Ted Bundy

The Account of a Sociopathic Serial Killer and Mass Rapist

By Kelly Mass

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: One of the Most-Feared Serial Killers of the West

Chapter 2: The University Years

Chapter 3: The Murders

Utah and Colorado

Chapter 4: His Arrest, Trial, and Escape Successes

Chapter 5: Conviction and Execution

Modus operandi and victim profiles

Chapter 6: Pathology

Chapter 7: The Depths of Wickedness

Chapter 8: Ted Bundy Quotations

Chapter 9: What We Can Learn from Ted Bundy

Chapter 1: One of the Most-Feared Serial Killers of the West

Theodore Robert Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, in 1946-- January 24th, 1989), referred to as Ted Bundy, was an American serial killer. Bundy killed many girls across the U.S. between 1974 and 1978. He two times left from jail before his last apprehension in the month of February 1978. After more than a whole decade of energetic rejections, he ultimately admitted to 30 murders, though the real overall of victims remains unidentified. Estimates vary from 29 to over 100, the general estimate being 35. Generally, Bundy would bludgeon his victims, then choke them to death. He also participated in rape and necrophilia.

Youth

Bundy was born at the "Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Moms" in Burlington, Vermont, to Eleanor Louise Cowell. While the identity of his dad remains a secret, Bundy's birth certificate notes a "Lloyd Marshall" (b. 1916), though Bundy's mom would later tell of being tempted by a war veteran called "Jack Worthington".

Bundy's family didn't believe this story, though, and uttered suspicion about Louise's violent, violent dad, Samuel Cowell. To keep away from social preconception, Bundy's maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell, said him as their child; in taking their surname, he ended up being Theodore Robert Cowell. He grew up believing that his mom was his older sister. Bundy biographers Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth wrote that he learned Louise was actually his mom while he was in high school. True criminal offense author Ann Rule, who knew Bundy personally, states that it was around 1969, soon following a terrible break up with his college sweetheart.

For the first few years of his life, Bundy and his mom resided in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the year 1950, Bundy and his mom, whom he still actually believed was his sister, transferred to live with loved ones in Tacoma, Washington. Here, Louise Cowell had her child's last name changed from Cowell to Nelson.

In the year 1951, one year after their move, Louise Cowell met Johnny Culpepper Bundy at an adult songs night held at Tacoma's First Methodist Church. In May of that year, the couple were wed, and right after Johnny Bundy adopted Ted, lawfully changing his surname to "Bundy".

Johnny and Louise Bundy had more kids, whom the young Bundy spent much of his time childcare. Johnny Bundy made an attempt to include his stepson in outdoor camping journeys and other father-son activities, but the boy stayed mentally removed from his stepfather. Bundy was a pretty good student at Woodrow Wilson High School, in Tacoma, and was active in a regional Methodist church, working as vice-president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship. He was included with a regional troop of the Boy Scouts of America.

Socially, Bundy stayed shy and reclusive during his high school and early college years. He would say later that he "hit a wall" in high school and that he was not able to comprehend social conduct, stunting his social development. He kept an exterior of social activity, but he had no natural sense of how to interact well with others, saying: "I didn't know what made things tick. I did not know what made people want to be good friends. I didn't know what made people appealing to one another. I did not know what underlay social interactions."

Years later, while on Florida's death row, Bundy would specify a part of himself that, from a young age, was amazed by pictures of sex and violence. In early jail interviews, Bundy called this part of himself "the entity". While still in his teens, Bundy would check out libraries for investigator publications and books on criminal offense, concentrating on sources that defined sexual violence and featured images of dead bodies and violent sexuality. Before he was level of high school, Bundy was a compulsive burglar, a thief, and on his way to being an amateur crook. To support his love of snowboarding, Bundy took skis and devices and created ski-lift tickets. He was jailed two times as a juvenile, though these records were later expunged.

Chapter 2: The University Years

In the year 1965, Bundy finished from Woodrow Wilson High. Rewarded a student loan by the University of Puget Sound (UPS), he started that fall, enrolling in psychology and Asian research studies. After 2 terms at UPS, he chose to move to Seattle's University of Washington (UW).

While a college student, Bundy worked as a grocery bagger and shelf-stocker at a Seattle Safeway store on Queen Anne Hill, and also other tasks. As part of his core curriculum in psychology, he would later work as a night-shift volunteer at Seattle's Suicide Hot Line, a suicide dilemma center that served the greater Seattle urbane and suburbs. There, he met and worked along with previous Seattle policewoman and fledgling criminal activity author Ann Rule, who would later write a bio of Bundy and his criminal offenses, The Complete stranger Next to Me.

He started a relationship with fellow college student "Stephanie Brooks" (a pseudonym), whom he met while registered at UW in the year 1967. Following her 1968 graduation and return to her family home in California, she ended the relationship, fed up with what she referred to as Bundy's immaturity and absence of aspiration. Rule states that, around this time, Bundy chose to visit his birth place, Burlington, Vermont. There, according to Rule, he went to the regional records clerk and finally discovered the truth of his parentage.

After his discovery, Bundy ended up being a more concentrated and dominant individual. In the year 1968, he managed the Seattle office of Nelson Rockefeller's Governmental project and participated in the 1968 Republican politician convention in Miami, Florida as a Rockefeller fan. He re-enrolled at UW, this time with a major in psychology. Bundy ended up being an honors student and was well liked by his teachers. In the year 1969, he began dating Elizabeth Kloepfer, a separated secretary with a child, who fell deeply in love with him. They would continue dating for more than 6 years, till he went to jail for kidnapping in the year 1976.

Bundy finished in the year 1972 from UW with a grade in psychology. Quickly later, he again went to work for the state Republican politician Party, that included a close relationship with Gov. Daniel J. Evans. At the time of the project, Bundy followed Evans' Democratic challenger around the state, tape tape-recording his speeches and reporting back to Evans personally. A small scandal later followed when the Democrats learnt about Bundy, who had been impersonating a university student.

In the fall of the year 1973, Bundy registered in the law school at the University of Utah, but he did badly. He started skipping classes, finally leaving in the spring of the year 1974.

While on a company trip to California in the summertime of the year 1973, Bundy returned into his ex-girlfriend "Stephanie Brooks"' life with a makeover and mindset; this time as a very serious, devoted specialist who had been accepted to law school. Bundy went on to date Kloepfer too, and neither woman understood the other existed. Bundy courted Brooks during the remainder of the year, and she accepted his marriage proposition. 2 weeks later, though, quickly after New Year's 1974, he unceremoniously discarded her, declining to return her calls. Some weeks after this separation, Bundy started a homicidal rampage in Washington state.

