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American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century.


Ted Bundy was born November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. In the 1970s, he raped and murdered young women in several states. He was connected to at least 36 murders, but some thought he had committed one hundred or more. He was executed in Florida's electric chair in 1989. His charm and intelligence made him something of a celebrity during his trial, and his case inspired many novels and films about serial killers.
Early Years
Theodore "Ted" Bundy started life as his mother's secret shame. Eleanor Cowell was twenty-two years old and unmarried when she had her son Theodore, which scandalized her deeply religious parents. She delivered the child at a home for unwed mothers in Vermont and later brought her son to her parents in Philadelphia. To hide the fact he was an illegitimate child, Bundy was raised as the adopted son of his grandparents and was told that his mother was his sister. Eleanor moved with Ted to Tacoma, Washington, a few years later. In 1951, she married Johnnie Bundy and the couple had several children together. From all appearances, Bundy grew up in a content, working-class family.

Bundy showed an unusual interest in the macabre at an early age. Around the age of 3, he became fascinated by knives. Bundy was a shy, but bright child who did well in school, but not with his peers. As a teenager, a darker side of his character started to emerge. Bundy liked to peer in other people's windows and thought nothing of stealing things he wanted from other people.
An Unexpected Killer
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 his later victims resembled his college girlfriend—attractive students with long, dark hair. His killings also usually followed a gruesome pattern. He often raped his victims before beating them to death.


exact number of women Bundy killed will never been known. There is also some debate when he started killing, but most sources say that he began his murderous rampage around 1974. By this time, he had transformed himself, becoming more outwardly confident and active in social and political matters. He had graduated from University of Washington with a degree in psychology in 1972 and had been accepted to law school in Utah. Bundy even got a letter of recommendation from the Republican governor of Washington after working on his campaign.
Around this time, many women in the Seattle area and in nearby Oregon went missing. And 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.
Bundy moved to Utah in the fall of 1974 to attend law school, and women began disappearing there as well. The following year, he was pulled over by the police. A search of his vehicle uncovered a cache of burglary tools—a crowbar, a face mask, rope and handcuffs. He was arrested for possession of these tools and the police began to link him to much more sinister crimes.
In 1975, Bundy was arrested in the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, one of the few women to escape his clutches. He was convicted and received a one-to-fifteen-year jail sentence in that case. Two years later, Bundy was indicted on murder charges for the death of a young Colorado woman. He decided to act as his own lawyer in this case. During a trip to the courthouse library, Bundy jumped out a window and made his first escape. He was captured eight days later.
Final Crimes
In December 1977, Bundy escaped from custody again. He climbed out of a hole he made in the ceiling of his cell and even dropped more than 30 pounds to fit through the small opening. Authorities did not discover that Bundy was missing for 15 hours, giving the serial killer a big head start on the police. He eventually made his way to Tallahassee, Florida.
There, on the night of January 14, 1978, Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University. He attacked four of the young female residents, killing two of them. On February 9, Bundy kidnapped and murdered a twelve-year-old girl named Kimberly Leach. These crimes marked the end of his murderous rampage as he was soon pulled over by the police that February.
In July 1979, Bundy was convicted for the two Chi Omega murders. The most damming evidence came from his own viciousness. The bite marks on one of the bodies was a definitive match for Bundy. He was given the death penalty twice for those crimes. Bundy received another death sentence the following year in the murder of Kimberly Leach.
Last Years
Bundy fought for his life, spending years appealing his death sentence. An infamous national figure since his Florida trials, he remained a source of fascination for many. Actor Mark Harmon even played Bundy in the 1986 television movie The Deliberate Stranger. Bundy tried to take his case as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, but he was turned down. Bundy even offered information on some of unsolved murders to avoid Florida's electric chair, but he could not delay justice forever.
On January 24, 1989, Bundy met his fate at the Florida State Prison. He was put to death around 7 a.m. that morning in an electric chair sometimes known as "Old Sparky." Outside the prison, crowds cheered and even set off fireworks after Bundy's execution. In the end, he had admitted to thirty-six killings, but experts believe that the final tally may be closer to one hundred.


Get inside the demented mind of one of America's most prolific serial killers in these chilling quotes.


Everyone knows the name Ted Bundy. The notorious serial killer evokes disturbing images of victimized women and grizzly police discoveries. His sheer number of victims aside, it was Bundy’s ability to captivate an audience that made him an especially terrifying killer. Take a trip inside Bundy’s twisted mind with ten of his most ominous, graphic, and manipulative confessions.


“I just said that the Hawkins girl’s head was severed and taken up the road about twenty-five to fifty yards and buried in a location about ten yards west of the road on a rocky hillside. Did you hear that?”
1. Just days before he was executed in 1989, Ted Bundy sat down for a lengthy interview with detective Robert D. Keppel. In this never-before-heard audio footage, Bundy confesses the chilling details of how he killed and dismembered Georgeann Hawkins. Hearing the words in Bundy’s actual voice makes the confession even creepier.


