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What's the right way
for Ted Bundy to behave

to make sure that people
get the right impression?

Am I going to jump on the table?
Am I going to scream?

That's what I felt like doing,
but I kept it together

because there's no point
in destroying myself.

I have got to
keep myself together.

I have got to stay calm.

I have got to keep
my presence of mind,

and that's the way I feel.

♪♪

Welcome to
"How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

In the winter of 1974,

women from the Pacific Northwest
began to disappear.

At first,
the cases seemed random,

but soon, a pattern emerged.

The missing women were all
beautiful, young, and white.

Families hoped for the best,

but when the girls' remains
were eventually discovered,

authorities knew
there was a killer on the loose.

Among the thousands of tips,

an unlikely suspect
came into view --

a handsome, well-liked,

and respected law student
named Ted Bundy,

and soon, the world would know
his chilling story.

This is how it really happened.

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Women started going missing...

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...in intervals
of about once a month.

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They seemed to vanish
without a trace.

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McChesney:
That was very frightening

for women in the area
at the time

because there wasn't any sense
to what was going on.

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When you're 18, you don't want
to imagine the unimaginable.

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Zimmerman:
My sister Sue...

[ Chuckles ]

She was a blonde,
blue-eyed, pretty girl.

She had a great smile.

Winters: 5'2", 104 pounds,
she was a little thing,

but she was so bubbly
and loving.

She had such
an inquisitive mind.

A bookworm,
but she loved people.

I first met Sue
in sixth or seventh grade.

We were cheerleaders together.

You could tell her anything.

If you were down,
she was there to make you happy.

Somebody that would be
on your side

if things
weren't going your way.

She was so happy and excited
to be going to college.

Good:
We were ready to just get going,

see what life was about
and what it had to offer.

Winters:
She was where she wanted to be,

and she was doing wonderful
at school.

She had made friends.

Her grades were exceptional.

Good: We would write letters
back and forth.

The last letter
that she wrote me

was that
she had met someone new,

and she was very excited.

That was the last time
I heard from her.

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Zimmerman:
Sue's roommate called and said,

"Sue didn't come home
last night."

I said, "What do you mean
she didn't come home?"

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The night that she disappeared,
she had gone across campus

to a meeting for
next year's dorm monitors.

She had put her clothes
in the dryer,

and she never came back.

Harper: Susan Rancourt,
a straight-A biology major,

didn't show up to meet
some friends for a movie.

She was gone,
and we don't know what happened.

And they started searching
that night.

Good: Having a dear friend,
who was as sweet as could be,

go missing and possibly
have harm come to her

is something you don't even
really want to think about.

Harper: There was an extensive
search by local police for days,

but very few leads,
no sign of Susan.

Missing-persons posters
yielded no information.

Susan had simply disappeared.

Al Pickles, the chief of police,
worked with us every day.

Chief Pickles searched the dorms
from top to bottom.

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He had notified other colleges
in Washington State

and nearby Oregon and Idaho.

Then Chief Pickles
started hearing of

another girl missing here
and one missing there,

and he really started
digging into it

to see what was going on.

Reporter:
Lynda Ann Healy,

a 21-year-old University of
Washington student,

disappeared from her Seattle
apartment in January of 1974.

She went
to the University of Washington.

She had an announcing job
at a radio station in Seattle.

McChesney: She was on the radio
every morning,

doing the ski report
five days a week.

When she did not come on
the news and do her ski report,

people noticed
that she was gone.

Sullivan:
And then on March 12th,

Donna Manson disappeared

from Evergreen State College
in Olympia.

She was walking
across campus one minute,

the next minute, she's gone.

There just was a kind of
eerie erasure of these women.

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Harper:
May 6th, the scene was repeated,

this time miles south

at Oregon State University
in Corvallis.

Kathy Parks disappeared while
walking on campus that night.

No trace was found.

