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- [Narrator] This documentary is the result

of extensive research looking at the

life and mind of Theodore Robert Bundy to try

and understand what drives an outwardly normal man

to commit some of the most heinous acts

ever recorded on innocent young girls

who had their whole lives ahead of them.

Some of the names have been changed to protect those

who do not wish to be associated with what Bundy did.

Some of the grotesque acts he performed on his victims

have also been toned down.

But the accounts are true,

and the events surrounding the murders

are as accurate as possible.

But in truth, ultimately, there is only

one person who knows what really happened

and thankfully he is no longer with us.

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Theodore Robert Cowell was born in

Burlington, Vermont on 24th November 1946.

His mother Louise was unmarried,

and her pregnancy was the result of a fling

with a sailor called Jack Worthington,

who abandoned her once he learned of her condition.

In 1946, it was not considered acceptable

to bear a child out of wedlock,

and Louise opted to give birth in the

Elizabeth Lund Home for unwed mothers.

The delivery was uneventful,

and Ted was a normal healthy baby.

Soon after birth, Louise returned

to her family in Philadelphia,

who despite the stigma at that time,

welcomed her and her baby back into their home.

However, it's thought that for

a period of time during his childhood

Ted believed his grandparents were his mother and father

and his mother was his sister.

It was also thought that although

Ted spoke fondly of his grandfather,

it was rumored that there was a far darker side to him,

a side that the vulnerable young Ted

was exposed to from an early age.

His grandfather had a violent temper

that often culminated in physical violence

and was known to be abusive to animals.

He also had a disturbing collection of pornography

that young Ted had discovered

and viewed from a very young age.

Family members remember that Ted displayed

some very unusual behaviors even as a young child.

On one occasion when he was just three years old,

his aunt awoke to find Ted had placed kitchen knives

all around her body as she slept.

He was also known to scare family members

with his sudden personality change

when for no reason he could turn from a sweet little boy

into an unrecognizable entity.

In 1949, Ted's mother inexplicably changed

her son's surname from Cowell to Nelson.

Many years later Louise revealed the reason for this

was that she intended on moving out of the family home

to live with her Uncle Jack in Washington.

His surname was also Cowell,

so to protect her son from ridicule,

she decided to change it.

In 1951, Louise and Ted moved in with Uncle Jack,

and the boy became quite close to him.

It wasn't long before Louise met and married John Bundy,

a war veteran and cook.

He soon adopted Ted,

who took his now infamous surname.

After a brief move to the country,

the family later settled in Tacoma,

where Bundy spent the rest of his childhood.

His mother union with John

bore a further four children, two daughters and two sons.

Ted had a good relationship with all of his siblings

but was closest to his youngest

brother Richard and his mother.

His relationship with his stepfather was fractious,

and the more intelligent Ted often clashed with him

sometimes resulting in physical violence.

This friction intensified

when Ted learned the truth about his illegitimate birth

when he stumbled upon his birth certificate

that stated his father was unknown.

This discovery implanted a bitterness

and resentment in Ted's mind

that remained with him for the rest of his life.

Teds years in school were fairly uneventful,

although from a very young age

he had an unhealthy interest in sex.

As he progressed to high school,

he became somewhat of a loner,

who had just a couple of friends.

He found it hard to adapt

and was becoming increasingly isolated

and out of place in the society he lived in.

However, despite being socially withdrawn with few friends,

he was never short of female admirers.

Although much to their displeasure,

he never dated through high school.

As he entered adulthood,

he became more and more attracted to the opposite sex.

He was good-looking, charming, and intelligent,

but this outer shell was hiding

an increasingly tortured mind,

and Bundy saw himself as a loser and an outsider.

During his high school years,

Bundy was a keen sportsman,

and although his achievements were limited,

he did become an accomplished skier.

He also became an accomplished thief,

and as money was tight in the family,

he would regularly steal things he needed,

in particular, his skiing equipment.

In 1965, Bundy graduated from high school

and enrolled at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma,

although he became bored and lonely

and the following year enrolled at

the University of Washington in Seattle.

It was here that he met the girl of his dreams.

Her name was Stephanie Brooks.

Stephanie was slightly older than Bundy,

and of a much higher social standing than him,

but despite this, they became an item.

Bundy was infatuated with Stephanie

and was desperate to impress her,

but inwardly he felt he was not worthy of her,

although he had this remarkable ability

to hide his inner turmoil.

Stephanie finally ended the relationship in 1968,

and this is when Bundy's already

fractured mind began to unravel.

He decided to leave Seattle and university

telling family members the memories were too painful,

and he needed to get away.

Bundy left Washington State in the winter of 1968

and headed to San Francisco before flying to Denver to ski

and then Philadelphia to visit family.

He later returned to Seattle to try

and piece his life back together,

but by now the break up had taken an irretrievable toll,

and Bundy's mask of charm and respectability

was hiding a very disturbed character.

On his return to Seattle,

Bundy worked a couple of jobs,

first in a Safeway store,

then in a hotel washing pots,

a job he left under a cloud due to allegations of stealing.

Then after a chance meeting with an old friend,

he started working for Art Fletcher,

a city councilman who was campaigning to be nominated

for the Republican Lieutenant Governor.

He worked hard and was liked by everyone.

However, similar to other stages in his life,

he found it difficult to form any real friendships.

When Fletcher lost his bid to be lieutenant governor,

it was a crushing blow to Bundy,

who had aspirations of becoming

more involved in political life.

By now Bundy's inner monster was beginning to surface,

and he had become a prolific peeping Tom,

creeping around at night spying on unsuspecting women.

He also had an extreme obsession with violent pornography.

With his political ambitions hampered,

Bundy decided to return to education,

and in January 1969 he enrolled at

Temple University in Philadelphia.

