Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder - Ep. 8 | Ted Bundy | What You Didn't Know About the INFAMOUS Killer
Episode Date: October 28, 2024Ted Bundy was charming, intelligent—and hiding a dark a** secret. This episode explores how one man became one of America’s most notorious killers with facts that you have never heard, leaving a c...hilling legacy that still haunts us today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder.
All the things that I love to consume, and I know you do too.
I know you do too, you little sick, sick bastard.
And today I'm going to feed you, all right?
And today we're talking about somebody that I'm sure pretty much all of you know,
but I'm going to tell you some things you probably don't know.
Or I'm going to go into a lot of detail in a more fun way than you've seen in documentaries and in movies.
And I'm not gonna sugarcoat anything like Hollywood in that movie.
So today we're talking about one of America's most infamous serial killers.
Nay, one of the world's most infamous serial killers.
Ted Bundy.
He was known to have killed 20 women in the 1970s,
but admitted to killing 36.
Some experts in the field believe he could have killed up into the hundreds even.
But what makes this case so infamous is that it is the first murder trial to be televised nationally.
And that this sick bad,
The sick bastard had fans.
He had a fan club.
He had like a lot and we'll get into it.
Just goes to prove that pretty privilege doesn't stop at that bitch in high school that was too popular to talk to you.
It goes all the way up to psychotic murderers.
Alright, so let's unbuckle our seatbelts go Mach 5 down the highway and our brown VDub bug, slam on the brakes and dive through this windshield into this sick fuck together.
So like we always do, we're gonna start from the beginning to little baby Ted Bundy, Theodore Bundy, to be exact.
He was born on 1946 on November 24th.
That's my brother's birthday.
Not the 9046.
He's no, I don't have a brother that's significantly older than my parents.
That would be weird.
Anyway, he was born on November 24th, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Now, Ted had a pretty odd upbringing and not odd as in like your mom keeping all your teeth that have fallen out in a drawer
and she shows you later when you're an adult.
Just me?
Alright.
But Ted's upbringing was odd because his entire knowledge of what his family unit was was essentially a giant,
He thought his father was somebody he wasn't and he thought his mother was somebody, she wasn't,
because they were actually his grandparents and he wouldn't learn this until later on in life.
So he already has massive trust issues.
So Ted would grow up thinking that his actual mom was his sister and like I said, his grandparents were his actual parents.
He was quoted saying to a co-worker later in life, Anne Rule, who also wrote a book that we'll talk about later,
saying, when I was born, my mother couldn't say that I had, I don't know what he talks like.
I don't know what he talks like.
Actually, you know what?
I'm gonna make him sound stupid.
When I was born, my mother couldn't say that I was her baby.
I was born in a home for unwed mothers.
And when she took me home, she and my grandparents decided to tell everyone that I was her brother
and that they were my parents.
So I grew up believing that she was my sister, that I was a late baby born to my grandparent.
Yeah, that's a good voice.
That's a good voice because people think he's like attractive and whatnot and he sounds attractive.
I don't think so.
Okay, I'm gonna make him sound as ugly as he is.
Let's continue.
So at 22 years old, Eleanor Louis
Louise Cowell gave birth to Theodore Robert Cowell, which is Ted Bundy, at the Elizabeth Lund
maternity home for unwed mothers in Burlington, Vermont. And she would go on to do just what Bundy
claimed to his friend and rule. Her parents would pretend to be Ted's parents and make him believe
that Eleanor was his sister instead of his mother. And Bundy would start displaying pretty
disturbing behavior from an early age, which is pretty common for most serial killers, although
he didn't have that like top three. This is definitely a serial killer.
thing. He didn't light shit on fire. He didn't wet his bed and he also didn't hurt animals that we know of.
But he did at the age of three approach his auntie while she was taking a nap and surrounded her completely inside of a circle of knives.
Dude, what the fuck? If a three-year-old did that to me, he would stay three if you know what I mean. I'm just kidding.
Anyway, and she would wake up to him staring blankly and giggling at her.
So she was just like, oh, what the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? What?
knives around me and then you just hear in the background like you know what I mean
anyway probably would have solved a lot of issues but I digress she would go on to say
after Ted Bundy got caught to interviewers saying not like other children he looked
and acted like them but he was haunted by something else how can a three-year-old be
haunted by something what they all their biggest issue is finding a permanent
marker to draw on the wall with or in this case find knives to put a satanic circle
around you but I don't know or you know he was haunted by the fact
that he fantasized about cutting his peers' heads off
and performing horrific acts on them after the fact.
But that's just me.
But Ted was actually known to be quiet, shy, and a stuttering kid.
And people would say that he had a general superiority aura about him,
thinking he was going to grow up to be somebody incredibly important.
Classic, classic psychotic narcissist.
Just thinking that you're better than everyone else,
everyone's below you.
And basically, you don't care what anybody else.
thinks. That's exactly how Ted Bundy was. He had a superiority complex like no other. And when
10 became a teenager, he said he didn't really know how to maintain a proper relationship and that he
just fell out of place in school. But the people he grew up with said he was a medium fish in a small
pond. So he was pretty well liked because he was able to put up that mask. He was able to be a
chameleon amongst his peers. And this is what he does throughout his entire life, basically.
He was basically mimicking people so he would fit in, or studying people or psychology in order to fit in as well and get his way.
But the biggest reason why he was liked in school specifically was because he was pretty.
He was, you know, a good-looking guy in some people's eyes.
I think he's a fucking disgusting monster.
But if you didn't know that he was a serial killer, I guess I get it.
But he was pretty standard-looking, you know?
He kind of had a unibrow, which is fucking loser.
I don't know. I don't know.
I'm not going to make fun of it.
If you have a unibrow, good on you.
but Ted Bunny, you're a piece of shit.
Anyway, in comes the pretty privilege, though.
So you have this guy that is narcissistic superiority.
He's good looking and he's very smart, well-read,
and he's able to talk to anybody in a room.
So it's just like this politician, basically.
But you could see all these factors just throwing it in our serial killer stew.
You know, we're mixing up the pot and it's not looking good.
And this would also be around the time that Ted would fixate on something,
which was snow skiing.
I hate, I hate that he loved snow skiing because that's something I love and the fact that he loves
it just makes me want it.
But it's okay.
He's dead.
What do we care?
Anyway, but pretty boy Ted was also kind of a bad boy in high school.
Getting arrested twice for suspicion of burglary, burglar, burglary, burglary, burglary, sorry.
And auto theft, which he will do a lot, the auto theft specifically later in life.
He was really good at stealing cars.
And he used to steal ski equipment and also forage ski lift tickets as well, which is, you know, pretty mild.
