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thirty one year, Old Stephen me show drove down highway. Sixteen in Rayford Florida lush green field stretched. As far as the I could see, insects hummed, but once Stephen pass through the gates of the Florida state prison, he entered a different world. Inside blue skies gave way to hard fluorescent lit interiors, and, despite that, Chile temperature Stephen began to sweat. Stephen was about to enter one of the highest security facilities. The state could offer as he was. Skirted down the prison corridor by a team of armed guards. He could hear his heart pounding in his ears. After all even was no FBI profile or or police detective. He was just a journalist, his entourage,

The guards took him through one last secure door, Stephen steeled himself, ass. It swung open. In side, a man sat at a metal table, dressed in a pale orange prison issued uniform chain around his waist. Stephen hesitated almost shocked the inmate before him the regular looking guy in his thirty's handsome, even with eyes as clear blue as the Florida skies. But man smiled widely up a journalist beckoning him to sit down a steep and took a seat across from him and record on this tape player he had to remind himself who the man on the other side of the table was. He was no ordinary prisoner or just a charming acquaintance.

He was a monster Incarnate Stephen was face to face with TED Bundy. I am Gregg pulses is serial killers, a park hast original every Monday. We dive into the minds of madness of Cereal Kelly's this week weaker bring the brutal murders committed by one of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century TED Bundy. I'm here with my co host Vanessa Richardson high everyone. You can find out loads of serial killers and all other Parkhurst originals for free on Spotify or wherever you listened Ipod casks to stream serial killers for free on Spotify, just open the f and type serial killers in the search bar at Parkhurst were grateful.

For you are listeners you will. I was to do what we love. Let us know how we're doing reach out on Facebook and Instagram at par, cast and twitter at Park Ass Network, and if you enjoy today's episode, the way to help us is to leave a five star review wherever you're listening. It really does help this week will unpack TED Bundy too, Matic early childhood, as well as the events that chipped way at the last of his humanity precipitating his first eight confirmed murders next week will track tat. Is he embarked some killing spree that ends in the mutilation and murder of dozens of young women in cities across the. U s a bloody rampage that spur multiple arrests and trials, leading him to become one of America's most iconic murderers TED Bundy was,

and feared our Robert cowl unavenged, twenty fourth, nineteen, forty six in Burlington Vermont his mother. Twenty two year old will. We call gave birth to TED and a home for unwed mothers, the identity, Heads father to this day is unknown on his birthday Get a man named Lloyd, Marshal was listed, TED's mother claimed that Marshall a thirty year old, former AIR Force pilot. However, years later. She mentioned another man a sailor by the name, Jack Worthington, Neither of these men, however, have been confirmed as TED's, true biological father. Some theory suggests that either Lloyd Marshall nor Jack Worthington existed at all, leaving TED, for all intents and purposes, fatherless

He's going to take over on the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note: Vanessa is not a licence psychologist your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research. For this show. Thanks crank researchers have found that young children lacking apparent, have difficulty forming deep interpersonal bonds and can develop serious emotional issues in adulthood. These individuals sometimes have a tendency to react aggressive we or angrily to situations, others might consider to be neutral. According to mental health expert, Red Brown with the Minnesota Psychological Association. This behaviour stem from a combination of perceived abandonment and attachment issues, but despite the absence of a biological father,

TED Bundy was raised in the shadow of a different father figure, one far from the example of empathy, but he so desperately needed after giving birth. Louise didn't intend to keep her son She left the baby boy at the home for unwed mothers in Vermont and returned to fill. Healthier to live with her parents, but four months, his mother agonized over the decision to give him up TED's grandfather demanded that she bring the boy home. Luis is father. Sam Co decided that in the weeks as mother Eleanor would raise TED as their own. They would tell him and every one outside the Caliph family that they had adopted the three month old. They would be his parents, not Louise and Louise, was to play the part of his sons

