As an illegitimate child born in 1946 to a young girl from a rigidly puritanical family, Theodore Bundy spent the first four years of his life posing as his mother's brother to hide the family's shame. After his mother married, Bundy discovered his parentage, a fact that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Allegedly molested as a small child by a male relative, and shown no affection from his mother, he began to mutilate animals and spy on local girls. Still, the future looked good for the exceptionally bright, handsome young man. He passed high school. and entered college He was a volunteer worker at a suicide hotline and dated a society girl. When she called off their engagement. Bundy was crushed. In 1972 he began to stalk women on the street. In 1974 he inflicted serious injuries on a sleeping woman in her apartment. A few weeks later he attacked another sleeping woman, abducted her to a remote spot, raped, battered, and killed her. Posing as a student or security guard, sometimes asking for help with his arm in a sling, he killed 14 women, mostly college students who resembled his ex-fiance, in Washington, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado. Witness reports coupled with Bundy`s reckless driving led to his arrest in 1975 Extradited to Colorado, he escaped in 1977 and fled to Florida where, in 1978, he raped and killed two coeds and wounded three others. With the law on his trail, he abducted, raped, and killed his final victim, an 11-year-old girl, and was captured a week later. In 1979. Bundy was convicted of the Florida murders. Claiming complete innocence, he was married on death row, and executed by electric chair in 1989. after several failed appeals

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