Ted Bundy-Serial Killer
The Ambush Predator
Theodore Robert Bundy, was born on November 24, 1946 at the Elizabeth Lund Home For Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont to Eleanor Louise Cowell. He was always known as Ted and it’s unclear who his real father was, Bundy being the name of his mother's husband whom she married in 1951.
Ted always insisted he grew up in a normal household and led a normal existence and had good relationships with his parents and siblings. But because his mother was a single mom the fact that she was actually his mother was hidden from him and he believed his mother to actually be his older sister for a long period of his early life.
In 1965 Ted graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and was awarded a scholarship to the University of Puget Sound. Later he transferred to the University of Washington and majored in psychology and oriental studies and graduated in 1972 with a degree in psychology. Ted became active in politics and it was about this time that college co-ed’s began disappearing at about the rate of one a month.
Unsolved College Girl Murders
Ted Bundy admitted his first murder occurred in 1972 and he continued to prey on college girls in the Pacific Northwest from 1972-1974, primarily but not exclusively from the campuses of the University of Washington, The Evergreen State College, Central Washington State College, and even Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon.
Although he was questioned about the missing girls and a couple of the murders he was never considered a serious suspect due to his political affiliations and local investigators didn’t believe he fit the profile of the type of person for whom they searched.
The Predator Seeks a New Hunting Ground
In 1974 fearing that his hunting ground was getting limited and suspicions were increasing he relocated to Utah to attend the University of Utah law school in Salt Lake City. He resumed his killing and began surmounting more victims in Utah and Colorado.
In August of 1975 one of Bundy’s intended victims escaped and later identified him as her assailant. He was arrested for the first time and convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to 15 years in Utah State Prison. While in prison he was being investigated as a prime suspect in multiple murders in Colorado but while being extradited in June of 1977 he escaped but was captured six days later.
Florida State University Murders
In December of 1977 he escaped again, this time successfully, and eventually made his way to Florida where he once again sought new victims to murder. In January of 1978 he broke into a sorority house on the campus of Florida State University and attacked four college co-ed’s killing two of them and seriously injuring two others.
On February 9th 1978 he struck again by abducting, raping, and murdering a twelve year old girl in Lake City, Florida. Six days later the killing spree that began in 1972 ended when Bundy was stopped and arrested in Pensacola driving a stolen car.
Forensic Evidence Against Bundy
Bundy was convicted in 1979 for the murders of the Florida campus co-ed’s based primarily upon the evidence of a bite mark left on one of the victims that was positively identified as belonging to him and by a eye-witness who saw him in the vicinity of the college campus and later in 1980 he was also convicted of murdering twelve year old Kimberly Leach based on fibers found that matched the victims clothing.
Bundy was never extradited or convicted for any of the multiple murders he committed in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, or Idaho. By his own admission and confessions he claimed to have murdered approximately thirty-five women between 1972-1978.
During his ten year prison term precluding his execution he tried to bargain for a commuted sentence in exchange for disclosing more victims names and the location of their remains. He failed in his attempt to get his execution waived and actually admitted to many of the murders he was suspected of.
Bundy's Pornographic Obsession
Nobody really knows what creates a destructive force like Ted Bundy. Many experts speculate and form their own opinions about it. But in a candid interview the day before his execution, Bundy blamed his early exposure to violent pornography.
He must have been mentally unbalanced anyway, but he claimed he became obsessed and addicted to violence and porn and progressed to the extremes because reading and watching it could no longer satisfy his cravings and desire for the excitement and satisfaction he gained from his crimes.
Bundy explained bludgeoning, strangling, rape, murder, trophy collecting and even resorting to the sick practices of necrophilia were uncontrollable due to his addiction to porn, violence and his fascination with death.
Ted Bundy was put to death on January 24th 1989 by the State of Florida for the three murders he committed there. The other families of his many victims had to be contented with the fact that the predator had finally been stopped.
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See Bundy's last interview here on YOUTUBE
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