Will serial killers really repent after being caught?
He is the Da Vinci of the killer world: a maniac lurking under his handsome skin.
This killer is the prototype of Hannibal.
1. Fall in love with the killer
Ted has maimed many teenage girls in his lifetime, and although he has only admitted to 36 of them, the police estimate that more than a hundred women died at his hands, and even he himself does not know the names of the victims and the burial site, because the number is too many. In his short life, he loved many women, but the woman who made him most memorable was Elizabeth. Even during his crime, he tried to disguise himself in front of Elizabeth as an elegant gentleman and considerate boyfriend, and had nothing to do with crime and bloodshed, until Ted was arrested, and Elizabeth did not know that her boyfriend of many years was a serial killer.
After the incident, Elizabeth felt very frightened, recalling the first time she met Ted, and still think that it is a little incredible, unable to connect the personable, gentle and considerate boyfriend with the ruthless and cruel murderer.
In the fall of 1969, Elizabeth and Ted met at a bar, "He was the Prince of Dreams, tall, handsome, personable, and the wonderful chemistry happened between us, and I even began to imagine the names of our weddings and children." The two people who fell in love at first sight soon began to communicate, and the relationship was quite stable and lasted for many years.
Elizabeth confessed that it was very stressful to be with Ted because he was so feminine, personable, and generous, and as soon as he appeared in the bar and immediately became the focus, the women would be attracted to him, fascinated by it, and couldn't wait to have a relationship.
After his arrest, Ted captured the hearts of many American women through television interviews, and tens of thousands of girls regarded Ted as a sexual fantasy idol and wrote him a courtship letter. Ted's prison life is not lonely, and opening these passionate letters every day occupies most of his time. While in prison, Ted also married female fan Carol, who bore him a daughter. In the birth father column of the birth certificate, Carol wrote Ted's name.
In order to accompany his daughter's growth, Ted successfully escaped from prison twice, and after his third arrest, Ted used his high IQ to fight with judges and juries, drill legal loopholes, and extend his life for more than a decade.
What kind of person Ted is, what kind of charm, to make women so crazy call, this has to start from his childhood.
2. Multiple personalities
Ted's birth has always been a mystery, and he has not been able to understand his father, mother, and sister throughout his life. As if in the Ted family, this mysterious relationship involves one of the deepest secrets.
Ted Bondy was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, in the northeastern United States, a beautiful landscape with four pleasant seasons, known as the Green Mountain State.
Ted was an illegitimate child, and who his father was is still a mystery. In order not to shame the family and prevent the child from being discriminated against by the outside world, in the birth registration, the grandfather had to register Ted as his youngest son, whose full name was Theodore Robert Coville.
In this way, Ted's biological mother, Louise, became his "sister", and his maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother became his "father and mother".
Growing up in such a special family, Ted was sensitive, suspicious, and thoughtful from an early age, but he was very smart and his academic performance has always been very good, which reassures the family and ignores his psychological problems. In front of outsiders, Ted is very shy, introverted, and does not want to play with other children, preferring to be alone, reading books or thinking wildly.
Ted's adolescence came early, and around the age of 12, he became interested in psychology and discovered his own Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD).
Some theories suggest that multiple personalities are associated with childhood trauma. Internationally, before the age of seven is considered to be the golden age of children, if a child suffers serious mental injury before the age of seven, it is likely to lead to mental illness, and multiple personalities are one of the possibilities.
As a child, Ted was plagued by illegitimate children, and although he had his grandfather's surname, he was smart and sensitive enough to vaguely feel that his family was hiding something, especially the colored eyes and whispers of his neighbors, which made him feel that his life was not glorious.
The grandmother is old, has no time to take care of Ted's life, and is very indifferent to him, and the "sister" has long reached the age of marriage but cannot marry, perhaps related to her own existence.
Ted is a precocious child, and at this time he has understood that in his own body, there are more than two different "characters" of Ted, who have their own behavior habits, ways of thinking, and take turns to dominate their own behavior, just like "living in one body with 2 souls."
