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Ted Bundy： The Killer Of A Thousand Faces · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: Florida State University, Tallahassee, January the fifteenth, nineteen seventy eight,
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Speaker 1: around two forty five am, the serial killer on the
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Speaker 1: run broke into the chi Omega sorority house and attacked
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Speaker 1: four women.
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Speaker 2: The Spraye. He beats people. He knocks people's teeth out.
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Speaker 2: He bites the buttock of one of the victims.
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Speaker 1: The blistering attack on all four students lasted just fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 3: He could strike like a chameleon, pam and take his
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Speaker 3: prey in.
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Speaker 1: Just four years. In the mid nineteen seventies, a sadistic
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Speaker 1: killer kidnapped, raped, and murdered at least thirty young women.
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Speaker 1: A few lived to tell of their terrible audom.
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Speaker 4: We leaned in. I thought he was going to kiss me. Instead,
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Speaker 4: he said, I'm going to kill you.
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Speaker 1: Initially convicted of only kidnap and assault, it is suspected
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Speaker 1: that Bundy may have raped and slaughtered up to one
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Speaker 1: hundred young women. Sentenced to death for his terrifying crimes,
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Speaker 1: Ted Bundy is undoubtedly one of the world's most evil killers. Seattle, Washington.
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Speaker 1: Ted Bundy began his reign of terror in the Pacific
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Speaker 1: Northwest and spread it across seven US states. He would
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Speaker 1: eventually confess to the kidnap, rape, and murder of thirty
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Speaker 1: young women between nineteen seventy four and nineteen seventy eight.
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Speaker 1: Two of his victims were just twelve years old.
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Speaker 5: This is a man who killed and the most violent,
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Speaker 5: the most terrifying way.
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Speaker 6: He would before death, he.
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Speaker 5: Would break bones, he would rip parts of the body off.
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Speaker 5: He would keep parts of the body mutilated after he
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Speaker 5: did it. This is a person who ravaged his victims
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Speaker 5: intending to cause pain.
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Speaker 4: He was a monster because he just enjoyed killing. One
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Speaker 4: of his interviews, the interviewer asked him point blank. He said, Ted,
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Speaker 4: why did you kill? And Ted kind of raised one
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Speaker 4: eyebrown kind of smile and says to the like it.
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Speaker 1: Ronda Stapley was a college student in Salt Lake City, Utah,
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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy four. She says she survived a vicious
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Speaker 1: attack by Bundy and was so traumatized she kept her
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Speaker 1: ordeal secrets for more than thirty years.
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Speaker 4: Nobody went out at night, nobody even walked to the
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Speaker 4: library alone. There was terror, in fear among women everywhere.
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Speaker 4: Ted Bundy was one of the most evil people in
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Speaker 4: the world.
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Speaker 1: When Bundy was finally caught in nineteen seventy eight. He
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Speaker 1: was incarcerated at the Leon County Jail in Florida. Sheriff
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Speaker 1: Ken Katsaris, who oversaw all the county's prisons, was charged
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Speaker 1: with keeping him behind bars.
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Speaker 3: He was evil, but you could not discern that even
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Speaker 3: if you knew he was evil. He came across as brilliant, charismatic, smart.
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Speaker 3: So you put together the evil with all of those
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Speaker 3: positive traits, and you have a very dangerous person.
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Speaker 1: This killer's story begins in nineteen forty six. Theodore Robert
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Speaker 1: Bundy was born on the twenty fourth of November at
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Speaker 1: the Elizabeth Lundhome for Unwed Mothers in Burlington, Vermont.
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Speaker 2: This was the nineteen forties in America that the ideal
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Speaker 2: nuclear family was mum and dad who were married, that
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Speaker 2: nice family unit where everything is very neat and very defined,
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Speaker 2: and people who were outside of that ideal really were stigmatized.
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Speaker 1: To avoid that judgment, Ted's twenty two year old mother, Eleanor,
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Speaker 1: moved back to her parents' home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where
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Speaker 1: her parents bought up Ted as their own.
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Speaker 5: So the unusual part of his childhood is how he's raised.
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Speaker 5: He's adapted by his grandparents. He's raised alongside a person
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Speaker 5: who he has tald is.
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Speaker 6: His sister, but she wasn't.
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Speaker 2: She was actually his mother.
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Speaker 1: This arrangement went on for almost four years with Ted's
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Speaker 1: grandparents as his main careers.
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Speaker 2: His grandfather was quite a violent character, so that suggests
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Speaker 2: to me that very early on in his life he's
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Speaker 2: almost in a bit of a survival mode, not safe
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Speaker 2: within this home.
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Speaker 1: Just before his fourth birthday, Eleanor moved to Tacoma, Washington.
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Speaker 1: There she met and married Johnny Bundy in nineteen fifty one.
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Speaker 1: They formally adopted Ted when he was five years old.
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Speaker 1: The couple had four children together, but Ted reportedly didn't
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Speaker 1: form a close bond with his new family and still
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Speaker 1: believed his mother was his sister.
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Speaker 2: Ted Bundy is somebody who has always been really conscious
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Speaker 2: of his social class. He came from quite humble beginnings
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Speaker 2: that the family were quite poor, and he was really
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Speaker 2: quite aware of that and really quite embarrassed and shame
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Speaker 2: by it.
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Speaker 1: And exceptionally bright student. Ted Bundy enrolled in the University
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Speaker 1: of Washington in nineteen sixty six to study Chinese. Their
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Speaker 1: age twenty, he met and fell in love with a
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Speaker 1: woman called Stephanie.
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Speaker 5: This was his dream girl, This was the woman he
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Speaker 5: was going to marry. This is the woman to which
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Speaker 5: he was dedicated. It was romance in the real sense
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Speaker 5: that you could imagine it, but she's certainly dubbed him.
