Theodore Bundy

Theodore Bundy

One of the most famous killers of all time, Theodore Bundy vented his

rage on women, mostly college girls, all the while maintaining the

facade of a perfectly normal, intelligent, model citizen. His

traveling ways, clever tactics, and thorough body disposal methods

make it difficult to even say how many women Bundy killed during his

reign, but he was definitely one of the most prolific and frightening

serial killers of all time.

Bundy's rampage most likely began with Kathy Devine, 15, a hitchhiker

who disappeared on November 25th,1973 and found on December 6th. She

was sodomized, strangled, and her throat was cut. Lynda Ann Healy soon

disappeared from her basement bedroom. In fact, women were

disappearing throughout the upper Northwest, some abducted from their

homes and some vanishing right off the street. Still other women had

been simply attacked in their beds and most often left to die.

Washington investigators, where most of the abductions and attacks

were centered, couldn't help but notice. In most cases though, there

were no bodies, just missing women, so no true action could be

justified. That all changed when a man identified as "Theodore" by

witnesses, abducted two women from Lake Sammamish State Park on the

same day. Police had a finally had a name and witnesses to put with a

disappearance. The discovery of the two women's remains about a month

later, mixed in with the bones of other women, cemented the fact that

a serial killer was on the loose. The hunt for Theodore Bundy was on.

The unknown murderer continued killing despite the best efforts of law

enforcement, however. Women soon began to come u...

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