Ted 1 is a studious, well-behaved and sensible child who is a good child in the eyes of his parents.
Ted 2 has a serious violent personality tendency, as well as fantasies and impulses about sex.
It is not surprising that adolescents have sexual arousal, but Ted 2's sexual impulses are not normal, they are all very perverted and violent, and this behavior makes him unable to help himself.
Through psychology books, Ted knows that each personality of multiple personalities is independent and separate from each other, and when one personality appears, the other personalities automatically exit.
Therefore, Ted can only fill his time by continuously learning and devoting himself to community activities, in order to make Ted 1 often come out to "duty" and let Ted know that Ted 2 automatically leaves the market.
Teide of adolescence, living a very bitter life, excessive repression makes him physically and mentally exhausted, he does not dare to tell his family, for fear that they no longer like him, there are no friends to tell.
What he does not know, however, is that personality is uncontrolled, and in life, which personality is governed by it, and completely follows the principle of "which personality is most suitable for the environment and needs at that time, which personality is initiated and appeared", which is equivalent to the psychological version of the "law of survival of the fittest".
That is to say, you cannot rely on willpower alone to dominate personality, on the contrary, the more you try to manipulate personality, the more it will be counterproductive and even more dangerous.
3) Damn love
In 1965, Ted graduated from high school and spent a year at Puget Sound University. Then, in 1966, he was admitted to the University of Washington (UW) with honors, majoring in Chinese.
In 1967, Ted met his first girlfriend, Stephanie Brooks. Originally from California, she is a distinguished person and comes from a prominent family. Although the two are very different, they both like to skate. In order to pursue her, Ted did everything he could, taking advantage of Stephanie's school day and day, riding to pick her up from school, and asking her to drink coffee. At that time, Ted used his spare time to work in restaurants, and the small salary he earned was used for bubble girls, such a fierce love offensive, coupled with Ted's handsome appearance and excellent grades, Stephanie soon fell. Finally, during an ice skating trip, the two fell in love.
This is a love story between a white rich and a poor boy, but the ending is lamentable.
In early 1968, Ted lost interest in Chinese profession and wanted to work even more.
Stephanie is furious at Ted's decision to give up her studies, but Ted insists on dropping out of school.
After working in a few low-paying jobs, he embarked on a career in politics. At the time, Republican Senator Rockefeller's presidential campaign was in full swing, the Seattle office lacked an assistant, and Ted was familiar with the law, so he applied successfully.
In August of the same year, Ted attended the "Republican National Convention" in Miami as a representative of Rockefeller, and he met many celebrities, and he felt that entering politics was very suitable for him. First of all, Ted is handsome and eloquent, and he is not afraid to give a speech in full view of the public. Second, Ted likes the feeling under the spotlight, which greatly increases his confidence.
However, his girlfriend Stephanie thought that these were too flashy and had no practical significance.
Shortly after the convention, Stephanie offered to break up because she was "frustrated with Ted's immaturity". After the breakup, she severed all ties with Ted and resolutely returned to her hometown in California.
This incident hit Ted very hard, stephanie can be said to be the light of his ideals, and now, this light is extinguished, and Ted's world is dark.
Years later, Dorothy Lewis, a psychiatrist involved in Ted's trial, identified the "breakup with Stephanie" as a "critical period of Ted's personality change." Unable to accept the pain of lost love, Ted thinks he is busy with his current job and ignores Stephanie's feelings, so he quits his position in the Seattle office.
Ted's life loses its direction, and the sinful personality is activated from hibernation. He began to seek another kind of relief—sin.
Who was the first victim?
When Ted first killed is still a mystery, and from the police investigation, it was found that Ted's murder map basically coincided with his school trajectory.
After breaking up with Stephanie, Ted left washington, a sad place, for a break in Colorado, and later further east, to visit relatives in Arkansas and Philadelphia, and spent a semester at Temple University.
After more than a year of recuperation, Ted's love wounds were healed, but Stephanie was still the knot in his lifelong heart.