By now the dark thoughts in his mind were out of control,

and he was getting increasingly drawn

to act out his desire to abduct and rape a woman.

It's uncertain whether he did

murder any women in Philadelphia,

although many believe it's likely he did.

Bundy did not settle in Philadelphia,

and after just a few months returned to Washington State

and rented a small apartment in Seattle

from Ernst and Frida Rogers,

who like everyone else who met him

viewed Ted as a model tenant,

polite, helpful, and never rowdy.

Bundy settled in Seattle

and worked at a sawmill and then as a messenger

In the Autumn of 1969, he met a woman,

who was to remain in his life for the next six years.

Her name was Liz Kloepfer,

and although Bundy craved a normal relationship

and Liz became very important to him,

throughout their time together

he secretly dated many other women.

Initially Liz rejected the intoxicated Bundy's advances,

but after seeing him with another woman,

she gave in to his good looks, dapper dress, and charm

and the two hit it off immediately.

Although some of what Bundy told her

about his life was a lie,

as by this time Bundy had become a compulsive liar.

Liz was intrigued by Bundy and his unusual accent,

said to be much closer to an Englishman than an American.

Liz had a younger daughter from her previous marriage

and Bundy soon embraced his new family

and thought he had found the normalness he craved.

However something stronger was still

festering in his psychopathic mind,

and despite this new found connection,

these heinous thoughts were still very much alive.

Over the next few months

Ted and Liz's relationship grew,

and they were both introduced to their respective families,

who were pleased with the union.

Although not officially living together,

Ted spent most of his time at Liz's apartment.

Liz, who was completely hooked,

even helped to fund his return to university.

In the spring of 1970

Bundy again enrolled at the University of Washington

and ironically declared his major in psychology.

He also started working as

a delivery driver for medical supplies,

some of which he would steal

and use in a grotesque way on his murder victims.

Despite this new found stability in his life,

Bundy was still a masterful peeping Tom,

who stalked and spied on women at night

for sexual gratification.

All the while his fantasy of abducting and murdering

a pretty young girl was getting stronger and stronger.

Over the next few years with Liz by his side

Ted transformed outwardly from the socially awkward failure

to a confident, academically successful man.

To those around him seemed to have

a bright future ahead of him.

When in 1973 he was finally accepted into law school,

he again caught the attention

of his first love Stephanie Brooks,

who suddenly had a renewed interest

in the man she had cruelly discarded.

The two started to see each other again.

However unknown to Stephanie,

this was just payback for Bundy.

After all, he was still in a

stable relationship with Liz.

But this was his chance to reap revenge for her rejection

and prove to himself he was good enough for her after all.

Bundy did this by courting the unsuspected Stephanie

and asking her to marry him,

an offer she willingly accepted.

Yet, he had no intention of marrying her

and not long after he dumped her.

In his mind it meant he had won in the end,

and the wrong had finally been made right.

Bundy had sought the justice he thought he deserved.

He carried on his life with Liz,

and to the outside world,

he was the model of a successful, well-adjusted man,

who remained active in local politics

and was a person people looked up to.

He was even somewhat admired.

But unbeknown to those around him,

his urges were getting stronger.

It was only a matter of time

before he committed his first recorded crime.

The respectable persona he had cocooned himself in

was concealing the inner monster

that was looming ever closer to the surface.

In 1971 Bundy took a job as a telephone counselor

at the Seattle Crisis Clinic,

where he met crime writer Ann Rule,

who went on to write a book about her co-worker

aptly named The Stranger Beside Me.

In 1972, Bundy graduated with a degree in psychology,

he then took a job at the Harboview Mental Health Center,

This job did not work out,

as he was not considered capable of being

emotionally responsive to the needs of the patients.

He also also had a brief relationship

with one of his co-workers,

a woman it would later transpire had a lucky escape.

As during their outings,

he used to drive her to remote rural locations.

It was also one of the few girls that

Bundy admitted to Liz in their brief separation.

Ted struggled with the separation

and finally pleaded with Liz to take him back.

Declaring his love for her,

Liz who was hopelessly in love with Bundy forgave him,

and the couple were reunited.

Next Ted became part of the team

to re-elect governor Dan Evans.

A job Bundy reveled in,

as he was required to gain

as much information as possible

from Evans' opponent Albert Rosellini.

This sometimes involved wearing a disguise,

something Bundy became renowned for during his murder spree.

This new venture into politics

saw Bundy rub shoulders with some of the most

prominent figures in Washington State Politics.

But Bundy's nocturnal behavior was increasing,

and he would regularly roam the back streets

at all hours of the night planning his next move.

Liz was also noticing a change in the man she adored,

and on one occasion she discovered

surgical gloves in his pocket.

Little did she know of the madness in her man's mind

and the horrific consequences of it.

His urges were now so strong

that it was only a matter of time

before he acted out his inhuman fantasies

and what he had been planning most of his life.

In 1973 after a brief and unsuccessful stint

at the University of Puget Sound in Washington,

Bundy made the decision to move to Utah the following summer

and enter the University of Utah Law School.

But by the end of 1973

and with the new year looming

Bundy's mind was focused and set,

and he was about to ignite a wave of terror unlike any other

as he finally unleashed his sadistic thoughts

and made them a reality,

meaning no women within his reach were safe.

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In January 1974 during one of his night stalks,

Bundy entered the apartment of 18-year-old

University of Washington student Karen Sparks.

He bludgeoned the sleeping woman

using a metal rod from under her bed frame.

He then carried out a horrific sexual assault

on the unconscious Karen,

causing appalling internal injuries.

Remarkably she survived

despite being unconscious for several days,

but she was left with permanent disabilities.

To spare her life was not Bundy's intention,

and he would make sure that next time he was more thorough.

This attack is thought to have been the trigger

for the heinous events that followed

and kick-started the raging sadistic fantasies

that had been festering in Bundy's mind

for most of his life.

