I never heard anybody about this 30
years after he was executed notorious
serial killer Ted Bundy is having his
story retold in documentaries and crime
series this year the Netflix original
conversations with a killer that Ted
Bundy tapes uses video and audio
recordings of interviews with Bundy to
get inside his mind so who was he and
why are true crime fans still fascinated
with him decades later Ted Bundy killed
more people in more States than anyone
we've ever heard of he was born Theodore
Robert Cal in 1946 to an unwed mother
and was partially raised by his
grandparents he moved around the country
as a child eventually landing in
Washington State
where his mother married a man named
John Bundy biographers say he was bright
and charismatic his good looks and charm
helped him gain acceptance into
political circles he could be the guy
next door your fiancee your husband your
boyfriend your lover and then that
evening by his own determination at his
own discretion transform himself and to
perhaps the most diabolical killer we
know he enrolled in law school in 1973
but by the following year seemed to lose
interest and dropped out while
authorities don't know when Bundy first
started to kill the earliest crimes they
were able to link to him were in
Washington State in 1974 a college
student was badly beaten and sexually
assaulted in her basement apartment and
after that young women in the state
started disappearing every month until
the summer
around that time Bundy moved to Utah
where authorities say his killing spree
continued the coot driver leaned over
and rolled down the passenger window and
asked me if I'd like a ride
Rhonda Stapley claims she encountered
Bundy one night while she was waiting
for a bus
she says he offered her a ride and she
accepted
I thought that he was gonna kiss me
instead he said very quietly do you know
what I'm going to kill you
Stapley claims he drove her to a remote
area where he tried to strangle her but
she escaped many other victims weren't
so lucky
Bundy admitted to killing at least 30
women abducting raping and strangling
them he also revisited his crimes by
going back to view the corpses he left
behind or bringing them home and
continuing to assault them sometimes
sexually Debra Jean Kent went missing
from her high school in Utah in 1974 i
sat in the police station listening to
his voice and listening to that horrible
tape of him saying that he had followed
my sister from the auditory or whatever
it was and that is the first time I had
ever felt anger and hate and I I was
physically ill Bundy was arrested in
Utah in 1975 after being placed under
surveillance for suspicious activity he
was arrested and convicted of kidnapping
and assault of one victim he escaped
custody but was recaptured in Colorado
he escaped once again in 1977 and made
his way to Florida where investigators
say he claimed six more lives once again
it was a traffic violation that brought
him down he was put on trial in which he
partially defended himself Bundy was
convicted of murder but that didn't stop
him from trying to carry on with his
life
and I do hereby marry you Bundy proposed
to Carolyn boon in court during the
sentencing phase of his trial they dated
before his initial arrest and when she
had a daughter in 1982 with Bundy behind
bars she named him as the father but the
Defiant move didn't sway a judge who
handed down a death sentence in this
case try the water that also scheduled
to be put to death by Colonel
electricity sufficient because he'll
meet you death the punishment has done
little to comfort the families he
devastated the mother of victim Denise
Naslund
says her daughter's murder ruined her
life I developed agritopia and
I don't go out anymore in this house 24
hours a day it's like dying I just
think of how things were before Ted
Bundy came into our lives nothing's the
same anymore while he confessed to many
crimes investigators say he recanted
many statements and couldn't be trusted
to tell the truth Ted Bundy was executed
by electric chair in Florida on January
24th 1989 at age 42 taking his secrets
with him about the full and true extent
of his reign of terror
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