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Florida State University, Tallahassee, January the 15th, 1978. Around 2.45 a.m.,
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a serial killer on the run broke into the Chi
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Omega sorority house and attacked four women.
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There's rape.
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He beats people. He knocks people's teeth out. He bites
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the buttock of one of the victims.
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The blistering attack on all four students lasted just 15 minutes.
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He could strike like a chameleon, bam, and take his prey.
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In just four years in the mid-1970s, a sadistic killer kidnapped, raped,
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and murdered at least 30 young women. A few lived
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to tell of their terrible ordeal.
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He leaned in. I thought he was going to kiss me. Instead,
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he said, do you know what? I'm going to kill you.
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Initially convicted of only kidnap and assault, it is suspected
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that Bundy may have raped and slaughtered up to 100
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young women. Sentenced to death for his terrifying crimes, Ted
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Bundy is undoubtedly one of the world's most evil killers. Seattle, Washington.
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Ted Bundy began his reign of terror in the Pacific
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Northwest and spread it across seven US states. He would
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eventually confess to the kidnap, rape, and murder of 30
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young women between 1974 and 1978. Two of his victims
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were just 12 years old. This is a man who
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killed in the most violent.
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The most terrifying way.
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He would, before death, he would break bones, he would
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rip parts of the body off, he would keep parts
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of the body mutilated after he did it. This is
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a person who ravaged his victims intending to cause pain.
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He was a monster because he just enjoyed killing. One
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of his interviews, the interviewer asked him point blank, he said, Ted,
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why did you kill? And Ted kind of raised one
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eyebrow and kind of smiled and says,' Cause I liked it.
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Rhonda Stapley was a college student in Salt Lake City, Utah,
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in 1974. She says she survived a vicious attack by
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Bundy and was so traumatized she kept her ordeal secret
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for more than 30 years.
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Nobody went out at night. Nobody even walked to the
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library alone. There was terror and fear among women everywhere.
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Ted Bundy was one of the most evil people in
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the world.
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When Bundy was finally caught in 1978, he was incarcerated
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at the Leon County Jail in Florida. Sheriff Ken Katsaris,
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who oversaw all the county's prisons, was charged with keeping
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him behind bars.
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He was evil, but you could not discern that, even
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if you knew he was evil. He came across as brilliant, charismatic, smart,
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so You put together the evil with all of those
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positive traits, and you have a very dangerous person.
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This killer story begins in 1946. Theodore Robert Bundy was
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born on the 24th of November at the Elizabeth Lund
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Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont.
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This was the 1940s in America. The ideal nuclear family
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was mom and dad who were married, that nice family
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unit where everything is very neat and very defined.
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And people who were outside of that ideal really were stigmatized.
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To avoid that judgment, Ted's 22-year-old mother, Eleanor, moved back
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to her parents' home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her parents
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bought up Ted as their own.
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The unusual part of his childhood is how he's raised.
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He's adopted by his grandparents. He's raised alongside a person
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who he has told is his sister.
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But she wasn't. She was actually his mother.
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This arrangement went on for almost four years with Ted's
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grandparents as his main carers.
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His grandfather was quite a violent character. So that suggests
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to me that very early on in his life, He's
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almost in a bit of a survival mode. I'm not
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safe within this home.
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Just before his fourth birthday, Eleanor moved to Tacoma, Washington. There,
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she met and married Johnny Bundy in 1951. They formally
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adopted Ted when he was five years old. The couple
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had four children together, but Ted reportedly didn't form a
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close bond with his new family and still believed his
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mother was his sister.
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Ted Bundy is somebody who has always been really conscious
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of his social class. He came from quite humble beginnings,
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that the family were quite poor, and he was really
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quite aware of that and really quite embarrassed and ashamed
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by it.
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An exceptionally bright student, Ted Bundy enrolled in the University
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of Washington in 1966 to study Chinese. There, age 20,
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he met and fell in love with a woman called Stephanie.
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This was his dream girl. This was the woman he
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was going to marry. This is the woman to which
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he was dedicated. It was romance in the realest sense
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that you could imagine it.
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But she suddenly dumped him.
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One of the reasons that she cited was that he
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wasn't ambitious enough. And I think this would have really
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hit Ted Bundy quite hard because this feeds into his
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anxieties around his social class and and those feelings of
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unease and those feelings of not being good enough. So
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what we've got happening here is this resentment brewing.
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Bundy dropped out of university in 1968. The following year,
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he returned to the East Coast in what he later
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described as a bid to understand his roots. Whilst there,
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Bundy unearthed a family secret.
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He discovers his true identity. He discovers that the woman...
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that he's considered to be his sister for his whole
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life is actually his mother. And he discovers his birth certificate,
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and the birth certificate says he's illegitimate.
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The two most.
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Important women to him, his mother and his mother's surrogate,
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and the woman he wanted to marry, in essence, both
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deny and abandon him. The significance to him of that
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is that women simply cannot be trusted.
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In 1969, age 22, Bundy returned to the University of
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Washington and this time enrolled as a psychology major. There,
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he met and started dating a single mother called Elizabeth.
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Their turbulent relationship would last into the mid-1970s.
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Women serve a function for him.
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They provide a roof over his head, meals on the table, sex,
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useful contacts with other people. So he has got quite
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a parasitic lifestyle. He will hook on to particular people
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and get from them what he wants, and then he
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will just discard them and move on.
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In 1971, Bundy got a part-time job at Seattle's Suicide
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Hotline Crisis Center.
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What he's doing is he's performing the role of the
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respectable middle-class young man. He wants to be seen to
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be helping other people. He wants to be seen to
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be doing socially worthy things. And this also feeds into
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the work that he becomes involved in in terms of
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political campaigning.
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When Bundy graduated university, he joined the Republican governor's re-election campaign. Then,
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in September of 1973, Bundy was accepted into law school
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at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, just 30
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miles south of Seattle. Before beginning the law course, he
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went on a trip to California. Whilst there, he rekindled
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his relationship with his first love, Stephanie, despite still dating Elizabeth.
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All of a sudden, he's a different man. He's working
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for the governor, he's talented, he's successful. He looks like
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he's good enough.
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For her, finally.
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Ted Bundy and Stephanie get engaged and they plan to
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get married. And Stephanie's very excited about this. But Ted
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very coldly just drops her.
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What this was all about.
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was how far this man would go for revenge, to
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have the kind of narcissistic victory that it would not
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be her that rejected him, and then rejected her summarily.
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Having taken back control by ending the relationship with Stephanie,
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27-year-old Ted Bundy returned to Washington and decided he needed
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to show womankind who was boss. Just after midnight on
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January 4th, 1974, Bundy broke into the basement apartment of
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an 18-year-old dancer and university student.
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She was at home asleep in her house one night
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when Ted Bundy broke in, and he beat her with
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a metal pole, and he raped her, and she was
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in a really terrible state. Many people think this is
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something that just kind of came out of the blue,
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but I would say absolutely not, it didn't.
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I think this was an attack that was built up to.
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We often find with offenders, there's some behavior before they
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get to the point of raping and attacking people.
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And in Ted Bundy's case, this was voyeurism.
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So he had a history of peeping through women's windows
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and watching them get undressed. And it's something that gradually builds,
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and it's not enough for him, and he ratchets it
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up to the next level.
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The violent assault left the young woman unconscious for 10 days.
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She sustained injuries from the blows to the head. That
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will cause brain damage and brain swelling. And when he
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sexually assaulted her with a metal bar, that caused damage
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to her internal organs. And she was left permanently altered
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by those injuries.
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Seattle, Washington, February 1974. It was here that 27-year-old Ted
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Bundy attacked again and turned from rapist to killer.
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It's no coincidence that she's a university student, who he
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sees as privileged, who he sees as undeserving, whereas he's
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somebody who's really hard done by, and it is that
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constant jealousy, that constant underlying feeling of shame that drives
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a lot of his violence.
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Bundy's chosen target was a 21-year-old University of Washington student
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called Linda. He broke into her room.
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He very severely attacks her. He really does bash her
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skull when he carries out the assault on her. She
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doesn't survive the attack.
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That night, after he'd attacked and killed Linda, Bundy moved
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her away from the campus. He dumped her body in
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the dense woods of Taylor Mountain Forest, a 30-minute drive
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from the university.
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It's very important that he maintains control over the victims,
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even after he's killed them. So he doesn't just leave
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them where they are. He wants to be able to
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know where they are. He wants to have control over them.
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So he chooses a local beauty spot, Taylor Mountain. It's
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a place that people generally go to enjoy. But for him,
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it really is a macabre dump site.
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Linda's body was found a year later in 1975. Her
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death marked the start of a furious spate of killings.
