Ted Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered various young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, before his execution in 1989, he disclosed to 30 homicides that he committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true number of victims is unknown and possibly higher. Bundy was regarded as handsome and hypnotic, traits that he exploited to win the trust of victims and society. He would typically reach his victims in public places, dissimulating injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before knocking them paralyze and taking them to lonely locations to rape and kill them. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes, grooming and performing erotic acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and eradication by wild animals made any further interactions impossible. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads as mementos in his apartment. On a few occasions, he broke into dwellings at night and bludgeoned his victims as they slept. In 1975, Bundy was jailed for the first time when he was incarcerated in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. Read in detail about Ted Bundy Bio, Age, Daughter, Mother, Wife, Victims, GF, Death & Wiki

He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved murders in several states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults in Florida, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in 1978. For the Florida homicides, he received three death sentences in two separate trials. Bundy was executed in the electric chair at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida on January 24, 1989. Biographer Ann Rule, who had previously worked with Bundy, described him as “a ruthless sociopath who took pleasure from another human’s pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after.” He once called himself “the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.” Attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defense team, wrote he was “the very definition of heartless evil.” 

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American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century, known to have killed at least 36 women in the 1970s. He was executed in the electric chair in 1989.

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Father, Mother & Siblings

Eleanor Louise Cowell, who went by Louise, was 22 years old and unmarried when she gave birth to her son Ted. Ted’s father may have been Lloyd Marshall, an Air Force veteran, a Penn State graduate, according to Ann Rule, a coworker of Ted’s and the author of the book The Stranger Beside Me. Other sources had Ted’s father’s name as Jack Worthington, while some rumors had it that his father was also his grandfather. Because Ted’s birth certificate lists his father as “unknown,” his biological father’s identity may never be confirmed.

Ted was born to Eleanor Louise Cowell (Louise Bundy) and a father that had taken off when Eleanor discovered she was pregnant. In 1946, faced with limited options, she gave birth to him in an “unwed mother” facility and began a hopeless charade: as Ted grew up, she told him that her parents were his parents and that she was his sister. It wasn’t until 1974 when he realized that his mother had lied to him for so many years. He grew to be a handsome, educated and intelligent man who appeared to be well-adjusted and affable. Bundy even volunteered for a crisis telephone hot-line (where he met famed author Ann Rule who was also a volunteer) and had a steady relationship with Diane Edwards (a.k.a. Stephanie Brooks), a girlfriend that would fuel his maniacal rage after she left him.

In 1951, Louise married Johnnie Bundy. While Ted took his name, he reportedly didn’t have much respect for his stepfather, whom he resented for being too uneducated and working class. Johnnie and Louise had several children together. Louise was working as a secretary at the University of Puget Sound and still married to Johnnie in the 1970s when Ted was accused of his crimes. She refused to believe the charges for years, although she changed her stance after he confessed.

Ted Bundy Education

Bundy graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology in 1972. He had been accepted to law school in Utah, although he would never earn his degree.  While a student at the University of Washington, Bundy fell in love with a wealthy, pretty young woman from California. She had everything that he wanted: money, class, and influence. He was devastated by their breakup. Many of Bundy’s later victims resembled his college girlfriend—attractive students with long, dark hair.  By the mid-1970s, Bundy had transformed himself, becoming more outwardly confident and active in social and political matters. He even got a letter of recommendation from the Republican governor of Washington after working on his campaign.

Ted was studying psychology at the University of Washington on January 31, 1974, when an attractive female student suddenly disappeared. Over the coming months and years, more disappearances followed. Ted’s victims were generally young attractive women with dark hair parted in the middle. His modus operandi was to approach his potential victim feigning injury (for example, by wearing an arm-sling or a cast) ask them to help him carry his books or packages. He led them to a secluded area and when they were alone he would knock them on the head with a crowbar, stuff their bodies into his car, strangle them while they were unconscious and then rape the dead bodies (necrophilia). He would then leave the naked body in a wooded area, mostly Taylor Mountain in Washington State, where many of his victims were found.

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Ted Bundy Wife, Daughter & Girlfriend

In February 1980, Bundy married Carole Ann Boone, a mother-of-two whom he’d dated before his initial arrest, in a courtroom during the penalty phase of his trial. He proposed and she accepted in the presence of the judge, making the marriage legitimate in Florida. The couple had met six years earlier when they both worked at the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia, Washington.

