Ted Bundy
 American
serial killer Theodore Robert Bundy was born illegitimately, and his
grandparents tried to hide the fact by pretending that his mother was
his sister. The young Ted was known to torture animals, was obsessed
with knives, and engaged in voyeurism. Evidence suggests that Bundy
began by killing a 9-year old schoolmate, who disappeared when Bundy
was 12.
Intelligent, charming and a natural leader, Bundy attended Stanford
University, before moving to Washington State. There, he attacked a
woman on 4 January 1974, battering her into a coma. A month later he
abducted and killed 21 year old Lynda Ann Healy. Using fake ailments,
to lure women to his aid, he went on to kill eight other women in the
Northwest, and was implicated in many unsolved cases.
Somehow, Ted managed to keep down a job, a girlfriend, and an
involvement in the Republican Party, even writing rape-prevention
material and operating an anti-suicide line. With pressure mounting in
the Northwest, he moved to Salt Lake City to attend Law School, living
in the college area. He killed six girls in Utah, discarding them in
the canyons. Bundy also travelled to Colorado, where three girls
disappeared.
After a failed abduction in Utah, Bundy fled from a police roadblock
after being stopped. Captured and sentenced for attempted kidnapping,
he was due for extradition to Colorado, before escaping via a
ventilation shaft and fleeing to Florida. In Florida, he again moved
in college circles, killing two female students, and assaulting three
others. His last victim was a 12-year old girl. Finally caught by a
joint-state initiative, he was sentenced to death on three separate
charges, although police speculate he killed 36 women in total.
After an unsuccessful attempt to avert death by offering to locate the
bodies, he was executed on the 24th January 1989.
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