Chapter 3: The Murders

Washington State

Nobody knows precisely where and when Bundy started killing. Most Bundy specialists, which includes Rule and previous King County investigator Robert D. Keppel, believe Bundy could have begun killing as far back as his early teens. Ann Marie Burr, an eight-year-old girl from Tacoma, disappeared from her home in the year 1961, when Bundy was fourteen years of age, though Bundy always denied killing her. The day before his execution, Bundy told his legal representative that he made his first effort to abduct a woman in the year 1969, and indicated that he committed his first real homicide at some point in the year 1972. At some point in his death-row confessions with Keppel, Bundy claimed he committed his very first homicide in the year 1972.

In the year 1973, one of Bundy's Republican politician Party good friends saw a set of handcuffs in the back of Bundy's Volkswagen. He was for several years a suspect in the December 1973 homicide of Kathy Devine in Washington state, but DNA analysis caused another man's arrest and conviction for that criminal activity in 2002. Bundy's earliest known, recognized murders were committed in the year 1974, when he was 27.

Quickly after midnight on January 4th, 1974, Bundy went into the basement bed room of 18-year-old "Joni Lenz" (pseudonym), a dancer and student at UW. Bundy bludgeoned her with a metal rod from her bed frame while she slept and sexually attacked her with a speculum. Lenz was found the next early morning by her roomies in a coma and depending on a pool of her own blood. She made it through the attack but suffered irreversible mental retardation.

Bundy's next victim was Lynda Ann Healy, another UW student (and his cousin's roomie). In the morning hours of February 1, in 1974, Bundy got into Healy's room, knocked her unconscious, dressed her in denims and a t-shirt, covered her in a bed sheet, and brought her away.

Co-eds started vanishing at a rate of about one a month. On March 12th, 1974, in Olympia, Bundy abducted and killed Donna Gail Manson, a 19-year-old student at The Evergreen State College.

On April seventeenth, 1974, Susan Rancourt vanished from the school of Central Washington State College (CWSC) in Ellensburg. Sometime after that, 2 different CWSC co-eds would state meeting a guy with his arm in a cast-- one that night, one 3 nights earlier-- who requested their help to carry a load of books to his Volkswagen Beetle.

Next in line was the victim Kathy Parks, who was last seen on the school campus of the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, on May 6th, in 1974. Brenda Ball was never ever seen again after leaving The Flame Pub in Burien on June 1st, 1974. Bundy then killed Georgeann Hawkins, a student at UW and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, an on-campus sorority. In the morning hours of June eleventh, 1974, she walked through a street from her sweetheart's dorm home to her sorority home. She was never ever seen again. Witnesses later reported seeing a guy with a leg cast struggling to carry a brief-case in the area that night. One co-ed reported that the man had requested her help in carrying the brief-case to his automobile, a Beetle.

Bundy's Washington killing spree culminated on July fourteenth, 1974, with the daytime kidnapping of Janice Ott and Denise Naslund from Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah. That day, 8 different people told the authorities about the good-looking boy with his left arm in a sling who called himself "Ted". 5 of them were women whom "Ted" requested for help dumping a sailboat from his Beetle. One of them opted for "Ted" as far as his automobile, where there was no sailboat, before decreasing to accompany him any further. 3 more witnesses affirmed to seeing him method Ott with the story about the sailboat and to seeing her ignore the beach in his company. She was never ever seen alive again. Naslund vanished without a trace 4 hours later.

King County investigators now had a description both of the suspect and his automobile. Some witnesses told private investigators that the "Ted" they came across talked to a clipped, British-like accent. Quickly, fliers were up all over the Seattle area. After seeing the cops sketch and description of the Lake Sammamish believe in both of the regional papers and on tv report, Bundy's sweetheart, one of his psychology teachers at UW, and previous colleague Ann Rule all reported him as a possible suspect. The authorities, getting up to 200 pointers each day, didn't pay any unique attention to a suggestion about a clean-cut law student.

The fragmented remains of Ott and Naslund were found on September 7th, 1974, off Interstate ninety near Issaquah, one mile from the park. Found in addition to the women's remains was an additional thigh bone and vertebrae, which Bundy would determine as that of Georgeann Hawkins soon before his execution.

Between March 1 and March third, 1975, the skulls and jawbones of Healy, Rancourt, Parks and Ball were found on Taylor Mountain just east of Issaquah. Years later, Bundy said that he had also discarded Donna Manson's body there, but no trace of her was ever found.

Utah and Colorado

Bundy smiles for the electronic cameras and pleads "Innocent" throughout an interview revealing his indictment on first degree murder charges.

That fall, Bundy started going to the University of Utah law school in Salt Lake City, where he resumed killing in October. Nancy Wilcox vanished from Holladay, Utah, on October 2nd, 1974. Wilcox was last seen riding in a Volkswagen Beetle.

On October 18th, 1974, Bundy killed Melissa Smith, the 17-year-old daughter of Midvale authorities chief Louis Smith; Bundy raped, sodomized and strangled her. Her body was found 9 days later. Next was Laura Aime, also 17, who vanished when she left a Halloween party in Lehi, Utah, on October 31st, in 1974; her naked, beaten and strangled body was found almost a month later by hikers on Thanksgiving Day, on the banks of a river in American Fork Canyon.

In Murray, Utah, on November eighth, 1974, Carol DaRonch directly left with her life. Saying to be Officer Roseland of the Murray Authorities Department, Bundy approached her at the Style Place Shopping Mall, told her a person had attempted to get into her vehicle, and asked her to accompany him to the police headquarters. She got into his vehicle but refused his direction to buckle her safety belt. They drove for a brief period before Bundy all of a sudden pulled to the shoulder and tried to slap a set of handcuffs on her. In the struggle, he attached both loops to the exact same wrist. Bundy took out his crowbar, but DaRonch caught it in the air prior to it would have split her skull. She then got the door open and toppled out on the highway, therefore getting away from her potential killer.

About an hour later, a weird man appeared at Viewmont High School in Bountiful, Utah, where the drama club was putting on a play. He approached the drama instructor and after that a student, asking both to come out to the car park to determine a vehicle. Both decreased. The drama instructor saw him again quickly before the end of the play, this time breathing hard, with his hair mussed and his t-shirt untucked. Another student saw the man hiding in the back of the auditorium. Debby Kent, a 17-year-old Viewmont High student, left the play at intermission to go and pick up her brother, and was never ever seen again. Later on, private investigators found a little type in the car park outside Viewmont High.

