Bundy: The Devil You Know

Theodore Robert Bundy, commonly known as Ted Bundy, was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who terrorized the United States in the 1970s. He was known for his charm, intelligence, and brutal crimes, which have been extensively studied and publicized. Here is an in-depth biography of Ted Bundy:
### Early Life
**Birth and Family:**
- Born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont.
- His mother, Eleanor Louise Cowell, was unmarried and 22 years old at the time of his birth. To avoid social stigma, Bundy was raised believing that his grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell, were his parents and that his mother was his sister.
- Bundy's father’s identity has never been confirmed, with various theories suggesting he could have been a sailor or even his mother's father, Samuel Cowell, who was known for his violent temper.
**Childhood:**
- Bundy moved with his mother to Tacoma, Washington, in 1950, where she married Johnnie Bundy, a hospital cook, who formally adopted Ted.
- Despite outward appearances of a normal childhood, Bundy later revealed feelings of social isolation and a sense of not belonging.
**Education and Early Signs:**
- Bundy was an intelligent and handsome young man who attended the University of Puget Sound and later transferred to the University of Washington, where he studied psychology.
- During his college years, Bundy exhibited early signs of deviant behavior, including voyeurism and petty theft.
### Murders and Criminal Activities
**Early Crimes:**
- Bundy began his killing spree in the early 1970s, targeting young women, usually college students, whom he abducted, raped, and murdered.
- His modus operandi involved luring victims by pretending to be injured or impersonating an authority figure, then overpowering them and taking them to secluded locations.
**Confirmed Victims:**
- Bundy confessed to 30 homicides committed between 1974 and 1978, though the true number of his victims is believed to be higher.
- His confirmed victims were predominantly young, attractive women with long, dark hair parted in the middle, resembling his first serious girlfriend, Diane Edwards.
**Notable Incidents:**
- In 1974, Bundy committed his first known murders in the Pacific Northwest, including the abductions of Lynda Ann Healy and Donna Gail Manson.
- He later moved to Utah to attend law school, where he continued his killing spree, leading to the disappearances of several women, including Melissa Smith and Laura Aime.
- In 1975, Bundy was arrested in Utah for failing to stop for a police officer, leading to his first conviction for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault of Carol DaRonch.
### Arrests and Escapes
**First Arrest:**
- Bundy was first arrested in Utah in 1975 when police found burglary tools in his car. During a subsequent search of his apartment, they discovered evidence linking him to several unsolved murders.
**Escape and Continued Murders:**
- In 1977, Bundy escaped from a courthouse library in Colorado, where he was being tried for the murder of Caryn Campbell. He was recaptured but escaped again in December 1977, this time from his jail cell, and fled to Florida.
- While on the run, Bundy committed some of his most infamous murders, including the brutal attacks on the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University, where he killed Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman and severely injured two others.
- His final known victim was 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, whom he abducted and murdered in February 1978.
### Trial and Convictions
**Trials:**
- Bundy was apprehended for the final time in February 1978 after being stopped for a traffic violation in Pensacola, Florida.
- His trials for the Chi Omega murders and the abduction and murder of Kimberly Leach were highly publicized, marked by his own self-representation and bizarre courtroom behavior, including proposing to his girlfriend Carole Ann Boone in the middle of the proceedings.
**Convictions:**
- Bundy was convicted of the Chi Omega murders in 1979 and sentenced to death. In 1980, he was also convicted for the murder of Kimberly Leach and received another death sentence.
### Imprisonment and Execution
**Life on Death Row:**
- Bundy spent nearly a decade on death row in Florida, during which time he gave numerous interviews and maintained his innocence in some cases while confessing to others.
- He married Carole Ann Boone during his imprisonment, and she gave birth to his daughter, Rose, in 1982.
**Execution:**
- After several delays and a series of appeals, Bundy was executed in the electric chair at Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989.
### Legacy and Impact
**Criminal Profile:**
- Bundy's crimes and persona have made him one of the most infamous serial killers in history. He was often d

Episode Transcript

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Jennie Lynz's roommates had not been particularlyworried when they didn't see her on the
morning of January fourth, nineteen seventyfour, but when she still wasn't up
and around that afternoon, they wentinto her basement bedroom to see if she
was sick. A horrifying sight confrontedthem, and Rule, in her now
famous classic book on the subject,The Stranger Beside Me, wrote that Jonie

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eighteen, had been savagely beaten.A bed rod had been torn away from
the bed and savagely rammed into hervagina. Shortly after the discovery, Janie
was transported to the hospital in acomatose state, suffering from damage that would
affect her for the rest of herlife. However, she was lucky to
be alive. Was one of thefew victims to survive an attack by Ted

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Bundy, who reigned terror across theUnited States between nineteen seventy four nineteen seventy
eight. There were an estimated thirtyfive more victims after Joni who were not
so fortunate. Stephen Michaud and HughAinsworth, in The Only Living Witness,
suggest that perhaps forty young women mayhave fallen prey to Bundy, but only

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Bundy knew for sure. It's anumber that Bundy has carried with him to
his grave. Theodore Robert Cowell wasborn on November twenty fourth, nineteen forty
six, to Louise Cowell, followingher stay for three months at the Elizabeth
Lund Hospital for Unwed Mothers in Vermont. Ted's biological father, who was an
Air Force veteran, was unknown tohis son throughout his life. Shortly after

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his birth, Ted and his mothermoved back to the home of his grandparents
in Philadelphia. While growing up,Ted was led to believe that his grandparents
were his parents and his natural motherwas his older sister. The charade was
created in order to protect his biologicalmother from harsh criticism and prejudice of being
an unwed mother. At the ageof four, Ted and his mother moved

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to Tacoma, Washington to live withrelatives. A year after the move,
Louise fell in love with a militarycook named Johnny Culpeper Bundy. In May
nineteen fifty one, the couple wasmarried, and Ted assumed a stepfather's last
name, which he would keep forthe rest of his life. Over the
years, the Bundy family added fourother siblings, whom Ted spent much of

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his time babysitting. After school,Ted's stepfather tried to form a bond between
himself and Ted by including him incamping trips and other father son activities.
However, Johnny's attempts were unsuccessful,and Ted remained emotionally detached from his stepfather.
According to Stephen Michaud and Hugh Ainsworth'sbook Ted Bundy Conversations with a Killer,

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Ted became increasingly uncomfortable around his stepfatherand preferred to be alone. This
desire to be by himself increased andpossibly led to his later inability to socially
interact comfortably with others. As ayouth, Ted was terribly shy, self
doubting, and uncomfortable in social situations. He was often teased and made the

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butt of pranks by bullies in hisjunior high school. Mischaud analyzed Ted's behavior
and decided that he was not likeother children. He looked and acted like
them, but he was haunted bysomething else. A fear, a doubt,
sometimes only a vague uneasiness that inhabitedhis mind with the subtlety of a
cat. He felt it for years, but he didn't recognize it for what