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At this time, Bundy quit law school in Tacoma after
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just six months. He returned to Washington, not as a student,
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but as a predator.
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He would lure women over to his car, saying that
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he needed their assistance with something, and he'd often be
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wearing a sling to make it appear that he'd injured himself.
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And he was good-looking, he was charming, he was respectable.
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Bundy's trademark VW Beetle became his favourite method for abducting
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women before taking them to a remote spot to attack them.
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When he hit, it was like a shark grabbing its prey.
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Bam!
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He'd use a blunt object to bludgeon his victims and
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then he'd strangle them.
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After eight aggravated murders of young women in the first
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half of 1974, a rate of more than one a month,
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fear spread across the Pacific Northwest.
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I think Ted Bundy enjoys the feelings of power. He
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enjoys the feelings of control. So you start to see
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the attacks get closer together because he's having to escalate
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his offending to get that same feeling of power. We
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know with psychopaths like Ted Bundy, They're prone to boredom,
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so they will start to mix it up a bit
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and offend in different ways.
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Then in the summer of that year, Bundy changed his M.O.
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He now decided to attack in broad daylight. On July
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the 14th at Lake Sammamish State Park, just over 15
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miles southeast of the University of Washington, Bundy attacked two
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young women, 23-year-old Janice and 19-year-old Denise. Denise was last
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seen entering a public restroom in the park.
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There are some witnesses to these crimes and there's one
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common denominator and that seems to be a man called
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Ted who drives a BW Beetle. So that begins to
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narrow the field a little.
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Bundy later said that he kidnapped both women from the
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state park within a few hours of each other. He
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raped them and made one watch as he murdered the other.
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Bundy disposed of their bodies in an area two miles away.
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It's reported that Ted Bundy spent time with the bodies
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of his victims, that he shampooed the hair of some
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of them, that he painted their fingernails.
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What his ammo always consists of is taking these two
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facets of his personality, and he used one of them,
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the intelligent, the charming, the caring, the one.
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That would help wash the hair.
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He'd use that to seduce them into his private presence,
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and then the monster, the face of rage would come out,
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and this would plunder this woman asunder.
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In September of 1974, Bundy left Washington and moved east
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to Salt Lake City. The 27-year-old had been accepted into
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law school again, this time at the University of Utah.
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On the surface, he looked like an ordinary student, but
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inside was a cunning serial killer.
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He was not your average person. He was bright, brilliant.
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He felt like he was a chameleon in that he
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could disguise himself, he could change his colors, and he
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could take advantage.
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Of Bundy later claimed that he first killed in Utah
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on October 2nd, 1974. The victim was just 16 years old,
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and her body was never found. Rhonda Stapley, a University
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of Utah pharmacy student, was waiting for a bus.
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I had a dental appointment downtown, While I was downtown,
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I decided I would walk over to a city park.
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And then my mouth started to become numb from the
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dental surgery, and I could tell that I needed to
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go home to some aspirins pretty soon. So I went
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over to where the bus stop was.
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The bus did not show, but Ted Bundy did. He
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pulled his VW Beetle up to the bus stop and
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offered her a ride.
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He was nicely dressed, handsome. He told me that he
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was a law student, and I was feeling pretty lucky
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what college girl wouldn't want to meet a lost woman.
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Unlike other serial killers, he did not target prostitutes, which
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are easy victims. He targeted young, attractive, intelligent, often beautiful
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and successful women. This he could do because of his intelligence.
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That made him a unique threat and danger.
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After a couple of blocks with Rhonda in the car,
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Bundy took a turn away from the university.
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Very politely, he says... I hope you don't mind, but
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I have a short errand to run. And I said,
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I thought you were taking me to the zoo. And
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he said, no. I said, near the zoo. And we
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kept driving up that canyon and then down another canyon.
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Bundy drove up into Big Cottonwood Canyon just southeast of
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the city.
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At this point, he stopped talking to me. He just
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had both hands on the steering wheel and was just driving.
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As Bundy came to a corner, he slowed down.
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In my mind... I thought that he is looking for
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a place to pull over and park and make out.
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And so in my mind, I'm trying to figure out
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how do I get out of this situation without embarrassing
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either of us.
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Bundy pulled off the road and into a secluded picnic
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area and parked the car.
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And then he turned towards me and he leaned in
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really close to my face. I thought he was going
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to kiss me. Instead, he said, do you know what?
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I'm going to kill you. And he put his hands
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on my throat and started squeezing.
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She fell unconscious. When Rhonda eventually woke up, she was
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lying on the picnic table with Bundy on top of her.
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He was sitting on my chest with all of his
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weight on my chest and stomach, and I told him,
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get off, I can't breathe. And he says, stop struggling
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and I'll let you breathe. And so I held still
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and he kind of rocked up onto his knees so
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it took some of the pressure off. And then he
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put his hand over my nose and mouth and cut
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off my ear that way. And he would do that
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until I would just go unconscious, and then he would
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kind of bring me back. He liked watching me fade
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in and out of consciousness.
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Rhonda had just one chance to save herself.
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The last time when I regained consciousness, I noticed that
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he wasn't standing by me anymore. Kenyon was pitch black
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with darkness. There was little light coming from the dome
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light of the car because he had opened the door
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to the Volkswagen and was fiddling around with something in
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the back seat. and I used that opportunity to just
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run the opposite direction. I just jumped up and ran, fortunately,
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or just by pure luck, or grace of God, or
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intervention from above, or something. I happened to fall into
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the mountain river, which wasn't very deep, but it was really,
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really fast, and it swept me away. There was water
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swirling around boulders and flowing over boulders, and I, of course,
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was smashing into those. Eventually, I was able to climb
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out and and rearranged my clothes so I could walk home.
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And that's what I did, is I just walked home.
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Rhonda kept her attack by Bundy a secret for more
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than 30 years.
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I felt embarrassed and stupid and ashamed, and plus I
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was a religious LDS Mormon girl, and the teachings at
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that time were that if you have a choice of
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losing your life or losing your virtue, it would be
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better for you eternally if you lost your life. So
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I decided the best thing for me to do was
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just to suck it up and pretend it never happened
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and go on with my life.
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Rhonda's escape did not deter Bundy's murderous plans. A few
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weeks later, in November 1974, Bundy was prowling a mall
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in Murray, Utah, posed as a police officer. Disguised, he
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managed to entice an 18-year-old telephone operator called Carol to
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get into his car. He planned on raping and killing her.
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And this goes wrong, it fails, she gets away.
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During the struggle, Carol had managed to open the car
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door and escape.
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Ted Bundy is not the kind of guy who just
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gives up and goes home. He's got his mind set
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on it. He wants to get what he wants that night.
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Now two of Bundy's victims had escaped death. The next
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would not be so fortunate. On November the 8th, Bundy
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kidnapped 17-year-old Deborah as she left a theatre production. she
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was on her way to pick up her brother. Deborah
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was never seen again.
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What happens with Bundy and many other serial killers, they
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have to kill.
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They kill, they get a release.
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Sometimes they get a little extra release by returning to
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the corpse and having a small dose of the arousal,
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which they can live through by toying with their trophies
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and toying with the corpse itself.
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And then they have a rest period.
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All the time 27-year-old Bundy had been killing, he was
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still seeing his long-term girlfriend, Elizabeth, in Seattle. In the
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autumn of 1974, he also got involved with Carol, a
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single mother and a divorcee.
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He presented as completely normal, and so many people were
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taken in by him.
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Ted Bundy had yet to appear on the police radar
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as a suspect, but thanks to eight eyewitnesses who saw
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him in July of 1974 at Lake Sammamish, the Washington
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State Police were on the lookout for a man who'd
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introduced himself as Ted and was driving a tan VW Beetle.
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This guy is reported to be nice-looking, in his 20s,
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just an average college guy. He doesn't look like a monster,
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and nobody thinks that a serial killer looks like this.
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Police issued a composite sketch based on the descriptions they had.
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It was broadcast on national television and was seen by Elizabeth.
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She called the police. She gave them Bundy's details as
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well as those of his car. But the police dismissed
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the tip because reportedly Bundy was a clean-cut law student.
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A year later, the 28-year-old headed cross-country. He raped and
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killed three young women in Colorado. In May, he assaulted
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a 12-year-old child. She'd been abducted from her junior high
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school in Pocatello, Idaho.
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Here, we've got Ted Bundy seeing an opportunity and actually
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seizing it.
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With not too much.
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Regard to the risk, and that's not really his previous MO.
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He's used that charm before, but this is quite disorganized,
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and this is something that will lead to his downfall.
