Ted Bundy Theodore (Ted) Bundy

Ted Bundy started life as his mother's secret shame Ted Bundy started life as his mother's secret shame. His mother, Eleanor Cowell, was 22 and unmarried when she had him. To hide the fact he was an illegitimate child, he was raised as the adopted son of his grandparents and was told that his mother was his sister. Childhood

In 1951 Eleanor moved with Ted to Tacoma, Washington, and married Johnnie Bundy. Bundy was a shy, but bright child who did well in school, but not with his peers. Childhood

After Ted graduated from high school in 1965 Ted Bundy spent a year at the University of Puget Sound before transferring to the University of Washington In early 1968 he dropped out of college and worked at of minimum-wage jobs University Years

While Ted was a student at the University of Washington, he fell in love with a wealthy, pretty young woman from California. When they broke up he was devastated. Many of his later victims resembled his college girlfriend: attractive students with long, dark hair. University Years

His killings also usually followed a gruesome pattern His killings also usually followed a gruesome pattern. He often raped his victims before beating them to death

Ted was wanted for questioning in as many as 36 murders in Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Florida and Washington. In June 1977, the FBI initiated a fugitive investigation when Ted Bundy escaped from a Colorado courthouse where he was on trial for murder. He was recaptured but escaped again, in December 1977, from the Garfield County Jail in Colorado. He was placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list and was subsequently arrested, using an alias, by the local authorities in Florida for a stolen car violation in February 1978. In 1979, he was sentenced to death and in 1989 executed for the murder of two Florida State University sorority sisters.

A composite sketch was drawn from an eyewitness that helped police identify and capture him

He was caught because he bit a victim leaving dental impressions He was caught because he bit a victim leaving dental impressions. They compared these to his teeth

After the conclusion of the Leach trial Ted initiated a series of interviews where he began for the first time to divulge details of his crimes and thought processes

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