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{{Infobox serial killer
| name              = Ted Bundy
| image             = Ted Bundy headshot.jpg
| caption           = Bundy in 1978
| alt               = Black-and-white head shot of Bundy
| alias             = {{ubl|Chris Hagen|Kenneth Misner|Officer Roseland|Richard Burton|Campus Killer|Lady Killer|Rolf Miller<ref name="BundyAppealBrief" />}}
| birth_name        = Theodore Robert Cowell
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1946|11|24}}
| birth_place       = [[Burlington, Vermont]], U.S.
| alma_mater        = [[University of Washington]]
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1989|1|24|1946|11|24}}
| death_place       = [[Bradford County, Florida]], U.S.
| penalty           = * [[Capital punishment in Florida|Death]] (two in 1979, one in 1980)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=John Philip|last=Jenkins|title=Ted Bundy – Biography, Crimes, Death, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Bundy|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|date=September 19, 2023|access-date=May 2, 2022|archive-date=May 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504001703/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Bundy|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1 to 15 years imprisonment (1976)<ref>{{cite web|first=Tim|last=Ottaug|date=August 12, 2021|title=Ted Bundy Killings: A Timeline of His Twisted Reign of Terror |url=https://www.biography.com/news/ted-bundy-timeline-murders |publisher=[[Biography.com]]}}</ref>
| victims           = {{ubli|20 confirmed|30 confessed|36+ suspected}}
| country           = United States
| states            = {{hlist|[[California]]|[[Colorado]]|[[Florida]]|[[Idaho]]|[[Oregon]]|[[Utah]]|[[Washington (state)|Washington]]}}
| beginyear         = January 4, 1974
| endyear           = February 9, 1978
| escaped           = {{ubl|June 7, 1977 – June 13, 1977|December 30, 1977 – February 15, 1978}}
| apprehended       = August 16, 1975
| motive            = {{hlist|[[Control (psychology)|Control]]|Possession|[[Necrophilia]]}}
| conviction        = * [[Murder in Florida law|First-degree murder]] (3 counts)
* [[Attempted murder|Attempted first-degree murder]] (3 counts)
* [[Aggravation (law)|Aggravated]] [[kidnapping]]
* [[Burglary#United States|Burglary]]
| spouse            = {{Marriage|Carole Ann Boone|1980|1986|end=divorced}}
| children          = 1
| wanted_by         = [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI)
| wanted_since      = 
| signature         =
| criminal_status       = [[Electric chair|Executed by electrocution]]{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=323, 327}}
}}

'''Theodore Robert Bundy''' ({{né|'''Cowell'''}}; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American [[serial killer]] who [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]], [[rape]]d and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His ''[[modus operandi]]'' typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an [[authority figure]]. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then restrain them with handcuffs before driving them to a remote location to be [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] and killed.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Yang |first1=Allie |last2=Gowen |first2=Gwen |last3=Taudte |first3=Jeca |last4=Deutsch |first4=Gail |last5=Lopez |first5=Ed |title=Timeline of many of Ted Bundy's brutal crimes |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-ted-bundys-brutal-crimes/story?id=61077236 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>

Bundy killed his first known victim in February 1974 in [[Washington (state)|Washington]], and his later crimes stretched to [[Oregon]], [[Colorado]], [[Utah]] and [[Idaho]]. He frequently revisited the bodies of his victims, grooming and [[Necrophilia|performing sex acts on the corpses]] until [[Corpse decomposition|decomposition]] and destruction by [[Wildlife|wild animals]] made further interactions impossible. Along with the murders,  Bundy was also a prolific [[burglary|burglar]], and on a few occasions he broke into homes at night and bludgeoned, maimed, [[Strangling|strangled]] and sexually assaulted his victims in their sleep.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-10-04 |title=Ted Bundy's First Known Victim Believes A Random Coincidence Saved Her Life |url=https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/what-does-ted-bundy-victim-karen-sparks-believe-kept-her-alive |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Oxygen |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1975, Bundy was arrested and jailed in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted [[assault|criminal assault]]. He then became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in several states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, Bundy engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults in [[Florida]], including three murders, before being recaptured in 1978. For the Florida homicides, he received three [[Capital punishment in Florida|death sentences]] in two trials and was executed in the [[electric chair]] at [[Florida State Prison]] on January 24, 1989.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nordheimer |first=Jon |date=1989-01-25 |title=Bundy Is Put to Death in Florida After Admitting Trail of Killings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/25/us/bundy-is-put-to-death-in-florida-after-admitting-trail-of-killings.html |access-date=2025-04-23 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Biographer [[Ann Rule]] characterized Bundy as "a sadistic [[sociopath]] who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death and even after".{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=xiv}} He once described himself as "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet",{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=263}}<ref name="Hare1999" /> a statement with which attorney [[Polly Nelson]], a member of his last [[defense (legal)|defense]] team, agreed. She wrote that "Ted was the very definition of heartless evil".{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=319}}

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== Early life ==
=== Childhood ===
Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946, to Eleanor Louise Cowell at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers<ref>[https://www.lundvt.org/ Lund Family Center] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307150638/https://lundvt.org/ |date=March 7, 2017 }}, retrieved September 30, 2015.
</ref> in [[Burlington, Vermont]]. His biological father's identity has never been confirmed; his original birth certificate apparently assigns paternity to a salesman and [[United States Air Force]] veteran named Lloyd Marshall,{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=8, 17}} though a copy of it listed his father as unknown.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=62}} Louise claimed she met a war veteran named Jack Worthington,{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=56, 330}} who abandoned her soon after she became pregnant.{{sfn|Barth|2020|p=291}} Census records reveal that several men by the name of John<!-- This is the first name used in the source. Please do not change to "Jack" which is a diminutive anyway --> Worthington and Lloyd Marshall lived near Louise when Bundy was conceived.{{sfn|Barth|2020|pp=292–293}} Some family members expressed suspicions that Bundy was sired by Louise's own father, Samuel Cowell.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=56}} However, in the 2020 documentary film ''[[Crazy, Not Insane]]'', psychiatrist [[Dorothy Otnow Lewis]] claimed she received a sample of Bundy's blood and that a [[DNA]] test had confirmed that he was not the product of [[incest]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Gina |last=Tron |date=November 20, 2020 |title=What Did A Doctor Learn About Ted Bundy That Made Her Think He Isn't 'Pure Evil'? |url=https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/crazy-not-insane-what-ted-bundy-secret-did-dorothy-lewis-learn |access-date=June 13, 2022 |website=[[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]] |language=en-US |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607051825/https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/crazy-not-insane-what-ted-bundy-secret-did-dorothy-lewis-learn |url-status=live }}</ref>

For the first three years of his life, Bundy lived in the [[Roxborough, Philadelphia|Roxborough]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia]] with his maternal grandparents, Samuel Knecht Cowell (1898–1983) and Eleanor Miriam Longstreet (1895–1971). The couple raised him as their son to avoid the [[social stigma]] that accompanied [[Illegitimacy|childbirth outside of wedlock]] at that time. Family, friends and even young Bundy were told that his grandparents were his parents and that his mother was his older sister. Bundy eventually discovered the truth, although his recollections of the circumstances varied; he told a girlfriend that a cousin showed him a copy of his birth certificate after calling him a "bastard",{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=40–41}} but he told biographers Stephen Michaud and [[Hugh Aynesworth]] that he had found the certificate himself.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=62}} Biographer and [[true crime]] writer [[Ann Rule]], who knew Bundy personally, wrote that he did not find out about his true parentage until 1969, when he located his original birth record in Vermont.{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=16–17}} Bundy expressed a lifelong resentment toward his mother for never telling him about his real father, and for leaving him to discover the truth about his paternity for himself.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=51–52}}

In some interviews, Bundy spoke warmly of his grandparents{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=17–18}} and told Rule that he "identified with", "respected" and "clung to" his grandfather Samuel.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=9}} In 1987, however, he and other family members told attorneys that Samuel was a tyrannical bully who beat his wife and dog, swung neighborhood cats by their tails and expressed [[racism|racist]] and [[xenophobia|xenophobic]] attitudes. In one instance, Samuel reportedly threw his daughter Julia down a flight of stairs for oversleeping.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=330}} He would sometimes speak aloud to unseen presences,{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=154}} and at least once flew into a violent rage when the question of Bundy's paternity was raised.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=330}} Bundy described his grandmother as a timid and obedient woman who periodically underwent [[electroconvulsive therapy]] for [[depression (mood)|depression]]{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=154}} and was afraid to leave their house toward the end of her life.{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=501–508}}

These descriptions of Bundy's grandparents have been questioned in more recent investigations. Some locals in Roxborough remembered Samuel as a "fine man" and expressed bewilderment at the reports of him being violent. "The characterization that [Sam] was a raging [[alcoholism|alcoholic]] and animal abuser was a convenient characterization used to make people justify why Ted was the way he was", said one of Bundy's cousins. "From my limited exposure to him, nothing could be farther from the truth. His daughters loved him dearly and had nothing but fond memories of him." In addition, Louise's younger sister Audrey Cowell stated that their mother could not leave her home because she suffered a [[stroke]] due to being overweight and was not mentally ill.{{sfn|Barth|2020|p=296–299}}

[[File:Ted Bundy HS Yearbook.jpeg|thumb|right|upright|Bundy as a high school senior in 1965]]
In 1950, Louise changed her surname from Cowell to Nelson{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=8}} and, at the urging of multiple family members, left Philadelphia with her son to live with cousins Alan and Jane Scott in [[Tacoma, Washington]].{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=155}}<ref name=childhood/> The following year she met Johnny Culpepper Bundy (1921–2007), a hospital cook, at an adult singles night at Tacoma's First Methodist Church.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=57}} They married later that year and Johnny formally adopted Bundy.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=57}} Johnny and Louise conceived four children together, and though Johnny tried to include his adopted son in camping trips and other family activities, Bundy remained distant from him. Bundy would later complain to a girlfriend that Johnny "was not his real father", "wasn't very bright" and "didn't make much money".{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=51}}

Bundy exhibited disturbing behavior at an early age. Louise's youngest sister, Julia Cowell, recalled awakening from a nap to find herself surrounded by knives from the kitchen, and three-year-old Bundy standing by the bed, smiling.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=505}} Sandi Holt, a childhood neighbor in Tacoma, recalled Bundy as a "mean-spirited kid" who "liked to inflict pain and suffering and fear".<ref name=childhood>{{cite web|first=Jill|last=Sederstrom|url=https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/what-was-ted-bundys-childhood-like|title=What Was Ted Bundy's Childhood Like?|website=[[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]]|date=August 11, 2019|access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=June 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607025053/https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/what-was-ted-bundys-childhood-like|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Holt, Bundy once engaged in [[animal cruelty]] by hanging a stray cat from his backyard clothesline and setting it on fire with lighter fluid.<ref name=childhood/> She also claimed that Bundy would take younger children from the neighborhood into the woods, force them to strip and proceeded to terrorize them: "You'd hear them screaming for blocks, I mean no matter where we were here, we could hear them screaming."<ref name=childhood/> Bundy reportedly built makeshift [[punji stick|punji traps]] around his Tacoma neighborhood, injuring at least one girl.<ref name=childhood/><ref>''Invisible Monsters: Serial Killers in America''. "Episode 1: First Look". A&E. Broadcast 5 August 2021.</ref>

Bundy varied his recollections of Tacoma in later years. To Michaud and Aynesworth, he described picking through trash barrels in search of pictures of naked women.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=22}} To attorney and author [[Polly Nelson]], he said that he perused detective magazines and [[crime novel]]s for stories that involved [[sexual violence]], particularly when the stories were illustrated with pictures of dead or maimed women.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=277–278}} In a letter to Rule, however, he asserted that he "never, ever read fact-detective magazines, and shuddered at the thought that anyone would".{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=612}} He once told Michaud that he would consume large quantities of alcohol and "canvass the community" late at night in search of undraped windows where he could [[voyeurism|observe women undressing]], or "whatever [else] could be seen".{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=74–77}} Psychologist Al Carlisle claimed that Bundy "started fantasizing about women he saw while window peeping or elsewhere [and] mimicking the accents of some politicians he listened to on the radio. In essence, he was fantasizing about being someone else, someone important."<ref name=childhood/>

Accounts of Bundy's social life also varied. He told Michaud and Aynesworth that he "chose to be alone" as an adolescent because he was unable to understand interpersonal relationships;{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=64}} he also claimed to have no natural sense of how to develop friendships. "I didn't know what made people want to be friends", Bundy claimed. "I didn't know what underlay social interactions."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=66}} "Some people perceived me as being shy and introverted", he said. "I didn't go to dances. I didn't go on the beer drinking outings. I was a pretty, you might call me straight, but not a social outcast in any way."<ref name=childhood/> During his time at Hunt Junior High School, Bundy endured "merciless teasing" from his classmates, who poured cold water on him as he showered in privacy in a stall; shunning the open showers where the rest of his classmates showered.{{sfn|Rule|2000|page=16}} Classmates from [[Silas High School|Woodrow Wilson High School]], however, told Rule that Bundy was "well known and well liked" there, "a medium-sized fish in a large pond".{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=13}} His only significant athletic avocation was downhill skiing, which he pursued enthusiastically with stolen equipment and [[forgery|forged]] lift tickets.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=62}} During high school, Bundy was arrested at least twice on suspicion of [[burglary]] and [[motor vehicle theft]]. At age 18, the details of these incidents were expunged from his record, as is customary in Washington and many other states.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=13–14}}

=== University years ===
After graduating from high school in 1965, Bundy attended the [[University of Puget Sound]] (UPS) for one year before transferring to the [[University of Washington]] (UW) to study [[Chinese language|Chinese]].{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=14}} In 1967, he became romantically involved with a UW classmate, Diane Edwards (identified in Bundy biographies by several [[pseudonym]]s, most commonly "Stephanie Brooks").<ref name="akaLeslieHolland" /> Bundy later described Edwards as "the only woman I ever really loved".<ref name="Brooks">{{cite web |url=https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/01/diane-edwards-ted-bundy-girlfriend-now/ |title=Diane Edwards, Ted Bundy's Girlfriend: How She Changed Him |last=McBride |first=Jessica |date=January 28, 2019 |website=[[Heavy (website)|Heavy.com]] |access-date=August 27, 2022 |archive-date=May 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531141725/https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/01/diane-edwards-ted-bundy-girlfriend-now/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In early 1968, Bundy dropped out of college and worked a series of minimum-wage jobs. He also volunteered at the [[Seattle]] office of [[Nelson Rockefeller]]'s presidential campaign<ref name="timeline" /> and became [[Arthur Fletcher]]'s driver and bodyguard during Fletcher's campaign for [[Lieutenant Governor of Washington|Lieutenant Governor of Washington State]].{{sfn|Rule|1980|p=15}} Edwards graduated in the spring of 1968 and left Washington for [[San Francisco]]. Bundy visited her later that year after he earned a scholarship to study Chinese at [[Stanford University]] that summer.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 26, 2019 |title=Ted Bundy's Education |work=ati.com |url=https://allthatsinteresting.com/ted-bundy-education |access-date=March 6, 2023 |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529105918/https://allthatsinteresting.com/ted-bundy-education |url-status=live }}</ref>

In August, Bundy attended the [[1968 Republican National Convention]] in [[Miami]].{{sfn|Larsen|1980|pp=5, 7}} Shortly thereafter, Edwards ended their relationship and returned to her family home in [[California]], frustrated by what she described as Bundy's immaturity and lack of ambition. Lewis would later pinpoint this crisis as "probably the pivotal time in his development".{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=279}} Devastated by the breakup, Bundy traveled to [[Colorado]] and then farther east, visiting relatives in [[Arkansas]] and Philadelphia and enrolling for one semester at [[Temple University]].{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=19}} During his studies, he frequently visited [[New York City]], where he was drawn to [[pornography]]. He immersed himself in violent pornographic literature while nursing his wounds from the breakup.<ref>[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/did-ted-bundys-murder-spree-000003837.html Did Ted Bundy's Murder Spree Begin With Two College Girls In New Jersey?]</ref> It was also at this time, Rule believed, that Bundy discovered his true parentage in Vermont.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=19}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=53}}

Bundy returned to Washington in the fall of 1969, when he met Elizabeth Kloepfer (identified in Bundy literature as "Meg Anders", "Beth Archer" or "Liz Kendall"), a single mother from [[Ogden, Utah]], who worked as a secretary at the UW School of Medicine.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=74}} Their tumultuous relationship would continue well past his initial incarceration in Utah in 1976.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Storey |first1=Kate |title=Elizabeth Kendall Dated Ted Bundy As He Murdered Dozens. She's Telling Her Side of the Story. |url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a27179474/ted-bundy-girlfriend-elizabeth-kendall-kloepfer/ |access-date=May 22, 2021 |work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |date=January 31, 2020 |archive-date=August 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810200455/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a27179474/ted-bundy-girlfriend-elizabeth-kendall-kloepfer/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Bundy became a father figure to Kloepfer's daughter Molly, who was three years old when he started dating her mother; he remained in her life until she was aged 10, after he had been arrested. As an adult, Molly wrote of incidents beginning at age 7 in which Bundy was abusive or sexually inappropriate with her. Her accounts include Bundy hitting her in the face, knocking her down, putting her at risk of drowning, [[indecent exposure]] and [[child molestation|sexual touching]] disguised as accidents or "games".<ref>{{cite web|first=Jill|last=Sederstrom|url=https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/molly-kendall-shares-disturbing-memories-of-ted-bundy-in-book|title=Naked Hide-And-Seek And Dangerous Lake Shenanigans: Daughter Of Ted Bundy's Girlfriend Details Disturbing Incidents In Book|website=[[Oxygen.com|Oxygen]]|date=January 13, 2020|access-date=February 24, 2022|archive-date=June 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604063923/https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/molly-kendall-shares-disturbing-memories-of-ted-bundy-in-book|url-status=live}}</ref>

In mid-1970, Bundy, now focused and goal-oriented, re-enrolled at UW, this time as a [[psychology]] major. He became an honor student and was well regarded by his professors.{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=18–20}} In 1971, he took a job at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center. There, he met and worked alongside Rule, a former [[Seattle Police Department|Seattle police officer]] and aspiring crime writer who would later write one of the definitive Bundy biographies, ''[[The Stranger Beside Me]]''. Rule saw nothing disturbing in Bundy's personality at the time; she described him as "kind, solicitous, and empathetic".{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=22–33}}

After graduating from UW in 1972,{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=76}} Bundy joined [[Governor of Washington|Governor]] [[Daniel J. Evans]]'s re-election campaign.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=39}} Posing as a college student, he shadowed Evans' opponent, former governor [[Albert Rosellini]], and recorded his [[stump speech]]es for analysis by Evans's team.{{sfn|Larsen|1980|pp=7–10}}<ref name="Ellensburg1973-08-30" /> Evans subsequently appointed Bundy to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wImbDAAAQBAJ&q=ted+bundy+ironic+crime+prevention+daniel+evans&pg=PT176|title=Statesmen and Mischief Makers: Volume III: Officeholders and Their Contributions to History from Kennedy to Reagan|publisher=[[Xlibris]]|location=Bloomington, Indiana|isbn=978-1514469750|last1=Crass|first1=Scott|year=2016|access-date=October 15, 2020|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523005225/https://books.google.com/books?id=wImbDAAAQBAJ&q=ted+bundy+ironic+crime+prevention+daniel+evans&pg=PT176#v=snippet&q=ted%20bundy%20ironic%20crime%20prevention%20daniel%20evans&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> After Evans was re-elected, Bundy was hired as an assistant to Ross Davis, Chairman of the [[Washington State Republican Party]]. Davis thought well of Bundy and described him as "smart, aggressive&nbsp;... and a believer in the system".{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=46}} In early 1973, despite mediocre [[Law School Admission Test|LSAT]] scores, Bundy was accepted into the law schools of UPS and the [[S.J. Quinney College of Law|University of Utah]] (U of U) on the strength of letters of recommendation from Evans, Davis and several UW psychology professors.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=22, 43–44}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=79}}

During a trip to California on Republican Party business in the summer of 1973, Bundy rekindled his relationship with Edwards. She marveled at his transformation into a serious and dedicated professional, seemingly on the cusp of a significant legal and political career. Bundy continued to date Kloepfer as well; neither woman was aware of the other's existence. In the fall of 1973, Bundy [[Matriculation|matriculated]] at [[Seattle University School of Law|UPS Law School]],{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=45–46}} and continued courting Edwards, who flew to Seattle several times to stay with him. They discussed marriage; at one point he introduced her to Davis as his fiancée.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=51}}

