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Born to Deceive: Ted Bundy's Method, Mask, and Early Murders
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Ted Bundy didn't look like a killer — he looked like a future colleague, and he weaponized that completely. This is Chapter 1: the childhood, the fake arm cast, the Volkswagen Beetle, and the seven women who vanished from Seattle before anyone knew what was happening.
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Most people, when they picture a serial killer, picture someone who looks wrong. Someone who sets off alarms.
Theodore Robert Bundy was born November twenty-fourth, nineteen forty-six, in Burlington, Vermont. His mother was unmarried.
The fake arm cast is where most people enter this story, and it's worth understanding exactly what it was and what it wasn't. It wasn't improvised.
Nineteen seventy-four is where investigators eventually focused when they traced the killing back as far as they could confirm. Bundy was living in Seattle.
In the fall of nineteen seventy-four, Bundy relocated to Utah. He enrolled at the University of Utah College of Law in Salt Lake City.
By nineteen seventy-seven, Bundy was in custody in Colorado, facing charges related to the murder of a Caryn Campbell, a Michigan nurse abducted from a ski resort. During a pretrial hearing in Aspen, he was allowed to use the courthouse law library.
In the early hours of January fifteenth, nineteen seventy-eight, Bundy entered the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He'd been there for weeks.
The nineteen seventy-nine trial for the Chi Omega murders became a spectacle that most of the country could watch. It was one of the first murder trials to be fully televised nationally.
Bundy spent nearly ten years on death row. He filed appeals.
He confessed to at least thirty murders. Most investigators believe the real number is higher.
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