The Grand Theft Auto is pretty bad, but, you know, who has a forage a ski lift ticket or two?
Am I right?
I'm just kidding.
I've never done that before.
Don't do that, please.
And in 1967, he would end up going to the University of Washington, where he met his first
and supposedly only love Stephanie Brooks.
Now, her name wasn't actually Stephanie Brooks, but she goes by that alias to protect herself,
essentially.
So we're going to be calling her Stephanie Brooks.
So Ted was in love with her as much as he could be, right?
As much as a narcissistic psychopath could be,
I think he was more like obsessed with the idea of her
because she was beautiful, she was rich,
and she had an extremely powerful family in the political space.
And these were all things that mattered a lot to Ted
because he just wanted to work his way up the ladder.
He was willing to step on people's heads,
no matter what, to make his way up the ladder.
And Stephanie Brooks was one of them.
And I think he was under the delusion that,
obsession and want was love. And it wasn't. Ted Bundy is incapable of love. He only loves one thing and that is
himself. But luckily, she would dump his ass and he would unfortunately become even more obsessed with her.
Because when you tell a narcissist no, that just means yes in their brain or try harder. And coming from
somebody that's been with a narcissist before, this is so true. It is so true. It's just messed up. So he went on a six-year-long
game trying to get Stephanie Brooks back.
But during this long game, Bundy would meet his better known other half, Elizabeth Kendall.
If you've seen the movie, extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile, terrible movie name.
I've always hated that movie name.
But anyway, Elizabeth was the one played by Lily Collins, Ted Bundy slash Zach Efron's other half.
So Bundy and Kendall met in October 1969 at a bar while they were both living in Seattle.
She was a 24-year-old divorced single mom working at the University of Washington,
where 22-year-old Ted Bundy was attending school.
They would soon hit it off, and she would invite Ted Bundy back to her apartment.
No, no!
Luckily, she was fine.
She felt sick that night, and they would go to bed,
and apparently they would just sleep in bed, and she would wake up in the morning,
and Ted was making her daughter, Molly, pancakes.
And Elizabeth would say in later interviews,
I fell in love with him from day one.
He took my breath away.
He probably wanted to take your breath away, but not in the way that you think.
All right, and he did think about that as well.
He, uh, there was a few times later down the line when she caught him doing some pretty
suss stuff looking at her with a flashlight under the blankets while she was sleeping.
And also doing some suss things with Molly later down the line as well, like playing hide and seek
with her while he was Nick Hod under a blanket, um, well aroused.
We're just getting into piece of shit territory.
He's already a piece of shit.
But, um, she would learn all of this a lot later and kind of put the pieces of.
together in our head later, but we'll get into that as well.
So her daughter, Molly, would also fall in love with Ted very quickly as well.
And immediately after that first morning, they would begin a pretty serious relationship.
Bunny's relationship with Ms. Kendall, though, was pretty volatile.
In February 1970, they obtained a marriage license, but he would rip it up a few days later
during a fight.
So they would never actually get married ever.
They just stayed a boyfriend and girlfriend, and they were like off and on all the time.
It was a very, very toxic relationship, as you would assume, with a psychopathic
narcissistic serial killing murderer, you know?
And anyway, I digress.
And two years after that incident, she would actually become pregnant, but Ted Bundy would
make her have an abortion because she needed to work to put him through law school.
What a gem.
What a great guy, you know?
What a great fella.
Ah, what a piece of shit.
Anyway.
But shortly before that incident, he would get a job at a sluer slide hotline center in 1971.
And this would not only be an incredibly ironic job for a future serial killer, this would be by design.
Because Bundy didn't necessarily lack empathy.
He was capable of it, but he used it to create pleasure for himself, if that makes sense.
Like he was smart enough to know how the other person was feeling.
So when you put him in a situation like this where he has desperate people on the other line,
he felt like he had all control.
It's all about control for Ted Bundy and all about pain.
Like in the times in the future when he is torturing and mutilating the girls,
he was able to empathize with them and understand how they felt,
but he enjoyed that aspect of it.
He enjoyed the fact that they were suffering and was very aware of it.
And Anne Rule, his former coworker at the Slurrisslide Hotline Call Center,
and author would go on to write a book about working with the serial killer, Ted Bundy.
At the time, not knowing he was a serial killer,
and she would title that book, The Stranger Beside Me.
And she would go on to describe what it was like to work with Bundy,
in the book and here are some quotes from it.
On the surface, at least, it seemed that I had more problems
than Ted did.
He was one of those rare people who listened with full attention,
who invents genuine caring by their very stance.
You could tell things to Ted that you might never tell anyone else.
He was very open, he was just like sitting there like this,
but he was just murdering people in the back of his brain
while he's staring at you, but he's hoping that you think
that he's actually listening and this is exactly what he did,
this is exactly how he did it.
And she would also go on to say,
The only clue I had was that my dog, who liked everyone, didn't like Ted at all.
Whenever he bent over my desk at the crisis clinic, she growled and the hackles on her neck stood up.
The lesson is clear.
Pay attention to your dog.
Absolutely.
With ghosts, murderers, people that are sussed.
Just listen to your dogs.
Your dogs know if somebody sucks.
Yeah, the book is very interesting.
I haven't read all of it, but I've read a lot of it.
And it is very good if you want to look at that book and want to get more in depth,
because I can't be sitting here for like eight hours and ten.
telling you about this. You'd get tired of me. But Anne explains that working with Ted was essentially
an overall positive experience. And the only reason Anne didn't end up becoming one of his
victims was because Anne didn't exactly fit his M.O. M.O. meaning modus operandi, which is a Latin
phrase for meaning a person's specific way of doing things. In this case, a serial killer picking
out his victims and how he carries that act out. And Ted's victim type looked incredibly similar
to his six-year-long game X, Stephanie Brooks. Coincident? I think not. But he also most likely never
killed Anne because he knew her. And Ted primarily killed strangers, pretty much only killed strangers,
to remain undetected because he was smart. I mean, most murders happen to somebody who you're close with.
Like if I was to get murdered, you know, you'd look at, you know, my mom, my dad, Caleb,
not that any of them would murder me, although they are in my will. If I go missing, please,
No, I'm just kidding. Anyway, but he always had a reasoning for what he was doing. He always thought
things through. He was very much a process killer and that shows in the future murders that he committed.