On 31st of January 1974,

21-year-old Student Lynda Anne Healy

was out enjoying a drink with friends

at a local nightclub popular with students.

At around 9:20 p.m. she walked home with friends

to the house she shared with four others in the

University District of 5517 12th Street.

There she settled in with her housemates and watched TV.

Then phoned her boyfriend

before retiring to her bedroom in the basement.

The house was a hub of activity.

As some of the residents had mislaid their keys,

it wasn't uncommon for the front door

to be left open into the early hours.

Something that wouldn't have gone unnoticed

to a peeping Tom like Bundy.

Nobody in the house heard a thing that night.

They were not alerted to anything being wrong

until Lynda's alarm clock went off the next morning,

and her employers called to ask

why she hadn't turned up for work.

After checking her room,

her bed was uncharacteristically neatly made,

but there was no sign of Lynda.

It wasn't until the evening

that Lynda's concerned parents alerted the police,

who initially were not concerned

thinking it was just another unpredictable student

who had made a spontaneous decision

to visit someone without informing anyone.

It wasn't until much later that night

that they even searched her room

after one of her roommates

received three silent phone calls.

After pulling back the covers of her bed,

blood stains were found and some clothes were missing.

It was becoming apparent

that someone had entered the house

through the unlocked front door,

attacked Lynda rendering her unconscious,

before hanging up her nightgown

and gathering up a change of clothes

before carrying her out into the night

to an unknown location.

From this point no women within the area were safe.

However sadly for some,

they were unaware of this,

and that was the case for Bundy's next victim.

Her name was Donna Gail Manson, a 19-year-old student

from the Evergreen State College in Olympia.

Donna had little interest in her studies

and was an unpredictable, unreliable student

who liked to party and often did not attend class.

Her fondness of alcohol and marijuana

would often make her vulnerable,

and she was known to hitchhike and stay out all night.

On the evening of March 12, 1974

Donna left her dormitory at around 7:00 p.m. with the

intention of attending a jazz concert held on campus.

Sadly she never made it.

Donna vanished before reaching the campus,

snatched by Bundy as she made her way to the gig.

For her friends, her no-show

and disappearance were typical of Donna,

and she wasn't reported missing until seven days later,

Just over a month later

a young lady called Kathleen Clara D'Olivo

had an unnerving encounter with a stranger

in the carpark of the Central State Washington College

where she was a student.

It was around 10:00 p.m.,

and Kathleen had just left the library

and started walking to her car.

When she heard the sound of

something being dropped on the pavement,

she turned round to see Bundy trying to pick up books.

He had his arm in a sling,

and was dressed as a student might.

Kathleen helped the man who seemed to be struggling

and carried his books to his car,

an old brown Volkswagen beetle.

Kathleen became nervous

and realized that she may be in danger,

and after reaching the car, she made a hasty retreat.

She had a very lucky escape.

But it seems that Bundy was frustrated

that his intended victim had escaped

and so went in search of another.

That unfortunate girl was

18-year-old fellow student Susan Elaine Rancourt

who disappeared on her way back from her dorm

on the same night in the same area

that Kathleen had encountered Bundy.

It transpired later that another girl

had a similar encounter with a stranger

wearing a sling and dropping books.

Although it's unclear if it was the same night,

it was the same area and most definitely the same person.

By now unlike with the disappearance of Donna,

the local press and police department

were starting to take notice.

Although at this stage it was considered

a case of missing persons, a pattern was emerging.

Bundy seemed to be up picking victims of similar appearance,

young with long hair parted in the middle.

Much later it was realized,

they all bore a resemblance to his first love Stephanie.

Now that Bundy's inner beast had been unleashed,

the facade of normality that he had always displayed

to the outside world was also melting away.

People started to notice a change in his personality.

His long partner Liz also noted his behavior towards her

was getting more and more perverse.

As she wanted no part of it,

he became moody and preoccupied.

She became convinced that he had met another woman.

Little did she know that his mind

was now consumed with murder.

On one occasion the increasingly deranged Bundy

without warning pushed Liz out of the raft they were

travelling in into the freezing water of the Yakimini.

This was the day Liz saw a different side to the man

she had loved and stood by all these years.

For the first time,

she witnessed the murderer within Bundy

that he had been hiding from her.

It was the beginning of the end for their relationship.

Bundy was becoming more and more elusive.

As the physical exertion of his

murders started to take its toll,

he also started skipping work and missing appointments.

With the growing media attention

the missing women were receiving in Washington State,

Bundy, who was an avid reader of

anything that concerned his victims,

decided it was time to travel

further afield for his next victim.

He chose Oregon.

21-year-old Oregon State University student

Roberta Parks had a troubling few days.

She had received news that her father had a heart attack,

and she was having serious thoughts about what future

she had with her long-term boyfriend.

This coupled with her increasing unhappiness with the

direction her life was going, left her feeling uncertain

and a little depressed about her future.

To unravel and make sense of her thoughts,

it wasn't unusual for Kathy to go for walks alone at night.

Sadly for her on the night of 6th May 1974

this solitary walk proved to be fatal.

That night Roberta disappeared without trace.

On the night of May 31, 1974

Bundy spent the evening with Liz, Tina, and her parents.

They ate pizza in town,

and then returned to Liz's place.

But Ted was edgy and seemed anxious to leave.

Over in the nearby Flame Tavern

22-year-old Brenda Carol Ball

was enjoying an evening drinking with friends.

Brenda had dropped out of college

and was just enjoying life.

Similar to Donna Manson, Brenda was taking risks.

She would often hitchhike

and often frequented bars

drinking until late into the night.

In the early hours of June 1st Brenda,

who had failed to secure a lift home left the Flame Tavern

some reports claimed with an unknown man.