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Speaker 2: One of the reasons that she cited was that he
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Speaker 2: wasn't ambitious enough. And I think this would have really
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Speaker 2: hit ted Bundy quite hard because this feeds into his
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Speaker 2: anxieties around his social class and those feelings of unease
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Speaker 2: and those feelings of not being good enough. So what
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Speaker 2: we've got happening here is this resentment brewing.
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Speaker 1: Bundy dropped out of university in nineteen sixty eight. The
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Speaker 1: following year, he returned to the East Coast in what
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Speaker 1: he later described as a bid to understand his roots
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Speaker 1: whilst they're Bundy unearthed the family secret.
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Speaker 2: He discovers his true identity. He discovers that the woman
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Speaker 2: that he's considered to be his sister for his whole
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Speaker 2: life is actually his mother, and he discovers his birth certificate,
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Speaker 2: and the birth certificate says he's illegitimate.
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Speaker 6: The two most.
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Speaker 5: Important women to him his mother and his mother surrogate,
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Speaker 5: and the woman he wanted to marry. In essence, both
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Speaker 5: deny and abandon him. Eificance to him of that is
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Speaker 5: that women simply cannot be trusted.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty nine, ages twenty two, Bundy returned to
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Speaker 1: the University of Washington and this time enrolled as a
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Speaker 1: psychology major. There, he met and started dating a single
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Speaker 1: mother called Elizabeth. Their turbulent relationship would last into the
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Speaker 1: mid nineteen seventies.
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Speaker 2: Women server a function for him. They provide a roof
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Speaker 2: over his head, meals on the table, sex, useful contacts
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Speaker 2: with other people, so he has got quite a parasitic lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: He will hook on to particular people and get from
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Speaker 2: them what he wants, and then he will just discard
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Speaker 2: them and move on.
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Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy one, Bundy got a part time job
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Speaker 1: at Seattle's Suicide Hotline crisis Center.
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Speaker 2: What he's doing is he's performing the role of the
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Speaker 2: respectable middle class young man. He wants to be seen
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Speaker 2: to be helping other people. He wants to be seen
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Speaker 2: to be doing socially worthy things, and this also feeds
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Speaker 2: into to the work that he becomes involved in in
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Speaker 2: terms of political campaigning.
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Speaker 1: When Bundy graduated university, he joined the Republican governor's re
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Speaker 1: election campaign. Then, in September of nineteen seventy three, Bundy
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Speaker 1: was accepted into law school at the University of Puget
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Speaker 1: Sound in Tacoma, just thirty miles south of Seattle. Before
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Speaker 1: beginning the law course, he went on a trip to California.
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Speaker 1: Whilst there, he rekindled his relationship with his first love, Stephanie,
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Speaker 1: despite still dating Elizabeth.
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Speaker 5: All of a sudden, he's a different man. He's working
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Speaker 5: for the governor, he's town, he's successful, he looks like
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Speaker 5: he's good.
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Speaker 6: Enough for her.
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Speaker 2: Finally, Ted Bundy and Stephanie gets engaged and they plan
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Speaker 2: to get married. And Stephanie's very excited about this, but Ted,
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Speaker 2: very coldly just drops her.
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Speaker 5: Well, this was all about, was how far this man
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Speaker 5: would go for revenge, to have the kind of narcissistic
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Speaker 5: victory that he would not be her that rejected him
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Speaker 5: and then rejected her.
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Speaker 1: Sumarily, having taken back control by ending the relationship with Stephanie,
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Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Ted Bundy returned to Washington and
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Speaker 1: decided he needed to show womankind who was boss. Just
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Speaker 1: after midnight on January the fourth, nineteen seventy four, Bundy
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Speaker 1: broke into the basement apartment of an eighteen year old
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Speaker 1: dancer and university student.
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Speaker 2: She was at home asleep in her house one night
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Speaker 2: when Ted Bundy broke in and he beat her with
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Speaker 2: a metal pole and he raped her, and she was
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Speaker 2: in a really terrible state. Many people think this is
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Speaker 2: something that just kind of came out of the blue,
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Speaker 2: but I would say absolutely not, it didn't. I think
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Speaker 2: this was an attack that was built up to. We
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Speaker 2: offer fined with offenders behavior before they get to the
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Speaker 2: point of raping and attacking people. And in Ted Bundy's case,
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Speaker 2: this was voyeurism. So he had a history of peeping
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Speaker 2: through women's windows and watching them get undressed, and it's
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Speaker 2: something that gradually builds and it's not enough for him
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Speaker 2: and he ratchets at up to the next level.
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Speaker 1: The violent assault left the young woman unconscious for ten days.
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Speaker 7: She sustained injuries from the blows to the head that
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Speaker 7: will cause brain damage and brain swelling, and when he
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Speaker 7: sexually assaulted her with a metal bar that caused damage
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Speaker 7: to her internal organs, and she was left permanently altered
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Speaker 7: by those injuries.
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Speaker 1: Seattle, Washington, February nineteen seventy four. It was here that
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Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Ted Bundy attacked again and turned
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Speaker 1: from rapist to killer.
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Speaker 2: And it's no coincidence that she's a university student who
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Speaker 2: he sees as privileged, who he sees is undeserving, whereas
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Speaker 2: he's somebody who's really hard done by. And it is
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Speaker 2: that constant jealousy, that constant underlying feeling of shame, that
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Speaker 2: drives a lot of his violence.
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Speaker 1: Bundy's chosen target was a twenty one year old University
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Speaker 1: of Washington student called Linda. He broke into her room.
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Speaker 2: He very severely attacks her. He really does bash her
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Speaker 2: her skull when he carries out the assault on her.
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Speaker 2: She doesn't survive the attack.
