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Ted Bundy: The Dark Secrets Behind America's Infamous Serial Killer · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder. All the things
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  Speaker 1: that I love to consume, and I know you do too.
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  Speaker 1: I know you do too, you little sick, sick.
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  Speaker 1: And today I'm gonna feed you, alright? And today we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about somebody that I'm sure pretty much all of
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  Speaker 1: you know. But I'm gonna tell you some things you
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  Speaker 1: probably don't know. Or I'm gonna go into a lot
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  Speaker 1: of detail in a more fun way than you've seen
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  Speaker 1: in documentaries and in movies. And I'm not gonna sugarcoat
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  Speaker 1: anything like Hollywood in that movie. So today we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about one of America's most infamous serial killers. Nay, one
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  Speaker 1: of the world's most infamous serial killers.
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  Speaker 3: Ted.
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  Speaker 1: He was known to have killed 20 women in the 1970s,
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  Speaker 1: but admitted to killing 36. Some experts in the field
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  Speaker 1: believe he could have killed up into the hundreds even.
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  Speaker 1: But what makes this case so infamous is that it
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  Speaker 1: is the first murder trial to be televised nationally, and
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  Speaker 1: that this sick person Richard had fans. He had a
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  Speaker 1: fan club. He had, like, a lot, and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into it. Just goes to prove that pretty privilege doesn't
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  Speaker 1: stop at that high school that was too popular to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you. It goes all the way up to
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  Speaker 1: psychotic murderers. All right, so let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go
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  Speaker 1: Mach 5 down the highway in our brown V-dub bug,
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  Speaker 1: slam on the brakes, and dive through this windshield into
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  Speaker 1: this sick together. So like we always do, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: start from the beginning to little baby Ted Bundy, Theodore
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  Speaker 1: Bundy to be exact. He was born in 1946 on
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  Speaker 1: November 24th. That's my brother's birthday. Not the 1946, he's not,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a brother that's significantly older than my parents.
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  Speaker 1: That would be weird. Anyway, he was born on November 24th,
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  Speaker 1: 1946 in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Now Ted had a pretty
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  Speaker 1: odd upbringing and not odd as in like your mom
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  Speaker 1: keeping all your teeth that have fallen out in a
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  Speaker 1: drawer and she shows you later when you're an adult,
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  Speaker 1: just me. All right, but Ted's upbringing was odd because
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  Speaker 1: his entire knowledge of what his family unit was was
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  Speaker 1: essentially a giant lie. He thought his father was somebody
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't and he thought his mother was somebody she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't because they were actually his grandparents and he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: learn this until later on in life. So he already has.
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  Speaker 1: Massive trust issues. So Ted would grow up thinking that
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  Speaker 1: his actual mom was his sister, and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: his grandparents were his actual parents. He was quoted saying
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  Speaker 1: to a co-worker later in life, Ann Rule, who also
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  Speaker 1: wrote a book that we'll talk about later, saying, When
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  Speaker 1: I was born, my mother couldn't say that I had-
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he talks like. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what he talks like. Actually, you know what? I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: make him sound stupid. When I was born, my mother
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  Speaker 1: couldn't say that I was her baby. I was born
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  Speaker 1: in a home for unwed mothers. And when she took
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  Speaker 1: me home, she and my grandparents decided to tell everyone
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  Speaker 1: that I was her brother and that they were my parents.
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  Speaker 1: So I grew up believing that she was my sister,
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  Speaker 1: that I was a late baby born to my grandparents. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good voice. That's a good voice. Because people
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  Speaker 1: think he's, like, attractive and whatnot, and he sounds attractive.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay, well, I'm gonna make him
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  Speaker 1: sound as ugly as he is. Let's continue. So at
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  Speaker 1: 22 years old, Eleanor Louise Cowell gave birth to Theodore
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  Speaker 1: Robert Cowell, which is Ted Bundy, at the Elizabeth Lund
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  Speaker 1: maternity home for unwed mothers in Burlington, Vermont. And she
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  Speaker 1: would go on to do just what Bundy claimed to
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  Speaker 1: his friend, Aunt Rule. Her parents would pretend to be
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  Speaker 1: Ted's parents and make him believe that Eleanor was his
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  Speaker 1: sister instead of his mother. And Bundy would start displaying
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  Speaker 1: pretty disturbing behavior from an early age. which is pretty
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  Speaker 1: common for most serial killers, although he didn't have that
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  Speaker 1: like top three, this is definitely a serial killer thing.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't light shit on fire, he didn't wet his bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he also didn't hurt animals that we know of.
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  Speaker 1: But he did, at the age of three, approach his
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  Speaker 1: auntie while she was taking a nap and surrounded her
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  Speaker 1: completely inside of a circle of knives. Dude, what the
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  Speaker 1: f- If a three-year-old did that to me, he would
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  Speaker 1: stay three if you know what I mean. I'm just kidding. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and she would wake up to him staring blankly and
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  Speaker 1: giggling at her. So she was just like, Oh, what
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  Speaker 1: the f * * *? What these knives around me?
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  Speaker 1: And then you just hear in the background like, You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Anyway, probably would have solved a
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  Speaker 1: lot of issues, but I digress. She would go on
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  Speaker 1: to say after Ted Bundy got caught to interviewers saying,
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  Speaker 1: Not like other children, he looked and acted like them,
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  Speaker 1: but he was haunted by something else. How can a
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  Speaker 1: three-year-old be haunted by something? What do you Their biggest
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  Speaker 1: issue is finding a permanent marker to draw on the
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  Speaker 1: wall with. Or in this case, find knives to put
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  Speaker 1: a satanic circle around you. But I don't know. Or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he was haunted by the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: fantasized about cutting his peers' heads off and performing horrific
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  Speaker 1: acts on them after the fact. But that's just me.
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  Speaker 1: But Ted was actually known to be quiet, shy, and
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  Speaker 1: a stuttering kid. And people would say that he had...
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  Speaker 1: a general superiority aura about him, thinking he was going
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  Speaker 1: to grow up to be somebody incredibly important. Classic, classic
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  Speaker 1: psychotic narcissist. Just thinking that you're better than everyone else,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's below you, and basically you don't care what anybody
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  Speaker 1: else thinks. That's exactly how Ted Bundy was. He had
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  Speaker 1: a superiority complex, like no other. And when Tan became
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  Speaker 1: a teenager, he said he didn't really know how to
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  Speaker 1: maintain a proper relationship and that he just fell out
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  Speaker 1: of place in school. But the people he grew up
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  Speaker 1: with said he was a medium fish in a small pond.
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  Speaker 1: So he was pretty well liked because he was able
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  Speaker 1: to put up that mask. He was able to be
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  Speaker 1: a chameleon amongst his peers. And this is what he
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  Speaker 1: does throughout his entire life, basically. He was basically mimicking
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  Speaker 1: people so he would fit in. Or studying people or
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  Speaker 1: psychology in order to fit in as well and get
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  Speaker 1: his way. But the biggest reason why he was liked
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  Speaker 1: in school specifically was because he was pretty. He was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a good looking guy in some people's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a disgusting monster. But if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that he was a serial killer, I guess I
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  Speaker 1: get it. But he was pretty standard looking. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of had a unibrow, which... loser.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't, I'm not going to make
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  Speaker 1: fun of you. If you have a unibrow, good on you.