But one thing for certain sometime after she left,

she encountered Bundy and was brutally murdered and abused.

However due to the drifting nature of her lifestyle,

she was not reported missing until June 17th,

by which time Bundy had struck again.

His next victim was 18-year old Georgann Hawkins,

a popular and hardworking first-year student

at the University of Washington.

In the early hours of June 11th

Hawkins had just dropped in to visit her boyfriend

after attending a frat party.

Unlike Bundy's other victims,

she was well aware of the dangers of walking at night alone

and rarely did so.

But on this occasion,

she decided to take the short walk

in the well-lit alley towards her home.

Just yards away from her home

she encountered an apparently disabled man,

who had a leg brace and crutches

and was struggling with a briefcase.

Being a kind-hearted soul, Georgann seeing no danger

agreed to help the struggling man back to his car,

the brown Volkswagen Beetle.

Georgann was abducted, killed

and subject to a sadistic sexual assault

before and after death.

But unlike on previous occasions,

Bundy had left evidence.

He'd struck her with such force before abducting her

that she lost a shoe and both her earrings flew out.

Items Bundy calmly retrieved the next morning.

Bundy was now out of control,

and he was becoming arrogant

reveling in the fear he was creating.

There were now six-women missing

as well as the unsolved beating of Karen Sparks.

The incidents were now making headlines

in Washington and Oregon.

The pressure was mounting on the authorities to act,

and for Bundy being the talk of the town excited him

and made his murderous urges even stronger.

This resulted in one of his most audacious acts to date.

It was a sunny day on Sunday, July 14, 1974,

and families and tourists descended onto the beach

at Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah

20 miles east of Seattle.

One of those visitors was 23-year-old probation officer

and Issaquah resident Janice Ann Ott,

who placed her towel and belongings

including her yellow bike on the beach

and settled down for a day of sunbathing.

Janice had was recently separated from her husband

and described herself as a liberated woman.

Visitors to the beach that day couldn't help

but notice an attractive, polite young man,

in a white tennis outfit

and his arm in a sling meandering between

the hundreds of sunbathers apparently looking for someone.

At around midday,

he sat down beside the bikini-clad Janice,

and the two struck up a conversation.

Witnesses claimed that the man introduced himself as Ted

and asked Janice if she would help him

put his sailboat in his car.

It later transpired that he had asked several women

that day the same thing but most of them had refused.

Tragically for Janice,

she agreed to help and packed up her things

and the pair headed towards a brown Volkswagen Beetle.

As Janice stepped into the car

and Bundy drove to a secluded area,

she would become completely unaware

of the nightmare that awaited.

He had an urge to kill again and such was his confidence.

Now he was willing to take unprecedented risks

in broad daylight to satisfy his cravings.

At around 4:00 p.m. he made his way back down to the crowds

and went on the prowl again.

Bundy approached several young women,

again with the sailboat story,

but was rebuffed on at least three occasions.

He persisted and it was only a matter of time

before he snatched up his next victim.

At around 4:30 pm 18-year-old Denise Naslund

left her sleeping friends on the beach

and made her way to the restroom.

She was a bit unsteady, as she had been drinking

and taking drugs earlier in the day.

As she left the bathroom, she stopped

and spoke to a man with a sling on his arm.

This was the last anyone seen of Denise,

and she disappeared without trace.

The police and public were now in a frenzy.

Despite there still not being any physical evidence,

the police now had a description of their suspect

as well as the possible vehicle he drove and the name Ted.

Despite this breakthrough

and many of Bundy's associates

actually putting his name forward,

he evaded capture for a further 15 months

in which time he moved freely

from state to state killing at will.

Just a few weeks after the Lake Sammamish abductions,

at the beginning of September 1974,

Bundy moved to Salt Lake City,

to start at the University of Utah Law School.

Liz did not move with him.

She stayed in Seattle with Tina,

and as was the pattern throughout their relationship,

Ted dated at least a dozen other women,

while still maintaining contact with Liz.

Before he left for Seattle

he had also dated Carole Ann Boone,

a lady he met while working at the

Washington State Department of Emergency Services,

and as well as Liz,

Boone became an important part of his life.

Bundy would took his next victim

on the drive to his new home in Utah.

Whilst driving on 84 going east through Idaho,

he stopped and made a brief phone call to Liz.

Shortly after he continued his journey

and around 30 minutes later just outside the city of Boise,

Bundy spotted a hitchhiker.

He pulled over in his brown Volkswagen

and offered the young girl a lift.

Without hesitation she accepted the lift

from the smiling good looking stranger,

completely oblivious to the fact

this would be the last ride of her life.

As they drove and chatted for around three hours,

Bundy would pull off the highway and bludgeon the girl

with the crowbar he kept under his seat.

Whilst she was still alive,

drag her unconscious body to the side of his car

where he carried out the most heinous sexual assault

strangling the girl during the act.

He would then stay with the corpse

and again defile her body.

He then threw her body and her clothes in the river

and burnt her id.

This poor young lady was never identified,

and her remains were never recovered.

After the killing, Bundy proceeded calmly on his way.

He finally arrived in Salt Lake City

in the early hours of September 3, 1974.

His intentions was to replicate in Utah

what he had started in Washington State...

But the net was closing in,

and just five days after Bundy arrived in Utah,

two of his victims bodies were found,

those of Denise Naslund and Janice Ott

along with a third set of unidentified human bones.

Their remains were discovered by a hunter in a secluded area

less than 10 miles from Sammamish State Park.

The discoveries confirmed the worst fears

of the police and the community.

The missing girls were now murder victims,

and there was a serial madman living amongst them.

The man in charge of solving these heinous crimes

was Detective Robert Keppel.

After settling into his new home in Salt Lake City,

Bundy became a hit with his new neighbors

although he didn't settle into universities quite as well

and was sporadic in his attendance.