much older sister. This was not unheard of at the time. Some families decided to keep their illegitimate grandchildren a secret by claiming them as their own, rather than face ridicule from their communities, but in TED Bundy Scheme being in his grandparents care was far more tumultuous. Being raised by a young single mother, SAM coal. Ted's grandfather was known to be an exceptionally ruthless man. He was an alcoholic with a violent temper and was reportedly cruel to animals. Some accounts claim that SAM kick the family dogs and would throw the neighbourhood cats around by the tales, but his abuse wasn't just limited Patsy SAM also went on frequent, violent rampages in the family home. He said to have pushed

of his daughters down the stairs because she overslept and may have also abused his wife. Eleanor, a timid woman who suffered from severe depression and agoraphobia eventually Eleanor, never left the house It seemed no one was left unscathed from SAM Cowles wrath, or at least no one, but little Theodore there's no evidence that SAM abused, his grandson according to TAT, he was Never the victim of his grandfathers, violence or of any abuse, for that matter. In fact, he loved SAM and even looked up to him. Tat often recovered his childhood it and I do it almost unrealistic. Way and though he was far from a reliable narrator, because there are no documented accounts that he suffered. Childhood abuse is very well, maybe telling the truth

they will never know definitively if TED suffered any sort of abuse, physical or psychological at the hands of his grandfather. There is no doubt that he witnessed the abuse of his female relatives at a very early age, this experience would have surely shaped his perception of manhood and very possibly his violent tendencies. According to social psychologist and abuse, Specialist Donald Dutton children who experience domestic violence are more likely develop and abusive personality Dutton found that mail children in particular were at a greater risk than their female counterparts of becoming abusers. This was especially true in the case of young boys, who witnessed abuse against others, rather than being directly victimized themselves,

serves a circumstance strikingly similar to the one young TED Bundy was raised in, however, TAT only lived under SAM calls tyranny for the first few years of his life in nineteen fifty when he was for TED and his mother, Louise moved to come a Washington to live with. Relatives. Ted was devastated to be taken from his beloved grandparents, who he still believed were his. Doktor parents, but Louise was determined to start a new life with her son. Far from the abusive household she'd grown up in in the summer of nineteen, fifty one Luis met Johnny Bundy at an adult singles night at the local Methodist church the two quickly fell in love and it wasn't long before they were married. Afterward Johnny formally adopted TED, giving

the name that would become so infamous decades later TED Bundy. But despite this gesture of love and acceptance, TED, was never very fond of his step. Father he disk Johnny as dim, witted and resented the fact that he didn't earn much money as a military cook over the next ten years. The ways and Johnny added for more children to the family. Ted became socially detached, preferring to spend his time alone as a kid especially as an adolescent TED, was incredibly

I and self conscious. He had a speech impediment that often left him stuttering and he had few friends throughout his school years. He generally struggled to fit it. However, TED's memory of his own childhood was entirely different. The picture that TED constructed of his youth for psychologists and journalists was like a Norman Rockwell painting. He recalled summer days catching frogs and playing marbles and pee wee football with neighbourhood kids. He played up the fact that he was a boy scout and that every Sunday the entire Bundy clan went to church. Strangely TED's mother, Louise echoed this saccharine picture of his youth. Even after his crimes were revealed, she described

as a very normal active boy. Our son is the best son in the world, and perhaps Louise truly did believe this about tat. After all, he became increasingly skill that hiding his less savory activities, during his adolescence TED began his criminal career as a peeping Tom. He would sneak off in the evenings and prowl his middle class neighbourhood to masturbate. While he watched women to the windows of their homes civilian mystic streak eventually dominated more and more of TED's life as a teenager, it became an all consuming routine and he would return to the same houses to watch this

women until the early hours of the morning. As far as we know, TED was never caught and, as a result, Louise was never conscious of this deviant side of her son. In fact, it seems no one was explicitly aware of tat. Stuff her inclinations, but his peers always knew there was something off about TED in high school. His classmates often said that ten, didn't seem to be all there. He was aloof and never got to close to anyone he never went drinking and despite developing into a relatively handsome young man, he never attended school dances or dated at school. Just like at home TED was a loner. Of course. Tat memory of his time in high school was once again different from reality. He recounted being perhaps a bit straight edge, but also claimed he was a good student