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  Speaker 1: But Ted Bundy, you're a piece of shit. Anyway, in
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  Speaker 1: comes the pretty privilege though. So you have this guy
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  Speaker 1: that is narcissistic superiority. He's good looking and he's very smart, well-read,
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  Speaker 1: and he's able to talk to anybody in a room.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just like this politician, basically. But you could
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  Speaker 1: see all these factors just throwing it in our serial
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  Speaker 1: killer stew. You know, we're mixing up the pot and
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  Speaker 1: it's not looking good. And this would also be around
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  Speaker 1: the time that Ted would fixate on something, which was
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  Speaker 1: snow skiing. And I hate, I hate that he loved
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  Speaker 1: snow skiing because that's something I love. And the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he loves it just makes me want to but
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  Speaker 1: it's okay. He's dead. What do we care? Anyway, but
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  Speaker 1: pretty boy Ted was also kind of a bad boy
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  Speaker 1: in high school, getting arrested twice for suspicion of burglary, burglary, burglary, burglary, burglary, burglary, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: and auto theft, which he will do a lot, the
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  Speaker 1: auto theft specifically later in life. He was really good
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  Speaker 1: at stealing cars and he used to steal ski equipment
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  Speaker 1: and also forge ski lift tickets as well, which is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pretty mild. The grand theft auto is pretty bad,
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  Speaker 1: but You know, who hasn't forged a ski lift ticket
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  Speaker 1: or two? Am I right? I'm just kidding. I've never
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  Speaker 1: done that before. Don't do that, please. And in 1967,
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  Speaker 1: he would end up going to the University of Washington
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  Speaker 1: where he met his first and supposedly only love, Stephanie Brooks.
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  Speaker 1: Now her name wasn't actually Stephanie Brooks, but she goes
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  Speaker 1: by that alias to protect herself essentially. So we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be calling her Stephanie Brooks. So Ted was in
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  Speaker 1: love with her as much as he could be, right?
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  Speaker 1: As much as a narcissistic psychopath could be. I think
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  Speaker 1: he was more like obsessed with the idea of her
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  Speaker 1: because she was beautiful, she was rich, and she had
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  Speaker 1: an extremely powerful family in the political space. And these
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  Speaker 1: were all things that mattered a lot to Ted because
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  Speaker 1: he just wanted to work his way up the ladder.
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  Speaker 1: He was willing to step on people's heads no matter
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  Speaker 1: what to make his way up the ladder. And Stephanie
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  Speaker 1: Brooks was one of them. And I think he was
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  Speaker 1: under the delusion that obsession and want was love and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. Ted Bundy is incapable of love. He only
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  Speaker 1: loves one thing and that is himself. But luckily she
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  Speaker 1: would dump his ass and he would unfortunately become even
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  Speaker 1: more obsessed with her. Because when you tell a narcissist no,
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  Speaker 1: that just means yes in their brain or try harder.
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  Speaker 1: And coming from somebody that's been with a narcissist before,
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  Speaker 1: this is so true. It is so true. It's just
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  Speaker 1: messed up. So he went on a six year long
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  Speaker 1: game trying to get Stephanie Brooks back. But during this
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  Speaker 1: long game, Bundy would meet his better known other half,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Kendall. If you've seen the movie, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly
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  Speaker 1: Evil and Vile, terrible movie name. I've always hated that
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  Speaker 1: movie name. Anyway, Elizabeth was the one played by Lily Collins,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Bundy slash Zac Efron's other half. So Bundy and
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  Speaker 1: Kendall met in October 1969 at a bar while they
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  Speaker 1: were both living in Seattle. She was a 24-year-old divorced
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  Speaker 1: single mom working at the University of Washington where 22-year-old
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  Speaker 1: Ted Bundy was attending school. They would soon hit it
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  Speaker 1: off and she would invite Ted Bundy back to her
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  Speaker 1: apartment No, no. Luckily, she was fine. She felt sick
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  Speaker 1: that night and they would go to bed and apparently
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  Speaker 1: they would just sleep in bed and she would wake
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  Speaker 1: up in the morning and Ted was making her daughter
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  Speaker 1: Molly pancakes. And Elizabeth would say in later interviews, I
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with him from day one. He took
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  Speaker 1: my breath away. probably wanted to take your breath away,
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  Speaker 1: but not in the way that you think.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: And he did think about that as well. There was
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  Speaker 1: a few times later down the line when she caught
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  Speaker 1: him doing some pretty sus stuff, looking at her with
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  Speaker 1: a flashlight under the blankets while she was sleeping and
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  Speaker 1: also doing some sus things with Molly later down the
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  Speaker 1: line as well, like playing hide and seek with her.
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  Speaker 1: while he was under a blanket while aroused. We're just
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  Speaker 1: getting into piece of shit territory. He's already a piece
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  Speaker 1: of shit, but she would learn all of this a
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  Speaker 1: lot later and kind of put the pieces together in
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  Speaker 1: her head later, but we'll get into that as well.
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  Speaker 1: So her daughter, Molly, would also fall in love with
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  Speaker 1: Ted very quickly as well. And immediately after that first morning,
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  Speaker 1: they would begin a pretty serious relationship. Bunny's relationship with
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  Speaker 1: Miss Kendall, though, was pretty volatile. In February 1970, they
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  Speaker 1: obtained a marriage license, but he would rip it up
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  Speaker 1: a few days later during a fight, so they would
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  Speaker 1: never actually get married ever. They just stayed boyfriend and girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: and they were like off and on all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very, very toxic relationship, as you would assume.
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  Speaker 1: with a psychopathic, narcissistic, serial-killing murderer, you know? And anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I digress. And two years after that incident, she would
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  Speaker 1: actually become pregnant, but Ted Bundy would make her have
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  Speaker 1: an abortion because she needed to work to put him
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  Speaker 1: through law school. What a gem! What a great guy,
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  Speaker 1: you know? What a great fella. Ah, what a piece
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  Speaker 1: of shit. Anyway, but shortly before that incident, he would
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  Speaker 1: get a job at a Slower Slide Hotline Center in 1971.
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  Speaker 1: And this would not only be an incredibly ironic job
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  Speaker 1: for a future serial killer, this would be by design.
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  Speaker 1: Because Bundy didn't necessarily lack empathy, he was capable of it,
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  Speaker 1: but he used it to create pleasure for himself, if
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. Like he was smart enough to know
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  Speaker 1: how the other person was feeling. So when you put
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  Speaker 1: him in a situation like this where he has desperate
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  Speaker 1: people on the other line, he felt like he had
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  Speaker 1: all control. It's all about control for Ted Bundy, and
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  Speaker 1: all about pain. Like, in the times in the future
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  Speaker 1: when he is torturing and mutilating the girls, he was
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  Speaker 1: able to empathize with them and understand how they felt,
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  Speaker 1: but he enjoyed that aspect of He enjoyed the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they were suffering and was very aware of it.
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  Speaker 1: And Anne Rule, his former co-worker at the Slewerslide Hotline
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  Speaker 1: call center and author, would go on to write a
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  Speaker 1: book about working with the serial killer Ted Bundy, at
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  Speaker 1: the time not knowing he was a serial killer, and
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  Speaker 1: she would title that book, The Stranger Beside Me. And
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  Speaker 1: she would go on to describe what it was like
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  Speaker 1: to work with Bundy in the book, and here are
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  Speaker 1: some quotes from it. on the surface, at least, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed that I had more problems than Ted did. He
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  Speaker 1: was one of those rare people who listened with full attention,
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  Speaker 1: who invents genuine caring by their very stance. You could
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  Speaker 1: tell things to Ted that you might never tell anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was very open. He was just like sitting
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  Speaker 1: there like this. But he was just murdering people in
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  Speaker 1: the back of his brain while he's staring at you.
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  Speaker 1: But he's hoping that you think that he's actually listening.