In the fall of 1969, he returned to Washington State again and met the most important girl of his life, Elizabeth Klopphre.
Unlike Stephanie, Elizabeth is a mild-mannered girl who falls in love with Ted at first sight, is obedient to him, and takes great care of him. To use an inappropriate analogy, if Stephanie is an unruly wild horse, then Elizabeth is a docile sheep. She always had an adoring and appreciative gaze, and had full trust and tolerance for Ted.
From 1969 until Ted's arrest in 1976, the two remained intimately in love. With Elizabeth's encouragement, Ted returned to school, and in 1970, Ted re-entered the University of Washington, majoring in psychology.
This time, Ted became a high-achieving gifted student, widely appreciated by professors. In 1971, Ted joined seattle's Suicide Prevention Center, where he met and worked with Ann Rule, a former Seattle police officer. Ann later wrote an authoritative biography of Ted's early life, The Stranger Beside Me, which, according to the book, describes Ted as not showing obvious abnormalities in this period, describing him as "kind, earnest, and empathetic."
In 1972, Ted graduated with honors from the University of Washington. Highly educated, highly intelligent, handsome in appearance, intelligent in mind, in that era, it was very easy to find a job under Ted's conditions. However, he does not want to start from the bottom, wants to get the favor of big people, and then find a backer.
Because of his outstanding performance in The Rockefeller Campaign, this time, through a friend's introduction, he ran in the Gubernatorial Campaign for Republican Chairman Daniel Evans. Ted was shrewd and psychoanalytic, always able to analyze opponents' movements in detail, and played an important role in the campaign. After Evans's successful re-election, the fledgling Ted also received attention.
Soon after, Ted was hired as an aide to Ross Davis, the republican chairman of Washington State. Davis valued Ted dearly and praised him as "smart, enterprising, and religious."
In early 1973, despite his mediocre test scores, Ted was accepted into Puget Sound University and the University of Utah School of Law with letters of recommendation from Evans, Davis, and several University of Washington psychology professors, and he chose the University of Utah.
In the summer of 1973, Ted met Stephanie while traveling to California to work on Republican affairs. Her former boyfriend made her eyes light up, and at this time, Ted was positive and upbeat, his career was smooth, and he was already a rising political star with a bright future. The two renew their love, but at the same time, Ted continues to date Elizabeth, and neither woman knows the other's existence.
Six months later, when Stephanie asked Ted for marriage, he suddenly disappeared, the phone didn't answer, and the email didn't return. It wasn't until a month later, when Stephanie contacted Ted and asked him for an explanation, that he replied lightly, "Stephanie, I don't know what you mean?" He hung up the phone.
Until Ted was arrested, Stephanie never heard from him again. According to Ted's confession, he was simply "trying to prove that I have the ability to marry her", and Stephanie believes that Ted deliberately plotted a compound after the marriage proposal and then cruel refusal to get revenge on her 1968 breakup request.
4. Obscene killer
Ted likes to be mysterious, ignoring many key time evidences, and refusing to disclose the earliest time and place, so it is difficult for the police to speculate on the time of his earliest crime.
The first officially recorded murder took place in 1974, when Ted was 27 years old and had mastered forensic science-related skills and knew how to avoid leaving evidence at the crime scene.
But according to Detective Robert David Keppel, Ted's earliest recorded murders could have occurred in Seattle in 1972 or Washington in 1973. There is also indirect evidence that Ted may have been killing people since he was a young man, and that the disappearance of Ann Marie Burr, an eight-year-old girl in Tacoma, Washington, may be related to him.
Beginning on January 4, 1974, and around mid-June of the same year, Ted kidnapped and killed at least six female college students, most of them at the University of Washington, by sneaking into the dormitory, pretending to be a conversation, and then sneaking up on a metal bat. Imagine girls being kidnapped while reading in a school dormitory, and the kidnappers are the young and promising Elder Ted.
At the time, Ted was in his public capacity as assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Commission in Washington state, and during this time he also wrote a handbook on women's prevention of rape. Later, he was transferred to the Emergency Services Department (DES) of the state government, which was involved in the search for missing women.