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Bundy had got away with multiple murders and, despite a
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sketch of him in circulation, had not been identified by police.
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In June 1975, he returned to Utah and killed a
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15-year-old girl in Provo. Two months later, Bundy was driving
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erratically through a Salt Lake City suburb in his tan
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VW Beetle when he was spotted by a Utah Highway
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Patrol officer.
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Ted Bundy is pulled over by a police officer who
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notices that the front passenger seat is missing. There's an
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ice pick, there's a crowbar, there's a ski mask. And
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all of this looks incredibly suspicious. But Ted Bundy, being
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the charming manipulator, has an explanation for all of this.
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Suspicions were aroused, but the Utah police did not have
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enough evidence to detain Bundy for anything to do with
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the murders. Instead, three Utah detectives flew to Seattle where
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they met up with the Washington police. Together, they interviewed
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Bundy's long-term girlfriend, Elizabeth. She told them that she'd found
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some strange items in the apartment a year earlier, including
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a meat cleaver and a bag of women's clothing.
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What happens over the course of the lives of serial
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killers is the time it takes them to need another killing.
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To need, if you will, another savage evil meal gets
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shorter and shorter and shorter. Their control gets less and
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less and less. The way they perpetrate their crimes becomes
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wilder and more foolish.
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With the FBI on his trail, Bundy sold his VW,
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but it was found by police. Inside, they discovered strands
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of survivor Carol's hair and hairs from two other women.
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On October the 2nd, 1975, detectives found Bundy in Utah,
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arrested him, and put him in a lineup. There, Carol
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positively identified him as her abductor.
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This is where he's taken his eye off the ball.
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This is where he started making mistakes. He's been so
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driven by his wants and his desires that he.
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Stopped to actually risk assess what he's doing.
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Unable to find enough evidence to charge him with any murders,
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Bundy only stood trial for Carol's aggravated kidnap and assault.
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On June the 30th, 1976, Bundy was sentenced to serve
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one to 15 years and was eventually moved to the
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Garfield County Jail in Colorado.
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I felt relieved that he was arrested and wasn't a
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threat on the street anymore.
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Just as police were gathering enough evidence to charge him
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with the murder of a 23-year-old woman in Snowmass, Bundy
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pulled a major surprise.
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There's a preliminary hearing, and Ted Bundy, being the incredibly
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arrogant individual that he is, decides that he's going to
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defend himself in court.
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Bundy was savvy about how the system operated. By being
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his own lawyer, he had access to the law library
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system of the jail. And he was allowed to go there,
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notwithstanding that once you got access to.
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The law library system, you could go right out the window,
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which he did.
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Bundy escaped and went on the run in Colorado. He
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was caught six days later. A year later, he pulled
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another surprise.
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He's in his cell and he notices that there's a
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hole in the ceiling. And one day he manages it
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and he gets through the hole and he comes out.
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in the apartment that belongs to the chief jailer. And
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he literally walks out of the front door of the
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prison and he's away again.
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Free and on the loose, Bundy made his way to
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the peaceful college town of Tallahassee in the sunshine state
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of Florida.
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I suspect that when Bundy knows he's at the end
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of his rope, he's been arrested enough times, had enough
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interactions to realize that this story is going to come
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to an end.
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So it's in Florida.
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That he goes on his rampage.
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Around 2.45 a.m. on January the 15th, 1978, Ted Bundy
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broke into the Chi Omega sorority house.
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He's somebody who's familiar with college towns, with college buildings,
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so I think he knew that there were many women
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in this house, and that was his intention all along.
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Within 15 minutes, he had attacked four women, brutally cracking
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their skulls, breaking their collarbones.
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21-year-old Margaret was hit with a piece of firewood and
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then strangled to death with her stockings. 20-year-old Lisa was
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beaten unconscious, raped, and killed.
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The attack is incredibly brutal.
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There's rape.
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He beats people. He knocks people's teeth out. He bites
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the buttock of one of the victims.
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The magnitude of the terror for the victim is as
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intense as the magnitude of the rage by the perpetrator.
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Two others were both severely beaten and assaulted. Miraculously, they survived.
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Within the hour, the sheriff of Leon County, Ken Katsaris,
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was called to the crime scene.
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When I got there, I did check with the investigators.
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They had secured the scene. We knew that we had
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two who were obviously dead and two that they believed
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may die. You could tell which one was first. You
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could tell which one was second, third and fourth. But
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you could tell how much energy that he expended.
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This was not the end of Bundy's activity that night.
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As I'm standing outside of the sorority house, we get
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a call that there's strange noises coming from a condo
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next door. And I sent an investigator immediately because I said,
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six blocks away, could it be? He's doing it again,
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which only tells you he couldn't have. help himself.
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Bundy had broken into another apartment where he savagely beat
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another student.
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She was in a pool of blood when my investigator
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went in the condo or the apartment, and Bundy was
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leaving out the back window, but she tended to the
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injured first.
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Still free, a few weeks later, Bundy struck again, this
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time in Lake City in northern Florida. His victim was
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another little girl who was just 12 years old.
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He is a prolific serial killer at this point in time.
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Serial killing is his hobby, it's his vocation, it's something
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that he feels that he's good at, and more so,
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he's getting away with it. And when somebody's getting away
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with it, they're certainly not going to stop. And if anything,
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their offending is only going to get worse.
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Bundy dumped the girl's brutalised body in woods about 30
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miles west of Lake City. He then stole a car
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and made his way west into the Florida panhandle. Three
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days later, on February 15th, 1978, an alert Pensacola police
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officer stopped America's most notorious serial killer near the Alabama
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state line for driving suspiciously.
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He just had a gut feeling that something might be wrong. And,
509
00:31:02.269 --> 00:31:05.069
of course, it came out over his radio after he
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00:31:05.130 --> 00:31:08.069
called it in that the vehicle had been stolen.
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After a brief struggle in which the officer was forced
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to fire a warning shot, Bundy was arrested. He was
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taken to the Leon County Jail in Tallahassee, Florida.
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I had him in custody for over two years in
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00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:27.740
my detention center, my jail. I had him so locked
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up that he wasn't going anywhere. He not only was
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in a secure jail cell, but I had him in
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a cell that we had lined with armor plate steel
519
00:31:40.470 --> 00:31:50.099
in sheets that were welded in terms of the seams, floor, walls, ceiling.
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There was no light fixture that he could remove like
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00:31:54.730 --> 00:31:58.240
he did in Colorado. And then I put extra locks
522
00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:04.029
on the door, heavy, impenetrable locks, in addition to the
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00:32:04.109 --> 00:32:07.269
jail key lock. And they were in the hands of
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00:32:07.809 --> 00:32:08.650
several people.
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00:32:10.369 --> 00:32:13.849
When she discovered that Bundy was arrested for murder, his
526
00:32:13.950 --> 00:32:18.109
partner Elizabeth finally left him. At the same time, detectives
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00:32:18.170 --> 00:32:21.970
in Washington state tried to build their case against Bundy
528
00:32:22.269 --> 00:32:25.940
and prove that he was a serial killer. Sheriff Ken
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00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.339
Katsaris was also doing some digging of his own.
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I went to his cell one day, talking to him
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through the port. I told him, I said, Ted, I
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00:32:38.250 --> 00:32:42.869
think I know what's going on with you. You've had
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00:32:42.910 --> 00:32:46.450
a problem with your mother because you were born out
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of wedlock. She withheld who your father was. You've never
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00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.380
forgiven her. And that has a lot to do with
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00:32:57.460 --> 00:32:59.829
what you're doing in terms of taking it out on
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00:33:00.069 --> 00:33:06.710
other women. He immediately opened his eyes wide with anger.
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00:33:07.289 --> 00:33:11.319
He wanted to kill. He immediately started trashing his cell,
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00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:16.039
throwing things about, and he grabbed the shower rod, which
540
00:33:16.140 --> 00:33:21.619
was welded in place. He ripped it from its position,
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which meant a lot of power.
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Intellectually, Sheriff Ken Katsaris was more than a match for Bundy.
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He managed to goad the serial killer into a game-changing revelation.
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He would taunt me with Ken, as he would refer
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00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:42.539
to me, with that sarcastic twist of that name, just
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00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:47.140
three letters, but he would say, Ken, and then he
547
00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:50.970
would say, the evidence is there, you just can't find it.
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00:33:52.009 --> 00:33:55.319
And I thought then, I know what he's referring to.
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He signed one of those bodies.
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This was Ken's eureka moment.
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He used his teeth and clamped hard twice to leave
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00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:12.949
a signature. And I realized we had a very deliberate
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00:34:13.809 --> 00:34:19.070
double bite impression. Double meaning he bit down and then
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00:34:19.150 --> 00:34:23.389
he came out and That was his signature.
