Everyone has secrets that they keep hidden from others. Ted Bundy is no exception, he was one of America's most successful serial killers. He was able to keep up a normal life, but hide some of the darkest secrets from others.
Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946. According to the biography of Ted Bundy on biography.com, he was sent to live with his grandparents in Philadelphia. During this time he was told that his mother was his sister to keep it hidden that he was born out of wedlock. As a child, Ted Bundy was a smart kid, but he was not social. During his teenage years, Bundy started looking into people's windows and stealing. Later, he would go onto college in Washington to get a degree in psychology and eventually get married and have a daughter.
Similar to other serial killers, Ted Bundy had a certain method or MO to how he killed people. Under the classification by Peter Vronsky, Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, Bundy would be an organized killer (100). The method he used to kill someone was orderly, and he got away with it many times. There were thirty three women that he had admitted to killing, but the number that police have come up with is a hundred or even over a hundred. Bundy would pretend he was injured and lear women into his car. After kidnapping the women, Bundy would typically rape and beat his victims to death. There were different locations of where he would dump the body, and he had a set of tools for the murdereds he committed. He was very smart and able to hide from his crimes for a long time.
It is unclear when the first killing was, but investigators believe it started around 1974. There were accounts of women missing in Oregon, and when he moved to Utah the same thing started happening. The next year Ted Bundy was pulled over and police found burglary tools that put him on their radar. He was then arrested for kidnapping Carol DaRonch in 1975. In 1977, he was convicted of a woman's death in Colorado, but on the way to the courthouse library Ted Bundy jumped out of the window and escaped for eight days. In that same year, he escaped again through a hole in the ceiling of his prison cell and managed to hide from the police. It was the following year on January 14, 1978, that Ted Bundy broke into a sorority house in Florida and killed two girls. Then, in February, he was able to kidnap a twelve-year old girl and murder her. It was not until he was stopped for rampage driving was he captured and brought into custody.
Ted Bundy was smart and was able to avoid the electric chair for ten years. He was put to death on January 24, 1989. A 1989 New York Times, article, "Bundy Is Put to Death in Florida After Admitting Trail of Killings" by Jon Nordhiemer wrote how there were around two-hundred people outside of the prison on the day Ted Bundy was put to death. They cheered and were overly excited to see that he was dead.
Ted Bundy was born in Burlington, Vermont on November 24, 1946. According to the biography of Ted Bundy on biography.com, he was sent to live with his grandparents in Philadelphia. During this time he was told that his mother was his sister to keep it hidden that he was born out of wedlock. As a child, Ted Bundy was a smart kid, but he was not social. During his teenage years, Bundy started looking into people's windows and stealing. Later, he would go onto college in Washington to get a degree in psychology and eventually get married and have a daughter.
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| Ted Bundy in Court |
It is unclear when the first killing was, but investigators believe it started around 1974. There were accounts of women missing in Oregon, and when he moved to Utah the same thing started happening. The next year Ted Bundy was pulled over and police found burglary tools that put him on their radar. He was then arrested for kidnapping Carol DaRonch in 1975. In 1977, he was convicted of a woman's death in Colorado, but on the way to the courthouse library Ted Bundy jumped out of the window and escaped for eight days. In that same year, he escaped again through a hole in the ceiling of his prison cell and managed to hide from the police. It was the following year on January 14, 1978, that Ted Bundy broke into a sorority house in Florida and killed two girls. Then, in February, he was able to kidnap a twelve-year old girl and murder her. It was not until he was stopped for rampage driving was he captured and brought into custody.
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| Ted Bundy's mug shot |
Works cited
Nordheimer, Jon. “Bundy Is Put to Death in Florida After Admitting Trail of Killings.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 24 Jan. 1989, www.nytimes.com/1989/01/25/us/bundy-is-put-to-death-in-florida-after-admitting-trail-of-killings.html.
“Ted Bundy.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 2 Aug. 2017, www.biography.com/people/ted-bundy-9231165.
Vronsky, Peter. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. New York: Berkly Books, 2004. Print.
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