“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
2. In one of the most memorable Bundy quotes — and certainly one of the most terrifying — the killer exhibits his uncanny ability to combine drama and cold-heartedness into a single sentence.


“I don’t think anybody doubts whether I’ve done some bad things. The question is: what, of course, and how and, maybe even most importantly, why?”
3. The above quote also came from Bundy’s death row interview with Keppel. Even after his trial, Bundy kept trying manipulate people into believing there was some intelligent motive behind his killing spree. Unfortunately, Bundy picked the wrong person to try to manipulate because Keppel wasn’t buying it.


“When you work hard to do something right, you don’t want to forget it.”
4. Out of context the above quote seems harmless. But nothing in the world of Ted Bundy is without a sickening backstory. Bundy delivered the above rationale when asked why he kept souvenirs, including body parts and Polaroids, from his victims.


“In my opinion, the best chance you have of catching this guy is to get a site with a fresh body and stake it out.”
5.While on death row, Ted Bundy helped the “Green River Killer” task force, namely detective Robert Keppel, understand the mind of a serial killer. This is Bundy’s creepy advice for how to find the notorious serial killer.


“I’m the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.”
6. This might be one of the few times Bundy was honest during an interview. The murderer shared this self-assesment while being interrogated following his 1979 arrest in Pensacola, Florida.


“Tell the jury they’re wrong!”
7. Given his exemplary ability to manipulate, it’s difficult to tell if Bundy actually believes that he is innocent. Regardless of how Bundy felt, the jury felt little sympathy for the killer.



Everyone knows the name Ted Bundy. The notorious serial killer evokes disturbing images of victimized women and grizzly police discoveries. His sheer number of victims aside, it was Bundy’s ability to captivate an audience that made him an especially terrifying killer. Take a trip inside Bundy’s twisted mind with ten of his most ominous, graphic, and manipulative confessions.
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“I just said that the Hawkins girl’s head was severed and taken up the road about twenty-five to fifty yards and buried in a location about ten yards west of the road on a rocky hillside. Did you hear that?”
1. Just days before he was executed in 1989, Ted Bundy sat down for a lengthy interview with detective Robert D. Keppel. In this never-before-heard audio footage, Bundy confesses the chilling details of how he killed and dismembered Georgeann Hawkins. Hearing the words in Bundy’s actual voice makes the confession even creepier.
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“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
2. In one of the most memorable Bundy quotes — and certainly one of the most terrifying — the killer exhibits his uncanny ability to combine drama and cold-heartedness into a single sentence.


“I don’t think anybody doubts whether I’ve done some bad things. The question is: what, of course, and how and, maybe even most importantly, why?”
3. The above quote also came from Bundy’s death row interview with Keppel. Even after his trial, Bundy kept trying manipulate people into believing there was some intelligent motive behind his killing spree. Unfortunately, Bundy picked the wrong person to try to manipulate because Keppel wasn’t buying it.
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“When you work hard to do something right, you don’t want to forget it.”
4. Out of context the above quote seems harmless. But nothing in the world of Ted Bundy is without a sickening backstory. Bundy delivered the above rationale when asked why he kept souvenirs, including body parts and Polaroids, from his victims.


“In my opinion, the best chance you have of catching this guy is to get a site with a fresh body and stake it out.”
5.While on death row, Ted Bundy helped the “Green River Killer” task force, namely detective Robert Keppel, understand the mind of a serial killer. This is Bundy’s creepy advice for how to find the notorious serial killer.
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“I’m the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.”
6. This might be one of the few times Bundy was honest during an interview. The murderer shared this self-assesment while being interrogated following his 1979 arrest in Pensacola, Florida.


“Tell the jury they’re wrong!”
7. Given his exemplary ability to manipulate, it’s difficult to tell if Bundy actually believes that he is innocent. Regardless of how Bundy felt, the jury felt little sympathy for the killer.


“I think I stand as much chance of dying in front of a firing squad or in a gas chamber as you do being killed on a plane flight home. Let’s hope you don’t.”
8. Given his good looks and ability to captivate an audience, Bundy was a media favorite. Bundy gave an interview in 1977 from the Pitkin County Prison in Colorado, employing a quote-worthy analogy to stress his innocence.


“I’ll tell you, as long as they attempt to keep their heads in the sand about me, there’s gonna be people turning up in canyons and there are gonna be people being shot in Salt Lake City. Because the police there aren’t willing to accept what I think they know and they know that I didn’t do these things.”
9. After being arrested for the kidnapped of Carol DaRonch, Ted Bundy stressed the he was innocent. In an animated interview, Bundy attacked the police, claiming that they was a conspiracy against him and that the true criminal was still terrorizing the Salt Lake City community.


“I have dreamed about flying over those fences. I have dreamed about climbing over those fences and tunneling under those fences.”
10. Again speaking to the media after his arrest for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, Bundy shared his desire to leave prison. Shortly after the interview, Bundy did escape and went on to kill again. His quote becomes a bleak reminder of his ability to manipulate everyone around him.