He later confessed he found the classes

completely incomprehensible and a great disappointment.

Between 20th of September and the 8th of November 1974

Bundy would abduct and murder at least four women.

He was now far away from the frenzied

investigation in Washington State,

and was free to fulfill the most

desirable thing in his life,

the need to commit murder.

The first known murder during this period was on Oct 2nd

when Bundy abducted 16-year-old Nancy Wilcox

from a suburb in Salt Lake City.

He dragged her into a wooded area

where he assaulted and strangled her,

before burying her 200 miles away

somewhere near Capitol Reef National Park,

although her remains have never been found.

His next victim was 17 year old Melissa Smith,

who disappeared on Oct 18th after leaving a pizza parlor.

Melissa was the daughter of a local police chief,

and her body was found nine days after her abduction

in a mountainous area close to where she had been last seen.

Less than two weeks later

17-year-old Lehi Aime also went missing.

Her body was found nine miles away in American Fork Canyon.

Both women had been beaten,

and subjected to vile rapes

before being strangled with nylon stockings.

However, unlike some of his other victims,

it was thought likely Bundy kept these two alive,

most likely unconscious and used their lifeless bodies

as playthings for his own sexual gratification,

possibly taking them back to his apartment

until he finally finished them off and dumped their bodies.

Bundy seemed to be pushing the boundaries even further

in his relentless pursuit of his euphoria,

and it was thought that both Lehi and Melissa

had been washed and had makeup and nail polish

applied to them by Bundy either pre or post-mortem.

The final known victim during this six-week killing spree

was 17-year-old Debra Kent,

a student at Viewmont High School in Bountiful.

However, before Debra met her horrific end,

Bundy had unsuccessfully tried to abduct another girl

18-year-old telephone operator Carol DaRonch.

This time Bundy posed as Officer Roseland

of the Murray Police Department.

After luring Carol into his Volkswagen,

she realized she was in danger and put up a strong fight.

She managed to escape when Bundy

bungled his attempt at handcuffing her.

After the incident Ted was frustrated and in predatory mode

and there was only one way to alleviate this.

He immediately sought another victim.

As he headed towards Bountiful, he remembered

that Viewmont High School was hosting a musical.

He saw this as a perfect opportunity.

He parked his Volkswagen in the school parking lot,

and scanned the area before making the brazen decision

to enter the school auditorium.

His presence didn't go unnoticed,

and many recall the good-looking stranger

milling among them that night.

The concert was overrunning,

and Debra Kent who was sat with her family

had to leave to pick up her brother.

As soon as Bundy spotted her, he made his move.

As she walked to her car, he pounced

and by unknown means rendered Debra unconscious

before carrying her to his car.

Then in order to divert suspicion from himself,

he returned to the auditorium.

In the audience that night was Susan Curtis,

who would also become one of Bundy's victims.

As the Kent family filtered out

of the performance that night,

they could not have realized

that their lives would never be the same again,

and that their precious daughter was now far away

bundled into Bundy's Volkswagen

with untold horror waiting for her.

Debra's body was never recovered.

Outside the auditorium investigators

found a key that unlocked the handcuffs

removed from Carol DaRonch wrist.

Back in Seattle Bundy's girlfriend, Liz

read an article about the young women

that were disappearing in the towns

surrounding Salt Lake City.

When details of the Sammamish Lake murders were released

Liz contacted King County Police

and relayed her suspicions about the man she loved.

But at that time no credible evidence linked him

to the Utah crimes or the Sammamish Lake incidents.

But just as Washington State was living in fear,

so now was Utah.

The entire population of both areas

were looking over their shoulder

in a constant state of nervousness

and dread as to who would be the next victim.

This was something Bundy took great pleasure in,

and he scrolled the newspapers

for the next installment of his murderous reign.

1975 wasn't going to be a good one

for Bundy as suspicion was growing

though this did not to suppress his burning desire to kill.

At the start of the year, Bundy briefly returned

to Seattle to spend the week with Liz.

But despite her suspicions,

she made no reference to the killings

or the fact that she had now reported him to police

on three separate occasions.

But by this time Liz was becoming more and more

convinced in her mind that the man she loved

was a brutal serial killer.

She desperately wanted to believe he wasn't,

and she methodically went through the dates

of the killings comparing them to Bundy's movements

on those days and the phone calls to her.

This gave her some reassurance as on most of these days

she recalls Bundy had seemed normal,

so surely if he had been out killing young girls

and committing heinous acts of necrophilia,

there would be some clues in his demeanor

on the many phone calls he made to her.

But this was Ted Bundy.

He was not normal.

He was a sociopath who would flick a switch in his mind

turning from monster to charming young man

in a matter of hours.

When Bundy returned to Salt Lake City

after his week with Liz,

he decided he would need to travel

further afield for his next victims.

Utah state was getting too risky.

He had created a reign of terror throughout the state,

and it was time to move on.

He chose Colorado.

After all, he was an accomplished skier,

and he would blend in nicely with the community there

a community who would only barely be aware

of the killings in Washington and Utah.

In January 1975, 23-year-old nurse

Caryn Aileen Campbell arrived at Wildwood Inn

in Snowmass Village near Aspen, Colorado

with her boyfriend Raymond and his children.

He had come to attend a medical conference

and Caryn was going to spend her days skiing with the kids.

On the evening of 12th January,

Caryn left the lobby of the Wildwood Inn

to go to her room to get a magazine.

Her boyfriend and the children stayed downstairs.

She took the elevator to her second-floor room,

but she never made.

As she stepped out of the elevator Bundy was waiting.

Caryn's frozen, naked, partially eaten body

was found over a month later

two and a half miles away from the

south side of Owl Creek Road.

She had extensive injuries to her head, face, and neck,

consistent with being struck with a blunt instrument.