In the year 1975, while still participating in law school at the University of Utah, Bundy moved his criminal activities to Colorado. On January twelth, 1975, Caryn Campbell vanished from the Wildwood Inn at Snowmass, Colorado, where she had been vacationing with her fiancé and his kids. She disappeared someplace in a period of 50 feet between the elevator doors and her room. Her body was found on February seventeenth, 1975.

Next, Vail ski trainer Julie Cunningham vanished on March fifteenth, 1975, and Denise Oliverson in Grand Junction on April sixth, 1975. While in jail, Bundy admitted to Colorado private investigators that he used crutches to approach Cunningham, after asking her to help him carry some ski boots to his automobile. At the vehicle, Bundy clubbed her with his crowbar and incapacitated her with handcuffs, later strangling her in a criminal activity highly comparable to the Hawkins murder.

Lynette Culver went missing in Pocatello, Idaho, on May 6, in 1975, from the premises of her junior high. After his return to Utah, Susan Curtis disappeared on June 28th, 1975. (Bundy admitted to the Curtis murder min. before his execution.) The bodies of Cunningham, Culver, Curtis and Oliverson have never ever been recuperated.

In the meantime, back in Washington, detectives were trying to prioritize their massive list of suspects. They used computer systems to cross-check different very likely lists of suspects (schoolmates of Lynda Healy, owners of Volkswagens, and so on) against each other, and after that determine suspects who showed up on more than one list. "Theodore Robert Bundy" was just one of twenty-five people who showed up on 4 separate lists, and his case file was 2nd on the "To Be Examined" stack when the call originated from Utah of an arrest.

Chapter 4: His Arrest, Trial, and Escape Successes

Bundy was jailed on August 16th, 1975, in Salt Lake City, for failure to stop for a law enforcement officer. A search of his vehicle exposed a ski mask, a crowbar, handcuffs, garbage bags, an icepick, and other products that were thought by the cops to be theft tools. Bundy stayed calm at the time of questioning, clarifying that he needed the mask for snowboarding and had found the handcuffs in a dumpster. Utah investigator Jerry Thompson connected Bundy and his Volkswagen to the DaRonch kidnapping and the missing girls and looked his condo.

The search revealed a sales brochure of Colorado ski resorts, with a check mark by the Wildwood Inn where Caryn Campbell had vanished. After looking his condo, the authorities brought Bundy in for a lineup before DaRonch and the Abundant witnesses. They determined him as "Officer Roseland" and as the man hiding about the night Debby Kent vanished.

Following a week-long trial, Bundy was found guilty of DaRonch's kidnapping on March 1st, 1976, and was sentenced to fifteen years in Utah State Jail. Colorado authorities were pursuing murder charges, though, and Bundy was extradited there to stand trial.

On June seventh, 1977, in preparation for a meeting in the Caryn Campbell murder trial, Bundy was brought to the Pitkin County court house in Aspen. Throughout a court recess, he was permitted to go to the court house's law library, where he leapt out of the structure from a second-story window and left but sprained his right ankle throughout the dive. In the min. following his escape, Bundy in the beginning ran and after that walked delicately through the village to Aspen Mountain.

He made it all of the way to the top of Aspen Mountain without being spotted, where he rested for 2 days in a deserted searching cabin. Having said that, later on, he lost his orientation and roamed around the mountain, missing 2 routes that led down off the mountain to his desired location, the town of Crested Butte. At one point, he came in person with a gun-toting resident who was just one of the searchers searching Aspen Mountain for Ted Bundy, but talked his way out of threat.

On June 13th, 1977, Bundy took an automobile he found on the mountain. He drove back into Aspen and could have escaped, but 2 cops deputies observed the Cadillac with dimmed headlights weaving in and out of its lane and pulled Bundy over. They acknowledged him and took him back to prison. Bundy had been on the lam for 6 days.

He was back in custody, but Bundy worked on a new escape plan. He was being kept in the Glenwood Springs, Colorado, prison while he waited for trial. He had obtained a hacksaw blade and $500 in money; he later said the blade originated from another jail prisoner. Over 2 weeks, he sawed through the welds repairing a little metal plate in the ceiling and, after dieting down still farther, had the ability to fit through the hole and access the crawl space above.

An informant in the jail told guards that he had heard Bundy moving the ceiling at the time of the nights before his escape, but the matter wasn't examined. When Bundy's Aspen trial judge ruled on December twenty-third, 1977, that the Caryn Campbell murder trial would begin on January 9th, 1978, and changed the location to Colorado Springs, Bundy realized that he needed to make his escape before he was moved out of the Glenwood Springs prison.

On the night of December thirtieth, 1977, Bundy dressed warmly and loaded books and files under his blanket to make it look like he was sleeping. He twitched through the hole and up into the crawlspace. Bundy crawled over to an area straight above the jailer's linen closet-- the jailer and his marriage partner were out for the night-- fell into the jailer's condo, and went out the door.

Bundy was free, but he was on foot in the middle of an ice-cold, snowy Colorado night. He took a broken-down MG, but it stalled out in the mountains. Bundy was stuck on the side of Interstate 70 in the middle of the night in a blizzard, but another chauffeur gave him a smooth ride into Vail. From there he caught a bus to Denver and boarded the TWA 8:55 a.m. flight to Chicago. The Glenwood Springs prison guards didn't see Bundy was gone till twelve o' clock on December 31th, 1977, 17 hours after his escape, by which time Bundy was already in Chicago.

Florida

Following his arrival in Chicago, Bundy then caught an Amtrak train to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he got a space at the YMCA. On January 2nd, 1978, he went to an Ann Arbor bar and watched the University of Washington Huskies, the team of his university, beat Michigan in the Rose Bowl. He later took an automobile in Ann Arbor, which he deserted in Atlanta, Georgia before boarding a bus for Tallahassee, Florida, where he showed up on January eighth, 1978. There, he leased a space at a boarding home under the alias of "Chris Hagen" and dedicated many petty criminal activities consisting of shoplifting, handbag snatching, and automobile theft. He took a student ID card that came from a Kenneth Misner and sent out away for copies of Misner's Social Security card and birth certificate. He grew a mustache and drew a phony mole on his right cheek when he headed out, but aside from that, he made no real effort at a camouflage. Bundy searched for work at a building and construction site, but when the workers officer asked Bundy for his chauffeur's license for recognition, Bundy left. This was his only effort at job searching.