This would also be the time when Ted would enroll in a psychology major, which he would use later
on and utilize in his criminal endeavors. Like I said, he's always thinking about something. He always
wants to learn how to manipulate people better so he can get his way. And it's also around this time in
1972, when he first gets involved in politics. What? Oh my God. What? A psychopathic narcissist that wants to be a
politician? I've never heard of such a thing. All of them are. But this would be his only toe dip into politics,
though. And it would specifically be for the long game, becoming involved with Governor Dan Evans'
re-election campaign. Ted would pose as a college student and shadow the opponent of the governor
just so he could get the stump speeches from him. And he would bring them back to
Davis telling him how to beat his opponent. So he literally went undercover and eavesdropped on the
competition for Dan Evans. Like he's just a giant piece of shit. I feel like that's just all politics.
So I just feel like it's all fake. It's all fake and everybody's a piece of shit. I need to take drink
water, one thing. And Davis would go on to describe Bundy as smart, aggressive and a believer in the
system. He believed in that system, man, because it went in his favor. We'll get to that.
But goddamn, yeah.
And in 1973, the long game would pay off.
And Ted would get back with his first sweetheart, Stephanie Brooks.
Or he would finally convince her to get back with him, basically.
And they would even get engaged soon after.
And for those of you who are like, wait, what happened to Elizabeth Kendall?
Where is she?
She's here.
They're still dating.
And Kendall and Brooks know nothing about each other because Bundy is just a massive piece of shit.
I don't know how this guy doesn't get tired.
I mean, he's not killing women.
than you just yet, I guess, or that we know of.
But yeah, so he's with both women at this time.
But in classic narcissistic fashion,
as soon as Stephanie agreed to get engaged to him,
Bundy would soon after just cut off all contact with her.
He was the first one to just ghost out of the,
he just stopped talking to her completely,
which is bonkers, but makes sense for Ted
because he's a piece of shit, as we know.
But this is a classic narcissist type of behavior
and psychopathic type of behavior,
because he had a goal, he chased it,
and then as soon as he got,
it he just didn't want it anymore it's like a dog chasing a bone and then he gets the bone
and then he figures out that there's no meat on the bone so he just tosses it away did you like that analogy
i'm pretty good at those so she would continuously try to contact him and she would get a hold of him
one day on the phone and she would be like what the fuck happened where are you like what we were
we just got engaged like what's going on and he would literally just say to her i have no idea
what you mean he's such a gaslighter dude he's gaslighting me and he's dead i don't anyway but this is
believed to be the catalyst to the beginning of his murder spree, which kind of makes sense.
So all of his victims would look significantly like Stephanie Brooks, and you can kind of look
at that. Like, we don't necessarily know why. There's some serial killers that kill women that
look like their mothers because they don't like them. Similar to Ed Kemper or other serial killers
that kill women that look like their wives. And in this case, he was killing women that look like
Stephanie Brooks. And also his current girlfriend, Elizabeth Kendall, looked a lot like
Stephanie Brooks as well. So he clearly had a type. That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah,
to type. So on January 4th, 1974, a woman named Karen Sparks living in the University
District neighborhood of Seattle, was attacked in her home and left for dead. The perpetrator
would break into her home as Karen was sleeping in her bed. He would take a metal pole off of
her bed frame and begin to bash her head in. And then,
he would continue to use that same pole to violate her and S.A. her very violently. He would go so far up
that it would puncture her bladder. And after that event, Sparks would be found by her roommate
after 20 hours after the ordeal, still breathing. She would suffer permanent brain damage,
significant loss of hearing and vision, and obviously the internal injuries from the S.A.
But she would survive, and she would be assumed to be Ted Bundy's first victim. Karen would later
to the police and the press that she saw Ted Bundy multiple times stalking her around campus.
He was stalking his prey, if you will.
So although it's not recognized under the gaze of the judicial system, it is widely believed
that Karen was obviously his first victim, especially you're going to hear what happened to all
the other victims, and it's so incredibly obvious that it was Ted Bundy that did this.
And this would make sense as his first victim, too, because it was somewhat sloppy in the
fact that she was still alive by the end of the assault.
And it would happen in the exact same spot as the other murders would happen.
And also in the same time frame, everything just kind of adds up together.
But the first official murder victim of Ted Bundy would be soon after his first attack in 1974.
Only a month after Karen's attack.
21-year-old Linda Ann Healy was a popular student at the University of Washington,
the same school that Ted Bundy went to.
A lot.
And she was also a weather and ski reporter at a local radio station as well.
It's very possible that Ted ran into her because,
because he loves skiing, there's a good chance that he ran into her, liked what he saw, and then, you know, started stalking her as well.
So in February 1974, police would be called following up on a missing person call regarding Healy.
They would find blood on Healy's bed sheets and pillow, but not enough to indicate that she had bled to death necessarily.
And no indication to where she had gone.
Her nightgown would hang in the closet with a ring of dried blood around the neck, but some of her clothes, her pillowcase, and her backpack were also missing.
It seemed that whoever bludgeoned her had crept into her room, knocked her unconscious,
removed her pajamas, and dressed her in fresh clothes.
Sounding similar?
Sounding similar?
Sounding similar, sounding like something that he wanted to do but didn't end up getting to do with his first victim.
Karen's bark, I understand.
Clearly, he was taking her to a second location.
Never go to a second location with anybody.
Although in this case, I don't think she had a choice, and she was unconscious, so.
But three days after her abduction, a male voice called 911.
Listen, and listen carefully.
The person who attacked the girl on the 8th of the last month and the person who took Linda Healy away are one and the same.
He was outside both houses.
He was seen.
How fucking creepy is that?
Like, what the fuck?
What do you even say to that?
I'd be like, what fucking rattle is this?
What are you?
What?
But police would never get the caller's name.
So Healy's disappearance was the first sign for the police that something sinister was occurring.
But it would take them a very long, way too long time to suspect Bundy.
And 14 months after her disappearance, her skulls,
and jawbones were found on Taylor Mountain, about an hour's drive from her home. And we'll hear a lot
about Taylor Mountain because it was one of his favorite places to drop bodies, basically. And it was one of
his favorite places to come back to to violate those bodies, but he's not doing that just yet. But this
M.O. would carry on through a lot of Bundy's murders at the beginning. He would break in, usually at night,
often around exam periods. So the girls were very stressed and distracted. And he would often do it
near or during construction work sites.
So if anybody's screaming or making too much noise,
there was construction going on, so I would mask it.
So he's just, he's thinking about all of the aspects.
It's very creepy and, and just for him to go through all that.
I mean, it's all so fucking terrible,
but you can just see how strategic he was and everything that he did.
And in the future, he would up the ante by faking injuries
so he could more easily get girls to help.
help him or carry stuff inside of his car where he would then bludgeon them.
And he would always be sure to wear a turtleneck as well because he would be able to cover
a very identifiable mole on his neck because besides that mole, he had pretty generic features.