talented athlete in truth, TED's classmates. Remember him being both a mediocre student and a lacklustre athlete, it seems tat later over, wrote his entire history with the version he wanted to be true. This is in part because tat her big ambitions for himself resentful love, his family's lower middle class economic status. He was obsessed with elevating himself to something he felt was greater, more elite. TED, desperately wanted to be a successful lawyer or even president, but he knew he'd only be able to accomplish these goals if he became a particular kind of person. So one suave and intelligent, popular and capable so

he started rewriting the parts of his life that didn't fit the mould and soon he was given the ultimate opportunity to reinvent himself. He went to college after a year at the University of Puget Sound in nineteen sixty six nineteen year old TED transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle and when work reconstructing his identity. He threw out his timid personality and formed an entirely new persona, one that was intense but likeable intellectual, yet all american, he taught himself to smile with ease. Talk with steady, unwavering eye contact with each new person he met. He tried out this new self until he home did too near perfection. Essentially, TED was practising the charisma and charm of the kind of politicians

He thought he wanted to be to gain more experience with this political persona first hand. He volunteered on the local campaign around nineteen sixty seven TED volunteered for Republican Nelson Rockefellers presidential Campaign working on the campaign trail gave him a built in social life. He never had. Suddenly he had a group of friends campaign staffers, another other volunteers. And a variety of political functions to attend. These events gave TED real opportunities to test DR his sparkling personality with practice. He found he could strike up a conversation easily and fit in at any function. These new found social skills also landed him. His first girl friend did nineteen sixty seven. Twenty year old TED met, Diane Edwards fellows

you didn't at the University of Washington. Diane was the kind of woman TED dreamed of she was tall and beautiful with long dark hair, but it wasn't just and looks that TED adored. She also came from a wealthy family near San Francisco. She was worldly, sophisticated upper class tat swiftly fell in love the to spare much of their time. Together going on drives, they travelled across Washington State through dense forests, seeking a beautiful views on the mountains. Ted later said, they also spent hours kissing and Diana expensive car whispering sweet nothing's to one another. Diane was most likely the first person to truly get close to tat. She saw potentially

she was attracted to his confidence and charm, but she felt he could make something more of himself because she came from a wealthy, influential family. Diana was looking to be with someone who could one a provider with the lifestyle she'd become accustomed to meaning TED with his humble middle class fruits had everything to prove being with Diane meant becoming the kind of man she wanted him to be and her expectations began to compound the pressures TED already put on self, it only inflamed his insecurity window and graduated from college and nineteen sixty eight. She returned home to California, the anxiety TED Harbour about whether or not he was good enough to stay with. Diane began to devour him. They tried to the long distance relationship work, but that summer,

hands. Letters began to dwindle and her calls became less frequent. Then she didn't write at all. Ted was devastated later he recounted very little about this time other than a consuming emptiness. He said in there somewhere was a desire to have some sort of revenge on Diane, but towards the end of that summer, I'm serious I just its blank. I dont know what the hell I did in that blind spot was it's dark descent, his slow metamorphosis into the killer. He was fated to become and when he finally arrived there be no turning back when we return TED, Bundy composure. Against to crumble, revealing the murderer underneath the facade this happen,

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a brand new episode every Thursday so mark your calendar and get ready to hear us twice a week every Monday and Thursday, and thanks again for supporting serial killers now back to the story. In nineteen sixty eight twenty one year old TED Bundy, found himself utterly alone. His life in a tale spin, it seemed that he'd been faded to live masquerading as something he was not no matter how he changed himself or how desperately he wanted it. He would never be the power. Were full debonair man. He imagined his efforts at self improvement had led to his first girlfriend Diana Edwards, but eventually she had seen him for what he truly was, and then she demanded him. It was perhaps the most painful thing

he'd ever experienced the end of TED's relationship with Diane was the first domino to fall in his twisted metamorphosis. The next his failed plans for the future. The year tat dropped out of college records of what he did during the end of life, in sixty eight and one thousand. Nine hundred and sixty nine are unclear, but some accounts reported that it was during this time he learned the truth about his identity, about his birth We don't know if Louise ever intended to tell tat the truth that she his mother and not his older sister, but regardless of her intentions, TED beat her to the punch. He found a copy of his birth certificate, with Louise's name listed as biological mother and the word illegitimate listed near his before that summer TED knew who he was. He was the Son of Salmon Eleanor Kowal. He was a student at the unit,

