Ted Bundy was a very unlikely serial killer. He was well-educated and good-looking, and appeared to be socially, charming and witty, and had sexual relationships with women. He had a degree in psychology and worked for the local Seattle crime commission before going to Salt Lake City to study law.
Ted Bundy committed over 30 rapes and murders between 1974 and 1978 in five states that he admitted to. He usually approached his victims in public, either pretending to be injured or to be some sort of authority figure before kidnapping them. He then murdered his victims and left their bodies in lonely locations to decompose, going back to them to commit necrophiliac acts. He took heads from a number of victims and kept them in his apartment as souvenirs.
He was arrested in 1975 in Utah after kidnapping an 18 year old girl, Carol DaRonch, and jailed, whilst police also began to look at possible links to a long list of unsolved murders across the five states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he escaped from jail in 1977, but was soon recaptured. He then escaped again six months later, and fled to Florida, committing a series of robberies and assaults and three murders. He was finally captured again in 1978.
In two trials, he was found guilty and received three death sentences. Before he was executed, Bundy enjoyed his notoriety and also spoke to reporters, authors and even helped psychological profilers.
He also revealed what he had learned about and form other serial killers he was jailed with. He used his psychological training to suggest theories about murders. He said he thought there were very few truly psychotic killers, and even the most depraved serial killers was acting with their own form of rationality and for the pleasure they got from the killing. Through he could not see that his theory applied to himself too.
He was finally executed on January 24, 1989 by electric chair.