Ted Bundy

In fact he never was. Bundy was tried and convicted for 3 murders in Florida for which he was executed in the electric chair in January 1979. As his DOE (date of execution) got closer he offered to reveal where bodies were in an effort to stall death. The state of Florida was not buying it and he was put to death on schedule.

He was also never charged with many of the other murders he committed in at least 3 different states.

After the abduction of two young women in one day at Lake Sammamish in Washington state the police had a decent description and a possible name to go on. 'Ted' had been seen by enough people that day to give investigators a suspect. They also had a description of Ted's car, a tan Volkswagon Bug. At that time Seattle police were interviewing hundreds of possible suspects but virtually all had been cleared one way or another.

I guess it would depend on which victims you think he killed. There is compelling circumstantial evidence that Bundy killed for the first time when he was 14 years old. Ann Marie Burr, an 8 year old Tacoma girl went missing from her home in 1961. Not only did Bundy know Burr (she took piano lessons from Bundy's uncle) but the victim's father spotted Bundy in the neighborhood the morning of her disappearence. Recently law enforcement were hoping to close this old case with DNA evidence but were disappointed with the results. There was not enough DNA for an accurate profile. This does not clear Bundy as Burr's killer, just that there was not enough to prove she was his first victim.

Bundy began his crimes in earnest in 1974 and was finally arrested for the final time in June 1978 in Florida approximately 1 week after he killed 12 year old Kimberly Leach. If Burr was Bundy's first victim his killing career spanned from 1961 until his arrest in Florida in 1978. The bulk of his murders were between the years 1974 and 1978.

Ted spent most of time babysitting and remained detached from his stepfather emotionally. In high school ted became introverted and felt he "hit a wall", secondary to not understanding the socialization aspect of life itself. He didn't understand friendships and why people wanted friends. During high school Ted became a thief and shop lifter. He also became interested in images of sex and the interrelationship of violence.

There is a question of the beginning of Ted's killings at the time he was in the beginning stages of high school. "Many Bundy experts, including Rule and former King County detective Robert D. Keppel, believe Bundy may have started killing as far back as his early teens: an 8-year-old girl from Tacoma, Ann Marie Burr, vanished from her home three miles from Bundy's house one summer night in 1961, when Bundy was 14 years-old.

Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946

At Ted Bundy's trial the prosecution relied heavily on bite marks left on one victim. Although this type of evidence has been criticized by many, in the case of Bundy, who had distinctive teeth and bite, it was enough along with much circumstantial evidence to get him the electric chair.

Circumstantial evidence is misunderstood. It can be very powerful and damning, especially when there is physical evidence to go with it. As in Bundy's case, the chance that someone other than Bundy committed these particular murders would have been astronomical. Put that with eyewitnesses and the fact that anywhere Bundy happened to be young women turned up dead, and the case against him was set.

In the days and even hours before his death, Bundy used his knowledge of body locations to try to buy himself some more time. The state of Florida was having none of it. His execution went on as scheduled.

Bundy's mother was Eleanor Louise Cowell (married name Bundy). The name of Bundy's father is not so easily pinned down. His birth certificate names an Air Force veteran Lloyd Marshall. Louise later claimed that was not true and the real father was a sailor named Jack Worthington. Still others speculate that Louise's own father Sam Cowell was the father of her baby. The last may be cleared up with reverse DNA testing.

Police still dont know exactly how many people Ted Bundy killed, but the police have confirmed 23 murders were commited by Theodore Robert Bundy.

Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer. He assaulted many young women during the 1970s and possibly many other years. He may have assaulted many more women than we know of. He usually tricked his victims into helping him before hurting them.

As with the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Bundy had no family history of extreme abuse that is common with many of these types of killers. Charles Manson's childhood is a lesson in abuse and abandonment, and so it is logical that he became what he did. Whatever Bundy's reason, it originated inside him. There is so much that is not understood about human behaviour, especially when something goes dangerously wrong, such as in the case of Ted Bundy. But some progress has been made about personality disorders such as Antisocial and Narssistic personality disorders. These types of disorders are common among serial killers and other dangerous criminals.

Bundy refered to this 'other self' as The Entity. The Entity committed all the murders, the monster inside himself. He had a strange way of speaking in the third person. So this lets Ted off the hook and he could still look at himself and think he was a great guy.

He was in the middle of a hearing when he went to the bathroom. Imediatly he saw the opportunity to scape throug the window. He hurt his ancle but he made it to a shack in the wilderness on Aspen, Colorado.

24 January 1989.

I have seen a photo of his corpse on the gurney after he was executed. Can you believe it, he died with a smile on his face. He never had any remorse for his killing, otherwise he would have told authorities exactly how many he had killed. The total number of his victims is speculation.

Bundy didn't really have a smile on his face. I saw that photo of him on a gurney after he died, it did look like a smile but was infact rigor mortis setting in. It is very common to see the dead with a 'smile on their lips.

Ted Bundy was a serial killer. He was quite succesfull at it but he is one I understand comited mistakes too early on his carrer thus causing him to get in jail. Stealing a car for serial killing is not a good idea.

take 2300 E and follow it onto holladay blvd. then keep on that road until just before you hit 6200 S. it's on the right side of the road, but it's out of view and you can't see it from the road. it's a dirt road that fenced and you have to take the dirt road to left of it to get over to the house.