He was good looking but not easily described because like if you looked at Bundy,
I don't even know how, like they did end up getting sketches of him, but it's,
I feel like it's very hard to describe him.
He's just a generic looking motherfucker.
You know what I'm saying?
And during this time, he would still be with Liz and Molly.
But Bundy's behavior began to change in Liz's eyes.
He would drop out of her life mysteriously for several days, for example, leaving her to worry
that she had done something wrong.
Then he would return like nothing happened.
Just a classic gaslighter, dude.
And anytime she asked like, where were you?
He was just like, he would just put the blame on her.
Like, what, you don't trust me?
What?
What?
Just because I went on a little road trip for like seven days and I was just like out in the forest,
just like, you know, having relations with a dead body?
That's a problem for you?
You're crazy.
and she would fear that he was seeing other women.
But in fact, it was then that he began his killing spree in Seattle specifically.
So I guess you could say he was seeing other women for temporarily.
Anyway, it's just, it's terrible.
But in March of 1974, only one month after Healy's murder,
Donna Gail Manson would be his next victim.
And all his victims up to this point and in the future would be killed one month apart or less moving forward.
So he was escalating pretty rapidly through this year specifically.
Donna Gail Manson was a 19-year-old student at Evergreen State College, south of Seattle.
And she would disappear on her way to a campus concert.
Her body was never technically found, but Bundy later claimed he burned her skull in the fireplace of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Kendall.
Bundy would later say in interviews,
Of all the things I did to Liz, this is probably the one she is least likely to forgive me for.
Yeah, yeah, no fucking shit, dude.
And it was around this time that Bundy would have the audacity to start working at the Washington
State Department emergency services, essentially a place where missing people would be reported to.
So he could basically keep tabs on all things happening during the abductions and murders that he was
committing himself, which again, it's just like, it's very smart. It's very smart. And I'm not
giving him any accolades. I'm just, he really knows where to place himself and who to know.
But it was around this time also that he would start to be described and reported by multiple people.
So he would hear if someone was describing a man in a turtleneck or a man with crutches was last seen with this missing woman and just adjust accordingly.
And he would even start introducing himself as an officer to young women, calling himself Officer Ted Roseland.
That is so fucking cringe.
You're using, see, this is what I don't understand.
He's so smart and everything.
And then he uses his own first name.
And I think he was just purely out of just him thinking that he was smarter and better than everyone.
Like he's like, I can use my first name and still not get caught.
Like, it has to be that because other than that, like, he's a smart guy.
I don't understand why he would use his first name.
Like this guy, he was playing ultimate improv.
I think he literally thinks that the world is just his play place and he could do whatever he wanted
and test out whatever he wanted.
He was so insanely creative and manipulative with his tactics.
You can't remotely blame any of the victims for falling for his act.
Not that I would ever blame any of the victims for this.
His act was so good and then on top of the fact that he's good looking and that he's charming and that he's well read and that he looks clean and cut and all that stuff is just very important factors.
And his next victim would fall for his injury act in April 1974.
18-year-old Susan Elaine Raincourt would be doing laundry on her college campus in central Washington State.
And while doing laundry, she would up and disappear.
There would be a massive search done and there would be no results.
Only later on would there be evidence that mounted that rain court was one of Ted Bundy's victims.
And other students that were on campus would recall that rain court had been approached by a man named Ted who had his arm in a sling.
So like, again, like you're using your own name.
I mean, I'm glad you're stupid.
I'm glad you're stupid.
But this would be when he started to feign injuries.
So if a man in a sling comes up to you asking for help, just say, fuck you.
And the next month in May, Roberta Kathleen Parks would disappear on her.
campus at Oregon State University. Bundy would S-A. her and murder her either in Oregon or in Washington.
We're not sure. But investigators would later find her skull on the same mountain as many of the
others on Taylor Mountain in Washington. Now after Bundy's last victim, Roberta, he would start to evolve
and not in a good way. At first he was essaying them and then killing and disposing of them and then
just leaving them to decompose on their own. But he would start to dip his toe into
to necrophilia, just when you think it can't get any worse.
And in June, Bundy would claim to more victims,
only 10 days apart this time.
On June 1st, 1974, he would abduct 22-year-old Brenda Ball
in the town of Bury in Seattle,
pretending to be handicapped and asking for help.
Witnesses would say that they saw her with a man
that was also wearing a sling before she disappeared.
Her skull would also be found eventually
with all the others on Taylor Mountain in Washington as well.
And on June 11th, 1974, so this is only 10 days later, 18-year-old Georgian Hawkins vanished outside the University of Washington with witnesses saying they last saw her with a man that was fitted with crutches and struggling with a briefcase outside of a brown VW bug.
Georgian would be knocked unconscious and then strangled to death.
And this would be his first reported victim of necrophilia.
So what he would do with the women when he was committing necrophilia is essentially.
He would essay them, murder them, and then drop them off at their burial point and usually
just leave them in like covered up or in some sort of shallow grave.
And then he would just periodically keep coming back to that body to do vile things to it.
Up until the point that their decomposition just made it not possible to do so anymore.
Or to the point where he just thought they were gross and no longer hot enough.
They were, I don't know.
Either way, he just became more and more of a sick fuck.
Basically. So Ted Bundy had killed six women that we know of before he started committing necrophilia to his future victims.
But this would be something he would do to all the rest of them essentially.
At least that's what we assume based off of evidence.
And Bundy would begin to grow bolder with his abductions in July, abducting two victims in just one day.
So in broad daylight on July 14th, 1974, at Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquois, sorry if I said that wrong, about a 20-minute drive from Seattle.
This has reported a man with his left arm in a sling had approached several women that day,
introducing himself as Ted.
I just, I, I, I, I, anyway, and asked for help rigging his sailboat to his car.
One woman initially would oblige, but grew hesitant as she approached his brown Volkswagen
Beetle with no sailboat in sight.
Red flags, red flags.
Luckily this girl saw the red flags after Ted would say to her, oh, I forgot to tell you, it's
at my folks' house.
just to jump up the hill, he said in a British accent.
So now he's masking his accent with a British accent, which again,
is just another layer to this because if they're looking for a British guy,
they're like, oh, it can't be Ted Bundy, right?
But she saw right through that bullshit and she fucking booked it, dude.
After he motioned to the passenger door to get in, she did.
She just fucking bolted.
But a little while later, she saw another woman walking beside Ted towards the parking lot
where his car and sailboat was, and they were deep in conversation.
This woman was Janice Ann Ott.
and she would be abducted that day, unfortunately.
And four hours later, Denise Marie Nasland would endure the same fate.
