to kill there had to be something in this child's
genetic makeup that said are you need is the certain
environmental trigger and then you'll be able to start
your fate
absolutely no dont that ted bundy
had a set of circumstances in his childhood which were
very unusual and potentially incredibly damaging
ted bundy was not born to be a serial killer
was a choice that he made as he grew up and felt
there was no other way resolving someone has underlying psychological problems
bundy himself gave corrections officer Paul Decker
chilling insight into the motives for his crimes
he was resting have relaxed at that point and I said something to him about
ted why did you you know what wouldn't do all this for
since I'd like that
just there was no discussion about all was a mental
problema drove min 2yr
any kind of a thing like that just George
terrifying thought
I'll
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