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Speaker 1: That night, after he'd attacked and killed Linda, Bundy moved
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Speaker 1: her away from the campus. He dumbed her body in
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Speaker 1: the dense woods of Taylor Mountain Forest, a thirty minute
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Speaker 1: drive from the university.
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Speaker 2: It's very important that he maintains control over the victims
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Speaker 2: even after he's killed them, so he doesn't just leave
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Speaker 2: them where they are. He wants to be able to
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Speaker 2: know where they are. He wants to have control over them,
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Speaker 2: so he chooses a local beauty, Taylor Mountain. It's a
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Speaker 2: place that people generally go to enjoy, but for him,
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Speaker 2: it really is at a macabre dump site.
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Speaker 1: Linda's body was found a year later in nineteen seventy five.
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Speaker 1: Her death mark the start of a furious spate of
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Speaker 1: killings that this time, Bundy quit law school in Tacoma
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Speaker 1: after just six months. He returned to Washington not as
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Speaker 1: a student, but as a predator.
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Speaker 2: He would lure women over to his car, saying that
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Speaker 2: he needed their assistance with something, and he'd often be
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Speaker 2: wearing a sling to make it appear that he'd injured himself.
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Speaker 2: And he was good looking, he was charming, he was respectable.
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Speaker 1: Bundy's trademark VW. Beetle became his favorite method for abducting
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Speaker 1: women before taking them to a remote spot to attack them.
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Speaker 3: When he hit it was like a sharp grabbing its prey.
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Speaker 6: Bam.
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Speaker 7: He'd use a blunt object to bludgeon his victim, and
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Speaker 7: then he strangled them.
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Speaker 1: After eight aggravated murders of young women in the first
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Speaker 1: half of nineteen seventy four, a rate of more than
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Speaker 1: one a month, fear spread across the Pacific Northwest.
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Speaker 2: I think Ted Bundy enjoys the feelings of power. He
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Speaker 2: enjoys the feelings of control. So you start to see
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Speaker 2: the attacks get closer together because he's having to escalate
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Speaker 2: his offending to get that same feeling of power. You know,
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Speaker 2: with psychopaths light Ted Bundy, they're prone to boredom, so
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Speaker 2: they will start to mix it up a bit and
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Speaker 2: offend in different ways.
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Speaker 1: Then in the summer of that year, Bundy changed his
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Speaker 1: mo He now decided to attack in broad daylight. On
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Speaker 1: July the fourteenth, at Lake Sammamish State Park, just over
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Speaker 1: fifteen miles southeast of the University of Washington, Bundy attacked
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Speaker 1: two young women, twenty three year old Janis and nineteen
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Speaker 1: year old Denise. Denise was last seen entering a public
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Speaker 1: restroom in the past.
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Speaker 2: There are some witnesses to these crimes and that there's
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Speaker 2: one common denominator, and that seems to be a man
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Speaker 2: called Ted who drives a BW beetle, so that begins
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Speaker 2: to narrow the field a little.
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Speaker 1: Bundy later said that he kidnapped both women from the
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Speaker 1: state park within a few hours of each other. He
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Speaker 1: raped them and made one watch as he murdered the other.
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Speaker 1: Bundy disposed of their bodies in an area two miles away.
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Speaker 2: It's reported that Ted Bundy spent time with the bodies
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Speaker 2: of his victims, that he shampooed the hair of some
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Speaker 2: of them, that he painted their fingernails.
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Speaker 5: What his m always consists of is taking these two
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Speaker 5: facets of his personality, and he used one of them,
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Speaker 5: the intelligent, the charming, the carrying, the one that would.
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Speaker 6: Help wash the hero. He'd use that to seduce.
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Speaker 5: Them into his private presence. And then the monster, the face,
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Speaker 5: the face of rage, would come out and this would
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Speaker 5: plunder this woman asunder.
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Speaker 1: In September of nineteen seventy four, Bundy left Washington and
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Speaker 1: moved east to Salt Lake City. The twenty seven year
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Speaker 1: old had been accepted into law school again, this time
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Speaker 1: at the University of Utah. On the surface, he looked
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Speaker 1: like an ordinary student, but inside was a cunning serial killer.
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Speaker 4: He was not.
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Speaker 3: Your average person. He was bright, brilliant. He felt like
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Speaker 3: he was a chameleon in that he could disguise himself,
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Speaker 3: he could change his colors, and he could take advantage.
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Speaker 1: Bundy later claimed that he first killed in Utah on
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Speaker 1: October the second nineteen seventy four. The victim was just
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Speaker 1: sixteen years old, and her body was never found. Ronda Stapley,
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Speaker 1: a University of Utah pharmacy student, was waiting for a bus.
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Speaker 4: I had a dental appointment downtown, and while I was downtown,
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Speaker 4: I decided I would walk over to a city park.
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Speaker 4: And then my mouth started to become a numb from
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Speaker 4: the dental surgery, and I could tell that I needed
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Speaker 4: to go home to some aspirins pretty soon, so I
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Speaker 4: went over to where the bus stop was.
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Speaker 1: The bus did not show, but Ted Bundy did. He
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Speaker 1: pulled his VW Beetle up to the bus stop and
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Speaker 1: offered her a ride.
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Speaker 4: He was nicely dressed, handsome. He told me that he
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Speaker 4: was a last student, and I was feeling pretty lucky.
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Speaker 4: What college girl wouldn't want to meet a law student.
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Speaker 5: Unlike other serial killers, he did not target prostitutes, which
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Speaker 5: are easy victims. He targeted young, attractive, intelligent, often beautiful,
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Speaker 5: and successful women. This he could do because of his
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Speaker 5: intelligence that made him a unique threat and danger.
