
They had taken their rubber raft to the Yakima River and planned to spend the day floating down the river.
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Kloepfer also detailed several incidents in the book where Bundy's anger was on full display, including a rafting trip they made to the lake one July Saturday. "But even then, I suspected that we were saying these things to each other because neither of us was willing to face the truth: that Ted was bored with me that I was socially inadequate for the political circles he traveled in that he would soon be looking for someone new." "One night we finally talked about our future and assured each other that we'd stay together," Kloepfer wrote after Bundy had decided to move to Utah to attend law school. Kloepfer describes an affectionate relationship between the pair with few indications that the charismatic law school student could have been capable of such horrific acts of violence.īut while she considered her boyfriend to be "warm and loving" most of the time, there were moments where his unchecked rage spilled out. tracked down the book, published in 1981 (and the basis for the Netflix film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile), to learn more about Bundy's life and relationships behind closed doors. The out-of-print book, written by Kloepfer under the pen name Elizabeth Kendall, gives readers a rare glimpse into the intimate relationship the pair shared from 1969 until his final arrest for the mass murder of multiple women at a Florida sorority house in 1978.

While the women closest to Bundy managed to avoid his homicidal rages, the notorious killer admitted after his final arrest in Florida that Kloepfer had almost made his list of victims, according to Kloepfer's book "The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy." He was put to death in the electric chair.Įleanor Rose, the mother of one of his victims, Denise Naslund, said: “For everything he did to the girls - the bludgeoning, the strangulation, humiliating their bodies, torturing them - I feel that the electric chair is too good for him.”ĭid you watch Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.For years, Elizabeth Kloepferconsidered Ted Bundy her lover, but one chilly night in Seattle he almost became her killer as well. When the day of his execution came there were huge crowds outside, screaming 'burn, Bundy, burn'. His last known killing was 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, who his kidnapped from school, raped, murdered and then dumped her body under a pig shed.Ī few days later Bundy was finally arrested because his Beetle was stolen.Īfter confessing to 36 murders, Bundy was jailed and it has been reported that he was repeatedly raped by four men while he waited for execution on death row. He then bludgeoned death two other students, Karen Chandler and Kathy Kleiner, who were sleeping in an adjoining bedroom. Next, he beat and strangled 20-year-old Lisa Levy before sexually assaulting her with a bottle, ripping one of her nipples and leaving a deep bite in the flesh of her buttocks. He battered Margaret Bowman to death with a chunk of firewood then stranled her with a stocking.

Some of Ted Bundy's victims - Roberta Parks, Julie Cunningham, Brenda Carol Ball, Georgann Hawkins, Susan Rancourt, Kimberly Leach, Nancy Wilcox, Janice Ott He was executed by electric chair on Januand following his death, scientists were determined to find out what had turned this seemingly upstanding citizen into a monster. A person in that situation is God!”īundy was finally arrested, tried and sentenced to death. The killer claimed he was addicted to murder, saying: "You feel their last bit of breath leaving their body. In a further gruesome confession, Bundy even admitted to eating parts of his victims' bodies so he could "possess" them and they would become part of him. He would also collected several of his victims' heads as sick trophies and would perform sex acts on them after covering them in make-up. In one final sick insult to those he had murdered, he would often return to where he had abandoned the bodies and have sex with their corpses.īundy only stopped this final indignity when the body became too decomposed or had been eaten by animals. Raping, killing them and then dumping their bodies. Ted Bundy murdered 36 women in girls, and police believe there may have been more (Image: Bettmann Archive)įor years in the 1970s, Bundy targeted young women and girls.
