Ted Bundy

In the second chapter, I will write about Theodore Robert Bundy.

Born in Cowell, on 24 November 1946 and was killed at the age of 42 on 24 January 1989 in an electric chair at Florida State Prison in Raiford. The exact location of his resting place is still unknown, as his ashes being scattered at an undisclosed location at Cascade Range, Washington.

Also known as “Campus Killer”, “Chris Hagen”, “Kenneth Misner”, “Officer Roseland”, “Richard Burton”, “Rolf Miller”, he was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and afterwards murder numerous young ladies during 70s and possibly earlier. After a decade of denying, he finally confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states, between 1974 and 1978.

Convictions being:

• First degree murder (x3)

• Attempted first degree murder (x3)

• Aggravated kidnapping

• Burglary

Criminal penalty being two death sentences (1979, 1980) and 1 to 15 years in prison (1976).

To this day, no one is sure how many young women have been unfortunate enough to encounter this man and never see the light of day again, but it is believed that the actual number of victims is significantly higher.

Bundy was regarded as charismatic (telling people what they want to hear) and handsome, traits he exploited to win the trust of both his victims and society. Typically, he would approach his future victims in public places feigning a physical impairment such as an injury (pretending to be hurt) or impersonating an authority figure before bludgeoning (assaulting) them into unconsciousness and taking then to secondary locations (withdrawn places) to be raped and strangled to death. He often revisited the corpses of his victims to perform sexual acts with the corpses until decomposing. (Necrophilia is the sexual attraction towards or sexual act involving corpses) and destruction by wild animals making any further interactions impossible. Decapitating at least 12 victims to keep their heads as mementos in his apartment.

On a few occasions, he broke into dwellings (burglary) at night and bludgeoned (beaten up) his victims as they slept.\

In 1975, Bundy was arrested and jailed in Utah (landlocked/ inland US state) for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. Soon after he became a suspect in a progressively (increasingly) longer list of unsolved homicides in several states.

Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults in Florida, including 3 murders, before his final recapture in1978. For Florida homicides, he received 3 death sentences in 2 trials.

Biographer Ann Rule described Bundy as “…a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human’s pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death and even after.”

One time, he even described himself as “the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet”, a statement with which attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defense team, agreed and she wrote, “Ted was the very definition of heartless evil.”

I am sorry that I have been unable to write more chapters, but I will try to write at least once a month when I find time to get the information and write it down. And as a side comment: Damn, this dude was fxxking inane. At least I found out a new word (Necrophilia).

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