While working at DES, Ted began a relationship with Carole Ann Boone. Carol was divorced and had two children, and she occupied a prominent position in the final stages of Ted's life.
Despite the sweetness of love, Ted still did not put down the butcher knife.
On July 14, 1974, two young women disappeared in broad daylight at Lake Thumamish State Park, Washington.
According to the after-the-fact accounts of six witnesses, an attractive young man called them for help unloading the sailboat, but four refused, and two followed him to the side of the car, found that there was no sailboat, and fled immediately.
The man's car was a brown Beetle sedan. At least three witnesses saw the man approaching Janice Anne Ott, a 23-year-old juvenile court worker, who followed him away from the beach. Four hours later, 19-year-old college girl Denise Marie Naslund left the picnic spot to go to the bathroom and never returned. According to Ted's confession, janice was still alive when he kidnapped denise, and he forces janice to watch his murder of denise.
Based on eyewitness accounts, the Washington State Police drew sketches of the suspect and his car, made them into leaflets and posted them, and published them publicly by newspapers and local television stations. Ted's colleagues, DES employees Ann Ruger, Elizabeth Klopphre, and a psychology professor at the University of Washington, recognized the sketch and reported to the police that the suspect might be Ted. However, the police received more than 200 reports a day, and Ted worked in a government office with no criminal record, so the police ruled him out.
In August 1974, Ted was re-admitted to the University of Utah Law School and moved to Salt Lake City, ending his murder record in Washington, D.C., but he remained in touch with friends in Seattle and with several women, including Elizabeth and Carroll. In September of the same year, Ted began committing crimes in Salt Lake City.
Just as Ted was spending his birthday with his girlfriend Elizabeth, Salt Lake City was shrouded in a shadow of horror, and the brutal murder of several young girls caused great panic.
By the end of 1974, Ted had murdered at least six women, and the age of the victims had dropped significantly, four of them female high school students as young as 17 years old, including Melissa Smith, the 17-year-old daughter of the Midvale Police Chief in the Salt Lake City suburbs.
In November of the same year, Elizabeth reported Ted again to the police after reading in the newspaper about the disappearance of young women around Salt Lake City, and Ted's suspicions had greatly increased, but witnesses at Lake Thumamish State Park did not identify him in the photo book, and there was not enough forensic evidence to link Ted to the case.
In 1975, Ted's crime site was transferred to Colorado. On January 12 of the same year, nurse Karin Irene Campbell, 23, disappeared inside the Wildwood Inn in the ski resort.
A month later, Karin's body was found on a dirt road outside the village, naked and with mostly sharp blade cuts on her body, the fatal wound being a blunt blow to the head. The Karin case was an important turning point as her hair was found in Ted's car, becoming Ted's first case in which there was definite evidence to be prosecuted. From January 12 to early May, Ted committed four murders in Colorado and Idaho, including karin's case.
Most of the bodies of victims in Utah, Colorado, and Idaho have not been found because they were mostly thrown into the river by Ted or buried deep in extremely remote locations.
5. Arrested
At two o'clock in the morning on August 16, 1975, Ted was driving around a residential area on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, looking for prey. Highway Patrol Officer Bob Hayward thought he was suspicious and drove after him, and Ted found out that he was being followed by the police and fled at high speed. Hayward caught up with him and found a ski mask in his car, a second mask made of stockings, a pick, a bundle of rope, an ice pick, handcuffs, garbage bags, and other tools.
Ted is cunning, explaining that the masks are for skiing, the handcuffs are picked up in the trash, and the rest are ordinary household items. While searching Ted's apartment, police found a guide to the Colorado ski resort and ticked the Wildwood Inn, where Karin had disappeared.
Unfortunately, the evidence was not enough to detain Ted, the police had to release him, and the police who searched the apartment missed the photo of the victim in Ted's home, and Ted immediately destroyed the photo after he came out.