city of Washington and he Diane Edwards boyfriend. Then over a period of just one year. Each of those truths crumbled. He had a true crisis of identity according to psychiatrist and Harvard researcher Judith Herman trauma dismantles the systems that helps Porthos, whether they be social, cultural or economic. When traumatic events destroy these protections, we are disempowered. Therefore, the process of trauma rehabilitation requires us to rebuild These systems to restore control over our own lives for TED Bundy, his trauma recovery fuelled his second transformation and he was hell bent to take back the power he felt had been taken from him.

In nineteen sixty nine at twenty two years old, he seemingly became determined to pull himself up by his bootstraps math. All he reenrolled at the University of Washington and met another woman Elisabeth Klett fur Elizabeth or Liz had long brown hair. She was a plain soft spoke, in woman from a Mormon family and the single mother a young daughter. She was TED's on again off again girlfriend for the next six years had claimed. He loved was so much that it was destabilizing. Yet he felt he could never fully open up to her instead. He simply went through the motions of companionship helping is her young daughter, washing the dishes taking out the garbage, but in reality the entire time he was with Liz TED was still obsessed with his first girlfriend. Diane Edwards over the next three years. Tat did whatever he

could to make himself into the kind of man Diane had wanted, even while he with Liz he was determined to in Diane, back TED threw himself into school and eat. Two more altruistic activities in nineteen. Seventy one at twenty two, He began volunteering at the Seattle crisis, clinic a suicide prevention hotline ironic, Lee during this time, TED Bundy actually saved lives in nineteen. Seventy who he graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology and began apply to law schools. He aimed high submitting himself too, I ve league institutions. At the same time, he also continued his political pursuits working for the Washington State Republican Party. For the first time, TAT felt he was gaining traction.

He had a promising career some money and was about to enroll law school. It had taken time but he'd rebuilt himself and in nineteen seventy three TED finally but he was ready to win Diane back so while on a business trip in California that summer, he contacted her and asked to dinner that night Bundy was clean but quaffed and is charming, is Diane remembered, but he was more mature, more sure of himself. She marvelled at the confident way he ordered for them both and the prestigious law schools. He casually. Mention he replied to by the end of the night. Diane was captivated by the brand new TED Bundy and when he invited her to visit him in Seattle, she eagerly agreed all the while ten continue to see less club fur

One day he would be, it loses house eating dinner with her and her daughter, the next. He would be why in Dining Diane and staying in expensive ski resorts. Four months he lived a double life. And neither Liz nor Diane was the wiser he become incredibly adept at keeping these parts of his life. Separate this ability to live to different existences simultaneously was one of TED Bundy. These most defining features Al Carlyle, the prison psychology to analyze. Ten years later, called this tendency compartmentalization parallel explained component. Illustration. As a sectional off of ideas or events into specific mental frames, a person keeps distinct psychological boundaries between each of these frames. In order to keep them separate,

like different realities inside the same mind Carlyle went on to say these, so called compartments help protect the ability of the person to live multiple and often opposing life's miles which are relatively immune from detection. This came in handy for TED in nineteen. Seventy three, but twenty six year old, seamlessly juggled is to relationships with Listen Diane for the better part of a year. During that time, Diane fell deeply back in love with him and TED seemingly felt the same way. He and Diane even discuss marriage and TED introduced her ass, a fan say to his friends at parties, but that winter everything changed after the holidays. Ted suddenly distanced himself from Diane with no explanation.

