Goode, Erica (August 9, 2011). "DNA Profile of Ted Bundy Gives Hope to Old Cases". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on March 3, 2019 . Retrieved March 4, 2019. In November, the three principal Bundy investigators—Jerry Thompson from Utah, Robert Keppel from Washington, and Michael Fisher from Colorado—met in Aspen, Colorado, and exchanged information with thirty detectives and prosecutors from five states. [191] While officials left the meeting, which was later referred to as the Aspen Summit, convinced that Bundy was the murderer they sought, they agreed that more hard evidence would be needed before he could be charged with any of the murders. [192] McBride, Jessica (January 28, 2019). "Diane Edwards, Ted Bundy's Girlfriend: How She Changed Him". Heavy.com . Retrieved August 27, 2022. VW owned by serial killer, Ted Bundy". Archived from the original on July 21, 2016 . Retrieved July 25, 2016. January 15: Kathy Kleiner (21): Bludgeoned as she slept at the Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University resulting in her jaw being shattered and her right cheek being ripped open; survived. [393]

Rule and Aynesworth both noted that for Bundy, the fault always lay with someone or something else. While he eventually confessed to thirty murders, he never accepted responsibility for any of them, even when offered that opportunity prior to the Chi Omega trial, which would have spared him the death penalty. [370] He deflected blame onto a wide variety of scapegoats, including his abusive grandfather, the absence of his biological father, the concealment of his true parentage by his mother, alcohol, the media, the police whom he accused of planting evidence, society in general, violence on television, and, ultimately, true crime periodicals and pornography. [371] He blamed television programming, which he watched mostly on sets that he had stolen, for "brainwashing" him into stealing credit cards. [372] On at least one occasion, he even tried to blame his victims: "I have known people who ... radiate vulnerability", he wrote in a 1977 letter to Kloepfer. "Their facial expressions say 'I am afraid of you.' These people invite abuse ... By expecting to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it?" [373] Another significant element of delusion permeated Bundy's thinking: a b "Psychics Join Search". Orlando Sentinel. Orlando, Florida: Tronc. April 25, 1989. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012 . Retrieved May 3, 2012.

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Kloepfer secretly went to the police with her suspicion of Bundy’s involvement in prominent local murders, but they didn’t believe he was the killer. The pair remained together, though they grew distant when Bundy moved to Olympia the following year. The night before his execution, Bundy confessed to 30 homicides, but the true total remains unknown, and Bundy occasionally made cryptic comments to encourage speculation. [313] He told Aynesworth in 1980 that for every murder "publicized", there "could be one that was not." [377] When FBI agents proposed a total tally of 36, Bundy responded, "Add one digit to that, and you'll have it." [378] Years later he told Nelson that the common estimate of 35 was accurate, [313] but Keppel wrote that "[Ted] and I both knew [the total] was much higher." [77] In an interview, Keppel stated his belief that Bundy had killed "at least 50, and maybe 75." [379] Hare, Robert D. (1999). Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopath Among Us. New York: The Guildford Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-57230-451-2.

He was extradited to Colorado to face murder charges, but Rule was still resistant to admitting that her friend was a possible killer. Bundy twice escaped from custody in Colorado, sending letters or postcards to Rule while on the run. He proclaimed his innocence and asked for money to help enter Canada. The fugitive eventually made his way to Florida. David, Lohr (October 5, 2011). "DNA Evidence Fails To Link Ted Bundy To Ann Marie Burr". The Huffington Post. New York City: Huffington Post Media Group. Archived from the original on December 16, 2011 . Retrieved December 29, The Stranger Beside Me is a 1980 autobiographical and biographical true crime book written by Ann Rule about serial killer Ted Bundy, whom she knew personally before and after his arrest for a series of murders. [1] Subsequent revisions of the book were published in 1986, 1989, 2000, and 2008. Ortiz, Marcos (February 18, 2015). "Ted Bundy's Utah confession". ABC4News . Retrieved October 20, 2023. The ability to use DNA as evidence would come years after his crime spree, as would the development of the Automated Fingerprint Identification System and National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.John Henry Browne, a lawyer for Bundy, would later claim "that the first person he killed was a young boy when they were playing some kind of sex game in the woods. And so he must have been only 12, 13, 14." [380] Browne also said that "Ted told me in that interview that he killed over 100 people." [381] "I told Ted Bundy that we now have the evidence to charge him with both cases," Leon County Sheriff Kenneth Katsaris recalled, referring to the Chi Omega murders and the slaying of Leach. "He looked at me and said, 'When you find the person that committed these crimes that you think I committed, that person is going to be wanted for murders of women in the three digits in six states.'" [382] "I don't think even he knew ... how many he killed, or why he killed them", said Reverend Fred Lawrence, the Methodist clergyman who administered Bundy's last rites. "That was my impression, my strong impression." [383]