In September 1975, Ted sold the Beetle to a young man, and the Utah Police immediately detained the car, which the FBI dismantled and investigated in detail, and found Karin's hair and evidence of several other missing people.
In November of the same year, the three prosecutors who investigated Ted's case (Jerry Thompson of Utah, Robert Gippelle of Washington, and Michael Fisher of Colorado) met and invited about 30 detectives and prosecutors from five states to attend, and after exchanging pieces of evidence in their respective hands, attendees were convinced that Ted was the murderer they were looking for, but they also believed that more evidence was needed to convict him.
In February 1976, Ted was arrested again, and at the advice of a lawyer, Ted waived jury power because the case had attracted considerable social attention and the use of the jury was not good for him. After four days of trial, trial judge Stuart Hansen Jr. convicted Ted of kidnapping and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.
6. Two jailbreaks
On June 7, 1977, Ted was taken from Garfield Prison to Pitkin County Court in Aspen, 40 miles away, for a preliminary trial. He fired his lawyer and chose to defend himself, so he was given the treatment of being exempted from handcuffs and shackles by the judge.
During the recess, Ted asked to consult the court library documents to study the case, and then he used the bookshelf to block the bailiff's view, opened a window, jumped from the second floor, and sprained his ankle when he landed. Ted crossed the city into Mount Aspen, broke into a hunting lodge on the hill, stole clothes, food and guns, and spent the night in the hut.
The next day, he got lost in the forest. After two days of aimless wandering, on June 10, Ted arrived at Maroon Lake, broke into a camping trailer and stole food and coats. Instead of continuing south, he returned in the direction of Aspen and stole a car from the golf course, where cold, hunger and ankle injuries affected him. When Ted drove back to Aspen in his stolen car, where he was spotted and arrested by police patrolling the streets, he had been on the run for six days.
The police found a map of the mountains near Aspen where Karin's body was found (as his lawyer, he had access to the document), indicating that the escape was not a temporary intention, but had been premeditated.
At this point, much of the evidence presented by the Colorado prosecutors was found invalid by the court, and Ted's lawyer believed that if he did not make any other problems, he would only need to stay in jail for a year and a half to be released, and the frustration of the Colorado prosecutors would cause other state prosecutors to back down.
However, Ted was not destined to be a peaceful person.
He made a new plan to prepare for a second escape. Ted spent six months buying hacksaw blades and prison floor plans from other inmates, and asked his girlfriend Carol to take the opportunity to help him smuggle some contraband from the prison, accumulating five hundred dollars in cash by reselling contraband in the prison as a daily expense after escaping.
Using the noise of the prisoners bathing, Ted sawed a hole of about 1 square foot (0.093 square meters) in the ceiling of his cell and lost 16 kilograms of weight to allow himself to squeeze through the hole. In the weeks that followed, he used the night to explore the ceiling to find a way out of prison, during which time some prisoners reported abnormal sounds on the smallpox version, but they did not attract the attention of the prison guards.
In the second half of 1977, Ted applied to change the venue to Denver, citing the fact that the case had already received excessive attention in Aspen, and this application was approved by the judge. On the evening of December 30 of the same year, Ted took advantage of the fact that most of the prison staff went home for Christmas, and made a dummy on the bed with books, clothes, and blankets to imitate the sleeping state, and then entered the empty warden's room through the ceiling (the warden and his wife went home for the holiday), put on the warden's change of clothes, and then left the prison from the main entrance with a big wave.
After leaving prison, Ted stole a car and drove out of Glenwood Spring, but the car soon broke down on Interstate 70, and a passing driver let him hitchhike and take him to the small town of Vail, 97 kilometers away. Ted took a bus into Denver at Vail and then boarded an early morning flight to Chicago. At Glenwood Springs Prison, the prison did not find Ted escape until noon on December 31, when he was already far away in Chicago.
Upon arrival in Chicago, Ted took the train to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Five days later, he stole a car and drove to Atlanta, where he took a bus and finally arrived in Florida.