In January 1974, Bundy abruptly broke off all contact with Edwards; her phone calls and letters went unreturned. When she finally reached him by phone a month later, she demanded to know why he had unilaterally ended their relationship without explanation. In a flat, calm voice, he replied, "Diane, I have no idea what you mean", and hung up. She never heard from him again.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=52}} Bundy later explained, "I just wanted to prove to myself that I could have married her";{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=16}} but Edwards concluded in retrospect that "Ted's high-power courtship in the latter part of 1973 had been deliberately planned, that he had waited all those years to be in a position of where he could make her fall in love with him, so that he could drop her, reject her, as she had rejected him."{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=52}} By then, Bundy had begun skipping classes at law school. By April, he had stopped attending entirely,{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=44–47}} as young women began to disappear in the [[Pacific Northwest]].{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=81–84}}

=== First murders ===
There is no consensus as to when or where Bundy began killing women. He told different stories to different people and refused to divulge the specifics of his earliest crimes, even as he confessed in graphic detail to dozens of later murders in the days preceding his execution.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=400}} Bundy told Nelson that he attempted his first [[kidnapping]] in [[Ocean City, New Jersey]], in 1969, but did not kill anyone until some time in 1971 in Seattle.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=282–284}} He told psychologist Art Norman that he killed two women in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] while visiting family in Philadelphia in 1969.<ref name="DailyNews" />{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=57}} Bundy hinted to homicide detective [[Robert D. Keppel]] that he committed a murder in Seattle in 1972{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=387}} and another murder in 1973 that involved a [[hitchhiking|hitchhiker]] near [[Tumwater, Washington|Tumwater]], but he refused to elaborate.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=396}} Rule and Keppel both believed that he might have started killing as a teenager.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=526}}{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=399–400}} Bundy's earliest documented homicides were committed in 1974, when he was 27. By his own admission, he had by then mastered the necessary skills – in the era before [[DNA profiling]] – to leave minimal incriminating [[forensic evidence]] at crime scenes.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=87}}

== Murder spree in the Western states ==
=== Washington, Oregon ===
[[File:Lynda Ann Healy Ski Reports January 31 1974 New York Daily News.jpg|145px|upright|thumb|Lynda Ann Healy]]
Shortly after midnight on January 4, 1974, around the time that he terminated his relationship with Edwards, Bundy entered the [[basement apartment]] of 18-year-old Karen Sparks{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=389}} (often identified as "Joni Lenz",{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=57}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=27}} "Mary Adams"{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1983|p=27}} and "Terri Caldwell"{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=14}} in Bundy literature), a dancer and student at UW in Seattle's [[University District, Seattle|University District]]. After bludgeoning Sparks with a metal rod from her bed frame, he [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] her with the same rod{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=16}}{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=56–57}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=27}} causing extensive internal injuries and rupturing her [[bladder]]. Sparks remained unconscious in the hospital for ten days{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=14}} and although she survived, she was left with permanent [[brain damage]] with significant loss to her vision and hearing. In the early morning hours of February 1, Bundy broke into the basement room of 21-year-old Lynda Ann Healy, a UW [[undergraduate]] who broadcast morning radio weather reports for skiers. He beat her unconscious, dressed her in blue jeans, a white blouse and boots, and carried her away.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=60–62}} He later stated that he drove Healy to a secluded area, where he [[rape]]d and murdered her before dumping her body.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=126–128}}

During the first half of 1974, female college students disappeared at the rate of about one per month. On March 12, Donna Gail Manson, a 19-year-old student at [[Evergreen State College]] in [[Olympia, Washington|Olympia]], {{convert|60|mi|round=5}} southwest of Seattle, left her dormitory to attend a jazz concert on campus but never arrived.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=71}} Bundy claimed that he burned Manson's skull in his girlfriend's fireplace "down to the last ash" in "a fit of... paranoia and cleanliness".<ref>{{cite web|title=565DFWA – Donna Gail Manson|url=https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/565dfwa.html|publisher=The Doe Network|access-date=February 10, 2023|archive-date=February 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210122601/https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/565dfwa.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 17, 18-year-old Susan Elaine Rancourt disappeared while on her way to her dorm room after an evening advisors' meeting at [[Central Washington University|Central Washington State College]] in [[Ellensburg, Washington|Ellensburg]], {{convert|110|mi|round=5}} southeast of Seattle.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=71}}<ref name="Spokesman-Review" /> Two female Central Washington students later came forward to report encounters—one on the night of Rancourt's disappearance, the other three nights earlier—with a man wearing a [[sling (medicine)|sling]], who was asking for help carrying a load of books to his brown or tan [[Volkswagen Beetle]].{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=42–46}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=31–33}}

On May 6, Roberta Kathleen Parks, aged 22, left her dormitory at [[Oregon State University]] in [[Corvallis, Oregon|Corvallis]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Reward Offered for OSU Coed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31114880/reward-offered-for-information-on/ |access-date=August 6, 2021 |work=[[Statesman Journal]] |date=May 14, 1974 |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209010812/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31114880/reward-offered-for-information-on/ |url-status=live }}</ref> {{convert|260|mi|round=5}} south of Seattle, to have coffee with friends at the [[Memorial Union (Oregon State University)|Memorial Union]], but never arrived.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=75–76}} Bundy claimed that he spotted Parks in the cafeteria and persuaded her to go with him to a bar. After they got into his car, he tied and gagged Parks and drove her back to Washington to be killed, raping her twice on the way.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=130–133}} On June 1, Brenda Carol Ball, aged 22, disappeared after leaving the Flame Tavern in [[Burien, Washington|Burien]], near [[Seattle–Tacoma International Airport]]. She was last seen in the parking lot, talking to a brown-haired man with his arm in a sling.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=77}} Bundy later stated he brought Ball back to his residence where they had a "consensual" sexual encounter before he strangled her while she was sleeping; although this failed to explain the damage done to her skull.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=137}} Investigators from Seattle and [[King County, Washington|King County]] grew increasingly concerned. There was no significant physical evidence, and the missing women had little in common apart from similar appearance: young, attractive, white college students with long hair parted in the middle.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=73–74}}

In the early hours of June 11, 18-year-old UW student [[Murder of Georgann Hawkins|Georgann Hawkins]] vanished while walking down a brightly lit alley between her boyfriend's dormitory residence and her [[sorority]] house.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=37}} The next morning, three Seattle homicide detectives and a [[criminalist]] combed the entire alleyway on their hands and knees, finding nothing.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=82}} Bundy later told Keppel that he lured Hawkins to his car and knocked her unconscious with a [[crowbar]]. After handcuffing her, he drove her to [[Issaquah, Washington|Issaquah]], a suburb {{convert|20|mi|round=5}} east of Seattle, where he [[strangulation|strangled]] her and spent the entire night with her body.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=367–378}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseret.com/1989/4/2/18801112/bundy-did-not-always-carry-out-his-murder-plans-prober-told|title=Bundy Did Not Always Carry Out His Murder Plans, Prober Told|access-date=June 15, 2020|newspaper=Deseret News|date=April 2, 1989|archive-date=May 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508110740/https://www.deseret.com/1989/4/2/18801112/bundy-did-not-always-carry-out-his-murder-plans-prober-told|url-status=live}}</ref> The next afternoon he returned to the UW alley and, in the very midst of a major crime scene investigation, located and gathered Hawkins' earrings and one of her shoes where he had left them in the adjoining parking lot and departed, unobserved. "It was a feat so brazen", wrote Keppel, "that it astonishes police even today".{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=22}} Bundy said he revisited Hawkins' corpse on three occasions.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=336}}

After Hawkins' disappearance was publicized, witnesses came forward to report seeing a man on crutches, with a [[Orthopedic cast#Lower extremity|leg cast]] and carrying a briefcase, in an alley behind a nearby dormitory on the night of her disappearance.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=38}} One woman recalled that the man asked her to help him carry the case to his car, a light brown Volkswagen Beetle.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=75}} During this period, Bundy was working in Olympia as the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee, where he wrote a pamphlet for women on rape prevention.<ref name="nyt 1989">{{cite news|first=Jon |last=Nordheimer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/25/us/bundy-is-put-to-death-in-florida-after-admitting-trail-of-killings.html|title=Bundy Is Put to Death in Florida After Admitting Trail of Killings|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|date=January 25, 1989|access-date=September 7, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022194108/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/25/us/bundy-is-put-to-death-in-florida-after-admitting-trail-of-killings.html |archive-date=October 22, 2017 }}</ref> Later, he worked at the Department of Emergency Services (DES), a state government agency involved in the search for the missing women. At the DES he met and began dating Carole Ann Boone (1947–2018), a twice-divorced mother of two who would play an important role in the final phase of his life six years later.<ref name="Michaud-trutv" />

[[File:Ted Bundy volkswagen.JPG|thumb|upright|alt=A light tan rusty Volkswagen is positioned for display behind a chain made of handcuffs|Bundy's 1968 Volkswagen Beetle, in which he committed many of his crimes. The vehicle was on display at the now-defunct [[National Museum of Crime and Punishment]],<ref name="Kennicott-wapo" /><ref name="CrimeMuseum-car"/> and is now at the [[Alcatraz East]] Crime Museum in [[Pigeon Forge, Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite web|title=VW owned by serial killer, Ted Bundy|work=Crime Museum |url=http://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/the-volkswagen-owned-by-serial-killer-ted-bundy/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721223638/http://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/the-volkswagen-owned-by-serial-killer-ted-bundy/|archive-date=July 21, 2016|access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref>]]
Reports of the brutal attack on Sparks and the six missing women appeared prominently in newspapers and on television throughout Washington and [[Oregon]].{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=81}} Fear spread among the population; hitchhiking by young women dropped sharply.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=76}} Pressure mounted on law enforcement agencies,{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=77}} but the scarcity of physical evidence severely hampered them. Police would not provide reporters with the little information that was available for fear of compromising the investigation.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=vi}} Further similarities between the victims were noted: the disappearances all took place at night, usually near ongoing construction work and were within a week of midterm or final exams. All of the victims were wearing slacks or blue jeans when they disappeared, and at many crime scenes there were sightings of a man wearing a cast or a sling and driving a brown or tan Volkswagen Beetle.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=90–91}}

The Washington and Oregon murders culminated on July 14 with the abductions in broad daylight of two women from a crowded beach at [[Lake Sammamish State Park]] in Issaquah.<ref name=bbapdent74>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6DlYAAAAIBAJ&pg=1580%2C3631677 |work=The Bulletin |location=Bend, Oregon |agency=Associated Press |title=Dental Records Establish Identities of Two Women |date=September 11, 1974 |page=11 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209013713/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6DlYAAAAIBAJ&pg=1580,3631677 |url-status=live }}</ref> Four female witnesses described an attractive young man wearing a white tennis outfit with his left arm in a sling, speaking with a light accent, perhaps Canadian or British. Introducing himself as "Ted", he asked their help in unloading a sailboat from his tan or bronze-colored Volkswagen Beetle. Three refused; one accompanied him as far as his car, saw that there was no sailboat and fled. Three additional witnesses saw "Ted" approach 23-year-old Janice Ann Ott, a [[probation]] caseworker at the King County Juvenile Court, and watched her leave the beach in his company.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=3–6}} About four hours later, Denise Marie Naslund, a 19-year-old woman who was studying to become a computer programmer, left a picnic to go to the restroom and never returned.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=99–101}} Bundy told Michaud and FBI agent William Hagmaier that Ott was still alive when he returned with Naslund and that he forced one to watch as he assaulted and murdered the other,{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=45}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=139–142}}{{sfn|Geberth|2015|p=991}} but he later denied this in an interview with Lewis on the eve of his execution.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=294–295}}

[[King County, Washington|King County]] police, finally armed with a detailed description of their suspect and his car, posted fliers throughout the Seattle area. A [[composite sketch]] was printed in regional newspapers and broadcast on local television stations. Kloepfer, Rule, a DES employee and a UW psychology professor all recognized the profile, the sketch and the car, and reported Bundy as a possible suspect;{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=61–62}} but detectives—who were receiving up to 200 tips per day{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=40}}—thought it unlikely that a clean-cut law student with no adult criminal record could be the perpetrator.{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=103–105}} On September 6, two [[grouse]] hunters stumbled across the skeletal remains of Ott and Naslund near a service road in Issaquah, {{convert|2|mi|0}} east of Lake Sammamish State Park.<ref name=bbapdent74/>{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=8–15}} An extra [[femur]] and several [[human vertebra|vertebrae]] found at the site were later identified by Bundy as those of Hawkins.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=18}} Six months later, forestry students from [[Green River Community College]] discovered the skulls and [[human mandible|mandibles]] of Healy, Rancourt, Parks and Ball on [[Taylor Mountain (Washington)|Taylor Mountain]], where Bundy frequently hiked, just east of Issaquah. Manson's remains were never recovered.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=25–30}}

=== Idaho, Utah, Colorado ===
[[File:Ted Bundy Utah house fire escape.JPG|thumb|alt=565 First Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT|Rooming house in [[Salt Lake City]] where Bundy lived from September 1974 to October 1975, showing the fire escape used to sneak into his room and windows to the utility room where he concealed photo souvenirs of his murders.{{sfn|Keppel|Michaud|2011|p=99}}]]
In August 1974, Bundy received a second acceptance from the U of U Law School and moved to [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], leaving Kloepfer in Seattle. While he called Kloepfer often, he dated "at least a dozen" other women.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=130–131}} As he studied the first-year law curriculum a second time, Bundy was devastated to find out that the other students "had something, some intellectual capacity" that he did not. He found the classes completely incomprehensible. "It was a great disappointment to me", he said.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=55}} A new string of homicides began the following month, including two that would remain undiscovered until Bundy confessed to them shortly before his execution.

On September 2, Bundy raped and strangled a still-unidentified hitchhiker in [[Idaho]], then returned the next day to photograph and [[dismemberment|dismember]] the corpse before disposing of the remains in a nearby river.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=86}}{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=257–259}}{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=527}} On October 2, he abducted 16-year-old Nancy Wilcox in [[Holladay, Utah]], a suburb of Salt Lake City.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=91}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=143–146}} Bundy confessed that Wilcox was walking on a poorly lit "main roadway" when he parked his car and forced her into an orchard at knifepoint.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=104}} He then restrained her, put her into his vehicle and drove back to his apartment, where he allegedly kept her for 24 hours.{{sfn|Sullivan|2020|p=221}} Bundy informed investigators that her remains were buried near [[Capitol Reef National Park]], some {{convert|200|mi|round=5}} south of Holladay, but they were never found.<ref name="Psychics" />
[[File:Laura Ann Aime Mt. Pleasant Pyramid Newspaper Archives December 5, 1974 p. 4A.jpg|145px|upright|thumb|Laura Ann Aime]]
On October 18, Melissa Anne Smith—the 17-year-old daughter of the police chief of [[Midvale, Utah|Midvale]], another Salt Lake City suburb—disappeared after leaving a [[pizza parlor]] at around 9:30&nbsp;p.m. Her nude body was found in a nearby mountainous area nine days later; post-mortem examination indicated that she may have remained alive for up to seven days following her disappearance.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=96}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=92–93}} On October 31, Laura Ann Aime, also aged 17, disappeared {{convert|25|mi}} south of [[Lehi, Utah|Lehi]] after leaving a [[Halloween]] party by herself just after midnight; she was last seen trying to hitchhike.{{sfn|Rule|1989|p=112}} Her nude body was found by hikers {{convert|9|mi}} to the northeast in [[American Fork Canyon]] on [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving Day]].<ref name="Deseret1977" /> The [[medical examiner]] estimated that Aime had died on November 20; twenty days after her disappearance. Both Smith and Aime had been beaten, raped, [[sodomy|sodomized]] and strangled with nylon stockings.<ref name="Bell-KillingSpree" />{{sfn|Rule|1989|pp=112–13}} Years later, Bundy described his post-mortem rituals with the corpses of Smith and Aime, including hair shampooing and application of makeup.{{sfn|Rule|1989|p=486}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=334–335}}

In the late afternoon of November 8, Bundy approached 18-year-old telephone operator Carol DaRonch at [[Fashion Place]] Mall in [[Murray, Utah|Murray]],<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JXm3zfQuNEUC&q=fashion+place+mall+bundy&pg=PA61 |title= Ted Bundy: The FBI File |quote= Bundy was convicted of kidnaping Carol DaRonch, 19, from Fashion Place Mall earlier that day. |access-date= March 21, 2015 |isbn= 978-1599862552 |last1= Investigation |first1= Federal Bureau of |year= 2007 |publisher= Filiquarian Publishing, LLC }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> less than a mile from the Midvale restaurant where Smith was last seen. He identified himself as "Officer Roseland" of the Murray Police Department, told DaRonch that someone had attempted to break into her car and asked her to accompany him to the station to file a complaint. When DaRonch pointed out to Bundy that he was driving on a road that did not lead to the police station, he immediately pulled onto the shoulder and attempted to handcuff her. During their struggle, he inadvertently fastened both handcuffs to the same wrist, and DaRonch was able to open the car door and escape.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=93–95}}

Later that evening, {{anchor|Debra Kent}}Debra Jean Kent, a 17-year-old student at [[Viewmont High School]] in [[Bountiful, Utah|Bountiful]], {{convert|20|mi|round=5}} north of Murray, disappeared after leaving a theater production at the school to pick up her brother.<ref name="map-Murray2Bountiful" /> The school's drama teacher and a student told police that "a stranger" had asked each of them to come out to the parking lot to identify a car. Another student later saw the same man pacing in the rear of the auditorium, and the drama teacher spotted him again shortly before the end of the play.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=95–97}} Outside the auditorium, investigators found a key that unlocked the handcuffs removed from DaRonch's wrist.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=101}} Bundy eventually admitted to abducting Kent and keeping her at his apartment for a day, stating she was alive "during half of it".{{sfn|Sullivan|2020|p=216}}

In November, Kloepfer called King County police a second time after reading that young women were disappearing in towns surrounding Salt Lake City. Detective Randy Hergesheimer of the Major Crimes division interviewed her in detail. By then, Bundy had risen considerably on the King County hierarchy of suspicion, but the Lake Sammamish witness considered most reliable by detectives failed to identify him from a [[police lineup|photo lineup]].{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=78–79}} In December, Kloepfer called the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and repeated her suspicions. Bundy's name was added to their list of suspects, but at that time no credible forensic evidence linked him to the Utah murders.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=148–49}} In January 1975, Bundy returned to Seattle after his final exams and spent a week with Kloepfer, who did not tell him that she had reported him to police on three occasions. She made plans to visit him in Salt Lake City in August.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=149–150}}

[[File:Caryn Campbell Ted Bundy victim.jpg|thumb|upright|left|alt=A smiling young woman with short hair parted on the side|Caryn Campbell: Bundy's 14th documented murder victim and the subject of his first homicide indictment.]]
In 1975, Bundy shifted much of his criminal activity eastward, from his base in Utah to Colorado. On January 12, a 23-year-old registered nurse named Caryn Eileen Campbell disappeared while walking down a well-lit hallway between the elevator and her room at the Wildwood Inn (now the Wildwood Lodge) in [[Snowmass Village, Colorado|Snowmass Village]], {{convert|400|mi|-1}} southeast of Salt Lake City.{{sfn|Rule|1989|p=126}} Her nude body was found a month later next to a dirt road just outside the resort. According to the coroner's report, she had been killed by blows to her head from a blunt instrument that left distinctive linear grooved depressions on her skull; her assailant had slit her left [[earlobe]] and her body also bore deep cuts from a sharp weapon.{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=132–136}}

On March 15, {{convert|100|mi}} northeast of Snowmass Village, [[Vail, Colorado|Vail]] ski instructor Julie Lyle Cunningham, aged 26, disappeared while walking from her apartment to a dinner date with a friend. Bundy later told Colorado investigators that he approached Cunningham on crutches and asked her to help carry his ski boots to his car, where he clubbed and handcuffed her before sexually assaulting her at a secondary site near [[Rifle, Colorado|Rifle]], {{convert|90|mi}} west of Vail.{{Sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=402–407}}{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|pp=130–131}} Weeks later, he made the six-hour drive from Salt Lake City to revisit her remains.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|pp=130–131}}{{sfn|Keppel|2010 |loc=Kindle location 7431–98}}

Denise Lynn Oliverson, aged 25, disappeared near the Utah–Colorado border in [[Grand Junction, Colorado|Grand Junction]] on April 6 while riding her bicycle to her parents' house; her bike and sandals were found under a [[viaduct]] near a railroad bridge.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=110}} Bundy stated he abducted Oliverson, killed her in his car near the Utah state line and dumped her body in the [[Colorado River]]. This admission was supported by gas receipts, which showed that he was in the city on the same day that Oliverson went missing. On May 6, Bundy parked outside of the Alameda Junior High School in [[Pocatello, Idaho]], {{convert|160|mi|round=5}} north of Salt Lake City, and after seeing 12-year-old Lynnette Dawn Culver walking alone, lured her into his vehicle before driving her to his [[Holiday Inn]] hotel room.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|pp=137–138}} There he raped Culver and drowned her in the bathtub. He disposed of her body in the [[Snake River]] north of Pocatello. Bundy reportedly provided intimate details about Lynette's personal life in his confession.<ref name="Culver"/><ref name="Moscow"/>

[[File:Caryn campbell ted bundy.jpg|thumb|alt=An outdoor hallway. Hotel rooms are on the left and a balcony is on the right.|Caryn Campbell disappeared while walking down this brightly lit hallway to her hotel room in January 1975.]]
In mid-May, three of Bundy's Washington State DES co-workers, including Boone, visited him in Salt Lake City and stayed for a week in his apartment. He subsequently spent a week in Seattle with Kloepfer in early-June and they discussed getting married the following [[Christmas]]. Again, Kloepfer made no mention of her multiple discussions with authorities in King County and [[Salt Lake County, Utah|Salt Lake County]]. Bundy disclosed neither his ongoing relationship with Boone nor a concurrent romance with a U of U law student (known in various accounts as either "Kim Andrews"{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=140–141}} or "Sharon Auer"{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=164–165}}).

