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== History == | == History == | ||
Many of Bundy's young female victims regarded him as handsome and charismatic, traits that he exploited to win their trust. He would typically approach them in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them in secluded locations. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made any further interactions impossible. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads as mementos in his apartment. On a few occasions, he broke into dwellings at night and bludgeoned his victims as they | Many of Bundy's young female victims regarded him as handsome and charismatic, traits that he exploited to win their trust. He would typically approach them in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them in secluded locations. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made any further interactions impossible. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads as mementos in his apartment. On a few occasions, he broke into dwellings at night and bludgeoned his victims as they sleep. | ||
In 1975, Bundy was jailed for the first time when he was incarcerated in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in several states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults in Florida, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in 1978. | In 1975, Bundy was jailed for the first time when he was incarcerated in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault. He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in several states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults in Florida, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in 1978. | ||
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== Victims == | == Victims == | ||
[[File:Ted Bundy HS Yearbook.jpg|thumb|269x269px|A 17 year old Ted Bundy.]] | |||
<p align="justify"> | === Washington === | ||
Kathy | # <p align="justify">Lonnie Trumbull; Seattle (6/23/66) </p> | ||
# <p align="justify">Kathy Devine; Seattle (11/25/73) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Lynda Ann Healy; University of Washington (2/1/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Donna Manson; Evergreen St. College, Olympia (3/12/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Susan Rancourt; Central Washington St. College, Ellensburg (4/17/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Brenda Baker; Seattle (5/25/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Brenda Ball; Burien (6/1/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Georgeann Hawkins; University of Washington (6/11/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Janice Ott; Lake Sammamish St. Park (7/14/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Denise Naslund; Lake Sammamish St. Park (7/14/74) </p> | |||
<p align="justify"> | === Oregon === | ||
# <p align="justify">Kathy Parks; Oregon St. (5/6/74) </p> | |||
<p align="justify"> | === Utah === | ||
# <p align="justify">Nancy Wilcox; (10/2/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Melissa Smith; Midvale (10/18/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Laura Aimee; Lehi (10/31/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Debbie Kent; Bountiful (11/8/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Susan Curtis; Brigham Young University (6/28/75) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Nancy Baird; Layton (7/4/75) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Debbie Smith; Salt Lake City (2/?/76) </p> | |||
<p align="justify"> | === Colorado === | ||
# <p align="justify">Caryn Campbell; Aspen (1/12/75) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Julie Cunningham; Vail (3/15/75) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Denise Oliverson; Grand Junction (4/6/75) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Melanie Cooley; Nederland (4/15/75) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Shelley Robertson; Golden (7/1/75) </p> | |||
<p align="justify"> | === Idaho === | ||
Lisa Levy; Tallahassee (1/15/78) < | # <p align="justify">Lynette Culver; Pocatello (5/6/75) </p> | ||
# <p align="justify">Jane Doe; Boise (9/21/74) </p> | |||
=== Florida === | |||
# <p align="justify">Lisa Levy; Tallahassee (1/15/78) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Margaret Bowman; Tallahassee (1/15/74) </p> | |||
# <p align="justify">Kimberly Ann Leach; Lake City (2/9/78)</p> | |||
==Portrayal in media== | ==Portrayal in media== | ||