Okay, let us talk about Ted Bundy.
Do you know anything about Ted Bundy, before we begin?
I don't really know much about Ted.
He was born in Vermont in 1946.
So he had a bit of a tumultuous upbringing.
Ted was brought up by his grandma, right,
thinking that his grandma was his actual mum,
and his actual mum, he thought was his sister.
Great. So we're starting off at a terrible place.
And he goes to college.
He finishes high school, goes to college.
And he meets a woman.
This woman, her name was Diane Edwards.
He loves Diane. Diane is his number one boo.
Like he loves- First love.
First love. He's fallen in.
He's deep.
And they date for a while and you know,
they're living it up.
But at one point, Diane doesn't think that
Ted is ambitious enough for her.
So she breaks up with him. So she breaks up with him.
He's not ambitious enough. Yeah.
She wants, like, a certain lifestyle.
Exactly.
He's not cutting the mustard.
He does not take this well.
To put this lightly, he is devastated.
He is unhappy. He is not okay with the whole breakup.
Yeah.
But that's okay, you know.
You know, things happen, you know.
He breaks up, whatever.
So he moves on and he meets another woman.
Great.
He meets one other woman called Elizabeth.
So she was a single mother and had a child,
and they met at a bar
and he supposedly fell in love with her at first sight.
Okay. And he was very willing to
look after her and look after her child.
I think she was very wary, of course, in that time.
There was, like, a huge stigma around single mothers
and where the fathers were.
So he finishes his college degree-
Sure. as a psychology major.
Okay, yeah. Interesting point.
And he worked for the Republican Party at one point,
the local Republican Party
and was accepted into law school.
So he starts doing quite well for himself.
So he's in California, and guess who he bumps into?
Who does he bump into?
He bumps into his old flame, his old lover
who broke his heart, Diane.
They bump into each other and she goes,
"My God. He's so put together."
"He's so mature and-" He's so ambitious.
So ambitious, so ambitious.
"I'm falling in love with him all over again."
So they start dating again and she's obsessed with him.
And suddenly he just cut off all contact with her.
So he's in California, just stops talking to her,
stops replying to her, ghosts her.
So at one point, I think it's maybe a year later,
she finally gets back through to him
and she goes, "What happened?"
A year? A year passes.
This is kind of, you know, a year passed.
And she goes, "What happened?"
And apparently the words that he then spoke to her
chilled her to her core.
He went, "Diane, I have no idea what you mean,"
and then hung up.
He'd just been petty.
She'd broken up with him.
He moves on, gets back together with her,
only to break up with her
and do what she did to him back to her.
I think that's beyond petty.
Bearing in mind, at this point,
he is still dating Elizabeth.
Oh.
We then move on to the first attack, if you will.
The first kind of incident where he is assaulting women.
4th of January, 1974.
This is interesting.
So this is his first attack but she survives.
So he sneaks into a house
where there is a young woman sleeping and he bludgeons her
with a metal rod that has been taken from her bed frame.
He then, a month later, commits his first kill,
essentially.
Right.
He breaks into a basement apartment
and finds Lynda Ann Healy.
So that is the name of his first ever victim
who dies from the attacks.
So he beats her unconscious.
And she's in a nightgown
which is completely covered in blood.
Completely covered in blood.
So he takes her out of that and puts her
in other clothes from her wardrobe
and puts that in her wardrobe, right.
So it looks like, you know, nothing's really happened,
which I think investigators later thought
when they saw it, "Oh,
she just, like, had a nosebleed because it was hung up."
So they thought, oh, that's a bit crazy.
Is that gonna be the first sign
of just terrible police work?
That I imagine is gonna continue throughout this?
What a huge nosebleed!
He then starts taking and assaulting
and killing a lot of students.
Right. So a lot of female students
from the University of Washington.
And they all start disappearing
from their dormitories, which-
And I, so I don't know much
but I feel like didn't they all look really similar?
Isn't that a thing?
Yeah.
So what's really interesting about how they looked is,
they were all very pretty.
They had long, dark hair parted down the middle,
most of them.
And do you know who else had long, dark hair
parted down the middle?