On June 28, 15-year-old Susan Curtis vanished from the campus of [[Brigham Young University]] in [[Provo, Utah|Provo]], {{convert|45|mi|round=5}} south of Salt Lake City. Her murder became Bundy's last confession, tape-recorded moments before he entered the execution chamber.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=343}} The bodies of victims Wilcox, Kent, Cunningham, Oliverson, Culver and Curtis were never recovered. In August 1975, Bundy was baptized into [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], although he was not an active participant in services and ignored most church restrictions.<ref name="Smith1979" /><ref name="Bennett-Connaughton1978" /><ref>{{Harvnb|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=158}}: "Bundy joined the Mormon Church that September."</ref> He would later be [[excommunication|excommunicated]] following his 1976 kidnapping conviction.<ref name="Smith1979" /> When asked his religious preference after his arrest, Bundy answered "[[Methodist]]", the religion of his childhood.{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|p=389}}

In Washington State, investigators were still struggling to analyze the Pacific Northwest murder spree that had ended as abruptly as it had begun. In an effort to make sense of an overwhelming mass of data, they resorted to the then-innovative strategy of compiling a [[database]]. They employed the King County payroll computer, a "huge, primitive machine" by contemporary standards, but the only one available for their use. After inputting the many lists they had compiled—classmates and acquaintances of each victim, Volkswagen owners named "Ted", known [[sex offender]]s and so on—they queried the computer for coincidences. Out of thousands of names, 26 turned up on four lists; one was Bundy. Detectives also manually compiled a list of their 100 "best" suspects, and Bundy was on that list as well. He was "literally at the top of the pile" of suspects when word came from Utah of his arrest.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=62–66}}

== Arrest and first trial ==
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On August 16, 1975, Bundy was arrested by [[Utah Highway Patrol]] officer Bob Hayward in [[West Valley City, Utah|Granger]], another Salt Lake City suburb.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/trooper-who-arrested-ted-bundy-dies-at-90/785699510 |title=Trooper who arrested Ted Bundy dies at 90 |date=August 9, 2017 |access-date=January 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126164504/https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/trooper-who-arrested-ted-bundy-dies-at-90/785699510 |archive-date=January 26, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Hayward observed Bundy cruising a residential area in his Volkswagen Beetle during the pre-dawn hours, and fleeing at high speed after seeing the patrol car.<ref name="Gehrke2000" /> He also noticed that the Volkswagen's front passenger seat had been removed and placed on the rear seats. Searching the car, Hayward found a ski mask, a second mask fashioned from pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, a coil of rope, an [[ice pick]] and other items initially assumed to be burglary tools. Bundy explained that the ski mask was for skiing, he had found the handcuffs in a dumpster and the rest were common household items.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=98–99, 113–115}} However, Detective Jerry Thompson remembered a similar suspect and car description from the DaRonch kidnapping in November 1974, and Bundy's name from Kloepfer's phone call a month later. In a search of Bundy's apartment, police found a guide to Colorado ski resorts with a checkmark by the Wildwood Inn,{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=71}} and a brochure that advertised the Viewmont High School play in Bountiful, where Kent had disappeared.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=151}} Police did not have sufficient evidence to detain Bundy, so he was released on his own [[recognizance]]. Bundy later said that searchers missed a hidden collection of [[Instant camera|Polaroid]] photographs of his victims, which he destroyed after he was released.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=258}}

[[Salt Lake City Police Department|Salt Lake City police]] placed Bundy on 24-hour surveillance, and Thompson flew to Seattle with two other detectives to interview Kloepfer. She told them that in the year prior to Bundy's move to Utah, she had discovered objects that she "couldn't understand" in her house and in Bundy's apartment. These items included crutches, a bag of [[plaster of Paris]] that he admitted stealing from a medical supply house and a [[meat cleaver]] that was never used for cooking. Additional objects included surgical gloves, an Oriental knife in a wooden case that he kept in his glove compartment and a sack full of women's clothing.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=167}} Bundy was perpetually in debt, and Kloepfer suspected that he had stolen almost everything of significant value that he possessed. When she confronted him over a new TV and stereo, he warned her, "If you tell anyone, I'll break your fucking neck."{{sfn|Kendall|1981|p=74}} She said Bundy became "very upset" whenever she considered cutting her hair, which was long and parted in the middle. She would sometimes awaken in the middle of the night to find him under the bed covers with a flashlight, examining her body. He kept a [[lug wrench]], taped halfway up the handle, in the trunk of her car—another Volkswagen Beetle, which he often borrowed—"for protection". The detectives confirmed that Bundy had not been with Kloepfer on any of the nights during which the Pacific Northwest victims had vanished, nor on the day Ott and Naslund were abducted from Lake Sammamish State Park.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=187–194}} Shortly thereafter, Kloepfer was interviewed by Seattle homicide detective Kathy McChesney, and learned of the existence of Edwards and her brief engagement to Bundy around Christmas 1973.{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=96–100}}

In September, Bundy sold his Volkswagen Beetle to a Midvale teenager.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=226–227}} Utah police immediately [[Vehicle impoundment|impounded]] the vehicle, and [[FBI]] technicians dismantled and searched it. Hairs were discovered matching samples obtained from Campbell's body.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=188}} Later, they also identified hair strands "microscopically indistinguishable" from those of Smith and DaRonch.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=250}} FBI lab specialist Robert Neill concluded that the presence of hair strands in one car matching three different victims who had never met one another would be "a coincidence of mind-boggling rarity".{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=189–191}}

On October 2, detectives put Bundy into a lineup. DaRonch immediately identified him as "Officer Roseland", and witnesses from Bountiful recognized him as the stranger at the Viewmont High School auditorium.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=178–179}} There was insufficient evidence to link him to Kent, whose body had not yet been found,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/story/dna-crime-solving-is-still-new-yet-it-may-have-gone-too-far/|title=DNA Crime-Solving Is Still New, Yet It May Have Gone Too Far|last=Molteni|first=Megan|date=March 14, 2019|magazine=Wired|access-date=March 15, 2019|issn=1059-1028|archive-date=April 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402202456/https://www.wired.com/story/dna-crime-solving-is-still-new-yet-it-may-have-gone-too-far/|url-status=live}}</ref> but more than enough evidence to charge him with aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault in the DaRonch case. Bundy denied knowing DaRonch but had no [[alibi]], and was freed on $15,000 [[bail]], paid by his parents,{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=24}} and spent most of the time between [[indictment]] and trial in Seattle, living in Kloepfer's house. Seattle police had insufficient evidence to charge him in the Pacific Northwest murders but kept him under close surveillance. "When Ted and I stepped out on the porch to go somewhere", Kloepfer wrote, "so many unmarked police cars started up that it sounded like the beginning of the [[Indy 500]]".{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=119–120}}

In November, the three principal Bundy investigators—Jerry Thompson from Utah, Robert Keppel from Washington and Michael Fisher from Colorado—met in [[Aspen, Colorado]], and exchanged information with thirty detectives and [[prosecutor]]s from five states.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=213–215}} While officials left the meeting (later referred to as the Aspen Summit) convinced that Bundy was the murderer they sought, they agreed that more hard evidence would be needed before he could be charged with any of the killings.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=163–165}}

In February 1976, Bundy stood trial for the DaRonch kidnapping. On the advice of his attorney, John O'Connell, he waived his right to a jury due to the negative publicity surrounding the case. After a four-day [[bench trial]] and a weekend of deliberation, Judge Stewart Hanson Jr. found Bundy guilty of kidnapping and assault.<ref name=jsbigokdn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uqQqAAAAIBAJ&pg=5192%2C9704 |work=Deseret News |location=Salt Lake City, Utah |title=Judge says Bundy is guilty of kidnaping |date=March 1, 1976 |page=A1 |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530021800/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uqQqAAAAIBAJ&pg=5192,9704 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Kendall|1981|pp=140–141}}{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=205}} In June, he was sentenced to one to 15 years in the [[Utah State Prison]].{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=24}} In October, Bundy was found hiding in bushes in the prison yard carrying an "escape kit"—road maps, airline schedules and a [[Social Security (United States)|Social Security]] card—and spent several weeks in [[solitary confinement]].{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=265–267}} Later that month, Colorado authorities charged him with Campbell's murder. After a period of resistance, he waived [[extradition]] proceedings and was transferred to Aspen in January 1977.{{sfn|Rule|1989|p=219}}{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=25}}

== Escapes ==
[[File:Pitkin County Courthouse.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|right|alt=A two-story brick building with a tall tower is partially obscured by trees.| Pitkin County Courthouse, where Bundy jumped from the second window from the left, second story to escape.{{sfn|Winn|Merrill|1980}}]]
On June 7, 1977, Bundy was transported {{convert|40|mi}} from the [[Garfield County, Colorado|Garfield County]] jail in [[Glenwood Springs, Colorado|Glenwood Springs]] to [[Pitkin County Courthouse]] in Aspen for a [[preliminary hearing]]. He had elected to [[Pro se legal representation in the United States|serve as his own attorney]], and as such was excused by the judge from wearing handcuffs or leg shackles.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=285}} During a recess, Bundy asked to visit the courthouse's law library to research his case. While shielded from his guards' view behind a bookcase, he opened a window and jumped to the ground from the second story, injuring his right ankle as he landed.

After shedding an outer layer of clothing, Bundy limped through Aspen as roadblocks were being set up on its outskirts, then hiked south onto [[Aspen Mountain (Colorado)|Aspen Mountain]]. Near its summit he broke into a hunting cabin and stole food, clothing and a [[rifle]].{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=197}} The following day, Bundy left the cabin and continued south toward the town of [[Crested Butte, Colorado|Crested Butte]], but became lost in the forest. For two days he wandered aimlessly on the mountain, missing two trails that led downward to his intended destination. On June 10, Bundy broke into a camping trailer on Maroon Lake, {{convert|10|mi}} south of Aspen, taking food and a ski parka; however, instead of continuing southward, he walked back north toward Aspen, eluding roadblocks and search parties along the way.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=286–291}} Three days later, he stole a car at the edge of an Aspen golf course. Cold, sleep-deprived and in constant pain from his sprained ankle, Bundy drove back into Aspen, where two police officers noticed his car weaving in and out of its lane and pulled him over. He had been a fugitive for six days.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=203–205}} In the car were maps of the mountain area around Aspen that prosecutors were using to demonstrate the location of Campbell's body (as his own attorney, Bundy had rights of [[Discovery (law)|discovery]]), indicating that his escape had been planned.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=290–293}}

[[File:FBI-360-Ted Bundy FBI 10 most wanted photo.jpg|thumb|left|upright|alt=Black-and-white photo of a man with curly hair|1977 photograph—taken shortly after first escape and recapture{{sfn|Larsen|1980|p=2}}—from Bundy's [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s|FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]] poster.]]
Back in jail in Glenwood Springs, Bundy ignored the advice of friends and legal advisors to stay put. The case against him, already weak at best, was deteriorating steadily as [[pretrial motion]]s consistently resolved in Bundy's favor and significant pieces of evidence were ruled inadmissible.{{sfn|Winn|Merrill|1980|pp=204–208}} "A more rational defendant might have realized that he stood a good chance of [[acquittal]], and that beating the murder charge in Colorado would probably have dissuaded other prosecutors&nbsp;... with as little as a year and a half to serve on the DaRonch conviction, had Ted persevered, he could have been a free man."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=206}} Instead, Bundy assembled a new escape plan. He acquired a detailed floor plan of the Garfield County jail and a [[hacksaw]] blade from other inmates. He accumulated $500 in cash, [[smuggling|smuggled]] in over a six-month period by visitors, Boone in particular.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=306}} During the evenings, while other prisoners were showering, Bundy sawed a hole about one square foot (0.093 m<sup>2</sup>) between the steel reinforcing bars in his cell's ceiling. Having lost {{convert|35|lb}}, he was able to wriggle through and explore the crawl space above<ref name="ChiOmegaKiller" /> in the weeks that followed. Multiple reports from an informant of movement within the ceiling during the night were not investigated.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=209}}

By late 1977, Bundy's impending trial had become a ''[[cause célèbre]]'' in the small town of Aspen, and Bundy filed a motion for a [[change of venue]] to [[Denver]].{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=302–303}} On December 23, the Aspen trial judge granted the request, but to [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]], where juries had historically been hostile to murder suspects.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=304–305}} On the night of December 30, with most of the jail staff on Christmas break and nonviolent prisoners on [[Prison furlough|furlough]] with their families,{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=305}} Bundy piled books and files in his bed, covered them with a blanket to simulate his sleeping body and climbed into the crawl space. He broke through the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer — who was out for the evening with his wife{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=308}} — changed into street clothes from the jailer's closet and walked out the front door to freedom.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=209–211}}

After stealing a car, Bundy drove eastward out of Glenwood Springs, but the car soon broke down in the mountains on [[Interstate 70]]. A passing motorist gave him a ride into Vail, {{convert|60|mi}} to the east. From there he caught a bus to Denver, where he boarded a morning flight to [[Chicago]]. Back in Glenwood Springs, the jail's skeleton crew did not discover the escape until noon on December 31, more than seventeen hours later. By then, Bundy was already in Chicago.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=212–213}}

== Florida murders and rearrest ==
From Chicago, Bundy traveled by train to [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], where he was present in a local tavern on January 2.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=215–216}} Five days later, he stole a car and drove south to [[Atlanta]], where he boarded a bus and arrived in [[Tallahassee, Florida]], on the morning of January 8. He stayed for one night at a hotel before renting a room under the alias "Chris Hagen" at a [[boarding house]] near the [[Florida State University]] (FSU) campus.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Clues! A History of Forensic Detection|last=Wilson|first=Colin|year=1989 |publisher=Warner Books}}</ref> Bundy later said that he initially resolved to find legitimate employment and refrain from further criminal activity, knowing he could probably remain free and undetected in Florida indefinitely as long as he did not attract the attention of police;{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=7}} but his lone job application, at a construction site, had to be abandoned when he was asked to produce identification.{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=31}} He reverted to his old habits of [[shoplifting]] and stealing money and credit cards from women's wallets left in shopping carts at local grocery stores.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=318}}

In the early hours of January 15, 1978—one week after his arrival in Tallahassee—Bundy entered FSU's [[Chi Omega]] sorority house through a rear door with a faulty locking mechanism.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=332}} Beginning at about 2:45&nbsp;a.m. he bludgeoned Margaret Elizabeth Bowman, aged 21, with a piece of oak firewood as she slept, then [[garrote]]d her with a nylon stocking.{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=34}} He then entered the bedroom of 20-year-old Lisa Janet Levy and beat her unconscious, strangled her, tore one of her nipples, bit deeply into her left buttock and sexually assaulted her with a hair mist bottle.{{sfn|Rule|1989|pp=278–279}} In an adjoining bedroom he attacked Kathy Kleiner, aged 21, breaking her jaw and deeply lacerating her shoulder; and Karen Chandler, aged 21, who suffered a [[concussion]], broken jaw, loss of teeth and a crushed finger.<ref name="EveningIndependent" /> Chandler and Kleiner survived the attack; Kleiner attributed their survival to automobile headlights illuminating the interior of their room and frightening away the attacker.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Tori |last1=Telfer |title=Ted Bundy's Living Victim Tells Her Story |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ted-bundy-kathy-kleiner-living-victim-serial-killer-784780/|access-date=January 29, 2019|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|publisher=[[Jann Wenner]]|location=New York City|date=January 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129041941/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ted-bundy-kathy-kleiner-living-victim-serial-killer-784780/|archive-date=January 29, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Amy|last1=Wilson|title=Bundy the memories will not die|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-01-15-8901030333-story,amp.html|newspaper=[[South Florida Sun Sentinel]]|date=January 15, 1989|access-date=July 25, 2021|archive-date=October 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016174137/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-01-15-8901030333-story,amp.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Tallahassee detectives determined that the four attacks took place in a total of less than 15 minutes, within earshot of more than 30 witnesses who heard nothing.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=332}} After leaving the sorority house, Bundy broke into a basement apartment eight blocks away and attacked 21-year-old FSU student Cheryl Thomas, dislocating her shoulder and fracturing her jaw and skull in five places. She was left with permanent deafness in her left ear and equilibrium damage that ended her dance career.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Minutaglio|first=Rose|url=https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a26326953/ted-bundy-abc-documentary-2020-cheryl-thomas/|title=Ted Bundy Survivor Cheryl Thomas Describes Terrifying Encounter in New Documentary|magazine=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]|date=February 14, 2019|access-date=May 4, 2024|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523005719/https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a26326953/ted-bundy-abc-documentary-2020-cheryl-thomas/|url-status=live}}</ref> On Thomas' bed, police found a [[semen]] stain and a pantyhose "mask" containing two hairs "similar to Bundy's in class and characteristic".{{sfn|Rule|1989|p=277}}{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=339–340}}

[[File:Kimberly Diane Leach Tampa Tribune 22 February 1978.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=|Kimberly Leach]]
On February 8, Bundy drove {{convert|150|mi}} east to [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] in a stolen FSU van. In a parking lot he approached 14-year-old Leslie Parmenter, the daughter of the Jacksonville Police Department's chief of detectives, identifying himself as "Richard Burton, Fire Department", but retreated when Parmenter's older brother arrived and confronted him.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=243–244}} That afternoon, he backtracked {{convert|60|mi}} westward to [[Lake City, Florida|Lake City]]. At Lake City Junior High School the following morning, 12-year-old Kimberly Dianne Leach was summoned to her [[homeroom]] by a teacher to retrieve a forgotten purse; she never returned to class. Seven weeks later, after an intensive search, her partially [[mummification|mummified]] remains were found in a pig farrowing shed near [[Suwannee River State Park]], {{convert|35|mi}} northwest of Lake City.<ref name="FL-HighwayPatrol" />{{sfn|Rule|1989|pp=324–325}} Forensic experts surmised that Leach had been raped before having her throat cut and her genitals mutilated with a knife.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=262, 304–305}}{{sfn|Dekle|2011|p=75, 195}}

On February 12, with insufficient cash to pay his overdue rent and a growing suspicion that police were closing in on him,{{sfn|Winn|Merrill|1980|pp=245–246}} Bundy stole a car and fled Tallahassee, driving westward across the [[Florida Panhandle]]. Three days later, at around 1:00&nbsp;a.m., he was stopped by [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]] police officer David Lee near the [[Alabama]] state line after a "wants and warrants" check showed his Volkswagen Beetle was stolen.<ref name="pensacolapolice" /> When told he was under arrest, Bundy kicked Lee's legs out from under him and took off running. Lee fired two warning shots, then gave chase and tackled him. The two struggled over Lee's gun before the officer finally subdued and arrested Bundy.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=366}} In the stolen vehicle were three sets of IDs belonging to female FSU students, 21 stolen credit cards and a stolen television set.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=367}} Also found were a pair of dark-rimmed non-prescription glasses and a pair of plaid slacks, later identified as the disguise worn by "Richard Burton, Fire Department" in Jacksonville.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=398}} As Lee transported his suspect to jail, unaware that he had just arrested one of the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives]], he heard Bundy say, "I wish you had killed me."{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=321–323}}

== Subsequent trials, marriage ==
[[File:TedBundyincustody.JPG|thumb|upright|alt=A smiling Bundy holds a sheaf of papers and enters a vehicle. He is escorted by two police officers.|Bundy departing a preliminary hearing, Miami, 1979]]
In May 1978, a Florida [[grand jury]] indicted Bundy on charges of [[Murder in United States law#Degrees|first-degree murder]], [[attempted murder|attempted first-degree murder]] and burglary for the Chi Omega killings and assaults. He stood trial in June 1979 in the [[Circuit court (Florida)|Florida Circuit Court]] for [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Dade County]], with judge [[Edward Cowart]] presiding.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=274}} The trial was covered by 250 reporters from five continents and was the first to be televised nationally in the United States.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=10}} Despite the presence of five [[court-appointed attorney]]s, Bundy again handled much of his own [[defense (law)|defense]]. From the beginning, he "sabotaged the entire defense effort out of spite, distrust, and grandiose delusion", Nelson later wrote. "Ted [was] facing murder charges, with a possible [[Capital punishment in Florida|death sentence]], and all that mattered to him apparently was that he be in charge."{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=87, 91}}