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00:34:23.949 --> 00:34:27.179
Ken Katsaris was convinced that bite marks left on the
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00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.559
bodies of his victims were the smoking gun that would
557
00:34:30.619 --> 00:34:34.179
show once and for all that Ted Bundy was indeed
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00:34:34.260 --> 00:34:38.739
America's most vicious serial killer. But to convict Bundy, the
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00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:41.530
sheriff of Leon County needed to prove it.
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When I viewed the two bodies of the young ladies
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at the morgue, on the slab, just barely 20 years
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of age. I had a one month old little girl
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at home and I had a two year old daughter
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00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:06.889
at home. And I just kept flashing images that this
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00:35:06.949 --> 00:35:12.269
could be them. I made myself a promise in the morgue.
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Somebody's gonna pay for this. I will find this person.
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00:35:18.309 --> 00:35:22.530
During his regular interactions with Bundy, the sheriff realized that
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in the Chi Omega sorority house attack, Bundy had left
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a bite mark on the left buttock of Lisa, one
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of the victims.
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I was teaching the forensics of homicide investigation, and I
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was teaching the advanced concepts, so I knew that these
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bites were going to be important.
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Sheriff Ken Katsaris determined that if he could get an
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impression of Bundy's bite, he might be able to match
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00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:52.500
it to the marks left on Lisa's body.
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I needed an exemplar. I needed his teeth marks. And
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that became, I think it consumed me. How can I
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00:36:06.739 --> 00:36:07.099
get them?
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The prison officers tried some novel techniques to get the
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clean impression they needed for a comparison.
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We gave him different kinds of fruit because we weren't
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sure which one the core would leave the best bite impression.
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And that inmate said, you're getting fruit? I don't get
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any fruit. And I think he became suspicious that something
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00:36:31.019 --> 00:36:33.980
was going on with that because he quit eating his fruit.
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After their fruit tricks failed, the sheriff and his team
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00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:39.469
had a trailblazing brainwave.
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00:36:39.849 --> 00:36:47.110
Then it struck us. It just, it hit. What about
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00:36:47.150 --> 00:36:50.369
a search warrant for his mouth? We can just go
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00:36:50.469 --> 00:36:53.400
serve it. That would get the bite impression.
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00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:56.739
Ken decided to take Bundy to his own dentist.
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I personally went to Ted Bundy's cell and I said,
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you're coming with me. I told him to put his
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brace on. I had a special brace developed, now called
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the Bundy brace. It was spring-loaded so that when he
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00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:15.039
would straighten out his leg, you could hear that spring
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00:37:15.579 --> 00:37:18.260
pop into place. That way, if he tried to run,
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he'd be running with one stiff leg. I told him
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to put his brace on.
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Bundy reluctantly went with Ken to the dentist's office.
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And I escorted him up the stairway because he couldn't
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walk it very well with the brace. And then the
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door opened, and there stood three men with little white
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schmocks on and the dental chair behind them, and he knew,
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00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:51.599
he knew the jig was up. He knew, and that's
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00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:54.539
when I knew that he knew that the bite marks
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were deliberate, and they were put there for a purpose.
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Ken told Bundy that he had a warrant and they
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00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.429
were going to get a bite impression from him.
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And I had the judge put in there that we
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could use any and all force reasonably necessary. I showed
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him the contraptions that they use post-mortem to keep the
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mouth open. And he looked at me. He sat down
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in the dental chair, smiled, and said, Ken, you know
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I'm not a violent person. Do what you need to do.
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The bite mark impression that the sheriff obtained would prove
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vital in proving that Bundy was in fact a killer.
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His trial for the murder of the two students in
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the Chi Omega sorority house and the assault of three
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more young women began in Miami on the 25th of June, 1979.
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It would be the first national televised trial in America.
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As I said, I'm going to argue the law broadly
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00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:03.760
because I haven't had an opportunity to to complete my
625
00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:06.260
research on the status of Florida law.
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00:39:07.179 --> 00:39:09.699
I was watching the trial on TV and I saw
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how arrogant he was and he wasn't in shackles. He
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00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.659
was dressed, pretending to be his own liar, dressed like
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a liar, smiling and flirting with the people in the
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00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:25.030
audience and just being Mr. Charismatic and that was kind
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00:39:25.070 --> 00:39:25.510
of sickening.
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On July the 24th, 1979, the jury convicted Ted Bundy
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00:39:32.019 --> 00:39:35.480
on two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of
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00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:39.210
attempted murder. He was given the death sentence twice.
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00:39:39.710 --> 00:39:43.409
The only real evidence we had was the bite impression,
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00:39:44.250 --> 00:39:48.349
and obviously I felt good because I found it. I
637
00:39:48.389 --> 00:39:54.380
was conflicted. Yes, I understood that this was congratulations, but
638
00:39:54.429 --> 00:40:00.440
it was no congratulations. These women had suffered. Some suffered
639
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.699
and lived, thank God. Others died. How do you celebrate?
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00:40:06.139 --> 00:40:10.329
Bundy would spend 10 years on death row fighting his execution.
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00:40:10.590 --> 00:40:14.730
Ted Bundy exhausted every legal avenue he possibly could to
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00:40:14.809 --> 00:40:18.250
save himself from the death penalty. So the cost of
643
00:40:18.289 --> 00:40:21.590
his trial and his appeals was around about $ 9 million,
644
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:23.199
which was a lot of money at the time.
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00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:27.260
At the sentencing for the rape and murder of a
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12-year-old girl in Lake City, Florida, Bundy represented himself. Sensationally,
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00:40:33.989 --> 00:40:38.429
he used the opportunity to propose to Carol. Carol met
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00:40:38.489 --> 00:40:43.289
Bundy in Seattle in 1974. She would profess his innocence
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00:40:43.590 --> 00:40:47.059
until the eve of his execution. She had a daughter
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00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:51.699
in October of 1982 and claimed that Bundy was the father.
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00:40:52.139 --> 00:40:55.889
Serial killers, they are intense, they are moving, and they
652
00:40:55.949 --> 00:41:00.030
are real. And I think some women are excited about that.
653
00:41:00.469 --> 00:41:04.900
Some women need that terror, that terror, that excitement, especially
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if somehow they could be near the flame. without being
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00:41:10.269 --> 00:41:11.329
burned by its touch.
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Over the 10 years that Bundy was on death row,
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he slowly confessed to 30 documented murders.
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00:41:18.219 --> 00:41:21.820
He has knowledge of murders that he's committed, which the
659
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.380
authorities don't know about, and he's going to use that
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00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:27.699
to his full advantage. And he's going to drip-feed some
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00:41:27.739 --> 00:41:30.639
of this information out bit by bit in order to
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00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:32.659
try and buy himself some time.
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As the appeals ran out and as the death sentence neared,
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a macabre fascination with Bundy grew.
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Just before his execution, we started to see this immense
666
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:47.539
media circus around the event. We started to see radio
667
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:51.139
shows playing the sound of frying bacon on air and
668
00:41:51.179 --> 00:41:55.420
they had a Bundy countdown. People had Ted Bundy dances
669
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and barbecues.
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At 7.16am on January 24th, 1989... Age 42, Ted Bundy
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00:42:05.050 --> 00:42:06.750
was finally executed.
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Even when he was being walked to the electric chair,
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00:42:10.210 --> 00:42:13.809
he was shouting out names of victims. Right up until
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00:42:13.829 --> 00:42:16.190
the end, he's trying to buy himself more time. He's
675
00:42:16.250 --> 00:42:19.550
trying to just gradually give away some of this knowledge
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00:42:19.730 --> 00:42:20.570
about his crimes.
677
00:42:20.809 --> 00:42:23.300
It's a sad thing from a scientific point of view
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that he would die without telling us or giving us
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00:42:27.500 --> 00:42:31.090
any hint about whether or not there was something in
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his life that we don't know about that helps explain
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his conduct.
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00:42:36.739 --> 00:42:40.079
I was not really happy, but kind of relieved. Normally,
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I don't very often agree with the death penalty, but
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with him, it was necessary.
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00:42:45.059 --> 00:42:47.000
So many people were taken in by him.
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Despite the fact he was leaving this trail of bodies
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behind him, monsters don't always look like monsters. Sometimes they
688
00:42:54.059 --> 00:42:55.159
look like the guy next door.
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Arguably America's most notorious murderer, Bundy was deceptively depraved. He
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used his charms to kidnap, rape, and kill, by some estimates,
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up to 100 young women and girls, making Ted Bundy
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one of the world's most evil killers.
