Ted Bundy

After Bundy's execution in Florida's electric chair in January of 1989 his wife changed her name and moved her and Bundy's daughter to an undisclosed location to start over. Sounds like a good idea to me.

It is still unclear as to what 'makes' a serial killer. It is thought to be a combination of 'nature and nurture'. It is a complex problem with no easy solutions. Genetics and environment under the right circumstances can produce the likes of Ted Bundy. As a young child Bundy showed some very disturbing behavious that were a red flag for what was to come. This is true with most serial killers. Looking into their childhoods, there are similarities that cannot be easily dismissed as coincidence. Although there are many people that have less than perfect childhoods yet they become upstanding and law-abiding citizens. That is why serial murder is still mostly a mystery.

With Ted Bundy in particular, he claimed his obession for pornography turned him into a killer. It does not seem surprising that he blamed an outside source, when the real problem was inside him. If any good can come of such a tragic life, Bundy as a research subject was valuable to bring understanding to his unique kind of killer.

I could not find the Tacoma address. John Cowell's last residence was in the Westwood section of Seattle where he died on Sunday, March 4, 2007.

As far as I can tell Bundy's mother Louise is still living and may be living in a nursing home. I need to reseach this better and if she has died just recently, come up with a date of death and cause.

He was in Michigan on January 1978 after gaving caught a train. He was there for a few days.

Theodore (Ted) Bundy was a notorious serial killer whom started his career as a murderer in Washington state, where he spent most of his childhood years. Bundy went on to kill in at least five other states and made two jailhouse escapes that spoke of his intelligent, cunning mind. Finally caught after attacking numerous women, killing three of them in Florida, he spent the next dozen years on Florida's death row. In January 1989 Bundy lost his own life in the electric chair. Toward the end of his life Bundy tried to make deals with various police agencies in an attempt to delay his date with 'Old Sparky'. Florida was having none of it. The execution went off as planned. The man that so callously ended the life of so many women had to be helped to the electric chair due to weakness in his knees at the prospect of losing his own life.

Peg Bundy is a character in the TV series Married with Children. The Peg Bundy character was completely unrelated to Ted Bundy.

It was covered by all major TV news stations and portions of it was shown on the nightly news but the entire trial was not televised like some of the cases

today. OJ Simpson's entire trial was captured on film and viewers could catch it live on their TVs daily.

It is estimated that it takes approximately $6 million on average to execute a prisoner in the U.S. This begins at prosecution, runs through all of the madatory court appeals that are built into all capital murder cases, through to actual execution. The average time spent on death row differs from state to state. California's average is 20 years, Texas is half of that time.

Bundy seemed to like young girls of collegiate age with long dark hair. It has been taken as truth that he chose these certain physical characteristics after being spurned by a girlfriend with similar traits. This theory is pretty thin. Bundy displayed disturbing behavior from his earliest years and in fact had assaulted at least one woman before he even met his future love.

What makes more sense is that Bundy obviously was attracted to women with these qualities since his crimes were sexual in nature. Just as some men prefer blondes Bundy liked young girls with a particular look.

Of course. Although I was not there to personally witness it, Bundy's knees gave out on his way to the 'chair' and was supported the rest of the way by the guards. I would say he was most definitely scared.

He was shoplifter at an early age but the firts serious charge was aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault and convicted in 1975.

//There is some circumstantial evidence that Bundy murdered his first victim at the tender age of 14. Anne Marie Burr disappeared from her home in 1961 and was never found, alive or dead. Bundy was seen by Anne Marie's father as he searched the neighborhood for his missing daughter.//

Circumstantial evidence does not make his first crime.

No, but he did use a fake police badge as a ploy to get close to victims.

Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946 and died on January 24, 1989. Ted Bundy would have been 42 years old at the time of death or 68 years old today.

The only address that I could find in Utah is 1058 S.W. Temple.

Ted Bundy : Conversations with a Killer was written by Stephen G. Michaud.

Ted Bundy was a serial killer and not a spree killer. The exact number of women Bundy killed will never been known. There is also some debate when he started killing, but most sources say that he began his murderous rampage around 1974 at the age of 28.

Bundy's crime spree lasted from 1973 until his capture in Florida and 1978. But it seems likely that Bundy's first victim was Ann Marie Burr in 1962 when Bundy was only 14 years old.

Autographs are only worth what someone is willing to pay for them. In the case of Bundy I would imagine not more than $25 at most but since I'm not a collector of such things this is only a guesstimate.

In August 1975 police attempted to stop Bundy for a driving violation. He aroused suspicion when he tried to get away by turning his car lights off and speeding through stop signs. When he was finally stopped his VW was searched and police found handcuffs, an ice pick, crowbar, pantyhose with eye holes cut out along with other questionable items. They also saw that the front seat on the passenger side of his car was missing. Police arrested Ted Bundy on suspicion of burglary. Bundy was extradited from the Utah prison to Colorado for the trial. Serving as his own lawyer allowed him to appear in court without leg irons plus gave him an opportunity to move freely from the courtroom to the law library inside the courthouse. In an interview, while in the role as his own attorney, Bundy said, "More than ever, I am convinced of my own innocence." In June 1977 during a pre-trial hearing he escaped by jumping out of the law library window. He was captured a week later.

Bundy did get a fair trial but he broke the cardinal rule of lawyers by defending himself. As a law student Bundy certainly knew that a lawyer that represents himself has a fool for a client. I firmly believe that this is the result of Bundy's immense ego, a condition that he never recovered from.

When Bundy first embarked on his career as serial murderer he took his time. Once the victim had been singled out, abducted and finally murdered, Bundy took the bodies to remote areas. In the hope that no bodies would ever be found and Washington state and the Pacific Northwest provided ample remote locations in which to get rid of the victims. He followed this pattern until the very end of his killing career. But by the time Bundy had arrived in Florida, he was showing signs of distress and panic and he was increasingly out of control. This is very common behavior for a lot of serial killers. The crimes seem to escalate over time.

His killings in the state of Florida were different from his previous murders. He killed the sorority girls in their own beds, leaving physical evidence that came back to haunt him during his trials. His earlier victims had decomposed as did any evidence that was on or with the bodies. Like many killers before him and after him, Bundy was self-destructing, and it aided the police with his capture and conviction.

I could find no info about Bundy living in Fullerton.

Bundy is classified as an 'organized' killer. They usually have a higher than average IQ, as Bundy did. He was never dumb and was reckless very seldom, until the very end, while in Florida.

I don't think he could be classified as a serial arsonist but when he was younger I believe he like to start fires just for fun. Of course fire-starting is one of the warning signs of a serial killer in the making.

This does not mean that every child that plays with matches will grow up to be a killer. In fact the odds would be very small. But when a child starts fires, tortures animals, ect I would think these would be taken together as a red flag.