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  Speaker 1: And this is exactly what he did. This is exactly
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  Speaker 1: how he did it. And then she would also go
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  Speaker 1: on to say, The only clue I had was that
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  Speaker 1: my dog, who... Liked everyone. Didn't like Ted at all.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever he bent over my desk at the crisis clinic,
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  Speaker 1: she growled and the hackles on her neck stood up.
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  Speaker 1: The lesson is clear. Pay attention to your dog. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: With ghosts, murderers, people that are sus, just listen to
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  Speaker 1: your dogs. Your dogs know if somebody sucks. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the book is very interesting. I haven't read all of it,
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  Speaker 1: but I've read a lot of it. And it is
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  Speaker 1: very good if you want to look at that book
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  Speaker 1: and want to get more in depth, because I can't
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  Speaker 1: be sitting here for like eight hours and telling you
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  Speaker 1: about this. You'd get tired of me. But Anne explains
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  Speaker 1: that working with Ted was essentially an overall positive experience.
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  Speaker 1: And the only reason Anne didn't end up becoming one
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  Speaker 1: of his victims was because Anne didn't exactly fit his MO.
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  Speaker 1: MO meaning modus operandi, which is a Latin phrase for
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  Speaker 1: meaning a person's specific way of doing things. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: a serial killer picking out his victims and how he
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  Speaker 1: carries that act out. And Ted's victim type looked incredibly
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  Speaker 1: similar to his six-year-long game ex, Stephanie Brooks. Coincident? I
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  Speaker 1: think not. But he also most likely never killed Anne
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  Speaker 1: because he knew her. And Ted primarily killed strangers. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: much only killed strangers to remain undetected. Because he was smart.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, most murders happen to somebody... who you're close with.
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  Speaker 1: Like if I was to get murdered, you know, you'd
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  Speaker 1: look at, you know, my mom, my dad, Caleb, not
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  Speaker 1: that any of them would murder me, although they are
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  Speaker 1: in my will. If I go missing, please don't. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: but he always had a reasoning for what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: He always thought things through. He was very much a
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  Speaker 1: process killer. And that shows in the future murders that
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  Speaker 1: he committed. This would also be the time when Ted
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  Speaker 1: would enroll in a psychology major, which he would use
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  Speaker 1: later on and utilize in his criminal endeavors. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: he's always thinking about something. He always wants to learn
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  Speaker 1: how to manipulate people better so he can get his way.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also around this time in 1972 when he
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  Speaker 1: first gets involved in politics.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, what? A psychopathic narcissist that wants to
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  Speaker 1: be a politician? I've never heard of such a thing.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But this would be his only toe dip into politics though.
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  Speaker 1: And it would specifically be for the long game. Becoming
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  Speaker 1: involved with Governor Dan Evans' re-election campaign. Ted would pose
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  Speaker 1: as a college student and shadow the opponent of the
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  Speaker 1: governor just so he could get the stump speeches from him.
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  Speaker 1: And he would bring them back to Davis telling him
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  Speaker 1: how to beat his opponent. So he literally went undercover
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  Speaker 1: and eavesdropped on the competition for Dan Evans. Like he's
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  Speaker 1: just a giant piece of shit. I feel like that's
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  Speaker 1: just all politics though.
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's all fake. It's all fake and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's a piece of shit. I need to drink water,
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  Speaker 1: one thing. And Davis would go on to describe Bundy
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  Speaker 1: as smart, aggressive, and a believer in the system. He
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  Speaker 1: believed in that system, man, because it went in his favor.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that, but goddamn, yeah. And in 1973,
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  Speaker 1: the long game... would pay off and Ted would get
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  Speaker 1: back with his first sweetheart, Stephanie Brooks. Or he would
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  Speaker 1: finally convince her to get back with him, basically. And
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  Speaker 1: they would even get engaged soon after. And for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who are like, wait, what happened to Elizabeth Kendall?
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  Speaker 1: Where is she? She's here. They're still dating. and Kendall
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  Speaker 1: and Brooks know nothing about each other because Bundy is
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  Speaker 1: just a massive piece of shit. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: this guy doesn't get tired. I mean, he's not killing
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  Speaker 1: women just yet, I guess, or that we know of,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, so he's with both women at this time.
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  Speaker 1: But in classic narcissistic fashion, as soon as Stephanie agreed
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  Speaker 1: to get engaged to him, Bundy would soon after just
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  Speaker 1: cut off all contact with her. He was the first
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: one to just ghost out of the, he just stopped
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: talking to her completely, which is bonkers. but makes sense
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: for Ted because he's a piece of shit, as we know.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: But this is a classic narcissist type of behavior and
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: psychopathic type of behavior because he had a goal, he
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: chased it, and then as soon as he got it,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: he just didn't want it anymore. It's like a dog
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: chasing a bone and then he gets the bone and
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: then he figures out that there's no meat on the bone,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: so he just tosses it away. Did you like that analogy?
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at those. So she would continuously try
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: to contact him, and she would get a hold of
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: him one day on the phone, and she would be like,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: what the f * * * happened? Where are you? Like,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: we just got engaged, like, what's going on? And he
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: would literally just say to her, I have no idea
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: what you mean. He's such a gaslighter, dude. He's gaslighting
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: me and he's dead.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I don't, anyway.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: But this is believed to be the catalyst to the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: beginning of his murder spree, which kind of makes sense.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: So all of his victims would look significantly like Stephanie Brooks.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: And you can kind of look at that like, we
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily know why. There's some serial killers that kill
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: women that look like their mothers because they don't like them.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Similar to Ed Kemper or other serial killers that kill women.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: women that look like their wives. And in this case,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: he was killing women that look like Stephanie Brooks. And
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: also his current girlfriend, Elizabeth Kendall, looked a lot like
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Stephanie Brooks as well. So he clearly had a type.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. He had a type.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: So on January 4th, 1974, a woman named Karen Sparks,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: living in the University District neighborhood of Seattle, was attacked
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: in her home and left for dead. The perpetrator would
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: break into her home as Karen was sleeping in her bed.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: He would take a metal pole off of her bed
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: frame and begin to bash her head in. And then
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: he would continue to use that same pole to violate
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: her and SA her very violently. He would go so
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: far up that it would puncture her bladder. And after
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that event, sparks would be found by her roommate after
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: 20 hours after the ordeal. still breathing. She would suffer
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: permanent brain damage, significant loss of hearing and vision, and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: obviously the internal injuries from the SA. But she would survive,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and she would be assumed to be Ted Bundy's first victim.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Karen would later relay to the police and the press
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: that she saw Ted Bundy multiple times stalking her around campus.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: He was stalking his prey, if you will. So although
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: it's not recognized under the gaze of the judicial system,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: it is widely believed that Karen was obviously his first victim,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: especially you're gonna hear what happened to all the other
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: victims and it's so incredibly obvious that it was Ted
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Bundy that did this. And this would make sense as
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: his first victim too because it was somewhat sloppy in
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the fact that she was still alive by the end
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: of the assault. And it would happen in the exact
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: same spot as the other murders would happen. And also
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in the same timeframe, everything just kind of adds up together.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But the first official murder victim of Ted Bundy would
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: be soon after his first attack in 1974, only a
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: month after Karen's attack. 21-year-old Linda Ann Healy was a
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: popular student at the University of Washington, the same school
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: that Ted Bundy went to a lot. And she was
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: also a weather and ski reporter at a local radio
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: station as well. It's very possible that Ted ran into
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: her because he loves skiing. There's a good chance that
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: he ran into her, liked what he saw, and then...