For the next couple of months,

Bundy returned to his studies in Utah,

although as usual his attendance was irregular.

For the police an important discovery was made,

when on March 1, 1975 two forestry students stumbled

upon a macabre scene on the slopes of Taylor Mountain.

After police did an extensive search of the area,

the full horror of Bundy's crimes emerged.

The heads of Lynda Healy, Kathy Parks, Susan Rancourt

and Brenda Ball were discovered.

All of the upper teeth of Kathy Parks were missing,

and Susan Rancourt's hair was found detached from her head,

and part of Brenda Ball's skull was missing.

These discoveries were horrific

and for the families of the missing

quashed any hope of finding their loved ones alive.

It was also apparent that Bundy had used

this place as a dumping ground for heads

and in some cases had traveled

a considerable distance to this location.

The question was where were the rest of the remains?

Only Bundy knew that,

and he was not in any hurry to reveal it.

After all, in his mind he still had work to do.

On March the 14th Bundy left his apartment in Utah

and again headed to Colorado.

The long scenic drive ahead gave him time to think

and plan his next move.

As his homicidal cravings grew stronger,

the calendar had ticked over to the 15th,

when Bundy arrived in his Volkswagen

at the small village of Vail in Colorado.

At around 9:00 p.m. that evening

26-year-old part-time ski instructor Julie Cunningham

left her apartment to take the short walk to a nearby tavern

where she was due to meet friends.

On route she encountered a man walking with crutches

and struggling with his ski equipment.

He asked the young lady for help getting to his car.

Julie willingly agreed.

She was never seen alive again.

Bundy bludgeoned her

and took her to a secluded area

where he sexually assaulted her

and dumped her naked body under a tree.

Bundy later admitted he drove back to the dead body

on more than one occasion in the following days

and committed necrophilia before finally burying her.

Her body was never found.

Bundy was on the road again,

and on April 6th 24-year-old Denise Oliverson

disappeared near the Utah-Colorado border in Grand Junction.

Denise had an argument with her boyfriend

and had decided to ride her yellow

bike over to her parents house.

Somewhere on route Bundy abducted her, killed her,

and dumped her body in the Colorado River.

It's unclear if Bundy was disrupted

or thought it too risky as it was

unusual for him to dump a body this way,

as he liked to return to the corpse later.

Her body was never recovered but her bike and sandals were.

On his return to Salt Lake City,

Bundy remembered to send Liz flowers for her 30th Birthday,

although this thoughtful gesture did nothing to

alleviate the growing fear and confusion in Liz's mind

that her lover was potentially a sadistic serial killer.

However despite reporting her concerns again to the police,

they seemed no closer to apprehending him

even though he was on their list of 100 suspects.

The four states that Bundy had now struck in

were started to compare notes and a pattern was emerging.

It was their belief that it was possible

that a single perpetrator was responsible

for all of the known murders and disappearances.

At the beginning of May Ted was on the hunt again.

This time he headed North towards Idaho.

By his standards, quite a short run of around 160 miles.

He checked into a Holiday Inn

close to Idaho State University.

For the first time since his killing spree,

he was actually confronted by a man

when he was caught entering a female dormitory.

When he was unable to confirm his identity,

he was asked to leave.

That first night in this area

was a frustrating one for Bundy,

and he returned to his hotel room

dejected at his inability to track down a victim.

This was very bad news for 12-year-old Lynette Culver,

as the next day in a complete change of tactics for Bundy,

he got into his Volkswagen

and started prowling the streets when he came

across a group of school children on lunch break.

Bundy parked his car close to the school

and got into a conversation with Lynette,

who for whatever reason

got into the passenger seat of his car.

Bundy then drove her back to the Holiday Inn

and drowned her in the bathtub.

He was now not only an unrelented killer of women

he was also pedophilia and child murderer.

Bundy dumped her body in a river north of area the next day.

Bundy returned to his life in Utah,

and in the middle of that month

he had visitor from his old job in Washington State.

These included Carole Ann Boone.

They all stayed in Bundy's apartment for the week.

A few weeks after they left,

Bundy made a surprise visit to Liz,

who was as usual delighted to see him.

It's thought they even discussed marriage

even though Liz still had deep-seated fears

that he was involved in the killings.

Similarly, Bundy never disclosed the fact

that he was still having an ongoing

relationship with Carole Boone.

By the end of June he craved another dead body.

As with his previous victim he chose a child.

Her name was Susan Curtis,

a young girl who had been in the audience

the night Bundy abducted Debra Jean Kent

from Viewmont High School in Bountiful.

On June 27th 15-year-old Susan vanished from

the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo.

As she walked alone, Bundy emerged from the darkness

luring her to her death.

Her body has never been recovered.

In the months that followed a young girl

from Golden Colorado named Shelley Robertson

went missing along with 23-year-old Nancy Baird,

who disappeared from her place of work.

Although Bundy did not admit to

the killing of these two girls,

it's entirely plausible he was responsible

as he was known to frequent both these places.

Shelly's decomposed body was found in an old mine shaft

40 miles west of Golden.

Nancy Baird has never been located.

Meanwhile back in Washington State investigators

were analyzing the many leads that they had compiled.

Out of the thousands of names put forward

one that was consistently matching was Theodore Robert Bundy

In the early hours of August 16, 1975,

Bundy was parked up smoking weed in his Volkswagen.

He had spent the night cruising around,

most likely in search of his a girl.

The blinding lights of Sergeant Bob Hayward's patrol car

were about to startle him.

In an uncharacteristic lapse of judgment,

Bundy decided to take off closely pursued by Hayward.

Eventually, Bundy surrendered

and prepared himself to go on the charm offensive.

This was the moment that Bundy's murderous

world started to implode

For the first time he'd became

the hunted rather than the hunter.