According to Mike Minerva, a Tallahassee public defender and member of the defense team, a pre-trial [[plea bargain]] was negotiated in which Bundy would plead guilty to killing Levy, Bowman and Leach in exchange for a firm 75-year prison sentence. Prosecutors were amenable to a deal, by one account, because "prospects of losing at trial were very good".{{sfn|Dekle|2011|p=124}} Bundy, on the other hand, saw the plea bargain not only as a means of avoiding the death penalty, but also as a "tactical move": he could enter his plea, then wait a few years for evidence to disintegrate or become lost and for witnesses to die, move on or retract their testimony. Once the case against him had deteriorated beyond repair, he could file a post-conviction motion to set aside the plea and secure an acquittal.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=271–272; attorney Millard Farmer devised this strategy as a means of "selling" Bundy on the plea deal, according to this account}}{{sfn|Dekle|2011|p=125}} At the last minute, however, Bundy refused the deal. "It made him realize he was going to have to stand up in front of the whole world and say he was guilty", Minerva said. "He just couldn't do it."<ref name="Word1999-01-24" />

[[File:Dental evidence ted bundy.jpeg|thumb|upright|left|alt=Souviron is seen in the courtroom. Several enlargements of dental x-rays have been pinned up, and he is holding one in his hand.|Odontologist Richard Souviron explaining bite mark evidence at the Chi Omega trial in May 1979.]]
At trial, crucial testimony came from Chi Omega sorority members Connie Hastings, who placed Bundy in the vicinity of the sorority house that evening,{{sfn|Dekle|2011|pp=154–155}} and Nita Neary, who saw him leaving the house clutching the murder weapon.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=227, 283}}<ref name="St.Petersburg1" /> Incriminating physical evidence included impressions of the bite wounds Bundy had inflicted on Levy's left buttock, which forensic [[odontologist]]s Richard Souviron and Lowell Levine matched to [[casting]]s of Bundy's teeth.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=230, 283–285}}{{sfn|Dekle|2011|p=156}} The jury was also allowed to hear details of DaRonch's previous kidnapping, and finally deliberated for less than seven hours before convicting Bundy on July 24, 1979, of the Bowman and Levy murders, three counts of attempted first-degree murder for the assaults on Kleiner, Chandler and Thomas and two counts of burglary. Trial judge Edward Cowart imposed death sentences for the murder convictions.<ref>
{{cite web |date=May 9, 1985 |title=Bundy v. State of Florida |url=http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/59128/op-59128.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916105323/http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/59128/op-59128.pdf |archive-date=September 16, 2012 |access-date=May 23, 2022 |website=Florida State University College of Law}}
</ref><ref>
[http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/808/808.F2d.1410.86-5509.html Bundy v. Wainwright, 808 F.2d 1410 (Fla. 1987)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407031445/http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/808/808.F2d.1410.86-5509.html |date=April 7, 2012 }} . Retrieved July 21, 2011.
</ref> Bundy appealed his conviction and death sentence to the [[Supreme Court of Florida]], but it affirmed them.

Six months later, a second trial took place in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] for the abduction and murder of Leach.<ref name="Bell-KimberlyLeach" /> Bundy was found guilty once again, after less than eight hours' deliberation, due principally to the testimony of an eyewitness who saw him leading Leach from the schoolyard to his stolen van.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=303}} Important material evidence included clothing fibers with an unusual manufacturing error, found in the van and on Leach's body, which matched fibers from the jacket Bundy was wearing when he was arrested.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=306–107}}

During the [[penalty phase]] of the Leach trial, Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law providing that a marriage declaration in court, in the presence of a judge, constituted a legal marriage. As he was questioning Boone—who had moved to Florida to be near Bundy, had testified on his behalf during both trials and was again testifying on his behalf as a character witness—he asked her to marry him. She accepted, and Bundy declared to the court that they were legally married.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=308–310}}<ref name="AP1981-09-30wife-pregnant" />

On February 10, 1980, Bundy was sentenced for a third time to death.<ref>
Hagood, Dick (February 10, 1980). "Bundy Jury: Death" [http://search.jacksonville.com/ ''Florida Times Union'' archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628211058/http://search.jacksonville.com/ |date=June 28, 2010 }}. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
</ref> As the sentence was announced, he reportedly stood and shouted, "Tell the jury they were wrong!"{{sfn|Foreman|1992|p=42}} This third death sentence would be the one ultimately carried out nearly nine years later. Only Louise would appear before the court to beg for mercy.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=7}} On October 24, 1981, Boone gave birth to a daughter, Rose Bundy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/01/24/courtroom-wife-fades-out-of-sight-not-a-recent-visitor/|title=Courtroom Wife Fades Out of Sight, Not A Recent Visitor|first=Bob|last=Levenson|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=January 24, 1989|access-date=January 25, 2019|archive-date=March 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307011311/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-01-24/news/8901240571_1_bundy-boone-marry|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=xxxiv}}{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=56}} While [[conjugal visit]]s were not allowed at the [[Florida State Prison]] in [[Raiford, Florida|Raiford]], where Bundy was incarcerated, inmates were known to pool their money in order to [[bribery|bribe]] guards to allow them intimate time alone with their female visitors.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=xxxiv}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=272; Bundy, Boone and a prison guard all told this source that the couple "took advantage on at least one visit together to consummate their relationship"}}

== Death row, confessions and execution ==
Shortly after the conclusion of the Leach trial and the beginning of the long [[appeal]]s process that followed, Bundy initiated a series of interviews with Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. Speaking mostly in [[third person (grammar)|third person]] to avoid "the stigma of confession", he began for the first time to divulge details of his crimes and thought processes.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=15–17}} Bundy recounted his career as a thief, confirming Kloepfer's long-time suspicion that he had shoplifted virtually everything of substance that he owned.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=37–39}} "The big payoff for me", he said, "was actually possessing whatever it was I had stolen. I really enjoyed having something ... that I had wanted and gone out and taken." Possession proved to be an important motive for rape and murder as well.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=41}} Sexual assault, he said, fulfilled his need to "totally possess" his victims.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=102–114}} At first, Bundy killed his victims "as a matter of expediency ... to eliminate the possibility of [being] caught"; but later, murder became part of the "adventure". "The ultimate possession was, in fact, the taking of the life", he said. "And then ... the physical possession of the remains."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=124–126}}

Bundy also confided in Special Agent William Hagmaier of the FBI [[Behavioral Analysis Unit]]. Hagmaier was struck by the "deep, almost mystical satisfaction" that Bundy took in murder. "He said that after a while, murder is not just a crime of lust or violence", Hagmaier related. "It becomes possession. They are part of you ... [the victim] becomes a part of you, and you [two] are forever one ... and the grounds where you kill them or leave them become sacred to you, and you will always be drawn back to them." Bundy told Hagmaier that he considered himself to be an "amateur", an "impulsive" killer in his early years, before moving into what he termed his "prime" or "predator" phase at about the time of Healy's murder in 1974. This implied that he began killing well before 1974—although he never explicitly admitted having done so.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=380–396}}

[[File:TedBundy1980MughsotFull.jpg|thumb|alt=An unsmiling Bundy faces the camera.|upright=0.8 |Bundy mugshot after his sentencing for the murder of Leach, February 1980]]
In July 1984, prison guards found two [[hacksaw]] blades hidden in Bundy's cell. A steel bar in one of the cell's windows had been sawed completely through at the top and bottom and glued back into place with a homemade soap-based adhesive.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=528}}<ref name="DN-trials" /> Several months later, Bundy was moved to a different cell after guards found an unauthorized mirror.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=532}} Shortly thereafter, he was charged with a disciplinary infraction for unauthorized correspondence with another high-profile criminal, [[John Hinckley Jr.]]{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=155–156}}

In October 1984, Bundy contacted Keppel and offered to share his self-proclaimed expertise in serial killer psychology{{sfn|Rule|2009|p = 532}} in the ongoing hunt in Washington for the "Green River Killer", later identified as [[Gary Ridgway]].{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p = 176}} Keppel and Green River Task Force Detective [[Dave Reichert]] interviewed Bundy, but Ridgway remained at large for a further seventeen years.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp = 33, 101, 135}} Keppel published a detailed documentation of the Green River interviews,{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=26; Bundy coined the nickname "The Riverman", which was later used for the title of Keppel's book, ''The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer''.}} and later collaborated with Michaud on another examination of the interview material.{{sfn|Keppel|Michaud|2011|loc = Kindle location 1690}}<ref>{{Cite news |first=Peyton |last=Whitely |title=Ted Bundy Helped Green River Investigation Detective Says Bundy Met With King County Officials Probing Killings |newspaper=[[The Spokesman-Review]] |location=Spokane, Washington|date=August 7, 1995|access-date=May 8, 2018 |url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/aug/07/ted-bundy-helped-green-river-investigation/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508185246/http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/aug/07/ted-bundy-helped-green-river-investigation/ |archive-date=May 8, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

In early 1986, an execution date (March 4) was set on the Chi Omega convictions; the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] issued a brief [[stay of execution|stay]], but the execution was quickly rescheduled.{{sfn|Mello|1997|pp=103–104}} In April, shortly after the new date (July 2) was announced, Bundy finally confessed to Hagmaier and Nelson what they believed was the full range of his depredations, including details of what he did to some of his victims after their deaths. He told them that he revisited Taylor Mountain, Issaquah and other secondary crime scenes, often several times, to lie with his victims and [[necrophilia|perform sexual acts with their bodies]] until [[putrefaction]] forced him to stop. In some cases, he drove for several hours each way and remained the entire night.{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7431–98}} In Utah, he applied makeup to Smith's lifeless face and repeatedly washed Aime's hair. "If you've got time", he told Hagmaier, "they can be anything you want them to be".{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=334–335}} Bundy [[decapitation|decapitated]] approximately twelve of his victims with a hacksaw,<ref name="timeline"/>{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=339}} and kept at least one group of severed heads—probably the four later found on Taylor Mountain (Rancourt, Parks, Ball and Healy)—in his apartment for a period of time before disposing of them.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=378, 393}}

Less than 15 hours before the scheduled July 2 execution, the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit]] stayed it indefinitely and [[Remand (court procedure)|remand]]ed the Chi Omega case back to the Southern District of Florida due to legal issues, including Bundy's mental competency to stand trial and an erroneous instruction by the trial judge during the penalty phase requiring the jury to break a 6–6 tie between [[life imprisonment]] and the death penalty{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=111}}—which, ultimately, were never resolved.<ref name="findlaw">{{cite court|litigants=Bundy v. Wainwright|vol=794 F.2d|court=US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit|date=July 2, 1986|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/808/1410/173788/|access-date=October 11, 2018|quote=The judgment of the district court is REVERSED and the case REMANDED to that court for proper consideration.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012054156/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/808/1410/173788/|url-status=live}}</ref> A new date (November 18) was then set to carry out the Leach sentence; the Eleventh Circuit Court issued a stay on November 17.<ref name="findlaw"/> In mid-1988, the Eleventh Circuit ruled against Bundy, and in December the Supreme Court denied a motion to review the ruling over the dissents of Justices [[Thurgood Marshall]] and [[William J. Brennan Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Bundy v. Florida |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/479/894/ |website=Justia |access-date=August 9, 2022 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723043918/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/479/894/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Within hours of that final denial, a firm execution date of January 24, 1989, was announced.{{sfn|Mello|1997|pp=103–106}} Bundy's journey through the appeals courts had been unusually rapid for a capital murder case: "Contrary to popular belief, the courts moved Bundy as fast as they could ... Even the prosecutors acknowledged that Bundy's lawyers never employed delaying tactics. Though people everywhere seethed at the apparent delay in executing the archdemon, Ted Bundy was actually on the fast track."{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|p=297}}

With all appeal avenues exhausted and no further motivation to deny his crimes, Bundy agreed to speak frankly with investigators. He confessed to Keppel that he had committed all eight of the Washington and Oregon homicides for which he was the [[prime suspect]]. He described three additional previously unknown victims in Washington and two in Oregon whom he declined to identify if indeed he ever knew their identities.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=337}} He said he left a fifth corpse—Manson's—on Taylor Mountain,{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=516}} but incinerated her head in Kloepfer's fireplace.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=395}} "He described the Issaquah crime scene [where the bones of Ott, Naslund and Hawkins were found], and it was almost like he was just there", Keppel said. "Like he was seeing everything. He was infatuated with the idea because he spent so much time there. He is just totally consumed with murder all the time."{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=519}} Nelson's impressions were similar: "It was the absolute [[misogyny]] of his crimes that stunned me", she wrote, "his manifest rage against women. He had no compassion at all ... he was totally engrossed in the details. His murders were his life's accomplishments."{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=258}}

Bundy confessed to detectives from Idaho, Utah and Colorado that he had committed numerous additional homicides, including several that were unknown to the police. He explained that when he was in Utah he could bring his victims back to his apartment, "where he could reenact scenarios depicted on the covers of detective magazines".<ref name="timeline"/> A new ulterior strategy quickly became apparent: he withheld many details, hoping to [[parlay (gambling)|parlay]] the incomplete information into yet another stay of execution. Despite warnings from his appellate attorneys that "the spectacle of peddling information for time would turn the courts against [Bundy]", Bundy began offering investigators piecemeal information regarding some of his murders. "There are other buried remains in Colorado", he admitted, but he refused to elaborate.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1989-01-29 |title=Speculation, controversy still surround Bundy |url=https://www.deseret.com/1989/1/29/18793107/speculation-controversy-still-surround-bundy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241002103021/https://www.deseret.com/1989/1/29/18793107/speculation-controversy-still-surround-bundy/ |archive-date=2024-10-02 |access-date=2024-10-02 |work=[[Deseret News]]}}</ref>{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7600–05}} The new strategy—immediately dubbed "Ted's bones-for-time scheme"—served only to deepen the resolve of authorities to see Bundy executed on schedule and yielded little new detailed information.{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|pp=352–358}} In cases where he did give details, nothing was found.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=363}} Colorado Detective Matt Lindvall interpreted this as a conflict between his desire to postpone his execution by divulging information and his need to remain in "total possession—the only person who knew his victims' true resting places".{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7550–58}}

When it became clear that no further stays would be forthcoming from the courts, Bundy supporters began lobbying for the only remaining option, [[clemency|executive clemency]]. Diana Weiner, a young Florida attorney and Bundy's last purported love interest,{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=136–137, 255, 302–304}} asked the families of several Colorado and Utah victims to petition [[Governor of Florida|Florida Governor]] [[Bob Martinez]] for a postponement to give Bundy time to reveal more information.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=264}} All refused.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=518}} "The families already believed that the victims were dead and that Ted had killed them", wrote Nelson. "They didn't need his confession."{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=256}} Martinez made it clear that he would not agree to further delays in any case. "We are not going to have the system manipulated", he told reporters. "For him to be negotiating for his life over the bodies of victims is despicable."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=335–336}}

Boone had championed Bundy's innocence throughout all of his trials and felt "deeply betrayed" by his admission that he was, in fact, guilty. She moved back to Washington with her daughter and refused to accept his phone call on the morning of his execution. "She was hurt by his relationship with Diana [Weiner]", Nelson wrote, "and devastated by his sudden wholesale confessions in his last days".{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=271, 303}} Hagmaier was present during Bundy's final interviews with investigators. On the eve of his execution, he talked of [[suicide]]. "He did not want to give the state the satisfaction of watching him die", Hagmaier said.<ref name="Word1999-01-24" />

Bundy rejected his [[last meal|last meal]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gq.com.mx/entretenimiento/articulo/ted-bundy-quien-es-historia-real-y-perfil-psicologico-del-asesino-en-serie | title=Ted Bundy: La historia que no conocías del famoso asesino | date=April 6, 2020 }}</ref> and was executed in the Raiford [[electric chair]] at 7:16&nbsp;a.m. [[Eastern Standard Time (North America)|EST]] on Tuesday, January 24, 1989. His [[last words]] were directed at his attorney Jim Coleman and Methodist minister Fred Lawrence: "Jim and Fred, I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends."<ref>{{cite web|title=These Were The Last Words Ted Bundy Ever Spoke|website=[[Grunge.com]]|date=August 23, 2021|access-date=January 14, 2022|url=https://www.grunge.com/495088/these-were-the-last-words-ted-bundy-ever-spoke/|archive-date=June 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628211849/https://www.grunge.com/495088/these-were-the-last-words-ted-bundy-ever-spoke/|url-status=live}}</ref> A few hours prior to his execution, Bundy was allowed to make two phone calls to his mother, during which he apologized to her, stating: "I'm so sorry I've given you all such grief, but a part of me was hidden all the time."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bearak |first=Barry |date=1989-01-25 |title=Bundy Is Electrocuted as Crowd of 500 Cheers |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-25-mn-992-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=244}} Hundreds of revelers sang, danced, and set off fireworks in a pasture across from the prison as the execution was carried out,<ref name="Sentinel"/><ref name="2,000 Cheer"/> then cheered as the white [[hearse]] containing Bundy's corpse departed the prison.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=311–321}} He was cremated in [[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]],{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=323}} and his ashes were scattered at an undisclosed location in the [[Cascade Range]] of Washington State, in accordance with his [[will (law)|will]].<ref name="Bundy'sWill"/>{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=xxxvi–xxxvii}}

== ''Modus operandi'' and victim profiles ==
Bundy was an unusually organized and calculating criminal who used his extensive knowledge of law enforcement methodologies to elude identification and capture for years.{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|pp=283–285}} His crime scenes were distributed over large geographic areas; his victim count had risen to at least 20 before it became clear that numerous investigators in widely disparate [[jurisdiction]]s were hunting the same man.{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|p=285}} Bundy's assault methods of choice were blunt trauma and strangulation, two relatively silent techniques that could be accomplished with common household items.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=30}} He deliberately avoided firearms due to the noise they made and the [[ballistics|ballistic]] evidence they left behind.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=111}} He was a "meticulous researcher" who explored his surroundings in minute detail, looking for safe sites to seize and dispose of victims.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=257}} He was unusually skilled at minimizing physical evidence.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=87}} Bundy's fingerprints were never found at a crime scene, nor any other incontrovertible evidence of his guilt, a fact he repeated often during the years in which he attempted to maintain his innocence.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=16}}

[[File:Ted Bundy in court.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Bundy is seen from the side. He is wearing a tweed jacket and has his hand positioned near his chin.|Bundy in a Miami courtroom in 1979]]
Other significant obstacles for law enforcement were Bundy's generic, essentially anonymous physical features,{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=80}} and a curious [[chameleon]]-like ability to change his appearance.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=159}} Early on, police complained of the futility of showing his photograph to witnesses; he looked different in virtually every photo ever taken of him.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=vii}} In person, "his expression would so change his whole appearance that there were moments that you weren't even sure you were looking at the same person", said Stewart Hanson Jr., the judge in the DaRonch trial. "He [was] really a changeling."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=176}} Bundy was well aware of this unusual quality and he exploited it, using subtle modifications of facial hair or hairstyle to significantly alter his appearance as necessary.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=73}} He concealed his one distinctive identifying mark, a dark mole on his neck, with turtleneck shirts and sweaters.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=241}} Even his Volkswagen Beetle proved difficult to pin down; its color was variously described by witnesses as metallic or non-metallic, tan or bronze, light brown or dark brown.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=172}}

Bundy's ''[[modus operandi]]'' evolved in organization and sophistication over time, as is typical of serial killers, according to FBI experts.<ref name="timeline"/> Early on, it consisted of forcible late-night entry followed by a violent attack with a blunt weapon on a sleeping victim.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=14–16}} As his methodology evolved, he became progressively more organized in his choice of victims and crime scenes. He would employ various ruses designed to lure his victim to the vicinity of his vehicle where he had pre-positioned a weapon, usually a crowbar. In many cases he wore a plaster cast on one leg or a sling on one arm, and sometimes hobbled on crutches, then requested assistance in carrying something to his vehicle. Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic, traits he exploited to win the confidence of his victims and the people around him in his daily life.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=3–6}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=12}}<ref name="Time25crimes" /> "Ted lured females", Michaud wrote, "the way a lifeless silk flower can dupe a honey bee".{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=14}} He would sometimes approach females pretending to be an authority figure or firefighter.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|pp=101–102, 211}}