On Jan. 8, Ted rented a room under the pseudonym Chris Hagen at a Holiday Inn near Florida State University (FSU). At first he wanted to find a proper job, because he knew he could enjoy a long period of freedom as long as he did not attract the attention of the police. But when he found that most of his normal work required the production of identity documents, he had to give up on this plan. In order to make ends meet, he resumed the habit of stealing.
On January 15, 1978, Ted infiltrated the clubhouse of Chi Omega, a large sorority, through the back door, killing 21-year-old Margaret Bowman, 20-year-old Lisa Levi, and seriously injuring 2 people in the next bedroom. After leaving the clubhouse, Ted broke into a basement apartment and attacked Cheryl Thomas, a student living there, causing her to dislocate her shoulders and fracture five times throughout her body, forcing her to end her dance career due to permanent deafness and brain damage. Police found a semen stain on Cheryl's bed and a mask made of stockings, and two hairs suspected to belong to Ted were found in the mask (due to technical limitations, it was impossible to make precise comparisons, only blood type and other characteristics could be tested).
On February 8, 1978, Ted drove 240 kilometers east to Jacksonville in a stolen FSU van, where he picked up a chat in a parking lot with Leslie Parmentel, the 14-year-old daughter of Inspector General of jacksonville Police, claiming to be "Richard Burton of the Fire Department," but fled when Leslie's brother arrived at the scene and questioned him.
The next day, Ted attacked Kimberly, a 12-year-old girl at Lake City Junior High School, the youngest victim in Ted's case. The poor girl disappeared after being called into the classroom by her teacher to get her things, and after extensive searches, seven weeks later, Kimberly's body was found in a pig shed near Suwannee River State Park, where she was raped with semen reactions from her underwear and died of a fatal knife wound to the neck.
On Feb. 12, Ted stole a car and escaped from Tallahassee because he couldn't pay his rent, heading west toward Florida in the west. Three days later, Pensacola police officer David Lee stopped Ted suspecting he was driving a stolen car. When David informed Ted of his arrest, he attacked the officer and began to flee.
David fired a warning shot and then pursued him, trying to snatch David's gun before David finally arrested him. Police later found 3 student ID cards belonging to FSU schoolgirls, 21 stolen credit cards, 1 TV, 1 pair of flat black-rimmed glasses, 1 pair of plaid pants, and the last two items he used in disguise as "Richard Burton of the Fire Station" in Ted's stolen car.
When David sends Ted to prison, he doesn't realize he's just captured one of the FBI's top ten most wanted criminals, and he hears Ted say", "I want you to kill me".
7. Wedding in prison
In June 1979, Ted was tried in Miami for the Chi Omega murder and assault. In the defendant's seat, Ted smiled at the crowd and waved to the media as if he were acting in a TV series. The case was followed up by nearly 250 journalists around the world and was the first trial in the United States to be televised.
Although the court provided him with five public defenders, the arrogant Ted refused to use the lawyer and chose to defend himself, personally handling a large amount of defense material. He faces serious murder charges and may be sentenced to death, but the most important thing for him is that he call the shots.
After negotiations, the two sides held plea negotiations, and Ted pleaded guilty to two of the murders in exchange for 75 years in prison. Prosecutors want to negotiate because the evidence is insufficient and there is a risk of losing the case, while Ted argues that plea bargaining is just a "strategic means" to avoid the death penalty, allowing him more time to find loopholes in the evidence, and once the case moves in his favor, he can also withdraw the guilty plea and seek acquittal. But then Ted changed his mind and gave up the plea bargain.
The most important testimony at the trial came from Chi Omega member Connie Hastings, who happened to witness Ted leaving the Chi Omega Club with a murder weapon in hand. Direct forensic evidence includes Ted's bite on Lisa Levi's left buttock, and tooth marks experts have proven that imprints are so unique that they can only belong to Ted.
Until then, Ted had been emphasizing his innocence, and his friends believed he was innocent. However, after the evidence of the tooth marks came out, Ted went crazy.
It was this ironclad evidence that gave him no place to turn around.