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it was until much later. Regardlessof the humiliating experiences he sometimes suffered from
being different, he was able tomaintain a high grade point average that would
continue throughout high school and later intocollege. During his high school years,
Ted appeared to blossom and to amore gregarious young man. His popularity increased

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significantly, and he was considered tobe well dressed and exceptionally well mannered.
Despite his emerging popularity, Ted seldomdated. His interests lay more in extracurricular
activities such as skiing and politics.In fact, Ted had a particular fascination
with politics, an interest that wouldyears later temporarily land him in the political

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arena. Following high school, Tedattended college at the University of Puget Sound
and the University of Washington. Heworked his way through school by taking on
several low level jobs, such asa bus boy and shoe clerk. However,
he seldom stayed in one position forvery long. His employers considered him

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to be unreliable. Although Ted wasinconsistent with his work outside of school,
he was very focused on his studiesand grades. Yet his focus changed during
the spring of nineteen sixty seven,when he began a relationship that would forever
change his life. Ted met agirl that was everything he'd ever dreamed of
in a woman. She was abeautiful and highly sophisticated woman from a wealthy

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Californian family. Ted couldn't believe thatsomeone from her class would have an interest
in someone like him. Although theyhad many differences, they both loved to
ski, and it was during theirmany ski trips together that he fell in
love. She was really Ted's firstlove, and, according to Anne Rule,
possibly the first woman with whom hebecame involved with sexually. However,

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she was not as infatuated with Tedas he was with her. In fact,
she liked Ted a lot, butbelieved he had no real direction or
future goals. Ted tried hard toimpress her, even if that meant lying
something that she didn't like at all. Mishowed writes that Ted won a summer
scholarship at the prestigious Stanford University inCalifornia just to impress her. But at

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Stanford his immaturity was exposed. Hewrites, Ted did not understand why the
mask he'd been using had failed him. His first tentative foray into the sophisticated
world had ended in disaster. Innineteen sixty eight, after his girlfriend graduated
from the University of Washington, shebroke off relations with Ted. She was

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a practical young woman and seemed torealize that Ted had some serious character flaws
that took him out of the runningas husband material. Ted never recovered from
the breakup. Nothing including school,seemed to hold any interest for him,
and he eventually dropped out dumbfounded anddepressed over the breakup. He managed to
stay in touch with her by writingafter she returned to California, yet she

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seemed uninterested in getting back together.But Ted became obsessed with this young woman
and he couldn't get her out ofhis mind. It was an obsession that
would span his lifetime and lead toa series of events that would shock the
world to make matters worse. Innineteen sixty nine, Bundy learned his true

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parentage. His sister was actually hismother and his parents were actually his grandparents.
Not unexpectedly, this late discovery hada rather serious impact on him.
Michaud says that his attitude towards hismother didn't change much, but he became
nasty and surly to Johnny Bundy.It's hard to say whether the knowledge that

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his mother had deceived him all hislife had any impact on his other character
flaws, which were beginning to blossom. Throughout Ted Bundy's high school and college
years, there was always a cloudover his reputation for honesty. Many people
close to him suspected him of pettythievery. Perhaps Ted's psychopathic nature was being

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revealed, but the people who witnessedhis behavior didn't realize the implications of the
tendencies he was developing. Stealing withoutany sense of guilt, and in fact
with a sense of entitlement, isa common trait in a psychopath. Also,
psychopaths get a thrill from the excitementand danger that stealing and shoplifting presents

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to them. Ted's dishonesty evolved fromstealing small things and work in school situations,
to shoplifting to burglarizing homes for televisionsand other items of value. He
changed from a shy and introverted personto a more focused and dominant character.
He was driven, as if toprove himself to the world. He re

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enrolled at the University of Washington andstudied psychology, a subject in which he
excelled. Bundy became an honor studentand was well liked by his professors at
the university. It was also atthis time that Ted met Elizabeth Kendall,
a pseudonym under which she wrote ThePhantom Prince, My Life with Ted Bundy,
a woman with whom he'd become involvedwith for almost five years. Elizabeth

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worked as a secretary and was asomewhat shy and quiet woman. She was
a divorcee who seemed to have foundin Ted Bundy the perfect father figure for
her daughter. Elizabeth was deeply inlove with Ted from the start and wanted
to one day marry him. However, Ted said he was not yet ready
for marriage because he felt there wasstill too much for him to accomplish.

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She knew that Ted didn't feel asstrongly for her as she did him.
She felt that on many occasions Tedwas meeting with other women, Yet Elizabeth
hoped that time would bring him aroundto her and he'd eventually change his ways.
She was unaware of his past relationshipwith his girlfriend from California, and
that they still continued to keep incontact and visit each other. Outwardly.

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Ted's life in nineteen sixty nine tonineteen seventy two seemed to be changing for
the better. He was more confident, with high hopes for his future.
Ted began sending out applications to variouslaw schools, while at the same time
he became active in politics. Heworked on a campaign to re elect a
Washington governor, a position that allowedTed to form bonds with politically powerful people

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in the Republican Party. Ted alsoperformed volunteer work at a crisis clinic on
a work study program. He waspleased with a path as life was taking.
At the time, everything seemed tobe going in the right direction.
He was even commended by the Seattlepolice for saving the life of a three
year old boy who was drowning ina lake. In nineteen seventy three,
during a business trip to California forthe Washington Republican Party, Ted met up

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with his old girl friend. Shewas amazed at the transformation in Ted.
He was much more confident and mature, not as aimless as he was when
they last dated. They met severalother times afterwards, unknown to his steady
girl friend Elizabeth. During Ted's businesstrips, he romantically courted the lovely young
woman from California, and she onceagain fell in love with him. Marriage

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was a topic brought up more thanonce by Ted over their many intimate rendezvous
during that fall and winter. Yetjust as suddenly as their romance began,
it changed radically. Where once Tedlavished affection upon her, he was suddenly
cold and despondent. It seemed asif Ted had lost all interest in her
in just a few weeks. Shewas clearly confused about this new Ted.

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In February nineteen seventy four, withno warning or explanation, Ted ended all
contact with her. His plan ofrevenge worked. He rejected her as she
at once rejected him. She wasnever to see or hear from Ted again.
Linda Ann Heally was a very accomplishedyoung woman. At age twenty one,

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morning radio listeners heard her friendly voiceannounce the ski conditions for the major
ski areas in western Washington. Shewas a beautiful girl, tall and slim,
with shiny, clean, long brownhair, and a ready smile.
The product of a good family andan upper middle class environment, she was
an excellent singer and a senior atthe University of Washington, majoring in psychology.

