On
this date January 24, 1989, one of America’s most notorious serial killer, Ted
Bundy was executed by the electric chair. Please go to this blog
post to learn more and also learnt about how he repented
at the last moment.
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Theodore Robert Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell; November 24,
1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered
numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. Shortly
before his execution, after more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30
homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true victim
count remains unknown, and could be much higher.
Bundy
was regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims, traits he
exploited to win their trust. He typically approached them in public places,
feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before
overpowering and assaulting them at more secluded locations. He sometimes
revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time, grooming and
performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild
animals made further interaction impossible. He decapitated at least 12 of his victims, and
kept some of the severed heads in his apartment for a period of time as
mementos. On a few occasions, he simply broke into dwellings at night and
bludgeoned his victims as they slept.
Initially
incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and
attempted criminal assault, Bundy became a suspect in a progressively longer
list of unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic
escapes and committed further assaults, including three murders, before his
ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978. He
received three death sentences in two separate trials for the Florida
homicides.
Ted
Bundy died in the electric chair
at Raiford Prison
in Starke, Florida,
on January 24, 1989. Biographer Ann Rule described
him 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." He once called himself "... the most cold-hearted son of a
bitch you'll ever meet." Attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defense
team, agreed. "Ted," she wrote, "was the very definition of
heartless evil."
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