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born at a facility for unwed mothers. raised to believe his mother was his older sister and his grandparents were his parents.
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Bundy sexually assaulted and beat an 18-year-old female dancer and student at the University of Washington. Joni Lenz was beaten with a metal rod from her bed frame. She survived, but with permanent brain damage.
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Bundy attacked another University of Washington student, killed her, and dumped her body in a different location.
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Bundy kidnapped and murdered a 19-year-old student from Evergreen State College.
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Bundy lured another female student from Central Washington State college and murdered her. Susan Rancourt was lured into Bundy's car because Bundy was wearing a cast and claimed he needed assistance with his books.
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Bundy's next victim was a female student from Orgeon State University. Roberta Parks was on her way to meet friends for coffee and never arrived.
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Bundy's next victim disappeared after leaving the Flame Tavern. Brenda Ball was last seen talking to a man with a sling in the parking lot.
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Bundy's next victim was from the University of Washington. Georgeann Hawkins vanished while walking down the alley between her boyfriend's dormitory residence and her sorority house.
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Bundy murdered two girls in the same day by luring them off the beach to help him unpack his sailboat from his car because his arm was in a sling. The two victims, Janice Anne Ott & Denise Naslund, never returned to the beach.
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Bundy's girlfriend, psychology professor, and co-worker Ann Rule, all reported Bundy as a possible suspect to the police.
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Bundy raped and strangled a still unidentified Jane Doe hitchhiker while in Idaho.
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Bundy moved to Utah to go to school at the University of Utah Law School. His first victim was dragged into a wooded area, to "de-escalate" his pathological urges by raping and releasing her. However, he strangled her in the process of trying to silence her.
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Bundy abducted 17-year-old Melissa Smith and murdered her. Smith disappeared after leaving a pizza parlor.
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Bundy abducted and murdered 17-year-old Laura Aime. Aime disappeared after leaving a cafe. Both Melissa Smith and Laura Aime had been beaten, raped, sodomized, and strangled with nylon stockings
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Bundy attempted to lure his victims by posing as a police officer. One victim, Carol DaRonch escaped Bundy after he tried to handcuff her in the police car. DaRonch had jumped out of the car while it was in motion.
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Bundy did not let DaRonch's escape bother him. Later that evening, Bundy attempted to lure a teacher and another student into his police car, but both refused. Bundy finally succeeded in luring 17-year-old Debra Kent into his car. Kent was leaving the school's theater production to pick up her brother.
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January 12: Bundy abducted Caryn Campbell outside of her hotel on her vacation.
March 15: Bundy abducted Julie Cunningham, a ski instructor, while she was walking from her apartment to dinner.
April 6: Bundy abducted Denise Oliverson while she was riding her bike to her parents' house.
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Bundy was arrested in Utah for failing to stop for a police officer. The officer found what appeared to be burglary tools in Bundy's car including a ski mask, a crow bar, handcuffs, trash bags, and an ice pick. Bundy was linked to the Utah murders and the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, who had escaped 'policeman Bundy' the year before.
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After a week-long trial, Ted Bundy was convicted of kidnapping and setenced to 15 years in prison.
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Bundy escaped from the law library during a recess of his preliminary hearing by leaving through an open windown behind a bookcase. He was caught 6 days later and put back in jail. However, Bundy escaped from prison a second time 7 months later.
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After his second escape from prison, Bundy arrived in Florida by taking a train, stealing a car, and taking a bus. He then began another, murderous rampage.
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After the Chi Omega murders, Bundy broke into the house of another student, Cheryl Thomas. He injured Thomas while she was sleeping and left semen and two of his hairs,
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Bundy broke into the Chi Omega sorority house of Florida State University and attacked four female students.
Margaret Bowman was bludgeoned with a piece of oak firewood as she slept, then garroted her with a nylon stocking.
Lisa Levy was beat unconscious, strangled, bit deeply into her left buttock, and sexually assaulted.
Kathy Kleiner suffered a broken jaw and deep shoulder lacerations.
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Bundy's final murder was that of 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach in southern Florida. Kimberly was called to the office to retriever her purse and never came back to class.
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Less than a week after the murder of Kimberly Leach, Bundy was caught and arrested in a stole VW Beetle. He then confessed to murdering 35 young women, but many believe that this number is much higher.
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Bundy was convicted on July 24, 1979 of multiple counts of first-degree murder. He appealed several times but lost.
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Theodore Robert Bundy was executed on January 25, 1989 by the electric chair in Florida.
