Horror trophies, biting victims and sex with corpses… 7 sick examples of Ted Bundy's twisted mind 35 years after his execution
Thirty-five years after his death, Ted Bundy is still known as one of the most sickening serial killers in the world.
The gory details of his gruesome crimes, from his rituals to his disguises, make him an impossible figure to forget.
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The deranged butcher destroyed the lives of more than thirty young women and girls between 1974 and 1978 by kidnapping, raping and murdering them.
Bundy's ability to deceive his audience with his superficial charm made him easily fool the public Police — and his sympathy won him a legion of adoring fans and a wife during his 1980 murder trial.
Even if the the true extent of his vile crimes came to lightSome still couldn't fathom how handsome they were law student could be capable of such atrocities.
Bundy was eventually executed by electric chair on January 24, 1989 after his sick killing spree.
Sex with victims after death
After killing his victims, Bundy would regularly visit their bodies to groom them and perform sexual acts until they decomposed or were destroyed by wild animals to a point where it was no longer possible.
He is known to have beheaded at least twelve of his victims and kept their severed heads in his apartment as mementos.
When asked about this ritual, he said, “When you work hard to do something well, you don't want to forget it.”
One body, that of 18-year-old university student Georgann Hawkins, he admitted to revisiting three times.
Bundy also described washing the her of and applying makeup to the corpses of two 17-year-old girls he had raped and murdered.
It is said that he groomed the women he killed before using their loose heads to perform sexual acts on themselves.
Aimed at children
The sick killer used a number of tactics to gain the trust of his victims, or gain their sympathy, before kidnapping them.
He even preyed on schoolgirls.
The partially mummified remains of 12-year-old Kimberly Dianne Leach were found in a pigsty 35 miles away seven weeks after she disappeared from her high school.
Forensic experts determined that she had been raped, her throat slit and her genitals mutilated with a knife.
Bundy also confessed to killing 12-year-old Lynette Dawn Culver; he kidnapped and raped her and then drowned her in Idaho.
Murder package
A chilling collection of items was discovered in Bundy's home, including a ski mask, a mask made of pantyhose, a crowbar, handcuffs, trash bags, an ice pick and a coil of rope. Volkswagen in 1975.
The killer was arrested by a Utah Highway Patrol officer who saw him take off at a high rate of speed when he saw the police car.
Bundy tried to explain the stuff away, claiming that's what the ski mask was for to ski and that he found the handcuffs in a dumpster.
Police searched his apartment and found some other items related to his crimes, although the killer later said they had missed a hidden collection of Polaroid photos he had taken of his victims.
Biting his victims
Bundys incomprehensible, animal acts included leaving bite marks on his victims.
It was this habit, for which he was nicknamed “The Love-Bite Killer”, that ultimately led to his conviction.
After entering a student house through a faulty door, he gruesomely ruptured 20-year-old Lisa Janet Levy's left nipple, also biting deeply into her left buttock, strangling her and beating her unconscious.
At trial, the incriminating physical evidence included prints of the bite wounds he inflicted on the young woman, which forensic experts matched to casts of Bundy's body. teeth.
The link ultimately helped convict him of his crimes.
Practice before killing
There's no denying that Bundy took pleasure in his killings.
He himself once described the urge he felt to kill as a 'chemical tidal wave washing through his brain', and seemed to view killing as a sport – one that required practice.
During the day periods When he wasn't actively killing, he refined his techniques by luring women into his traps, only to release them later.
His enormous ego fascinated the world so much that his brain was removed after his execution in an attempt to learn more about his twisted mind.
However, the scientists found that his brain was completely 'normal', with no legions, injuries or deformities.
Bundy's original obsession
Diane Edwards, aka Stephanie Brooks, is said to have been Bundy's first love, his original obsession.
He was an insecure student when he met her at the University of Washington.
The pair entered into a relationship and were briefly engaged in 1973, but she dumped him, and the rejection cut Bundy to the core.
Some say this was the inspiration for his wave of violence against women and have drawn similarities between the appearances of his victims and those of Edwards.
He seemed so goal young white females, mostly middle class, with dark hair – just like his first love.
Impersonating police officers
One way the serial killer gained the trust of his victims was by posing as authority figures such as police officers and firefighters.
This, combined with his charming personality, would often win the women over and cause them to follow him to his car.
It was there that he hit them on the head with a crowbar or pipe and unleashed his cruelty.
He used this tactic when he kidnapped Carol DaRonch in 1974.
She was one of the few to survive his attacks
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