Once Bundy had victims near or inside his vehicle, he would overpower and bludgeon them, and then restrain them with handcuffs. He would then transport them to a pre-selected secondary site, often a considerable distance away, and rape them during [[ligature strangulation]].<ref name="timeline"/>{{sfn|Geberth|2015|p=991}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=12–13}} In the case of his Utah victims, the secondary site would be his apartment building.<ref name="timeline"/> Toward the end of his spree, in Florida, perhaps under the stress of being a fugitive, he regressed to indiscriminate attacks on sleeping women.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=12–13}} While he is often said to have been a torturer, and biographer Ann Rule in particular regarded him as a "sadistic sociopath" who took pleasure in human suffering,{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=xiv}} Bundy disputed these claims in one of his conversations with Michaud, insisting that he never deliberately tortured any of those he killed and that the murders had no sadistic focus on enjoyment derived from the infliction of pain and injury. To the contrary, he claimed that he went out of his way to mitigate his victims' physical torment.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=83–84}} Though he also told Hagmaier that he would pose his victims to recreate detective magazine covers.<ref name="timeline"/>{{sfn|Geberth|2015|p=991}}

At secondary sites Bundy would remove and later burn the victim's clothing,{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=196}} or in at least one case (Cunningham's) deposit them in a [[Goodwill Industries]] collection bin.{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7481}} He explained that the clothing removal was ritualistic, but also a practical matter, as it minimized the chance of leaving trace evidence at the crime scene that could implicate him.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=196}} A manufacturing error in fibers from his own clothing, ironically, provided a crucial incriminating link to the Leach killing.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=279}} He often revisited his secondary crime scenes to engage in acts of necrophilia,{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=334}} and to groom or dress up the cadavers.{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7583–91, 7655}} Some victims were found wearing articles of clothing they had never worn, or nail polish that family members had never seen.<ref name="Mystique" /> Bundy took Polaroid photos of many of his victims. "When you work hard to do something right", he told Hagmaier, "you don't want to forget it".{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=334–335}} Consumption of large quantities of alcohol was an "essential component", he told both Keppel and Michaud; he needed to be "extremely drunk" while on the prowl{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=379}}{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7046}} in order to "significantly diminish" his inhibitions and to "sedate" the "dominant personality" that he feared might prevent his inner "entity" from acting on his impulses.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=76–77}}

All of Bundy's known victims were white females, most of middle-class backgrounds. Almost all were between the ages of 15 and 25 and most were college students. He apparently never approached anyone he might have met before.{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|pp=283–285}} In their last conversation before his execution, Bundy told Kloepfer he had purposely stayed away from her "when he felt the power of his sickness building in him".{{sfn|Kendall|1981|p=182}} Rule noted that most of the identified victims had long straight hair, parted in the middle—like Edwards, the woman who rejected him, and to whom he later became engaged and then rejected in return. Rule speculated that Bundy's animosity toward his first girlfriend triggered his protracted rampage and caused him to target victims who resembled her.{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=431–432}} Bundy dismissed this hypothesis: "[T]hey ... just fit the general criteria of being young and attractive", he told Aynesworth. "Too many people have bought this crap that all the girls were similar ... [but] almost everything was dissimilar ... physically, they were almost all different."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=156}} He did concede that youth and beauty were "absolutely indispensable criteria" in his choice of victims.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=85}}

After Bundy's execution, Rule was surprised and troubled to hear from numerous "sensitive, intelligent, kind young women" who wrote or called to say they were deeply depressed because Bundy was dead. Many had corresponded with him, "each believing that she was his only one". Several said they suffered [[major depressive episode|nervous breakdown]]s when he died. "Even in death, Ted damaged women", Rule wrote. "To get well, they must realize that they were conned by the master con-man. They are grieving for a shadow man that never existed."{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=612–613}}

== Pathology ==
Bundy underwent multiple psychiatric examinations; the experts' conclusions varied. [[Dorothy Otnow Lewis]], a professor of psychiatry at the [[New York University School of Medicine]] and an authority on violent behavior, initially made a diagnosis of [[bipolar disorder]],{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=152}} but later changed her impression more than once.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=xiv}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=331}} She also suggested the possibility of a [[dissociative identity disorder|multiple personality disorder]], based on behaviors described in interviews and court testimony; a great-aunt witnessed an episode during which Bundy "seemed to turn into another, unrecognizable person&nbsp;... [she] suddenly, inexplicably found herself afraid of her favorite nephew as they waited together at a dusk-darkened train station. He had turned into a stranger."{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=154}} Lewis recounted a prison official in Tallahassee describing a similar transformation: "He said, 'He became weird on me.' He did a metamorphosis, a body and facial change, and he felt there was almost an odor emitting from him. He said, 'Almost a complete change of personality&nbsp;... that was the day I was afraid of him.{{' "}}{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=231–232}}

While experts found Bundy's precise diagnosis elusive, the majority of evidence pointed away from bipolar disorder or other [[Psychosis|psychoses]],<ref name="Mack1999" /> and toward [[antisocial personality disorder]] (ASPD).{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=13}} Bundy displayed many personality traits typically found in ASPD patients, such as outward charm and charisma with little true personality or genuine insight beneath the facade;<ref name="Long" /> the ability to distinguish right from wrong, but with minimal effect on behavior;<ref name="LilienfeldArkowitz2007-11-28" /><ref>"[Ted knew the difference] between right and wrong, but it didn't matter, because ''he'' was special, and ''he'' deserved to have and do what he wanted. ''He'' was the center of the world; we were all paper-doll figures who didn't matter." {{harvnb|Rule|2009|pp=611–612}}</ref> and an absence of guilt or remorse.<ref name="Long" /> "Guilt doesn't solve anything, really", Bundy said in 1981. "It hurts you ... I guess I am in the enviable position of not having to deal with guilt."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth |1989|p=281}} There was also evidence of [[narcissism]], poor judgment and manipulative behavior. Upon assessment using the [[Psychopathy Checklist|Psychopathy Checklist–revised]] (PCL-R), Bundy was reportedly evaluated as 39/40.<ref name="next_door">{{Cite episode |title=The Psychopath Next Door |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2618078499 |series=Doc Zone |series-link=Doc Zone |network=[[CBC Television]] |station=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=November 27, 2014 |season=2014–15 |number=7 |minutes=3 |access-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502231627/https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2618078499 |url-status=live }}</ref> Prosecutor [[George R. Dekle Sr.|George Dekle]] wrote, "Sociopaths are egotistical manipulators who think they can con anybody."{{sfn|Dekle|2011|p=131}} "Sometimes he manipulates even me", admitted one psychiatrist.{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|p=288}} In the end, Lewis agreed with the majority: "I always tell my graduate students that if they can find me a real, true psychopath, I'll buy them dinner", she told Nelson. "I never thought they existed ... but I think Ted may have been one, a true psychopath, without any remorse or empathy at all."{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=316}} [[Narcissistic personality disorder]] (NPD) and its subtype [[malignant narcissism]] have both been proposed as alternative diagnoses in at least one subsequent retrospective analysis.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Douglas B.|last1=Samuel|first2=Thomas A.|last2=Widiger|title=Describing Ted Bundy's Personality and Working towards DSM-V|journal=Independent Practitioner|publisher=Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky|location=Lexington, Kentucky|date=2007|volume=27|issue=1|pages=20–22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Griffith |first=Kaitlyn |title=You Might Think This Article Is About You: A Neurological Overview of Narcissistic Personality Disorder |url=https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=skneuro |journal=The Scientific Kenyon|volume=5|date=December 2021|access-date=1 April 2024 |archive-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203231315/https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=skneuro |url-status=live }}</ref>

On the afternoon before he was executed, Bundy granted a videotaped interview to [[James Dobson]], a psychologist and founder of the [[Evangelicalism|Christian evangelical]] organization [[Focus on the Family]].<ref name="BundyDobsonInterview" /> He used the opportunity to make new claims about violence in the media and the [[pornography|pornographic]] "roots" of his crimes. "It happened in stages, gradually", he said. "My experience with ... pornography that deals on a violent level with sexuality, is once you become addicted to it ... I would keep looking for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of material. Until you reach a point where the pornography only goes so far ... where you begin to wonder if maybe actually doing it would give that which is beyond just reading it or looking at it."<ref name="Shapiro2005" /> Violence in the media, he said, "particularly sexualized violence", sent boys "down the road to being Ted Bundys".<ref name="Meyers" /> The FBI, he suggested, should stake out adult movie houses and follow patrons as they leave.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=319}} "You are going to kill me", he said, "and that will protect society from me. But out there are many, many more people who are addicted to pornography, and you are doing nothing about that."<ref name="Meyers" />

While Nelson was apparently convinced that Bundy's concern was genuine,{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=319}} most biographers,{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=320}}{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=611}}{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=401–402}} researchers,<ref>{{cite web|first=P.|last=Hyatt|title=Ted Bundy's Final Interview|url=http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/2012/10/statement-analysis-ted-bundys-final.html|website=Statement Analysis|publisher=[[Blogspot.com]]|date=October 3, 2012|access-date=June 18, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907141045/http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/2012/10/statement-analysis-ted-bundys-final.html |archive-date=September 7, 2013}}</ref> and other observers<ref name="Goldstein" /> have concluded that his sudden condemnation of pornography was one last manipulative attempt to shift blame by catering to Dobson's agenda as a longtime pornography critic.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=318}} He told Dobson that "true crime" detective magazines had "corrupted" him and "fueled [his] fantasies ... to the point of becoming a serial killer"; yet in a 1977 letter to Rule, he wrote, "Who in the world reads these publications? ... I have never purchased such a magazine, and [on only] two or three occasions have I ever picked one up."{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=611–412}} He told Michaud and Aynsworth in 1980, and Hagmaier the night before he spoke to Dobson, that pornography played a negligible role in his development as a serial killer.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=340}} "The problem wasn't pornography", wrote Dekle. "The problem was Bundy."{{sfn|Dekle|2011|p=219}} "I wish I could believe that his motives were [[altruism|altruistic]]", wrote Rule. "But all I can see in that Dobson tape is another Ted Bundy manipulation of our minds. The effect of the tape is to place, once again, the onus of his crimes, not on himself, but on us."{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=611}}

[[File:Bundy & Hagmaier.jpg|thumb|right|Hagmaier and Bundy during their final death row interview on the eve of Bundy's execution, January 23, 1989]]
Rule and Aynesworth both noted that for Bundy, the fault always lay with someone or something else. While he eventually confessed to 30 murders, he never accepted responsibility for any of them, even when offered that opportunity prior to the Chi Omega trial, which would have spared him the death penalty.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=603–604}} He deflected blame onto a wide variety of [[scapegoat]]s, including his abusive grandfather, the absence of his biological father, the concealment of his true parentage by his mother, alcohol, the media, the police whom he accused of planting evidence, society in general, violence on television and, ultimately, true crime periodicals and pornography.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=216–222, 250}} He blamed television programming, which he watched mostly on sets that he had stolen, for "brainwashing" him into stealing credit cards.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=404}} On at least one occasion, he even tried to [[Victim blaming|blame his victims]]: "I have known people who ... radiate vulnerability", he wrote in a 1977 letter to Kloepfer. "Their facial expressions say 'I am afraid of you.' These people invite abuse ... By expecting to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it?"{{sfn|Kendall|1981|p=167}} Another significant element of [[delusion]] permeated Bundy's thinking:

<blockquote>"Bundy was always surprised when anyone noticed that one of his victims was missing, because he imagined America to be a place where everyone is invisible except to themselves. And he was always astounded when people testified that they had seen him in incriminating places, because Bundy did not believe people noticed each other."{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|pp=288–289}}</blockquote>

"I don't know why everyone is out to get me", Bundy complained to Lewis. "He really and truly did not have any sense of the enormity of what he had done", she said.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=340}} "A long-term serial killer erects powerful barriers to his guilt", Keppel wrote, "walls of denial that can sometimes never be breached".{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=xi}} Nelson agreed. "Each time he was forced to make an actual confession", she wrote, "he had to leap a steep barrier he had built inside himself long ago".{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=280}}

== Victims ==

=== Confirmed ===
The night before his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 homicides, but the true total remains unknown and Bundy occasionally made cryptic comments to encourage speculation.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=257}} He told Aynesworth in 1980 that for every murder "publicized", there "could be one that was not".{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=199}} When FBI agents proposed a total tally of 36, Bundy responded, "Add one digit to that, and you'll have it."{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=335}} Years later he told Nelson that the common estimate of 35 was accurate,{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=257}} but Keppel wrote that "[Ted] and I both knew [the total] was much higher."{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=399–400}} In an interview, Keppel stated his belief that Bundy had killed "at least 50, and maybe 75".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftuqYh_SvPI|title=Ted Bundy Lynnette Culver/ 1989 Hardcopy|website=[[YouTube]]|date=June 28, 2020 |access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=May 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523005828/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftuqYh_SvPI|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[John Henry Browne]], a lawyer for Bundy, would later claim "that the first person he killed was a young boy when they were playing some kind of sex game in the woods. And so he must have been only 12, 13, 14."<ref>{{cite web|first=John|last=Thrasher|url=https://www.oxygen.com/ted-bundy-in-defense-of/crime-time/ted-bundy-admitted-to-his-lawyer-that-he-killed-a-12-year-old-boy|title=Ted Bundy Admitted To His Lawyer That He Killed A Young Boy In The Woods|website=[[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]]|date=July 16, 2018|access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=August 13, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813121704/https://www.oxygen.com/ted-bundy-in-defense-of/crime-time/ted-bundy-admitted-to-his-lawyer-that-he-killed-a-12-year-old-boy|url-status=live}}</ref> Browne also said that "Ted told me in that interview that he killed over 100 people."<ref>{{cite news|first=C.R.|last=Douglas|title=Ted Bundy's lawyer: Bundy killed more than 100 women – and a man |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-23/news/kcpq-bundys-lawyer-he-killed-over-100-women—and-a-man-20120523_1_ted-bundy-serial-killers-murder|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=May 23, 2012|access-date=November 11, 2013|page=Q3|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20131110140852/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-23/news/kcpq-bundys-lawyer-he-killed-over-100-women—and-a-man-20120523_1_ted-bundy-serial-killers-murder |archive-date=November 10, 2013}}</ref> "I told Ted Bundy that we now have the evidence to charge him with both cases", [[Leon County, Florida|Leon County]] Sheriff Kenneth Katsaris recalled, referring to the Chi Omega murders and the slaying of Leach. "He looked at me and said, 'When you find the person that committed these crimes that you think I committed, that person is going to be wanted for murders of women in the three digits in six states.'"<ref>{{cite web|first=Jill|last=Sederstrom|url=https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/debra-kent-victim-ted-bundy-admitted-taking-back-to-his-home|title=Who Was The Victim That Ted Bundy Admitted Taking Back To His Home?|website=[[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]]|date=August 19, 2019|access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815071331/https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/debra-kent-victim-ted-bundy-admitted-taking-back-to-his-home|url-status=live}}</ref> "I don't think even he knew ... how many he killed, or why he killed them", said Reverend Fred Lawrence, the Methodist clergyman who administered Bundy's [[last rites]]. "That was my impression, my strong impression."{{sfn|Von Drehle|1995|p=363}}

On the evening before his execution, Bundy reviewed his victim tally with Hagmaier on a state-by-state basis for a total of 30 homicides:{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=339}}
* in Washington, 11 (including Parks, abducted in Oregon but killed in Washington; and including 3 unidentified)
* in Utah, 8 (3 unidentified)
* in Colorado, 3
* in Florida, 3
* in Oregon, 2 (both unidentified)
* in Idaho, 2 (1 unidentified)
* in California, 1 (unidentified)

=== 1974 ===
==== Washington, Oregon ====
* January 4: ''Karen Sparks'' (18) – Bludgeoned and sexually assaulted in her bed as she slept in the University District of Seattle;{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=28}} survived but the extent of her injuries resulted in permanent brain damage.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=14}}{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=57}}
* February 1: ''Lynda Ann Healy'' (21) – Bludgeoned while asleep and abducted from her basement bedroom in Seattle and was then decapitated and dismembered post-mortem;{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=60–62}} mandible recovered at Taylor Mountain site in 1975.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=25–30}}
* March 12: ''Donna Gail Manson'' (19) – Abducted while walking to a concert at Evergreen State College; body left according to Bundy at Taylor Mountain site, but never found.{{sfn|Rule|2000|p=516}} However, there is speculation that the partial remains of an unidentified female discovered near [[Eatonville, Washington]], on August 29, 1978, could have belonged to Manson. Remains and clothing were reportedly destroyed on May 10, 1985, before a positive forensic identification could be made.<ref>{{cite web|title=917UFWA|url=https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/917ufwa.html|publisher=Doe Network|access-date=February 10, 2023|archive-date=February 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210122555/https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/917ufwa.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=UP5706|url=https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/5706|publisher=NamUs|access-date=February 10, 2023|archive-date=June 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609225342/https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/5706|url-status=live}}</ref>
* April 17: ''Susan Elaine Rancourt'' (18) – Disappeared after attending an evening advisors' meeting at Central Washington State College;{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=42–46}}{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=31–33}} skull and mandible recovered at Taylor Mountain site in 1975. Both had been severely fractured.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=25–30}}
* May 6: ''Roberta Kathleen Parks'' (22) – Vanished from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon; skull and mandible recovered at Taylor Mountain site in 1975. She had been bludgeoned to death.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=25–30}}
* June 1: ''Brenda Carol Ball'' (22) – Disappeared after leaving the Flame Tavern in Burien, and was last seen in the parking lot, talking to a man with his arm in a sling;{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=75–76}} skull and mandible recovered at Taylor Mountain site in 1975. Her skull had been fractured.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=25–30}}
* June 11: ''[[Murder of Georgann Hawkins|Georgann Hawkins]]'' (18){{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=37}} – Abducted from an alley behind her sorority house;{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=82}} skeletal remains identified by Bundy as those of Hawkins recovered at Issaquah site. Hawkins remains listed as a missing person.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=18}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Shearer|first1=Dan|title=Georgann Hawkins died at the hands of Ted Bundy, but that's not how her mom wants her remembered|url=http://www.gvnews.com/news/local/georgann-hawkins-died-at-the-hands-of-ted-bundy-but/article_f8cc5a4c-f103-11e3-8e31-0019bb2963f4.html|access-date=March 1, 2016|work=Green Valley News|date=June 11, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504144633/http://www.gvnews.com/news/local/georgann-hawkins-died-at-the-hands-of-ted-bundy-but/article_f8cc5a4c-f103-11e3-8e31-0019bb2963f4.html|archive-date=May 4, 2016}}</ref>
[[File:Georgann Hawkins Ted Bundy June 1974.png|thumb|upright|right|alt=A smiling young Caucasian woman with long hair parted in the center|Georgann Hawkins]]
* July 14: ''Janice Ann Ott'' (23) – Abducted from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight and was last seen leaving the park with Bundy who had asked her for assistance with putting his sailboat on his car;{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=3–6}} skeletal remains recovered at Issaquah site in 1974.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=8–15}}
* July 14: ''Denise Marie Naslund'' (19) – Abducted four hours after Ott from Lake Sammamish State Park and was last seen walking towards the restrooms;{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=99–101}} skeletal remains recovered at Issaquah site in 1974.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=8–15}}

==== Utah ====
* October 1: ''Nancy Wilcox'' (16) – Last seen leaving her home at 9:00 pm in Holladay, Utah, after getting into an argument with her father;{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=91}} body buried according to Bundy near Capitol Reef National Park, {{convert|200|mi}} south of Salt Lake City, but never found.<ref name="Psychics" />
* October 18: ''Melissa Anne Smith'' (17) – Vanished from Midvale, Utah, after leaving a pizza parlor to walk back to her home; body found nine days later on a hillside in Summit Park, Utah. Her head had been severely beaten with a crowbar, and her body had been battered before death.{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|p=96}}
* October 31: ''Laura Ann Aime'' (17) – Disappeared from Lehi, Utah, on her way home from a Halloween party; body discovered by hikers in American Fork Canyon. Her face was beaten beyond recognition, and she had been strangled and sexually assaulted.<ref name="Bell-KillingSpree" />
* November 8: ''Carol DaRonch'' (18) – Picked up from the Fashion Place shopping mall in Murray, Utah, lured by Bundy's guise of claiming to be a police officer investigating vehicle break-ins in the parking lot; she escaped by jumping out of Bundy's vehicle after he inadvertently fastened a pair of handcuffs on the same wrist.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=93–95}}
* November 8: ''Debra Jean Kent'' (17) – Vanished after leaving a school play in Bountiful, Utah; body left according to Bundy near [[Fairview, Utah|Fairview]], {{convert|100|mi}} south of Bountiful; one [[patella]] was found which was positively identified by DNA as Kent's in 2015.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Schulte2006" />

