Ted Bundy
He watched intensively through her bedroom window as she undressed. He searched for a way into the residence so he could become closer to the girl he had just watched get ready to turn in for the night. He found an unlocked door and made his way into the basement where her bedroom was located. The unfamiliar house was like many other old fashioned clapboard houses with minimal security located in Seattle that housed many pretty university students. He quickly went to work when he entered her room by removing a metal bar from her bed frame and beating her over the head until she fell unconscious. Although he didn't rape her, he managed to accomplish something unthinkable by shoving the metal bar into her vagina causing the victim lacerations. It wasn't until mid-afternoon the following day, January 5, 1974, when fellow students discovered Sharon Clarke laying unconscious on her bed in a puddle of blood. Sharon received permanent brain damage resulting from the attack; she lay in a coma for more than a week before she was able to release any information about the attack to the police. Due to the severalties of the attack she was unable to provide police with any valuable information.
During his new freedom, Bundy went to Flordia to find new hunting grounds. Here he entered the Chi Omega sorority house where he attacked 3 women, killing 2 of them and severly injuring the other. He raped them, and bashed their skulls in with a wooden club. Bundy left a piece of evidence that would forever seal his fate by biting one of his victims. Later that night Bundy would attack another women, beating her in the head with the wooden club. She would survive but only after coming close to death. Bundy's last victim was 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, who disappeared after leaving her gym class to retrive her purse. Bundy was arrested on the morning of Febuary 15, 1978 after a police officer discovered a stolen orange VW driving erratically out of an alleyway. Bundy pulled over and when he was told to lie down, he kicked the police officers legs out from under him. Ted tried to run but the officer pulled out his gun and fired. Bundy fell to the pavement, but as the police officer bent over him, Ted hit him in the jaw. They struggled for a moment before the officer placed handcuffs around his wrists. Bundy recieved multiple death sentences for his brutal slaying of many young women across the country, but it wasn't until a decade after his arrest that the families of his victims saw justice done. Theodore Robert Bundy died in the electric chair at 7:07 a.m. on January 24, 1988. Bundy is suspected of killing 33 to 100 women, that is a secret he took to his grave. During the same time the Utah slayings occured, a serial murderer lurked the state of Colorado, praying on young women staying in nearby ski-resorts. Choosing victims the same way as he had before, Ted added: Caryn Campbell, 23, Julie Cunningham, 26, Melanie Cooley, 18, and Shelly Robertson, 23, to his list of murdered women. A week before Shelly Robertson was discovered discarded in a mine shaft, Ted Bundy was arrested and booked on suspicion for a burglary. En route to find drunken drivers, sergeant Robert Haywood followed a VW that speed off when the officer approached it. After speeding through two red lights, the VW pulled into a gas station and gave up the chase. Haywood asked for identification, the driver handed over his license. It revealed him as Theodore Robert Bundy, who lived at 565 First Avenue. When the car was searched, a ski mask, iron rod, and handcuffs were discovered, Haywood placed Bundy under arrest. Detectives working on the cases of the missing women heard about the arrest of Ted Bundy. They looked though his files and discovered that he had been a suspect for the Seattle murders a year earlier. After reviewing the files, detectives thought Bundy couldn't be the man they were looking for, due to his record as a hard-working law student with a degree in psychology from the University of Washington. When Bundy was questioned for the articles in his car he answered with coolness, and self confidence that the ski mask was used to keep his face warm while skiing, that he found the handcuffs in a garbage can, and that the ice pick and iron bar was part of his car tool-kit. When autorities asked if they could search his home, he gave his permission freely. Bundy had a whole week to clean up, so naturally they found nothing suspicious. Detectives did find some credit card reciepts, holiday brochures, and a map from a Colorado ski resort that ended up becoming circumstancle evidence. Four weeks after the attack on Sharon Clarke, an unidentified man entered through the basement where Lynda Ann Healy, and other flat mates lived. The attacker knocked Lynda unconscious, and then removed her nightdress to hang in the wardrobe. He then redressed the victim and made the bed neatly. Police suspected that if the purpose of the attack had simply been rape then it could have been accomplished then and there. It seemed that he wanted to take his time and to en
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