He halted any discussion about marriage plans and when she came to visit him, he was readable and antagonistic after pursuing her for six years after a month, long passionate affair, TED suddenly turned cold. Diane was heart broken when she returned to San Francisco, she wrote to him begging for an explanation, but he never wrote back. She eventually called TED Furious and yelled at him. Why was he doing this his reply, Childer to the bone he said quietly. I have no idea what you mean. Then he hung up. It's possible that TED's pursuit of Diana after all those years was nothing but a power move away to her. Her in the same way that she heard him an eye for an eye. It was

true, and he had always intended to make her fall in love with him. Only to reject her, it would mean the moment was literally years in the making a deliberate said district plan. However, there is a possibility that TED hadn't intended to break up with Diane. Perhaps there were other factors at play shortly before the break up his grandpa, of attending a prestigious law. School fell through his ivy league applications were rejected. His Elsa score didn't make the cut. Instead, he was forced to accept admission to the University of Puget Sound. A small college located in his home town of two Coma TED was devastated. He hated himself for not being better. For years he dreamed of becoming a successful lawyer and in some ways it was the entire premise of

rekindled relationship with Diane. Without that future, he may have felt the need to reject. I am before she learned the truth. He certainly found to consuming sense of failure as TED side. His future was dimming. The goals he had pursued for more than half a decade had disappeared in a puff of smoke, and so did his self control on January. Fourth, nineteen. Seventy four twenty seven year old TED took a short walk from his apartment at the Universe the Washington to a nearby housing complex. It was a familiar straw Oh he made several times before four days. Tat had observed buildings bottom unit from his car. He discovered for university students live their three young men and their low

the female roommate. Eighteen year old, Karen sparks Karen, was a freshman at you W at a dancer. She had a pretty girl next door, look with a kind face and long dark hair. She slept in the apartments basement bedroom fairly, separated from her male roommates. Just after midnight, TED quietly broke into the apartment and entered Karen's bedroom their ted stood in the doorway crowbar on hand. He approached the bed where the young woman slept peacefully her breathing steady TED spread. However, was rapid as he watched Karen's unconscious body. Her dark, hair split on the pillow. He felt his mind begin to spiral his blood surged through every artery,

then he slammed the crowbar into her skull once he started. He couldn't stop again and again. He bludgeon Karen bloodstream it is face and his clothes in his rage. He broke a metal rod from her bed frame and sexually assaulted. Her can cost body after he was satisfied. He slipped out of her bedroom door and into the night the next day Karen's roommates assumed she was sleeping in for most of the afternoon. It wasn't until seven p m the following night that they found her unconscious lying in a pool of her own blood, but miraculously She was still alive. The injuries Karen spark sustained that night left her with permanent brain damage and physical disability.

These, but it was only the start of TED Bundy's reign of terror, one that continued for the next four years coming up. Ted Bundy commits us. First documented, kill and begins and murderous rampage that rocked the Pacific Northwest now back to the story, in January of nineteen seventy four twenty seven year old TED Bundy committed his first known attack and sexual assault on eighteen year old, Karen spy. Marks a freshman at the University of Washington, Karen managed to survive, The brutal attack. Ted had attempted murder and failed, but it wouldn't long until they tried again that winter

It was enrolled in law school at the University of Puget Sound at the beginning of the semester. Ted diligently attended his classes, but soon his normally perfect attendance faltered cat began skipping class to stalk young women around campus. He case their purpose, observing their comings and goings, while sitting in his ten Volkswagen bog. He also resurrected his old peeping Tom habits. He watched beautiful, coeds four hours through their bedroom windows as they went about their nightly routines. It was better than anything he could find on tv. However, toad fathers next victim, not by prowling the streets around campus but by turning into radio Aurelius Chris twenty one year old, Linda, an Healy, was a senior at the University of Washington, as well as the host of a popular radio show that reported the weather conditions for local schemes

slopes. She was well known among snow bunnies. In Seattle area TED was an avid skeer. He picked up this while dating Diane, when he was trying desperately to rub elbows with his wealthier peers, while TED's love for Diana had died. His passion for skiing lived on Like many scares and the area TED undoubtedly too into Linda's reports, but eventually he was sinning for more than just a friendly boys announcing the daily snow conditions. He was casing his next victim in the early morning, hours of February, first one thousand nine hundred and seventy four less than a month after breaking it to Karen sparks Basement apartment TED, broken to Linda Heelys, home he's, snuck past the rooms of her for sleeping roommates and into Linda's bedroom there. She lay fast asleep, but TED didn't take any chances. He immediately bludgeoned