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, January the 15th, 1978. Around 2.45 a.m.,
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a serial killer on the run broke into the Chi
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Omega sorority house and attacked four women.
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There's rape.
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He beats people. He knocks people's teeth out. He bites
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the buttock of one of the victims.
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The blistering attack on all four students lasted just 15 minutes.
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He could strike like a chameleon, bam, and take his prey.
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In just four years in the mid-1970s, a sadistic killer kidnapped, raped,
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and murdered at least 30 young women. A few lived
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to tell of their terrible ordeal.
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He leaned in. I thought he was going to kiss me. Instead,
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he said, do you know what? I'm going to kill you.
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Initially convicted of only kidnap and assault, it is suspected
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that Bundy may have raped and slaughtered up to 100
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young women. Sentenced to death for his terrifying crimes, Ted
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Bundy is undoubtedly one of the world's most evil killers. Seattle, Washington.
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Ted Bundy began his reign of terror in the Pacific
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Northwest and spread it across seven US states. He would
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eventually confess to the kidnap, rape, and murder of 30
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young women between 1974 and 1978. Two of his victims
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were just 12 years old. This is a man who
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killed in the most violent.
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The most terrifying way.
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He would, before death, he would break bones, he would
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rip parts of the body off, he would keep parts
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of the body mutilated after he did it. This is
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a person who ravaged his victims intending to cause pain.
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He was a monster because he just enjoyed killing. One
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of his interviews, the interviewer asked him point blank, he said, Ted,
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why did you kill? And Ted kind of raised one
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eyebrow and kind of smiled and says,' Cause I liked it.
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Rhonda Stapley was a college student in Salt Lake City, Utah,
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in 1974. She says she survived a vicious attack by
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Bundy and was so traumatized she kept her ordeal secret
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for more than 30 years.
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Nobody went out at night. Nobody even walked to the
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library alone. There was terror and fear among women everywhere.
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Ted Bundy was one of the most evil people in
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the world.
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When Bundy was finally caught in 1978, he was incarcerated
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at the Leon County Jail in Florida. Sheriff Ken Katsaris,
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who oversaw all the county's prisons, was charged with keeping
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him behind bars.
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He was evil, but you could not discern that, even
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if you knew he was evil. He came across as brilliant, charismatic, smart,
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so You put together the evil with all of those
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positive traits, and you have a very dangerous person.
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This killer story begins in 1946. Theodore Robert Bundy was
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born on the 24th of November at the Elizabeth Lund
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Home for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont.
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This was the 1940s in America. The ideal nuclear family
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was mom and dad who were married, that nice family
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unit where everything is very neat and very defined.
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And people who were outside of that ideal really were stigmatized.
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To avoid that judgment, Ted's 22-year-old mother, Eleanor, moved back
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to her parents' home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her parents
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bought up Ted as their own.
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The unusual part of his childhood is how he's raised.
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He's adopted by his grandparents. He's raised alongside a person
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who he has told is his sister.
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But she wasn't. She was actually his mother.
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This arrangement went on for almost four years with Ted's
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grandparents as his main carers.
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His grandfather was quite a violent character. So that suggests
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to me that very early on in his life, He's
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almost in a bit of a survival mode. I'm not
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safe within this home.
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Just before his fourth birthday, Eleanor moved to Tacoma, Washington. There,
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she met and married Johnny Bundy in 1951. They formally
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adopted Ted when he was five years old. The couple
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had four children together, but Ted reportedly didn't form a
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close bond with his new family and still believed his
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mother was his sister.
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Ted Bundy is somebody who has always been really conscious
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of his social class. He came from quite humble beginnings,
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that the family were quite poor, and he was really
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quite aware of that and really quite embarrassed and ashamed
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by it.
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An exceptionally bright student, Ted Bundy enrolled in the University
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of Washington in 1966 to study Chinese. There, age 20,
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he met and fell in love with a woman called Stephanie.
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This was his dream girl. This was the woman he
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was going to marry. This is the woman to which
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he was dedicated. It was romance in the realest sense
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that you could imagine it.
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But she suddenly dumped him.
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One of the reasons that she cited was that he
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wasn't ambitious enough. And I think this would have really
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hit Ted Bundy quite hard because this feeds into his
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anxieties around his social class and and those feelings of
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unease and those feelings of not being good enough. So
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what we've got happening here is this resentment brewing.
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Bundy dropped out of university in 1968. The following year,
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he returned to the East Coast in what he later
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described as a bid to understand his roots. Whilst there,
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Bundy unearthed a family secret.
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He discovers his true identity. He discovers that the woman...
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that he's considered to be his sister for his whole
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life is actually his mother. And he discovers his birth certificate,
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and the birth certificate says he's illegitimate.
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The two most.
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Important women to him, his mother and his mother's surrogate,
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and the woman he wanted to marry, in essence, both
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deny and abandon him. The significance to him of that
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is that women simply cannot be trusted.
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In 1969, age 22, Bundy returned to the University of
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Washington and this time enrolled as a psychology major. There,
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he met and started dating a single mother called Elizabeth.
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Their turbulent relationship would last into the mid-1970s.
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Women serve a function for him.
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They provide a roof over his head, meals on the table, sex,
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useful contacts with other people. So he has got quite
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a parasitic lifestyle. He will hook on to particular people
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and get from them what he wants, and then he
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will just discard them and move on.
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In 1971, Bundy got a part-time job at Seattle's Suicide
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Hotline Crisis Center.
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What he's doing is he's performing the role of the
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respectable middle-class young man. He wants to be seen to
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be helping other people. He wants to be seen to
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be doing socially worthy things. And this also feeds into
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the work that he becomes involved in in terms of
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political campaigning.
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When Bundy graduated university, he joined the Republican governor's re-election campaign. Then,
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in September of 1973, Bundy was accepted into law school
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at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, just 30
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miles south of Seattle. Before beginning the law course, he
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went on a trip to California. Whilst there, he rekindled
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his relationship with his first love, Stephanie, despite still dating Elizabeth.
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All of a sudden, he's a different man. He's working
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for the governor, he's talented, he's successful. He looks like
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he's good enough.
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For her, finally.
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Ted Bundy and Stephanie get engaged and they plan to
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get married. And Stephanie's very excited about this. But Ted
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very coldly just drops her.
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What this was all about.
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was how far this man would go for revenge, to
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have the kind of narcissistic victory that it would not
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be her that rejected him, and then rejected her summarily.
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Having taken back control by ending the relationship with Stephanie,
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27-year-old Ted Bundy returned to Washington and decided he needed
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to show womankind who was boss. Just after midnight on
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January 4th, 1974, Bundy broke into the basement apartment of
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an 18-year-old dancer and university student.
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She was at home asleep in her house one night
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when Ted Bundy broke in, and he beat her with
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a metal pole, and he raped her, and she was
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in a really terrible state. Many people think this is
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something that just kind of came out of the blue,
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but I would say absolutely not, it didn't.
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I think this was an attack that was built up to.
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We often find with offenders, there's some behavior before they
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get to the point of raping and attacking people.
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And in Ted Bundy's case, this was voyeurism.
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So he had a history of peeping through women's windows
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and watching them get undressed. And it's something that gradually builds,
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and it's not enough for him, and he ratchets it
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up to the next level.
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The violent assault left the young woman unconscious for 10 days.
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She sustained injuries from the blows to the head. That
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will cause brain damage and brain swelling. And when he
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sexually assaulted her with a metal bar, that caused damage
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to her internal organs. And she was left permanently altered
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by those injuries.
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Seattle, Washington, February 1974. It was here that 27-year-old Ted
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Bundy attacked again and turned from rapist to killer.
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It's no coincidence that she's a university student, who he
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sees as privileged, who he sees as undeserving, whereas he's
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somebody who's really hard done by, and it is that
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constant jealousy, that constant underlying feeling of shame that drives
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a lot of his violence.
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Bundy's chosen target was a 21-year-old University of Washington student
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called Linda. He broke into her room.
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He very severely attacks her. He really does bash her
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skull when he carries out the assault on her. She
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doesn't survive the attack.
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That night, after he'd attacked and killed Linda, Bundy moved
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her away from the campus. He dumped her body in
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the dense woods of Taylor Mountain Forest, a 30-minute drive
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from the university.
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It's very important that he maintains control over the victims,
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even after he's killed them. So he doesn't just leave
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them where they are. He wants to be able to
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know where they are. He wants to have control over them.
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So he chooses a local beauty spot, Taylor Mountain. It's
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a place that people generally go to enjoy. But for him,
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it really is a macabre dump site.
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Linda's body was found a year later in 1975. Her
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death marked the start of a furious spate of killings.