Three weeks later,
the night of May 31st,

22-year-old Brenda Ball left
this Burien tavern and vanished.

Keppel: Brenda Ball, we knew
that she lived close by

to the tavern
that she was missing from.

Basically, we had no witnesses.

Nobody saw her with anybody.

Then you had
Georgann Hawkins disappear.

Harper: The night of June 10th,
18-year-old Georgann Hawkins

left a fraternity
to make this walk,

just 90 feet down
a well-lit alley,

back to her sorority at
the University of Washington.

Georgann was never seen again.

Sullivan:
She's gone.

The state of anxiety in
Washington can't be overstated.

Meixner:
This guy came up to me

and asked me to help him
put his sailboat onto his car.

Lake Sammamish
would change everything.

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Reporter:
A wave of fear swept all across

the state of Washington
from January to July of 1974,

when someone
was abducting young women.

It was difficult
to connect the dots

when you're talking
about young women,

similar age,
somewhat similar description...

Young, pretty,
white females, dark-haired,

typically parted
down the middle.

McChesney: ...who go missing
with no -- virtually no clues.

It was very important to us
to try and determine

whether or not there was
any connection among the cases.

Keppel: We didn't have anything
coming our way.

We had the fact
that they were missing

and the date and time
that they were missing, about,

but nothing to help us
with the investigation.

There weren't
suspicious circumstances.

No one had seen these women
be abducted or in harm's way.

Then in July of 1974,

King County police started
investigating two cases

involving women
who had gone missing

from Lake Sammamish State Park.

Lake Sammamish
would change everything.

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There were different events
going on at Lake Sammamish park,

and thousands of people there
with their families.

The first person at the park
that was missing was Janice Ott.

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She was seen on the beach
in her bikini,

talking to a guy,
and they walked together.

And she wheeled her bicycle

back toward the parking lot
where his car was parked,

and that's the last
that she was seen.

And then Denise Naslund
was on the beach,

and she had to use the restroom.

So she walked back
toward the restroom

and was never seen again.

Reporter:
19-year-old Denise Naslund

and 23-year-old Janice Ott

disappeared on a warm summer day
at Lake Sammamish.

Police launched
a massive search of the park,

though there was no sign
of the women.

Once the news media
broadcast information

about these two women
going missing,

witnesses came forward,
and the witnesses indicated

that there were
suspicious things.

Authorities didn't know it
at the time,

but a girl
who was only 15 years old

that would prove to be
the key eyewitness.

Meixner:
The news came on,

and the news anchor held up
two pictures of two women

and started out by saying,

"There's two missing women
from Lake Sammamish."

And I looked at
one of the pictures,

and it was Janice Ott.

And I really felt like
I had a knot in my throat,

and I remember
turning to my dad.

I said, "That girl was
laying next to me on the beach,

and she left with this guy."

He said,

"Well, I'm going to have to call
the police department."

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The very next day,

Detective Keppel
came to the house,

and I explained
the whole story to him.

She turned out to be
a pretty good witness.

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Meixner: It was
an absolute beautiful day.

I'd say by noon,

it was literally wall-to-wall
people on the beach.

Sylvia told Detective Keppel
that a smooth-talking stranger

had come up to her
and asked her for help.

Meixner:
This guy came up.

He was kind of tall,
very tanned, very good-looking.

He came up to me and asked me

to help him
put his sailboat onto his car,

and I remember looking at him.

And I told him, I says,

"You know, two of my girlfriends
are up at the concession stand,

and if I was gone,
they would be really worried."

Then this girl
laying next to me sat up,

and he asked her the exact
same thing, and she says,

"Well, I could probably
help you with that,"

and she got up.

She got dressed.

As she was picking up her towel,
she says, "Hi, my name's Jan,"

and he said, "Hi, I'm Ted."

He said, "My name's Ted,"

so that's the first time
we had a name.

Meixner: And he asked me
if I could give a description.