Boone gave birth to a daughter, Rose, in 1982, and she named Bundy as the father. Not much is known about Rose today. Boone eventually realized Bundy was guilty of the crimes. She divorced him three years prior to his execution, according to Rule’s book, A Stranger Beside Me. Boone stopped visiting Bundy during the last two years of his imprisonment.

Ted Bundy Girlfriend 

In 1969, Bundy began a six-year relationship with Elizabeth Kloepfer, whom he met in a Seattle bar. Kloepfer was a single mom of a young daughter and struggled with alcoholism. Bundy took care of her, and she said he was “warm and loving.”  By 1974, Kloepfer started to suspect Bundy’s crimes. When she questioned him about odd behaviors, like keeping a meat cleaver in his desk, he used his charm to deflect her concerns.

Kloepfer secretly went to the police with her suspicion of Bundy’s involvement in prominent local murders, but they didn’t believe he was the killer. The pair remained together, although they grew distant when Bundy moved to Olympia the following year.  In 1975, Kloepfer went to the police again, this time with evidence that helped them to arrest the serial killer. Bundy had confessed to Kloepfer over the phone from his prison cell that he had tried to kill her and couldn’t resist his impulses when he felt “his sickness building in him,” she later wrote. She broke ties with Bundy for good and wrote a book about her experience.

Ted Bundy Victims

Ted Bundy confessed to 36 killings of young women across several states in the 1970s, but experts believe that the final tally may be closer to 100 or more. The exact number of women Bundy killed will never be known. His killings usually followed a gruesome pattern: He often raped his victims before beating them to death. While there is some debate as to when Bundy started killing, most sources say that he began his murderous rampage around 1974. Around this time, many women in the Seattle area and in nearby Oregon went missing. Stories circulated about some of the victims last being seen in the company of a young, dark-haired man known as “Ted.” He often lured his victims into his car by pretending to be injured and asking for their help. Their kindness proved to be a fatal mistake.

Victims List Count

On the evening before his execution, Bundy reviewed his victim tally with Bill Hagmaier on a state-by-state basis for a total of 30 homicides:

• in Washington, 11 (including Parks, abducted in Oregon but killed in Washington; and including 3 unidentified)
• in Utah, 8 (3 unidentified)
• in Colorado, 3
• in Florida, 3
• in Oregon, 2 (both unidentified)
• in Idaho, 2 (1 unidentified)
• in California, 1 (unidentified)

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The following is a chronological summary of the 20 identified victims and five identified survivors.

1974: Washington, Oregon

• January 4: Karen Sparks (often identified as Joni Lenz in Bundy literature) (age 18)
• February 1: Lynda Ann Healy (21): Bludgeoned while asleep and abducted
• March 12: Donna Gail Manson (19): Abducted while walking to a concert at The Evergreen State College; body left (according to Bundy) at Taylor Mountain site, but never found.
• April 17: Susan Elaine Rancourt (18): Disappeared after attending an evening advisors’ meeting at Central Washington State College.
• May 6: Roberta Kathleen Parks (22): Vanished from Oregon State University in Corvallis.
• June 1: Brenda Carol Ball (22): Disappeared after leaving the Flame Tavern in Burien.
• June 11: Georgann (often misspelled “Georgeann”) Hawkins (18): Abducted from an alley behind her sorority house, UW; skeletal remains identified by Bundy as those of Hawkins recovered at Issaquah site.
• July 14: Janice Ann Ott (23): Abducted from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight, skeletal remains recovered at Issaquah site in 1975.
• July 14: Denise Marie Naslund (19): Abducted four hours after Ott from the same park, skeletal remains recovered at Issaquah site in 1975.
• October 2: Nancy Wilcox (16): Ambushed, assaulted, and strangled in Holladay, Utah, the body buried (according to Bundy) near Capitol Reef National Park, 200 miles (320 km) south of Salt Lake City, but never found.
• October 18: Melissa Anne Smith (17): Vanished from Midvale, Utah; body found nine days later, in nearby mountainous area.
• October 31: Laura Ann Aime (17): Disappeared from Lehi, Utah; bludgeoned and raped; body discovered by hikers in American Fork Canyon
• November 8: Carol DaRonch (18): Attempted abduction in Murray, Utah, escaped from Bundy’s car and survived.
• November 8: Debra Jean Kent (17): Vanished after leaving a school play in Bountiful, Utah, body left (according to Bundy) near Fairview, Utah, 100 miles (160 km) south of Bountiful, minimal skeletal remains (one patella) found, were eventually in 2015 positively identified by DNA as Kent’s.