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At this time, Bundy quit law school in Tacoma after
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just six months. He returned to Washington, not as a student,
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but as a predator.
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He would lure women over to his car, saying that
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he needed their assistance with something, and he'd often be
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wearing a sling to make it appear that he'd injured himself.
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And he was good-looking, he was charming, he was respectable.
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Bundy's trademark VW Beetle became his favourite method for abducting
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women before taking them to a remote spot to attack them.
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When he hit, it was like a shark grabbing its prey.
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Bam!
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He'd use a blunt object to bludgeon his victims and
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then he'd strangle them.
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After eight aggravated murders of young women in the first
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half of 1974, a rate of more than one a month,
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fear spread across the Pacific Northwest.
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I think Ted Bundy enjoys the feelings of power. He
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enjoys the feelings of control. So you start to see
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the attacks get closer together because he's having to escalate
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his offending to get that same feeling of power. We
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know with psychopaths like Ted Bundy, They're prone to boredom,
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so they will start to mix it up a bit
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and offend in different ways.
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Then in the summer of that year, Bundy changed his M.O.
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He now decided to attack in broad daylight. On July
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the 14th at Lake Sammamish State Park, just over 15
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miles southeast of the University of Washington, Bundy attacked two
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young women, 23-year-old Janice and 19-year-old Denise. Denise was last
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seen entering a public restroom in the park.
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There are some witnesses to these crimes and there's one
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common denominator and that seems to be a man called
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Ted who drives a BW Beetle. So that begins to
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narrow the field a little.
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Bundy later said that he kidnapped both women from the
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state park within a few hours of each other. He
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raped them and made one watch as he murdered the other.
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Bundy disposed of their bodies in an area two miles away.
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It's reported that Ted Bundy spent time with the bodies
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of his victims, that he shampooed the hair of some
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of them, that he painted their fingernails.
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What his ammo always consists of is taking these two
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facets of his personality, and he used one of them,
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the intelligent, the charming, the caring, the one.
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That would help wash the hair.
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He'd use that to seduce them into his private presence,
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and then the monster, the face of rage would come out,
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and this would plunder this woman asunder.
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In September of 1974, Bundy left Washington and moved east
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to Salt Lake City. The 27-year-old had been accepted into
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law school again, this time at the University of Utah.
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On the surface, he looked like an ordinary student, but
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inside was a cunning serial killer.
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He was not your average person. He was bright, brilliant.
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He felt like he was a chameleon in that he
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could disguise himself, he could change his colors, and he
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could take advantage.
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Of Bundy later claimed that he first killed in Utah
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on October 2nd, 1974. The victim was just 16 years old,
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and her body was never found. Rhonda Stapley, a University
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of Utah pharmacy student, was waiting for a bus.
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I had a dental appointment downtown, While I was downtown,
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I decided I would walk over to a city park.
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And then my mouth started to become numb from the
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dental surgery, and I could tell that I needed to
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go home to some aspirins pretty soon. So I went
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over to where the bus stop was.
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The bus did not show, but Ted Bundy did. He
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pulled his VW Beetle up to the bus stop and
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offered her a ride.
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He was nicely dressed, handsome. He told me that he
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was a law student, and I was feeling pretty lucky
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what college girl wouldn't want to meet a lost woman.
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Unlike other serial killers, he did not target prostitutes, which
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are easy victims. He targeted young, attractive, intelligent, often beautiful
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and successful women. This he could do because of his intelligence.
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That made him a unique threat and danger.
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After a couple of blocks with Rhonda in the car,
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Bundy took a turn away from the university.
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Very politely, he says... I hope you don't mind, but
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I have a short errand to run. And I said,
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I thought you were taking me to the zoo. And
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he said, no. I said, near the zoo. And we
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kept driving up that canyon and then down another canyon.
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Bundy drove up into Big Cottonwood Canyon just southeast of
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the city.
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At this point, he stopped talking to me. He just
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had both hands on the steering wheel and was just driving.
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As Bundy came to a corner, he slowed down.
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In my mind... I thought that he is looking for
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a place to pull over and park and make out.
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And so in my mind, I'm trying to figure out
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how do I get out of this situation without embarrassing
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either of us.
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Bundy pulled off the road and into a secluded picnic
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area and parked the car.
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And then he turned towards me and he leaned in
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really close to my face. I thought he was going
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to kiss me. Instead, he said, do you know what?
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I'm going to kill you. And he put his hands
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on my throat and started squeezing.
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She fell unconscious. When Rhonda eventually woke up, she was
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lying on the picnic table with Bundy on top of her.
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He was sitting on my chest with all of his
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weight on my chest and stomach, and I told him,
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get off, I can't breathe. And he says, stop struggling
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and I'll let you breathe. And so I held still
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and he kind of rocked up onto his knees so
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it took some of the pressure off. And then he
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put his hand over my nose and mouth and cut
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off my ear that way. And he would do that
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until I would just go unconscious, and then he would
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kind of bring me back. He liked watching me fade
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in and out of consciousness.
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Rhonda had just one chance to save herself.
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The last time when I regained consciousness, I noticed that
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he wasn't standing by me anymore. Kenyon was pitch black
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with darkness. There was little light coming from the dome
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light of the car because he had opened the door
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to the Volkswagen and was fiddling around with something in
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the back seat. and I used that opportunity to just
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run the opposite direction. I just jumped up and ran, fortunately,
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or just by pure luck, or grace of God, or
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intervention from above, or something. I happened to fall into
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the mountain river, which wasn't very deep, but it was really,
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really fast, and it swept me away. There was water
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swirling around boulders and flowing over boulders, and I, of course,
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was smashing into those. Eventually, I was able to climb
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out and and rearranged my clothes so I could walk home.
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And that's what I did, is I just walked home.
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Rhonda kept her attack by Bundy a secret for more
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than 30 years.
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I felt embarrassed and stupid and ashamed, and plus I
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was a religious LDS Mormon girl, and the teachings at
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that time were that if you have a choice of
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losing your life or losing your virtue, it would be
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better for you eternally if you lost your life. So
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I decided the best thing for me to do was
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just to suck it up and pretend it never happened
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and go on with my life.
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Rhonda's escape did not deter Bundy's murderous plans. A few
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weeks later, in November 1974, Bundy was prowling a mall
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in Murray, Utah, posed as a police officer. Disguised, he
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managed to entice an 18-year-old telephone operator called Carol to
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get into his car. He planned on raping and killing her.
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And this goes wrong, it fails, she gets away.
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During the struggle, Carol had managed to open the car
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door and escape.
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Ted Bundy is not the kind of guy who just
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gives up and goes home. He's got his mind set
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on it. He wants to get what he wants that night.
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Now two of Bundy's victims had escaped death. The next
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would not be so fortunate. On November the 8th, Bundy
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kidnapped 17-year-old Deborah as she left a theatre production. she
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was on her way to pick up her brother. Deborah
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was never seen again.
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What happens with Bundy and many other serial killers, they
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have to kill.
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They kill, they get a release.
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Sometimes they get a little extra release by returning to
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the corpse and having a small dose of the arousal,
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which they can live through by toying with their trophies
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and toying with the corpse itself.
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And then they have a rest period.
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All the time 27-year-old Bundy had been killing, he was
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still seeing his long-term girlfriend, Elizabeth, in Seattle. In the
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autumn of 1974, he also got involved with Carol, a
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single mother and a divorcee.
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He presented as completely normal, and so many people were
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taken in by him.
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Ted Bundy had yet to appear on the police radar
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as a suspect, but thanks to eight eyewitnesses who saw
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him in July of 1974 at Lake Sammamish, the Washington
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State Police were on the lookout for a man who'd
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introduced himself as Ted and was driving a tan VW Beetle.
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This guy is reported to be nice-looking, in his 20s,
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just an average college guy. He doesn't look like a monster,
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and nobody thinks that a serial killer looks like this.
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Police issued a composite sketch based on the descriptions they had.
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It was broadcast on national television and was seen by Elizabeth.
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She called the police. She gave them Bundy's details as
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well as those of his car. But the police dismissed
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the tip because reportedly Bundy was a clean-cut law student.
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A year later, the 28-year-old headed cross-country. He raped and
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killed three young women in Colorado. In May, he assaulted
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a 12-year-old child. She'd been abducted from her junior high
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school in Pocatello, Idaho.
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Here, we've got Ted Bundy seeing an opportunity and actually
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seizing it.
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With not too much.
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Regard to the risk, and that's not really his previous MO.
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He's used that charm before, but this is quite disorganized,
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and this is something that will lead to his downfall.
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Bundy had got away with multiple murders and, despite a
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sketch of him in circulation, had not been identified by police.
