Between 1974 and 1976, at night in the Western United States, the streets were silent and there was no one there. People, especially the white and beautiful female college students, hid in the house in fear, trembling, and praying constantly in their hearts. The person who caused this horrific phenomenon is our protagonist today, a cunning demon who seduces, kills, loves corpses, rapes corpses, and splits corpses , Ted Bundy.
【Early Life】
- Ted was born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1946, to an unidentified father, and his mother Louise became pregnant unmarried, and he abandoned him in an orphanage after giving birth.
- Later, by chance, Grandpa learned of this and insisted on taking back Little Ted, but because he was worried about his daughter's disgrace, he adopted Ted as a father, and his mother Louis became Ted's sister. Little Ted settled down in a family where ethical relations were a bit problematic.
- As a teenager, Ted was a very bright kid, no matter which subject did not have any difficulty for him, and his academic performance was always at the top. The school also actively participates in various activities, is friendly and active. It can be said that Ted was the other person's child at school.
- At the age of 14, Ted accidentally saw his birth certificate in a dilapidated truck, with Louis written in the mother column and "unknown" in the father column, and he realized that he was an illegitimate child and that his sister was his mother.
- In high school, although Ted excelled in his studies and was elected as the student president, he became withdrawn, less and less talkative, and seemed that there were always many things in his heart that weighed on him.
- During his adolescence, Ted became very sophisticated, wanting expensive clothes and decent dress, but because he could not afford it, he began to engage in some theft, including wallets and credit cards.
- In 1966, Ted graduated from High School and entered Phuket Bay University to study Chinese. During his time at school, he was passionate about sports and politics, participated in many club activities, and was an active member of clubs.
Grandpa and Ted
Later, he recalled that the reason why he studied hard and devoted himself to the community activities was to suppress the evil bondi in his heart, who could not help himself from "sex" and rape as early as his youth.
【Taste of Love】
- In college, Ted quickly had a girlfriend with his handsome appearance, decent clothing, and excellent academic performance, and these bright external conditions.
The girlfriend's name is Stephanie, she has a well-to-do family, excellent appearance, elegance and taste, and is the ideal companion for many boys. They met at an inter-school fraternity and soon admired each other and became lovers. In their spare time, the two often drive out for a ride, and the appearance of Lang Cai and Woman makes countless people envious. It is worth mentioning that all of Ted's use comes from theft, such as a time when two people go skiing together, and the skiing equipment is stolen by Ted.
- In 1967, after a full year together, Stephanie considered Ted to be both ambitious and immature. As a girl, she couldn't see that Ted could give her the future she wanted, so she left Ted.
In this way, Ted's first relationship ended in failure. Ted, who has always been sensitive, was devastated, and because of his bad mood, he began to take a break from school to travel around the United States. And Ted, who has no source of income, can only rely on stealing to survive, he steals some brand-name clothes, steals TV sets, steals bank cards, steals cars, it can be said that he is very depressed.
Ted and Stephanie
- In the summer of 1969, with his handsome looks, Ted met his second girlfriend, Elizabeth. The two met in a tavern, and Elizabeth had a cheerful personality and came from a wealthy family. In contrast, Ted, who has experienced a failed relationship, is very unconfident, and in order to maintain a good image, he falsely claims to be a law student and is writing a book.
The first time they met, Elizabeth was fascinated by Ted, and the two fell in love, and within a few months they had reached the point of talking about marriage. But although Ted liked Elizabeth very much, he had no intention of getting married, so he had to admit that he was just a student who dropped out of school and did not write a book. Fortunately, Elizabeth forgives Ted after learning the truth and pays for his return to school. Since then, Ted has studied hard again and successfully applied to law school for further study.
- Two years later, after hard work, Ted has changed from a less confident, poor dropout to a frank and confident young man who is about to enter law school.
Unfortunately, Ted, who has half a foot in the field of success, thinks that what he wants at this time is not to continue to fight for his future, but to abandon him by his ex-girlfriend Stephanie, who is very angry and decides to retaliate against her.
- Finally, during a Republican meeting, Ted meets Steinferney again. At this time, Ted appeared to be positive and successful in his career, Ted described to her his experiences and achievements in recent years, honor and aura made the woman's eyes shine, and it was expected that the two of them fell in love again. So while interacting with Elizabeth, Ted and Stamphini got into a fight. The two fell in love again and later got engaged.