1975: Utah, Colorado, Idaho

• January 12: Caryn Eileen Campbell (23): Disappeared from a hotel hallway in Snowmass, Colorado, body discovered 36 days later, on a dirt road near the hotel.
• March 15: Julie Cunningham (26): Disappeared on the way to a tavern in Vail, Colorado, body buried (according to Bundy) near Rifle, 90 miles (140 km) west of Vail, but never found.
• April 6: Denise Lynn Oliverson (25): Abducted while cycling to her parents’ house in Grand Junction, Colorado, body thrown (according to Bundy) into the Colorado River 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Grand Junction, but never found.
• May 6: Lynette Dawn Culver (12): Abducted from Alameda Junior High School in Pocatello, Idaho, body thrown (according to Bundy) into what authorities believe to be the Snake River, but never found.
• June 28: Susan Curtis (15): Disappeared during a youth conference at Brigham Young University, body buried (according to Bundy) near Price, Utah, 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Provo, but never found.

1978: Florida

• January 15: Margaret Elizabeth Bowman (21): Bludgeoned and then strangled as she slept, Chi Omega sorority, FSU (no secondary crime scene).
• January 15: Lisa Levy (20): Bludgeoned, strangled and sexually assaulted as she slept, Chi Omega sorority, FSU (no secondary crime scene).
• January 15: Karen Chandler (21): Bludgeoned as she slept, Chi Omega sorority, FSU, survived.
• January 15: Kathy Kleiner (21): Bludgeoned as she slept, Chi Omega sorority, FSU, survived.
• January 15: Cheryl Thomas (21): Bludgeoned as she slept, eight blocks from Chi Omega, survived.
• February 9: Kimberly Dianne Leach (12): Abducted from her junior high school in Lake City, Florida, mummified remains found near Suwannee River State Park, 43 miles (69 km) west of Lake City.

Some Other Possible Victims

• Ann Marie Burr, aged 8, vanished from her Tacoma home on August 31, 1961, when Bundy was 14. An unknown tennis shoe imprint was found by the overturned bench used to enter the house. Due to the small size of the shoe, police believed the perpetrator must be a teenager or youth. The Burr house was on Bundy’s newspaper delivery route. The victim’s father was certain that he saw Bundy in a ditch at a construction site on the nearby University of Puget Sound campus the morning his daughter disappeared.
• Flight attendants Lisa E. Wick and Lonnie Ree Trumbull, both 20, were bludgeoned with a piece of lumber as they slept in their basement apartment in Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill district on June 23, 1966, near the Safeway store where Bundy worked at the time, and where the women regularly shopped. Trumbull died. In retrospect, Keppel noted many similarities to the Chi Omega crime scene.
• Vacationing college friends Susan Margarite Davis and Elizabeth Perry, both 19, were stabbed to death on May 30, 1969. Their car was found that day abandoned beside the Garden State Parkway outside Somers Point, New Jersey, near Atlantic City, 60 miles (97 km) south of Philadelphia; and their bodies one nude, one fully clothed—were found in nearby woods three days later. Bundy attended Temple University from January through May 1969 and apparently did not move west until after Memorial Day weekend. While Bundy’s accounts of his earliest crimes varied considerably between interviews, he told forensic psychologist Art Norman that his first murder victims were two women in the Philadelphia area.
• Rita Patricia Curran, a 24-year-old elementary school teacher and part-time motel maid, was murdered in her basement apartment on July 19, 1971, in Burlington, Vermont; she had been strangled, bludgeoned and raped. The location of the motel where she worked (adjacent to Bundy’s birthplace, the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers) and similarities to known Bundy crime scenes led retired FBI agent John Bassett to propose him as a suspect.
• Joyce LePage, 21, was last seen on July 22, 1971, on the campus of Washington State University, where she was an undergraduate. Nine months later, her skeletal remains were found wrapped in carpeting and military blankets, bound with rope, in a deep ravine south of Pullman, Washington.
• Rita Lorraine Jolly, 17, disappeared from West Linn, Oregon, on June 29, 1973, Vicki Lynn Hollar, 24, disappeared from Eugene, Oregon, on August 20, 1973.
• Sandra Jean Weaver, 19, a Wisconsin native who had been living in Tooele, Utah, was last seen in Salt Lake City on July 1, 1974; her nude body was discovered the following day near Grand Junction, Colorado. Sources conflict on whether Bundy mentioned Weaver’s name during the death row interviews. Her murder remains unsolved.
• Melanie Suzanne “Suzy” Cooley, 18, disappeared on April 15, 1975, after leaving Nederland High School in Nederland, Colorado, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Denver.
• Shelley Kay Robertson, 24, failed to show up for work in Golden, Colorado, on July 1, 1975. Her nude, decomposed body was found in August, 500 feet (150 m) inside a mine on Berthoud Pass near Winter Park Resort by two mining students.
• Nancy Perry Baird, 23, disappeared from the service station where she worked in Layton, Utah, 25 miles (40 km) north of Salt Lake City, on July 4, 1975, and remains classified as a missing person.
• Debbie Smith, 17, was last seen in Salt Lake City in early February 1976, shortly before the DaRonch trial began; her body was found near the Salt Lake City International Airport on April 1, 1976. Though listed as a Bundy victim by some sources, her murder remains officially unsolved.