And their bodies would be found months later.
But their killer was unknown at the time.
But years later, Bundy told investigators that Ott was still alive when he kidnapped Nasland.
He claimed that one was forced to watch the other get murdered before she was,
which is just so fucked up and terrible.
It would just be so horrifying.
I just feel bad for all of them.
these women and like they just didn't know. They just didn't know. Just like always have your guard up.
That's like half the reason why I make these videos is just to just let people know. I mean, I know this is
the 70s and stuff and it was a different time. But my god, dude, it is still so prevalent,
especially with like the, you know, sensual trade and all that kind of stuff. This is how they get people.
Like, it's nice to help people, but also just have your guard up. Have your guard up, please.
But the woman who escaped that day that also witnessed Bundy take the other girls had had an interaction
with them. So she had a pretty good description to tell the police. And lo and behold, the fucking idiot
said that his name was Ted. And she would describe him as having sandy blonde hair being 510 and about
160 pounds. And he had a brown VW bug. So they commissioned a sketch of the suspect finally. And like,
I think that's a pretty good sketch. Like I don't even know. Like I don't even understand how people
described to people. Like, I guess he would describe him as like having like a sharp nose and like shh.
shaggy-ish hair. I mean, it kind of looked like him, right? And people recognized that it looked like
him too. And they were saying like, whoa, it's so weird, Ted, doesn't not look like you? And he's like,
yeah, but I mean, like, I mean, the eyes are all weird. I mean, they got the uter brow, but I don't,
oh, so what is you? No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm much better looking than that. Like,
I don't know, he's a pretty looking guy. It is me. It's me. But the police had no idea
how close they were to actually catching Ted Bundy at this time. Because he worked on Seattle's
Slewerslide hotline and the Seattle Police Department even nominated him to be the director of
the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee at the time. He was just sitting right there,
but the police couldn't put two and two together because that's just police in the fucking
60s and 70s and 80s because they can't they can't fucking do their job. It's easy in hindsight to say
that they suck. Anyway, and his colleague at the Slewer Slide Hotline Center and Rule even reported
her suspicion about Bundy to the police after seeing the sketch. So she's the one that's
just like Ted, Ted, that's, um, that looks just like you, doesn't it? It's, um, it's a bit uncanny,
actually. Don't you have a VW, a brown VW bug? Yeah, that's, um, that's crazy. That's crazy.
Stop barking. Stop barking. No, let's stop barking. I don't know why she does that. It's really.
Come get this guy. He's a fucking murderer. And they're just like, he's good looking. Like,
he can't have done it. Like, that's literally why the cops didn't do anything.
It's because he was a clean cut, well-educated guy. They were just like, hey, good and
done it. You know, that's crazy talk. That's great. And you're a woman. So nothing correct comes out of
your mouth. All right. This is the 70s. You just were able to vote like 20 years ago. Yeah,
you need to shut the fuck out. All right. Know your place. And even his devoted girlfriend at the time,
Liz Kendall contacted the police on three occasions to suggest that they might be looking for her
boyfriend. But she was rebuffed each time. So she was made to feel like she was the idiot for even
thinking that. So she would eventually just think that she was the idiot for thinking that and stay
with him and convinced that she wasn't being taken seriously because she was a woman, classic.
She asked her father to talk to the police instead, but he refused warning her that it would
ruin Bundy's career and reputation if she was wrong, which she wasn't.
But she would say about her father that he's so like Ted, as we all did, she says.
I feel in hindsight he chose Ted over his daughter.
And that is so fucking sad, dude.
It's so, so sad, but this guy was just a master of manipulation.
And six more people would even call and confirm that they thought it might be Ted Bundy based
off of the description and the sketch.
But the police would say, no, there's no way that a clean-cut law student with no record
could ever be a serial killer, are you stupid?
But also, to give them a bit of the benefit of the doubt, the police, that is, they were getting
about 200 tips a day regarding this case.
So although unfortunate at this time, it did kind of make sense that they didn't nail him
down as a number one suspect at this point.
But to not even investigate him at all is fucking bonkers to me.
So as the net started to close on Bundy more and more and he started to feel the pressure around him,
he knew he had to get the fuck out of Dodge.
So he up and left to Salt Lake City, Utah, to conveniently go to law school.
He would also get baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints.
Can't wash those sins away, Sonny.
But he would mostly just do it purely for image, just to make it look good.
You know, how could you be a sin?
serial killer if you get baptized. I don't know. But you can't. And the baptism was made in vain
because he would just end up killing people anyway, almost immediately after getting to Utah.
But Bundy would temporarily try to de-escalate his murders or to not murder, to de-esculate his crimes,
if you will. He'd tell himself, okay, Bundy, we're going to pick her up. All right, we're just going to go
pick her up, okay, and just, you know, ripe her. And then, and then we're just going to drive her.
and then we're just going to drop her off.
All right, buddy, you got this.
You got this.
You're smart guy.
You have control over your impulses.
You're not going to murder her.
All right?
And then he would just, he would just end up strangling and killing them anyway.
So good try, though.
And those first few women being Nancy Wilcox, who was abducted in October 1974, and Melissa Ann Smith, and Laura and Amy.
And they'd all be found in the mountains in Utah soon after.
Having been defiled after death multiple times up until the point.
of unrecognizable decomposition.
But there would be another survivor though,
and her name was Rhonda Stapley.
She would be waiting for the bus
when Bundy would offer her a ride in his brown VW bug.
He would then take her to Cottonwood Canyon,
where he would S-A- her and strangle her
multiple times over and over.
But the reason she was able to escape
was because Bundy looked away from her
for only a few seconds,
and she would just absolutely bolt out of there.
But unfortunately, she was afraid
of being blamed and ridiculed
for the event so she would keep this from her family, her friends, and obviously the media and police
for over 40 years until she finally revealed it and appeared on multiple media interviews recounting
the incident. The last thing that I remember was coming to after being unconscious. He had moved
several feet away and it turned his back on me and I was able to run. My pants were wadded up
around my ankles and I tripped and fell into a fast-moving mountain river that was swept me away
from my attacker and saved my life.
So while this is all happening,
Liz Kendall is just sitting at home with Molly fully oblivious to what's going on in Utah.
But they're still together.
Ted and Liz are technically still together.
She did have her suspicions though at the time because Bundy's behaviors were getting
increasingly more and more strange, if you will,
particularly noting his late night absences and strange items found that he could not explain,
such as medical supplies and women's clothing,
that did not belong to her. Pretty sus. But despite these doubts, she did not connect him to the murders
until much later. And I feel like that was mostly because there were people in her ear just saying
that he couldn't have done this because he is who he is. He's, you know, he's successful with his law
school and politics and he's clean cut and he's well educated and he's good looking and he could
never be capable of doing that. So she was just kind of brainwashed through this whole process,
up until the trials, really, but we'll get into that. But November 8th,
1974 would prove to be crucial for the eventual capture and conviction of Bundy.