Bundy was arrested that night for evading an officer

and being in possession of burglary tools.

Handcuffs were also found in the boot,

which were, in fact, part of his murderous tool kit

containing a ski mask, pantyhose, a crowbar,

handcuffs, bags, rope, an ice pick, and other items.

After being booked Bundy

was released on his own recognizance.

His murder bag was seized and kept as evidence.

This was to be the beginning of the end.

By now Bundy had risen to the top of the suspects list.

As the various states started talking,

all of the dots were starting to join up.

On August 21st, 1975,

Bundy was arrested at his home in Utah

and taken to the police station.

He was questioned at length about the contents of the bag,

but even the officers found it hard to believe

that the nice guy presented to them

could possibly be anything other than just that.

But his demeanor was about to change,

and the ever-confident Bundy was about

to make mistakes in his recollection of events,

and his lifetime of lies were about to unravel.

Officers searched his home

and found a guide to Colorado ski resorts

and a brochure advertising the

Viewmont High School play in Bountiful.

But nothing sufficiently

incriminating to hold him any longer.

After photographing his car, he was again released.

But all the pieces were now coming together

as officers from the three states

where Bundy had committed crimes compared notes.

Bob in Seattle, Mike Fisher in Aspen

and Jerry Thompson in Salt Lake City

and now what was once three separate investigations was one.

Crucial pieces of evidence were going to seal the deal,

and it would come from the one that got away, Carol DaRonch.

after she was shown photos of the Volkswagen Beetle

and a mugshot of Bundy,

Carol thought it was the man posing as Officer Roseland

on that terrifying day back in 1974.

More importantly, she also agreed to attend a lineup.

Shortly after his release,

Bundy sold his Volkswagen Beetle to a teenager,

but the vehicle was impounded by the police,

dismantled and searched.

Despite Bundy being obsessive about cleaning the car,

they were able to retrieve hair matching samples obtained

from Caryn Campbell, Melissa Smith, and Carol DaRonch.

On Oct 2nd 1975, Bundy was put in a lineup

and was immediately identified by DaRonch

as the man who tried to abduct her.

He was also picked out by witnesses from Bountiful

who recognized him as the unknown stranger

lurking around the Viewmount school auditorium

on the night Debra Kent disappeared.

Despite there being insufficient evidence to link him to

Debra's murder at the time there was more than enough

to charge him for the attempted abduction of DaRonch.

Bundy was arrested and charged

but freed on $15,000 bail paid by his parents.

Whilst on bail Bundy was under heavy surveillance,

and he returned to Seattle where a lot of his old friends

and colleagues believed in his innocence.

He also set about wooing Liz back and it succeeded.

Because although in the past she had spoken

extensively to the police in December of that year,

it was reported that she would no longer be

cooperating with the authorities.

Bundy had won her and she now believed he was innocent.

For the next few months until his trial in February 1976

Bundy played cat and mouse with the authorities

as they tried to keep tabs on him.

They were convinced he was their murderer,

but there was insufficient evidence

at the moment to pin any of it on him.

At his trial he was found guilty

of the kidnap and assault of DaRonch.

The courtroom was packed with

not only many of Bundy's supporters

but also members of the families

whose daughters had been horrifically murdered

proof that despite not being tried

or even arrested for their murders

there was little doubt they thought he was responsible.

In June 1976 he was sentenced to serve a minimum of one

to a maximum of 15 years in the Utah State Prison.

Bundy protested his innocence and for the first time

he was finally off the streets and locked away.

And all the while Keppel, Fisher, and Thompson

were tirelessly working with dogged determination

to find enough evidence to build a case against Bundy

and prove once and for all he was a killer.

In October 1976 Colorado authorities

charged Bundy with Caryn Campbell murder,

and in the early hours of a freezing morning

on 28th January 1977 Bundy was cuffed and shackled

then bundled into an unmarked police car to make the

final journey from Utah to Colorado to stand trial.

Ironically it was a journey he knew well.

It was his hunting ground,

but this time he was getting a taste of his own medicine.

As soon as Bundy arrived at the old,

slightly rundown jail at Pitkin County Courthouse,

he again started to turn on the charm,

and even the jailers found it hard to believe

he was capable of what he was being accused of.

The ever arrogant Bundy also opted

to assist in his own defense

an action that Bundy would have been well aware of

would give him access to the law library

and other special privileges.

He was later moved from Pitkin to

Glenwood Springs jail 40 miles away,

meaning he had to be transported for his hearings.

The ever cunning Bundy now only had one thing on his mind

how he could use this to his advantage and plan his escape.

That moment came in June 1977

when Bundy asked to visit the

courthouse law library to research his case.

He opened a window and jumped from the second floor,

spraining his right ankle as he landed,

but he was once again free.

It didn't last long as just six days later

he was pulled over in a car he had stolen

and he was recaptured.

Having had a taste of freedom,

Bundy was now intent on making another escape bid,

and after meticulous planning and help from inmates

and visitors, in particular, Carole Ann Boone,

he acquired a hacksaw and $500.

After losing 35 pounds,

he cut a hole in the ceiling of his cell

and wriggled through the crawl space.

On the night of 30th December 1977

he again successfully escaped.

It was not noticed until 17 hours later

by which time he had made it to Chicago.

In a shocking twist the madman was at large again,

and he had one thing on his mind.

Despite admitting later that his initial intention

was to get a job and dissolve undetected into society,

the urge to kill was too strong.

After making his way to Florida less than a week later

on January 15th, 1978 Bundy went on the rampage.

He entered Florida State University's Chi Omega Sorority

house through a rear door with a faulty lock.

He then proceeded to bludgeon 21-year-old Margaret Bowman,

before choking her with a nylon stocking.

He then entered the bedroom of 20-year-old Lisa Levy

and beat her unconscious then sexually assaulted her.