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The individual
was probably about 5'10",

with light-brown hair,
somewhat curly or wavy.

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Keppel: Mid-20s,
possibly a university student,

dressed in white t-shirt,
white shorts,

white tennis shoes,
white socks.

McChesney:
And he was wearing a sling,

some sort of sling device
on his arm,

so that was the composite.

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Reporter: Witnesses told of
a smooth-talking,

good-looking young man
named Ted,

who had been seen
talking with them.

Police released a composite
drawing and description of Ted.

The newspaper
put the composite out,

and I think the headline was,

"Is this the Ted
that took the girls?"

For two women,
the composite sketch of Ted

hit a little too close to home.

Chino: My friend threw
the picture on the table,

the composite,

and she said to me,
"Who do you think that is?"

I said, "Well, it's Ted. Why?"

And then she burst into tears
because that looked a lot like

her boyfriend, Ted Bundy --
a lot like him.

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A lot of people trying to pin
a lot of stuff on somebody

because,
you know, it's convenient.

She went to the authorities.

I think she wanted to make sure
he wasn't the one.

Kendall: In my own mind,
there was similarities

or coincidences that seemed
to tie him in, but yet,

when I would think about
our day-to-day relationship,

there was nothing there
that would lead me to think

that he was a violent man.

Woman: Have you ever
physically harmed anyone?

Ever physically harmed anyone?

No.

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Jordan:
In July of 1974,

eight young women
had gone missing,

and panic was rising
because it became clear

that they had not gone
of their own volition.

They had been taken.

Authorities had very little
to go on,

other than
a few eyewitness accounts

of a man
who had been in the area.

His name was Ted, and he was
last seen with one of the women

who had gone missing
at Lake Sammamish.

And from that point on,
it was like heightened alert.

We didn't have
any physical evidence to go by.

We had missing persons
for months and no remains.

Sullivan: Before the first
dump site was found,

they didn't have
any evidence at all.

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McChesney:
The first remains were found

just a few miles from
Lake Sammamish state park.

Reporter: Police made the grisly
recovery of several bodies,

badly beaten,
sometimes strangled.

The skeletal remains
of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund

were found on a hillside.

She was like a ray of sunshine
in my life,

and she brought me
so much happiness.

And I don't believe
I'll ever be the same again.

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McChesney:
The hunters came across bones.

You didn't have
an entire skeleton.

You had just pieces,
making it very difficult.

Keppel: Well, you could see
in the skulls that were found

that there were fracture marks,
so that led us to believe

that they were probably
struck in the head.

Reporter: The bodies of four
more young women were found.

All of them had been strangled
or bludgeoned

by this brutal killer.

Reporter 2:
Lynda Ann Healy --

her body was found on a mountain
18 miles from Seattle,

along with the bodies
of several other missing women,

including
18-year-old Susan Rancourt.

Good: They found her body
in the mountains.

They couldn't identify her
except by her dental records.

That's horrific.

When somebody is missing,
you imagine the worst things,

and it turns out
what happened to her

might have been worse
than what we imagined.

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McChesney: There were just
very few leads, very few clues.

It was not easy.

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Keppel: There just wasn't
any of the traditional things

you would find
at a murder scene.

Clothing -- where was that,

and where in the world
was the rest of the remains?

We didn't have that, either.

Only had bones.

We still could not find evidence
leading us to the offender.

Sullivan: Lake Sammamish,
with all those people there,

they were telling the public,

"Please,
send all your photographs

of the crowds to us, please."

And they did, and they never
got a photo with him in it.

They got a photo with what
they believed might be his car.

McChesney:
The witnesses that we had

saw Ted leaving with Janice
or with Denise

and saw him
heading towards this Volkswagen.

Unfortunately, there was
no license plate that we had.

It was just
a description of a car,

and there were literally
hundreds of Volkswagen beetles

in the state of Washington
at the time.

They were not in good shape.