I think I can guess.
His ex-girlfriend who broke his heart, Diane.
Oh, of course it was Diane.
So the only clue that they have at this point
is that someone had seen one of the women, or had seen a man
with a Volkswagen Beetle or Bug,
like a tan-coloured Bug,
and a guy carrying a load of books, wearing a sling,
asking for help to carry the books to his car.
So he was essentially preying on people's kindness.
Yeah.
In June, he knocks another student unconscious,
drags her away and murders her.
And her name is Georgann Hawkins.
Now, he handcuffed her and I think he strangled her
and then spent the entire night with her body.
So you can only imagine what was going on in those nights.
So the next morning he did realise that he had,
I think, left something behind.
I know about this.
Right? Yeah.
So he left something behind.
And I think we can assume that Ted Bundy
was a very egotistical man who thought a lot of himself
and... I don't know if narcissistic is specifically
the right word, but elements of that
because he went back to that scene of the crime,
he went back to where she was,
whilst there there were police officers there,
whilst there were detectives
at the scene of the crime, investigating.
He went back, figured a way to sneak past them
and located her earrings and one of her shoes
and took them without being spotted.
Why did he take?
Oh, did he take them because he thought that
like some of his DNA was gonna be on them or something?
I don't know,
but I do know that he did have rituals
when he killed women.
He would take Polaroids of their bodies.
He would take certain pieces of clothing.
So there were a lot of pantyhose that we would take,
clothing from women that at one point, I think
Elizabeth, his girlfriend with the kid, found
and became very suspicious of.
But he would take like little mementos of each of the women.
So I wonder whether that's what that was.
Like a trophy thing.
He would also
I think sometimes shampoo the hair of the girls
that he'd killed, post killing them,
and put makeup on them
to make them look a little bit more presentable.
Oh my God. I know.
Really quite weird.
So he essentially becomes a little bit more bold
in the way in which he's taking these women.
He's getting carried way, I can feel it.
So this is essentially where he makes a big mistake.
So he goes to Lake Sammamish,
and it's really crowded and really busy,
and it's in broad daylight.
And I can't remember how many people were there.
There were a lot, lot of people there,
like tens of thousands of people there.
And he does the sling.
He gets his arm in a sling
and he goes around asking people whether they would help him
put a sailboat into the back of his van.
And he can't do it cause he's in a sling..
But two women say yes.
Now, their remains were found later, these two women.
So he abducted them and killed them
and did what not to their body.
But the issue is, and this is the mistake he made,
there were witnesses.
So there were people who heard him
introducing himself to these girls because-
With his name? With his real name.
At that point, there were so many eyewitnesses,
the police were able to come up with a sketch. A little-
Okay. The first bit of evidence.
The first bit of evidence as to what this guy looked like.
So they knew his name was Ted
and they knew that he looked like that.
And guess who recognises the sketch?
Is it his girlfriend?
Which one? The one with the kid?
Yes. Yes.
So Elizabeth Kloepfer, Liz, she calls the police.
She goes, "Listen, my boyfriend, bit weird,
but he looks like the drawing.
And he's called Ted and he drives that car.
So I just thought I'd, like, give you that information.
He's called Ted Bundy."
So they have this massive database of people,
and at this point Ted is like
a really clean-cut law student.
So it's kind of unlikely that-
Right.
they're gonna be like, oh, well, it's this guy.
Yeah. But they put his name down
and they just have it on file on the database, just in case.
Anyway, so at this point Ted still hasn't been caught
and he's living his free life
and he's accepted into a university in Utah.
So he moves to Salt Lake City
because he's at the university there
and he leaves Elizabeth with her kid in Seattle.
Okay.
So interestingly, the deaths in Seattle stop.
As soon as he arrives, he starts killing people again.
Right. There was a hitchhiker
that he strangled, a 16-year-old who has never been found.
And then he abducted
the police chief's daughter and killed her.
And her body is found kind of nine days later
completely naked in the mountains.
And it's said that she may have been alive
up to seven days after her disappearance.
Right.
So quite traumatising, I would argue.
So I missed out a mistake.
He makes three big mistakes, okay.