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In June 1975, he returned to Utah and killed a
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15-year-old girl in Provo. Two months later, Bundy was driving
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erratically through a Salt Lake City suburb in his tan
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VW Beetle when he was spotted by a Utah Highway
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Patrol officer.
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Ted Bundy is pulled over by a police officer who
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notices that the front passenger seat is missing. There's an
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ice pick, there's a crowbar, there's a ski mask. And
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all of this looks incredibly suspicious. But Ted Bundy, being
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the charming manipulator, has an explanation for all of this.
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Suspicions were aroused, but the Utah police did not have
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enough evidence to detain Bundy for anything to do with
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the murders. Instead, three Utah detectives flew to Seattle where
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they met up with the Washington police. Together, they interviewed
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Bundy's long-term girlfriend, Elizabeth. She told them that she'd found
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some strange items in the apartment a year earlier, including
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a meat cleaver and a bag of women's clothing.
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What happens over the course of the lives of serial
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killers is the time it takes them to need another killing.
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To need, if you will, another savage evil meal gets
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shorter and shorter and shorter. Their control gets less and
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less and less. The way they perpetrate their crimes becomes
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wilder and more foolish.
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With the FBI on his trail, Bundy sold his VW,
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but it was found by police. Inside, they discovered strands
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of survivor Carol's hair and hairs from two other women.
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On October the 2nd, 1975, detectives found Bundy in Utah,
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arrested him, and put him in a lineup. There, Carol
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positively identified him as her abductor.
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This is where he's taken his eye off the ball.
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This is where he started making mistakes. He's been so
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driven by his wants and his desires that he.
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Stopped to actually risk assess what he's doing.
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Unable to find enough evidence to charge him with any murders,
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Bundy only stood trial for Carol's aggravated kidnap and assault.
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On June the 30th, 1976, Bundy was sentenced to serve
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one to 15 years and was eventually moved to the
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Garfield County Jail in Colorado.
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I felt relieved that he was arrested and wasn't a
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threat on the street anymore.
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Just as police were gathering enough evidence to charge him
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with the murder of a 23-year-old woman in Snowmass, Bundy
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pulled a major surprise.
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There's a preliminary hearing, and Ted Bundy, being the incredibly
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arrogant individual that he is, decides that he's going to
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defend himself in court.
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Bundy was savvy about how the system operated. By being
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his own lawyer, he had access to the law library
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system of the jail. And he was allowed to go there,
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notwithstanding that once you got access to.
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The law library system, you could go right out the window,
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which he did.
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Bundy escaped and went on the run in Colorado. He
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was caught six days later. A year later, he pulled
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another surprise.
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He's in his cell and he notices that there's a
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hole in the ceiling. And one day he manages it
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and he gets through the hole and he comes out.
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in the apartment that belongs to the chief jailer. And
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he literally walks out of the front door of the
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prison and he's away again.
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Free and on the loose, Bundy made his way to
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the peaceful college town of Tallahassee in the sunshine state
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of Florida.
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I suspect that when Bundy knows he's at the end
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of his rope, he's been arrested enough times, had enough
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interactions to realize that this story is going to come
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to an end.
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So it's in Florida.
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That he goes on his rampage.
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Around 2.45 a.m. on January the 15th, 1978, Ted Bundy
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broke into the Chi Omega sorority house.
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He's somebody who's familiar with college towns, with college buildings,
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so I think he knew that there were many women
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in this house, and that was his intention all along.
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Within 15 minutes, he had attacked four women, brutally cracking
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their skulls, breaking their collarbones.
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21-year-old Margaret was hit with a piece of firewood and
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then strangled to death with her stockings. 20-year-old Lisa was
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beaten unconscious, raped, and killed.
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The attack is incredibly brutal.
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There's rape.
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He beats people. He knocks people's teeth out. He bites
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the buttock of one of the victims.
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The magnitude of the terror for the victim is as
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intense as the magnitude of the rage by the perpetrator.
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Two others were both severely beaten and assaulted. Miraculously, they survived.
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Within the hour, the sheriff of Leon County, Ken Katsaris,
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was called to the crime scene.
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When I got there, I did check with the investigators.
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They had secured the scene. We knew that we had
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two who were obviously dead and two that they believed
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may die. You could tell which one was first. You
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could tell which one was second, third and fourth. But
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you could tell how much energy that he expended.
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This was not the end of Bundy's activity that night.
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As I'm standing outside of the sorority house, we get
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a call that there's strange noises coming from a condo
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next door. And I sent an investigator immediately because I said,
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six blocks away, could it be? He's doing it again,
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which only tells you he couldn't have. help himself.
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Bundy had broken into another apartment where he savagely beat
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another student.
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She was in a pool of blood when my investigator
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went in the condo or the apartment, and Bundy was
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leaving out the back window, but she tended to the
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injured first.
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Still free, a few weeks later, Bundy struck again, this
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time in Lake City in northern Florida. His victim was
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another little girl who was just 12 years old.
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He is a prolific serial killer at this point in time.
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Serial killing is his hobby, it's his vocation, it's something
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that he feels that he's good at, and more so,
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he's getting away with it. And when somebody's getting away
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with it, they're certainly not going to stop. And if anything,
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their offending is only going to get worse.
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Bundy dumped the girl's brutalised body in woods about 30
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miles west of Lake City. He then stole a car
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and made his way west into the Florida panhandle. Three
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days later, on February 15th, 1978, an alert Pensacola police
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officer stopped America's most notorious serial killer near the Alabama
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state line for driving suspiciously.
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He just had a gut feeling that something might be wrong. And,
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of course, it came out over his radio after he
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called it in that the vehicle had been stolen.
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After a brief struggle in which the officer was forced
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to fire a warning shot, Bundy was arrested. He was
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taken to the Leon County Jail in Tallahassee, Florida.
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I had him in custody for over two years in
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my detention center, my jail. I had him so locked
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up that he wasn't going anywhere. He not only was
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in a secure jail cell, but I had him in
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a cell that we had lined with armor plate steel
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in sheets that were welded in terms of the seams, floor, walls, ceiling.
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There was no light fixture that he could remove like
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he did in Colorado. And then I put extra locks
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on the door, heavy, impenetrable locks, in addition to the
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jail key lock. And they were in the hands of
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several people.
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When she discovered that Bundy was arrested for murder, his
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partner Elizabeth finally left him. At the same time, detectives
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00:32:18.170 --> 00:32:21.970
in Washington state tried to build their case against Bundy
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and prove that he was a serial killer. Sheriff Ken
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00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.339
Katsaris was also doing some digging of his own.
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00:32:30.180 --> 00:32:33.869
I went to his cell one day, talking to him
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through the port. I told him, I said, Ted, I
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think I know what's going on with you. You've had
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a problem with your mother because you were born out
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of wedlock. She withheld who your father was. You've never
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00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.380
forgiven her. And that has a lot to do with
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what you're doing in terms of taking it out on
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00:33:00.069 --> 00:33:06.710
other women. He immediately opened his eyes wide with anger.
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He wanted to kill. He immediately started trashing his cell,
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throwing things about, and he grabbed the shower rod, which
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00:33:16.140 --> 00:33:21.619
was welded in place. He ripped it from its position,
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which meant a lot of power.
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Intellectually, Sheriff Ken Katsaris was more than a match for Bundy.
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He managed to goad the serial killer into a game-changing revelation.
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He would taunt me with Ken, as he would refer
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00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:42.539
to me, with that sarcastic twist of that name, just
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three letters, but he would say, Ken, and then he
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00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:50.970
would say, the evidence is there, you just can't find it.
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00:33:52.009 --> 00:33:55.319
And I thought then, I know what he's referring to.
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He signed one of those bodies.
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This was Ken's eureka moment.
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He used his teeth and clamped hard twice to leave
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a signature. And I realized we had a very deliberate
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00:34:13.809 --> 00:34:19.070
double bite impression. Double meaning he bit down and then
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00:34:19.150 --> 00:34:23.389
he came out and That was his signature.
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00:34:23.949 --> 00:34:27.179
Ken Katsaris was convinced that bite marks left on the
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bodies of his victims were the smoking gun that would
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show once and for all that Ted Bundy was indeed
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America's most vicious serial killer. But to convict Bundy, the
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00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:41.530
sheriff of Leon County needed to prove it.
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When I viewed the two bodies of the young ladies
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at the morgue, on the slab, just barely 20 years
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of age. I had a one month old little girl
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at home and I had a two year old daughter
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00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:06.889
at home. And I just kept flashing images that this
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00:35:06.949 --> 00:35:12.269
could be them. I made myself a promise in the morgue.