First posing as a police officer named Roseland, Ted Roseland, Bundy approached Carol
de Ranch at the fashion place mall in Murray, Utah.
He told the 18-year-old girl that her car was broken into and she needed to go to the police
station.
This is like one that it's just kind of like, really?
You didn't question that at all?
I mean, she's probably just so nice and just trusted everyone.
But he literally told her a stranger that, hey, I think your car was broken into.
I need to take you to the police station.
And she's just like, okay.
Like, it's just like, red flags.
Just like, just think about it, please, for anybody watching right now.
And for some reason that happens to you.
For him to know that it was your car means that he was stalking you.
Right.
Anyway, I digress.
But she trusted his story and Durantz willingly got into his car.
But she quickly noticed that something was wrong.
They didn't drive towards the police station.
and Bundy's friendly demeanor quickly shifted into a cold absence.
When she asked him what he was doing, he just didn't answer,
which is just, I, that would be so fucking terrifying,
just like, for him to just coldly be driving and you're just like slowly freaking out realizing what happened.
Like, I just can't imagine.
And although he managed to force her wrists into a pair of handcuffs,
and he threatened her with a gun,
Duranche broke out of the car and ran for her life.
Thank God!
And she would find refuge with a couple driving nearby,
who brought the distraught derange to the police station.
But she couldn't find Rosalind's, officer Ted Rosalind's face on any of the books of their mugshots.
Because at this point, Ted hadn't been officially arrested for anything.
Like he had those little arrests when he was a kid, but he never got charged for anything.
So he wasn't actually on the books for anything.
And only a few hours later, this guy doesn't fucking stop.
He would approach a 17-year-old by the name of Debbie Kent after a performance of a high school play in Bountiful Utah.
and he would succeed in abducting this young girl.
But despite killing and kidnapping, Kent, Bundy left behind a clue in the parking lot,
a key that matched the handcuffs that Durranch escaped with earlier that day.
And he would be stopped by the highway patrol later that day,
and they'd find essentially a ripe kit and a murder kit in the back of his V-dub.
They would find a ski mask, another mask made from panty hose, a crowbar,
handcuffs, trash bag, rope, ice pick, and other items that were heavily suspicious.
So, the police would take him in.
And although the police were not able to connect Bundy to Kent and other similar kidnappings,
Durantz would play a central role in Bundy's 1976 conviction when her testimony identified him
as the man who kidnapped and assaulted her.
Fuck yeah, Durant.
You made up for being stupid in the beginning because you didn't, I'm glad you didn't die and then you did that good job.
And he would be sentenced to prison in Utah for a minimum of one to 15 years.
What kind of fucking gap is that?
That's one year for kidnapping and assaulting somebody.
It's fucking crazy to me.
And it's so obvious that he did more because of his ripen kit in the back of his car.
But anyway, so now Ted is in jail for the first time.
But this is also the time when he would be extradited to Colorado,
where he was being charged with the murder of Carrier.
and Campbell. And this is where Ted gets tricky and fucking slippery, dude. This guy doesn't like to
stay behind bars. So before Ted had used a public defender in the case of Durranch. But once he got
extradited to Colorado, he decided he's too smart for everybody in that he would just act as
his own defense counsel, which I mean, he kind of was really smart. I'm getting, like, he was
obviously very smart. And especially in this case. Because if you represent yourself in court at the time,
even being a prisoner already,
you are allowed to use the library to study law books
and you're allowed to do so without handcuffs.
And Ted was very privy to this.
So on June 7, 1977, Bundy would escape
from the Pitkin County Courthouse Law Library
by jumping from the second story window
while on recess during the preliminary hearing.
He would twist his ankle ironically
because he always acted like he was injured
and then he actually twisted his ankle,
so fuck he Ted Bundy.
And then he would get up and just run
into the force of Colorado evading police.
Bundy jumped out of this second story window
at the front of the Pitkin County Courthouse this morning.
He was scheduled for a court appearance
and apparently had been locked into the law library
by sheriff's deputies.
Witnesses say he left in a hurry,
however, nobody saw him open the window
and he escaped clean in an unknown direction.
And he would be out there for six days,
breaking into cabins and stealing food and water.
He would also steal a car because he love stealing cars.
And he would try to make his way out of Colorado,
but he would be a fucking,
and dumbass and be driving erratically and be pulled over and then recaptured again, only six days
later after his escape. And what's kind of funny and awesome is the fact that he was most likely
going to get off for this murder charge that he was currently on trial for and that he escaped from
because all the evidence in that trial was completely circumstantial. And DNA testing wasn't a thing
yet, so they had nothing on him, basically. So he was pretty much in the clear at the
this point. So him escaping was essentially the nail in the coffin. So he would be put in jail again,
but this mother slippery fucker decided to break out of jail again, or at least try to. And it's also
important to note that it was at this time that he already started to gain traction in the media.
And women were starting to fawn and fan girl over this psychopath. So while in jail, Bundy would
acquire a hacksaw from another inmate that had to fucking hurt, if you know what I mean. And he would
obtain $500 that was sent into him from fans from around the country, mostly women.
And he would start to hack and saw a one square foot hole Andy DeFrain style, shout out to
Sha Shank Redemption, one of my favorite movies, into the corner of the cell ceiling every
night during shower time when all the cellmates would be showering. He would just be fucking
hacking away at this hole in the ceiling. I don't know what he covered it with, though. I feel
like it'd be pretty obvious to see if you were a guard or something, but I guess not. During this time,
he would also lose 35 pounds in order to fit through this hole.
So if this guy was committed to actually de-esculating as much as he was to losing weight,
we would have a much different story now, but I digress.
So Ted would lose the weight and dig the hole,
and he would even do practice runs during this time
to see if he could get away with it
and if there was any other factors that he had to take into account during his escape.
Again, very smart.
So once he built up the confidence to do the deed on December 30th,
1977, he would make another escape attempt.
He would crawl into his hole and he would pop out into the jail's crawl space,
break through the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer who was conveniently out
with his girlfriend at the time and he would walk out the door to freedom.
From there, he would steal a car and make his way to Chicago where he would go for a pit stop
and then make his way to Tallahassee, Florida, a place where nobody wants to go,
except for Ted Bundy.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
And this is where he would continue his heinous crimes in an even more brutal fashion.