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you know, started stalking her as well. So in February, 1974,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: police would be called following up on a missing person
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: call regarding Healy. They would find blood on Healy's bed
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: sheets and pillow, but not enough to indicate that she
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: had bled to death necessarily, and no indication to where
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: she had gone. Her nightgown would hang in the closet
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: with a ring of dried blood around the neck. but
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: some of her clothes, her pillowcase and her backpack were
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: also missing. It seemed that whoever bludgeoned her had crept
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: into her room, knocked her unconscious, removed her pajamas and
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: dressed her in fresh clothes. Sounding similar Sounding similar? Sounding
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: like something that he wanted to do, but didn't end
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: up getting to do with his first victim. Karen's bark.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I understand.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Clearly, he was taking her to a second location. Never
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: go to a second location with anybody. Although, in this case,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think she had a choice, and she was unconscious, so.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: But three days after her abduction, a male voice called 911.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Listen. And listen carefully. The person who attacked the girl
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: on the 8th of the last month and the person
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: who took Linda Healy away are one and the same.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: He was outside both houses. He was seen.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Creepy is that? Like what the? What do you even
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: say to that? I'd be like, what fucking riddle is this?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: What are you, what? But police would never get the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: caller's name. So Healy's disappearance was the first sign for
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the police that something sinister was occurring, but it would
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: take them a very long, way too long time to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: suspect Bundy. And 14 months after her disappearance, her skull
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and jawbones were found on Taylor Mountain, about an hour's
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: drive from her home. And we'll hear a lot about
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Taylor Mountain because it was one of his favorite places
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to drop bodies, basically. And it was one of his
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: favorite places to come back to to violate those bodies,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: but he's not doing that just yet. But this MO
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: would carry on through a lot of Bundy's murders at
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the beginning. He would break in, usually at night, often
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: around exam periods. So the girls were very stressed and distracted,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: and he would often do it near or during construction
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: work sites. So If anybody's screaming or making too much noise,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: there was construction going on, so I would mask it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So he's just, he's thinking about all of the aspects.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: It's very creepy, and just for him to go through
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: all that, I mean, it's all so f * *
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: * ing terrible, but... You can just see how strategic
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he was in everything that he did. And in the future,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: he would up the ante by faking injuries so he
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: could more easily get girls to help him or carry
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: stuff inside of his car where he would then bludgeon them.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And he would always be sure to wear a turtleneck
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: as well because he would be able to cover a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: very identifiable mole on his neck because besides that mole,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: he had pretty generic features. He was Good looking, but
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: not easily described because like if you looked at Bundy,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how, like they did end up
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: getting sketches of him, but it's, I feel like it's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: very hard to describe him. He's just a generic looking mother,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? And during this time he
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: would still be with Liz and Molly, but Bundy's behavior
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: began to change in Liz's eyes. He would drop out
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of her life mysteriously for several days, for example, leaving
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: her to worry that she had done something wrong. Then
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: he would return like nothing happened. Just a classic gaslighter, dude.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And anytime she asked like, where were you? He was
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: just like, he would just put the blame on her. Like, what,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you don't trust me? What, just because I went on
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: a little road trip for like seven days and I
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: was just like out in the forest, just like, you know,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: having relations with a dead body. So that's a problem
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: for you? You're crazy. And she would fear that he
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: was seeing other women. But in fact, it was then
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that he began his killing spree in Seattle specifically. So
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I guess you could say he was seeing other women
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: for temporarily. Anyway, it's just, it's terrible. But in March
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: of 1974, only one month after Healy's murder, Donna Gail
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Manson would be his next victim. And all his victims
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: up to this point and in the future would be
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: killed one month apart or less moving forward. So he
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: was escalating pretty rapidly through this year specifically. Donna Gail
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Manson was a 19-year-old student at Evergreen State College, south
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: of Seattle. And she would disappear on her way to
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a campus concert. Her body was never technically found, but
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Bundy later claimed he burned her skull in the fireplace
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Manson. Bundy would later say in interviews.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no f * * * ing.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Shit, dude. And it was around this time that Bundy
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: would have the audacity to start working at the Washington
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: State Department Emergency Services, essentially a place where missing people
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: would be reported to. So he could basically keep tabs
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: on all things happening during the abductions and murders that
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: he was committing himself. Which again, it's just like, it's
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: very smart. It's very smart. And I'm not giving him
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: any accolades. I'm just saying like, he just, he really
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: knows where to place himself and who to know. But
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it was around this time also that he would start
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to be described and reported by multiple people. So he
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: would hear if someone was describing a man in a
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: turtleneck or a man... with crutches, was last seen with
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: this missing woman, and just adjust accordingly. And he would
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: even start introducing himself as an officer to young women,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: calling himself Officer Ted Roseland. That is so cringe. You're using, see,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: this is the one, this is what I don't understand.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: He's so smart and everything, and then he uses his
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: own first name, and I think he was just purely
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: out of just him thinking that he was smarter and
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: better than everyone. Like he's like, I can use my
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: first name and still not get caught. Like it has
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to be that because other than that, like he's a
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: smart guy. I don't understand why he would use his
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: first name. Like this guy, he was playing ultimate improv.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I think he literally thinks that the world is just
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: his play place and he could do whatever he wanted
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and test out whatever he wanted. He was so insanely
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: creative and manipulative with his tactics. You can't remotely blame
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: any of the victims for falling for his act. Not
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that I would ever blame any of the victims for this.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: His act was so good. And then on top of
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the fact that he's good looking and that he's charming
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and that he's well-read and that he looks clean and
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: cut and all that stuff is just very important factors.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And his next victim would fall for his injury act
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: in April, 1974. 18-year-old Susan Elaine Raincourt would be doing
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: laundry on her college campus in Central Washington State. And
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: while doing laundry, she would up and disappear. There would
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: be a massive search done and there would be no results.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Only later on would there be evidence that mounted that
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Raincourt was one of Ted Bundy's victims. And other students
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that were on campus would recall that Raincourt had been
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: approached by a man named Ted. who had his arm
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: in a sling. So, like, again, like, you're using your
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: own name. I mean, I'm glad you're stupid. I'm glad
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: you're stupid. But this would be when he started to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: feign injuries. So if a man in a sling comes
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: up to you asking for help, just say, And the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: next month in May, Roberta Kathleen Parks would disappear on
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: her campus at Oregon State University. Bundy would SA her
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and murder her either in Oregon or in Washington. We're
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: not sure. But investigators would later find her skull on
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the same mountain as many of the others on Taylor
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Mountain in Washington. Now, after Bundy's last victim, Roberta, he
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: would start to evolve. And not in a good way.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: At first, he was SA-ing them, and then killing and
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: disposing of them, and then just leaving them to decompose
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: on their own. But he would start to dip his
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: toe into... just when you think it can't get any worse.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And in June, Bundy would claim two more victims, only
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: 10 days apart this time. On June 1st, 1974, he
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: would abduct 22-year-old Brenda Ball in the town of Burien, Seattle,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: pretending to be handicapped and asking for help. Witnesses would
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: say that they saw her with a man that was
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: also wearing a sling before she disappeared. Her skull would
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: also be found eventually with all the others on Taylor
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Mountain in Washington as well. And on June 11th, 1974,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: so this is only 10 days later, 18-year-old Georgianne Hawkins
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: vanished outside the University of Washington with witnesses saying they
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: last saw her with a man that was fitted with
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: crutches and struggling with a briefcase outside of a brown
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: VW Bug. Georgianne would be knocked unconscious and then to death.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And this would be his first reported victim of So
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: what he would do with the women when he was
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: committing is essentially he would essay them, murder them, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: then drop them off at their burial point and usually
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: just leave them in like covered up or in some
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: sort of shallow grave. And then he would just periodically
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: keep coming back to that body to do vile things
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to it up until the point that their decomposition just
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: made it not possible to do so anymore or to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the point where he just thought they were gross and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: no longer hospitable. hot enough? They were, I don't know.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Either way, he just became more and more of a
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: sick f * * *, basically. So Ted Bundy had
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: killed six women that we know of before he started
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: committing n * * * philia to his future victims.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: But this would be something he would do to all
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the rest of them, essentially. At least that's what we assume,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: based off of evidence. and Bundy would begin to grow
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: bolder with his abductions in July, abducting two victims in
