Theodore Robert Bundy also is known as ¨Ted Bundy¨ was an American serial killer, rapist, and kidnaper who lived from November 24th, 1946 to January 24th, 1989 when he was sentenced to death in Florida’s electric chair.

 Ted Bundy’s family life

Ted was born in Burlington, Vermont, on the 24th of November in 1946 where he lived as his grandparents adopted child. Ted was an illegitimate child and was told that his mother was his sister. Elanor Louise Cowel who was Ted´s mother moved with Ted to Tacoma, Washington, after a few years of living with his grandparents. In Washington, Elanor met Jonnie Bundy they later got married. Ted showed interest in macabre and knives at an early age of three. As a teenager, Ted liked to peer into other people’s windows but never showed an interest in steeling the things he wanted from the houses he peered into. 

Ted Bundy´s victims

Ted was in a relationship with a wealthy and had a long dark-haired girl who most of his later victims resembled. Bundy confessed to 36 murders that took place in 1970 but some experts believe it could be close to 100 or more. Most of the Bundy’s killings went in a pattern of raping his victims than beating them to death. Around 1974 when most experts believe Bundy began his murderous rampage many women in the Seattle area and in nearby Oregon many women went missing. Stories of Ted told by victims or victim’s families described him as a young dark-haired man as that’s who the victims were last seen with. Often he lured his victims into his car by saying that he was hurt and needed help. Their kindness often proved to be a mistake. 

Ted´s downfall

Ted later moved to Utah in the fall of 1974 to attend law school. That year women started disappearing. The following year Ted was pulled over by police. The police searched his vehicle and found various weapons and burglary tools including a crowbar, rope, facemask, handcuffs, and various other weapons. In 1975 Ted got arrested for the kidnapping of Carol Daronch one of the victims that escaped Ted´s clutches. He got convicted and was sentenced to 1-15 years in jail. Ted escaped from prison two times in 1977. The first time he escaped he jumped out of the window on the trip to the courthouse. On Bundy’s second escape he murdered a 12-year-old girl. Tes was executed in Florida’s electric chair in 1989.

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