And in the meantime, Liz was just grappling with the fact that everyone in their dog were saying he's a fucking murderer now, you know, because she was just given him the benefit of the doubt.
And everybody that was saying that he wasn't one is saying that he is one besides her dad.
Her dad really, really liked him.
So she was just in the state of denial, but was socially being forced to distance herself from him.
So at this point, she is, she is now distancing herself because she knows that he escaped from jail,
which just makes you look fucking guilty, to be honest.
And she doesn't want to be a part of that at all.
But so Bundy, now feeling like an untouchable god at this point, decided to go on an absolutely horrific spree,
starting at Omega House Slaughterings in Florida.
So on January 15th, 1978, in the early hours, Ted would enter the Omega House at Florida State University in Texas.
Tallahassee. And within approximately only 15 minutes, Bundy brutally attacked four sleeping women.
Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy were murdered. Bowman was strangled with a nylon stocking, and
Levy suffered severe beatings and a bite mark on her body, which later played a very crucial
role in Bundy's conviction. The two other women, Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner, survived the attacks
despite their serious injuries. And Bundy's rampage would continue that night after he brutally
attacked four women, he would go on to attack Cheryl Thomas as well, who lived nearby. He was an
absolute animal. He was an insatiable monster at this point. And he wouldn't be done just yet. After he
murdered those two women and Cheryl Thomas, Ted Bundy would have about a month of a cool down period
to lay low. And he would break that cooling period by going to a junior high school in Lake City,
Florida on February 9, 1978. And Ted Bundy would call over 12-year-old Kimberly
Leach to help him with directions.
But soon after, he would kidnap her.
Bundy would then assault and murder the 12-year-old girl.
Piece of shit, I want to hate him so much.
And Kimberly's body was later discovered at Sawani River State Park.
Badly decomposed.
And this crime would be Bundy's last known murder before his final arrest in Pensacola later that
month.
And he would get caught for the same shit he got caught for before.
This guy isn't as smart as we thought, I guess.
Thank God. So on February 15th, 1978 in Pensacola, Florida, 31-year-old Bundy was driving a stolen
orange Volkswagen Beetle. This guy fucking loved Beatles. And I don't know why. He looks like a fucking
loser. I get it. I feel like only 16-year-old girls drive that kind of car. But anyway,
he caught the attention of Pensacola police officer David Lee for having a stolen vehicle and for
also driving erratically. So David would pull Bundy over. And when challenged, Bundy initially
provided a stolen identification. But he was recognized.
by the officer during the arrest process, so Bundy would then attempt to run, but very quickly
be subdued and arrested. Go David Lee. And shortly after being arrested for the third and final time,
Bundy would be charged for the mega murders due to the forensic evidence being found, which was a
dental impression of Ted's that matched the bite marks inflicted upon Lisa Levy. And due to the witnesses
placing him in that area at the time of the murders as well. So everything's coming together,
finally. Everything's coming together. The pot is full and now we're just fucking doping that shit over.
So now at this point, Liz is pretty much completely cutting off Ted Bundy. She's, she's,
she has distance herself from him and he doesn't really care. I mean, he doesn't really care about
anything. But soon after Liz would go, a woman named Carol Ann Boone would come into the picture,
a woman that he knew back in 1974 working with her and she was just obsessed with Ted. So she was by
his side through this next entire trial period.
And for years after, he got convicted as well.
This is a psychopath.
She looks like a psychopath dude.
So in June at 1979, Ted Bundy would be the first trial to be televised nationally.
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The beginning of Ted Bundy's trial for the Chi Omega murders was a spectacle largely because Bundy
chose to serve as his own defense attorney.
Again, having a legal background and having been a law student
and bolded him to make the unusual decision,
because it was not common at all to do this,
especially in a murder trial.
So it was like a movie playing itself, basically,
for people watching.
This self-representation was highly unorthodox
and very risky for Ted,
contributing to the media circus surrounding the trial.
And his interactions with the judge and prosecution
were often contentious and his,
direct involvement in the proceedings, such as cross-examining witnesses, added a dramatic and unsettling
layer to the trial, attracting public and media interest even further. And just watching him
throughout the trials, because I watched a lot leading up to this, he's just like so overly
confident and smiling and laughing and just talking down to people. He's just like, just a grade
a fucking narcissistic psychopath. And it just makes me mad watching him. And he would talk about
himself and the third person. And it was, it was just very strange. But also, I could see why people
were so intrigued by this trial. I mean, I know I would have been like watching it. I wouldn't
have been one of his fucking fans or anything. But I think, I think it was extremely interesting to watch
at the time. And during the middle stage of Ted Bundy's trial, the prosecution's presentation of the
forensic evidence was pivotal. One of the most significant pieces of the evidence was the bite mark
analysis. Experts testified that the bite marks found on Lisa Levy's body was conclusively matched
Bundy's teeth. And he has a fucked up teeth, dude. It's like, it's like so obvious. And the way he
tried to like talk his way out of it was like almost embarrassing. When you were arrested on February
15th, 1978, in Pensacola, did you have a chip in your right front tooth? No, I did not.
When did your tooth become chipped? And the best as I can recall, it had been the middle part of March
of 78.
testimony became a critical component of the case, offering direct physical evidence linking Bundy to the crime, which is basically best case scenario.
Additionally, the emotional testimonies of the survivors added a profound human element to the proceedings as well for the jury, including Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler, both who survived the brutal assaults in the Omega Sorority House, vividly recounting the terror and attacks and strengthening the prosecution's case against Bundy.
So these elements combined made this phase of the trial both gripping and crucial in the move towards Bundy's conviction.
And Buddy would exhibit a range of behaviors that were often seen as audacious and unsettling by people watching.
Taking on the role of his own attorney, he displayed a disturbing level of confidence and charm that was incongruent with the seriousness of the charges against him.
So when I was saying, like, he's laughing and being just so ostentatious and just like, just a fucking prick,
basically. He was just so laissez-faire about the whole thing. And this included cross-examining witnesses
and sometimes directly interacting with the victim's families as well, which many found disturbing
and extremely disrespectful, obviously. And the public reaction to Bundy during the trial was
mixed. Some viewers were horrified by the details of the crimes and his apparent lack of remorse,
while others were strangely fascinated by his charisma and intelligence. Because he quite literally had
super fans during this trial.
These fans being predominantly women,
because we're crazy sometimes, let's be real.
Often filled the courtrooms.
Some even mimicking Bundy's hairstyle and dress,
this unusual fan base would add
a surreal aspect to the proceedings,
as they often expressed support for Bundy.
And he would almost like show off for them
in interviews and anytime he was in the public eye.
78204, Florida statute.