One week after Bundy's arrival in Tallahassee, in the early hours of Super Bowl Sunday on January 15th, 1978, 2 and a half years of quelched bloodthirsty violence appeared. Bundy went into the Florida State University Chi Omega sorority home at roughly three a.m. and killed 2 sleeping women, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Bundy bludgeoned and strangled Levy and Bowman; he also sexually attacked Levy. He also bludgeoned 2 other Chi Omegas, Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner. The whole episode took no greater than half an hour. After leaving the Chi Omega home, Bundy got into another home some blocks away, clubbing and significantly hurting Florida State College student Cheryl Thomas.

On February 9th, 1978, Bundy headed to Lake City, Florida. While there, he abducted, raped, and killed 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, tossing her body under a little pig shed. On February twelth, 1978, Bundy took yet another Volkswagen Beetle and left Tallahassee for good, heading west across the Florida panhandle.

On February fifteenth, 1978, quickly after 1 a.m., Bundy was held back by Pensacola policemans David Lee. When the officer employed a check of the license plate, the automobile showed up as taken. Bundy then scuffled with the officer before he was finally suppressed. As Lee took the unidentified suspect to prison, Bundy said "I wish you had killed me." At his scheduling Bundy gave the authorities the name Ken Misner (and presented taken recognition for Misner), but the Florida Department of Police made a favorable finger print recognition early the next day. He was instantly transferred to Tallahassee and consequently charged with the Tallahassee and Lake City murders. He was later brought to Miami to stand trial for the Chi Omega murders.

Chapter 5: Conviction and Execution

Bite mark statement at the Chi Omega trialBundy went to trial for the Chi Omega murders in the month of June 1979, with Dade County Circuit Court Judge Edward D. Cowart administering. In spite of having 5 court-appointed attorneys, he demanded functioning as his own lawyer and even cross-examined witnesses, and that includes the policeman who had found Margaret Bowman's body. He was prosecuted by Assistant State Lawyer Larry Simpson.

2 pieces of proof showed vital. First and foremost, Chi Omega member Nita Neary, returning to the home extremely late after a date, saw Bundy as he left, and recognized him in court. Second, throughout his bloodthirsty craze, Bundy bit Lisa Levy in her left butt, leaving apparent bite marks. Cops took plaster casts of Bundy's teeth and a forensics specialist matched them to the photos of Levy's injury. Bundy was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to death. After validating the sentence, Cowart gave him the decision:

It is ordered that you be put to death by a current of electrical energy, that present be gone through your body till you are dead. Look after yourself, boy. I say that to you truly; look after yourself, please. It's an utter catastrophe for this court to see such an overall waste of mankind as I have experienced in this courtroom. You're an intense boy. You 'd have made a pretty good attorney, and I would've loved to have you practice in front of me, but you went another way, partner. Look after yourself. I do not feel any bitterness to you. I want you to know that. Once again, look after yourself.

Bundy was pursued the Kimberly Leach murder in the year 1980. He was again found guilty on all counts, primarily as a result of fibers found in his van that matched Leach's clothes and an eyewitness that saw him leading Leach from the school and sentenced to death. At the time of the Kimberly Leach trial, Bundy wed previous colleague Carole Ann Boone in the courtroom while questioning her on the stand. Following many conjugal visits between Bundy and his new marriage partner, Boone brought to life a child in the month of October 1982. Even so, in the year 1986 Boone returned to Washington and never ever went back to Florida. Her location and those of Bundy's daughter are unidentified.

While waiting on execution in Starke Jail, Bundy was housed in the cell beside fellow serial killer Ottis Toole, the killer of Adam Walsh. FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler met him there as part of his work talking to serial killers, but found Bundy uncooperative and manipulative, going to speak only in the 3rd individual, and only in theoretical terms. Writing in the year 1992, Ressler mentioned his impression of Bundy in contrast to his evaluations of other serial killers: "This guy was an animal, and it impressed me that the media appeared not able to comprehend that."

Having said that, at the time of the exact same period, Bundy was typically checked out by Unique Representative William Hagmaier of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Sciences System. Bundy would come to confide in Hagmaier, going so far concerning call him his friend. Ultimately, Bundy admitted to Hagmaier many specifics of the killings that had till then been unidentified or unofficial.

In October 1984, Bundy called previous King County murder investigator Bob Keppel and offered to help in the continuous look for the Green River Killer by supplying his own insights and analysis. Keppel and Green River Job Force investigator Dave Reichert went to Florida's death row to talk to Bundy. Both investigators later specified that these interviews were of little real help in the investigation; they provided far greater insight into Bundy's own mind, though, and were mostly went after in the hope of learning the specifics of unsolved murders which Bundy was presumed of committing.

Bundy mug shot, in 1980, the day after he was sentenced to death for the killing of Kimberly LeachBundy called Keppel again in the year 1988. At that point, his appeals were tired. Bundy had beaten former death warrants for March 4th, 1986, July 2nd, 1986, and November eighteenth, 1986. With execution impending, Bundy admitted to 8 main unsolved murders in Washington State for which he was the prime suspect. Bundy told Keppel that there were actually 5 bodies left on Taylor Mountain, not 4 as they had initially thought. Bundy admitted in detail to the killing of Georgeann Hawkins, defining how he enticed her to his vehicle, clubbed her with a tire iron that he had stowed away on the ground under his vehicle, repelled with her in the vehicle with him, and later raped and strangled her.

After the interview, Keppel reported that he had been stunned in speaking to Bundy, and that he was the sort of man who was "born to kill." Keppel mentioned:

He defined the Issaquah criminal activity scene (where Janice Ott, Denise Naslund, and Georgeann Hawkins had been left) and it was practically like he was just there. Like he was seeing every little thing. He was obsessed with the idea just because he spent so much time there. He is just absolutely taken in with murder all of the time.

Bundy had hoped that he could use the discoveries and partial confessions to get another stay of execution or potentially commute his sentence to life jail time. At one point, a legal supporter working for Bundy asked a lot of the families of the victims to fax letters to Florida Ruler Robert Martinez and request for mercy for Bundy to discover where the remains of their loved ones were. All of the families refused. Keppel and others reported that Bundy gave little detail about his criminal offenses at the time of his confessions and promised to expose more and other body dump sites if he were given "more time." The tactic failed and Bundy was executed on schedule.