He roared in court, not with remorse, but with hatred for his own cleverness, but he was caught in the handle.
After the trial was finally heard, the jury convicted Ted of two first-degree murders (Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levi) on July 24, 1979, three attempted first-degree murders (Kathy Kleiner, Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas) and two burglary cases, all of which were convicted of July 24, 1979, and Judge Edward Cowat sentenced Ted to death for murder.
Six months later, Ted was tried in Orlando, where Ted was still found guilty after eight hours of deliberations by a jury. The evidence in this case is more direct, with witnesses seeing Ted approaching his stolen FSU truck with a 12-year-old girl, Kimberley, and the fibers found on kimberley's body on the truck match the jacket Ted was wearing when he was arrested.
In his final judgment, Ted cited a very skewed Florida statute that provided that a declaration of marriage in court automatically constituted a legal marriage in the presence of a judge, and that Carol had moved to Florida for him before he began questioning his former DES colleague Carol, testifying on both trials as a character witness.
Ted proposes to Carol in court, and Carol agrees, and Ted announces to the court that they are legally married, a move that although the judge and the jury are shocked, they can only acquiesce to this fact. The case was pronounced on February 10, 1980, and Ted was sentenced to a third death sentence.
In October 1981, Carroll gave birth to a baby girl and registered Ted as her father. Although spouses are not allowed to visit the florida prison, it is said that the inmates will bribe the prison guards to give them a little "private time" with female visitors, which gives Ted a chance to exploit the loophole.
8. Appeal
In order to regain his freedom, Ted began a lengthy appeal. At the same time, he also began to be interviewed or questioned by TV reporters, police detectives and government analysts. To avoid becoming evidence in court, Ted confronts these questions in a third-person tone.
Ted said the sexual assault met his need to "fully own the victim." Initially, killing victims was only a stopgap measure to avoid being caught, but later, murder also became part of the "adventure". In fact, the ultimate possession is to take away life.
Among those who visited, Ted had the most contact with him was FBI crime analyst Bill Hagmeier and biographer Polly Nelson. Ted tells Hagmaier that he was an "amateur" in his early years, an impulsive killer who didn't enter what he called a "predator" stage until linda's murder in 1974. The confession meant that Ted might have been killing people before 1974, but because he refused to answer further details, it remains unsure.
In July 1984, guards at the Florida Penitentiary found two hidden hacksaw blades in Ted's cell. A steel bar on the cell window was sawn off from each end and then glued back with homemade glue made of soap, and Ted was transferred to another cell.
In 1984, Robert was commissioned to participate in the investigation of the Green River Killers, and Ted wrote to him dissecting the psychological activities of the serial killer, claiming to help him solve the case. Later, the media reported on their correspondence, and in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs", the plot of the psychologist Hannibal assisting the police in handling the case was based on Ted.
In his conversation with Nelson, Ted confessed more details of the crime, such as the many bad behaviors he had after killing the victim, and several times after the crime, he would return to the crime site and lie next to the corpse to recall the whole crime, which made him excited. When it rises, it will do evil again until the corpse decays.
In the process, Ted also puts on makeup, washes the body's hair, and dresses up as he likes, which is a perverse behavior that is shocking.
At least 12 of the girls he killed were hacksaw-beheaded, and he would keep the severed head in the villa of his home for a period of time or burn it in the fireplace of his girlfriend's house, but these aberrant actions did not attract his girlfriend's attention. This also explains why the remains of the victims found on Mount Taylor are only skulls and a small number of other bones.
Ted's prison life is rich and colorful, in addition to dating his girlfriend Carol, that is, consulting legal information, submitting various appeal applications, from february 1976 to January 1989 execution, Ted used his legal knowledge, almost all avenues of appeal, extending his life by 13 years.
In addition, Ted detailed his multiple homicides unknown to police in Washington, Idaho, other states, and Colorado. Ted's strategy was to admit the case but refuse to give the details, hoping to delay the execution of the death penalty in this way. Because, he was the only one who knew the whereabouts of the bodies.