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: just one day. So in broad daylight on July 14th, 1974,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: at Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah, sorry if I
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: said that wrong, about a 20-minute drive from Seattle, witnesses
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: reported a man with his left arm in a sling
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: had approached several women that day, introducing himself as Ted.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I just, I.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I, anyway, and asked for help rigging his sailboat to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: his car. One woman initially would oblige, but grew hesitant
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: as she approached his brown Volkswagen Beetle with no sailboat
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: in sight. Red flags, red flags. Luckily, this girl saw
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the red flags after Ted would say to her, oh,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I forgot to tell you, it's at my folks' house,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: just to jump up the hill, he said in a
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: British accent. So now he's masking his accent with a
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: British accent, which again, is just another layer. to this
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: because if they're looking for a British guy, they're like, oh,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: it can't be Ted Bundy, right? But she saw right
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: through that bullshit and she booked it, dude. After he
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: motioned to the passenger door to get in, she did.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: She just bolted. But a little while later, she saw
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: another woman walking beside Ted towards the parking lot where
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: his car and sailboat was. And they were deep in conversation.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: This woman was Janice Ann Ott. And she would be
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: abducted that day, unfortunately. And four hours later, Denise Marie
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Naslund would endure the same fate. And their bodies would
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: be found months later. But their killer was unknown at
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the time. But years later, Bundy told investigators that Ott
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was still alive when he kidnapped Naslund. He claimed that
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: one was forced to watch the other get murdered before
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: she was. Which is just so.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: It would just be so horrifying. I just feel bad
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for all of these women. And like, they just didn't know.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: They just didn't know. Just like always have your guard up.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: That's like half the reason why I make these videos
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: is just to just let people know. I mean, I
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: know this is the seventies and stuff and it was
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: a different time, but my God, dude, it is still
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: so prevalent, especially with like the, you know, sejual trade
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. This is how they
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: get people. Like, it's nice to help people, but also
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: just have your guard up. Have your guard up, please.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: But the woman who escaped that day, that also witnessed
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Bundy take the other girls, had had an interaction with them.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: So she had a pretty good description to tell the police.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And lo and behold, the idiot said that his name
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: was Ted and she would describe him as having sandy
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: blonde hair, being 5'10 and about 160 pounds. And he
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: had a brown VW Bug. So they commissioned a sketch
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of the suspect, finally. And like, I think that's a
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: pretty good sketch. Like, I don't even know, like, I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: don't even understand how people describe to people. Like, I
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: guess they would describe him as like having like a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: sharp nose and like, shh. shaggy-ish hair. I mean, it
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: kind of looked like him, right? And people recognize that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: it looked like him too. And they were saying like, whoa,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: that's so weird, Ted. Doesn't that look like you? And
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, but I mean, like, I mean, the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: eyes are all weird. I mean, they got the unibrow,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but I don't, uh, oh, so what is you?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I'm
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: much better looking than that. Like, I don't know, he's
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: a pretty looking guy. It is me. It's me. But
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the police had no idea how close they were to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: actually catching Ted Bundy at this time because he worked
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: on Seattle's slewer slide hotline and the Seattle Police Department
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: even nominated him to be the director of the Seattle
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Crime Prevention Advisory Committee at the time. He was just
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: sitting right there, but the police like couldn't put two
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and two together because that's just police in the 60s
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and 70s and 80s because they can't do their job.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: It's easy in hindsight to say that they suck. Anyway,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and his colleague at the slower slide hotline center, Ann Rule,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: even reported her suspicion about Bundy to the police after
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: seeing the sketch. So she's the one that's just like, Ted, Ted, that's, um,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: that looks just like you, doesn't it? It's, um, it's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a bit uncanny, actually. Don't you have a VW, a
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: brown VW bug? Yeah, that's, um, that's crazy. That's crazy.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Stop barking. Stop barking. Nala, stop barking. I don't know
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: why she does that. It's really, come get this guy.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: He's a murderer.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: And they're just like, he's good looking. Like he can't
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: have done it. Like that's literally why the cops didn't
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: do anything. It's because he was a clean cut, well-educated guy.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: They were just like, he couldn't have done it. You know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: that's crazy talk. That's great. And you're a woman. So
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: nothing correct comes out of your mouth. All right. This
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: is the seventies. You just were able to vote like
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: 20 years ago.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: You need to shut the up.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Know your place. And even his devoted girlfriend at the time,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Liz Kendall contacted the police on three occasions to suggest
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: that they might've be looking for her boyfriend, but she
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: was rebuffed each time. So she was made to feel
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: like she was the idiot for even thinking that, so
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: she would eventually just think that she was the idiot
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: for thinking that, and stay with him. And convinced that
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: she wasn't being taken seriously because she was a woman, classic,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: she asked her father to talk to the police instead,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: but he refused, warning her that it would ruin Bundy's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: career and reputation if she was wrong, which she wasn't.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: But she would say about her father that he's so
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: like Ted, as we all did, she says. I feel
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: in hindsight, he chose Ted over his daughter. And that
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: is so sad, dude. It's so, so sad. But this
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: guy was just a master of manipulation. And six more
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: people would even call and confirm that they thought it
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: might be Ted Bundy based off of the description and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the sketch. But the police would say, no, there's no
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: way that a clean-cut law student with no record could
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: ever be a serial killer. Are you stupid? But also,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to give them a bit of the benefit of the doubt,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the police, that is, they were getting about 200 tips
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a day regarding this case. So, although unfortunate, at this time,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: it did kind of make sense that they didn't nail
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: him down as a number one suspect at this point.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: But to not even investigate him at all is... Bonkers
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to me. So as the net started to close on
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Bundy more and more, and he started to feel the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: pressure around him, he knew he had to get the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: f * * * out of Dodge. So he up
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and left to Salt Lake City, Utah to conveniently go
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to law school. He would also get baptized in the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints. Can't wash
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: those sins away, Sonny. But he would mostly just do
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: it purely for image, just to make it look good.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: You know, how could you be a serial killer if
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: you get baptized? I don't know. But you can't. And
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the baptism was made in vain because he would just
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: end up killing people anyway, almost immediately after getting to Utah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: But Bundy would temporarily try to de-escalate his murders, or
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to not murder, to de-escalate his... to deescalate his crimes,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: if you will. He'd tell himself, okay, buddy, we're going
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to pick her up.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: We're just going to go pick her up. Okay. And just,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you know, ripe her. And then, and then we're just
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: going to drop her off. All right, buddy, you got this.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: You got this. You're smart guy. You can, you have
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: control over your impulses. You're not going to murder her.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: All right. And then he would just, he would just, uh,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: end up, end up killing them anyway. So good try though.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And those first few women being Nancy Wilcox, who was
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: abducted in October of 1974, and Melissa Ann Smith and
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Laura Ann Amy. And they'd all be found in the
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: mountains in Utah soon after, having been defiled after death
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: multiple times up until the point of unrecognizable decomposition. But
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: there would be another survivor though, and her name was
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Rhonda Stapley. She would be waiting for the bus when
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Bundy would offer her a ride in his brown VW Bug.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: He would then take her to Cottonwood Canyon where he
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: would SA her and her multiple times over and over.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: But the reason she was able to escape was because
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Bundy looked away from her for only a few seconds
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and she would just absolutely bolt out of there. But
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: unfortunately she was afraid of being blamed and ridiculed for
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the event so she would keep this from her family,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: her friends, and obviously the media and police for over
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: 40 years until she finally revealed it and appeared on
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: multiple media interviews recounting the incident.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: The last thing that I remember was coming to after
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: being unconscious. He had moved several feet away, and it
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: turned his back on me, and I was able to run.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: My pants were wadded up around my ankles, and I
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: tripped and fell into a fast-moving mountain river that swept
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: me away from my attacker and saved my life.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: So while this is all happening, Liz Kendall is just
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: sitting at home with Molly, fully oblivious to what's going
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: on in Utah. But they're still together. Ted and Liz
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: are technically still together. She did have her suspicions though
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: at the time because Bundy's behaviors were getting increasingly more
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and more strange, if you will. Particularly noting his late
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: night absences and strange items found that he could not explain.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Such as medical supplies and women's clothing that did not
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: belong to her. Pretty sus. But despite these doubts, she
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: did not connect him to the murders until much later.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: And I feel like that was mostly because there were
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: people in her ear just saying that he couldn't have
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: done this because he is who he is. You know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: he's successful with his law school and politics and he's
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: clean cut and he's well educated and he's good looking
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: and he could never be capable of doing that. So
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: she was just kind of brainwashed through this whole process