But after the engagement, Ted is like a changed person, he prefers to buy expensive chess pieces for friends instead of giving any gifts to his fiancée, and his daily meetings are very cold and mechanical, and he often finds various excuses to avoid Stephanie and carry out cold violence. Just when Stefani asked Ted for marriage, Ted disappeared. Finally, Ted throws Stanfinny a cold sentence, "I just want to prove I can get you." Sad, powerless Stephanie was deeply confused and confused, and finally flew home on January 2, 1974.
Ted successfully completed the revenge, and he was happy. But the sense of accomplishment and happiness soon passed, replaced by emptiness, endless emptiness, he never cared about money and power, after losing Stephanie all he wanted was revenge and proof of his ability, after doing all this, what else could he pursue in his heart? What else would make him happy again? So he inadvertently went astray and began his killing career.
【Killing Career】
On January 4, 1974, two days after Stephanie left. Ted flipped through the window to the 18-year-old college student's room, knocked the victim unconscious with an iron rod, then raped him, inserted a prus into the victim's body, and finally left the window. The whole process wore gloves to commit the crime, leaving no important physical evidence such as fingerprints. Eventually the victim was found motionless in bed by his roommate, with large areas of blood on the sheets and mattresses. The victim suffered severe permanent damage to the brain and, although eventually awoke, could not remember anything.
The scene of the first case
On January 31, 1974, Ted first subdued 21-year-old Linda Hayley by knocking her unconscious, draped her bed on new sheets to prolong the alarm time, found clothes in her closet to help the victim change, and then took her away from the scene. After Ted brought the deceased home, he first beat him to death with a blunt object, then cut off the victim's head with a hacksaw as a souvenir, first buried the body torso on Taylor Mountain, and then threw the head on Taylor Mountain after the head was corrupted. It wasn't until a year later, in March 1975, that Linda's skull was found on Mount Taylor.
On May 6, 1974, Ted disguised himself as a leg injury, asked 22-year-old Robert Catherine Parkers to help carry his luggage to the car, knocked him unconscious while putting things away, and then took him to his apartment to rape and beat him violently, and finally strangled and raped the body. After cutting off the victim's head with a hacksaw as a souvenir, the body torso was first buried at the foot of Mount Taylor, and after the head was corrupted, the head was thrown on Mount Taylor. The scene also did not leave any incriminating evidence, through this case, the police suspected that these incidents were committed by the same murderer, although the motives of the murderer were not known, but compared with the two cases, the police found that the criminals in the process of committing the crime are constantly improving their skills, and the police in Washington realized that this case may not be as simple as the cases faced in the past.
Since then, four women have disappeared in other jurisdictions, extending from western Washington to northern Oregon, with one young woman missing almost every month.
These disappearances are basically the same as the previous disappearances, first tricking the girl into a car, then taking her to the residence to beat, rape, kill and then rape the body. But because they were all wearing gloves and left no specific evidence, the police were unable to locate the suspects. The local crowd, especially the young women, fell into a terrible panic. Witnesses claimed to have seen a golden "Beetle" car at the scene of the crime, and this piece of information later became the key to the police to solve the case.
Although he has committed so many cases in succession, his life has not been affected in the slightest, and he still works part-time to earn money while studying in law school on weekdays.
【Search and Arrest】
Ted began to be suspected by the police, starting with the disappearance of Lake Samamishi Park.
On a sunny Sunday afternoon on July 14, 1974, a large number of holidaymakers gathered in Thermomysh Lake Park, and the variety of activities was dizzying. After the event, two women disappeared in the park.
Unlike the previous disappearances, this time there were witnesses who saw a handsome man with bandages on his arms and asked the two girls for help, hoping that they would help him push the sailboat onto the car. He was driving a bronze Volkswagen "Beetle" and introduced himself to the girl as Ted.
This was the first time the police had seized conclusive evidence, and Ted's name began to enter the police's field of vision.
Since the police could not find out which Ted was the perpetrator of the crime, they asked the crowd for help. Unexpectedly, thousands of calls came in less than a week, providing clues to the police and denounceing a suspicious person named "Ted" around him. But so many phone calls simply could not be checked one by one, and the case was deadlocked.