Ted Bundy was born Theodore Robert Bundy on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. He started life as his mother’s secret shame, as his illegitimate birth humiliated her deeply religious parents. Eleanor Louise Cowell, who went by Louise, was 22 years old when she delivered Ted at a home for unwed mothers. Later, Cowell brought her son to her parents in Philadelphia. Shortly after the conclusion of the Leach trial and the beginning of the long appeals process that followed, Bundy initiated a series of interviews with Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth. Speaking mostly in third person to avoid "the stigma of confession", he began for the first time to divulge details of his crimes and thought processes. [266] Bundy recounted his career as a thief, confirming Kloepfer's long-time suspicion that he had shoplifted virtually everything of substance that he owned. [267] "The big payoff for me," he said, "was actually possessing whatever it was I had stolen. I really enjoyed having something ... that I had wanted and gone out and taken." Possession proved to be an important motive for rape and murder as well. [1] Sexual assault, he said, fulfilled his need to "totally possess" his victims. [268] At first, he killed his victims "as a matter of expediency ... to eliminate the possibility of [being] caught"; but later, murder became part of the "adventure". "The ultimate possession was, in fact, the taking of the life", he said. "And then ... the physical possession of the remains." [269] With all appeal avenues exhausted and no further motivation to deny his crimes, Bundy agreed to speak frankly with investigators. He confessed to Keppel that he had committed all eight of the Washington and Oregon homicides for which he was the prime suspect. He described three additional previously unknown victims in Washington and two in Oregon whom he declined to identify if indeed he ever knew their identities. [288] He said he left a fifth corpse—Manson's—on Taylor Mountain, [289] but incinerated her head in Kloepfer's fireplace. [290] "He described the Issaquah crime scene [where the bones of Ott, Naslund, and Hawkins were found], and it was almost like he was just there", Keppel said. "Like he was seeing everything. He was infatuated with the idea because he spent so much time there. He is just totally consumed with murder all the time." [291] Nelson's impressions were similar: "It was the absolute misogyny of his crimes that stunned me," she wrote, "his manifest rage against women. He had no compassion at all ... he was totally engrossed in the details. His murders were his life's accomplishments." [178] Michaud & Aynesworth 1999, p.272; Bundy, Boone, and a prison guard all told this source that the couple "took advantage on at least one visit together to consummate their relationship".An infamous national figure since his Florida trials, Bundy’s life has been the subject of numerous dramatized films, a documentary series, and books attempting to shed light on his crimes. Bundy graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in psychology in 1972. He was accepted to and attended law school in Utah, though he never earned his degree. D'Arc, James V. (2010). When Hollywood came to town: a history of moviemaking in Utah (1sted.). Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423605874.

I don't know why everyone is out to get me", he complained to Lewis. "He really and truly did not have any sense of the enormity of what he had done," she said. [368] "A long-term serial killer erects powerful barriers to his guilt," Keppel wrote, "walls of denial that can sometimes never be breached." [375] Nelson agreed. "Each time he was forced to make an actual confession," she wrote, "he had to leap a steep barrier he had built inside himself long ago." [376] Victims Confirmed Bundy was executed in the Raiford electric chair at 7:16a.m. EST on Tuesday, January 24, 1989. His last words were directed at his attorney Jim Coleman and Methodist minister Fred Lawrence: "Jim and Fred, I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends." [302] Hundreds of revelers sang, danced and set off fireworks in a pasture across from the prison as the execution was carried out, [303] [304] then cheered as the white hearse containing Bundy's corpse departed the prison. [305] He was cremated in Gainesville, [306] and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location in the Cascade Range of Washington State, in accordance with his will. [307] [308] Modus operandi and victim profilesIn November, Kloepfer called King County police a second time after reading that young women were disappearing in towns surrounding Salt Lake City. Detective Randy Hergesheimer of the Major Crimes division interviewed her in detail. By then, Bundy had risen considerably on the King County hierarchy of suspicion, but the Lake Sammamish witness considered most reliable by detectives failed to identify him from a photo lineup. [153] In December, Kloepfer called the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and repeated her suspicions. Bundy's name was added to their list of suspects, but at that time no credible forensic evidence linked him to the Utah crimes. [154] In January 1975, Bundy returned to Seattle after his final exams and spent a week with Kloepfer, who did not tell him that she had reported him to police on three occasions. She made plans to visit him in Salt Lake City in August. [155] Bundy's 14th documented murder victim (Caryn Campbell) and the subject of his first homicide indictment Nelson, Polly (2019). Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer. Echo Point Books & Media. ISBN 978-1635617-91-7 Trooper who arrested Ted Bundy dies at 90". August 9, 2017. Archived from the original on January 26, 2019 . Retrieved January 26, 2019.