Ted Bundy, a seemingly pleasant man and law student, hid a dark secret behind his respectable facade. He was a disturbed murderer who brutally killed at least 36 young women and girls.
In the 1970s, Bundy targeted young women and girls, raping and killing them before discarding their bodies. In a final horrific act, he would often return to the bodies for sex.
Bundy only stopped this final act when the body became too decomposed or had been eaten by animals. He also collected several of his victims’ heads as gruesome trophies, performing sex acts on them after applying makeup.
In a chilling confession, Bundy admitted to eating parts of his victims’ bodies so he could “possess” them.
The notorious murderer confessed to an addiction to killing, explaining: “You feel their last bit of breath leaving their body. You’re looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!?”
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Following this, his body was cremated and his peculiar final wish was respected; his ashes were scattered on the same mountain where he disposed of several of his victims.
His reign of terror began in 1974 when he broke into an 18-year-old student’s basement, brutally attacking and sexually assaulting her with a metal rod. The incident left her in a coma for 10 days and she continued to suffer from her brain injury for the rest of her life.
Bundy, who had no previous criminal record, committed his first murder just a month later. He broke into the flat of another student, Lynda Ann Healy, knocked her out, dressed her and carried her to her car. She was never seen again, but a fragment of her skull was found where Bundy dumped many of his victims.
He exploited the kindness of many of his victims by wearing a fake leg or arm cast and asking them for help carrying something to his car. Then, he would attack them until they were unconscious before assaulting, killing and dumping them.
Following this, his body was cremated and his peculiar final wish was respected; his ashes were scattered on the same mountain where he disposed of several of his victims.
His reign of terror began in 1974 when he broke into an 18-year-old student’s basement, brutally attacking and sexually assaulting her with a metal rod. The incident left her in a coma for 10 days and she continued to suffer from her brain injury for the rest of her life.
Bundy, who had no previous criminal record, committed his first murder just a month later. He broke into the flat of another student, Lynda Ann Healy, knocked her out, dressed her and carried her to her car. She was never seen again, but a fragment of her skull was found where Bundy dumped many of his victims.
He exploited the kindness of many of his victims by wearing a fake leg or arm cast and asking them for help carrying something to his car. Then, he would attack them until they were unconscious before assaulting, killing and dumping them.
Three women, including one of his ex-girlfriends, even accused Bundy directly, but police didn’t believe their claims because they deemed him an upstanding member of society.
Bundy saw murder as a game and even mentioned he had an “off season” where he would take women and then release them. He found it fun to outsmart the police with his supposed high intellect.
In 1975, he was put behind bars for 15 years for kidnapping Carol DaRonch, one of the few who made it through his assaults. But in just two years, while acting as his own lawyer after being indicted over the death of a Colorado woman, he escaped via the jailhouse library window.
He was caught eight days later but managed to escape again in December the same year, 1977, through a hole in his cell ceiling and fled to Florida. The events that followed were heartrending.
Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University. Within a dreadful 15 minutes in January 1978, he violated and murdered four women.
His last known victim was 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, whom he kidnapped from school, assaulted, murdered and then hid under a pig shed. Bundy was finally arrested a few days later when his stolen Beetle was found.
On the day of his execution, massive crowds gathered outside, shouting “burn, Bundy, burn.” He was executed in the electric chair on January 24, 1989.
Eleanor Rose, the mum of one of his victims, Denise Naslund, said: “For everything he did to the girls – the bludgeoning, the strangulation, humiliating their bodies, torturing them – I feel that the electric chair is too good for him.”
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