Here's what they knew
about the abductor --

people sitting around Janice,

they said this guy
identified himself as Ted.

They had a description,

from which composite drawings
came forth,

and they knew this person
drove a Volkswagen.

We received
literally thousands of tips,

and interestingly,
Ted Bundy was among them.

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Reporter: Police released
a composite drawing

and description of Ted,

and within weeks,
through an anonymous call,

the name of Tacoma native
Ted Bundy

was added to a file
of more than 3,000 suspects

being investigated
by the police task force.

Winn: People teased him
at the office and said,

"Say, your name is Ted,
and you've got a Volkswagen,"

and of course, they were
teasing and laughing about it

because he was
the boy next door.

He was handsome.
He was charming.

He had political aspirations.

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Jordan: Ted Bundy had been
in the press before,

but not for anything bad.

It was because he had been
a rising star

in the local
political community,

and he even made headlines
in 1973

for catching a purse-snatcher.

He also happened to look a lot
like the composite sketch,

and he drove a Volkswagen.

And the similarities were enough
to make his friends wonder.

One of the articles in the paper

said that he drove
a bronze Volkswagen.

We went to a pay phone,
and I called and asked them,

for sure, it was bronze,
and they said yes.

And that was a relief because
Ted's Volkswagen was tan.

Jordan: Marylynne met Ted
in 1969 at the Sandpiper Inn.

It was a tavern in Seattle,

and they soon became
fast friends

because he was dating
her best friend, Liz Kendall.

Chino:
We did lots of things together.

There was kind of
the three of us.

I came and went along
for the ride, you know.

I feel good about myself.
I'm happy with myself.

And they know
that I didn't do these things.

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Ted was born in a home for unwed
mothers in Vermont in 1946.

Bundy's mother --
she was a single mother,

and shortly after that,
she moved as far away

as she could,
moved to the west coast.

She met and married a man
named Johnny Bundy,

who was a cook
in an Army hospital.

Johnny was very self-effacing

and did not make
a distinct impression.

Louise did.

Ted looked
exactly like his mother.

Ted being the oldest and,
you might say, my pride and joy,

our relationship
was always very special.

A very normal, active boy.

He did all the things
that most boys like to do.

Carlisle:
He graduated high school, '65,

with about a B,

and he started fall,
University of Puget Sound.

Chino:
He was smart, and I think --

and he always got good grades.

We had wonderful discussions.

You know, I loved talking to Ted

because he's great,
talks about politics,

very well-read, very analytical,
all that kind of stuff.

Oh, yeah,
you would have liked him.

He had a Bachelor's degree
in psychology.

He had worked in some campaigns.

People liked him.

He had pretty good street cred

in some
pretty legitimate circles.

Ann Rule, who later
wrote a book about Ted,

had worked with him
on a suicide-prevention line.

She was impressed with him.

Rule: Ted was my partner
at the crisis clinic

for a little over a year,
and I liked him.

He was so good on the phones.

He'd walk me to my car and say,
"Ann, lock your doors

because I don't want anything to
happen to you on the way home."

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Lots of people in the political
world thought he had a future.

He'd worked
for governor Dan Evans

in his re-election campaign.

He was a very nice guy,
and like a lot of young people,

you're building a, you know,
a group to go out and campaign

and help
for a variety of things.

And he was one of those people.

Chino:
When Dan Evans was elected,

he and my friend
went to the governor's ball,

and I recall her saying,
"I felt like I was in a dream

because we danced -- you know,
the governor and his wife

danced the first,
and then we danced.

The dream, yeah,
it was wonderful."

Sullivan: He had
a lot of influential people

that liked him
and believed in him.

He enrolled in the University
of Utah school of law.

He was making a name
for himself.

It can't be.

It can't be our Ted
because we know him.

Reporter:
Ted Bundy, a rising star

in the state Republican Party,

was not considered
a prime suspect.

Those Washington cases
remain open.