The night before Bundy was executed, he gave a tv interview to James Dobson, head of the evangelical Christian company Fixate on the Family. At the time of the interview, Bundy made repeated claims regarding the x-rated "roots" of his criminal activities. He specified that, while porn didn't trigger him to commit murder, the usage of violent porn helped "shape and mold" his violence into "conduct too dreadful to specify." He declared that he felt that violence in the media, "specifically sexualized violence," sent out boys "down the roadway to being Ted Bundys." In the exact same interview, Bundy specified:

" You are going to kill me, and that will safeguard civilization from me. However, out there are many, a lot more people who are addicted to porn, and you are not doing anything about that."

According to Hagmaier, Bundy pondered suicide in the days leading up to his execution, but ultimately chose against it.

At 7:06 a.m. regional time on January twenty-fourth, 1989, Ted Bundy was executed in the electrical chair at Florida State Jail in Starke, Florida. His last words were, "I 'd like you to give my love to my friends and family." Then, more than 2,000 volts were used across his body for less than 2 minutes. He was noticable dead at 7:16 a.m. Some hundred people were gathered outside the jail and cheered when they saw the signal that Bundy had been announced dead.

Modus operandi and victim profiles

He would approach a prospective victim in a public place, even in daytime or in a crowd, as when he kidnapped Ott and Naslund at Lake Sammamish or when he abducted Leach from her school. Bundy had numerous ways of acquiring a victim's trust. In some cases, he would feign injury, wearing his arm in a sling or wearing a phony cast, as in the killings of Hawkins, Rancourt, Ott, Naslund, and Cunningham. At other times Bundy would impersonate an authority figure; he pretended to be a police officer when approaching Carol DaRonch. The day before he killed Kimberly Leach, Bundy approached another young Florida girl pretending to be "Richard Burton, Fire Department", but left fast after her older brother showed up.

Bundy had an exceptional benefit in that his facial functions were appealing, yet not particularly unforgettable. In later years, he would typically be referred to as chameleon-like, able to look completely different by making only small modifications to his appearance, e.g., growing a beard or changing his hairdo.

All of Bundy's victims were white women and most were of middle-class background. Nearly all were between the ages of fifteen and 25. Most were university students. In her book, Rule notes that the majority of Bundy's victims had long straight hair parted in the middle-- like Stephanie Brooks, the woman to whom Bundy was engaged in 1973. Rule hypothesizes that Bundy's bitterness to his first sweetheart was an encouraging part of his string of murders. Even so, in a 1980 interview, Bundy dismissed this hypothesis:" hey ... just fit the general requirements of being young and appealing ... A lot of people have purchased this crap that all of the girls were comparable-- hair about the exact same color, parted in the middle ... but if you look at it, practically every little thing was different ... physically, they were practically all different."

After drawing a victim to his vehicle, Bundy would hit her in the head with a crowbar he had positioned beneath his Volkswagen or hidden inside it. Every recuperated skull, other than for that of Kimberly Leach, revealed signs of blunt force trauma. Every recuperated body, other than for that of Leach, revealed signs of strangulation.

A lot of Bundy's victims were transferred a significant distance from where they vanished, as when it comes to Kathy Parks, whom he drove more than 260 miles from Oregon to Washington. Bundy typically would drink alcohol just before finding a victim; Carol DaRonch affirmed to smelling alcohol on his breath.

Hagmaier mentioned that Bundy considered himself to be an amateur and spontaneous killer in his early years, and after that moved into what he considered to be his "prime" or "predator" stage. Bundy specified that this stage started around the time of the Lynda Healy murder, when he started looking for victims whom he considered to be equal to his ability as a killer.

On death row, Bundy confessed to beheading at the very least one dozen of his victims with a hacksaw. He kept the severed heads later found on Taylor Mountain in his room or apartment or condo for a bit of time before finally getting rid of them. He admitted to cremating Donna Manson's head in his sweetheart's fireplace. Some of the skulls of Bundy's victims were found with the front teeth broken out. Bundy also admitted to visiting his victims' bodies over and over again at the Taylor Mountain body dump site. He mentioned that he would lie with them for hours, using makeup to their bodies and making love with their decomposing bodies till putrefaction pushed him to desert the remains. Not long before his death, Bundy confessed to going back to the dead body of Georgeann Hawkins for purposes of necrophilia.

Bundy admitted to keeping other keepsakes of his criminal offenses. The Utah authorities who looked Bundy's condo in the year 1975 really missed a collection of pictures that Bundy had hidden in the energy room, pictures that Bundy damaged when he returned home after being released on bail. His sweetheart Elizabeth once found a bag in his room filled with women's clothes.

When Bundy was challenged by police officers who specified that they actually believed the number of people he had killed was 36, Bundy told them that they are supposed to "add one digit to that, and you will have it." Rule hypothesized that this meant Bundy may have killed over one hundred women. Talking to his attorney Polly Nelson in the year 1988, though, Bundy dismissed the 100+ victims' speculation and said that the more typical estimate of roughly 35 victims was precise.

Chapter 6: Pathology

In December 1987, Bundy was analyzed for 7 hours by Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a teacher from New York University Medical Center. Lewis detected Bundy as a manic depressive whose criminal offenses generally took place throughout his depressive episodes. To Lewis, Bundy defined his youth, specifically his relationship with his maternal grandparents, Samuel and Eleanor Cowell.

According to Bundy, his grandpa Samuel Cowell was a deacon in his church. Together with the already developed description of his grandpa as an oppressive bully, Bundy defined him as a bigot who despised blacks, Italians, Catholics, and Jews. He farther mentioned that his grandpa tortured animals, beating the family pet dog and swinging community cats by their tails. He also told Lewis how his grandpa kept a very big collection of porn in his greenhouse where, according to family members, Bundy and a cousin would slip to look at it for hours.

Members of the family uttered skepticism over Louise's "Jack Worthington" story of Bundy's parentage and noted that Samuel Cowell once flew into a violent rage when the topic of the boy's dad turned up. Bundy defined his grandma as a shy and loyal partner, who was sporadically brought to healthcare facilities to go through shock treatment for depression. Towards the end of her life, Bundy said, she ended up being agoraphobic.

Louise Bundy's more youthful sister Julia remembered a troubling event with her young nephew. After resting in the Cowells' home for a nap, Julia woke to find herself surrounded by knives from the Cowell cooking area. Three-year-old Ted was waiting the bed, smiling at her.

Bundy used taken charge cards to acquire more than 30 sets of socks while on the run in Florida; he was a self-described foot fetishist.

In the Dobson interview before his execution, Bundy said that violent porn played a major role in his sex criminal offenses. According to Bundy, as a young kid he found "outside the home again, in the regional supermarket, in a regional drug store, the pornography that people called soft core ... And from time to time we would encounter adult books of a more difficult nature ..."

