Ted Bundy was a prolific serial
killer who was executed in Florida in 1989. He was said to be charming,
although not particularly handsome, and he seemed to have a way to get people
to trust him. He was a sociopath, although he once worked for a suicide
hotline.
How many people did Ted Bundy
kill? He confessed to 36. But the real answer to that question went
with Bundy to the electric chair. While alive, Bundy hinted at as many as 100 victims, but
there is not real way to know for sure. I just want to cover some of
the Bundy's known victims.
Bundy Victims By State
Washington State
Anne Marie
Burr, age 8
Date August 13, 1962
Anne lived not far from Ted Bundy,
then 15. Bundy had a paper route, and the little girl adored him. She followed
him around all the time. One night, Anne disappeared from her home. Her parents
found the front door wide open the next day. Her body was never found, although
street construction work near her home could easily have been used to hide her
body and it went unnoticed as workers filled in the road with cement.
Lonnie
Trumbull Little is know about Lonnie.
Lisa Wick
Date June 23, 1966
Both young women were roommates and
stewardesses. They had a third roommate, also a stewardess, who returned home
one morning to find her roommates seemingly asleep. They weren't. Both had been
attacked, and Lonnie was dead. Lisa survived, although she was in a coma for a
long time. She remembered nothing.
Linda Ann
Healey, age 21
Disappeared: January 31, 1974
Found March 3, 1975
On the last day she was ever seen,
Linda went to work as usual. She had invited her parents to dinner the next
day, and when they arrived, they found a horrific scene. Sheets and the
pillowcase were soaked in blood.
Police found zero evidence of the
attacker and Linda's body was missing. A year later her skull was found in an
area that came to be known as a dumping ground for Bundy's victims's remains.
Bundy confessed before his execution.
Donna Gail
Manson, age 19
Disappeared: March 12, 1974
Donna disappeared from Evergreen
State College on March 12, 1974. She had left her room to walk to a jazz
concert and was never seen again. She was known to hitchhike. She was a free
spirit type so no one thought much of her absence for nearly a week. Before his
death Bundy confessed to her murder and said her bones were among some
unidentified bones found on March 3, 1975 on Taylor Mountain, Washington.
The Colorado Murders
Caryn
Campbell, age 23
Disappeared: Jan 12, 1976 Wildwood
Inn, Aspen, Colorado.
Found: Feb 18, 1976 Owl Creek Road,
Aspen Colorado.
Caryn, a registered nurse, vanished
after she went to get a magazine from the inn room where she was staying. Her
fiancée searched for her but no avail. On February 18, she was found in a
nearby snow bank, bloody, nude and likely raped. Bundy confessed to her murder
before his execution.
Denise Lynn Oliverson, 25 years old
Disappeared: Apr 6, 1975 Grand
Junction, Colorado
Found: Never
After arguing bitterly with her
husband, Denise set off on her bike to visit her parents. She never arrived,
but because her parents weren't expecting her, and her husband assumed she'd
stayed with them because she was still mad, no one realized she was missing
until the next day. Her sandals and bike were found under a nearby bridge.
Bundy confessed to this murder as well.
Melanie
Cooley, 18 years old
Disappeared: Apr 15, 1975 Nederland,
Colorado
Found: Apr 23, 1975 Coal Creek Rd,
Nederland, Colorado
Melanie simply walked away from her
high school on April 15 and was never seen alive again. Road workers found her
body a few days later. She'd been beaten on the back of the head, hands tied,
pillowcase around her neck. Bundy confessed to her murder.
The Idaho Murder
Lynette
Culver, 13 years old
Disappeared: May 1975
Lynette disappeared from her
junior high school after leaving it for lunch break. She was never seen alive
again. Bundy confessed to her murder, saying that he abducted Lynette, took her
a hotel room, raped her, drowned her, and then dumped her in a river. Bundy
gave details about Lynette that only she could have told him, so he's likely
the killer. Her body was never found.
The Florida Murders
Lisa Levy, 20 years old
Murdered: Jan 14, 1978 Tallahassee
Florida
Lisa left a popular disco at about
10pm. She was tired, so she went home to bed at her sorority house. Her
roommate was gone for the weekend, so Lisa was alone. It was the same night
that two other girls in the house were viciously attacked, although they
survived. Lisa wasn't so lucky. She was
found by an officer in her room, no pulse. She died before getting to the
hospital. Her left nipple had nearly been bitten off and she had been
strangled. The bite mark on her left buttock would later identify Bundy as the
attacker.
Kimberly
Leach, 12 years old
Disappeared: Feb 9, 1978 Lake City,
Florida
Found: Apr 7, 1978 Suwannee State
Park, Florida
Kimberly was Bundy's last known
victim and the one that sent him to the electric chair. At her junior high
school, Kimberly discovered that she had left her purse in a classroom. She
went back to retrieve it, and in the process, a friend saw her in the distance,
going off with a man, crying. Others saw it too but assumed that the man was
just an angry father, disciplining his child. When Kimberly failed to return
home that day, her parents knew something was wrong.
The police thought she'd just run
away. They were very wrong. Kimberly's bones were found in a pigpen a couple
months later. There was evidence of rape and strangulation, but it's hard to be
sure. The day of his execution Bundy confessed of her rape with very gory
details that made some of the listeners violently ill. It was as if he enjoyed the moment.
This has been just a few of his
victims. Ted Bundy killed and attacked many others.
As always, stay safe !
- bird