♪♪

Jordan:
By September of 1974,

the murders in Washington State
had stopped,

but a little over
800 miles away,

near Salt Lake City, Utah,
women began going missing.

And this was very near where
Ted Bundy attended law school.

A highway patrolman saw
the vehicle,

thought it was suspicious.

He searches his car.

He finds a ski mask
and some rope

and an ice pick
and a pair of handcuffs.

Jordan: And it all began
to come together.

♪♪

I have the greatest amount
of confidence

that at least
in the preparation stage,

that my ideas will work.

Welcome back to
"How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

In 1975, terror and panic
gripped the nation

after eight missing women

had been found brutally murdered
in Washington state.

Detectives had a suspect,
Ted Bundy,

but had no evidence
tying him to the crimes.

Then women began going missing
near Salt Lake City, Utah,

close to where Bundy
was attending law school,

and authorities began to wonder,

"Could this be the work
of the same man?"

♪♪

Here in the west, there are
still unanswered questions

in a number of murder cases.

The unsolved crimes
frustrate police.

Packer:
I was working late at KSL,

and the front desk called up
to the newsroom and said,

"There's a police chief here

that wants
to talk to a reporter."

It was Chief Louis Smith
with the Midvale police.

He had a photo with him
and said,

"This is my daughter Melissa,

and I think
she's been abducted."

I want to know

that the young girls
are safe on the street.

I don't want another parent
to go through

what my wife and I
went through.

I don't --
I don't think that's right.

Reporter:
Melissa left her father

on the night
of October 18, 1974,

to meet a friend
at this Midvale restaurant.

They talked for a while,
and then Melissa left --

she said for home,
but she never got there.

Sullivan:
She walked home.

It wasn't well-lighted,
and a lady --

she hears a single scream
pierce the night air.

♪♪

Jordan:
Three weeks later,

Debby Kent went missing
from a school auditorium

when she left
a school play early.

Reporter: Debby was attending
a play with her family

at Viewmont High School on
the night of November 8, 1974.

She left the play early to pick
up her brother at an ice rink.

And the mom said, you know,
"Be careful.

Hurry back, Deb,"
and she got up

and she walked out the doors
on the western side.

Reporter: We're at the Kent home
in Bountiful right now.

What you're looking at
is the porch light

that's been left on for Debby,

a beacon of light,
a symbol of hope.

♪♪

Jordan: By year's end,
four Utah women would be missing

and feared dead,

and just like
in the state of Washington,

detectives were really
just hankering for clues

as to who could be responsible
for all of these missing women.

But then, police caught a break

in the form of a young woman
named Carol DaRonch,

who came to them with
an almost unbelievable story

of escaping the horror
of being kidnapped

by a really good-looking man
who drove a Volkswagen,

and that story would be key
to solving this case.

♪♪

She was at a mall.
He approaches her.

Carlisle: He went up and
he says, "I'm a police officer,

and I think
someone's broken into your car.

Do you have a Camaro?"

And she says yes,

and he says,
"Would you come with me?"

"You can come with me in,
you know, my car."

So she sees this
ratty little Volkswagen.

♪♪

Carlisle:
He gets her in his Volkswagen.

He's driving off,
gets a few blocks away.

Sullivan:
He pulled his Volkswagen over,

and within a second
of having stopped the vehicle,

he attacked her.

Carlisle: He tries
to slap the handcuffs on her.

He had gotten the handcuff
on one arm,

was trying to get the handcuff
on the other wrist,

missed it,
got it on the same arm.

Well, she knew
if she was going to survive

that she had to
get out of that car.

She got out.

He got out of the vehicle,
tried to chase her,

but there were headlights
coming towards them.

He just knew
couldn't stay there.

He got back in his car and left.

Jordan: Carol DaRonch told
her story to the police,

and now they had insight
into the suspect's M.O.

He would try to lure women
into his car,

and they would never
be seen again.