When Ted learned that his name had been revealed, he moved to Utah to live out of caution, and the murder followed Utah. As soon as he arrived, there were two disappearances in Utah, much the same as in Washington. But this time, fortunately, Ted loses his hand for a moment, and the girl Caro escapes from him, which unveils the mystery of this serial killer.
On Friday, November 8, 1974, Carlo Delock, with nothing else to do, drove to the shopping mall to buy something, when a polite man came up and called himself a policeman, and this person was of course Ted. He told Carlo that he had spotted someone trying to pry open her car and burglarized it, and then asked Carlo if he wanted to come to the car together to see if anything was missing. Carlo believed that he had followed Ted to the car, but after a closer inspection, nothing had been stolen and turned to leave.
So Ted went on to lie to her that the police had caught a thief who was currently being held in the police station, and that Carlo would go to the police station to make a record to report the thief if he was free. Carlo felt that something was wrong, she obviously did not lose her things, why did she report the thief? She asks to see Ted's PAPERS, and Ted immediately shows her the badge inside and invites her to get into his Volkswagen Beetle car. Carlo thought it was an undercover cop and got into the car.
Not long after the Beetle drove, Ted parked his car on an empty curb, grabbed Carlo's shoulder, handcuffed one of her wrists, and then drew a gun and aimed it at her, threatening to blow her head off. Frightened, Carlo struggled desperately, and in a panic found the door lock switch, immediately opened the door and jumped. Ted also immediately got out of the car and chased after him from behind, picking up a shovel and trying to swing it down on Carlo's head, but Carlo quickly blocked it with his hand. At that moment, a car came from across the road, and she broke free of Ted with all her might, ran desperately in the direction of the car, quickly opened the door and jumped on it, and then went to the police station to report the crime.
When the police arrived at the scene, they found a handcuff and drew a portrait of Ted according to Carlo's description, and began a large-scale search for the person. This time, though, Ted took the initiative to send it to the door. One night in August 1975, Ted was arrested for an unexpected reason.
【First arrest】
At two o'clock in the morning, the patrol police were patrolling the residential area, when suddenly he found a brown "Beetle" car, without driving lights, hanging around the street, giving people a sneaky feeling. Coupled with his familiarity with the local vehicle, he felt suspicious of the "Beetle" he had never seen before, so he turned on the lights and shined his license plate. Unexpectedly, the "Beetle" suddenly accelerated, trying to get rid of him. The patrol chased after him.
After driving through two intersections, the "Beetle" was stopped. The patrol found a handsome lad inside the car, but the driver, Ted, refused to be investigated. At this time, reinforcements of police also arrived. They found Ted's car in the back seats gone, and inside the suitcase they found a crowbar, a mask made of cut stockings, rope, handcuffs, wires, and an ice pack. The police immediately arrested him on suspicion of burglary.
Something found on Ted's car
Coincidentally, the police officer who took over the kidnapping of the girl Caro and the policeman who investigated Ted were the same person. On August 16, 1975, he discovered that the handcuffs on Teide's car were the same model as those at the scene of the kidnapping, and that, as Carlo had said, Ted had a Beetle car. The crowbar found in the car led police to believe that this was more than a simple burglary. Police began to suspect that Ted was linked to a series of homicides. So he arranged for Carlo to identify Ted.
On October 2, 1975, Carlo came to the Utah State Police Department to identify him. Before Ted was taken to the recognition process, he made a special disguise, cut his hair short, and re-trimmed his beard, but Carlo recognized him at a glance. At this time, the police knew that this time they had caught a big fish.
Later, during the investigation, police found the hair of several other victims in Ted's "Beetle" sedan, as well as the crowbars he had used when committing the crime. Further investigation revealed that a large body of evidence pointed to Ted. So the police decided to take Ted to court.
On February 23, 1976, the court formally heard the Ted kidnapping case, and due to insufficient evidence, the court only convicted the kidnapping and sentenced Ted to 15 years in prison, and could apply for parole. The sentence was served in the Utah State Penitentiary.