Bundy said, "It occurred in phases, slowly. My experience with porn normally, but with porn that deals on a violent level with sexuality, is once you end up being addicted to it-- and I look at this as a sort of dependency like other sorts of dependency-- I would keep searching for more powerful, more specific, more graphic types of material. Till you reach a point where the porn only presumes, you reach that leaping off point where you start to really wonder if perhaps actually doing it would hand that which is past just reading it or taking a look at it."

In a letter written quickly before his escape from the Glenwood Springs prison, Bundy said "I have known people who ... radiate vulnerability. Their facial expressions say, 'I hesitate of you.' These people welcome abuse ... By expecting to be hurt, do they discreetly motivate it?"

In a 1980 interview, speaking of a serial killer's validation of his actions, Bundy said "So what is one less? What's one less individual on the face of the world?" When Florida investigators asked Bundy to tell them where he had left Kimberly Leach's body for her family's solace, Bundy apparently said, "But I am the most cold-hearted child of a bitch you will ever meet."

Chapter 7: The Depths of Wickedness

Though there were at least 57 recorded cases of serial killings in America since 1900, Bundy changed the landscape. The man who confessed to killing at the very least 30 women between 1973 and 1978-- some professionals believe he killed more than a hundred-- was an impressive bad guy in some ways.

" In the year 1974 when we had our first [Bundy] criminal offense that we understood of, the phenomena just was not well known," said Robert Keppel, a previous murder investigator and writer of The Riverman, an account of his look for Washington's Green River Killer and his effort to employ Ted Bundy's support. "What makes him special from a lot of others is the variety and the period with which he committed his murders across state lines, across the entire nation," Keppel said. Bundy killed in as many as ten states, more than any serial killer in American history.

University of Louisville criminology professor Ronald M. Holmes, who spent 2 years referring Bundy and interviewing him in jail, said Bundy's tendency for travel referred the introduction of the country's interstate system and the increased dependability of transport. Prior to Bundy, most serial killers killed in their own yards.

Bundy was the first to deviate substantially from that pattern, developing the model for the modern-day several killers. A new type of killer - Bundy was a kind of killer authorities had not experienced before. They weren't yet geared up to handle him. "His case had a great impact en route police gathers info about killers," Keppel said. "There was no main repository of murder info throughout the US at that time."

Although some specialists disagree, Keppel said the Bundy case contributed in the development of VICAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program), an FBI database developed to gather and connect info on serial murders. The FBI started using VICAP in the year 1985.

Bundy's geographical variety left detectives with the tiresome job of telephoning individual authorities departments across the U.S.A. and combing through stacks of diverse murder records. It was Bundy, by proxy, who taught the FBI the value of a main murder database. "It took my partner and I a year-and-a-half to gather info on over ninety murders in Western states," said Keppel. "If everyone worked together in the VICAP program and submitted their criminal activities, it would've referred seconds."

The media's darling - Bundy, with a hand from the media, changed the face of the serial killer too. According to Holmes, who has profiled more than 375 murder and rape cases, the general public picture of the serial killer before Bundy was the psychotic, berserk freak with gross physical problems.

" Then Bundy shows up and says, 'Hey, I am like the guy next door-- I am the complete stranger next to you,'" he said, describing the title of criminal offense author Ann Rule's book about Bundy. Holmes said there were serial killers before Bundy who were just as charming, just as all-American, but they didn't get the media likeness Bundy did. "We serial killers are your sons, we're your spouses, we're all over," Bundy is quoted in Harold Schechter's book, The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. A Ph.D. in serial killing - Bundy called on a potpourri of serial killer characteristics and a large reserve of deviance. According to numerous accounts, he kept severed heads in his home, and was a loner who was concurrently engaged to 2 women while he was killing.

He incinerated skulls in his fireplace and vacuumed up the ashes. He re-dressed dead victims, ate their flesh, feigned lameness to draw victims and fabricated accents. He kept one of his victims in his possession for 9 days. He two times left from custody, was a skilled cat intruder and demanded strangling his victims while he looked straight into their eyes.

Bundy considered serial killing as a macabre mix of sport, craft and intellectual pursuit. A 1992 investigative report specified that Bundy went on dry runs, "getting a woman and releasing her unhurt to check his abilities." In interviews, he compared killing to learning how to be a much better technician or cook. He told recruiters he had a Ph.D. in serial killing. Eliminated only the best victims - Maybe Bundy's most substantial effect on the general public awareness was the breadth of his killing and the identities of his victims. Bundy didn't kill sex workers or drug dealerships. He killed the authorities chief's daughter. He killed pretty young college girls. His criminal activities triggered outrage and caused across the country media coverage. "He was killing the best and most appealing of the youth," said Holmes. "He was killing college girls that were the future of America. They were really important victims."

Acting as his own defense lawyer, Bundy dragged out his execution for practically eleven years. Bits of his televised trial in Miami entered into people's houses on the news each night. By the time he was executed in the year 1989 at age 42, Bundy was so commonly hated that, according to Schechter's book, people gathered outside the jail where he was to be electrocuted to toast his death with champagne. Across the state of Washington, Keppel said pubs in each city installed signboards celebrating his upcoming execution: "Drink one to Bundy."

Chapter 8: Ted Bundy Quotations

Ted Bundy is attempting to tell you something. Pay more attention to what he says:

" It isn't a simple matter to separate things. I mean, events which themselves could trigger pressure or tension, be undesirable to one degree or another or have a disorienting influence. You need to see it in its special impact on the special person. There are no broad generalizations or forecasts you can make. You just cannot anticipate conduct like that. Society wants to believe it can determine wicked people it's not useful If a person does something antisocial and deviant, that's a symptom of something that's going on inside. Once they do something, then they can be identified. Forecasts cannot be made till that point is reached."

" I believe that you could say that the impact of the individual's family history was positive. Yet, not positive enough-- not enduring, maybe not strong enough to get rid of the urges or compulsions that led to this example, the impact of the family and the environment in which this individual grew up were positive, but not so positive concerning prepare this individual" "You take the person we're talking about and after that you subject him to tension. Tension happens to come arbitrarily, but its impact on the character isn't random; it specifies. That leads to a particular amount of mayhem, confusion, and disappointment. That individual starts to look for a target for his disappointments. The ongoing nature of this tension this individual was under-- the nature of the defect or weakness in his character, with other components in the environment that offer him a sensible target for his disappointments or leaves from reality-- yields the circumstance we're going over There is no trigger, it is really more advanced than that."