This began to match

what the Washington state police
were hearing,

and it all began
to come together.

He was very big on using
the ruse of a helpless person.

At Lake Sammamish,
he had an arm cast.

Carlisle: He said to the girls,
"Could you please come

and help me load a sailboat
on my car?"

Good: Calling them over
to a car for a helping hand,

which you would normally
go ahead and do,

if you were trusting.

Sullivan: At Central
Washington State College,

where he abducted
Susan Rancourt,

he did a similar thing.

♪♪

Two young women at Sue's college

had been approached by him
before Sue.

One of the young ladies
carried his books to the car.

♪♪

Carlisle: When he would get them
in his vehicle,

he would try to knock them out
at that point,

then molest them, kill them,

or kill them
and rape them after.

Those people would never,
you know, be seen again.

Sue -- she wasn't out looking
for trouble when she was taken.

He asked for help,
and she would have helped him.

Being helpful was her downfall.

♪♪

Jordan: So now they had an M.O.,
but no person of interest.

and it would be the work
of an astute highway patrolman

who would finally bring this
depraved suspect into the light.

♪♪

Carlisle: It was late at night,
about 2:00 in the morning,

and he had stopped
at this little residential area.

What happened is
a highway patrolman saw his --

the vehicle,
thought it was suspicious,

pulled him over.

Bundy:
It was early in the morning.

I exited my car,
and the officer, Hayward,

had left his car
and approached me.

♪♪

Carlisle:
He searches his car.

He finds a ski mask
and some rope

and an ice pick
and a pair of handcuffs.

They knew that somebody
was out there that was,

you know, driving a Volkswagen,

that this Carol DaRonch
escaped from,

and with the handcuffs,
and said,

"Oh, I have to
check into this guy."

♪♪

Jordan: The man now in custody
was Ted Bundy.

Reporter: In October of '75,
Ted Bundy was identified

in a police lineup
after being arrested

on kidnapping charges
in Salt Lake City.

Winn:
He was a law student.

He was a kind of a rising star,

so the idea
that somebody like this

was the possible perpetrator,
it's impossible.

Munro:
When it was first identified

that it might be Ted Bundy,
it was just total disbelief.

None of us that had any
remote connection with Ted

could possibly believe it,
and yet, as time went by,

we realized there was more truth
than there was suspicion.

♪♪

Complete and utter shock.
We still don't believe it.

It just can't be.

Our son
is the best son in the world.

I don't like being locked up
for something I didn't do,

and I don't like
my liberty taken away.

Yes, I feel that I'm right,

and yes, I feel I'm going to
make it, no doubt in my mind.

♪♪

I am going to do my best

to keep in touch with friends
and family who have been so kind

and been so good in writing
and praying for me.

I'm thankful for that.

♪♪

Jordan: In October of 1975,
Ted Bundy was charged

with the aggravated kidnapping
of Carol DaRonch,

the young woman
he had tried to handcuff

inside of his Volkswagen.

While investigators
were building the case,

Ted's friends and family
were in complete disbelief.

The first reports were when he
was arrested in Salt Lake City.

It was quite a shock
when we realized,

in fact,
it was the same Ted Bundy.

The Ted Bundy we knew
was not a violent person.

♪♪

On the other hand, there were
some people whom we interviewed

who knew Ted
that put all the things together

and said, "You know,
he was one strange duck."

They just thought there was
something odd about him.

Sullivan:
There was a professor.

He called Keppel's people
one day.

He said, "I got a weird guy
in my class.

His name is Ted.
He drives a 1968 Volkswagen.

I think you ought
to check him out."

It wasn't just his behavior
that was seemingly odd.

It was
his ever-changing appearance.

Chino: I remember distinctly
when they did him in a lineup --

and Ted had longer hair, curly.

Well, when he went up
to do the lineup,

he'd cut his hair very short so
he'd look like everybody else.

