Ted Bundy

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Ted Bundy

Theodore Robert Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true number of victims is unknown and possibly higher.

Early Life

Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont, to Eleanor Louise Cowell. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, who presented him as their son to avoid the social stigma of illegitimacy. Bundy later moved to Tacoma, Washington, with his mother, who married Johnny Bundy.

Education and Early Career

Bundy attended the University of Puget Sound and later transferred to the University of Washington, where he studied psychology. He worked at various jobs, including a stint at the Seattle office of the Suicide Hotline Crisis Center, where he met and worked alongside Ann Rule, a crime writer who later wrote a biography of Bundy.

Criminal Activities

Bundy's first known attacks were in 1974, when young women began disappearing in Washington and Oregon. He often approached his victims in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them. He sometimes revisited his crime scenes to engage in acts of necrophilia.

Arrests and Trials

Bundy was first arrested in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. He became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978.

Conviction and Execution

In 1979, Bundy was tried for the murders of two Florida State University students. He was convicted and sentenced to death. He received three death sentences in two separate trials for the murders he committed in Florida. Bundy was executed in the electric chair at Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989.

Legacy

Ted Bundy's case has inspired numerous books, films, and documentaries. His life and crimes continue to be a subject of fascination and study in the fields of criminology and psychology.

See Also

• Serial killer
• List of serial killers in the United States
• Criminal psychology
• Capital punishment in the United States
• Necrophilia