Okay. So the first one
was abducting in pure daylight and using his real name.
Yep. This is his second mistake.
There's another survivor.
So he poses as a police officer
and approaches Carol DaRonch.
And he approaches her and says,
"I'm a police officer.
Someone's tried to break into your car.
Come check it out with me."
And she goes, "That's a bit weird."
Like, why is, you know? This feels bizarre.
Why are you in normal clothes?
Like, what's going on?
And she goes, "Well, I'm not getting in a car with you.
Where's your badge?"
So he shows her the badge.
So she's questioned him and he's gone,
"Here's my badge."
And she goes, "Okay, I'm embarrassed. Sorry."
Follows him to the car. Gets in the car.
They're driving around.
And she goes, "Bit weird how his police car's a Volkswagen."
Like that's a bit weird.
Anyway, he takes a wrong turn.
She questions it.
He suddenly launches over, puts handcuffs on her
and says something along the lines of,
"I'm going to blow your head off."
So that's what she can remember.
So that's important.
Anyway, at one point, there's a bit of a scuffle
and she manages to escape.
So she escapes and she runs away
and she jumps into a car, hysterical, crying and just says,
just a car that was approaching,
and just goes, "Drive me to the police station."
So she drives to the police station
and reports what has happened.
At this point, there's been disappearances in Salt Lake.
And Elizabeth with the kid. Yeah.
His girlfriend, calls up the police,
she's like, "Listen, something is going on.
Like, there's been disappearances in Salt Lake.
I'm calling you again
because my boyfriend has now moved there
and there's disappearances.
Something needs to happen."
He then gets arrested. Okay.
But he gets arrested for driving too fast.
So literally, a routine traffic incident.
He's just speeding.
Unrelated. Unrelated.
And he gets pulled up.
So they take him into the police station.
And they see in his car that he's got handcuffs,
an ice pick, crowbar, rope.
And also he had a ski mask.
As items for serial killers go,
Yeah. I would say high up there.
Ski mask definitely cherry on the cake.
They arrest him,
and while the guy's arresting him, he's like,
"There's weird things in his car."
They flag it up. They search his house.
They flew out Elizabeth to be interviewed.
And at that point she was quizzed
on the things that she'd found in her home.
We're getting somewhere.
There is a lot of evidence now-
Yeah. against Ted,
but not enough to convict him. Not enough.
But they're very suspicious.
So what they do, Carol DaRonch,
the girl that got away from him in the car
when he posed to be a police officer.
Yes.
They call in a selection of people for a lineup
and they bring Carol in for
- and this is for aggravated kidnapping -
they bring Carol in and they go literally, which one is it?
Like, who did it?
You know the classic lineups?
Yeah. Who is it?
And so they all stand forward and they go,
"I'm gonna blow your head off."
And they all use that line
because that's what he said to her.
Anyway, so he tried to get away from it.
So he, like, switched his parting, he shaved his moustache
so he wouldn't be recognisable.
Didn't work.
Carol goes, "That's him.
That's the guy that tried to kidnap me",
and picks him out of the crowd.
So, never good.
He is then found guilty
and he is charged with kidnapping and assault.
So he's sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
When he's in prison, they keep investigating him,
and then later that year,
he's charged with one of the murders of the girl.
One of them,
I'm not sure which girl it was
but he's charged with a murder.
Okay.
So for that he then decides
to represent himself in court.
Big ego. He loves himself.
He's like, "I'm a law student.
I know all of this information."
Letting his ego just blind him.
So this is where it gets a bit interesting.
So, because he was choosing to represent himself,
he was able to convince the judge
that he should be allowed to use the law library and use
all of these resources available to lawyers
to help his own case, which makes sense.
So while he was doing that, someone wasn't looking.
So he's in there, he's not got any shackles on,
he's able to use all the books,
and there's an open window.
Second floor open window and he jumps out,
injures his foot and he runs away.
Sorry, is this a cartoon?
That's how he escaped from prison.
Oh, yeah, just jumps out the window.
I know.
He was on the run for almost a week.
But he was cold and tired and sleep deprived
and delirious and in pain.
And ultimately ended up back in the district.
