do you want to know what a serial killer
looks like
you'd probably say they have long greasy
hair dark clothing
and they spend a lot of time lurking in
the shadows so surely this handsome
young charming man offering you a ride
is nothing to worry about
right
wrong
this is ted bundy
one of the most vicious serial killers
in history
and if you were to get in this car
you would probably never come back
but too much time is spent focusing on
his countless string of murders today
we'll be looking at the people who
survived this cunning monster
what did they do to get out alive
and how can you use it to protect
yourself from the other monsters out
there
here's how to survive
ted bundy
during the 1970s horrific crime shocked
the u.s
the victims were young women most of
them college students
who were beaten to death and sexually
assaulted before and after they were
murdered
it took years for the police to discover
the killer
a charming young handsome man with a
degree in psychology he was named
theodore robert bundy
after being caught and sentenced to
death in 1979
the infamous killer claimed to have
murdered anywhere from 36 to 50 women
between 1974 and 1978
but some experts believe there could
have been more than 100 victims
fortunately there were also survivors
and we've put together their top three
most incredible stories of how they got
out alive
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how did one survivor use water to escape
what are the signs that you might be in
danger
how can you fight back
number three
the sleep talker
in 1974 18 year old karen sparks was a
student at the university of washington
she remembers seeing an older guy
staring at her in a laundromat and one
night she saw a man looking at her from
outside her window but she thought it
was nothing so she went to bed but a few
minutes later a man was on her bed
viciously beating her with a metal rod
the sexual abuse she suffered split her
bladder the attacker also smashed her
skull
suddenly her roommate chuck began
talking very loudly in his sleep
bundy fled leaving karen for dead
her roommates found her several hours
later bleeding and unconscious
they called 9-1-1 immediately
miraculously she survived
but she was so severely injured that she
suffered permanent brain damage and lost
most of her vision and hearing
number two
the counter-attack
in november 1974 carol deranch then 18
was at a shopping mall in murray utah
when a mysterious man approached her he
told her he was a police detective and
that someone had tried to steal her car
in the parking lot she saw her car was
intact but the man insisted on taking
her to the police station in his car a
vw beetle
she got in but at some point bundy
stopped the car
he surprised her by grabbing one of her
wrists and handcuffing her
but carol started to struggle bundy was
also trying to hit her with a crowbar
but she managed to open the passenger
door
luckily a car was passing on the other
side of the road
carol jumped in front of it with one of
the handcuffs still dangling from her
wrist bundy escaped
carol survived and a year later she
identified bundy in a police lineup
which led to his first prison sentence
unfortunately he escaped from prison in
1975
and continued his killing frenzy
before we move on to our number one
survival story let's look at what we've
learned so far
in the first two stories we've seen the
importance of being around other people
serial killers don't want witnesses
around to complicate things so if
someone is giving you suspicious vibes
try to avoid getting into any situations
where you're isolated and alone with
them
don't trust strangers
never underestimate signals like someone
following you or staring at you
as you'll see in our number one story
recognizing these red flags could very
well save your life
number one save by water
october 1974 rhonda stapley a young
pharmacy student at the university of
utah was waiting for the bus to campus
a volkswagen beetle pulled up
the driver a handsome and charming young
man offered her a ride she accepted when
she got into the car she noticed that
the passenger door handle was broken but
she thought it was just an oversight
she saw that the guy wasn't driving the
common route to campus but he said he
wanted to take a little detour to the
zoo
rhonda thought it might be the start of
a college romance and agreed
but a few minutes later bundy stopped
the car in the middle of the woods
he looked straight in her face and said
you know what i'm going to kill you
then he began choking her until she fell
unconscious
for three hours bundy sexually abused
ronda and beat her with inexplicable
rage
finally the killer became distracted and
returned to the car
rhonda seized the moment and tried to
run but fell into a raging stream of
water
she survived but spent years dealing
with ptsd
according to the fbi serial killers have
traits like not feeling remorse or guilt
the need for control
and predatory behavior
it's not easy to survive someone like
that especially if you can't identify
them
some serial killers identities have
remained unknown for centuries
like the infamous jack the ripper
but in 2019 a study claimed to have
found his identity
want to know who he was
well keep watching here on how to
survive
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