Winn:
It was not only cut,

but it was parted
on the other side,

which would create this kind of
different symmetry of the face.

He looked like a chameleon.

He was very much different
each time somebody saw him.

Chino: I guess when I started
putting things together,

I had spoken to my father
here in Utah

because I was getting worried,
and his words were,

"Marylynne, if he's the one,
he'll do it again."

Winn: Once he was arrested
and his name became associated

and the cops started
speaking to each other,

people by then were convinced

that Bundy had committed
these crimes in Washington.

McChesney: People had reported
that they thought

he looked like the composite.

He had a Volkswagen bug.

He had left the area in 1974,
after Lake Sammamish,

and gone to Utah,
so that was a clue

also because the killings,
abductions, missing-people cases

had stopped around the time
he left the state.

I mean,
he fit all the parameters.

Sullivan: And everybody's scales
fell off their eyes at once,

and it was simply,
"This is the guy.

It's Bundy.
We just now have to prove it."

I am not guilty.

[ Laughs ]

Does that -- does that include
the time

I stole a comic book
when I was 5 years old?

I am not guilty of the charges
which are filed against me.

Despite the fact that he was
a suspect in multiple murders,

Ted was actually legally

just facing one count
of aggravated kidnapping,

and he was given
the possibility of bail.

And he posted bail
and returned to Washington state

before his trial in Utah.

Ted was allowed to come back
for the Christmas holiday.

Ted knew that
people were watching him,

and he was infamous,
really, at that point.

His visit put both authorities

and his girlfriend's
best friend, Marylynne, on edge,

especially when Marylynne
found herself

in Ted's company at Liz's house,

and then alone with him
in his car.

Chino: I know by now that
they're investigating him,

and I remember we were over
at her house having dinner.

And I had to go home,
and she said,

"Come on, I'll take you home,"

and Ted jumps in,
"No, let me take her.

Let me take her,"
and he ended up taking me home.

I could have gotten
an Academy Award

for the performance I put in
in that car

because I just talked to him
like things were normal.

I didn't want to be around him.

♪♪

Jordan: In the new year,
Ted returned to Utah

to face the trial

for the aggravated kidnapping
of Carol DaRonch.

A former law student,
he had a lot of confidence,

and he decided he was
going to help defend himself.

Bundy:
Putting yourself in the position

of being your own counsel,
it's that positive psychology.

You're going to do it.

You're going to do it
because you're right.

Obviously, I'm going to
bear the consequences,

so why not
bear the responsibility?

I covered the trial
from beginning to end.

They had a good case
against him for the kidnapping,

not a really great case.

There wasn't a lot of evidence.

They found a head hair
of Carol DaRonch in his car.

There was the eyewitness
accounts of Carol.

She was obviously
the key witness in the case,

but she wasn't the best witness

because her story
was not really consistent.

At one point, she said, "Well,
I don't know if the police badge

that he showed me
was silver or gold."

These are minor details.

She was adamant
that he was the man.

♪♪

This person
is walking towards me

and has a smile on his face.

He says, "I'm Ted Bundy."

I noticed a long time ago,

it ceased to be an issue whether
or not I was innocent or guilty.

The issue now is
can we pin it on him?

♪♪

Every citizen
who believes in law and order

should spend a couple weeks
there and learn how it works.

Carlisle:
Everybody knew about Ted Bundy.

He had attempted to kidnap
Carol DaRonch, and she got away.

♪♪

Jordan:
On March 1, 1976,

Ted Bundy was found guilty
of aggravated kidnapping.

[ Chuckles ]
It's an emotional time.

I don't even like
to think of that day,

but I wasn't going to give them
the satisfaction

of seeing me break down.

Jordan: Ted was then sent
to Utah state prison

for a 90-day
psychiatric evaluation

before his sentencing,

and the psychologist
would be charged with the task

of determining
whether this event

was just a one-time thing

or whether he was a predator
who should be locked up forever.