=== 1975 ===
==== Utah, Colorado, Idaho ====
* January 12: ''Caryn Eileen Campbell'' (23) – Disappeared from a hotel hallway in Snowmass Village, Colorado;{{sfn|Rule|1989|p=126}} body discovered on a dirt road near the hotel with skull fractures and knife wounds on February 17.{{sfn|Rule|2000|pp=132–136}}
* March 15: ''Julie Lyle Cunningham'' (26) – Disappeared from Vail, Colorado, after she left her apartment in the Apollo Park neighborhood to visit a local tavern;{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=402–407}} body buried according to Bundy near Rifle, {{convert|90|mi}} west of Vail, but never found.<ref name="Jackson2002" />
* April 6: ''Denise Lynn Oliverson'' (24) – Abducted while cycling to her parents' house in Grand Junction, Colorado;{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=110}} body thrown according to Bundy into the Colorado River {{convert|5|mi}} west of Grand Junction,{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 9046}} but never found.<ref name="CBIColdCase1"/>
* May 6: ''Lynnette Dawn Culver'' (12) – Abducted from Pocatello, Idaho, after she left Alameda Junior High School for her lunch break;{{sfn|Sullivan|2009|pp=137–138}} body thrown according to Bundy into what authorities believe to be the Snake River, but never found.<ref name="Culver"/>
* June 28: ''Susan Curtis'' (15) – Disappeared during a youth conference at Brigham Young University when she left her friends to walk back to her dormitory and brush her teeth;{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=343}} body buried according to Bundy along a highway near [[Price, Utah|Price]], {{convert|75|mi}} southeast of Provo, but never found.{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 9040}}

=== 1978 ===
[[File:LevyBowmanBundyvictims.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Black-and-white photo of two smiling young women. Levy, on the left, has light hair parted in the middle and Bowman, on the right, has longer dark hair parted to the side.|Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman]]

==== Florida ====
* January 15: ''Margaret Elizabeth Bowman'' (21) – Bludgeoned and strangled as she slept at the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University (no secondary crime scene).{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=334–343}}
* January 15: ''Lisa Janet Levy'' (20) – Bludgeoned, strangled, bitten and sexually assaulted as she slept at the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University (no secondary crime scene).{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=334–343}}
* January 15: ''Karen Chandler'' (21) – Bludgeoned as she slept at the Chi Omega sorority; survived, although her skull was fractured, and her jaw, right arm and fingers were crushed.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=334–343}}
* January 15: ''Kathy Kleiner'' (21) – Bludgeoned as she slept at the Chi Omega sorority, resulting in her jaw being shattered and her right cheek being ripped open; survived.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=334–343}}
* January 15: ''Cheryl Thomas'' (21) – Bludgeoned as she slept, eight blocks from Chi Omega; survived after having a fractured jaw and skull which left her with permanent deafness in her left ear and equilibrium damage.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=334–343}}
* February 9: ''Kimberly Dianne Leach'' (12) – Abducted from Lake City Junior High School in Lake City, Florida, and was last seen being led to a white van by a man who was later identified as Bundy;{{sfn|Nelson|1994|p=319}} mummified remains found near Suwannee River State Park, {{convert|43|mi}} west of Lake City, with "homicidal violence about the neck region".<ref name="FL-HighwayPatrol" />

=== Unconfirmed ===
Bundy remains a suspect in several unsolved homicides and disappearances, and is likely responsible for others that may never be identified; in 1987, he confided to Keppel that there were "some murders" that he would "never talk about", because they were committed "too close to home", "too close to family" or involved "victims who were very young".{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7375}} Minutes before his execution, Hagmaier queried Bundy about unsolved homicides in [[New Jersey]], Vermont, Illinois, [[Texas]] and Florida. Bundy provided directions—later proven inaccurate—to Curtis' burial site in Utah, but denied involvement in any of the open cases.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=343–344}} In 2011, Bundy's complete DNA profile, obtained from a vial of his blood found in an evidence vault, was added to the FBI's DNA database for future reference in these and other unsolved murder cases:<ref>{{cite news|first=Erica |last=Goode|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/us/10bundy.html|title=DNA Profile of Ted Bundy Gives Hope to Old Cases|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City|date=August 9, 2011|access-date=March 4, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303221010/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/us/10bundy.html |archive-date=March 3, 2019 }}</ref>
* [[Disappearance of Ann Marie Burr|Ann Marie Burr]], 8, vanished from her [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma]] residence on August 31, 1961,<ref name="NamUS4593" /> when Bundy was aged 14. An unknown tennis shoe imprint was found by the overturned bench used to enter her house. Due to the small size of the shoe, police believed the perpetrator was a teenager or youth.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Bob|last1=Levenson|title=Parents are Left to Wonder|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1989-01-24-8901240575-story.html|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=January 24, 1989|access-date=May 14, 2022|archive-date=February 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204011113/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1989-01-24-8901240575-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Burr house was on Bundy's newspaper delivery route and Burr's father was certain that he saw Bundy in a ditch at a construction site on the nearby UPS campus the morning his daughter disappeared.{{sfn|Morris|2013|p={{page needed|date=October 2019}}}}{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=387}}{{sfn|Morris|2013|pp=238–240}} Other circumstantial evidence implicates Bundy as well, but detectives familiar with the case have never agreed on the likelihood of his involvement.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=387}}{{sfn|Morris|2013|pp=238–240}} Bundy repeatedly denied culpability and wrote a letter of denial to the Burr family in 1986.{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=623}} However, Keppel has observed that the Burr case fits all three categories of murders Bundy would "never talk about": "too close to home", "too close to family" and "very young".{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7375}} Forensic testing of material evidence from the Burr crime scene in 2011 yielded insufficient intact DNA sequences for comparison with Bundy's, and as such his involvement remains speculative.<ref name="BurrDNA" />
* Flight attendants Lisa Wick and Lonnie Ree Trumbull, both 20, were bludgeoned with a piece of lumber as they slept in their basement apartment in Seattle's [[Queen Anne, Seattle|Queen Anne]] neighborhood in the early morning hours of June 23, 1966.<ref name="SpokaneDaily" /> An autopsy concluded that Trumbull had died at approximately midnight from a blow to the head she had received about an hour earlier. In retrospect, Keppel noted many similarities to the Chi Omega crime scene.{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7135}} The crime was also similarly comparable to Bundy's earlier verifiable assaults on women, who were bludgeoned while in their beds in Seattle basement apartments. Wick, who suffered permanent memory loss as a result of the attack, later contacted Rule: "I know that it was Ted Bundy who did that to us", she wrote, "but I can't tell you how I know".{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=509}} Police records state that when Bundy's fingerprints were compared in January 1977 to those left at the crime scene, they did not match, although many people were allowed into the unsecured crime scene and may have left their fingerprints, thereby causing unwanted alteration of evidence. Bundy's involvement remains unconfirmed.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|p=386}}
* Vacationing Pennsylvania college friends Susan Margarite Davis and Elizabeth Potter Perry, both 19, were stabbed to death in [[Somers Point, New Jersey]], on May 30, 1969.<ref name="DailyNews" /> The women had been visiting Ocean City and were on their way back to Pennsylvania at about 4:30&nbsp;a.m. before they stopped at the Somers Point Diner for breakfast. They left the diner one hour later and vanished. Their car was found that day abandoned beside the [[Garden State Parkway]] near Atlantic City, {{convert|60|mi}} southeast of Philadelphia; their bodies were discovered in nearby woods three days later tied to trees with their hair.<ref name="Free Lance" /> Davis was naked with her clothing and accessories in a pile beside her. Except for her missing underwear, Perry was fully-dressed. Bundy attended [[Temple University]] from January through May 1969 and apparently did not move west until after [[Memorial Day]] weekend. While his accounts of his earliest crimes varied considerably between interviews, he told forensic psychologist Art Norman that his first murder victims were two women in the Philadelphia area.<ref name="DailyNews" /> Biographer Richard Larsen believed that Bundy committed the murders using his feigned-injury ruse, based on an investigator's interview with Bundy's aunt: Ted, she said, was wearing a leg cast due to an automobile accident on the weekend of the homicides, and therefore could not have traveled from Philadelphia to the [[Jersey Shore]]; there is no official record of any such accident.<ref name="'69 Killings3" /> Bundy is considered a "strong suspect" but the case remains open.<ref name="'69 Killings3" />
* [[Murder of Rita Curran|Rita Patricia Curran]], a 24-year-old elementary school teacher and part-time motel maid, was murdered in her basement apartment on July 19, 1971, in Burlington, Vermont; she had been strangled, bludgeoned and raped.{{sfn|Rule|1989|pp=416–417}} The time of death was later given as approximately midnight. The location of the motel where she worked which was adjacent to Bundy's birthplace, the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, and similarities to known Bundy crime scenes led retired FBI agent John Bassett to propose him as a suspect.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=505–508}} Bundy told Keppel that he murdered a young woman in 1971 in Burlington when he was there to obtain information about his birth,<ref>Keller, Larry (January 24, 1989). [https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-01-24-8901040963-story.html "STARKE – Confessed mass murderer Ted Bundy..."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223013545/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-01-24-8901040963-story.html |date=February 23, 2020 }} ''Sun-Sentinel.com''. Retrieved July 12, 2020.</ref> but denied specific involvement in the Curran case to Hagmaier on the eve of his execution.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|pp=343–344}} No evidence firmly places Bundy in Burlington on that date, but municipal records note that a person named "Bundy" was bitten by a dog that week,{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=508}} and long stretches of Bundy's time—including the summer of 1971—remain unaccounted for.<ref name="timeline"/><ref name="Curran" /> In 2023, the Burlington Police Department announced that Curran's killer was her next-door neighbor, who had been identified using DNA extracted from a discarded cigarette butt found at the crime scene.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/cigarette-butt-leads-teacher-killer-183143812.html | title=Cigarette Butt Leads to Teacher's Killer over 50 Years Later | date=February 21, 2023 | access-date=February 22, 2023 | archive-date=February 22, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222084544/https://www.yahoo.com/news/cigarette-butt-leads-teacher-killer-183143812.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* Joyce Margaret LePage, 21, was last seen on the evening of July 22, 1971, when friends dropped her off at her apartment on the campus of [[Washington State University]] (WSU), where she was an undergraduate. Later, her vehicle was discovered by police parked four blocks from her residence. Nine months later, LePage's skeletal remains were found wrapped in two "military" blankets, bound with rope, in a deep ravine south of [[Pullman, Washington]]. Her remains were also covered with a sizable piece of green shag carpet that had been previously reported missing from Stevens Hall, a women's residence on the WSU campus, which was vacant and undergoing renovations in the summer of 1971. The cause of her death was confirmed to be three knife wounds to her chest, which was determined during an FBI forensic examination of her bones. Police concluded from the available evidence that she had been stabbed to death in Stevens Hall before being wrapped in carpet and taken to the ravine.<ref>
Johnson, David (February 9, 2009). "Swept under the rug: WSU student's remains found nine months after carpet reported missing from dorm." [http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2009/02/Document2____.pdf MediaSpokesman.com archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606082235/http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2009/02/Document2____.pdf |date=June 6, 2012 }} . Retrieved December 28, 2012.
</ref> [[Whitman County, Washington|Whitman County]] authorities have said that multiple suspects—including Bundy—have "never been cleared".<ref name="list" />
* Kerry May-Hardy, 22, disappeared whilst hitchhiking on June 13, 1972, from [[Woodland Park, Seattle]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2011/06/investigators-seek-information-on-murdered-woman-last-seen-on-capitol-hill-in-1972/ | title=Investigators seek information on murdered woman last seen on Capitol Hill in 1972 | date=June 4, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/06/northwest_news_gladstone_woman_arrested_in_beauticians_homicide_remains_found_in_eastern_washington.html | title=Northwest News: Gladstone woman arrested in beautician's homicide; remains discovered in Eastern Washington are those of woman who disappeared 40 years ago | date=June 4, 2011 | access-date=February 10, 2023 | archive-date=October 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028195046/https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/06/northwest_news_gladstone_woman_arrested_in_beauticians_homicide_remains_found_in_eastern_washington.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Hardy's skeletal remains were unearthed on September 6, 2010, by construction machinery, in a grave measuring two feet (0.6 meters) in depth.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.komonews.com/news/local/123113528.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805111847/http://www.komonews.com/news/local/123113528.html | archive-date=August 5, 2011 | title=Human remains ID'd as Seattle woman who vanished in '72 &#124; Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News &#124; KOMO News &#124; Local & Regional | work=KOMO News }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.co.kittitas.wa.us/press/default.asp?prID=28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612060034/http://www.co.kittitas.wa.us/press/default.asp?prID=28 | archive-date=June 12, 2011 | title=Kittitas County Press Releases }}</ref> DNA from the skeleton matched the family's sample on June 1, 2011. Hardy's body was discovered five miles from Bundy's mass grave at Taylor Mountain and she is known to have shared a mutual acquaintance with Bundy, although it is uncertain if they actually knew each other.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://killerinthearchives.blog/the-unconfirmed-cases-kerry-hardy-may-1972/ | title=The Unconfirmed Cases: Kerry Hardy-May; 1972 | date=May 12, 2022 }}</ref> The case remains unsolved.<ref>{{cite news | title=Expert: Too Soon to Tell if Skeletal Remains Were Those of Ted Bundy Victim | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ted-bundy-victim-or-not-expert_n_872163 | work=[[HuffPost]] | date=June 6, 2011 | archive-date=October 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028195044/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ted-bundy-victim-or-not-expert_n_872163 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* In 1989, Bundy confessed to two homicides in Oregon without identifying the victims. Oregon law enforcement subsequently identified Bundy as a prime suspect in the 1973 disappearances of Vicki Lynn Hollar, aged 24,<ref name="NamUS9265" /> who disappeared from [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]] on August 20 and Suzanne Rae Justis, aged 23, who was last seen in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] on November 5.<ref name=Justis>{{Cite web|title=Bundy link considered in 4 local cases|language=en-US|work=Eugene Register-Guard|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19890224&id=5XkzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qeEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6456,5577914}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Suzanne Rae Justis|language=en-US|work=NamUs|url=https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/14710|access-date=August 23, 2023|archive-date=May 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180521194854/https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/14710|url-status=live}}</ref> Hollar was last seen getting into her car at a parking lot en route to her apartment.<ref name="NamUS9265" /> Justis was last heard from when she telephoned her parents from outside the [[Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Oregon)|Veterans Memorial Coliseum]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Suzanne Rae Justis|language=en-US|work=The Charley Project|url=https://charleyproject.org/case/suzanne-rae-justis|access-date=August 23, 2023|archive-date=August 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823084625/https://charleyproject.org/case/suzanne-rae-justis|url-status=live}}</ref> Bundy was linked to the cases due to the fact that Hollar and Justis both fitted his preferred victim profile and he was known to have been in the area at the time they disappeared.<ref name=Justis/> Another possible victim identified by detectives was 17-year-old Rita Lorraine Jolly who disappeared from [[West Linn, Oregon|West Linn]] on June 29, 1973, after leaving her residence on Horton Road to go for a walk. Jolly was last seen between 8:30 and 9:00&nbsp;p.m., walking uphill on Sunset Avenue.<ref name="NamUS7780" /> Authorities were unable to obtain an interview with Bundy and all three women remain classified as [[missing person|missing]].{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=338}}
* Katherine Merry Devine, aged 14, was abducted on November 25, 1973; her body was found the following month in the [[Capitol State Forest]] near Olympia, Washington.<ref name="AP2002-07-30" /> Brenda Joy Baker, also aged 14, was last seen hitchhiking near [[Puyallup, Washington|Puyallup]], on May 27, 1974; her body was found in [[Millersylvania State Park]] a month later.<ref name="list" /><ref name="'73slaying" /> Her throat had been slit. Though Bundy was widely believed responsible for both murders, he told Keppel that he had no knowledge of either case.{{sfn|Keppel|2005|pp=257–262}}{{sfn|Keppel|2010|loc=Kindle location 7118}} DNA analysis led to the arrest and conviction of William Cosden for Devine's murder in 2002.<ref name="AP2002-07-30" /> The Baker homicide remains unsolved, although Cosden is also considered the prime suspect in her case.<ref name="AP2002-07-30" />
* Sandra Jean Weaver, 19, a [[Wisconsin]] native who had been living in [[Tooele, Utah]], was last seen leaving the [[Warehouse District (Salt Lake City)|Warehouse District]] in Salt Lake City for her lunch break at around 10:30&nbsp;a.m. on July 1, 1974. Her nude body was discovered the following day by tourists hiking in [[De Beque]] by the Colorado River near Grand Junction, Colorado.<ref name="Tie-in" /> She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death before being dumped off a service road.<ref name="Unclear" /> Salt Lake County Sheriff's Detective Jerry Thompson later stated that Weaver's case was "very similar" to the subsequent deaths of Smith and Aime. However, Weaver's murder officially remains unsolved.<ref name="Follow up" />
* 21-year-old University of Utah student Rhonda Stapley was waiting at a bus stop in Salt Lake City on October 11, 1974, when she was allegedly approached by Bundy, who had pulled over and offered her a ride in his Volkswagen Beetle.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ted Bundy Attack Survivor Explains Why She Kept Silent – and Why She's Talking Now|language=en-US|work=People|url=https://people.com/crime/ted-bundy-survivor-rhonda-stapley-why-she-kept-silent/|access-date=August 29, 2023|archive-date=August 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230829150322/https://people.com/crime/ted-bundy-survivor-rhonda-stapley-why-she-kept-silent/|url-status=live}}</ref> After entering his vehicle, Bundy drove to an isolated canyon picnic spot, shut off the engine, turned to her and said: "Do you know what? I am going to kill you now."<ref>{{Cite web|title='Ted Bundy: The Survivors': Rhonda Stapley believes her silence resulted in assault and killing of more victims|language=en-US|work=meaww.com|date=October 4, 2020|url=https://meaww.com/ted-bundy-the-survivors-rhonda-stapley-believes-silence-resulted-in-assault-killing-of-more-victims-487932|access-date=August 29, 2023|archive-date=August 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230829150323/https://meaww.com/ted-bundy-the-survivors-rhonda-stapley-believes-silence-resulted-in-assault-killing-of-more-victims-487932|url-status=live}}</ref> He then repeatedly choked and raped Stapley over a period of three hours until Bundy, who thought she was dead, was distracted by something near his car and she was able to run into the woods.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ted Bundy Victim Recalls Her Encounter With The Serial Killer|language=en-US|work=YouTube|date=April 26, 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOlJtFWytY|access-date=August 29, 2023|archive-date=August 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230829150322/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOlJtFWytY|url-status=live}}</ref> Although Stapley would not publicly acknowledge the incident until 2011, her account was supported by Ann Rule, who said that it was consistent with the FBI's timeline of Bundy's activities in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Suspected Ted Bundy Victim Recounts Her Harrowing Escape|language=en-US|work=Oxygen|date=October 6, 2020|url=https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/suspected-ted-bundy-victim-rhonda-stapley-recounts-escape|access-date=August 29, 2023|archive-date=August 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230829150324/https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/suspected-ted-bundy-victim-rhonda-stapley-recounts-escape|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Melanie Suzanne Cooley, 18, disappeared on April 15, 1975, after leaving Nederland High School in [[Nederland, Colorado]], {{convert|50|mi}} northwest of Denver. She was last seen by classmates hitchhiking nearby after her classes were over.<ref name="CBIColdCase2"/> Her corpse was discovered by road maintenance workers two weeks later in [[Coal Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado|Coal Creek Canyon]], {{convert|20|mi}} away from where she was last seen. Gas station receipts place Bundy in nearby [[Golden, Colorado|Golden]] on the day Cooley disappeared.<ref name="HolmesHolmes" /> [[Jefferson County, Colorado|Jefferson County]] authorities consider the evidence in Cooley's case to be inconclusive and continue to treat her homicide as a [[cold case (criminology)|cold case]].<ref name="JeffersonCo-ColdCases" />
* Shelley Kay Robertson, 24, failed to show up for work in [[Golden, Colorado|Golden]] on July 1, 1975. Her nude, decomposed body was found by two mining students on August 21, {{convert|500|ft}} inside a mine on [[Berthoud Pass]] near [[Winter Park Resort]].<ref name="CBIColdCase3"/> Credit card receipts placed Bundy in Golden on the day of Robertson's disappearance, but there is no direct evidence of his involvement.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=162–163}}
* Nancy Perry Baird, 23, disappeared from the gas station where she worked as a service attendant in [[Layton, Utah]], {{convert|25|mi}} north of Salt Lake City, on July 4, 1975, and remains classified as a missing person.<ref name="Baird"/> A police officer on patrol saw her working alone there, and at 5:30&nbsp;p.m., less than fifteen minutes later, she was discovered missing.<ref name="NamUS11575" /> Bundy admitted to eight Utah homicides shortly before his execution and authorities suspected that one of the unidentified victims could have been Baird. However, her suspected kidnapping did not fit the profile of Bundy's past crimes in a number of respects, and he explicitly denied involvement during the interviews he gave on [[death row]].{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=340}}
* Deborah Diane Smith, aged 17, was last seen in Salt Lake City in early-February 1976, shortly before the DaRonch trial began; her body was found by a utility worker in an open pasture near [[Salt Lake City International Airport]] on April 1, 1976.<ref name="SunSentinel2"/> Salt Lake Detective Jim Bell suspected that Bundy may have killed Smith. "We're still in limbo on the Debbie Smith one", he said. "We're going to wait for a time chart. We haven't come up with anything on Bundy, but we haven't ruled anything out, either."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bundy Meet Does Little to Solve Cases|language=en-US|work=Deseret News|date=February 28, 1989|url=https://www.deseret.com/1989/2/28/18796850/bundy-meet-does-little-to-solve-cases|access-date=September 8, 2023|archive-date=September 8, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908155135/https://www.deseret.com/1989/2/28/18796850/bundy-meet-does-little-to-solve-cases|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=599}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deborah Diane SMITH|language=en-US|work=Utah Department of Public Safety|url=https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/deborah-diane-smith/|access-date=July 1, 2023|archive-date=July 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701193131/https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/deborah-diane-smith/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Joy Kathleen Harmon, 22, was last seen exiting the Better Days Bar in Salt Lake City on the evening of March 2, 1976. On March 6, a hiker between [[Parley's Canyon]] and [[Emigration Canyon, Utah|Emigration Canyon]] found her partially clothed body north of [[Interstate 80]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=Investigators reopen 1970s murder case|language=en-US|work=KSL|url=https://www.ksl.com/article/6225343/investigators-reopen-1970s-murder-case|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718154313/https://www.ksl.com/article/6225343/investigators-reopen-1970s-murder-case|url-status=live}}</ref> Harmon had been strangled and beaten; her murder occurred the day after Bundy was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping and three months before he was sentenced to prison and incarcerated on June 30.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Did Bundy Kill Others in Utah Besides 8?|language=en-US|work=[[Deseret News]]|url=https://www.deseret.com/1989/1/24/18792624/did-bundy-kill-others-in-utah-besides-8|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718154310/https://www.deseret.com/1989/1/24/18792624/did-bundy-kill-others-in-utah-besides-8|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Police analyzing DNA from 2 men in 1976 death|language=en-US|work=[[Deseret News]]|url=https://www.deseret.com/2009/4/26/20314735/police-analyzing-dna-from-2-men-in-1976-death|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718154313/https://www.deseret.com/2009/4/26/20314735/police-analyzing-dna-from-2-men-in-1976-death|url-status=live}}</ref> Her case is still unsolved.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Joy Kathleen Harmon|language=en-US|work=Utah Department of Public Safety|url=https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/joy-kathleen-harmon/|access-date=July 18, 2023|archive-date=July 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718154314/https://bci.utah.gov/coldcases/joy-kathleen-harmon/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== In media ==
=== Books ===
* Rule, Ann (1980). ''[[The Stranger Beside Me]].'' W.W. Norton and Company Inc. {{ISBN|978-1-938402-78-4}}
* Kendall, Elizabeth (1981). ''The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy.'' Abrams & Chronicle Books. {{ISBN|978-1419744853}}
* Michaud, Stephen G., and Hugh Aynesworth (2000). ''Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer.'' Authorlink Press. {{ISBN|978-1928704-17-1}}
* Sullivan, Kevin M (2009). ''The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History.'' McFarland and Company Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-786444-26-7}}
* Michaud, Stephen G., and Hugh Aynesworth (2012). ''The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.'' Authorlink. {{ISBN|978-1928704119}}
* Carlisle, Al (2017). ''Violent Mind: The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy.'' Genius Book Publishing. {{ISBN|978-0998297-37-8}}
* Nelson, Polly (2019). ''Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer.'' Echo Point Books & Media. {{ISBN|978-1635617-91-7}}
* Kleiner Rubin, Kathy, and Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi (2023), ''A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy.'' Chicago Review Press. {{ISBN|978-1641608-68-8}}
* Knoll, Jessica. (2023). ''Bright Young Women''. Marysue Rucci Books. {{ISBN|1501153226}}