In an adjoining bedroom he attacked Kathy Kleiner,

breaking her jaw then moved onto Karen Chandler,

These frenzied attacks took place

in the space of just 15 minutes

After leaving the house,

Bundy broke into an apartment eight blocks away

and attacked student Cheryl Thomas,

causing extensive head injuries.

She was left with permanent deafness.

On her bed police found bodily fluids

and a pantyhose mask containing two hairs matched to Bundys.

By now Bundy who was going by the name of Chris Hagen

was living on stolen credit cards

and living at a boarding houses

near the Florida State University.

He was also on the FBI list of the 10 most wanted people.

Just a few weeks later Bundy stole a van

and drove 150 miles to Jacksonville,

where he approached 14-year-old

Leslie Parmenter in a parking lot.

She had a lucky escape as Bundy retreated

when Leslie's older brother arrived.

But this left Bundy frustrated,

and that afternoon he drove 60 miles to Lake City

where he stayed the night.

The next morning 12-year-old Kimberly Leach

disappeared from her school.

Seven weeks later after an extensive search

her partially mummified remains were found

in a pig shed 35 miles away.

Just a few days later Bundy aware

that the police were on his tail stole a car

and headed west across the Florida Panhandle.

Three days later at around 1:00 a.m.,

he was stopped by a police officer, David Lee.

After a struggle Bundy was finally apprehended.

In his stolen vehicle were three sets of IDs belonging

to female FSU students and 21 stolen credit cards.

At the time Lee was unaware that he had captured

one of the most wanted fugitives in America.

He recalls that while driving Bundy to the police station,

he said, "I wish you had killed me."

Bundy knew it was over for him

and although he kept the pretense of a false identity,

it was only a matter of time before he was unmasked.

But ever the manipulator would only

reveal his true identity on his terms

and that included negotiating the use

of a telephone for a two hour period.

He used part of that time to call Liz,

and he warned her when the news broke

it was going to be big.

In the subsequent calls to Liz he also explained his actions

as a sickness he couldn't control.

She realized at this point

that her suspicion had been correct all along.

Bundy was charged and stood trial in Miami

for the Chi Omega homicides and assaults,

the trial was front page news and was the first trial

that was televised nationally in the U.S.

But as in previous hearings Bundy wanted control

and insisted on handling his own defense.

This was a fatal mistake.

After all, he was in Florida now,

and he was facing a death sentence.

In a bizarre move Bundy rejected a plea bargain

that would have him plead guilty

in return for a 75-year prison sentence

instead he chose to go on trial.

However the evidence was overwhelming,

and the jury deliberated for less than seven hours

before convicting him on July 24, 1979

of the murders of Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy

All three counts of attempted first-degree murder of

Kathy Kleiner, Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas

as well as two counts of burglary.

Trial Judge Edward Cowart imposed

death sentences for the murder convictions.

But Bundy despite knowing he had murdered

at least 36 innocent women refused to show any remorse

or acknowledge his guilt telling Judge Cowart,

"I find it somewhat absurd to ask for mercy

"for something I did not do.

"So I will be tortured for and suffer for

"and receive the pain for the act,

"but I will not share the burden of guilt."

Judge Cowart then proceeded

to sentence Bundy to death by electric chair.

Bundy would now fight for his life

just like his poor terrified victims,

but ultimately despite years of appeals,

the outcome was inevitable.

In 1980 a second trial took place in Orlando

for the abduction and murder of Kimberly Leach.

Bundy was again found guilty.

On Feb 9, 1980 during the penalty phase of this trial,

Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law

stating that a marriage declaration made in court,

in the presence of a judge constituted a legal marriage.

Using this law, Bundy asked Carole Ann Boone to marry him.

She was in the court testifying on his behalf.

She readily accepted,

and Bundy declared to the court

that they were legally married.

The next day Bundy was sentenced to death

by electrocution for the third time.

As the sentence was announced,

he reportedly stood and shouted,

"Tell the jury they were wrong."

In 1982 Boone gave birth to a daughter

and named Bundy as the father.

In the aftermath of his convictions,

Bundy underwent multiple psychiatric examinations

in an attempt to understand what

makes a man commit such vile acts.

But even the experts had a tough time trying to unravel

the complex mind of Ted Bundy.

He would often blame others for his actions

including his abusive grandfather,

the fact that his true parentage was kept from him

and even the police, who he claimed planted evidence.

He also blamed the media, TV, alcohol,

pornography and even his victims.

In fact, he blamed everything and everybody except himself.

The conclusions about Bundy's mental condition varied,

with some believing he was bipolar,

others antisocial personality disorder.

But there is no doubt he was a psychopath.

As with his victims he was able

to manipulate even the experts,

and he never showed an ounce of remorse for what he done.

On July 2, 1986 Bundy is 15 minutes from being executed

when he obtains a stay of execution.

Another attempt is made in November that same year.

In a feeble attempt to try

and earn another stay of execution,

Bundy offers to reveal details of the murders

he hadn't been convicted of.

He gave details of the murders of

Caryn Campbell and Julie Cunningham.

Although initially, he refused to discuss Denise Oliverson,

in total he confessed to 30 homicides

over seven states between 1974 and 1978

As he was being led to the electric chair,

he admitted to the murder of Denise.

But in a slap in the face to the

families of his many other victims,

he neither admitted or revealed

where the missing remains were.

This was his final act of torture.

The true victim count is almost certainly much higher.

Theodore Robert Bundy was executed

at 7:16 a.m. on January 24, 1989.

The death of a true madman left more questions than answers,

as was his wish throughout his heinous life.

Bundy remained in control until the end,

taking with him the secrets of what he did with the bodies,

and leaving their loved ones with the indescribable pain

they would have to live with for the rest of their lives.

(dramatic music)