♪♪

Carlisle: I was a psychologist
at the prison,

and this person
is walking towards me

and a smile on his face,

and he extends out his hand
and he says, "I'm Ted Bundy.

You must be Dr. Carlisle."

He had the ability to make
a very good impression.

He looked good. He smiled.

He seemed confident.

He seemed happy.

He gave me the Ted Bundy
he wanted me to know.

Jordan:
Over the next 90 days,

Dr. Carlisle
would delve into Ted's psyche

by trying to cover
every aspect of his life,

from his early childhood
up into his teenage years,

when he became a prolific
consumer of pornography.

♪♪

Ted is lonely,
and he's just not fitting in.

He would just sort of withdraw,

and being lonely
and not fitting in,

you have to get
your satisfaction somewhere.

He withdrew into
a quiet fantasy life,

but then, his behavior
would begin to escalate.

Carlisle:
He was getting interested

in window-peeking
and pornography,

and he's feeling a sense
of control, a sense of power.

So they rely upon it
more and more and more.

♪♪

Dr. Carlisle focused a lot

on Ted's relationships
with women,

but one woman in particular.

Her name was Marjorie,
and she, by all accounts,

was Ted's dream girl.

She was very intelligent.

She was outgoing.

She had worked part-time
as a model,

and her father
was vice president

of an international company.

So this was
everything he wanted.

She had money. She had prestige.

Ted felt like he'd been,
you know,

left outside of that circle
of privilege and pursued her.

Carlisle: They'd communicate
back and forth,

and then she told him,
"I just want to be friends."

A lot of experts believe

that Ted Bundy
had a huge issue with rejection,

and that that rejection,
the breakup with Marjorie,

was a watershed event
that he would never get over.

He's very disappointed.

It's as though Marge
was the last-ditch attempt

to get control
over his wild life,

and so the dark side
then just sort of shifts in.

Based on all the evidence
that Dr. Carlisle

was able to gather
from his interviews with Ted

and all of his friends
and family,

he came to the conclusion
that Ted Bundy was, indeed,

a very violent man

and that he was
most likely responsible

for all of these crimes that
he was being considered for.

Carlisle: After we finished,
he says, "Al, do you think

I really killed those girls
that they claim I did?"

And part of me wanted to say,
"Yes, I have no doubt about it,"

but what I said was,
"I don't know for sure,

but I think if you did,
you'll likely do it again."

And at that point,
he didn't say anything.

He just walked off down
the hall, went back to his cell.

♪♪

As each day went on,

there was more information
that came in about Ted.

Reporter: Eyewitness reports
fitted with Bundy's description.

There was also physical evidence
in Bundy's car.

Packer:
They had seized the Volkswagen

and vacuumed the inside
for evidence.

There were, I believe,
pubic hair of other women,

young women, in the car,
which would have been the first

really strong
sort of smoking-gun link

to link him
to these other killings.

Ted's not the person
we thought he was.

They've got real evidence
against him.

Being in prison,
going through a kind of hell,

matures a person, and I --

and I think
it's done good things for me.

My only misgiving is
that I might never be --

might never be in a position
to apply it,

you know, on the streets,
where I'd like to apply it.

He was looking for
avenues of escape.

Reporter: Bundy,
who had been awaiting trial,

escaped on December 31, 1977.

Jordan:
Ted Bundy was gone,

and the authorities
did not know where he went.

Reporter:
Roadblocks were set up

within 15 minutes
of Bundy's escape.

So far, these road blocks have
turned up no sign of Ted Bundy.

Theodore Bundy is now one of
the FBI's most wanted men.

♪♪

After being convicted
of aggravated kidnapping,

Ted Bundy was sentenced to
5 to 15 years in a Utah prison,

but he wouldn't remain
behind bars for very long.

His story and his reign
of terror were far from over,

next time on
"How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

Thanks for watching.