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She loved working with children, whowere mentally handicapped. Linda shared a
house near the university with four otheryoung women. On January thirty first,
nineteen seventy four, she and afew friends went for a few beers after
dinner at Dante's, a tavern thatwas popular with the university students. They
didn't stay long, and Linda wenthome to watch television and talk on the

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phone to her boyfriend. Then Lindawent to bed. The roommate in the
room next to Linda heard no noisescoming from Linda's room that night. Linda
had to get up every morning atfive thirty to get to her job at
the radio station. The roommate heardLinda's alarm go off at five thirty,
as it did customarily. What wasunusual was that the alarm kept buzzing.

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When the roommate finally went in toshut off the alarm, she heard the
phone ring. It was the radiostation calling to see where Linda was.
The bed in Linda's room was madeand nothing looked disturbed, so the roommate
assumed that Linda was on her wayto work. When her parents called that
afternoon to find out why Linda hadnot shown up for dinner, as expected.

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Everyone became worried nobody had seen her. She seemed to have vanished from
the house. Linda's parents called thepolice. In Linda's room, they found
that her bed had been made upin a way that Linda had never made
it up before. In fact,Linda was not normally one to make up
her bed. Oddly, a pillowcase in the top sheet were missing on

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this carefully made up bed, Asmall blood stain of the same blood type
as Linda's was found on the pillowin the bottom sheet. Blood was also
on her nightgown that was carefully hungin the closet. An outfit of hers
was missing. Another alarming clue wasthat one of the doors to the house
was unlocked, when the girls werealways vigilant about locking it. The police

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were not initially convinced that Linda hadbeen a victim of foul play, so
no finger print, hair or fiberevidence was gathered. Ultimately, police realized
that an intruder had somehow gotten intothe house, removed her nightgown and hung
it in the closet, dressed herin a change of clothes, made up
the bed, wrapped Linda in thetop bed sheet, and carried her out

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of the house very quietly. Duringthat spring and summer, more women students
suddenly and inexplicably vanished. There werestriking similarities among many of the cases.
For instance, all the girls werewhite, slender, single, wearing slacks
at the time of disappearance, hadhair that was long and parted in the
middle, and they all disappeared inthe evening. Also around the time of

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the disappearances, police interviewed college studentswho told them of a strange man who
was seen wearing a cast on eitherhis arm or leg. Supposedly, the
stranger seemed to be struggling with booksand asking young women nearby for assistance.
One eye witness reported a strange manin the campus parking lot who had a
cast and asked for assistance with hiscar, a v W bug that he

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apparently had difficulty starting. Interestingly,around the same area where two of the
girls mysteriously disappeared, there was seensuch a man wearing a cast on his
arm or leg. Finally, inAugust of nineteen seve twenty four, in
Washington's Lake Semamish State Park, theremains of some of the missing girls were
found, and two were later identified. It was remarkable. The police were

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able to identify two of the bodiesconsidering what was left strands of various colors
of hair, five thigh bones,a couple of skulls, and a jawbone.
The girls identified were Janis Ought andDenise Nasland, who disappeared on the
same day, July fourteenth. Thelast people to have seen Aught, a
couple picnicking near by remembered a handsomeyoung man approaching the young woman from what

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the couple could hear of the conversationbetween Aught and the young man. His
name was Ted, and he haddifficulty loading his boat into his car because
his arm was in a cast.He asked ought for assistance, and she
agreed to help. That was thelast time twenty three year old Janis Aught
was seen alive. Denise Nasaland wasspending the afternoon with her boyfriend and friends

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when she walked towards the restroom inthe park, never to return again.
That afternoon, around where she disappeared, a man who wore a cast and
asked for help with his boat approacheda couple of women. They were unable
to assist the attractive young man.However, Denise Nasaland was the kind of
girl to help someone in need,especially someone with a broken arm, an

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act of kindness that cost her life. Denise Nasland was not the last woman
to disappear and be found dead.This time, the killer would travel to
different states. Midville, Utah's policechief, Lewis Smith, had a seventeen
year old daughter, whom he frequentlywarned about the dangers of the world.
He'd seen all too much during hiscareer and worried for his daughter's safety.

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Yet his worst fears were to cometrue on October eighteenth, nineteen seventy four,
when his daughter, Melissa disappeared.She had been found nine days after
her disappearance, strangled, sodomized,and rape. Thirteen days later, on
Halloween, seventeen year old Laura Aimdisappeared. She was found on Thanksgiving Day

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in the Wassatch Mountains lying dead bya river. Aim had been beaten about
the head and face with a crowbar, raped, and sodomized. It
was suspected that she was killed someplace other than where she was found,
due to the lack of blood atthe crime scene. Other than her body,
there was no physical evidence for thepolice to use. The similarities with

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the Washington State murders caught the attentionof local police in Utah, who were
frantically searching for the man responsible forthe grisly crimes. With each murder,
the evidence was slowly mounting. Utahpolice consulted with Washington State investigators almost all
agreed that it was highly likely thatthe same men who committed the crimes in
Washington State had also been responsible forthe murders in Utah. Thanks to eyewitness

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accounts of the man in the castseen near the areas where many of the
women had disappeared, they were ableto come up with the composite of the
could be killer who called himself Ted. When a close friend of Elizabeth Kendall
saw the account of Melissa Smith's murderin the paper and the composite of the
could be killer, she knew thatTed Bundy must be the man. It
wasn't just her intense dislike and mistrustfor Elizabeth's boyfriend that let her to believe

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that Ted was the man, butalso the fact that he looked so much
like the composite picture in the paper. Deep down, Elizabeth must have known
her friend was right. After all, Ted did resemble the sketch he drove
a v W similar to those seenby witnesses, and she'd seen crutches in
his room, even though he neverinjured his leg. According to the book

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My Phantom Prince, My Life withTed Bundy, which was later written by
Kendall, she anonymously called the SeattlePolice Department in August nineteen seventy four and
stated that her boyfriend might be involvedin the recent murder cases. She called
again later that fall and gave morepertinent information that might assist the investigators in
the case. She also agreed togive recent pictures of Ted to later be

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shown to winnesses. However, thewitnesses did not make a positive id after
viewing the pictures, and Elizabeth's reportwas eventually filed away. The investigators working
the case decided to turn their attentiontowards more likely suspects, and Ted Bundy
was forgotten until a few years later. The killer continued to elude investigators,

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assuming that by operating in different states, the police had been unable to compare
their cases. His behavior became increasinglybold and risky as he approached women.
Those who escaped his advances would laterrecognize him and provide the police with valuable
information. It was on November eighth, nineteen seventy four, when police investigators
were to get the break in thecase for which they'd been waiting. That

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Friday evening, a strange but handsomeman in a bookstore in a Utah mall
approached eighteen year old Carol de Ranch. The stranger told her that he'd seen
someone trying to break into her carand asked her to go along with them
to the parking lot to see ifanything had been stolen. Carol thought that
the man must have been a malesecurity guard because he seemed so in control

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of the situation. When they arrivedat the car, she checked it and
informed the man everything was there.The man, who identified himself as Officer
Roseland, was not satisfied and wantedto escort her to police headquarters. He
wanted her to id the supposed criminaland file a complaint. When he led
her to a VW bug, shebecame suspicious and asked for identification. He

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quickly showed her a gold badge andthen escorted her into the car. He
drove off quickly in the opposite directionof the police station, and after a
short while, he suddenly stopped thecar fear had set into Carrol Dranch.
The police officer suddenly grabbed her andtried to put handcuffs on her. Dranch
screamed for her life. When shescreamed, the man pulled out a handgun

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and threatened to kill her if shedidn't stop. Deranch found herself falling out
of the car and then suddenly pushedup against the side of it by the
madman. He had a crowbar inhis hand and was ready to hit her
head. Terror Struck, she kickedhis genitals and managed to break free.
Deranch ran towards the road and caughtthe attention of a couple driving by.