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Speaker 1: After a couple of blocks with Ronda in the car,
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Speaker 1: Bundy took a turn away from the university.
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Speaker 4: Very politely, He says, I hope you don't mind, but
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Speaker 4: I have a short errand run. And I said, I
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Speaker 4: thought you were taking me to the zoo and he
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Speaker 4: said no, I said near the zoo. And we kept
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Speaker 4: driving up that canyon and then down another canyon.
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Speaker 1: Bundy drove up into Big Cottonwood Canyon, just southeast of
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Speaker 1: the city.
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Speaker 4: At this point he stopped talking to me. He just
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Speaker 4: had both hands on steering wheel and was just driving.
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Speaker 1: As Bundy came to a corner, he slowed down.
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Speaker 4: In my mind, I thought that he is looking for
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Speaker 4: a place to pull over and park and make out,
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Speaker 4: and so in my mind, I'm trying to figure out
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Speaker 4: how do I get out of this situation without embarrassing
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Speaker 4: either of us.
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Speaker 1: Bundy pulled off the road and into a secluded picnic
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Speaker 1: area and parked the car.
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Speaker 4: And then he turned towards me and he leaned in
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Speaker 4: close to my face. I thought he was going to
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Speaker 4: kiss me. Instead, he said, do you know what, I'm
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Speaker 4: going to kill you? And he put his hands on
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Speaker 4: my throat and started squeezing.
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Speaker 1: She fell unconscious. When Ronda eventually woke up, she was
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Speaker 1: lying on the picnic table with Bandy on top of her.
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Speaker 4: He is sitting on my chest with all of his
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Speaker 4: weight on my chest and stomach, and I told him
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Speaker 4: get off. I can't breathe, and he says, stop struggling,
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Speaker 4: and I'll let you breathe. And so I helped still,
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Speaker 4: and he kind of rocked up onto his knee so
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Speaker 4: it took some of the pressure off. And then he
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Speaker 4: put his hand over my nose and mouth and cut
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Speaker 4: off my hair that way. And he would do that
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Speaker 4: until I would just go unconscious, and then he would
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Speaker 4: kind of bring me back. He liked watching me fade
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Speaker 4: in and out of consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Ronda had just one chance to save herself.
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Speaker 4: The last time. When I regained consciousness, I noticed that
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Speaker 4: he wasn't standing by me anymore. Pitt Kenyon was pitch
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Speaker 4: black with dark. There was a little light coming from
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Speaker 4: the dome light of the car because he had opened
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Speaker 4: the door to the Volkswagen. Was fiddling around with something
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Speaker 4: in the backseat. And I used that opportunity to just
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Speaker 4: run the opposite direction. I just jumped up and ran. Fortunately,
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Speaker 4: or just by pure luck or grace of God, or
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Speaker 4: intervention from above or something, I happened to fall into
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Speaker 4: the mountain river, which wasn't very deep, but it was
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Speaker 4: really really fast, and it swept me away. There was
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Speaker 4: water swirling around boulders and flowing over boulders, and of
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Speaker 4: course was smashing into those. And eventually I was able
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Speaker 4: to climb out and rearrange my clothes so I could
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Speaker 4: walk home. And that's what I did, is I just
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Speaker 4: walked home.
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Speaker 1: Roonda kept her attack by Bundy a secret for more
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Speaker 1: than thirty years.
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Speaker 4: I felt embarrassed and stupid and ashamed, and plus I
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Speaker 4: was religious LDS Mormon girl, and the teachings at that
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Speaker 4: time that if you have a choice of losing your
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Speaker 4: life or losing your virtue, it would be better for
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Speaker 4: you eternally if you last your life. So I decided
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Speaker 4: the best thing for me to do was just to
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Speaker 4: suck it up and pretend it never happened and go
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Speaker 4: on with my life.
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Speaker 1: Ronda's escape did not deter Bundy's murderer's plans. A few
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Speaker 1: weeks later, in November nineteen seventy four, Bundy was prowling
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Speaker 1: a mall in Murray, Utah, post as a police officer disguised,
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Speaker 1: he managed to entice an eighteen year old telephone operator
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Speaker 1: called Carol to get into his car. He planned on
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Speaker 1: raping and killing.
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Speaker 2: Her, and this goes wrong. It fails, she gets away.
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Speaker 1: During the struggle, Carol had managed to open the car
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Speaker 1: door and escape.
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Speaker 2: Ted Bundy is not the kind of guy who just
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Speaker 2: gives up and goes home. He's got his mind set
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Speaker 2: on it. He wants to get what he wants that night.
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Speaker 1: Now two of Bundy's victims had escaped death. The next
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Speaker 1: would not be so fortunate. On November the eighth, Bundy
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Speaker 1: kidnapped seventeen year old Deborah as she left a theater production.
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Speaker 1: She was on her way to pick up her brother.
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Speaker 1: Deborah was never seen again.
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Speaker 5: What happens with Bondi and many other serial killers. They
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Speaker 5: have to kill, They kill, they get a release. Sometimes
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Speaker 5: they get a little extra release by returning to the
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Speaker 5: corpse and having a small dose of the arousal, which
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Speaker 5: they can live through by toying with their trophies and
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Speaker 5: toying with the corpse itself, and then they have a
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Speaker 5: rest period.
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Speaker 1: All the time twenty seven year old Bundy had been killing,
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Speaker 1: he was still seeing his long term girlfriend Elizabeth in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: In the autumn of nineteen seventy four. He also got
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Speaker 1: involved with Carol, a single mother and a divorcee.
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Speaker 2: He presented as completely normal, and so many people were
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Speaker 2: taken in by him.