【First jailbreak】
Life in prison was clearly not acceptable to Ted. So he planned to escape from prison. He got up at 6:30 every morning, walked 3 kilometers back and forth in his cell, and constantly jumped down from the top bed of the cell, and he also practiced changing the court dress to shorts in the shortest possible time, so that even if he mixed with the crowd, it would not be conspicuous.
On June 7, 1977, the court heard Ted's murder case, and when the trial was adjourned, the police allowed Ted to move freely in the courtroom, and he had no chains around his waist or hands. Ted took the opportunity to the court library, took the book and pretended to be indifferent to the window, and then he jumped, successfully landed, and began to run in the direction of the mountain, all the way to the depths of the mountain.
When the trial continued, the judge could not find Ted everywhere, only to find that he had escaped. Law enforcement officers immediately blocked the streets, set up barricades, and checked every car leaving the mountain, but found no trace of Ted.
Ted found a cabin in the mountains to rest, and was going to wake up and continue to hurry, but it happened to be raining heavily, and he was cold, and then he began to have a high fever, and he stayed in the hut for three or four days and could not move. Hungry and cold, Ted decided to return to the town to find some food.
On June 13, 1977, Ted dressed up again, trimmed his hair and beard, put on a pair of glasses, stole a car, and planned to escape from Poplar Town. But the owner soon found out that his car had been stolen and called the police. The target grew larger, and the police quickly caught Ted. So his first escape ended.
In the 7 days of escape, Ted had lost a full 11 kilograms, his feet were bare, he looked a little tired, but he still thought that those who caught him were just too lucky, and the next time would not be necessarily.
As a result of the escape, Ted is held in Glenwood Prison awaiting trial. The case is not over, and Ted, as a party and agent, can still go to the library to find materials. But he needed to be shackled and shackled. But even then Ted didn't stop his escape plan.
【Second Jailbreak】
On December 30, 1977, Ted waited in prison to be summoned for murder, and at night the guards brought the meal in as usual.
The next morning, the guard came to the room, only to find that the food he had delivered had never been touched. The guards went into the cell and pulled open the sheets, only to find a pile of books under the sheets, and Ted had escaped from the skylight.
This time he was more well prepared, he prepared for seven months, with such a long time to observe and prepare. Ted discovers that the prison compartments can be accessed in all directions, and plans to thin himself and escape from them. He started with a weight loss exercise and lost nearly fifty pounds over seven months. In addition, he got a saw blade from a cellmate. Finally, taking advantage of the police's laxity, he first put books and some miscellaneous items under a blanket, disguised himself as sleeping, and then sneaked into the pre-opened ceiling compartment, through which he entered the policeman's lounge when no one was ready. After changing his clothes, he generously walked out of the main entrance of the police station.
Second arrest in the cell
Ted's escape again attracted the attention of the police, who issued a national arrest warrant and began to search for Ted. However, at that time, the dissemination of information was relatively slow, and the technical means were limited, and it was not known where Ted went.
After Ted got out of prison, he flew to Florida, where many people didn't know him, which gave him another chance. Within weeks, Ted attacked at least 5 more women. Two residents of a sorority club were killed, they were abused and sexually assaulted during their lifetime, and the forensic doctor also found two bite marks on the body of one of them, Lisa, one on the breast and the other on the buttocks. In the early hours of the same day, 2 other women were also attacked, and the situation was similar. A few days later, a 12-year-old girl disappeared on her way to school in the morning, without any clue.
Funny enough, while the patrol was looking for the killer in a haystack, he was automatically arrested because he was sneaky in his car.
【Third arrest】
On February 15, police found a suspicious vehicle in Florida, and police chased him in a flying car, eventually stopping him. The driver was a 31-year-old man who identified himself as a law student at Florida State University but declined to name himself.
Police found 21 stolen credit cards in the car and attempted to detain the man on suspicion of theft, but met with violent resistance during the arrest and it took several minutes of fighting before finally subduing him.
This man is naturally Ted. Since his arrest, he has suffered one setback after another, first escaping from prison for the first time, being arrested within a few days, working hard to lose weight again before escaping from prison, and now being targeted by an inexplicable sneaky, he feels a bit broken.
At this time, Ted shows a rare dependence on relatives and friends, he wants to find someone to talk to, in exchange for the opportunity to talk to his girlfriend Elizabeth, Ted said his name.