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They stopped and Deranche frantically jumped intotheir car. She was crying hysterically and
told them a man had tried tokill her. They immediately took her to
the police sobbing with the handcuffs stilldangling from her wrists. She told the
police what one of their men haddone, but there is no man with
the name of Roselnd that worked there. Immediately, police were dispatched to the

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place where Deranch had struggled for herlife just an hour earlier, but the
madman was gone. However, thepolice were able to get a description of
the man and his car, anda few days later from off the girl's
coat a blood type. The bloodwas Type oh, the same as Ted
Bundy's, as police were later tolearn, that's the same evening, the

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director of a play at Faumont HighSchool was approached by a handsome man who
asked for her assistance in identifying acar. Yet she was far too busy
and refused him. Againy later approachedher and asked for her assistance, and
again she refused him. Something seemedodd, almost scary about the man,
but she ignored it and kept onwith the work at hand. It disturbed

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her to see the man again inthe back of the auditorium, and she
wondered what it was he really wanted. Debbie Kent, who was watching the
evening performance along with her parents,left early to pick up her brother at
the Bowling Alley. She told herparents that she'd be back to pick them
up shortly, but she never did. In fact, she never made it

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to the car, which stood emptyin the school parking lot. Debbie Kent
was nowhere to be found. Whatpolice did find in the parking lot was
a small handcuff key. Later,when police tried to fit the key that
they found into the handcuffs worn byDora Unch earlier that night. It was
a perfect match. Almost a monthlater, a man would call police to

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tell them that he'd seen a tenv W bugs speed away from the high
school parking lot the night of Kent'sdisappearance. On January twelfth, nineteen seventy
five, Karen Campbell, her fiancee, doctor Raymond Gadowski, and his two
children took a trip to Colorado.Karen hoped she'd enjoy the breakaway from work
and spend more time with the childrenwhile her fiance attended a seminar. While

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relaxing in the lounge of her hotelwith Gadowski and his son and daughter one
night, she realized she'd forgotten themagazine and returned to her room to retrieve
it. Her fiancee and the childrenwaited for her return in vain. He
knew she was a bit ill thatnight and went back to the room to
see if she needed help. Karenwas nowhere in sight. In fact,

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she never made it to the room. By mid morning. Confused and worried,
Gadowskin formed the police of her disappearance. They searched every room in the
hotel, but they found no traceof Karen. Almost a month later,
and a few miles from where shedisappeared, a recreational worker found Karen's nude
body lying a short distance from theroad. Animals had ravaged her body,

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which made it difficult to determine theprecise cause of death. However, it
was evident that she received crushing fracturesthat could have been fatal. Like many
of the victims found in Utah,Washington, she'd suffered from repeated blows to
the head, possibly made by asharp instrument. According to Richard Larson's book
Bundy The Deliberate Stranger, the blowswere so violent that one of her teeth

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was actually separated from the gum linein her mouth. There was also evidence
that she'd been raped. It wasbelieved that she was murdered just hours after
she disappeared. Apart from Karen's brutalizedremains, there was little evidence to be
found at the scene. A fewmonths after Karen Campbell's body was discovered,
the remains of another person were wefound ten miles from where the bodies of

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Nasaland and Aught were located. Itwas Brenda ball One of the seven women
who disappeared earlier that summer. Thecause of her death was blows to the
head with a blunt object. Policesearched the Tailor Mountains where the bodies were
found. It would be only acouple of days later when another body would
be discovered. The body was thatof Susan Rancourt, who'd also disappeared earlier

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that summer. The Tailor Mountains hadbecome a burial site for the madman known
as Ted. Two more bodies werefound that month, One of them was
Linda Ann Heally. All of thevictims suffered from several head contusions from a
blunt instrument, possibly a crowbar.Police continued unsuccessfully to look for the killer.

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Five more women were found dead inColorado under similar circumstances. They were
not the last to fall victim toTed's killing spree. On August sixteenth,
nineteen seventy five, Sergeant Bob hadHayward was patrolling an area just outside of
Salt Lake County when he spotted asuspicious Tan VW bug driving past him.

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He knew the neighborhood well and almostall the residents that lived there, and
he couldn't remember seeing the ten VWthere before. When he put on his
lights to get a better view ofthe VW's license plate, the driver of
the bug turned off his lights andbegan speeding away. Immediately, Sergeant Hayward
began to chase the vehicle. Thecar sped through two stop signs before it

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eventually pulled over into a nearby gasstation. Hayward pulled up behind the reckless
driver and watched as the occupant gotout of his car and approached the police
car. Hayward asked the young manfor his registration and license, which was
issued to Theodore Robert Bundy. Justthen, two other troopers pulled up behind
the TANVW. Hayward noticed that thepassenger seat in Bundy's car was missing.

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With mounting suspicion and Bundy's permission,the three officers inspected the VW. The
officers found a crowbar, ski mask, rope, handcuffs, wire, and
an ice pick. Bundy was immediatelyplaced under arrest for suspicion of burglary.
Soon after Bundy's arrest, police beganto find connections between him and the man
who attacked Carroll de Ranch. Thehandcuffs that were found in Bundy's car were

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the same make and brand that herattacker had used, and the Carrie drove
was similar to the one she described. Furthermore, the crowbar found in Bundy's
car was similar to the weapon thathad been used to threaten Carroll earlier that
November. They also suspected that Bundywas the man responsible for the kidnapping of
Melissa Smith, Laura Aime and DebbieKent. There were just too many similarities

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among the cases for police to ignore. However, they knew they needed much
more evidence to support the case againstBundy. On October second, nineteen seventy
five, Carrol de Ranch, alongwith the director of the Verumont High School
play and a friend of Debbie Kent, were asked to attend a line up
of seven men, one of whomwas Bundy, at a Utah police station.