I'll plead not guilty right now.
And your grand jurors being present in Seidcourt,
further gives the court to be informed and understand that Theodore Robert Bundy on the 15th day of
January, Leon County, Florida, did then and there unlawfully attempt to kill a human being to
at Camel and Karen Chandler by beating her about the head and knowingly or intentionally causing
great bodily harm and said attempt was perpetrated by said Theodore Robert Bundy from or with
a premeditated design or intent to affect the death of said Karen Chandler. And this would complicate
the public's perception of him as a charismatic yet brutal murderer. The presence of these fans highlighted
the complex and often conflicting responses to Bundy's persona.
This duality contributed to the media frenzy, making this trial a landmark in public interest
and television broadcasting and also influencing how future criminal trials would be covered.
Because there's just obvious bias being made by televising this.
And you can kind of see that also in like the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trials.
Like there's, it's just it's impossible not to have a bias when you're watching it right in front of you
and favor one over the other, based off of other people's opinions and based off of what you're
seeing, not even just the evidence. And Bundy, I mean, he didn't really have a defense. It would all
center around questioning the reliability of the scientific validity of the forensic evidence
presented against him, particularly the bite mark evidence. He also attempted to undermine the
credibility of witnesses and their testimonies and suggested that the investigation itself was
biased against him due to his prior criminal charges. And this approach,
was just seen as audacious and was ultimately unsuccessful.
Because at the end of Ted Bundy's trial for the Omega murders,
the jury deliberated for under seven hours,
which sounds like a long time,
but it's, that's pretty, that's a pretty good time.
That's pretty quick, indicating the compelling nature
of the evidence presented.
Bundy would be found guilty of the murders of Margaret Bowman
and Lisa Levy, as well as the assaults of three other women.
Following the verdict, the court would sentence him to death.
Fuck yeah, dude, fuck you, dude.
Fuck you, dude.
you, I hope you're burning in hell. A judge in Miami today followed the jury's recommendation
and sentenced Theodore Bundy to die in the electric chair for the murder of two coeds.
Bundy is the 136th person under death sentence in Florida.
And Judge Edward Coert made remarks that were noted for their unusual tone of personal reflection.
He commented on the tragedy of Bundy's crimes, given Bundy's intelligence and potential to contribute positively to society.
It was just like a weird tone.
It was just like, oh, man, that's a shame because you're awesome.
You killed those people, but you're pretty great, you know?
But this is exactly what he said.
It's a tragedy for this court to see as such a total waste, I think, of humanity that I've experienced in this court.
You're a bright young man.
You've made a good lawyer.
I'd love to have your practice in front of me, but you went another way, partner.
He's literally saying, like, you're pretty good, dude.
And I don't give a shit that you killed all.
those women, fuck them, honestly, fuck them. You know, I do it too behind the scenes. I'm just kidding.
That's, that's false. But it was just strange. It just goes to show how incredibly charismatic and
manipulative and smart he actually was because he was able to manipulate a whole ass judge, dude.
This guy murdered multiple women and got a guilty verdict for it. And this guy's just saying,
ah, you're all right. But after his sentencing of the Omega murders, he would be put on trial again for the murder of
12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
In 1980, Bundy was tried for the kidnapping and murder of Kimberly.
And the trial would be particularly emotional due to the young age of the victim and to the
brutal nature of the crime.
And Bundy was found guilty again and received another death sentence.
Double homicide.
Shit, man, is not looking good for you.
And Ted Bundy being the tenacious narcissistic psychopath that he was continuously filed for
appeals, challenging everything from forensic evidence.
used in trials to the competency of the jury.
But all his appeals were ultimately denied, bitch.
And during Ted Bundy's trial in Florida after he was sentenced, his romantic life included
a significant relationship with whom I mentioned before, Carol Ann Boone.
And Boone believed in Bundy's innocence and moved to Florida to be closer to him during
his trials.
And in a dramatic turn during his 1980 trial for the murder of Kimberly Leach, the 12-year-old
girl, Bundy would propose to Boone in the courtroom while she was testifying on his behalf.
What a giant piece of smelly goddamn shit, dude.
And the proposal was legally recognized under Florida law, which stated that marriage declaration
in court in front of a judge constituted a legal marriage.
So this guy like found a loophole and just devalued the whole trial of Kimberly.
It's just fucking disgusting.
And Boone would become pregnant and gave birth to a daughter soon as.
after as well. I guess he got conjugal visits. I don't know. And her name would be Rose.
And this would be in 1982 and she would claim that it was Bundy's. However, the relationship did
become strained, especially after Bundy began making confessions to his crimes. And Boone would
eventually move away ending all contact with him. In the final years of this piece of shit's life on
death row, Ted Bundy, like I said, would begin confessing to numerous murders, some of which remained
unresolved. And these confessions started around 1986 and continued up until his execution in
1989. Bundy detailed specific actions and methods he used in the crimes providing information that
only the murderer would know. His aim in doing this was just to manipulate the system,
potentially extending his life by offering these confessions in exchange for delays in his execution
schedule. So he'd be able to control the narrative around the crimes up to the end. But alas,
Ted Bundy would be executed on January 24th, 1989 at Florida State Prison in Stark, Florida.
On that day, he was put to death in the electric chair known as Old Sparky.
I feel like every electric chair everywhere is named Old Sparky.
I bid to two prisons, not me.
I visited like prisons that have been out of commission.
Anyway, their electric chairs were named Oldsperk.
Anyway, he would be put to death at 7.16 AM.
Local time.
Bundy's execution followed a decade of Toronto.
appeals, confessions, and numerous murders.
And his final words were reportedly directed to his lawyer and close friends,
expressing his love and appreciation.
Go fuck yourself.
His last words were, I'd like to give my love to my family and friends.
Whatever, dude.
Fucking burden in hell, I don't give a shit.
And Bundy's death would mark the end of a long and tumultuous legal saga
and brought closure to many families and victims.
And crowds outside the prison cheered upon hearing the news of his execution.
which is metal as fuck.
Ted Bundy, even in death, stirred hatred.
But anyway, that concludes the video.
I know this was a long one.
This was a long one, and I hope I gave you some information you haven't heard before.
I did the research on this, and there were some things that I hadn't heard before, so I thought
that was interesting.
I know you guys wanted to see a heavy hitter, so if you want to see any more, let me know
in the comments down below, or if you want me to do anything else, leave it down in the
comments below, and I will take a look at it.
But I hope you enjoyed the video.
Stay safe out there, please. Always have your guard up. Don't talk to men in slinks. That's the big takeaway from this.
And I will see you a beautiful face in the next video. Okay? Bye.