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Speaker 1: Ted Bundy had yet to appear on the police radar
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Speaker 1: as a suspect, but thanks to eight eye witnesses who
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Speaker 1: saw him in July of nineteen seventy four at Lake Sammamish,
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Speaker 1: the Washington State Police were on the lookout for a
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Speaker 1: man who'd introduced himself as Ted and was driving a
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Speaker 1: Tan VW Beetle.
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Speaker 2: This guy has reported to me, nice looking in his twenties,
22:27
Speaker 2: just at an average college guy. He doesn't look like
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Speaker 2: a monster, and nobody thinks that a serial killer looks
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Speaker 2: like this.
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Speaker 1: Police issued a composite sketch based on the descriptions they had.
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Speaker 1: It was broadcast on national television and was seen by Elizabeth.
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Speaker 1: She called the police. She gave them Bundy's details, as
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Speaker 1: well as those of his car, but the police dismissed
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Speaker 1: the tip because reportedly Bundy was a clean cut law student.
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Speaker 1: A year later, the twenty eight year old headed cross country.
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Speaker 1: He raped and killed three young women in Colorado. In May,
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Speaker 1: he assaulted a twelve year old child she'd been abducted
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Speaker 1: from her Junior High School in Pocatello, Idaho.
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Speaker 2: Here we've got Ted Bundy seeing an opportunity and actually
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Speaker 2: seizing it with not too much regard to the risk.
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Speaker 2: And that's not really his previous mo o. He's used
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Speaker 2: that charm before, but this is quite disorganized and this
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Speaker 2: is something that will lead to his downfall.
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Speaker 1: Bundy had got away with multiple murders and despite a
23:36
Speaker 1: sketch of him in circulation, had not been identified by police.
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Speaker 1: In June nineteen seventy five, he returned to Utah and
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Speaker 1: killed a fifteen year old girl in Provo. Two months later,
23:47
Speaker 1: Bundy was driving erratically through a Salt Lake City suburb
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Speaker 1: in his tan VW Beetle when he was spotted by
23:54
Speaker 1: a Utah Highway Patrol officer.
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Speaker 2: Ted Bundy is pulled over by a police officer who
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Speaker 2: notices that that the front passenger seat is missing, there's
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Speaker 2: an ice pick, there's a crowbar, there's a ski mask,
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Speaker 2: and all of this looks incredibly suspicious. But Ted Bundy,
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Speaker 2: being that the charming manipulator, has an explanation for all of.
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Speaker 1: This, suspicions were aroused, but the Utah police did not
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Speaker 1: have enough evidence to detain Bundy for anything to do
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Speaker 1: with the murders. Instead, three Utah detectives flew to Seattle,
24:27
Speaker 1: where they met up with the Washington police. Together, they
24:30
Speaker 1: interviewed Bundy's long term girlfriend, Elizabeth. She told them that
24:35
Speaker 1: she'd found some strange items in the apartment a year earlier,
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Speaker 1: including a meat cleaver and a bag of women's clothing.
24:42
Speaker 5: What happens over the course of the lives of serial
24:45
Speaker 5: killers is the time it takes them to need another killing,
24:51
Speaker 5: to need, if you will, another savage, evil meal gets
24:55
Speaker 5: shorter and shorter and shorter. Their control gets less and
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Speaker 5: les less and less. The way they perpetrate their crimes
25:03
Speaker 5: becomes wilder and more foolish.
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Speaker 1: With the FBI on his trail, Bundy sold his VW,
25:09
Speaker 1: but it was found by police. Inside they discovered strands
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Speaker 1: of survivor Carol's hair and hairs from two other women.
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Speaker 1: On October the second, nineteen seventy five, detectives found Bundy
25:22
Speaker 1: in Utah, arrested him, and put him in a lineup
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Speaker 1: their Carol positively identified him as her abductor.
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Speaker 2: This is where he's taken his eye off the ball.
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Speaker 2: This is where he started making mistakes. He's been so
25:38
Speaker 2: driven by his wants and his desires that he stopped
25:42
Speaker 2: to actually risk assess what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: Unable to find enough evidence to charge him with any murders,
25:48
Speaker 1: Bundy only stood trial for Carol's aggravated kidnap and assault
25:54
Speaker 1: on June the thirtieth, nineteen seventy six. Bundy was sentenced
25:58
Speaker 1: to serve one to fifteen years and was eventually moved
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Speaker 1: to the Garfield County Jail in Colorado.
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Speaker 4: I felt relieved that he was arrested and wasn't a
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Speaker 4: thread on the street anymore.
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Speaker 1: Just as police were gathering enough evidence to charge him
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Speaker 1: with the murder of a twenty three year old woman
26:16
Speaker 1: in snow, mass Bundy pulled a major surprise.
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Speaker 2: There's a preliminary hearing and Ted Bundy, being the incredibly
26:24
Speaker 2: arrogance individual that he is, decides that he's going to
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Speaker 2: defend himself in courts.
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Speaker 5: Bundy was savvy about how the system operated. By being
26:34
Speaker 5: his own lawyer. He had access to the law library
26:37
Speaker 5: system of the jail and he was allowed to go there.
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Speaker 5: Notwithstanding that once you got access to the law library system,
26:44
Speaker 5: you could go right out the window, which he did.
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Speaker 1: Bundy escaped and went on the run in Colorado. He
26:50
Speaker 1: was caught six days later. A year later, he pulled
26:54
Speaker 1: another surprise.
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Speaker 2: He's in his style and he notices that there's a
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Speaker 2: hole in the ceiling and one he manages it and
27:01
Speaker 2: he gets through the hole and he comes out in
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Speaker 2: the apartment that belongs to the chief jailer, and he
27:06
Speaker 2: literally walks out of the front door of the prison
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Speaker 2: and he's away again.
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Speaker 1: Free and on the loose. Bundy made his way to
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Speaker 1: the peaceful college town of Tallahassee in the Sunshine state
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Speaker 1: of Florida.