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Ted Bundy Arrest, Death & Execution

How Ted Bundy Got Caught

On August 16, 1975, Bundy was arrested by Utah Highway Patrol officer Bob Hayward in Granger (another Salt Lake City suburb). Hayward had observed Bundy cruising a residential area in the pre-dawn hours; Bundy fled the area at high speed after seeing the patrol car. The officer searched the car after he noticed that the Volkswagen’s front passenger seat had been removed and placed on the rear seats. He found a ski mask, a second mask fashioned from pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, a coil of rope, an ice pick, and other items initially assumed to be burglary tools. Bundy explained that the ski mask was for skiing, he had found the handcuffs in a dumpster, and the rest were common household items.

However, Detective Jerry Thompson remembered a similar suspect and car description from the November 1974 DaRonch kidnapping, which matched Bundy’s name from Kloepfer’s December 1974 phone call. In a search of Bundy’s apartment, police found a guide to Colorado ski resorts with a checkmark by the Wildwood Inn and a brochure that advertised the Viewmont High School play in Bountiful, where Debra Kent had disappeared. The police did not have sufficient evidence to detain Bundy, and he was released on his own recognizance. Bundy later said that searchers missed a hidden collection of Polaroid photographs of his victims, which he destroyed after he was released.

Salt Lake City police placed Bundy on 24-hour surveillance, and Thompson flew to Seattle with two other detectives to interview Kloepfer. She told them that in the year prior to Bundy’s move to Utah, she had discovered objects that she “couldn’t understand” in her house and in Bundy’s apartment. These items included crutches, a bag of plaster of Paris that he admitted stealing from a medical supply house, and a meat cleaver that was never used for cooking. Additional objects included surgical gloves, an Oriental knife in a wooden case that he kept in his glove compartment, and a sack full of women’s clothing.

Death & Execution

Bundy eventually exhausted his appeals and the final convictions ultimately convinced him to confess. Though he admitted to a staggering 30 murders, experts still believe the body count was higher. Nonetheless, the time had come but not before his last meal, and a citizens’ celebratory tailgating event outside the prison walls. On his last night alive, Ted Bundy called his mother twice. As hundreds set up camp outside to drink beer, howl chants for the killer to burn, and bang pans together in a feverish hurrah, it was time for his last meal.

On January 24, 1989, Bundy was executed around 7 a.m. at the Florida State Prison in an electric chair sometimes known as “Old Sparky.” Outside the prison, crowds cheered and even set off fireworks after Bundy’s execution. Bundy’s body was cremated in Gainesville, and no public ceremony was held. Before he was executed he requested his ashes be scattered in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, where he murdered at least four of his victims.

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What Set Off Ted Bundy?

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What Is Ted Bundy Known For?

American Serial Killer And Rapist Ted Bundy Were One Of The Most Notorious Criminals Of The Late 20Th Century, Known To Have Killed At Least 36 Women In The 1970S. He Was Executed In The Electric Chair In 1989.