A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people, usually due to abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break between them. Wikipedia
Theodore
Robert Bundy, an America serial killer, rapist,
kidnapper and necrophilia assaulted and murdered many young women and girls during
the 1970s, and possibly earlier.
Born out of wedlock, Bundy and his mother, Louise, who
he thought was his sister, lived with his grandparents believing they were his
parents. Four years later, Louise decided it was time to leave and she
relocated to Tacoma, Washington where she married Johnnie Culpepper Bundy.
Years later, Bundy who was an intelligent, good-looking man whose victims believed him to be harmless would show another side that only they would see. Studying psychology at the University of Washington, Ted was a good student, mostly keeping to himself, except when it came to women. He was so charismatic, he'd lure them into his VW bug and drive off to remote locations where he would rape and kill them. He was so twisted, he often revisited
his crime scenes, hanging out for hours, grooming and performing sexual acts
with their decomposing bodies until the deed was no longer achievable once the
animals mutilated them.
When he wasn’t luring them into his car, he was
breaking into their homes and bludgeoning his victims while they slept. He once
called himself the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you will ever meet. That was an under statement!
On November 7, 1974, Carol DeRonch, 18, was in a Utah Shopping Mall when she
was approached by Bundy, who told her that someone had been trying to break
into her automobile. She thought that he was a police officer and Bundy later
showed her a badge. Bundy asked her to accompany him to the car to see if
anything was missing. Upon reaching the car the girl looked in and determined
nothing was missing. He eventually asked her if she could go to the station to
make a complaint. Bundy drove her in his Volkswagon, and pulled over on the way
and forcibly placed a pair of handcuffs on her wrist. She screamed and fought
her way outside the vehicle and eventually got away. Nine months later, Bundy
was arrested fleeing police and handcuffs were found in his car. Bundy was
convicted of Aggravated Kidnapping after waiving a jury trial and received a
1-15 year sentence. He escaped while in custody but was recaptured 6 days
later. He escaped a second time and fled to Tallahassee, Florida, staying at a
rooming house near the Florida State University Campus.
During the early morning hours of Sunday, January 15, 1978, Bundy entered
the Chi Omega sorority house and brutally attacked four women residing there.
Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy were killed, and Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler
sustained serious injuries. Within approximately an hour of the attacks in the
Chi Omega house, Bundy entered another home nearby and attacked a woman
residing there, Cheryl Thomas. All five women were university students. All
were bludgeoned repeatedly with a blunt weapon. Bundy was identified by a
resident returning home to the Sorority House, just as he was leaving with a
club in his hand. Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman were killed by strangulation
after receiving severe beatings with a length of a tree branch used as a club.
Margaret Bowman's skull was crushed and literally laid open. The attacker also
bit Lisa Levy with sufficient intensity to be identified as human bite marks.
Bundy was arrested a month later in Pensacola. Of critical importance was the
testimony of two forensic dental experts who testified concerning analysis of
the bite mark left on the body of Lisa Levy. The experts both expressed to the
jury their opinion that the indentations on the victim's body were left by the
unique teeth of Bundy. Bundy was found guilty of two counts of first-degree
murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of
burglary. For the two crimes of first-degree murder the trial judge imposed
sentences of death.
On February 9, 1978, Kimberly Leach, age 12, was reported missing from her
junior high school in Lake City, Florida. Two months later, after a large scale
search, the Leach girl's partially decomposed body was located in a wooded area
near the Suwanee River. There were semen stains in the crotch of her panties
found near the body. Two Lake City Holiday Inn employees and a handwriting
expert established that Bundy had registered at the Lake City Holiday Inn the
day before her disappearance under another name. A school crossing guard at the
junior high school identified Bundy as leading a young girl to a van on the
morning of the disappearance.
During his incarceration, Bundy would ultimately admit to killing 35 or more women. Sentenced to death, Bundy
would remain on death row, fearing his own death would fight every step of the way with appeals that
were all denied.
On January 24, 1989, Theodore Robert Bundy was put to
death by electric chair at the maximum security prison in the remote area of
Raiford, Florida.
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