" I dislike to use labels that are mental or psychiatric simply because there are no stereotypes, and when you begin to use those labels, you stop taking a look at the facts." "This condition isn't instantly seen by the individual or determined as a very serious issue. It sort of manifests itself in an interest concerning sexual conduct, as sexual pictures But this interest, for some unidentified reason, ends up being tailored towards matters of a sexual nature that includes violence. I can't stress enough the steady development of this. It isn't short-term This is on a completely different level than this person would handle women each day, and not in the setting of sexual condition, since that's over here someplace, like gathering stamps. He does not keep the taste of glue, so to speak, all day. However, in a wider, more abstract way, it starts to preoccupy him."

" He has no hatred for women; there's absolutely nothing in his background that occurred that would suggest he has been abused by any women there's some sort of weakness that generates this person's interest in the sort of sex including violence that would slowly start to soak up some of his dream he wasn't envisioning himself actually doing these things, but he found satisfaction from checking out others so engaged. Ultimately the interest would end up being so demanding to new material that it could only be dealt with by what he could find in the unclean book stores."

" Say he was walking down the street on one occasion, one night, and just completely, by chance looked up into the window of a home and saw a woman undressing. And he started, with some consistency, with increasing consistency, to, canvass, as it were, the community he resided in. By peeping in windows, as it were, and watching a woman undress, or watching whatever could be seen, you know, at the time of the night, and approaching it practically like a project, tossing himself into it, actually for many years These occasions when he when he would, travel about the communities that joined his and seek prospects for locate spots where he could see what he wanted to see more or less these occasions were determined still being determined by this individual's typical life. So, he would not break a date or hold off an essential, event would not reorganize his life to accommodate this, extravagance in voyeuristic conduct He acquired a great amount of satisfaction from it. And he ended up being significantly proficient at it-- as anybody ends up being skilled at anything they do over and over and over again What started to happen was that concerns were not being reorganized or otherwise disrupted by this voyeuristic conduct, but with increasing consistency, things were delayed or otherwise rescheduled, to, work around, hours and hours spent on the street, in the evening and at the time of the morning hours."

" What's going on is that we're developing the condition and what might have been a predisposition for violence ends up being a personality. And as the condition develops and its purposes or its attributes end up being more well specified, it starts to need more time of the individual There's a particular amount of stress, struggle, between the regular character and this, this, psychopathological, entity The stress between typical individual, regular awareness of this individual and those needs being submitted to him by means of this contending this condition inside him appears to be contending for more attention And it's not an independent thing. One does not turn on and the other does not turn off. They are more or less active at the exact same time. In some cases, one is more active."

" A point would be reached where we 'd had all of this, this tank of stress structure. Building and structure. Finally, undoubtedly, this force-- this entity-- would make an advancement Perhaps not a major advancement, but a considerable development would be accomplished-- where the stress would be undue, and the needs and expectations of this entity would reach a point where they just could not be controlled. And where the effects would truly be seen for the first time."" I think you could make a little bit more sense of it if you take into consideration the impact of alcohol. It is very important When this individual drank a bargain, his inhibitions were considerably reduced. He would find that his desire to participate in voyeuristic conduct on journeys to the book shop would end up being more widespread, more urgent. On each occasion when he took part in such conduct, he was intoxicated."

" On one specific night, when he had been consuming a good deal and he was passing a bar, he saw a woman leaving the bar and walk up a relatively dark side street. And we 'd say that for none the desire to do something to that individual took him-- in a way he had actually never ever been impacted before. And it took him highly. And to the point where, without giving a good deal of thought, he looked around for some instrumentality to assault this woman with. He found a piece of a two-by-four in a lot someplace and continued to follow and track this girl and he reached the point where he was, practically driven to do something-- there was actually no control at this moment the sort of discovery of that experience and the crazy desire that took him, actually appeared to introduce a new measurement to the, that part of himself that was obsessed with violence and women and sex-- a composite sort of thing. Not extremely well specified, but more well specified as time went on."

" On prospering nights, he started to, scamper around this exact same area, obsessed with the image he had actually seen on the eve and on one specific occasion, he saw a woman park her vehicle and approach her front door and fumble with her secrets. He walked up behind her and struck her with a piece of wood that he was carrying. And she dropped and started shouting, and he stressed and ran. What he had done had simply frightened him. The sobering impact of that was to for a bit of time close up the fractures again. And refrain from doing anything. For the first time, he relaxed and swore to himself that he would not do something like that again or anything that would result in it. And he did every little thing he should have done. He kept away from he didn't head out in the evening. And when he was consuming, he remained around good friends. For a period of months, the enormity of what he did stuck to him, and he watched his conduct and enhanced the desire to conquer what he had started to view were some issues that were most likely more serious than he would've liked to believe they were within a matter of months the effect of this event lost its deterrent value. And within months he was back peeping in windows again and slipping into that old regimen the repulsion started to decline something did stick to him. That was the amazing risk: by enabling himself to fall into spontaneous, unexpected acts of violence It took 6 months or so, till he back thinking about alternative means of taking part in comparable activities, but not something that would be very likely to lead to apprehension."

" Then on another night he saw a woman walking home he followed her home Ultimately, he created a strategy where he would assault her in, in the home early one early morning, he slipped into her home he got on the woman's bed and tried to limit her ... all he succeeded in doing was waking her up, and, triggering her to stress and yell. He left extremely quickly And after that he was taken with the exact same sort of disgust, repulsion, and fear and doubt why he was enabling himself to try such amazing violence But the relevance was that while he did the exact same thing he did before-- remained off the streets, pledged he 'd never ever do it again and acknowledged the horror of what he 'd done, and definitely was scared by what he saw going on-- it only took him 3 months to get over it this time and after that the next event, he was over it in a month-- till it did not take him whenever at all to recuperate ... "

" We are talking about confidential, abstracted, living and breathing people but they were not known. To a point they were signs, but when a particular point in the encounter had been crossed, they stopped being people and ended up being, well you could say issues that is not the word either ... that is when the reasonable self-- the typical self-- would emerge and, and, respond with fear and horror However, acknowledging the state of affairs, would sort of conspire with this other part of himself to hide the act. The survival took precedence over regret in the regular person, and started to condition psychologically, without guilt; using a range of systems. Saying it was understandable, it was, acceptable, it was needed, and on and on."

" He got no satisfaction from damaging or triggering pain to the individual he assaulted. He got definitely no satisfaction from triggering pain and did every little thing possible, within reason-- thinking about the unreasonableness of the circumstance-- not to abuse these people, at the very least not physically."