head knocking her unconscious. This time, TED had a new plan. He wasn't going to murder, Linda in her bedroom and risk being caught. Instead, he abducted her with Linda, how cold TED removed her now bloodstain, nightgown and dressed her in a pair of genes and a t shirt. He then made her bed concealing her bloody sheets and carried her away where TED took Linda Next is unclear wherever it was he raped, her and murdered her. Then he left her body on the side of tailor mountain over thirty miles east of Seattle. It was a horrific sequence of events. The first performance of a routine but TED would repeat dozens of times, but with the Haley's disappearance wasn't just the big

king of TED's blood lost. It was also the start of a massive investigation next morning when Linda failed to show up to the radio station to broadcast her daily ski report, her coworkers knew there was something amiss Linda would never just not up to work, she was a responsible girl, bright, sick. S full and well known in the community, not the kind of college student to disappear into thin air. The authorities expected foul play from the very beginning when police Search Linda's bedroom, they found several items missing, then clouding a few pieces of lent his clothes and her house keys. Mysteriously, the back door was also left unlocked, something Linda's, roommates insisted. She had never done,

for when detectives peel back the sheets on her perfectly made bed, they discovered a small bloodstain upon further investigation. They found Linda's blood soaked nightgown in the closet. It was clear now some one had taken Linda Healy, It was all too familiar to the Seattle pity they had seen a crime just as brutal, barely a month before and only blocks away the attempted murder of current sparks. Finally, the police had made a connection, but it would be months before the investigation would gain traction

Linda is murder, TED was exhilarated and around this time, Liz Club for his long term girlfriend noticed a distinct change in him. His mood shifted at the drop of a hat. One minute he was in high. Spirits has charming ass ever and in the next his eyes went, dark, simple arguments, escalated into threats and broken furniture. It was the first time was had seen him skirt towards violence. His sexual habits changed as well listen, TED reportedly had a tender love life up to that point, he became aggressive, coercing her into anal sex and insisting they experiment with bondage, but handcuffs in the bedroom. With Liz wasn't enough to satisfy tat, he continued prowling the streets of saddle hunting for his next victim and during the spring and summer of nineteen, seventy four he killed. Half a dozen young women

in quick succession sources very on the timeline of TED Bundy killing spree, but according to authorise an rules book. The stranger beside me TED's next week, M were claimed in the following order. In March TED abducted, nine in your old Donna, Manson from Evergreen State College in Olympia, while she was on her way to a concert. Later he confessed to decapitated her and cremating. Her head in wizzes, fireplace her remains, were never found in April, almost exactly a month later, TED abducted eighteen years. Susan month, a from Central Washington State College to disappear into thin. She was walking to a film screening He murdered her and left her body on Taylor Mountain only a couple.

Weeks later on, may sex tat expanded his hunting grounds. He murdered twenty year old, Roberta Parks, a student at Oregon State University for our South of Seattle. Three weeks after he returned from Oregon TED spent the evening with life, and her family loses, relatives had gathered to celebrate her daughters baptism the next morning. Every one was in high. Spirits lose who had been feeling troubled about TED and, as recent bizarre behaviour filter worries ease ass. She watched him chat with a family member laughing and his big infectious way. He was back to his usual. Charming cell

then suddenly Liz watched as TED's expression changed. It was like witnessing a storm drift across a bright sky, suddenly his face when dark, and he excused himself from the table tug left early that night without a word of explanation. But next morning he was late to lose his daughters. Baptist loses thoughts immediately, flew to her greatest fear. TED was cheating on her with another woman, but the truth was so much worse after he excused himself and his family gathering, TED, raped and murder. Twenty two year old, Brenda Ball. His fifth confirmed a victim after a night of butchery, he spent the next morning at a baptism. Ted sudden departure soon became a common occur

