This month, I'm talking about Ted Bundy. He was a serial killer, a kidnapper, rapist and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s. The total amount of deaths is unknown, but he confessed to 30 homicides in numerous states.
Bundy was arrested in August 1975 by a Utah Highway Patrol officer after Ted failed to pull over for a routine traffic stop. The officer, noting that the Volkswagen's front passenger seat was missing, searched his car, and found a ski mask, a second mask made from pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, a coil of rope, an ice pick, and other items initially assumed to be burglary tools. When asked, Bundy said the ski mask was for skiing. The handcuffs? He claims he found them in a dumpster, and the rest were common household items. Detective Jerry Thompson did not believe him because he remembered a similar suspect and car description from a November 1974 DaRonch kidnapping, and Bundy's name from Kloepfer's December 1974 phone call. He was taken in for questioning until they could do a search on his apartment. All that was found was a guide to a Colorado ski resort with a checkmark next to the Wildwood Inn, and a brochure advertising the Viewmont High School play in Bountiful. This was the scene of a previous missing teenager,but nothing sufficiently incriminating to hold him. He was released.
After they did find enough evidence, he would boast to the police that during the first search, the police missed his collection of photographs of his victims hidden in the utility room, which he promptly destroyed when he came home that day.
Ted was a handsome, smart, charismatic young man who had a promising law career and took the dark side of law performing his own acts of evil. He was known for charming his victims to win their trust by pretending to be injured or disabled so they'd help him. Then, he'd give them a sob story about how he became injured, tell the woman how beautiful she was and take her to a secluded area under the auspices of a romantic evening only to rape and kill, then leave her there for the animals to feast on. He later admitted to revisiting the crime scene and performing sexual acts on the decomposed bodies.
On the victims he decapitated, he admitted taking the heads home as a memento until he tired of them. What he did with them afterward is unknown.
Unable to control his urge, he changed his routine by simply breaking into homes at night and bludgeon his victims while they slept.
Labeled a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and his control over them, he told the authorities he was "... the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet.
At trial, his own attorney wrote that he "was the very definition of heartless evil. When the jury read the verdict, Ted Bundy remained unemotional and showed absolutely no signs of remorse.
I think I'll double lock our windows tonight!
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