Picked up by police and put back in a prison cell.
And he's in jail,
he's planning his second escape.
They've locked all the windows.
They feel great about it. Exactly.
And he's planning his second escape.
So he acquired, like, a floor plan of everything.
He got a hacksaw.
And when the prisoners showered-
I'm sorry, I need to pause. Yeah.
He got a hacksaw. Okay, so.
He's in jail.
So- valid, valid query.
When he was doing odd jobs around the jail,
he would pick up things here and there,
pop it in a sock. Yeah.
But he would acquire lots of things.
And when all the prisoners were showering,
because there was a lot of noise going on around,
he would use that time to saw a little hole in the ceiling.
So it is a cartoon. Thank you for clarifying that.
So it was at Christmas time, he escaped.
He gets out through the hole
and this is like the kind of,
this is his biggest spree,
his biggest killing spree at this point.
And also how he ends up getting caught as well.
So he escapes and then he's out for how long?
They don't clock that he's gone until 17-
he has a 17-hour head start.
So he ended up in Florida.
Rough choice 'cause big on the death penalty there,
but ended up in Florida.
So he just went on a massive killing spree.
So the biggest one he did,
he went to this Chi Omega house,
which was a sorority house in Florida
at the University of Florida, I believe.
And he entered the house at 2am,
and attacked the students as they slept.
For this attack, he killed two women and injured two.
One, I think he sexually assaulted so badly,
her spleen ruptured.
It was just dreadful and he killed two others.
So there were four injured women and it was just the worst.
Yep.
Then he did his final murder.
The victim was 12.
Oh.
So she was leaving her school
and he abducted and killed her,
and her remains were found later mummified at a pig farm.
And that one, her name was Kimberly Leach.
And yeah, that was a bit of a kicker
'cause I think she was so young.
And actually he refused to talk about her death
when he was being questioned and when he confessed.
He refused to talk about her because she was so young.
So he's driving away, he's killed this 12-year-old girl,
he's killed all these people,
he's on the run from the police and he's in a car.
He's in a stolen car and the police flag it up.
He is obviously like, f**k,
because he's on the run from police.
The last thing he wants to be done is pulled over for-
Anyway, so they-
Shouldn't have stolen the car.
Anyway. Sorry, go on.
Bit of a scuffle with the police officer
and they arrest him and take him in, right.
So at this point, they have a trial, right.
So that's when his trial starts
because at this point the police are like,
well, you are very clearly very guilty.
So the jury found him guilty.
We got somewhere.
They found him guilty for two murders,
three counts of attempted murder and two counts of burglary.
And do we know which specific counts they are
or are they just, it's one of the many that he's-
One of the many because he didn't confess to any of them-
Right.
until the day before he died.
And, oh, okay. Cool.
So he was, for those murders, sentenced to death.
Six months later he was then charged
with Kimberly Leach, the 12-year-old's murder as well.
I believe it was nine years
after he was sentenced to death
that the execution date was set.
So it was in like nine years he spent trying to appeal this.
Right. And of course he did.
He was constantly trying to appeal
everything to buy himself more time.
Constantly trying to buy himself more time
so he could get out of it.
It was the day before he was set to be executed
he finally confessed. Up until that day,
nine years, he was vehemently just like,
"I did not do it", until the day before.
He was like, f**k it.
Yeah, this is what I did. It's over.
But he only confessed to 30 and there were more than 30.
Only 20 of those victims were ever identified,
and he didn't want to talk about a couple of them.
He was finally executed
at 7:16 on January the 24th, 1989.
One thing that I would love to know is
what he got for his death row meal.
So, Ted was given the standard breakfast meal
on Florida's death row,
which was steak done medium rare, eggs over easy,
toast with butter and jelly or jam, that's what we call it,
milk, coffee, juice and hash browns.
Hmm.
Delicious.
Tasty.
Wow.
So this is what we had.
Oh, but I wouldn't go for any of it
because Ted actually declined a meal in the first place.
So this is just the standard meal
they give every prisoner who doesn't ask for anything.
And then when they gave him the dish, he ate none of it.
So, he actually died on an empty stomach.