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He was extradited to Colorado to face murder charges, but Rule was still resistant to admitting that her friend was a possible killer. Bundy twice escaped from custody in Colorado, sending letters or postcards to Rule while on the run. He proclaimed his innocence and asked for money to help enter Canada. The fugitive eventually made his way to Florida. In 1950, Louise changed her surname from Cowell to Nelson [12] and, at the urging of multiple family members, left Philadelphia with Ted to live with cousins Alan and Jane Scott in Tacoma, Washington. [30] [31] In 1951, Louise met Johnny Culpepper Bundy (1921–2007), a hospital cook, at an adult singles night at Tacoma's First Methodist Church. [32] They married later that year and Johnny formally adopted Ted. [32] 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. He would later complain to a girlfriend that Johnny "was not his real father", "wasn't very bright," and "didn't make much money." [33] 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." [374]

Carlisle, Al (2017). Violent Mind: The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy. Genius Book Publishing. ISBN 978-0998297-37-8 a b Meyers, Art (November 17, 2010). "The Ted Bundy Murders". WCTV. Thomasville, Georgia: Gray Television. Archived from the original on October 12, 2018 . Retrieved October 11, 2018. In some interviews, Bundy spoke warmly of his grandparents [23] and told Rule that he "identified with," "respected," and "clung to" his grandfather. [24] 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 racist and xenophobic attitudes. In one instance, Samuel reportedly threw Julia down a flight of stairs for oversleeping. [25] He would sometimes speak aloud to unseen presences, [26] and at least once flew into a violent rage when the question of Bundy's paternity was raised. [25] Bundy described his grandmother as a timid and obedient woman who periodically underwent electroconvulsive therapy for depression [26] and feared to leave their house toward the end of her life. [27] Tron, Gina (November 20, 2020). "What Did A Doctor Learn About Ted Bundy That Made Her Think He Isn't 'Pure Evil'?". Oxygen . Retrieved June 13, 2022.

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One of the notable books published on Bundy’s crimes is The Stranger Beside Me. Published in 1980 and written by Ann Rule, a coworker of Bundy at a crisis hotline, the book describes how she gradually realized Bundy was a serial killer and then draws from their ongoing correspondence, which lasted until just shortly before Bundy’s execution. Rule’s book was turned into a TV movie of the same name in 2003, with Barbara Hershey playing Rule and Billy Campbell portraying Bundy. Douglas, C.R. (May 23, 2012). "Ted Bundy's lawyer: Bundy killed more than 100 women – and a man". Orlando Sentinel. p.Q3. Archived from the original on November 10, 2013 . Retrieved November 11, 2013. The Trials of Ted Bundy". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, Utah. January 24, 1989. Archived from the original on September 11, 2013 . Retrieved April 28, 2011. January 15: Kathy Kleiner (21): Bludgeoned as she slept at the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University resulting in her jaw being shattered and her right cheek being ripped open; survived. [393]

Author Kevin Sullivan, who calls himself a "Bundy expert," tries to tell the stories that haven't been told about Ted Bundy by interviewing the people who worked on his case, the people who knew him in real life, and the people who knew and loved the people he killed. So, he paints a more complete picture of both Bundy and the world around him, including many new facts and details that have never been seen before. The Bundy Secrets By Kevin Sullivan 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). [393] 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; [158] body buried according to Bundy near Rifle, 90 miles (140km) west of Vail, but never found. [389]Bundy graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology in 1972. He was accepted to and attended law school in Utah, though he never earned his degree. Others wore Richard Nixon masks and carried signs and effigies of a person hanging from a noose. One witness, Bob Reeves, said: ‘Our country, our government has spent millions of dollars giving this guy every chance. His innocent victims spread all over the country - they didn't have a second chance. They didn't get to call Mom.’ ( The Seattle Times, 24 January, 1989 – ‘Bundy Put to Death’). Shortly after the conclusion of the Leach trial and the beginning of the long appeals process that followed, Bundy initiated a series of interviews with Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. Speaking mostly in third person to avoid "the stigma of confession", he began for the first time to divulge details of his crimes and thought processes. [266] Bundy recounted his career as a thief, confirming Kloepfer's long-time suspicion that he had shoplifted virtually everything of substance that he owned. [267] "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. [1] Sexual assault, he said, fulfilled his need to "totally possess" his victims. [268] At first, he 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." [269]

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." Rule 2009, pp.611–612 On death row, Ted Bundy reached out to police and said he could help them find the "Green River Killer," who had killed dozens of women in Washington state. After a few years, Robert Keppel wrote a book about his work on the case. It shows as much about Bundy's own twisted personality as about the Green River Killer, who was finally caught and identified in 2001. The Encyclopedia of the Ted Bundy Murders By Kevin Sullivan Bundy relocated to Salt Lake City in late 1974 after being admitted to law school at the University of Utah. The killings in Seattle stopped, but young women in Utah, Colorado and Idaho began disappearing and being murdered under similar circumstances to the Seattle-area crimes. Police investigators in several states began sharing information, increasingly narrowing down on Bundy as their suspect in the string of unsolved murders. 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. [210] On December 23, the Aspen trial judge granted the request, but to Colorado Springs, where juries had historically been hostile to murder suspects. [211] On the night of December 30, with most of the jail staff on Christmas break and nonviolent prisoners on furlough with their families, [212] 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 [213] — changed into street clothes from the jailer's closet, and walked out the front door to freedom. [214] Bundy often lured his victims into his car by pretending to be injured and asking for their help. Their kindness proved to be a fatal mistake. Elizabeth Kloepfer, Ted Bundy’s GirlfriendIn the late afternoon of November 8, Bundy approached 18-year-old telephone operator Carol DaRonch at Fashion Place Mall in Murray, [147] less than a mile from the Midvale restaurant where Smith was last seen. He identified himself as "Officer Roseland" of the Murray Police Department and told DaRonch that someone had attempted to break into her car. He 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. [148] In September, Bundy sold his Volkswagen Beetle to a Midvale teenager. [183] Utah police impounded it, and FBI technicians dismantled and searched it. They found hairs matching samples obtained from Campbell's body. [184] Later, they also identified hair strands "microscopically indistinguishable" from those of Smith and DaRonch. [185] 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". [186]

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