Ted Bundy

Dr. M. Diamond

His Victims

• First known– Joni Lenz (pseudonym); U.

Wash. student– Jan. 4, 1974, entered her

basement bedroom, bludgeoned and sexually assaulted

– spent 10 days in a coma, survived

• First murder– Lynda Ann Healy, U. Wash.

student– Jan. 31, 1974, broke into her

room, beat her unconscious– Dressed her and carried her

off wrapped in a bed sheet

More disappearances

• March 12, 1974 – Donna Manson, student at Evergreen State Coll.

• April 17, 1974 – Susan Rancourt, student at Central Washington State Coll.

It continued….

• Kathy Parks, May 6, 1974, Oregon State University

• Brenda Ball, May 25, 1974 – the only non-student

• Georgeann Hawkins, June 11, 1974, U. Wash., Seattle

July 14, 1974

• Janice Ott and Denise Naslund kidnapped in broad daylight at a Washington State Park

• Descriptions from 8 different people

• A young man, ‘Ted’, left arm in sling, asking for help

• Their remains discovered, Sept. 7, 1974, 1 mi. from park

• March, 1975, skulls and jawbones of Healy, Rancourt, Ball and Hawkins discovered on Taylor Mt., just to the east

Utah

• Fall, 1974, Bundy enrolled in U. Utah Law School

• Nancy Wilcox disappeared, Oct. 2

• Oct. 18, Melissa Smith (daughter of police chief), 17, abducted, raped, sodomized, strangled

• Oct. 31, Laura Aime, 17, abducted, beaten, strangled

Near miss, narrow escape and another death

• Nov. 8, 1974, Carol DaRonch narrowly escaped from Ted Bundy; later, able to identify him

• Had claimed to be a police officer

• A short time later, Debby Kent, 17, abducted outside HS; never seen again

Colorado, 1975

• Caryn Campbell (23), Jan. 12 (body found Feb. 17)

• Julie Cunningham (26), March 15

• Denise Oliverson (25), April 6

More, 1975

• Lynette Culver (13), May 6, school playground, Idaho

• Susan Curtis (15), June 28, youth conf., Utah

• Nancy Baird (23), July 4, Utah

• Bodies of Cunningham, Oliverson, Culver and Curtis have never been found

Arrested

• Salt Lake City, traffic violation, Aug. 16, 1975

• Suspicious items found in car (burglary tools?)

• Further investigation connected him to some disappearances

• Carol DaRonch and other witnesses identified in lineup

• March 1, 1976, convicted of DaRonch kidnapping

• CO. wanted to extradite to face murder charges

• Dec. 13, 1977, he escaped from the (small) Glenwood Springs jail, caught a bus to Denver and got on a flight to Chicago

• Police did not notice he was missing for 17 hrs.

Florida

• From Chicago– Train to Ann Arbor, MI– Stole a car in Ann

Arbor and drove to Atlanta

– Abandoned the car in Atlanta and took a bus to Tallahassee

– Rented a room as “Chris Hagen”

• Tallahassee– Committed numerous

petty crimes– Stole a student ID and

sent away for copies of student’s SS card and birth cert.

Jan. 15, 1978

• Two and a half years after last murder

• Entered Chi Omega sorority house, FSU, Tallahassee around 3 a.m.

• During a 30’ period– Lisa Levy and Margaret

Bowman, beaten on the head, strangled. Lisa raped. Both died

– Two others in sorority house also beaten (survived)

– Intruder seen by another woman in house

– About 1h. later, broke into another home close by and severely beat another female FSU student

Evidence Left

• Eyewitness• No fingerprints (room

wiped clean) – some print smudges

• Intruder took weapon (wooden club? cloth covered log?)

• Intruder’s blood type• Sperm sample• Bite marks on Lisa

Last victim

• Feb. 9, 1978, Lake City, FL• Abducted, raped and

murdered Kimberly Leach, 12 years old

• Feb. 12, stole a car, left Tallahassee, headed west

• Feb. 15, stopped on traffic violation

• License plate check showed stolen car

• Taken into custody – fingerprint ID revealed true identity

Teeth

• Bundy refused to give a dental impression

• Search warrant issued to get a dental impression any way possible

• Police served and executed warrant ASAP to prevent Bundy from having his teeth ground before impression taken

A Famous Bite Mark

• Bundy had bitten Lisa Levy on her left buttock leaving bite marks

• Plaster casts made of Bundy’s teeth and matched to bite mark

• Teeth were distinctive

Trial

• Dr. Richard Souviron, dentist

• Photos of Bundy’s upper and lower teeth and gums

• Showed uneven pattern• Unique identification

marks– Matched impression of

Bundy’s teeth– Structure of alignment– Chips– Size– Sharpness

Convictions

• Evidence– Chi Omega killings, bite mark

evidence, eyewitness– Kimberly Leach, fibers,

eyewitness

• Defense– Odontology – interpretation

subjective

• Rebuttal– Dr. Souviron experimented

with model teeth to standardize analysis

– Dr. Lowel Levine, forensic dentistry consultant to NYCME

• Victim must have been passive

• Long legal history of odontology

• Bundy was sentenced to death for three murders

• Confessed to other murders while in jail

• Executed Jan. 24, 1989

M.O.

• All victims were white females, most between ages 15-25 with long straight hair parted in the middle

• Bundy was nice looking but not memorable

• Gained victim’s trust– Wore sling or cast– Impersonated authority

figure

• Lured to car, hit in the head, transported, strangled, raped