Born a shame to his religious family on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont, Ted Bundy would later become an incredibly well-known necrophiliac and rapist who killed 36 women in the 1970s. Bundy never knew who his father was. It could’ve been Penn State graduate and Air Force Veteran, Lloyd Marshall; or a man named Jack Worthington; or even Ted’s grandfather. His father’s name on his birth certificate was written as “unknown”. Being an illegitimate child, Bundy was raised as an adopted son to his grandparents who told him that his mother was his sister. But in 1951 Bundy’s mother Louise married Johnnie Bundy, who Ted did not respect. He claimed that his stepfather was “too uneducated and working-class”. He grew up an odd child; interested in knives at the age of three and stealing and peeking into windows when he was a young teenager.
Bundy graduated with a psychology degree in 1972 from the University of Washington where he fell in love and later had his heartbroken by the woman who many of his future victims would resemble.
Beginning in 1974, Bundy would lure women to his car by faking an injury and seeking their help carrying his books, then he would knock them unconscious and put them into the backseat of his yellow Volkswagen Beetle.
He was arrested in 1975 for kidnapping Carol DaRonch who luckily escaped, but he escaped prison. He escaped from prison twice more. In 1977 he was sentenced for the murder of a woman in Colorado, but he jumped out of the courthouse library. Then again in December when he climbed out of a hole in the ceiling of his cell.
Bundy was finally convicted in July of 1979 for the murders of two members of Chi Omega at Florida State University, the nail in his conviction being the bite marks he left on the girls’ legs. He was given the death penalty and was executed in the electric chair in 1989.
Ted Bundy murdered 36 women, but police think there were at least 100 deaths.
Source:
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/ted-bundy
This is an interesting post. Hearing these facts is pretty scary. It makes you wonder what was going on in Bundy’s mind as he committed these crimes. Cases like these make the world seem like a scarier place. It’s interesting how he was able to escape from prison multiple times. This makes me wonder how smart he was. I don’t know if I can call him lucky, but he is definitely messed up. I think the saddest part about this case is that 36 women were identified as victims, but the police think there were at least 100 deaths. If this is true, then so many people are unidentified.