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Speaker 5: I suspect that when Bunny knows he's at the end
27:22
Speaker 5: of his rope, he's been arrested enough times, had enough
27:25
Speaker 5: interactions to realize that this story is going to come
27:29
Speaker 5: to an end. So it's in Florida that he goes
27:32
Speaker 5: on his rampage.
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Speaker 1: Around two forty five am on January the fifteenth, nineteen
27:38
Speaker 1: seventy eight, Ted Bundy broke into the Caui Omega sorority house.
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Speaker 2: He's somebody who's familiar with college towns with college buildings,
27:46
Speaker 2: so I think he knew that there were many women
27:48
Speaker 2: in this house, and that was his intention all along.
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Speaker 5: Within fifteen minutes, he'd attacked four women, brutally cracking their skulls,
27:57
Speaker 5: breaking their collar bones.
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Speaker 1: One year old Margaret was hit with a piece of
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Speaker 1: firewood and then strangled to death with her stockings. Twenty
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Speaker 1: year old Lisa was beaten, unconscious, raped and killed.
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Speaker 2: The attack is incredibly brutal, this rape. He beats people,
28:14
Speaker 2: He knocks people's teeth out, He bites the buttock of
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Speaker 2: one of the victims.
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Speaker 5: The magnitude of the terror for the victim is as
28:24
Speaker 5: intense as the magnitude of the rage by the perpetrator.
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Speaker 1: Two others were both severely beaten and assaulted. Miraculously, they
28:33
Speaker 1: survived within the hour. The Sheriff of Leon County, Kencatsaris,
28:39
Speaker 1: was called to the crime scene.
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Speaker 3: When I got there, I did check with the investigators.
28:45
Speaker 3: They had secured the scene. We knew that we had
28:49
Speaker 3: two who were obviously dead and two that they believed
28:56
Speaker 3: may die. You could tell which one was first, You
29:00
Speaker 3: could tell which one was second, third, and fourth, but
29:05
Speaker 3: you could tell how much energy that he expended.
29:12
Speaker 1: This was not the end of Bundy's activity.
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Speaker 3: That night, As I'm standing outside of the sorority house,
29:21
Speaker 3: we get a call that there's strange noises coming from
29:25
Speaker 3: a condo next door, and I sent an investigator immediately
29:30
Speaker 3: because I said, six blocks away, could it be he's
29:34
Speaker 3: doing it again, which only tells you he couldn't help himself.
29:41
Speaker 1: Bundy had broken into another apartment where he savagely beat
29:45
Speaker 1: another student.
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Speaker 3: She was in a pool of blood when my investigator
29:50
Speaker 3: went in the condo or the apartment, and Bundy was
29:54
Speaker 3: leaving out the back window, but she tended to the
29:57
Speaker 3: injury at first.
29:59
Speaker 1: Still free. A few weeks later, Bundy struck again, this
30:03
Speaker 1: time in Lake City in northern Florida. His victim was
30:07
Speaker 1: another little girl who was just twelve years old.
30:11
Speaker 2: He is a prolific serial killer at this point in time.
30:14
Speaker 2: Serial killing is his hobby, it's his vocation. It's something
30:18
Speaker 2: that he feels that he's good at, and more so,
30:21
Speaker 2: he's getting away with it. And when somebody's getting away
30:24
Speaker 2: with it, they're certainly not going to stop, and if
30:27
Speaker 2: anything they're offending is only going to get worse.
30:30
Speaker 1: Bundy dumped the girl's brutalized body in woods, about thirty
30:34
Speaker 1: miles west of Lake City. He then stole a car
30:38
Speaker 1: and made his way west into the Florida Panhandle. Three
30:42
Speaker 1: days later, on February the fifteenth, nineteen seventy eight, an
30:46
Speaker 1: alert Pensacola police officer stopped America's most notorious serial killer
30:52
Speaker 1: near the Alabama Stayed Line for driving suspiciously.
30:56
Speaker 3: He just had a gut feeling that something might be wrong,
31:02
Speaker 3: and of course it came out over his radio after
31:04
Speaker 3: he called it in.
31:05
Speaker 6: The vehicle had been stolen.
31:08
Speaker 1: After a brief struggle in which the officer was forced
31:11
Speaker 1: to fire a warning shot, Bundy was arrested. He was
31:15
Speaker 1: taken to the Leon County Jail in Tallahassee, Florida.
31:20
Speaker 3: I had him in custody for over two years in
31:23
Speaker 3: my detention center.
31:25
Speaker 6: My jail.
31:26
Speaker 3: I had him so locked up that he wasn't going anywhere.
31:29
Speaker 3: He not only was in a secure jail cell, but
31:33
Speaker 3: I had him in a cell that we had lined
31:37
Speaker 3: with armor plate steel in sheets that were welded in
31:44
Speaker 3: terms of the seams, floor, walls, ceiling. There was no
31:51
Speaker 3: light fixture that he could remove like he did in Colorado.
31:56
Speaker 3: And then I put extra locks on the door, heavy
32:01
Speaker 3: impenetrable locks in addition to the jail key law, and
32:06
Speaker 3: they were in the hands of several people.
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Speaker 1: When she discovered that Bundy was arrested for murder, his partner, Elizabeth,
32:15
Speaker 1: finally left him. At the same time, detectives in Washington
32:18
Speaker 1: State tried to build their case against Bundy and prove
32:22
Speaker 1: that he was a serial killer. Sherif Ken Gatsaris was
32:27
Speaker 1: also doing some digging of his own.
32:30
Speaker 3: I went to his cell one day, talking to him
32:33
Speaker 3: through the port. I told him, I said, Ted, I
32:38
Speaker 3: think I know what's going on with you. You've had
32:42
Speaker 3: a problem with your mother because you were born out
32:46
Speaker 3: of wedlaw.