After learning Ted's true identity, the police immediately investigated him and found that he was a nationally wanted man, and the 5 recent cases were likely to be his doing.
【"Happy Days" After Judgment】
On July 7, 1978, prosecutors indicted Ted on two counts of theft, two counts of first-degree murder, and three counts of attempted first-degree murder.
In a Florida court, the prosecution presented a very important piece of evidence: the bite marks on the victim's body were consistent with Ted's tooth records. The bite marks extracted from Lisa's body were compared to the records from Ted's teeth, and the unexpected consistency proved that Ted was the one who caused Lisa's bite.
Tooth mark contrast
On July 23, 1979, Ted waited in his single cell in the courthouse for the jury's verdict. Seven hours later, the judge pronounced the jury verdict guilty! All the jury members believe that Ted killed Lisa. The judge sentenced him to death by electrocution. Hearing this result, Ted screamed uncontrollably, and a photojournalist recorded the moment, which was the avatar provided by this file, and those who did not know thought that it was a temperamental artist performing, but it was actually a catharsis that a murderous demon who did not blink knew that he had reached the end of his fate.
One case after another about the disappearance of a teenage girl was solved, and Ted was sentenced to death one after another. Of course, Ted always refused to admit guilt.
Ted who gushed in court
In the 10 years from his death sentence to his final execution, some pro-abolition lawyers voluntarily defended him, and the case was constantly appealed, delaying the execution of the death penalty.
During this period, as a serial killer, Ted received numerous confessions from women, including more than 200 love letters alone. Eventually he married one of the women and managed to have a daughter during his visit to prison.
The woman is a die-hard Ted fan, not only testifying for Ted in court, but also in order to satisfy Ted's desire to smoke marijuana, she also bribed the prison guards to secretly transport marijuana in. It can be said that Ted's life in prison is very comfortable.
Fast forward to the first few months of the execution, and Ted, feeling that he might not have another chance to appeal, decided to confess his crimes and repent to the people.
He told the media that he committed crimes basically in the early hours of the morning, and there were two main ways, one was to enter the house and commit murder, and the other was to trick the victim into his car and take him to a remote place to commit the crime, followed by the rape, dismemberment and throwing of the body.
According to Ted's later admission, he cut off the heads of at least twelve victims with a saw. These skulls are left in homes or villas for a period of time before finally disposing of them in the Taylor Mountains. He admitted that he had burned some of the victims' skulls in his girlfriend's fireplace, where police later found some teeth. In addition, he also told reporters that he has a necrophilia, he will often return to the place of dumping after throwing the body, carry out corpse rape, he likes to stay with the corpse, he likes to watch the corpse slowly decay until it is destroyed or taken away by the beast.
Ted, like other serial killers, collected a lot of "souvenirs". Police found many photographs of the victims in the storage rooms of his apartment. In addition, he also collected the hair of many victims, as well as their clothing, ornaments, etc.
Ted's death penalty will be executed as scheduled. It's just that as a egotistical serial killer who thinks he's omnipotent, Ted doesn't like being executed, which is somehow something more terrifying than death itself, and he plans to commit suicide. He told reporters who came to interview him that he was going to insert an atomic pen in his hand into an artery and die of excessive blood loss before anyone could come.
Finally, on January 24, 1989, Ted sat in the electric chair with a bloodless face. Before the execution, local radio stations called on listeners to shut down household appliances to maximize electricity supply.
A few minutes later, the killer Ted Bundy ended his life full of evil.
【Reflection and Influence】
Ted can be said to be a typical portrayal of "erotic murderer". The misfortunes of his childhood, as well as the frustration of love, were important factors that made him a murderer. But one of the topics that must be mentioned for him is theft, which has shaped Ted's life and even his criminal career.
The theft was a medium for Ted, the process of sliding from a normal person to a demon. Theft was initially Ted's "main business", and stealing would allow him to have enough money to decorate his life. But psychologically, theft is also a release of stress.
He was arrested twice for theft, first because of a stolen tool in his car and the second because he had stolen a Beetle sedan from his beloved Volkswagen company. The reaction after being discovered by the police is the same, like all thieves, quickly driving away. But none of them survived.
Theft allows Ted to meet many needs, such as money, a comfortable, decent life, and even find himself through theft. But the habit of theft buried him.