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Investigators were not surprised when Carol pickedTed from the line up as the
man who had attacked her. Theplay director and friend of Debbie Kent also
picked Ted from the lineup as theman they had seen wandering around the auditorium
the knight Debbie Kent had disappeared.Although Ted repeatedly professed his innocence, police
were almost positive they had their man. Soon after he was picked out of

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the line up, investigators launched afull blown investigation into the man they knew
as Theodore Robert Bundy. During thefall of nineteen seventy five, police investigators
approached Elizabeth Kendall for whatever information shewas able to give about Ted. They
believed Elizabeth would most likely hold thekey to Bundy's whereabouts, habits, and

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personality. What investigators learned would laterhelp link Ted Bundy to the murder victims.
On September sixteenth, nineteen seventy five, Elizabeth was called into the King
County Police Major Crime Unit building inWashington State and interviewed by detectives Jerry Thompson,
Dennis Couch, and I Rebeal.She was visibly stressed and nervous,

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but willing to offer the police anyinformation necessary to help the case. When
asked about Ted, she stated thaton the nights of the murders, she
could not account for him. Elizabethalso told the police that he'd often sleep
during the day and go out atnight exactly where she didn't know. She
said that his interest in sex hadwayne during the last year. When he

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did show interest, he pressured herinto bondage. When she told Bundy that
she no longer wanted to participate inhis bondage fantasies, he was very upset
with her. In a later interviewwith Elizabeth, investigators learned that Ted had
plastered her of Paris to make castsin his room, which she'd noticed when
they first began dating. She alsonoticed on a later occasion that in his

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car Ted had a hatchet, Butthere was something else important to the case
that Elizabeth would remember. She recalledthat Ted had visited Lake Samamish Park in
July, where he'd supposedly gone waterskiing. A week after Ted had gone
to Lake Sammamish Park, Janis Auntand Denise Nasland were reported missing. After
long hours of interviews with Elizabeth,investigators decided to shift their focus to Ted's

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former girlfriend in California. When thepolice contacted her, she told them of
how he'd abruptly changed his manner towardsher from loving and affectionate to cruel and
insensitive. Upon further questioning, policelearned that Bundy's relationship with his California girlfriend
had overlapped with his relationship with Elizabeth, and neither of them knew of the
other woman. Ted seemed to beliving a double life filled with lies and

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betrayal. There was more to Tedthan what investigators had initially expected. Further
investigation yielded more evidence that would laterlink him to other victims. Linda Ann
Heally was linked to Bundy through acousin of his. More eye witnesses would
recognize him from Lake Sammamish Park duringthe time Auten Naslin disappeared. An old

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friend of Bundy's came forward saying he'dseen pantyhose in the glove compartment of his
car. Plus, Ted had spenta lot of time in the Tailor mountains
where the bodies of victims had beenfound. Bundy's credibility was further dented when
police discovered he purchased gas on creditcards and the towns where some of the
victims had disappeared. Furthermore, afriend had seen him with his arm in

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a cast when there was no recordof him ever having a broken arm.
The evidence against Ted Bundy was buildingup, yet he still continued to profess
his innocence. On February twenty third, nineteen seventy six, Ted was put
on trial for the kidnapping of CarolDeranch. Bundy sat in a relaxed manner
in the courtroom, confident that he'dbe found innocent of the charges against him.

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He believed that there was no hardevidence to convict him, but he
couldn't have been more wrong. WhenCarol Durrance took the stand, she told
of her ordeal that she'd suffered sixteenmonths earlier. When asked if she were
able to recognize the person who attackedher, she began to cry as she
lifted her hand and pointed a fingerto the man who had called himself Officer

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roseland the people in the courtroom turnedtheir attention to Ted Bundy, who stared
at de Ranch coldly as she pointedat him. Later in the trial,
Ted had said he'd never seen thedefendant, but he had no alibi to
confirm his whereabouts the day of theattack. The judge spent the weekend reviewing
the case before he handed down averdict two days later. He'd find Bundy

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guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of aggravatedkidnapping. Ted Bundy was later sentenced on
June thirtieth to one to fifteen yearsin prison, with the possibility of parole.
While in prison, Bundy was subjectedto a psychological evaluation that the court
had previously requested. In Anne Rule'sbook The Stranger Beside Me, she stated
that psychologists found Bundy to be neitherpsychotic, neurotic, the victim of organic

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brain desis, alcoholic, addicted todrugs, suffering from a character disorder or
amnesia, and was not a sexualdeviate. The psychologist concluded that he had
a strong dependency on women and deducedthat that dependency was suspect. Upon further
evaluation, they concluded that Ted hada fear of being humiliated in his relationships

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with women. While Bundy remained incarceratedin Utah State Prison, investigators began a
search for evidence connecting him with themurders of Karen Campbell and Melissa Smith.
What Bundy didn't realize was that hislegal problems would soon escalate. Detectives discovered
in Bundy's VW's hairs that were examinedby the FBI and found to be characteristically

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alike to Campbell's and Smith's haare Furtherexamination of Karen Campbell's remains showed that a
skull bore impressions made by a bluntinstrument, and those impressions matched the crowbar
that had been discovered in Bundy's cara year earlier. Colorado police filed charges
against Bundy on October twenty second,nineteen seventy six, for the murder of
Karen Campbell. In April of nineteenseventy seven, Ted was transferred to Garfield

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County Jail in Colorado to await trialfor the murder of Karen Campbell. During
preparation of his case, Bundy becameincreasingly unhappy with his representation. He believed
his lawyer to be inapt and incapable, and eventually he fired him. Bundy,
experienced in law, believed he coulddo the job better, and he

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began to take up his own defensein the case. He felt confident that
he would succeed at the trial scheduledfor November fourteenth, nineteen seventy seven,
Bundy had a lot of work aheadof him. He was granted permission to
leave the confines of the jail onoccasion and utilized the courthouse library in Aspen
to conduct research. What the policedidn't know was that he was planning an

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escape. On June seventh, duringone of his trips to the library.
At the courthouse, Bundy managed tojump from an open window, injuring his
ankle in the process, and escapedto freedom. He was not wearing any
leg irons or handcuffs, so hedidn't stand out among the ordinary citizens in
the town of Aspen. It wasan escape that had been planned by Ted

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for a while. Aspen police werequick to set up roadblocks surrounding the town,
yet Ted knew to stay within thecity limits for the time being,
and lay Low police launched a massiveland search using scent tracking bloodhounds and one
hundred and fifty searchers in the hopesof catching Ted. However, Ted was
able to elude them for days.While on the run, Bundy managed to

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live off the food he stole fromlocal cabins and nearby campers, occasionally sleeping
in ones that were abandoned. YetBundy knew that what he really needed was
a car, which would better enablehim to pass through police barriers. He
couldn't hide an Aspen forever. Tedbelieved that he was destined to be free.

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According to an interview with Michaud Name'sWorth, he felt as if he
was invincible and claimed that nothing wentwrong. If something did go wrong,
the next thing that happened was sogood it compensated it was even better.
Sure enough, Bundy found his ticketout of town when he discovered a car
with the keys left in it,but his luck would not last long.