32:48
Speaker 6: She withheld who your father was. You've never forgiven.
32:53
Speaker 3: Her, and that has a lot to do with what
32:57
Speaker 3: you're doing in terms of taking it out on women.
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Speaker 6: He immediately.
33:04
Speaker 3: Opened his eyes wide with anger. He wanted to kill.
33:08
Speaker 3: He immediately started trashing his cell, throwing things about, and
33:14
Speaker 3: he grabbed the shower rod, which was welded in place.
33:18
Speaker 3: He ripped it from its position, which meant a lot of.
33:23
Speaker 1: Power intellectually shed If Ken Knsaris was more than a
33:27
Speaker 1: match for Bundy, he managed to go the serial killer
33:31
Speaker 1: into a game changing revelation.
33:33
Speaker 3: He would taunt me with Ken as he would refer
33:38
Speaker 3: to me with that sarcastic twist of that name. Just
33:42
Speaker 3: three letters, but he would say Ken, and then he
33:47
Speaker 3: would say the evidence is there, you just can't find it.
33:51
Speaker 3: And I thought, then I know what he's referring to.
33:55
Speaker 3: He signed one of those bodies.
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Speaker 1: This was Ken's eureka moment.
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Speaker 8: He used his teeth and clamped hard twice to leave
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Speaker 8: a signature, and I realized we had a very deliberate
34:13
Speaker 8: double bite impression double.
34:16
Speaker 3: Meaning he bit down and then he came out and
34:21
Speaker 3: bit again.
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Speaker 6: That was his signature.
34:23
Speaker 1: Ken Katsaris was convinced that bike marks left on the
34:27
Speaker 1: bodies of his victims were the smoking gun that would
34:30
Speaker 1: show once and for all that Ted Bundy was indeed
34:34
Speaker 1: America's most vicious serial killer. But to convict Bundy, the
34:38
Speaker 1: Sheriff of Leon County needed to prove it.
34:44
Speaker 3: When I viewed the two bodies of the young ladies
34:48
Speaker 3: at the morgue on the slab, just barely twenty years
34:54
Speaker 3: of age, I had a one month old little girl
34:58
Speaker 3: at home, and I had a two year old daughter
35:01
Speaker 3: at home, and I just kept flashing images that this
35:06
Speaker 3: could be them. I made myself a promise in the morgue,
35:13
Speaker 3: somebody's going to pay for this.
35:15
Speaker 6: I will find this person.
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Speaker 1: During his regular interactions with Bundy, the sheriff realized that
35:22
Speaker 1: in the Cai Omega Sorority house attack, Bundy had left
35:26
Speaker 1: a bite mark on the left buttock of Lisa, one
35:29
Speaker 1: of the victims.
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Speaker 3: I was teaching the forensics of homicide investigation, and I
35:36
Speaker 3: was teaching the advanced concepts, so I knew that these
35:41
Speaker 3: bites were going to be important.
35:43
Speaker 1: Sheriff Kenkatsaris determined that if you could get an impression
35:47
Speaker 1: of Bundy's bite, he might be able to match it
35:50
Speaker 1: to the marks left on Lisa's body.
35:54
Speaker 3: I needed an exemplar. I needed his teeth marks, and
36:01
Speaker 3: that became I think it consumed me. How can I
36:06
Speaker 3: get them?
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Speaker 1: The prison officers tried some novel techniques to get the
36:11
Speaker 1: clean impression they needed for a comparison.
36:14
Speaker 3: We gave him different kinds of fruit because we weren't
36:16
Speaker 3: sure which one the core would leave the best bite impression,
36:20
Speaker 3: and that inmate said, you're getting fruit. I don't get
36:25
Speaker 3: any fruit, And I think he became suspicious that something
36:31
Speaker 3: was going on with that, because he quit eating his fruit.
36:34
Speaker 1: After that fruit tricks failed, the sheriff and his team
36:37
Speaker 1: had a trailblazing brainwave.
36:39
Speaker 6: Then it struck us. It just it hit.
36:46
Speaker 3: What about a search warrant for his mouth?
36:49
Speaker 6: We can just go serve it.
36:51
Speaker 3: That would get the bite impression.
36:53
Speaker 1: Ken decided to take Bundy to his own dentist.
36:57
Speaker 3: I personally went to Ted Bundy's and I said, you're
37:01
Speaker 3: coming with me.
37:03
Speaker 6: I told him to put his brace on.
37:05
Speaker 3: I had a special brace developed now called the Bundy Brace.
37:09
Speaker 6: It was spring loaded.
37:11
Speaker 3: So that when he would straighten out his leg, you
37:13
Speaker 3: could hear that spring pop in the place. That way,
37:17
Speaker 3: if he tried to run, he'd be running with one
37:19
Speaker 3: stiff flay.
37:20
Speaker 6: I told him to put his brace on.
37:23
Speaker 1: Bundy reluctantly went with Ken to the dentist's.
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Speaker 3: Office, and I escorted him up the stairway because he
37:30
Speaker 3: couldn't walk it very well with the brace. And then
37:34
Speaker 3: the door opened and there stood three men with little
37:40
Speaker 3: white smocks on and the dental chair behind them. And
37:44
Speaker 3: he knew, he knew the jig was up. He knew,
37:51
Speaker 3: and that's when I knew that he knew that the
37:53
Speaker 3: bite marks were deliberate and they were put there for
37:56
Speaker 3: a purpose.
37:57
Speaker 1: Ken told Bundy that he had a warrant and they
38:00
Speaker 1: were going to get a bite impression from him.