=== Film ===
* ''[[Ted Bundy (film)|Ted Bundy]]'' (2002), played by [[Michael Reilly Burke]]
* ''[[The Stranger Beside Me#Film adaptation|The Stranger Beside Me]]'' (2003), played by [[Billy Campbell]]
* ''[[The Riverman]]'' (2004), played by [[Cary Elwes]]
* ''[[Bundy: An American Icon]]'' (2008), played by [[Corin Nemec]]
* ''[[Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile]]'' (2019), played by [[Zac Efron]]
* ''[[Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman]]'' (2021), played by [[Chad Michael Murray]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Kay|first=Jeremy|date=2021-04-27|title=Voltage Pictures takes world rights on Ted Bundy thriller 'American Boogeyman' (exclusive)|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/voltage-pictures-takes-world-rights-on-ted-bundy-thriller-american-boogeyman-exclusive/5159201.article|access-date=May 28, 2021|website=Screen|language=en|archive-date=May 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503040450/https://www.screendaily.com/news/voltage-pictures-takes-world-rights-on-ted-bundy-thriller-american-boogeyman-exclusive/5159201.article|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[No Man of God]]'' (2021), played by [[Luke Kirby]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|date=June 12, 2021|title='No Man of God' Review: Ted Bundy Is Played with Eerie Authenticity, but What Is There Left to Learn About Serial Killers?|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/no-man-of-god-review-elijah-wood-luke-kirby-ted-bundy-1234994979/|access-date=June 14, 2021|website=Variety|language=en-US|archive-date=April 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425032336/https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/no-man-of-god-review-elijah-wood-luke-kirby-ted-bundy-1234994979/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Music ===
* The song "Ted, Just Admit it..." by [[Jane's Addiction]]<ref name="songfacts">{{cite web |title=Ted, Just Admit It... |url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/janes-addiction/ted-just-admit-it |website=SongFacts |publisher=Songfacts®, LLC |access-date=January 30, 2021 |ref=songfacts |archive-date=June 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626172433/https://www.songfacts.com/facts/janes-addiction/ted-just-admit-it |url-status=live }}</ref>
*The song "Lotta True Crime" by [[Penelope Scott]] references Bundy<ref>{{Citation|title=Penelope Scott – Lotta True Crime|url=https://genius.com/Penelope-scott-lotta-true-crime-lyrics|access-date=November 4, 2021|archive-date=July 12, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712055114/https://genius.com/Penelope-scott-lotta-true-crime-lyrics|url-status=live}}</ref>
*The song "Video Crimes" by [[Tin Machine]] references Bundy<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perone |first1=James E. |title=The Words and Music of David Bowie |date=2007 |page=102}}</ref>

=== Television ===
* ''[[The Deliberate Stranger]]'' (1986), played by [[Mark Harmon]]
* ''[[The Capture of the Green River Killer]]'' (2008), played by [[James Marsters]]
* ''Ted Bundy: Devil in Disguise'' (2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ted Bundy: Devil In Disguise |url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ted-bundy-devil-in-disguise/1018404/ |website=TV Guide |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc |date=2017 |access-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703051147/http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ted-bundy-devil-in-disguise/1018404/ |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Ted Bundy: An American Monster'' (2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ted Bundy: An American Monster |url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ted-bundy-an-american-monster/1105479/ |magazine=[[TV Guide]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive Inc.]] |location=New York City |date=2017 |access-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703050657/http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ted-bundy-an-american-monster/1105479/ |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Ted Bundy: What Happened'' (2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ted Bundy: What Happened |url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ted-bundy-what-happened/1127077/ |magazine=[[TV Guide]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive Inc.]] |location=New York City |date=2017 |access-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703051234/http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/ted-bundy-what-happened/1127077/ |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes]]'' (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uproxx.com/tv/ted-bundy-survivor-netflix-docuseries/|title=Ted Bundy Survivor Recalls Her Horrifying Experience In Netflix Clip|date=2019-01-24|website=UPROXX|access-date=2019-01-24}}</ref>
* ''[[Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer]]'' (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prime Video: Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer - Season 1 |url=https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Ted-Bundy-Falling-for-a-Killer/0S3R8A6CMU674IW5281Y0MGOI8 |access-date=November 26, 2020 |website=www.primevideo.com |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[Monster: The Ed Gein Story]]'', season 3, episode 8 (2025), played by John T. O'Brien<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tinubu |first=Aramide |date=2025-10-03 |title=Charlie Hunnam’s ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Is Graphically Violent and Too Unfocused: TV Review |url=https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/netflix-monster-the-ed-gein-story-review-graphic-unfocused-1236538063/ |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Biography|Florida<!-- State of execution -->|United States}}
* [[Capital punishment in Florida]]
* [[List of people executed in Florida]]
* [[List of people executed in the United States in 1989]]
* [[List of serial killers in the United States]]
* [[List of people executed by electrocution]]
{{Clear}}

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{{cite web
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{{cite web|title=Ted Bundy Multiagency Investigative Team Report 1992 |date=1992 |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation |url=http://tedbundy.com/errata/freebies/Ted%20Bundy%20Multiagency%20Investigative%20Team%20Report%201992%20from%20tedbundy.com.pdf |access-date=June 3, 2016 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621144017/http://tedbundy.com/errata/freebies/Ted%20Bundy%20Multiagency%20Investigative%20Team%20Report%201992%20from%20tedbundy.com.pdf |archive-date=June 21, 2006 }}
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<ref name="akaLeslieHolland">
Also known as Leslie Holland ({{harvnb|Foreman|1992|p=15}}), Susan Phillips ({{harvnb|Kendall|1981|p=99}}), and Marjorie Russell ({{harvnb|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=161}}).
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|title = Evans' man followed Rosy
|date = August 30, 1973
|newspaper = [[Ellensburg Daily Record]]
|location = Ellensburg, Washington
|agency = [[United Press International]]
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cjcQAAAAIBAJ&dq=theodore-bundy&pg=6225%2C3131787
|access-date = April 24, 2011
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<ref name="Spokesman-Review">{{cite news
|first = George Jr.
|last = Capezi
|title = The Bundy Case: There are a lot of strange coincidences concerning the life of Ted Bundy
|date = August 20, 1979
|newspaper = [[The Spokesman-Review]]
|location = Spokane, Washington
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19790820&id=Z_QjAAAAIBAJ&pg=4087,2904709
|access-date = April 17, 2012
|archive-date = December 9, 2022
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|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Michaud-trutv">{{cite web|first=Stephen G. |last=Michaud |title=The Only Living Witness: The True Story Of Ted Bundy |work=True TV Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods |publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System]] |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/witness/21.html |access-date=April 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807125418/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/witness/21.html |archive-date=August 7, 2011 }}
</ref>

<ref name="Kennicott-wapo">
{{cite news
 |first = Philip
 |last = Kennicott
 |title = Ted Bundy's VW goes on display at D.C. crime museum, but should it?
 |date = February 19, 2010
 |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]
 |publisher = Nash Holdings LLC
 |location = Washington, DC
 |issn = 0190-8286
 |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/18/AR2010021803532.html
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 |archive-date = November 12, 2012
}}
</ref>

<ref name="CrimeMuseum-car">{{cite web|title=Ted Bundy's Car at National Museum of Crime and Punishment |date=2008 |publisher=[[National Museum of Crime & Punishment]] |work=CrimeMuseum.org |url=http://www.crimemuseum.org/Ted_Bundy_Car |access-date=April 24, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507084628/http://www.crimemuseum.org/Ted_Bundy_Car |archive-date=May 7, 2011 }}
</ref>

<ref name="Smith1979">{{cite news
|first = Stephen C.
|last = Smith
|title = Momma's boy to murder: Saga of Ted Bundy
|newspaper = [[Lakeland Ledger]]
|location = Lakeland, Florida
|agency = Associated Press
|date = August 19, 1979
|page = 4B
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xbMwAAAAIBAJ&dq=ted%20bundy%20mormon&pg=6890%2C1373449
|access-date = April 24, 2011
|quote = Morgan said Bundy was raised as a Lutheran but was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah in August 1975.
|archive-date = May 29, 2023
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230529200453/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xbMwAAAAIBAJ&dq=ted%20bundy%20mormon&pg=6890%2C1373449
|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Bennett-Connaughton1978">{{cite news
|first1 = Roger
|last1 = Bennett
|first2 = Ken
|last2 = Connaughton
|title = Mass murderer or scapegoat?: Bundy evidence can't back theories
|newspaper = [[Ellensburg Daily Record]]
|location = Ellensburg, Washington
|agency = [[United Press International]]
|page = 18
|date = April 14, 1978
|access-date = April 24, 2011
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ym9UAAAAIBAJ&dq=ted%20bundy%20mormon&pg=6639%2C915017
|archive-date = May 30, 2023
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230530021753/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ym9UAAAAIBAJ&dq=ted%20bundy%20mormon&pg=6639,915017
|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Bell-KillingSpree">{{cite web|first=Rachael |last=Bell |title=Ted Bundy: Killing Spree |website=True TV Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods |publisher=Turner Broadcasting System |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/bundy/5.html |access-date=May 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807114059/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/bundy/5.html |archive-date=August 7, 2011 }}
</ref>

<ref name="Deseret1977">{{cite news
|title = Utah county still looking for two women's killers
|newspaper = [[The Deseret News]]
|location = Salt Lake City, Utah
|agency = [[Associated Press]]
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19771216&id=Q1AOAAAAIBAJ&pg=3420,365710
|date = December 16, 1977
|access-date = May 4, 2012
|archive-date = May 30, 2023
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|url-status = live
}}</ref>

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{{cite web
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</ref>

<ref name="Gehrke2000">
{{cite news
 |first = Robert
 |last = Gehrke
 |title = Officer recalls Bundy's '75 capture
 |date = August 20, 2000
 |newspaper = [[Deseret News]]
 |location = Salt Lake City, Utah
 |agency = Associated Press
 |url = http://www.deseretnews.com/article/778245/Officer-recalls-Bundys-75-capture.html
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}}
</ref>

<ref name="ChiOmegaKiller">
{{cite news
 |title = Nation: The Case of the Chi Omega Killer
 |magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]]
 |publisher = [[Time, Inc.]]
 |location = New York City
 |date = July 16, 1979
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}}
</ref>

<ref name="EveningIndependent">{{cite news
|first1 = Gene
|last1 = Miller
|first2 = James
|last2 = Buchanan
|title = A "Cool" Bundy&nbsp;– Friends of Two Murdered Sorority Sisters Testify As Pace of Trial Picks Up
|date = July 10, 1979
|newspaper = [[Evening Independent]]
|location = St. Petersburg, Florida
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19790710&id=JAEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6424,1831474
|access-date = July 6, 2011
}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

<ref name="pensacolapolice">
{{cite web
|title = Pensacola Police Make a Mark in History
|publisher = Pensacola Police Department
|work = pensacolapolice.com
|url = http://www.pensacolapolice.com/details.asp?pid=2482#Pensacola%20Police%20Make%20a%20Mark%20in%20History
|access-date = April 24, 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426065319/http://www.pensacolapolice.com/details.asp?pid=2482
|archive-date=April 26, 2012
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Word1999-01-24">
{{cite news
 |first = Ron
 |last = Word
 |title = Survivors Are Haunted By Memory of Ted Bundy 10 Years After Execution
 |date = January 24, 1999
 |newspaper = [[The Seattle Times]]
 |location = Seattle, Washington
 |agency = [[Associated Press]]
 |url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19990124/2940372/survivors-are-haunted-by-memory-of-ted-bundy-10-years-after-execution
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}}
</ref>

<ref name="St.Petersburg1">{{cite news
|first = Patrick
|last = McMahon
|title = Nita Neary tells jury Bundy is man she saw leaving Chi Omega
|date = July 18, 1979
|newspaper = [[St. Petersburg Times]]
|location = St. Petersburg, Florida
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19790718&id=pxQOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5384,1036952
|access-date = July 6, 2011
}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

<ref name="Bell-KimberlyLeach">{{cite web|first=Rachael |last=Bell |title=Ted Bundy: The Kimberly Leach Trial |website=True TV Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods |publisher=Turner Broadcasting System |url=http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/bundy/15.html |access-date=May 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807124409/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/bundy/15.html |archive-date=August 7, 2011 }}
</ref>

<ref name="AP1981-09-30wife-pregnant">{{cite news
|title = Bundy's wife is pregnant&nbsp;– but she refuses to kiss, tell
|date = September 30, 1981
|newspaper = [[Deseret News]]
|location = Salt Lake City, Utah
|agency = [[Associated Press]]
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19810930&id=uPknAAAAIBAJ&pg=6906,4332847
|access-date = April 25, 2011
|archive-date = April 25, 2023
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|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="DN-trials">
{{cite news
 |title = The Trials of Ted Bundy
 |date = January 24, 1989
 |newspaper = [[Deseret News]]
 |location = Salt Lake City, Utah
 |url = http://www.deseretnews.com/article/32025/THE-TRIALS-OF-TED-BUNDY.html?pg=1
 |access-date = April 28, 2011
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130911051630/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/32025/THE-TRIALS-OF-TED-BUNDY.html?pg=1
 |archive-date = September 11, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Mystique">{{cite news|first=Gregory |last=Enns |title=Bundy's mystique lives on |date=May 21, 1989 |newspaper=[[Anchorage Daily News]] |location=Anchorage, Alaska |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19890521&id=ED8eAAAAIBAJ&pg=2797,2126506 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124190951/http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19890521&id=ED8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fcAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2797,2126506 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 24, 2013 |access-date=May 6, 2012 }}
</ref>

<ref name="Sentinel">
{{cite news
 |first1 = Roger
 |last1 = Roy
 |first2 = Craig
 |last2 = Dezern
 |title = Bundy Finally Draws Cheers: Hundreds Celebrate Execution
 |date = January 25, 1989
 |newspaper = [[Orlando Sentinel]]
 |publisher = [[Tronc]]
 |location = Orlando, Florida
 |url = https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/01/25/bundy-finally-draws-cheers/
 |access-date = July 19, 2011
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110720184528/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-01-25/news/8901250246_1_ted-bundy-electric-chair-death-row
 |archive-date = July 20, 2011
}}
</ref>

<ref name="2,000 Cheer">
{{cite news
 |first = Laura
 |last = Parker
 |title = 2,000 Cheer Execution of Killer Bundy; 'Thank God, It's Finally Over'
 |date = January 25, 1989
 |newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]
 |publisher = Nash Holdings LLC
 |location = Washington DC
 |url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1170806.html
 |access-date = January 19, 2013
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130428064819/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1170806.html
 |archive-date = April 28, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Bundy'sWill">
{{cite news
 |title = Bundy's Will Requests Cremation and Scattering of Ashes in Washington
 |date = January 26, 1989
 |newspaper = [[Deseret News]]
 |location = Salt Lake City, Utah
 |agency = Associated Press
 |url = http://www.deseretnews.com/article/32184/BUNDYS-WILL-REQUESTS-CREMATION-AND-SCATTERING-OF-ASHES-IN-WASHINGTON.html?pg=all
 |access-date = January 3, 2012
 |url-status = dead
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 |archive-date = January 5, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Mack1999">{{cite book
|first = Raneta Lawson
|last = Mack
|title = A Layperson's Guide to Criminal Law
|page = 136
|date = 1999
|publisher = [[Greenwood Publishing]]
|location = Westport, Connecticut
|isbn = 978-0-313-30556-6
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qYgKO18W-eIC&pg=PA136
|access-date = October 15, 2020
|archive-date = May 23, 2024
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|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Long">{{cite web|first=Phillip W.|last=Long |title=Antisocial Personality Disorder: World Health Organization ICD-10 |website=www.mentalhealth.com |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |url=http://www.mentalhealth.com/icd/p22-pe04.html |access-date=April 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911063127/http://www.mentalhealth.com/icd/p22-pe04.html |archive-date=September 11, 2013 }}
</ref>

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{{cite journal
 |first1 = Scott O.
 |last1 = Lilienfeld
 |first2 = Hal
 |last2 = Arkowitz
 |title = What "Psychopath" Means: It is not quite what you may think
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 |publisher = Nature Publishing Group
 |location = New York City
 |issn = 0036-8733
 |date = November 28, 2007
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<ref name="BundyDobsonInterview">{{cite interview |last=Bundy |first=Ted |interviewer=[[James Dobson]] |title=Fatal Addiction: Ted Bundy's Final Interview |publisher=[[Focus on the Family]] |location=Railford, Florida |date=January 24, 1989 }}</ref>