once more than a few times, less fell asleep next to tat only to wake up in the morning to find he disappeared in the middle of the night, while lose silently cup. Note of TED's strange me you're. The authorities also identified a disturbing trend. Every month a new college aged coeds seem to disappear into thin air, and by that summer the Pacific Northwest was gripped in terror. Walking around college campuses began to feel like a living here. Film hitchhiking, which was a popular way for young people to get around at the time, stopped almost entirely Girls in Seattle were even advised to travel in groups and to avoid walking through alleys. Perhaps the most every detail of the mysterious disappearances was back that each of the missing women bore a striking resemblance to one another. Almost every single victim was young white, attractive

that had long dark, hair party down the middle, they look like Diane Edwards. The tendency to target victims who have particular appearance or who resemble someone. A killer knows isn't on common. These shared characteristics between victims are referred to as a victim profile and TED. Bundy was incredibly specific while we dont know if TED's gravitation toward young women who looked like Diane, was conscious its doubtful that his victims resemblance to his first love was a coincidence. However. Tugged later denied that he deliberately sought out a particular type of target. Instead, he claimed that the The common denominator between his victims was that they were

young and fairly attractive, but its very likely that the strong pattern and TED's victim profiles was born of his break up Diane, according to Doktor Mary Ellen O Toole, a former FBI profile or specializing in psychopathy a killers victim preference is often developed based on a combination of what victims are available, accessible and desirable at the time when a killer begins their mergers and for TED doubled. Fingers of Diane Edwards were most likely the focus of his blood lost in the winter of nineteen. Seventy four: when TAT first began killing He was right on the heels of his second break up with Diane, it's very possible that at that time, TAT had an insatiable urge to keep hurting. Even after unceremoniously cutting off the relationship, so he presumably

he would have been looking for a sort of surrogate for Diane, on whom he could inflict pain with that desire in place tat. Looked around to see who was available and accessible and for TED. A law student who lived very near the University of Washington Campus Female college students were in high supply. Thus TED's victim profile was born its profile was more precise than most throughout his four year, killing streak. He rarely but to agree to help the poor entered nineteen year old, Denise, NASS, Lund, TED second victim that day had left her friends to use the park bathrooms when she encountered. This seemingly help us TED

pattern of victims. Police had no leads on the killer himself, no suspects, all they could do was watch helplessly as women continue to disappear across the Pacific Northwest. There only hope was that the next time the predators truck he'd make a misstep leave something behind or botch a murder attempt detectives knew that, in order for a killer to become so careless, they first had to grow comfortable and for TED, Bundy, murder felt all to natural by this or of nineteen seventy four TED's transformation and HU, a serial killer was complete with each and every murder. His ego only grew and his kills became more and more brazen dont July his arrogance, finally out ranked his own good judgment, TED abducted and murdered

dared to women on the same day in broad daylight, July Fourteenth nineteen. Seventy four was beautiful Sunday afternoon at lake, some just EAST of Seattle. It was a busy day for the park. Nearly forty thousand people had come enjoy the lakes cool waters and to picnic on its shores, but TED Bundy had different plans TED arrived the lake and casual beach clothing and wearing an arm sling. He began poaching young women explaining he was having a hard time loading his sailboat into his car with his injured arm. Then he asked them if they would be, willing to come to the parking lot and help him out many women politely declined, but to agree to help the poor, injured man.

Nineteen year old, Denise, NASS Lund, TED second victim that day had left her friends to use the park bathrooms when she encountered this seemingly helpless had undoubtedly she realized her mistake as they approached his car. It wasn't a pickup, but rather a tiny v, w bug with no sailboat in sight. But by that point far from the crowds of people at the beach it was too late TED's first victim that day had been a beautiful young woman, spotted sitting on a blanket and a yellow bikini twenty three year old genocide witnesses observed a man approached Janis they described him is. Handsome with an unidentified viable vaguely. British accent before Janis walked off with him. They heard Janis introduce yourself then so did the stranger. His name was TED,

Seattle, mysterious Colette killer, had finally made a critical mistake. He'd left behind one vital clue His real name, thanks again for tuning into serial killers, we'll be back Monday with part. Two of TED Bundy will continue to track, TED's, prolific and gruesome, killing spree and explore his sedition. Evolution into one of America's most infamous murderers from. Information on TED Bundy amongst the many sources we used. We found the book the stranger beside me

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