38:02
Speaker 3: And I had the judge put in there that we
38:05
Speaker 3: could use any and all force reasonably necessary. I showed
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Speaker 3: him the contraptions that they used post mortem to keep
38:14
Speaker 3: the mouth open, and he looked at me. He sat
38:19
Speaker 3: down in the dental chair, smiled and said, Ken, you
38:27
Speaker 3: know I'm not a violent person.
38:29
Speaker 6: Do what you need to do.
38:32
Speaker 1: The bitemark impression that the sheriff obtained would prove vital,
38:36
Speaker 1: improving that Bundy was in fact a killer. His trial
38:40
Speaker 1: for the murder of the two students in the Cayomega
38:43
Speaker 1: sorority house and the assault of three more young women
38:47
Speaker 1: began in Miami on the twenty fifth of June nineteen
38:50
Speaker 1: seventy nine. It would be the first national televised trial
38:55
Speaker 1: in America.
38:56
Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to Bradley because I haven't had
39:00
Speaker 3: an opportunity to complete my research on insteatus of Florida law.
39:07
Speaker 4: I was watching the trial on TV and I saw
39:09
Speaker 4: how arrogant he was, and he wasn't in shackles. He
39:13
Speaker 4: was dressed pretending to be his own liar, dressed like
39:15
Speaker 4: a liar, smiling and flirting with the people in the audience,
39:21
Speaker 4: just being mister charismatic, and that was kind of sickening.
39:26
Speaker 1: On July the twenty fourth, nineteen seventy nine, the jury
39:30
Speaker 1: convicted Ted Bundy on two counts of first degree murder
39:34
Speaker 1: and three counts of attempted murder. He was given the
39:37
Speaker 1: death sentence twice.
39:39
Speaker 3: The only real evidence we had was the bite impression.
39:44
Speaker 3: And obviously I felt good because I found that I
39:48
Speaker 3: was conflicted. Yes, I understood that this was congratulations, but
39:54
Speaker 3: it was no congratulations. These women had suffered. Some suffered
40:00
Speaker 3: and live, thank God, others died. How do you celebrate?
40:06
Speaker 1: Bundy would spend ten years on death row fighting his execution.
40:10
Speaker 2: Ted Bundy exhausted every legal avenue he possibly could to
40:14
Speaker 2: save himself from the death penalty, So the cost of
40:18
Speaker 2: his trial and his appeals was around about nine million
40:20
Speaker 2: US dollars, which was a lot of money at the time.
40:24
Speaker 1: At the sentencing for the rape and murder of a
40:27
Speaker 1: twelve year old girl in Lake City, Florida, Bundy represented
40:31
Speaker 1: himself sensationally. He used the opportunity to propose to Carol.
40:37
Speaker 1: Carol met Bundy in Seattle in nineteen seventy four. She
40:41
Speaker 1: would profess his innocence until the eve of his execution.
40:46
Speaker 1: She had a daughter in October of nineteen eighty two
40:49
Speaker 1: and claimed that Bundy was the father serial killers.
40:53
Speaker 5: They are intense, they are moving, and they are real,
40:56
Speaker 5: and I think some women are excited about that. Some
41:00
Speaker 5: women need that terror, that terror, that excitement, especially if
41:05
Speaker 5: somehow they could be near the flame with about being
41:10
Speaker 5: burned by its touch.
41:11
Speaker 1: Over the ten years that Bundy was on death row,
41:14
Speaker 1: he slowly confessed to thirty documented murders.
41:18
Speaker 2: He has knowledge of murders that he's committed which the
41:21
Speaker 2: authorities don't know about, and he's going to use that
41:24
Speaker 2: to his full advantage. And he's going to drip feed
41:27
Speaker 2: some of this information out bit by bit in order
41:30
Speaker 2: to try and buy himself sometime.
41:33
Speaker 1: As the appeals ran out and as the death sentence neared,
41:36
Speaker 1: a macabre fascination with Bundy grew.
41:39
Speaker 2: Just before his execution, we started to see this immense
41:43
Speaker 2: media circus around the event. We started to see radio
41:47
Speaker 2: shows playing the sound of frying bacon on air, and
41:51
Speaker 2: they had a Bundy countdown. People had ted Bundy dances
41:55
Speaker 2: and barbecues.
41:56
Speaker 1: At seven sixteen am on January two, twenty fourth, nineteen
42:01
Speaker 1: eighty nine, age forty two, Ted Bundy was finally executed.
42:07
Speaker 2: Even when he was being walked to the electric chair,
42:10
Speaker 2: he was shouting out names of victims right up until
42:13
Speaker 2: the end. He's trying to buy himself more time. He's
42:16
Speaker 2: trying to just gradually give away some of this knowledge
42:19
Speaker 2: about his crimes.
42:20
Speaker 5: It's a sad thing from a scientific point of view
42:23
Speaker 5: that he would die without telling us or giving us
42:27
Speaker 5: any hint about whether or not there was something in
42:31
Speaker 5: his life that we don't know about that helps explain
42:35
Speaker 5: his conduct.
42:36
Speaker 4: I was not really happy, but kind of relieved. Normally
42:40
Speaker 4: I don't very often agree with the death penalty, but
42:43
Speaker 4: with humor, it was necessary.
42:45
Speaker 2: So many people were taken in by him, despite the
42:47
Speaker 2: fact he was leaving this trail of bodies behind him.
42:50
Speaker 2: Monsters don't always look like monsters. Sometimes they look like
42:54
Speaker 2: the guy next door.
42:56
Speaker 1: Arguably America's most notorious murderer, Bundy was this aptively depraved.
43:01
Speaker 1: He used his charms to kidnap, rape, and kill, by
43:04
Speaker 1: some estimates, up to one hundred young women and girls,
43:08
Speaker 1: making Ted Bundy one of the world's most evil killers.