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: up until the trials, really, but we'll get into that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: But November 8th, 1974 would prove to be crucial for
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the eventual capture and conviction of Bundy. First posing as
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: a police officer named Rosalind. Ted Roseland. Bundy approached Carol
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: DeRanch at the Fashion Place Mall in Murray, Utah. He
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: told the 18-year-old girl that her car was broken into
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and she needed to go to the police station. This
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: is like one that it's just kind of like, really?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: You didn't question that at all? I mean, she's probably
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: just so nice and just trusted everyone. But he literally
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: told her, a stranger, that, hey, I think your car
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was broken into. I need to take you to the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: police station. And she's just like, okay. Like, what? It's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: just like red flags. Just like, just think about it, please,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: for anybody watching right now. And for some reason that
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: happens to you. For him to know that it was
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: your car means that he was stalking you, right? Anyway,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I digress. But she trusted his story and Durant willingly
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: got into his car. But she quickly noticed that something
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: was wrong. They didn't drive towards the police station and
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Bundy's friendly demeanor quickly shifted into a cold absence. When
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: she asked him what he was doing, he just didn't answer.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Which is just, that would be so... Terrifying, just like
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: for him to just coldly be driving and you're just
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: like slowly freaking out realizing what happened. Like I just,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I just can't imagine. And although he managed to force
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: her wrists into a pair of handcuffs and he threatened
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: her with a gun, Durant broke out of the car
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and ran for her life. Thank God. And she would
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: find refuge with a couple driving nearby who brought the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: distraught Durant to the police station. But she couldn't find Rosalind's,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Officer Ted Rosalind's face. on any of the books of
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: their mugshots. Because at this point, Ted hadn't been officially
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: arrested for anything. Like he had those little arrests when
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: he was a kid, but he never got charged for anything.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: So he wasn't actually on the books for anything. And
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: only a few hours later, this guy doesn't stop. He
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: would approach a 17 year old by the name of
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Debbie Kent after a performance of a high school play
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: in Bountiful, Utah, and he would succeed in abducting this
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: young girl. But despite killing and kidnapping Kent, Bundy left
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: behind a clue in the parking lot, a key that
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: matched the handcuffs that Durant escaped with earlier that day.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And he would be stopped by the highway patrol later
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: that day, and they'd find essentially a ripe kit and
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a murder kit in the back of his V-Dub. They
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: would find a ski mask, another mask made from pantyhose,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bag, rope, ice pick, and other
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: items that were heavily suspicious.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: So.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the police would take him in. And although the police
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: were not able to connect Bundy to Kent and other
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: similar kidnappings, Durant would play a central role in Bundy's
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: 1976 conviction. When her testimony identified him as the man
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: who kidnapped and Yeah, Durant you made up for being
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: stupid in the beginning because you didn't I'm glad you
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: didn't die in that you and then you did That
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: good job and he would be sentenced to prison in
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Utah for a minimum of one to 15 years What
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: kind of gap is that? That's that's it's one year
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: for kidnapping and assaulting somebody I it's crazy to me
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and it's so obvious that he did more because of
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: his ripen kit in the back of his car. But anyway,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: so now Ted is in jail for the first time.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: But this is also the time when he would be
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: extradited to Colorado, where he was being charged with the
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: murder of Karen Campbell. And this is where Ted gets
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: tricky and slippery, dude. This guy doesn't like to stay...
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: behind bars. So before, Ted had used a public defender
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: in the case of Durant, but once he got extradited
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: to Colorado, he decided he's too smart for everybody and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: that he would just act as his own defense counsel. Which,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, he kind of was really smart. I'm, I'm gonna, like,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: he was obviously very smart. And especially in this case.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Because if you represent yourself in court at the time,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: even being a prisoner already, you are allowed to use
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: the library to study law books. And you're allowed to
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: do so without handcuffs. And Ted was very privy to this.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: So on June 7th, 1977, Bundy would escape from the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Pitkin County Courthouse Law Library. by jumping from the second
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: story window while on recess during the preliminary hearing. He
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: would twist his ankle, ironically, because he always acted like
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: he was injured, and then he actually twisted his ankle,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: so f * * * you, Ted Bundy. And then
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: he would get up and just run into the forests
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: of Colorado, evading police.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Bundy jumped out of this second story window at the
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: front of the Pitkin County Courthouse this morning. He was
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: scheduled for a court appearance and apparently had been locked
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: into the law library by sheriff's deputies. Witnesses say he
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: left in a hurry, however nobody saw him open the window,
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: and he escaped clean in an unknown direction.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: And he would be out there for six days, breaking
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: into cabins and stealing food and water. He would also
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: steal a car, because he loved stealing cars. And he
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: would try to make his way out of Colorado, but
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: he would be a f * * * ing dumbass
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and be driving erratically. and be pulled over and then
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: recaptured again, only six days later after his escape. And
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: what's kind of funny and awesome is the fact that
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: he was most likely going to get off for this
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: murder charge that he was currently on trial for and
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: that he escaped from because all the evidence in that
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: trial was completely circumstantial and DNA testing wasn't a thing yet.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: So they had nothing on him basically. So he was
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: pretty much, in the clear at this point. So him
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: escaping was essentially the nail in the coffin. So he
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: would be put in jail again, but this mother slippery
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: fucker decided to break out of jail again, or at
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: least try to. And it's also important to note that
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: it was at this time that he already started to
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: gain traction in the media and women were starting to
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: fawn and fangirl over this psychopath. So while in jail,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Bundy would acquire a hacksaw from another inmate. That had
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: to hurt, if you know what I mean. And he
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: would obtain $ 500 that was sent into him from fans
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: from around the country, mostly women. And he would start
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: to hack and saw a one square foot hole, Andy
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Dufresne style, shout out to Shawshank Redemption, one of my
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: favorite movies, into the corner of the cell ceiling every
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: night during shower time when all the cellmates... would be showering,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: he would just be hacking away at this hole in
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: the ceiling. I don't know what he covered it with though.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like it'd be pretty obvious to see if
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: you were a guard or something, but I guess not.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: During this time, he would also lose 35 pounds in
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: order to fit through this hole. So if this guy
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: was committed to actually deescalating as much as he was
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: to losing weight, we would have a much different story now,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: but I digress. So Ted would lose the weight and
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: dig the hole and he would even do practice runs
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: during this time to see if he could get away
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: with it and if there was any other factors that
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: he had to take into account during his escape. Again,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Very smart. So once he built up the confidence to
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: do the deed on December 30th, 1977, he would make
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: another escape attempt. He would crawl into his hole and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: he would pop out into the jail's crawl space, break
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: through the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: who was conveniently out with his girlfriend at the time.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: And he would walk out the door to freedom. From there,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: he would steal a car and make his way to
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Chicago where he would go for a pit stop. and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: then make his way to Tallahassee, Florida, a place where
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: nobody wants to go except for Ted Bundy. I'm just kidding.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. And this is where he would continue
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: his heinous crimes in an even more brutal fashion. And
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: in the meantime, Liz was just grappling with the fact
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: that everyone in their dog were saying he's a murderer now.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: you know, because she was just giving him the benefit
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: of the doubt. And everybody that was saying that he
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't one is saying that he is one. Besides her dad,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: her dad really, really liked him. So she was just
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: in the state of denial, but was socially being forced
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: to distance herself from him. So at this point, she
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: is now distancing herself because she knows that he escaped
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: from jail, which just makes you look guilty. to be honest,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: and she doesn't wanna be a part of that at all.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: But so Bundy, now feeling like an untouchable god at
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: this point, decided to go on an absolutely horrific spree,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: starting at Omega House Slaughterings in Florida. So on January 15th, 1978,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: in the early hours, Ted would enter the Omega House
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: at Florida State University in Tallahassee. And within approximately only
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: 15 minutes, Bundy brutally attacked four sleeping women. Margaret Bowman
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: and Lisa Levy were murdered. Bowman was strangled with a
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: nylon stocking and Levy suffered severe beatings and a bite
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: mark on her body, which later played a very crucial
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: role in Bundy's conviction. The two other women, Karen Chandler
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: and Kathy Kleiner survived the attacks despite their serious injuries.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: And Bundy's rampage would continue that night. After he brutally
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: attacked four women, he would go on to attack Cheryl
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Thomas as well, who lived nearby. He was an absolute animal.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: He was an insatiable monster at this point. And he
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be done just yet. After he murdered those two
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: women and Cheryl Thomas, Ted Bundy would have about a
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: month of a cool down period to lay low. And
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: he would break that cooling period by going to a
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: junior high school in Lake City, Florida on February.
