Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy (born Theodore Robert Cowell) (November 24, 1946 - January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who between 1974 and 1979 killed about two dozen young women in Washington, Utah, Colorado and Florida.
Bundy is believed to have been a sociopath. He was intelligent, educated, personable, extremely handsome, got along well with women, but nevertheless regularly brutally murdered them usually with a blunt instrument, sometimes by strangulation. Seldom seen, he rarely left any clues. Captured in Utah and convicted of assault he was extradited to Colorado. While on trial for murder he attempted escape twice, succeeding the second time and fleeing to Florida. Convicted there of murder he was sentenced to death by judge Edward Cowart and executedd in the electric chair. Ironically, because of the long appeals process, he would in fact outlive Cowart.
In Salt Lake City, Utah on November 8, 1974, Carol DaRonch narrowly escaped abduction by Bundy.
While under sentence of death, he was tried again and handed another death sentence by judge Wallace Jopling. During this second trial, he married Carole Ann Boone while she was on the witness stand.
In October 1982, his wife gave birth to their only child.
- "It is ordered that you be put to death by a current of electricity, that that current be passed through your body until you are dead. Take care of yourself, young man. I say that to you sincerely; take care of yourself. It's a tragedy for this court to see such a total waste of humanity that I've experienced in this courtroom. You're a bright young man. You'd have made a good lawyer, and I'd have loved to have you practice in front of me, but you went the wrong way, partner. Take care of yourself. I don't have any animosity to you. I want you to know that. Take care of yourself." —Judge Edward Cowart when sentencing Bundy to death.
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