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While trying to flee Aspen in thestolen vehicle, he was spotted. From
then on, he was ordered towear handcuffs and leg irons while conducting his
research at the library in Aspen.However, Bundy was not the type of
man who liked to be tied down. Almost seven months later, Bundy again
attempted an escape, but this timehe was more successful. On December thirtieth,

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he crawled up into the ceiling ofthe Garfield County Jail and made his
way to another part of the building. He managed to find another opening in
the ceiling that let down into thecloset of a jailer's apartment. He sat
and waited until he knew the apartmentwas empty, then casually walked out the
front door to his freedom. Hisescape would go undiscovered until the following afternoon,

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more than fifteen hours later. Bythe time the police learned of his
escape, Bundy was well on hisway to Chicago. Chicago was one of
the few stops that Bundy would makealong the route to his final destination,
Sunny Florida. By mid January ofnineteen seventy eight, Ted Bundy, using
his newly acquired name Chris Hagen,had settled comfortably into a one room apartment

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in Tallahassee, Florida. Ted Bundyenjoyed his new found freedom in a place
that knew little, if nothing,about him or his past. Bundy was
stimulated by intelligence and youth, andfelt comfortable in his new environment near Florida
State University. He spent much ofhis free time walking around f s u's
campus, occasionally ducking into classes unnoticedand listening in on lectures. When he

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wasn't wandering around campus, he'd spendhis time in his apartment. Watching the
TV he'd stolen. Became second natureto Bundy. Almost everything in his apartment
was stolen merchandise. Even the footyeate was purchased from stolen credit cards.
Under the circumstances, Bundy seemed tohave had enough material things to make him

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content. What he didn't have,and what he missed the most, was
companionship. On Saturday night, Januaryfourteenth, a few of the sorority sisters
could be found at the Cayomega House. Most were oute dancing or at keg
parties on campus. It wasn't unusualfor the sisters to stay out late since
there was no curfew. In fact, it was pretty normal for the girls

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to return in the early morning hours. However, none of the sisters was
prepared to confront the horror that awaitedthem back at their sorority house. Later
that night, at three a m. Nita Neary was dropped off at the
sorority house by your boyfriend after attendinga keg party on campus. Upon reaching
the door to the house, shenoticed it was standing wide open. Soon

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after she'd entered the building, sheheard some movement, as if some one
was running in the rooms above her. Suddenly, she heard footsteps approaching the
staircase near her, and she hidin a doorway out of view. She
watched as a man with a knitblue cap pulled over his eyes, holding
a log with cloth around it,ran down the stairs and out the door.
Nita's first thought was that the sororityhouse had been burglarized. She immediately

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ran up the stairs to wake herroommate Nancy. Nita told her of the
strange man she saw leaving the building. Unsure of what to do, the
girls made their way to the housemother's room. Yet before they were able
to make it to her room,they saw another roommate, Karen, staggering
down the hall. Her entire headwas soaked with blood. While Nancy tried

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to help Karen, Nita woke upthe house mother and the two of them
went to check on another roommate nearby. They found Kathy in her room,
alive, but in a horrible state. She was also covered in blood
that was seeping from open wounds onher head. Hysterical, Nancy ran to
the phone and dialed the police.Police later found two girls dead in their

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rooms, lying in their beds.Some one had attacked them while they slept.
Lisa Levy was the first girl thatofficers found dead. Pathologists who later
performed the autopsy on her found thatshe'd been beaten on the head with a
log, raped and strangled. Uponfurther examination, they discovered bite marks on
her buttocks and on one of hernipples. In fact, Lisa's nipple had

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been so severely bitten that it wasalmost severed from the rest of her breast.
She had also been sexually assaulted witha hair spray bottle. Post Mortem
reports on Margaret Browne, the othergirl found dead, showed that she suffered
similar fatal injuries, although she'd notbeen sexually assaulted and she showed no signs
of bite marks. She'd been strangledby a pair of pantyhose that was later

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found at the scene of the crime. She had also been beaten on the
head, yet so severely that herskull was split, entered, and a
portion of her brain was exposed.Neither she nor Lisa Levie showed signs of
a struggle. Investigators who interviewed thesurvivors learned nothing. None of the girls
had any memory of the events ofthat fatal night. Like Levy and Bowmen,

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they too had been asleep when theywere attacked. The only witness was
Nita Neeri, who was able tocatch a profile of the killer as he
fled. However, the assailant wouldnot travel far before claiming another victim.
That night, less than a milefrom the Cayomega house, a young woman
was awakened by loud, banging noisescoming from the apartment next to hers.

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She wondered what her friend in theadjoining apartment was doing to make such a
noise At four in the morning,As the banging noises persisted, she became
suspicious and woke her roommate. Asthey listened, they heard Cheryl next door
moaning. Frightened, they called overto her house to see if she was
all right. When no one pickedup the phone, they immediately called the

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police. The police came quickly,after all, they were just blocks away
at the Cayomega house tending to thecrime scene there. They entered Cheryl's apartment
and walked to her bedroom, wherethey found her sitting on the bed.
Her face was just beginning to swellfrom the blutcheening to her head. She
was still somewhat conscious and half nude, but lucky to be alive. Police

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discovered a mask at the foot ofher bed. According to Anne Ruel and
the stranger beside me, the maskthat was found resembled almost exactly the mass
taken from Ted Bundy's car when hehad been arrested in Utah in August of
nineteen seventy five. Police investigators workeddiligently on the evidence that was left behind.
They were able to get a bloodtype from the assailant, sperm samples,

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and finger print smudges. Unfortunately,most of the evidence that was tested
proved to be inconclusive. The onlyfirm evidence investigators were able to obtain were
the hares found in the mask,teeth impressions from the bite marks on the
victims, and an eye witness accountfrom Nita Neery. Investigators did not have
a suspect, and Ted Bundy wasunknown to them. On February ninth,

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nineteen seventy eight, Lake City Policereceived a phone call from the distressed parents
of twelve year old Kimberly Leech.They were hysterical and said that their daughter
had disappeared that day. Police launcheda massive search to find the missing girl,
who disappeared from her school grounds.The person who lassar was a friend,
Priscilla, who saw Kimberly get intothe car of a stranger the day

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she disappeared. Unfortunately, she wasunable to accurately remember the car or the
driver. They found Kimberly's body eightweeks later in a state park in Suwannye
County, Florida. The young girl'sbody yielded little information due to advanced decomposition,
However, police were later to findthe evidence they needed in a van

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driven by Ted Bundy. A fewdays before Kimberly Leech had disappeared, a
strange man in a white van approacheda fourteen year old girl arle as he
waited for her brother to pick herup. The man had claimed he was
from the fire department and asked herif she attended the school nearby. She
found it strange that an off dutyfireman was wearing plaid pants and a navy

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jacket. She began to feel uncomfortable. She'd been warned on many occasions by
her father, who was the chiefdetective for the Jacksonville Police Department, not
to talk with strangers. She wasrelieved when her brother drove up. Suspicious
of the man, her brother orderedher into the car, followed the man
and wrote down his license plate togive it to his father. Upon hearing

