Theodore A Serial Killer Who Claimed The Lives Of More...

Theodore (Ted) Robert Bundy was a serial killer who claimed the lives of more than 30 women, over the course of a decade (Owen). He was the son of Louise Cowell, who had Bundy on November 24, 1946 in the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Vermont (Rule). He was raised in Philadelphia, believing that his maternal grandparents were his parents (Ramsland). Ted and his mother Louise left to Washington State, shortly after arriving, Louise married Johnnie Bundy; who adopted Ted and gave him his famous surname (Ramsland). Ted attended the University of Puget Sound in Washington State and after a year he transferred to University of Washington (Rule). This is where he met Stephanie Brooks, his dream girl (Rule). Stephanie was from a wealthy†¦show more content†¦Even though he committed many crimes, he was formally charged for only four: the attempted kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, the abduction and murder of Caryn Campbell, the Florida State University Chi Omega murders, and th e Kimberly Leach abduction and murder (Rule). Ted Bundy has kidnapped, raped, beaten, sodomized, and/ or strangled: eleven women in Washington State, eight in Utah, four in Colorado, three in Florida, two in Oregon, two in Idaho, and one in California (Rule). Of all these victims only 20 were identified, five of which survived the attacks, and numerous other attempts at victims that we don’t know a numerical value (Rule). On November 8, 1974 in Murray, Utah, Bundy kidnapped Carol DaRonch by impersonating a police officer and telling DaRonch that someone attempted to break into her car and she needed to ride with him to the Police Station to fill out paperwork (Rule). During the trip, DaRonch realized that Bundy took a route that did not lead to the station, prompting Bundy to pull over; he tried to handcuff DaRonch, but failed by locking the handcuffs to the same wrists and she was able to run away from Bundy (Rule). Later on that day, Bundy abducted Debra Kent, a seventeen y ear old, who was picking up her sibling in from a play (Rule). Outside the auditorium that Debra was taken, police found a handcuff key that unlocked Carol DaRonch handcuffs (Rule). During