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: 9th, 1978.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: And Ted Bundy would call over 12-year-old Kimberly Leach to
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: help him with directions. But soon after, he would kidnap her.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Bundy would then and murder the 12-year-old girl.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Piece of shit.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: So much.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: And Kimberly's body was later discovered at Sewanee River State Park.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Badly decomposed. And this crime would be Bundy's last known
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: murder before his final arrest in Pensacola later that month.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: And he would get caught for the same shit he
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: got caught for before. This guy isn't as smart as
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: we thought, I guess. Thank God. So on February 15th,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: 1978 in Pensacola, Florida, 31-year-old Bundy was driving a stolen
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: orange Volkswagen Beetle. This guy's loved Beatles, and I don't
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: know why. He looks like a f * * *
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: ing loser. I feel like only 16-year-old girls drive that
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: kind of car. But anyway, he caught the attention of
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Pensacola police officer David Lee for having a stolen vehicle
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: and for also driving erratically. So David would pull Bundy over,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: and when challenged, Bundy initially provided a stolen identification. But
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: he was recognized by the officer during the arrest process,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: so Bundy would then attempt to run, but very quickly
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: be subdued and arrested. Go David Lee. And shortly after
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: being arrested for the third and final time, Bundy would
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: be charged for the Omega murders due to the forensic
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: evidence being found, which was a dental impression of Ted's
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: that matched the bite marks inflicted upon Lisa Levy and
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: due to the witnesses placing him in that area at
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: the time of the murders as well. So everything's coming together. Finally,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: everything's coming together. The pod is full and now we're
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: just doping that shit over. So now at this point,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Liz is pretty much completely cutting off Ted Bundy. She's, she's,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: she has distanced herself from him and he doesn't really care.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't really care about anything, but Soon after,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Liz would go, a woman named Carol Ann Boone would
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: come into the picture, a woman that he knew back
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: in 1974 working with her, and she was just obsessed
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: with Ted. So she was by his side through this
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: next entire trial period and for years after he got
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  Speaker 1: convicted as well this is a psychopath she looks like
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: a psychopath dude so in june 1979 ted bundy would
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: be the first trial to be televised nationally mr.
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  Speaker 2: Bundy the court wants to talk to you come up
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  Speaker 2: to the bar here This court is not going to
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  Speaker 2: follow your schedule.
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  Speaker 1: The beginning of Ted Bundy's trial for the Chi Omega
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  Speaker 1: murders was a spectacle largely because Bundy chose to serve
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: as his own defense attorney. Again, having a legal background
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: and having been a law student emboldened him to make
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the unusual decision, because it was not common at all
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  Speaker 1: to do this, especially in a murder trial. So it
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: was like a movie playing itself, basically, for people watching.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: This self-representation was highly unorthodox and very risky for Ted,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: contributing to the media circus surrounding the trial. And his
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: interactions with the judge and prosecution were... were often contentious,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: and his direct involvement in the proceedings, such as cross-examining witnesses,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: added a dramatic and unsettling layer to the trial, attracting
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: public and media interest even further. And just watching him
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: throughout the trials, because I watched a lot leading up
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  Speaker 1: to this, he's just, like, so overly confident and smiling
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: and laughing and just talking down to people. He's just, like,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: just a grade-A fanatic. narcissistic psychopath and it just makes
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: me mad watching him and he would talk about himself
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: in the third person and it was it was just
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: very strange but also i could see why people were
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: so intrigued by this trial i mean i know i
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: would have been like watching it i wouldn't have been
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: one of his fans or anything but i think i
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: think it was extremely interesting to watch at the time
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: and during the middle stage of ted bundy's trial the
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: prosecution's presentation of the forensic evidence was pivotal. One of
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the most significant pieces of the evidence was the bite
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: mark analysis. Experts testified that the bite marks found on
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Lisa Levy's body was conclusively matched Bundy's teeth. And he
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: had some dumb teeth, dude. It's like, it's like so
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: obvious and the way he tried to like talk his
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: way out of it was like almost embarrassing.
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  Speaker 4: When you were arrested on February 15th, 1978 in Pensacola,
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: did you have a chip in your right front tooth?
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  Speaker 2: No, I did not.
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  Speaker 5: When did your tooth become chipped?
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: And best as I can recall, it had been the
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: middle part of March of 78.
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  Speaker 1: And this testimony became a critical component of the case,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: offering direct physical evidence linking Bundy to the crime, which
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: is basically best case scenario. Additionally, the emotional testimonies of
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: the survivors added a profound human element to the proceedings
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: as well for the jury, including Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: both who survived the brutal assaults. in the Omega sorority house,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: vividly recounting the terror and attacks and strengthening the prosecution's
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: case against Bundy. So these elements combined made this phase
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: of the trial both gripping and crucial in the move
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: towards Bundy's conviction. And Bundy would exhibit a range of
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: behaviors that were often seen as audacious and unsettling by
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: people watching. Taking on the role of his own attorney,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: he displayed a disturbing level of confidence and charm that
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: was incongruent with the seriousness of the charges against him.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: So when I was saying like, he's laughing and being
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: just so ostentatious and just like, just a fart. prick, basically.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: He was just so laissez-faire about the whole thing. And
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: this included cross-examining witnesses and sometimes directly interacting with the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: victim's families as well, which many found disturbing and extremely disrespectful, obviously.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: And the public reaction to Bundy during the trial was mixed.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Some viewers were horrified by the details of the crimes
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: and his apparent lack of remorse, while others were strangely
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: fascinated by his charisma and intelligence. Because he quite literally
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: had super fans during this trial. These fans being predominantly women,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: because we're crazy sometimes, let's be real. filled the courtrooms,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: some even mimicking Bundy's hairstyle and dress. This unusual fan
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: base would add a surreal aspect to the proceedings as
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: they often expressed support for Bundy. And he would almost
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: like show off for them in interviews and anytime he
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: was in the public eye.