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of the stranger and the white van, Detective James Parmenter had the license plate
checked out. He learned it belongedto a man named Randall Reagan, and
he decided to pay him a visit. Reagan informed the detective that his plates
had been stolen and he'd already beenissued new ones. The detective later found
out that the van his children hadseen was also stolen, and he had

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an idea who might have been.He decided to take his children to the
police station to show them a stackof mugshots, Bundy's picture being among them.
He hadn't realized how close he'd beento losing his own daughter. Both
of his children recognized the man inthe van as Ted Bundy. The van
was long since discarded, and Bundyset out towards Pensacola, Florida, in

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a new stolen car. This time, he managed to find a vehicle he
was more comfortable driving, a VW. Bug. Officer David Lee was patrolling
an area in West Pensacola when hesaw an orange VW at ten pm on
February fifteenth. He knew the areawell and most of the residents, yet
he'd never before seen the car.Officer Lee decided to run a check on

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the license plates and soon found outthat they were stolen. Immediately, he
turned on his lights and began tofollow the VW. Once again, as
it happened in Utah several years earlier, Bundy started to flee. Suddenly,
Bundy pulled over in his officer.Lee ordered him out of his car and
told Bundy to lay down with hishands in front. To Lee's surprise,

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as he'd begun to handcuff Bundy,he rolled over and began to fight the
officer. Bundy managed to fight hisway free and run. Just as soon
as he did, Lee fired hisweapon at him. Bundy dropped to the
ground, pretending to have been shot. As the officer approached him. Lying
on the ground, he was againattacked by Bundy. However, the officer

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was able to overpower him. Hewas handcuffed and taken to the police station.
Bundy had finally been caught. Overthe months following Bundy's arrest, investigators
were able to compile critical evidence tobe used against Bundy in the Leech case.
The white van that had been stolenby Bundy was found, and they
had three eye witnesses that had seenhim driving it and the afternoon Kimberly had

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disappeared. Forensic tests conducted on thevan yielded fibers of material that had come
from Bundy's clothes. Tests also revealedKimberly Leech's blood type on the van's carpet
and seamen, and Ted's blood typewere Honor underwear. Further evidence was Ted's
shoe impressions in the soil located nextto the place Kimberly was found. Police

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felt confident with the information they hadtying Bundy to the Leech case, and
on July thirty first, nineteen seventyeight, Ted Bundy was charged with the
girl's murder. Soon after, hecould also be charged with the Cayomega murders,
facing the death penalty. Bundy wouldlater plead in his own defense that
he was not guilty of the murders. Theodore Robert Bundy faced two murder trials,

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both spaced within three years. Hisfirst trial date was set for June
twenty fifth, nineteen seventy nine,in Miami, Florida. The court case
centered on the brutal attacks on theCayomega Sorority sisters. The second trial was
to take place in January nineteen eightyin Orlando, Florida, where Ted was
to be tried for the murder ofKimberly Leech. Both trials would result in

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less than favorable out comes for Ted. However, it would be the Cyomega
murder case that would seal his fateforever. The opening of the Kyomega murder
trial sparked immense public interest and amedia frenzy. After all, Ted had
been suspected of at least thirty sixmurders in four states, and his name

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elicited nightmarish images to thousands, perhapseven millions, around the world. He
was considered by many to be evilreincarnate, a monster. The devil and
his murders initiated the biggest and mostpublicized trials of the decade. During the
Cayomega murder trial, Ted acted ashis own defense attorney. He was confident

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in his abilities and believed he'd begiven a fair trial. The jury,
made up mostly of African Americans,looked on as he defended himself against the
murder charges. It became clear earlyon in the trial that Ted was fighting
a losing battle. There were twoevents in the trial that would sway the
jury against Ted. The first wasNita Neary's testimony of what she'd seen the

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night of the murders. While onthe stand, she pointed to Ted as
the man she'd seen fleeing down thestairs and out the door of the Cayomega
house. The second event that swayedthe jury. During the trial was the
testimony of autonologist doctor Richard Souveran.While on the stand, doctor Suverand described
the bitemark injuries found on Lisa Levy'sbody. As he spoke, the jury

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was shown full scale photographs of thebite marks that had been taken the night
of the murder. The doctor pointedout the uniqueness of the indentations left behind
on the victim and compared them withfull scale pictures of Ted's teeth. There
was no question that Ted had madethe bite marks on Lisa Levy's body.
The photos would be the biggest pieceof evidence the prosecution had of linking Ted

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to the crime. On July twentythird, Ted waited in his cell as
the jurors deliberated over his guilt orinnocence. After almost seven hours, they
returned to the court room with averdict. Showing no emotion, Ted listened
as one of the jurors read outguilty on all counts of murder. Ted
was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In the state of Florida, it's

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customary to have a separate sentencing trial. Ted's sentencing took place one week later,
on July thirtieth, before the samejury that had found him guilty.
During the brief hearing, Ted's mothertestified and tearfully pleaded for her son's life.
Ted was also given a chance toaddress the court and refute the recommendation
from the prosecution for the death penalty. Ted professed his innocence, claiming that

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the prejudice of the media was responsiblefor his alleged misrepresentation. He also suggested
that the entire proceedings and verdict wasnothing short of a farce, which he
was unable to accept. According toLarson, Ted told the hushed court room
that it was absurd to ask formercy for something he did not do,

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yet he would not to share theburden of the guilt. Judge Cowart,
who presided over both trials, handeddown his final judgment following Ted's statement.
He affirmed the recommendation and imposed thedeath penalty twice for the murders of Margaret
Bowman and Lisa Levy. The methodof execution Ted faced was the electric chair.

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After many delays, the Leech trialbegan in Orlando, Florida, at
the Orange County Court House on Januaryseventh, nineteen eighty. This time,
Ted decided not to represent himself,instead handing over the responsibility to defense attorneys
Julius Africano and Lynn Thompson. Theirstrategy was to plead not guilty by reason
of insanity, a plea that wasrisky but one of the few available options

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open to the defense. The pleaof insanity might not have been difficult for
the seven woman, five man juryto believe. Unlike the other hearings,
Ted became increasingly agitated throughout the trial. At one point he even lost control
and n he stood up yelling ata witness with whom he disagreed. Michaud
den Ainsworth stated that Ted was justbarely able to control himself, expending huge

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amounts of energy just to keep fromblowing apart. It appeared that Ted's facade
of confidence was beginning to fade,probably because he realized that he had already
lost the war and that this legalbattle wouldn't make much difference in determining his
fate. There was no doubt thatthe outlook for Ted whiz Bleak assistants.