<ref name="Shapiro2005">
{{cite book
|first = Ben
|last = Shapiro
|author-link = Ben Shapiro
|title = Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future
|date = 2005
|page = 160
|publisher = [[Regnery Publishing]]
|location = Washington, DC
|isbn = 0-89526-016-6
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Meyers">
{{cite web
|first=Art
|last=Meyers
|title=The Ted Bundy Murders
|url=https://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/The_Ted_Bundy_Murders_Journey_from_Horror_to_Hope_108154829.html
|website=[[WCTV]]
|publisher=Gray Television
|location=Thomasville, Georgia
|date=November 17, 2010
|access-date=October 11, 2018
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012094453/https://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/The_Ted_Bundy_Murders_Journey_from_Horror_to_Hope_108154829.html
|archive-date=October 12, 2018
|url-status=live
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Goldstein">
{{cite news
 |first = Al
 |last = Goldstein
 |author-link = Al Goldstein
 |title = The Perversion of Truth Continues in Alleging a Porn-Crime Link.
 |date = February 8, 1989
 |newspaper = [[Los Angeles Times]]
 |location = Los Angeles, California
 |url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-08-me-1920-story.html
 |access-date = June 18, 2013
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20130618223312/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-02-08/local/me-1920_1_ted-bundy
 |archive-date = June 18, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Psychics">
{{cite news
 |title = Psychics Join Search
 |date = April 25, 1989
 |newspaper = [[Orlando Sentinel]]
 |publisher = [[Tronc]]
 |location = Orlando, Florida
 |url = https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/04/25/psychics-join-search-a-sheriff-is-relying/
 |access-date = May 3, 2012
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120503044706/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-04-25/news/8904255222_1_killer-ted-bundy-wayne-county-salt-lake
 |archive-date = May 3, 2012
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Schulte2006">
{{cite news
 |first = Scott
 |last = Schulte
 |title = When evil walked our streets
 |date = November 20, 2006
 |newspaper = [[Davis County Clipper]]
 |publisher = Davis County Clipper, Inc.
 |location = Woods Cross, Utah
 |url = http://davisclipper.com/view/full_story/149302/article-When-evil-walked-our-streets?
 |access-date = May 6, 2012
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120415110917/http://davisclipper.com/view/full_story/149302/article-When-evil-walked-our-streets
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}}
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<ref name="Jackson2002">
{{cite book
|first = Steve
|last = Jackson
|title = No Stone Unturned: The Story of NecroSearch International
|date = 2002
|pages = [https://archive.org/details/nostoneunturned00stev_0/page/75 75–90]
|publisher = [[Kensington Books]]
|location = New York
|isbn = 978-1-57566-456-9
|url = https://archive.org/details/nostoneunturned00stev_0/page/75
}}
</ref>

<ref name="CBIColdCase1">{{cite web
 |title = Colorado Bureau of Investigation Cold Case Files: Denise Oliverson
 |work = CBI
 |url = https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=3683
 |access-date = December 22, 2011
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130917135008/https://www.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=3683
 |archive-date = September 17, 2013
}}</ref>

<ref name="Moscow">{{cite news
|title = Pocatello police believe woman was Bundy victim
|newspaper = [[Moscow-Pullman Daily News]]
|location = Moscow, Iowa
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z5QrAAAAIBAJ&pg=3400,921355&dq/
|date = February 9, 1989
|access-date = June 10, 2013
|archive-date = May 30, 2023
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230530021757/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z5QrAAAAIBAJ&pg=3400,921355&dq/
|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Culver">
{{cite news
 |first = Bob
 |last = Levenson
 |title = Interview Identifies Victim, 12, In Idaho
 |newspaper = [[Orlando Sentinel]]
 |publisher = [[Tronc]]
 |location = Orlando, Florida
 |url = https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1989/01/25/interview-identifies-victim-12-in-idaho/
 |date = January 25, 1989
 |access-date = May 3, 2012
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130130225315/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-01-25/news/8901250256_1_bundy-pocatello-girl
 |archive-date = January 30, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="CBIColdCase2">
{{cite web
 |title = Colorado Bureau of Investigation Cold Case Files: Melanie Suzanne Cooley
 |work = CBI
 |url = https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=1337
 |access-date = December 27, 2011
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130917151256/https://www.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=1337
 |archive-date = September 17, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="CBIColdCase3">
{{cite web
 |title = Colorado Bureau of Investigation Cold Case Files: Shelly Robertson
 |work = CBI
 |url = https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=308
 |access-date = May 2, 2012
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130917140638/https://www.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=308
 |archive-date = September 17, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Baird">{{cite web|title=Utah Department of Public Safety: Utah's Missing Persons |work=UDPS |url=http://publicsafety.utah.gov/bci/UTAHmissingpersons.html#baird |access-date=January 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202152539/http://publicsafety.utah.gov/bci/UTAHmissingpersons.html |archive-date=February 2, 2012 }}
</ref>

<ref name="NamUS11575">
{{cite web
 |url = https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/11575/6/
 |title = NamUS Missing Persons Database: Nancy Perry Baird
 |publisher = National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
 |access-date = May 2, 2012
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527082414/https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/11575/6/
 |archive-date = May 27, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="HolmesHolmes">
{{cite book
|first1 = Ronald M.
|last1 = Holmes
|first2 = Stephen T.
|last2 = Holmes
|title = Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool
|date = 1989
|page = [https://archive.org/details/profilingviolent0000holm/page/76 76]
|publisher = [[SAGE Publications]]
|location = Thousand Oaks, California
|isbn = 978-0-8039-3681-2
|url = https://archive.org/details/profilingviolent0000holm/page/76
}}
</ref>

<ref name="JeffersonCo-ColdCases">
{{cite web
 |title=Cold Cases
 |publisher=Jefferson County, Colorado, Sheriff's Office
 |url=http://jeffco.us/sheriff/sheriff_T62_R60.htm
 |access-date=May 6, 2012
|url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510184141/http://jeffco.us/sheriff/sheriff_T62_R60.htm
 |archive-date=May 10, 2012
}}
</ref>

<ref name="SunSentinel2">
{{cite news
 |first = Larry
 |last = Keller
 |title = Confessed mass murderer Bundy showed remorse
 |date = January 24, 1989
 |newspaper = [[Sun-Sentinel]]
 |publisher = [[Tronc]]
 |location = Deerfield Beach, Florida
 |url = http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-01-24/news/8901040963_1_colorado-investigators-execution-appeal/3
 |access-date = December 20, 2011
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120923131725/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-01-24/news/8901040963_1_colorado-investigators-execution-appeal/3
 |archive-date = September 23, 2012
}}
</ref>

<ref name="AP2002-07-30">
{{cite news
 |title = Man sentenced to life in prison for 1973 murder
 |agency = Associated Press
 |newspaper = [[The Seattle Times]]
 |location = Seattle, Washington
 |date = July 30, 2002
 |url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20020730/webdna30/man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-1973-murder
 |access-date = April 30, 2011
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130428235604/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020730&slug=webdna30
 |archive-date = April 28, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Curran">
{{cite web
 |title = Unsolved Homicide – Rita Curran
 |publisher = Vermont State Police
 |url = http://vsp.vermont.gov/unsolved/homicide/curran
 |access-date = June 1, 2016
|url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160724160240/http://vsp.vermont.gov/unsolved/homicide/curran
 |archive-date = July 24, 2016
}}
</ref>

<ref name="list">
{{cite news
 |title = A list of women Bundy has confessed to killing
 |work = [[Associated Press]]
 |date = January 25, 1989
 |url = https://apnews.com/c114d74d1a8a8d46d0a7bab7e35ca980
 |access-date = December 29, 2012
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140709043117/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1989/A-List-of-Women-Bundy-Has-Confessed-to-Killing-With-PM-Bundy-Bjt/id-c114d74d1a8a8d46d0a7bab7e35ca980
 |archive-date = July 9, 2014
}}
</ref>

<ref name="'73slaying">
{{cite news
 |first = Ian
 |last = Ith
 |title = Prisoner charged in teen girl's '73 slaying
 |newspaper = [[The Seattle Times]]
 |location = Seattle, Washington
 |date = March 9, 2002
 |url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20020309/oldmurder09m/prisoner-charged-in-teen-girls-73-slaying
 |access-date = April 11, 2014
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130428203049/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020309&slug=oldmurder09m
 |archive-date = April 28, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="FL-HighwayPatrol">{{cite web|url=http://www.flhsmv.gov/fhp/html/story3b.html |title=The History of the Florida Highway Patrol 1972–1982 |publisher=Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles |work=flhsmv.gov |access-date=April 30, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003162633/http://www.flhsmv.gov/fhp/html/story3b.html |archive-date=October 3, 2011 }}
</ref>

<ref name="NamUS4593">
{{cite web
 |url = https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/4593/4/
 |title = NamUS Missing Persons Database: Ann Marie Burr
 |publisher = [[National Missing and Unidentified Persons System]]
 |access-date = April 27, 2012
|url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527051922/https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/4593/4/
 |archive-date = May 27, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="BurrDNA">{{cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ann-marie-burr-ted-bundy_n_996660 |last=David |first=Lohr |title = DNA Evidence Fails To Link Ted Bundy To Ann Marie Burr | work=[[HuffPost]] |location = New York City |date = October 5, 2011  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216213434/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/ann-marie-burr-ted-bundy_n_996660.html |archive-date = December 16, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name="SpokaneDaily">{{cite news
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eGVYAAAAIBAJ&pg=6712,6268452&hl=en
|title = Coast Stewardess Fatally Beaten
|newspaper = [[Spokane Daily Chronicle]]
|location = Spokane, Washington
|date = June 22, 1966
|access-date = May 3, 2012
|archive-date = December 14, 2022
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221214085328/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eGVYAAAAIBAJ&pg=6712,6268452&hl=en
|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Free Lance">{{cite news
|title = Coeds Found Dead, Victims of Murder
|newspaper = [[The Free Lance-Star]]
|location = Fredericksburg, Virginia
|agency = [[Associated Press]]
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19690603&id=U_JNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6375,3558590
|date = June 3, 1969
|access-date = May 4, 2012
|archive-date = December 14, 2022
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221214085401/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19690603&id=U_JNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6375,3558590
|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="DailyNews">
{{cite news
 |first1 = Gloria
 |last1 = Campisi
 |first2 = Jack
 |last2 = McGuire
 |title = Bundy Admitted Slayings in Area, Interviewer Says
 |newspaper = [[Philadelphia Daily News]]
 |publisher = [[Philadelphia Media Network]]
 |location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 |url = http://articles.philly.com/1989-01-24/news/26125035_1_ted-bundy-bundy-on-death-row-murders
 |date = January 24, 1989
 |access-date = May 4, 2012
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130910060836/http://articles.philly.com/1989%2D01%2D24/news/26125035_1_ted%2Dbundy%2Dbundy%2Don%2Ddeath%2Drow%2Dmurders
 |archive-date = September 10, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="'69 Killings3">
{{cite news
 |first = Larry
 |last = Lewis
 |title = '69 Killings Near Parkway Unsolved, But Bundy Is Blamed ...
 |newspaper = [[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]
 |publisher = [[Philadelphia Media Network]]
 |location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 |url = http://articles.philly.com/1993-05-31/news/25964091_1_ted-bundy-serial-killer-holiday/3
 |date = May 31, 1993
 |access-date = May 4, 2012
 |url-status = dead
 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130131120335/http://articles.philly.com/1993-05-31/news/25964091_1_ted-bundy-serial-killer-holiday/3
 |archive-date = January 31, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="NamUS7780">
{{cite web
 |url = https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/7780/0/
 |title = NamUS Missing Persons Database: Rita Lorraine Jolly
 |publisher = National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
 |access-date = April 27, 2012
|url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527061332/https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/7780/0/
 |archive-date = May 27, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="NamUS9265">
{{cite web
 |url = https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/9265/0/
 |title = NamUS Missing Persons Database: Vicki Lynn Hollar
 |publisher = National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
 |access-date = April 27, 2012
 |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527000127/https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/9265/0/
 |archive-date = May 27, 2013
}}
</ref>

<ref name="Tie-in">{{cite news
|title = Utah tie-in to Colorado slaying?
|newspaper = [[The Deseret News]]
|location = Salt Lake City, Utah
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19750120&id=89JSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3681,3961866
|date = January 20, 1975
|access-date = December 1, 2012
|archive-date = December 14, 2022
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221214085354/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19750120&id=89JSAAAAIBAJ&pg=3681,3961866
|url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Unclear">{{cite news
|title = Link to state woman unclear
|newspaper = [[The Milwaukee Journal]]
|location = Milwaukee, Wisconsin
|agency = [[Associated Press]]
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19890125&id=pW4aAAAAIBAJ&pg=2988,799766
|date = January 25, 1989
|access-date = December 1, 2012
}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

<ref name="Follow up">{{cite news
|title = Utah law officers follow up on serial killer's confessions
|newspaper = [[The Spokesman-Review]]
|location = Spokane, Washington
|agency = [[Associated Press]]
|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19890124&id=D1xWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5082,4470159
|date = January 24, 1989
|access-date = December 1, 2012
|archive-date = May 30, 2023
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230530021754/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19890124&id=D1xWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5082,4470159
|url-status = live
}}</ref>
}}

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* {{cite book
|last = Barth
|first = Christian
|title = The Garden State Parkway Murders
|year = 2020
|publisher = WildBlue Press
|location = Denver
|isbn = 978-1-948239-76-9
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Dekle
|first = George R. Sr.
|author-link = George R. Dekle, Sr.
|title = The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy
|year = 2011
|publisher = Praeger (Imprint of [[ABC-CLIO]])
|location = Santa Barbara, California
|edition = Hardcover
|isbn = 978-0-313-39743-1
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Foreman
|first = Laura
|title = Serial Killers&nbsp;– True Crime
|year = 1992
|publisher = Time-Life Books
|location = Alexandria, Virginia
|edition = Hardcover
|isbn = 978-0-7835-0001-0
|url-access = registration
|url = https://archive.org/details/serialkillerspro00edit
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Geberth
|first = Vernon
|title = Practical Homicide Investigation – Tactics, Procedures and Forensic Techniques
|year = 2015
|publisher = [[CRC Press]]
|location=Boca Raton, Florida
|edition = 5th
|isbn = 978-1-4822-3507-4
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Kendall
|first = Elizabeth
|title = The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy
|date=September 1981
|publisher = Madrona
|location = Seattle, Washington
|edition = Hardcover, 1st
|isbn = 978-0-914842-70-5
}}(Elizabeth Kloepfer, writing under a pseudonym)
* {{cite book
|last = Keppel
|first = Robert
|author-link = Robert D. Keppel
|title = The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
|year = 2005
|publisher = Pocket Books
|location = New York City
|edition = Paperback
|isbn = 978-0-7434-6395-9
}} Updated after the arrest and confession of the [[Green River killer]], [[Gary Ridgway]].
* {{cite book
|last = Keppel
|first = Robert
|title = The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
|year = 2010
|publisher = [[Simon & Schuster]]
|location = New York City
|edition = Kindle
|isbn = 978-1-4391-9434-8
}}
* {{cite book
|last1 = Keppel
|first1 = Robert D.
|last2 = Michaud
|first2 = Stephen G.
|title = Terrible Secrets: Ted Bundy on Serial Murder
|year = 2011
|publisher = Authorlink Press
|location = Irving, Texas
|edition = Enhanced E-Book
|isbn = 978-1-928704-97-3
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Larsen
|first = Richard W.
|title = Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger
|year = 1980
|publisher = Prentice Hall
|location = Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
|edition = Hardcover
|isbn = 978-0-13-089185-3
|title-link = The Deliberate Stranger
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Mello
|first = Michael A.
|title = Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment
|year = 1997
|publisher = [[The University of Wisconsin Press]]
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|edition = Paperback
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}}
* {{cite book
|last1 = Michaud
|first1 = Stephen
|last2 = Aynesworth
|first2 = Hugh
|author-link2 = Hugh Aynesworth
|title = The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy
|year = 1983
|publisher = Linden Press / [[Simon & Schuster]]
|location = New York City
|isbn = 978-0-671449-61-2
}}
* {{cite book
|last1 = Michaud
|first1 = Stephen
|last2 = Aynesworth
|first2 = Hugh
|author-link2 = Hugh Aynesworth
|title = The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy
|date = August 1999
|orig-year = 1983
|publisher = Authorlink Press
|location = Irving, Texas
|edition = Paperback; revised
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rO5IdAhFw_YC&pg=PA1
|isbn = 978-1-928704-11-9
|access-date = October 15, 2020
|archive-date = May 23, 2024
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240523011845/https://books.google.com/books?id=rO5IdAhFw_YC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
|url-status = live
}}
* {{cite book
|last1 = Michaud
|first1 = Stephen
|last2 = Aynesworth
|first2 = Hugh
|author-link2 = Hugh Aynesworth
|title = Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer
|date = October 1989
|publisher = [[Signet Books]]
|location = New York City
|edition = Paperback
|isbn = 978-0-451-16355-4
|url = https://archive.org/details/tedbundyconversa00mich_0
}} Transcripts of the authors' Death Row interviews with Bundy
* {{cite book
|last = Morris
|first = Rebecca
|title = Ted and Ann: The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy
|year = 2013
|publisher = CreateSpace
|location = New York City
|edition = 2nd
|isbn = 978-1484925089
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Nelson
|first = Polly
|title = Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer
|year = 1994
|publisher = [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow]]
|location = New York City
|isbn = 978-0-688-10823-6
|title-link = Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Rule
|first = Ann
|author-link = Ann Rule
|title = The Stranger Beside Me
|year = 1980
|publisher = W. W. Norton & Company
|location = New York and London
|edition = First
|isbn = 0-393-01399-5
|url = https://archive.org/details/strangerbesideme0000unse_d3e3/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater
|url-access = registration
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Rule
|first = Ann
|author-link = Ann Rule
|title = The Stranger Beside Me
|year = 1989
|publisher = [[Signet Books]]
|location = New York City
|edition = Paperback; revised and updated
|isbn = 978-0-451-16493-3
|title-link = The Stranger Beside Me
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Rule
|first = Ann
|title = The Stranger Beside Me
|year = 2000
|publisher = [[Signet Books]]
|location = New York
|edition = Paperback; updated 20th anniversary
|isbn = 978-0-451-20326-7
|url = https://archive.org/details/strangerbesideme00rule
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Rule
|first = Ann
|title = The Stranger Beside Me
|year = 2009
|publisher = Pocket Books
|location = New York City
|edition = Paperback; updated 2009
|isbn = 978-1-4165-5959-7
|url = https://archive.org/details/strangerbesideme00rule_1
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Sullivan
|first = Kevin M.
|title = The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History
|year = 2009
|publisher = [[McFarland (publisher)|McFarland and Co.]]
|location = Jefferson, North Carolina
|edition = Paperback
|isbn = 978-0-7864-4426-7
}}
* {{cite book
|last = Sullivan
|first = Kevin
|title = The Enigma of Ted Bundy: The Questions and Controversies Surrounding America's Most Infamous Serial Killer
|year = 2020
|publisher = WildBlue Press
|location = Denver, Colorado
|edition = ebook
|isbn = 978-1-952225-37-6
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=v-M9EAAAQBAJ
|access-date = March 2, 2024
|archive-date = March 27, 2024
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|url-status = live
}}
* {{cite book |last=Von Drehle |first=David |year=1995 |title=Among the lowest of the dead: inside death row |location=New York |publisher=Fawcett Crest |isbn=978-0-449-22523-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/amonglowestofdea00vond }}
* {{cite book
|last1 = Winn
|first1 = Steven
|last2 = Merrill
|first2 = David
|title = Ted Bundy: The Killer Next Door
|year = 1980
|publisher = [[Bantam Books]]
|location = New York City
|edition = Paperback
|isbn = 978-0-553-13637-1
}}
{{Refend}}

== External links ==
{{Sister project links|n=no|wikt=no|b=no|v=no|commons=Category:Ted Bundy|q=Ted Bundy|s=no|d=Q192218}}
* {{IMDb name|nm0120421}}
* [http://vault.fbi.gov/Ted%20Bundy%20/ FBI file on Ted Bundy] at vault.fbi.gov
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131215120659/http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/november/serial-killers-part-3-ted-bundys-campaign-of-terror Wanted by FBI – Theodore Robert Bundy], [[FBI]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426092219/http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/bundy-confession-tapes-revealed-for-the-first-time/nDrR5/ Audiotapes] of Bundy's 1989 confessions
* {{unbulleted list |Kimberly Leach [https://web.archive.org/web/20091111044057/http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/59128/59128.html appeals, briefs, and court ruling]; |Chi Omega [https://web.archive.org/web/20140202165623/http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/57772/57772.html appeals, briefs, and court ruling]; |1986 [http://supreme.justia.com/us/479/894/case.html ruling] by the [[United States Supreme Court]] in Leach case; |1989 Leach [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517113845/http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/73585/73585.html appeal, brief and court ruling] by the Florida Supreme Court}}

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