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: 78204 Florida statute.
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  Speaker 2: I'll plead not guilty right now.
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: And your grand jurors being present in said court further
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: gives the court to be informed and understand that Theodore
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: Robert Bundy on the 15th day of January in Leon County, Florida.
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: did then and there unlawfully attempt to kill a human
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: being to wit Karen Chandler by beating her about the
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: head and knowingly or intentionally causing great bodily harm, and
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: said attempt was perpetrated by said Theodore Robert Bundy from
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: or with a premeditated design. for intent to affect the
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: death of said Karen Chandler.
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  Speaker 1: And this would complicate the public's perception of him as
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: a charismatic yet brutal murderer. The presence of these fans
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: highlighted the complex and often conflicting responses to Bundy's persona.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: This duality contributed to the media frenzy, making this trial
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: a landmark in public interest and television broadcasting, and also
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: influencing how future criminal trials would be covered. Because there's
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: just obvious bias being made by televising this. And you
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: can kind of see that also in the Johnny Depp
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: and Amber Heard trials. It's just impossible not to have
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: a bias when you're watching it right in front of
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: you and favor one over the other, based off of
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: other people's opinions and based off of what you're seeing,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: not even just the evidence. And Bundy, I mean, he
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: didn't really have a defense. It would all center around
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: questioning the reliability of the scientific validity of the forensic
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: evidence presented against him, particularly the bite mark evidence. He
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: also attempted to undermine the credibility of witnesses and their
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: testimonies and suggested that the investigation itself was biased against
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: him due to his prior criminal charges. And this approach
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: was just seen as audacious and was ultimately unsuccessful. Because
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: at the end of Ted Bundy's trial for the Omega murders,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the jury deliberated for under seven hours, which sounds like
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: a long time, but that's a pretty good time. That's
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: pretty quick. Indicating the compelling nature of the evidence presented,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Bundy would be found guilty of the murders of Margaret
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Bowman and Lisa Levy, as well as the assaults of
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: three other women. Following the verdict, the court would sentence
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: him to death. Yeah, dude. I hope you're burning in hell.
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: A judge in Miami today followed the jury's recommendation and
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: sentenced Theodore Bundy to die in the electric chair for
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: the murder of two co-eds. Bundy is the 136th person
• 55:01
  Speaker 7: under death sentence in Florida.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: And Judge Edward Coert. made remarks that were noted for
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: their unusual tone of personal reflection. He commented on the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: tragedy of Bundy's crimes, given Bundy's intelligence and potential to
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: contribute positively to society. It was just like a, it
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: was a weird tone. It was just like, oh man,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: that's a shame because you're awesome. You're, you killed those people,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: but you're pretty great, you know? And this is exactly
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: what he said.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: It's a tragedy for this court to see as such
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: a Total waste, I think, of humanity that I've experienced
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: in this court. You're a bright young man. You made
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: a good lawyer. I'd love to have you practice in
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: front of me, but you went another way, partner.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: He's literally saying like, you're, you're pretty good, dude. And
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: I don't give a shit that you killed all those women.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: I'm honestly, you know, I do it too. Behind the scenes.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. That's, that's false. But, but it was
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: just strange. It just goes to show how, how incredibly
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: charismatic and manipulative and smart he actually was because he
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: was able to to manipulate a whole ass judge, dude.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: This guy murdered multiple women and got a guilty verdict
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: for it. And this guy's just saying, ah, you're all right.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: But after his sentencing of the Omega murders, he would
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: be put on trial again for the murder of 12
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: year olds, Kimberly Leach. In 1980, Bundy was tried for
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: the kidnapping and murder of Kimberly. And the trial would
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: be particularly emotional due to the young age of the
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: victim and to the brutal nature of the crime. And
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Bundy was found guilty again and received another death sentence.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Double homicide. Shit, man. It's not looking good for you.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: And Ted Bundy being the tenacious, narcissistic psychopath that he was,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: continuously filed for appeals, challenging everything from forensic evidence used
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: in trials to the competency of the jury. But all
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: his appeals were ultimately denied, bitch. And during Ted Bundy's
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: trial in Florida, after he was sentenced, his romantic life
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: included a significant relationship with whom I mentioned before, Carol
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Ann Boone. And Boone believed in Bundy's innocence and moved
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: to Florida to be closer to him during his trials.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: And in a dramatic turn, during his 1980 trial for
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: the murder of Kimberly Leach, the 12-year-old girl, Bundy would
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: propose to Boone in the courtroom while she was testifying
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: on his behalf. What a giant piece of... of smelly
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: goddamn shit, dude. And the proposal was legally recognized under
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Florida law, which stated that marriage declaration in court in
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: front of a judge constituted a legal marriage. So this
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: guy like found a loophole and just devalued the whole
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: trial of Kimberly. It's just disgusting. And Boone would become
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: pregnant and gave birth to a daughter soon after as well.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: I guess he got conjugal visits, I don't know. And
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: her name would be Rose. And this would be in 1982,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: and she would claim that it was Bundy's. However, the
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: relationship did become strained, especially after Bundy began making confessions
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: to his crimes. And Boone would eventually move away, ending
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: all contact with him. In the final years of this
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: piece of shit's life on death row, Ted Bundy, like
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I said, would begin confessing to numerous murders, some of
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: which remained unresolved. And these confessions started around 1986 and
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: continued up until his execution in 1989. Bundy detailed specific
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: actions and methods he used in the crimes, providing information
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: that only the murderer would know. His aim in doing
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: this was just to manipulate the system, potentially extending his
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: life by offering these confessions in exchange for delays in
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: his execution schedule. So he'd be able to control the
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: narrative around the crimes up to the end. But alas,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Ted Bundy would be executed on January 24th, 1989 at
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: Florida State Prison in Stark, Florida. On that day, he
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: was put to death in the electric chair known as
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Old Sparky. I feel like every electric chair everywhere is
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: named Old Sparky. I've been to two prisons, not me.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: I visited like prisons that have been out of commission. Anyway,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: their electric chairs were named Old Sparky. Anyway, he would
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: be put to death at 7.16 a.m. local time. Bundy's
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: execution followed a decade of trials, appeals, confessions, and numerous murders.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: And his final words were reportedly directed to his lawyer
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: and close friends, expressing his love and appreciation.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Yourself.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: His last words were, I'd like to give my love
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: to my family and friends. Whatever, dude. Burn in hell.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. And Bundy's death would mark
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the end of a long and tumultuous legal saga and
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: brought closure to many families and victims. And crowds outside
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: the prison cheered upon hearing the news of his execution,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: which is metalism. Ted Bundy, even in death, stirred hatred.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: We were singing, bye-bye Ted Bundy, goodbye. But anyway, that
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: concludes the video. I know this was a long one.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: This was a long one, and I hope I gave
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: you some information you haven't heard before. I did the
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: research on this, and there were some things that I
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: hadn't heard before, so I thought that was interesting. I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: know you guys wanted to see a heavy hitter, so
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: if you wanna see any more, let me know in
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: the comments down below, or if you want me to
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: do anything else. leave it down in the comments below
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: and I will take a look at it. But I
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed the video. Stay safe out there, please.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Always have your guard up. Don't talk to men in slinks.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: That's the big takeaway from this. And I will see
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: you beautiful face in the next video. Okay, bye.