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State Attorney Bob Deckley presented sixty fivewitnesses that had connected Ted either directly or
indirectly with Kimberly Leech. On theday of her disappearance, one of the
star witnesses had seen a man resemblingTed leading an upset little girl matching Kimberly's
description into a white van in frontof the girl's school. However, the
defense team argued the legitimacy of thetestimony because the man was unable to recall

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the precise day he had seen theman and little girl. Nevertheless, Deckley
continued to press on and present evenmore convincing evidence. The most damaging was
the fiber evidence, which linked Ted'sclose in the van he'd driven that day
to the crime scene. Moreover,fibers matching those from Kimberly Leech's clothes were

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found in the van and on Ted'sclothing that he'd allegedly worn on the day
of the crime. The prosecution's expertwitness who testified about the fiber analysis,
stated that she believed that at somepoint Ted and Kimberly Leech had been in
contact around the time of her death. Michaud den Ainsworth claimed that the testimony
had been literally fatal to Ted's case. Exactly one month following the opening of

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the trial, Judge Wallace Joppling askedthe jury to deliberate. On February seventh,
After less than seven hours of deliberation, the jury returned the verdict guilty.
The verdict was immediately followed by jubilationfrom the prosecution team and their supporters.
February ninth marked the second anniversary ofKimberly Leach's death. It also was

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the day that the Senate trial commenced. During the penalty phase of the trial,
Ted shocked those in the court roomwhile he interviewed defense witness Caroline Boone.
During his questioning of Carol, thetwo caught everyone off guard when they
exchanged vows. According to Florida law, the verbal promise made under oath was
enough to seal the agreement, andthe two were considered officially married. Shortly

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thereafter, the groom was sentenced todeath in the electric chair for the third
time, and under a year he'dspend his honeymoon alone on death row in
Florida State's Raeford Penitentiary. Ted refusedto give up and believed that he still
had a fighting chance to save hisown life. In nineteen eighty two,
he enlisted the help of a newlawyer and appealed the Cayomega murder trial verdict

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to the Florida Supreme Court. However, his appeal was eventually denied. Shortly
following the court's denial of a newhearing, Ted decided to appeal the Kimberly
Leech trial verdict. In May nineteeneighty five, his quest was again turned
down. However, he continued tokeep up the fight, and in nineteen

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eighty six he enlisted a new lawyerto assist him in escaping the death penalty.
Ted's execution date was initially scheduled forMarch fourth, nineteen eighty six.
However, his execution was postponed whilehis new defense attorney, Paully Nelson,
worked on his appeals for his previousmurder convictions. Two months later, the
appeal was denied and another death warrantwas issued to Ted by the State of

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Florida. Still, the appeal processcontinued. According to Paully Nelson's book,
Defending the Devil, the last appealwas made to the U. S.
Supreme Court, who eventually denied Ted'slast stay of execution on January seventeenth,
nineteen eighty nine. In Ted's eleventhhour, he decided to confess to more
crimes to the Washington State Attorney General'schief investigator for the Criminal Division, doctor

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Bob Kepple. Ted had temporarily assisteddoctor Keppel in his hunt for the Green
River Killer from death Throw in themid nineteen eighties, and he trusted him
immensely. Keppel went to meet Tedin an interviewing room at the prison,
armed with only a tape recorder.What Keppel learned was shocking. Doctor Keppel

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had learned that Ted kept some ofhis victims heads at his home as trophies.
However, what was even more surprisingwas that Ted also engaged in necrophilia
with some of the remains of hisvictims. In fact, Keppel later stated
in his book The Riverman, TedBundy and I Hunt for the Green River
Killer, the Ted's behavior could bebest described as compulsive necrophilia and extreme perversion.

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It was a compulsion that led tothe deaths of scores of women,
many of whom remain unknown to investigators. Rule and Keppel stated in their books
that Ted was likely responsible for thedeaths of at least one hundred women,
discounting the official count of thirty sixvictims. Whatever the figure, the fact
is, no one will ever knowfor certain how many victims act actually fell

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victim to Ted. Finally, onJanuary twenty fourth, nineteen eighty nine,
at approximately seven a m. Inthe morning, Ted's memory of his atrocities
would be burned away forever by theelectric chair's unforgiven currents. Outside the prison
walls stood hundreds of onlookers and scoresof news media representatives awaiting the news of
Ted's death. Following the prison spokesman'sannouncement that Ted was officially dead, sounds

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of cheers came from the jubilant crowd, and fireworks lit the sky. Shortly
thereafter, a whitehurse emerged from theprison gates with the remains of one of
the country's most notorious serial killers.As the vehicle moved towards the crematorium,
the surrounding crowd cheerfully applauded the endof a living nightmare. On December sixth,

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nineteen seventy three, a young couplestumbled across the remains of a fifteen
year old girl in McKenny Park,Washington. Cathy Devine was last seen by
friends on November twenty fifth, hitchhikingfrom Seattle to Oregon, trying to run
away from home. Shortly after shebegan her journey, pathologist said she met
her death. Kathy Divine had beenstrangled, sodomized, and her throat cut.

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Everybody believed that Kathy Divine was oneof the many victims of Ted Bundy.
It took twenty eight years and DNAevidence to find the truth. Jim
Carlyle of The Olympian reported the sheriff'scaptain, Dan Kimball never closed the files
on this old case even though TedBundy had been executed, and would not
tell whatever he knew about the youngwoman that lost her life in Thurston County.

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In nineteen seventy three, Kathy's clothingwas shown on a television news program
in Seattle, and one of Kathy'ssisters recognized an embroidered patch on the pair
of jeans shown as belonging to amurder victim. At the time of the
murder. William E. Cosden,Junior, had been living in the area
and had been seen at the truckstop where he worked with blood on his
clothes. Cosden had been released innineteen seventy three from a mental hospital where

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he was confined after the nineteen sixtyseven murder of a woman. Carlyle quoted
police reports in his article. Witnessessaw Cousden come in the night of the
murder with stains on his clothing.The witnesses called the police. After leaving
the truck stop. Cosden's truck caughtfire and was destroyed three miles from the
truck stop. During initial interviews withpolice, Costen denied ever seeing Kathy Divine.

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In nineteen eighty six, based onadditional investigative information, a search warrant
was obtained for Costin's blood, hairand saliva. At that time, Costin
was in prison for rape. Intwo thousand one, these samples from Cosden
were subjected to DNA testing. Itwas evidence which linked Cosden to Kathy Divine.

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Cosden, fifty five, did admitto having sex with Kathy, but
denied killing her. DNA made thecase, said Sheriff Gary Edward. This
came about as a result of technologyand a lot of hard work. Is
already serving a forty eight year sentencefor first degree rape. He is not
likely to go free again. Shewas beautiful inside and out, but she

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was a normal, troubled teenager.Sally and Devine said of her daughter,
I don't think she had more troublesthan anyone else her age during that time.
It's nice to know that this hasfinally been solved. We've been wondering
for twenty eight years. I feellike it's a dream and I'm going to
wake up and it'll all be over. And still missed books things boomed.

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Absolutely, it's people still missed boomas things boomed. Absolutely, it's people