Ted Bundy was 5'10", according to authoritative sources such as Robert Keppel, a law enforcement officer and investigator of Bundy.

Besides Herbie The Love Bug, Ted Bundy's Volkswagon Bug is probably the best-known Bug in the world. The famous Bundy Bug with the passenger seat removed now resides at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment, on display for all to see. The car, a 1958 model was purchased by Bundy as a college student for $400. The car still retains its 'tan' color and all original rust spots.

Bundy was born to an unwed mother (Elenor Louise Cowell) on Nov. 24, 1946 in Vermont. Shortly after his birth Louise moved back to her parents home in Philidelphia, PA, where they lived for several years before moving to Washington state where Ted remained until law school.

The Bundy's lived at 658 Skyline Dr., Tocoma WA.

On November 8, 1974, Bundy finally slipped up when attempting to kidnap a woman named Carol DaRonch. He was posing as a police officer and managed to lure her into his car, where he tried to handcuff her. He only managed to get the cuffs on one wrist before the woman dove out of the car and ran away. DaRonch was able to identify Bundy to police and he was captured shortly after. He was convicted of attempted kidnapping on June 30, 1976 and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. On June 7, 1977, he was transferred to a state prison in Pitkin County, Colorado, where authorities were preparing to charge him with murder. However, he managed to escape the local courthouse during a recess by jumping out of a second story window. Unfortunately for Bundy, he had injured his ankle and was not able to escape the city before being captured the next week. Once back in jail, Bundy managed to pull off another miraculous escape. He stole a hacksaw from the facility and used it to saw a hole in the ceiling of his room. On December 30, 1977, he climbed into the ceiling and entered the main hallway of the prison. Since the front door guard was gone for the evening, he was able to stroll out the front door and take off in a stolen car. After other escapes and recaptures, finally on the morning of February 15, 1978, Bundy was pulled over by a traffic cop. When the plates registered stolen, he was identified and transported to Miami to stand trial for the sorority house murders. Bundy was easily convicted of the crimes and sentenced to death by the Honorable Edward Cowart. He was then tried in Orlando for the murder of Kimberly Leach and once again sentenced to death by Wallace Jopling. During this second trial, he married a female admirer named Carole Ann Boone in the courtroom, much to the horror of spectators. Bundy spent his time on death row conducting interviews with behavioral psychologists and helping to find other serial killers. He also appealed his case numerous times in order to get a stay of execution, but failed. His last desperate move consisted of confessing to eight unsolved murders and promising to reveal more information at a later date, but the execution was performed anyway.

Necrephilia, a sexual disorder present in some serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, is not totally understood, but in the case of these killers it is thought that it is a matter of control. In simplistic terms, sex with a corpse leaves all control with the living participate, since a corpse has no will or desires of their own. Bundy, as a killer, is still not totally understood. He was an intelligent man with an above average IQ and even at his death even he did not fully understand why he did the things he did.

He was often quoted as blaming his plight on violent pornography. Although this may have contributed to his obsessions, it is highly unlikely that this was the cause of his serial murderer career. Bundy showed signs of a troubled mind

before he entered his school years. At the tender age of three, Bundy placed knives (tips pointed inward) all around his sleeping teen-aged aunt. She awakened to find a grinning Teddy and the kitchen's sharpest knives arranged around her. Needless to say, she was appropriately creeped out.

Bundy worked as a grocery bagger and shelf-stocker at a Seattle Safeway store on Queen Anne Hill, as well as other odd jobs. At this time Bundy did not hold any one job for longer than a few months.

Serial killers tend to be white, heterosexual males in their twenties and thirties who are sexually dysfunctional and have low self-esteem. Their methodical rampages are almost always sexual in nature. Their killings are usually part of an elaborate fantasy that builds to a climax at the moment of their murderous outburst. Serial killers generally murder strangers with cooling off periods between each crime. Many enjoy cannibalism, necrophilia and keep trophy-like body parts as mementos of their work. Serial killers are sadistic in nature. Some return to crime scenes or grave sites of their victims to fantasize about their deeds. Many like to insert themselves in the investigation of their crimes and some enjoy taunting authorities with letters or carefully placed pieces of evidence.

Serial killers tend to prey on women and children of their same race. Prostitutes, drifters and hitchhikers are their victims of choice. Some homosexual killers enjoy hunting young boys and gay men. Female serial killers tend to be "black widows" who kill a succession of husbands, lovers, or other family members. They can also be nurses or other medical professionals who become self-appointed "angels of death" murdering babies, elderly, or the desperately ill in a misguided effort to relieve their suffering. Most serial killers grew up in violent households. As youngsters they enjoyed torturing animals, setting fires and were chronic bed-wetters. As adults, many serial have some type of brain damage and are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs.

Bundy had several scrapes with the law. Theft, illegal entry into neighbor's homes, peeping tom. In hindsight it all makes sense. He had many of the warning signs common with killers.

The bite marks connected him with the crime with a possibility that no one could deny.