Ted Bundy, the true story of the serial killer on the road that killed students

Ted Bundy who greets journalists, walks in the arm of deaththe images of the investigators on the places where the bodies of some victims were found, the signs. While in the USA it streams on Hulu Ted Bundy: Dialogue with the devil, A new TV docu-series on one of the most famous and terrible serial killers of American and world history, we still cannot stop asking ourselves as it is possible that a monster that massacred at least 36 women between 1974 and 1978, violating the bodies even after death, continues to arouse a disturbing charm. “His figure has been mythity,” explains the criminologist Sergio Caruso, an expert in violent crimes, “but he is not the only one. Also Charles Manson And Renato Vallanzasca They received love letters in prison. Even Angelo Izzo. It is a paraphilia called ibristofiliathat is, the almost morbid attraction towards subjects who perform evil. With Ted Bundy we saw it at 360 degrees ».

Born in Burlington, in the American state of Vermont, November 24, 1946. Behind a difficult childhood. «His mother, Louise Cowell, puts him in the world in an institute for mothers, where he reports that the child’s father is a soldier who cannot deal with his son. In reality, according to some reconstructions, Ted Bundy would be born from an incest between her mother and her father. But the worst is that his make him grow convinced that his mother is his sister. When he discovers the truth, he remains upset, “explains Caruso. He adds: «It is not the only trigger of his madness. His biggest ambition was graduating, studying in a college and becoming a great lawyer. For a series of reasons, even cheap, he was unable to crown this dream. It is no coincidence that several victims have been adapted near a college. This aspect is called preferential victimologywhich is typical of serial killers (See, for example, Zodiac and Aileen Wuornos, ed). He preferred women, because they reminded him of mother, and acted near colleges who represented his greatest frustration. “

Among the triggering causes there is also Dianea beautiful and rich girl with a dark long hair with the line in the center, known at the university in 1967, where he studied psychology. He asks her to marry him, but she does not consider him at the height of his ambitions and leaves him. Bundy takes revenge By enrolling in jurisprudence, becoming a young promise of the Republican Party, being interviewed in the news. Then he looks for her, the door in luxury restaurants, makes them attend important people and, when she gives in, leaves her. Because, in the meantime, he is with another woman. But above all, has now entered a spiral of violence.

The first victim in Seattle: a woman named Lynda Ann Healy, kidnapped in her home. In the following months, Bundy makes several students disappear between the states of the Utah, Oregon and Washington. All minute girls, with long hair with the line in the middle, like Diane, the woman who had refused him.

“Ted Bundy is the most complete example of Last Serial Killer, that is, a serial killer who kills for sexual pleasure“, Says Caruso,” his modus operandi was varied and complex. He adequate the victims by exploiting his fascination and female propensity to help others. In fact, he attracted them by showing off an arm with a false chalk and convinced them to follow him to help him. Once he climbed to his car, they were trapped, as the counter of the passenger side and the window were blocked. He also used other stratagems, such as pretending to be a policeman. The modus operandi was varied: there was strangulation, contact weapons and often the corpses were raped post mortem and some beheaded victims ».

The tomb of a victim of Ted Bundy

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Until, On August 16, 1975, a policeman stops Ted Bundy’s car for a check And notes an iron bar, handcuffs, a rope and a breaker. Suspecting it is a thief, he arrests him. In the police station it turns out that she had tried to kidnap a woman, managed to save herself. Condemned for the attempted kidnapping, The serial killer is then offending for a murder in Colorado. At the trial he fits his lawyer: to the judges he says he will defend himself. Thus he gets to be able to leave his cell to look for the rules they need in the library of the Palace of Justice. Jump from a window and runs away. Captured to a checkpoint, six months later he evades again from a prison through an opening in the ceiling of his cell. He runs away in Florida, changes his name, he continues to kill.

He massacres four girls at night in a university pensioner, and another beats her in blood. Then he kidnapped a twelve -year -old girl. But during a routine road check, it is arrested.

The worldwide process: Ted Bundy defends himself. In front and inside the court he is full of girls in love with him. One, Carol Ann Boone, will receive a marriage proposal on live TV from the serial killer, he will marry him hoping to save him from the electric chair, he will have a little girl with him. In the arm of death, they will lead a strange family menage, until at 7.16 on 24 January 1989 Ted Bundy is executed.

“Before ending up on the electric chair, Bundy pronounced a phrase about the serial killers who shocked public opinion,” concludes Caruso. Which? “We are your children, your husbands, we grew up in normal families. We are everywhere».