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Somebody's gonna pay for this. I will find this person.
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During his regular interactions with Bundy, the sheriff realized that
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in the Chi Omega sorority house attack, Bundy had left
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a bite mark on the left buttock of Lisa, one
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of the victims.
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I was teaching the forensics of homicide investigation, and I
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00:35:36.539 --> 00:35:41.199
was teaching the advanced concepts, so I knew that these
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bites were going to be important.
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Sheriff Ken Katsaris determined that if he could get an
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impression of Bundy's bite, he might be able to match
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00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:52.500
it to the marks left on Lisa's body.
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I needed an exemplar. I needed his teeth marks. And
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00:36:01.500 --> 00:36:06.679
that became, I think it consumed me. How can I
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get them?
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The prison officers tried some novel techniques to get the
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clean impression they needed for a comparison.
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We gave him different kinds of fruit because we weren't
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sure which one the core would leave the best bite impression.
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00:36:20.780 --> 00:36:25.260
And that inmate said, you're getting fruit? I don't get
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any fruit. And I think he became suspicious that something
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00:36:31.019 --> 00:36:33.980
was going on with that because he quit eating his fruit.
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After their fruit tricks failed, the sheriff and his team
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00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:39.469
had a trailblazing brainwave.
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00:36:39.849 --> 00:36:47.110
Then it struck us. It just, it hit. What about
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00:36:47.150 --> 00:36:50.369
a search warrant for his mouth? We can just go
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00:36:50.469 --> 00:36:53.400
serve it. That would get the bite impression.
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00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:56.739
Ken decided to take Bundy to his own dentist.
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I personally went to Ted Bundy's cell and I said,
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you're coming with me. I told him to put his
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brace on. I had a special brace developed, now called
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00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:11.860
the Bundy brace. It was spring-loaded so that when he
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00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:15.039
would straighten out his leg, you could hear that spring
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00:37:15.579 --> 00:37:18.260
pop into place. That way, if he tried to run,
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00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:21.380
he'd be running with one stiff leg. I told him
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to put his brace on.
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Bundy reluctantly went with Ken to the dentist's office.
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And I escorted him up the stairway because he couldn't
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00:37:31.260 --> 00:37:35.099
walk it very well with the brace. And then the
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00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:40.440
door opened, and there stood three men with little white
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schmocks on and the dental chair behind them, and he knew,
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00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:51.599
he knew the jig was up. He knew, and that's
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00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:54.539
when I knew that he knew that the bite marks
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00:37:54.579 --> 00:37:57.519
were deliberate, and they were put there for a purpose.
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Ken told Bundy that he had a warrant and they
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00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.429
were going to get a bite impression from him.
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And I had the judge put in there that we
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could use any and all force reasonably necessary. I showed
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him the contraptions that they use post-mortem to keep the
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mouth open. And he looked at me. He sat down
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00:38:20.250 --> 00:38:27.199
in the dental chair, smiled, and said, Ken, you know
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I'm not a violent person. Do what you need to do.
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The bite mark impression that the sheriff obtained would prove
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vital in proving that Bundy was in fact a killer.
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His trial for the murder of the two students in
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the Chi Omega sorority house and the assault of three
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more young women began in Miami on the 25th of June, 1979.
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It would be the first national televised trial in America.
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As I said, I'm going to argue the law broadly
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because I haven't had an opportunity to to complete my
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00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:06.260
research on the status of Florida law.
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00:39:07.179 --> 00:39:09.699
I was watching the trial on TV and I saw
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how arrogant he was and he wasn't in shackles. He
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00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.659
was dressed, pretending to be his own liar, dressed like
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00:39:15.699 --> 00:39:18.579
a liar, smiling and flirting with the people in the
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00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:25.030
audience and just being Mr. Charismatic and that was kind
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00:39:25.070 --> 00:39:25.510
of sickening.
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On July the 24th, 1979, the jury convicted Ted Bundy
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00:39:32.019 --> 00:39:35.480
on two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of
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00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:39.210
attempted murder. He was given the death sentence twice.
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00:39:39.710 --> 00:39:43.409
The only real evidence we had was the bite impression,
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00:39:44.250 --> 00:39:48.349
and obviously I felt good because I found it. I
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00:39:48.389 --> 00:39:54.380
was conflicted. Yes, I understood that this was congratulations, but
638
00:39:54.429 --> 00:40:00.440
it was no congratulations. These women had suffered. Some suffered
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00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.699
and lived, thank God. Others died. How do you celebrate?
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00:40:06.139 --> 00:40:10.329
Bundy would spend 10 years on death row fighting his execution.
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00:40:10.590 --> 00:40:14.730
Ted Bundy exhausted every legal avenue he possibly could to
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00:40:14.809 --> 00:40:18.250
save himself from the death penalty. So the cost of
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00:40:18.289 --> 00:40:21.590
his trial and his appeals was around about $ 9 million,
644
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:23.199
which was a lot of money at the time.
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00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:27.260
At the sentencing for the rape and murder of a
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00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:33.699
12-year-old girl in Lake City, Florida, Bundy represented himself. Sensationally,
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00:40:33.989 --> 00:40:38.429
he used the opportunity to propose to Carol. Carol met
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00:40:38.489 --> 00:40:43.289
Bundy in Seattle in 1974. She would profess his innocence
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00:40:43.590 --> 00:40:47.059
until the eve of his execution. She had a daughter
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00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:51.699
in October of 1982 and claimed that Bundy was the father.
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00:40:52.139 --> 00:40:55.889
Serial killers, they are intense, they are moving, and they
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00:40:55.949 --> 00:41:00.030
are real. And I think some women are excited about that.
653
00:41:00.469 --> 00:41:04.900
Some women need that terror, that terror, that excitement, especially
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00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.969
if somehow they could be near the flame. without being
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00:41:10.269 --> 00:41:11.329
burned by its touch.
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00:41:11.750 --> 00:41:14.550
Over the 10 years that Bundy was on death row,
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00:41:14.829 --> 00:41:17.860
he slowly confessed to 30 documented murders.
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00:41:18.219 --> 00:41:21.820
He has knowledge of murders that he's committed, which the
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00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.380
authorities don't know about, and he's going to use that
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00:41:24.420 --> 00:41:27.699
to his full advantage. And he's going to drip-feed some
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00:41:27.739 --> 00:41:30.639
of this information out bit by bit in order to
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00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:32.659
try and buy himself some time.
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00:41:33.409 --> 00:41:36.530
As the appeals ran out and as the death sentence neared,
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a macabre fascination with Bundy grew.
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00:41:39.780 --> 00:41:43.559
Just before his execution, we started to see this immense
666
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:47.539
media circus around the event. We started to see radio
667
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:51.139
shows playing the sound of frying bacon on air and
668
00:41:51.179 --> 00:41:55.420
they had a Bundy countdown. People had Ted Bundy dances
669
00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:56.300
and barbecues.
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00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:04.659
At 7.16am on January 24th, 1989... Age 42, Ted Bundy
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00:42:05.050 --> 00:42:06.750
was finally executed.
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00:42:07.250 --> 00:42:10.010
Even when he was being walked to the electric chair,
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00:42:10.210 --> 00:42:13.809
he was shouting out names of victims. Right up until
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00:42:13.829 --> 00:42:16.190
the end, he's trying to buy himself more time. He's
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00:42:16.250 --> 00:42:19.550
trying to just gradually give away some of this knowledge
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00:42:19.730 --> 00:42:20.570
about his crimes.
677
00:42:20.809 --> 00:42:23.300
It's a sad thing from a scientific point of view
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00:42:23.429 --> 00:42:27.380
that he would die without telling us or giving us
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00:42:27.500 --> 00:42:31.090
any hint about whether or not there was something in
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00:42:31.130 --> 00:42:35.300
his life that we don't know about that helps explain
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00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:36.139
his conduct.
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00:42:36.739 --> 00:42:40.079
I was not really happy, but kind of relieved. Normally,
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00:42:40.139 --> 00:42:43.239
I don't very often agree with the death penalty, but
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00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:44.480
with him, it was necessary.
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00:42:45.059 --> 00:42:47.000
So many people were taken in by him.
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00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:49.460
Despite the fact he was leaving this trail of bodies
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00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:54.039
behind him, monsters don't always look like monsters. Sometimes they
688
00:42:54.059 --> 00:42:55.159
look like the guy next door.
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Arguably America's most notorious murderer, Bundy was deceptively depraved. He
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00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:05.630
used his charms to kidnap, rape, and kill, by some estimates,
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00:43:05.710 --> 00:43:09.829
up to 100 young women and girls, making Ted Bundy
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one of the world's most evil killers.