When the court and family hated Ted's delay in the death penalty, Ted resorted to his last resort – administrative pardon. He instructed his last girlfriend, lawyer Diana Weiner, to petition then Florida Governor Robert Martinez to give Ted more time to reveal more information.
Fortunately, all these persuasions were rejected.
Biographer Nelson writes in the book: "The family has accepted the fact that the victim died, they do not need Ted to confess guilt, only hope that he will be punished as soon as possible."
Using the bodies of victims as bargaining chips is a very despicable act.
His new wife, Carol, has always believed in Ted's innocence and feels "betrayed" after Ted begins to confess. She moved back to Washington with her daughter and refused to receive Ted's call on the morning of her execution. Nelson writes, "She was hurt by Ted's relationship with his last girlfriend, Diana, and was shocked by Ted's confession."
After a failed appeal, Ted knew his death was imminent before admitting to committing at least 30 murders. Given that at least 10 of the 30 murders Ted confessed to remain unidentified (Ted refused to disclose or did not even know him), the number of real victims remains unknown, with media speculation ranging from 26 to 100 and an estimated 35. Fred Lawrence, the Methodist pastor who prayed for Ted on his deathbed, even thought that "even he himself doesn't know how many people he killed".
Of the many victims, only 5 survived.
On January 24, 1989, at 7:16 a.m. ET, Ted was executed in an electric chair at Ray Ephrador Prison in Florida, and when an electric current passed through his body, he finally closed his eyes at the age of 42.
The nightmare of American women for more than a decade has finally come to an end.
9. Epilogue
Bundy may be the world's most famous serial killer, and over time, his fame has not only not declined, but has grown day by day. Netflix's latest documentary, Conversation Killer: Ted Bondi Videotape, and the controversial film Extreme Evil are proof of this.
Ted has long been an "idol" in people's hearts — familiar with law, psychology and criminology, a doctoral student in law school, an operator for a suicide hotline, a crime corrections consultant for the state government, a rape prevention book for girls, and even helped the police catch a serial killer, the Green River Killer.
After reading the green river killer's profile, Ted believes that his method is too low-level, providing the police with a psychological portrait of the criminal, so he is called "Leonardo da Vinci" among the killers by the media.
Indeed, Ted's means are more advanced.
Talk, gossip, flirt, and when the girls let their guard down, invite them to their own Beetle sedan.
Ted's Beetle sedan is still on display in the museum.
Ted relied on his ingenuity and profound knowledge to be appreciated by Evans, Davis and many other politicians, and could have broken through the world in the political arena and had a bright future. Or, become a good lawyer.
However, he was unable to restrain his evil personality and eventually became one of the most cold-blooded rapists, murderers, night thieves...
Crimes caused by multiple personalities are not uncommon, and in 2016, Leonardo announced that he would star in the movie "Crowded Room" and serve as a producer for the film.
"The Crowded Room" is about the real experience of Billy Miregan, an American with 24 personalities. Billy, who was also living in the United States in the 1970s, was arrested on multiple charges of rape, and the police and doctors found that Billy had 24 personalities at the same time, and two of them committed crimes, including the intelligent and rational English man Arthur, the violent Yugoslav Reagan, the lesbian Adalena, the 3-year-old British girl Christine, the diplomat Aaron and so on.
In this case, Ted also has multiple personalities, a handsome teenager, a fierce and brutal killer, a knowledgeable law student, a cheerful and lively community activist, a thoughtful political star, and a confidant who cares for women. These personalities vary in age, personality, language and habits, and Billy is eventually acquitted for multiple personalities, while Ted's methods are extremely cruel and cause too much social harm, so he is sentenced to death in an electric chair.
During the execution, hundreds of people sang, reveled, set off fireworks on the pasture opposite the prison and cheered loudly as the white limousine truck loaded with the remains drove out of the prison.
According to Ted's will, the body was cremated in Gainesville, and the ashes were scattered in the Cascade Mountains, Washington, where he met his first love, his girlfriend Stephanie.