1. Ted Bundy
Freak of the Week

2. Childhood
born Nov 24, 1946
Elizabeth Lund
Home for Unwed
Mothers,
Burlington, VT
Earliest years with
his maternal
grandparents and
his “sister”

3. Birth certificate lists “Lloyd Marshall” as the
father
Mother would later talk about a “Jack
Worthington” as the father
Bundy’s family suspected his mother’s
abusive father.
In high school, after a break-up with his
girlfriend, he found out that his “sister” was
really his mother

4. His mother marries, but Ted never bonds
with his step-father
Bundy was a good student at Woodrow
Wilson High, active in his Methodist
church, and involved with the Boy Scouts

5. Socially shy and introverted throughout
high school; no natural sense of how to get
along with people:
“I didn’t understand what made people tick.
I didn’t know what made people want to be
friends. I didn’t know what made people
attractive to one another. I didn’t know what
underlay social interactions.”

6. His youngest sexual memories were of
paired sexuality and violence.
Before graduating from high school, he was
already a compulsive thief and shoplifter.
Stole skis and forged ski lift tickets;
arrested twice

7. University Years
Scholarship to
University of Puget
Sound
Transferred to
University of
Washington
Psychology major

8. Worked as a bagger at
Safeway and
volunteered at a
Suicide Hotline
Worked on Nelson
Rockefeller’s
presidential campaign
in WA
Entered law school,
but dropped out

9. Washington Murders

10. Midnight, January 4, 1974
entered basement bedroom
of 18-year-old Joni Lenz, a
dancer & student at UW
bludgeoned her with a
metal rod from her bed
frame while she slept,
sexually assaulted her with a
speculum

11. Victim #2: Lynda Ann Healy, another UW
student.
Broke into her room, knocked her
unconscious, dressed her in jeans and a
shirt, wrapped her in a bed sheet, and
kidnapped her
Began kidnapping one woman a month

12. Donna Manson, 19, Brenda Ball,
abducted from traveler, not reported
Evergreen College missing for 3 weeks
Susan Rancourt Georgean Hawkins,
abducted from 18, abducted walking
Central Washington 90-feet from
campus (man with boyfriend’s frat
sling) house to her sorority
house
Kathy Parks

13. Brenda Baker, 15, Denise Naslund,
run-away 4:30pm, left
boyfriend at beach
Janice Ott, 12:30 in to use restroom,
the afternoon. Man never came back
in sling asked for
help with his
sailboat at the lake

14. Utah Murders

15. Goes to law school in Utah …
Nancy Wilcox, 16-year-old
cheerleader
Melissa Smith, 17, seen
hitchhiking. Body found nude,
beaten, raped, sodomized,
strangled with her own stocking.
Twigs & dirt stuffed inside her
vagina, and her make-up had
been touched-up by the killer
before dumping the body.

16. Lauri Aimee, 17, Caryn Campbell,
kidnapped after kidnapped from
leaving a Halloween inside a hotel, walking
party 50-feet from the
elevator to her room
Approached Carol
DeRonch at a mall, Julie Cunningham,
posing as a police crutches ploy
officer . . .
then went to nearby
high school where
Debbie Kent, 17,
disappeared.

17. Denise Oliverson kidnapped after leaving
her parents house; sandals and bike found
in viaduct
Melanie Cooley; found with pillow case
tied around neck
Lynette Culver, 13, snatched from school
playground. Took her to a Holiday Inn,
raped her, and drowned her in the bathtub

18. Aug 16, 1975, Colorado Highway
Patrolman noticed a suspicious
vehicle in his neighborhood . . .
mug shots shown to DeRonch
and the high school drama
teacher, arrested for attempted
kidnapping
Fires his attorney and defends
himself

19. . . . until he escapes from prison by jumping
out of a second floor window at the
courthouse

20. On December 30, 1977, he hacked his way
through an old welded light fixture in his
cell ceiling and crawled through to a
deputies’ living quarters, put on some
civilian clothes and walked out.
Bus to Denver, flies to Chicago
Steals a car, drives to Tallahassee, FL, gets
an apartment near a college campus . . .

21. Florida Murders

22. January 15, 1978, early hours of Super Bowl
Sunday, broke into Chi Omega sorority
house and murdered two and severely
injured two others; sexually assaulted two
!

31. After leaving the Chi Omega house, he
broke into another house a short distance
away and assaulted Cheryl Thomas
Left Tallahassee for Lake City, FL
Kidnapped, raped, murdered 12-year-old
Kimberly Leach, and dumped her body
under a pig shed.

32. February 15, 1978, stopped by a Pensacola
officer who ran Bundy’s car’s plates and saw
that the car was reported stolen.

33. January 24, 1989, executed by electrocution
quot;It is ordered that you be put to death by a current of electricity,
that current be passed through your body until you are dead. … It
is an utter tragedy for this court to see such a total waste of
humanity as I've experienced in this courtroom. You're a bright
young man. You'd have made a good lawyer, and I would have
loved to have you practice in front of me, but you went another
way, partner.”

34. Modus Operandi
Break-ins early on (and again at end)
Daytime & nighttime kidnapping
Bludgeoning, rape, sodomy & strangulation
Decapitation & souvenirs of twelve
Necrophilia

35. Pathology
Antisocial Personality
Disorder with narcissistic
tendencies