“If you don’t stop screaming, I’ll blow your brains out.” A quote that victim Carol DaRonch would later recall to police after escaping a kidnapping by a notorious serial killer named Ted Bundy. Over his 42-year life, Theodore Robert Bundy would have many names and wear many masks. His mother thought that he was the ideal son. To his friends, he was going to do something with his life and become a politician because of his great intelligence. “If there was any flaw with him,” a male acquaintance once said, “it was that he was too perfect.” Perfection. Perfection was something that Ted Bundy had struggled with. He worked hard to craft his appearance during his lifetime. During this speech, I will talk with you about the life of Ted Bundy. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Psychopaths. Psychopaths do not suffer from a mental illness, they are very much like you and me. They are in touch with reality, they know what’s right and what’s wrong. But they don’t care. Psychopaths kill without guilt or remorse. Nobody knows what creates a psychopath, but from coming from a good and caring family, Ted Bundy was an oddball. From an early age, other classmates and students would describe Ted as “shy”, “caring” and kind of awkward. Teenage awkwardness - all part of the typical youth of an All-American male. But, beneath the facade, Ted Bundy was in a dark place and was only getting a taste of what was to be.
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The young Bundy often snuck out at night and peered into women's windows during the night to watch them undress. He took it a step further one night and disabled a woman's car to make her less mobile, and more vulnerable. Bundy would also shoplift and thought nothing of it. During his young life, juvenile authorities picked up Bundy on suspicion of auto theft and burglary. To take things he couldn’t have, was Bundy’s hallmark.
According to biography.com Ted Bundy attended college at the University of Washington, and worked as a suicide hotline operator. “Ted Bundy took lives, but he also saved lives, I know he did because I was there when he did it.” This is what Anne Rule said in an interview about Ted Bundy. Also, during college, Ted Bundy met a woman named Leslie Holland. Leslie Holland and Ted Bundy dated for a couple of months and then she broke ties with him. Ted was heartbroken and for about a year, he reinvented his image as a male and later won Leslie Holland back. The two became engaged. Later, Ted dropped her. “I just wanted to prove to myself that I could have married her,” he later explained.
But, by then, the killing had already begun.
College campuses were Bundy’s natural hunting ground. Without going into details about the murders, Bundy murdered about 11 women, and another woman was put into a 7-month coma and would not remember her attack. After a hiking group comes across a human skull, teeth, and bones, Investigators now have fully grasped the scope of the crimes.
The killings became frequent during the months of October and November of 1974. Just a couple of months after the human remains were found during a hike.
“If you don’t stop screaming, I’ll blow your brains out”. On November 8, Carol DaRonch managed to escape the clutches of “Officer Roseland” at the fashion place shopping mall in Murray. Ted Bundy was taken for a line-up for Carol DaRonch to identify her kidnapper. Before the line-up, Bundy did whatever he could to change his appearance. He combed his hair the other way, got a quick haircut, and wore uncommon clothes. But, he was still identified as Carol’s kidnapper. Bundy was charged with the kidnapping and attempted murder of Carol DaRonch. And was put out on a $100,000 bail. After being caged in jail for several weeks, he got his bail reduced to $15,000. His parents scraped up the money, and after Bundy got out he moved to Seattle back with his girlfriend after convincing her that he was innocent.
After three months out on bail, Bundy went to trial for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch. He was found guilty after several days of the trial carrying on. He was sentenced to 15 years in the Utah State Prison. After a transfer to another prison, On June 7, 1977, he was later transported to a hearing in Glenwood Springs. (according to thoughtco.com). In the courthouse, Bundy was to move freely. During a recess, Bundy was taken to the library on the 2nd floor. While the guard watching him walked down the hall for a smoke break, Bundy took his chance and leaped out of the building. Three minutes later, a woman who saw a man jump out a window walked into the courthouse and asked “Is it normal for people to jump out of windows around here?” News about Bundy’s escape immediately went out to the world.
Bundy’s first escape only lasted six days. Yes, you heard me right. Ted Bundy soon escaped from jail after being caught his first escape from losing weight and sneaking through a square hole in the ceiling of his cell. With only $500 he walked out of the front door of the jail stole a car and was gone. After over two months (almost 60 days) of escaping, Bundy committed two murders on two innocent female students in Florida State’s Chi Omega house.
After being found guilty of the murders of Florida State’s Chi Omega murders, and another murder of a 12-year-old girl. Bundy was put on death row and confessed to over 30 murders. On January 14, 1989, Ted Bundy was executed and crowds outside the prison celebrated cheering and chanting phrases such as “fry ted fry” and whatnot.
Ted Bundy once said “I don’t think anybody doubts whether I’ve done some bad things. The question is: what, of course, and how...and most importantly, why?” Why.. that's what we will always wonder about when we hear about Ted Bundy, and what he did. From being the all-American boy. To a notorious serial killer, the death of Ted Bundy seemed to be an end to a nightmare. But the nightmare will last forever for the families that have suffered from the effects of Ted Bundy.
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