The following are declarations made by Ted concerning the kidnapping and murder of twenty-one-year-old college co-ed Lynda Healy, which happened on January thirty-first, 1974. Healy was drawn from the basement bed room the home which she showed some other students. More than year had passed before her remains were found, as were those of 3 other girls, spread on the hillside of Taylor Mountain.

" He took a look at the home and found out that the front door was open. He considered it. What sort of chance that offered, and went back to the home later and got in the home Then he walked around the home and found a certain door and opened-- truly hit and miss out on. Not understanding who or what, not looking or anybody in particular that would be the chance. That was late during the night. And most likely everybody would be asleep we know that at some point later the remains were found someplace in the Cascades. So certainly she transferred up there some place that was silent and personal. His home or some remote area He would've the girl undress and after that, with that part of himself pleased, he found himself in a position where he realized then he could not let the girl go. And at that point he would kill her and leave her body where he had taken her."

" As far as regret over the act, that would last for an amount of time. Though, it could all be warranted. The individual would try to validate it by saying, "Well, listen you, you screwed up this time, but you're never ever going to do it again. So, let's just stay together, and it will not ever happen again." Why sacrifice this individual's entire life? However this didn't last for long. A matter of weeks. We go initially into a state of semi-dormancy, and after that it would sort of regrow itself, in one form or another Once the condition started to reassert its force, it did not look back. It looked forward. Didn't want to harp on the preceding event, but start to plan, expect, consider the next things would be learned. Experience teaches in obvious and subtle ways. And over a time period, there would be less panic, there would be less confusion, there would be less fear and apprehension. There would be a much faster regrowth period."

Chapter 9: What We Can Learn from Ted Bundy

He was once an assistant director of the Seattle Criminal offense Avoidance advisory committee and even wrote a pamphlet advising women on rape avoidance. A one-time Boy Scout with an appealing profession in Washington state politics, Ted Bundy seemed an example of a pretty good, upstanding resident. However, behind the congenial exterior prowled a force which landed him in an electric chair in the month of January of this year.

In the last few hours before his commonly promoted execution for the killing of as many as 50 girls and girls from Utah, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Florida, the serial killer asked Christian psychologist James Dobson to visit him at the Florida State Jail. Bundy had referred Doc. Dobson - a previous member of President Reagan's Commission on Porn - for 2 years before their meeting. While restless press reporters waited outside, Bundy told Dobson about the impact of porn on his conduct.

Bundy said he started delicately reading pornography when he was twelve or thirteen years of age. His good friends found x-rated books in the trash bin in his community: "From time to time we would encounter adult books of a more difficult nature a more graphic, specific nature than we would encounter at the regional supermarket," he told Dobson in the taped interview. "But gradually during the years reading porn started to end up being a lethal routine. "My experience with porn is once you end up being addicted to it, (and I look at this as a type of dependency like other sorts of dependency), I would keep searching for more powerful, more specific, more graphic sorts of material. Like a dependency, you keep craving something that's harder, something which gives you a higher sense of enjoyment. Till you reach a point where the porn only presumes, you reach that leaping off point where you start to really wonder if perhaps actually doing it would give you that which is past just reading or taking a look at it."

Within several years, those hidden desires sustained by porn were uttered through his first murder. While Bundy said he didn't blame porn, he clarified that adult materials formed and formed his conduct. He also cautioned the country that "the most harmful sorts of porn are those that include violence and sexual violence. Because the wedding event of those 2 forces, as I know only too well, draws out the hatred that's just, just too dreadful to define."

Bundy said that porn "nabbed me out of my home 20, thirty years ago and porn can connect and take a kid out of any home today." His spiritual training and morality at first limited him from acting out his dreams, but he admitted that finally, "I could not keep back any longer." Alcohol allegedly broke the restraints for him to commit his first murder. "What alcohol did in combination with direct exposure to porn is alcohol minimized my inhibitions at the exact same time the dream life that was sustained by porn deteriorated them farther."

While committing the murders, Bundy said he felt as though he was had by "something horrible and alien. There's just definitely no chance to define initially the harsh desire to do that sort of thing, and after that what happens is once it has been more or less gratified and declines, you may say, or spent, that energy level declines and generally I become myself again." "However generally, I was a typical individual. I was not some guy hanging out at bars or a bottom. I was not a pervert in the sense that people look at someone and say, 'I know there's something wrong with him, you can just tell.' I was basically a regular individual," Bundy told Dobson. "The fundamental humankind and the fundamental spirit that God gave me was undamaged, but regrettably ended up being overwhelmed sometimes."

Ted Bundy acknowledged that he really deserved the capital punishment, though there were anti-death charge demonstrators outside his jail cell up till the moment of his execution. "I should have the most severe penalty civilization has," he said. "But I do not want to die, I kid you not." Dobson said that Bundy wept some times throughout the interview: "He uttered great remorse, regret for what he had done, for the families that were hurting." He spent his last night in prayer with a minister from Gainesville, Florida.

Bundy's last words of confession and warning about porn are an echo of stats, research, and reports carried out within the last decennium about the link between porn and sexually violent criminal offense. Regrettably, a lot of the cautions in those reports still haven't been observed, and porn has been taken for granted or considered a required evil.

According to a research study performed by a group of psychologists, Neil Malamuth of UCLA, Gene Abel of Columbia University, and William Marshall of Kingston Penitentiary, different forms of porn can generate dreams which could result in criminal activity. Out of a test group of 18 rapists studied who used 'consenting porn' to prompt a sexual offense, 7 of them said that it provided a hint to generate dreams of forced sex.

A research study released by the University of New Hampshire has shown that the states which have the greatest readership of porn publications like Playboy and Penthouse also have the greatest rape rates. The Michigan State Authorities department realized that porn is used or mimicked in 41 percent of the sex criminal activities they have examined.

The Free Congress Research Study and Education Structure found that half of all rapists studied used soft core porn to excite themselves before looking for a victim. Though scientists and media experts might ballyhoo the effect of pornography - saying defense under the free speech arrangement of the Constitution - installing proof appears to be preferring a nationwide crackdown on pornography as an essential means to stop criminal offense.

In the last few years, as more of this kind of research has been released, considerable gains have been made against pornographers as significant merchants have gotten rid of pornography from their racks. Ted Bundy's confessions to Doctor James Dobson - a leader of the biggest sector of pro-family forces in the United States - guarantees to sustain the across the country attempts being made on the state and regional levels to get rid of the porn issue.