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0:08Bob Hayward a highway patrol officer
0:10from Salt Lake City sits in his car in
0:12front of his house on Hogan Street he's
0:15just finishing his shift when a tan
0:17Volkswagen Beetle passes by with its
0:19lights turned off Hayward knows his
0:22neighborhood and realizes this car is
0:24most likely not from here the officer
0:27goes on and checks the Volkswagen Beetle
0:30Parks right in front of his neighbor's
0:31house the owners are not home only their
0:3417 and 19-year-old daughters
0:37alone he turns on his brights to read
0:39the license plate this startles the
0:41driver and he speeds away Hayward chases
0:44him the driver blows past one and then
0:47another stop sign award has no intention
0:50of letting the man escape a few minutes
0:52later the beetle finally stops at an
0:54abandoned gas
0:56station a man gets out of his vehicle
0:59with his hands up
1:00he wears blue jeans a black turtleneck
1:03and Tennis Shoes he has shoulder long
1:05dark hair and smells of weed Hayward
1:08points his gun at him the man says he's
1:10a lost student who was at the local
1:11Drive-In watching Towering Inferno he
1:14got lost on his way home the only
1:16problem is that Hayward drove by the
1:18theater earlier Towering Inferno was not
1:21being shown that night the officer
1:24checks the man's car and sees something
1:26very strange the passenger seat is
1:29missing
1:30in its place is an open bag with
1:32multiple very strange items a ski mask a
1:36crowbar an ice pick a box of trash bags
1:40gloves a panty hose rope and some wire
1:43in the trunk heward also discovers a
1:46pair of handcuffs I'm going to arrest
1:48you tonight for evading an officer
1:50Mister but I intend to ask the county
1:52attorney for a complaint against you for
1:55possession of burglary tools back at the
1:57police station the man gets registered
1:59and photographed while he had the
2:01necessary tools there was no burglary to
2:04directly link them to but without any
2:06evidence he is free to leave the station
2:08on bail Bob Hayward is suspicious he's
2:12convinced that the man wanted to break
2:13into his neighbor's house with those two
2:15girls
2:17inside though it was only much later
2:20that Hayward would realize the man he
2:22arrested that night was none other than
2:24America's most infamous killer Ted
2:28Bundy and it will take a lot more to
2:31finally catch him he's not a wild beast
2:33to look at or to hear her viciously
2:35fting her he was thoughtful charismatic
2:37clubbing her to death he was quite
2:40personable slow down friend think you
2:46SK When It Go
2:50[Music]
2:58[Music]
3:14[Music]
3:22the 70s and 80s are the era of serial
3:24killers in the US Jeffrey dmer John
3:27Wayne gasy Charles Manson but one of
3:30them stands out Ted Bundy he's handsome
3:34articulate likable even well I'm sure it
3:38works and you've got to have faith it'll
3:39work or else you'd be be reduced to some
3:42kind of uh you know mumbling idiot
3:44Theodore Robert Bundy was born on
3:46November 24th
3:481946 he's a smart boy and grows up in a
3:51relatively normal workingclass family I
3:54grew up in a wonderful home with two
3:57dedicated and loving parents one of
4:00five brothers and
4:02sisters a home where we as our as
4:05children were the focus of of my
4:07parents' lives where we regularly
4:09attended church two Christian parents
4:12who did not drink they did not smoke
4:13there was no gambling there was no
4:16physical abuse or fighting in the home
4:17but it was a fine solid Christian home
4:21but not everything is all right with Ted
4:23from his early of an age is 3 years old
4:25he does strange things when his aunt is
4:28sleeping he arranges kitchen knives
4:30around her when outside playing in the
4:31forest he frequently takes apart mice
4:34when swimming he more than once tries to
4:36drown others he never shows any signs of
4:42guilt for a few years he and his mother
4:44lived together with his grandparents his
4:47family is religious his grandfather a
4:49deacon but the grandfather is also
4:52abusive and violent a racist wife beater
4:54and collector of violent horn despite
4:57all this Bundy adores him and regularly
5:00Peaks into his collection Ted is
5:03intelligent and good-looking but he is
5:05also very shy a loner who is often
5:08bullied at school he sometimes has
5:10serious outbursts of rage and does not
5:12quite fit in with the other kids his age
5:15during his first years at College Ted is
5:18insecure and has almost no social life a
5:21positive memory for him is when he buys
5:23in 1968 tan
5:26Volkswagen gives him a sense of freedom
5:28and Independence
5:33over time Ted Bundy builds the perfect
5:38mask he appears as a confident and
5:41Charming young man now graduates in
5:43Psychology starts dating girls and
5:45attends law school but he doesn't care
5:48much about the law himself as a teenager
5:51Bundy had a lengthy history of theft
5:53when he turned 18 it was wiped but the
5:56desire to commit a crime grows and grows
5:59inside him on February 1st 1974 Bundy
6:04breaks into a student's home abducts and
6:07kills his very first victim Linda and
6:10[Music]
6:13Healey Bundy's victims are always
6:15attractive young women he approaches
6:17them in public places faking an injury
6:20or disability and luring them to his car
6:22when his charm and good looks convinces
6:24the women that he's no threat he beats
6:26them unconscious for the bodies he has a
6:28place on the floor of his 10an
6:30Volkswagen right where the passenger
6:31seat used to be he drives to a secluded
6:34location where he brutally rapes
6:36strangles and kills them often not even
6:38stopping
6:39there every month more and more women
6:42disappear first in Washington then in
6:45Utah the public is afraid the police are
6:48desperate for a very long time nobody
6:51has a clue who did all this or how to
6:53find them before Ted Bundy the term
6:56serial killer simply did not exist in
6:58people's minds his facade is always
7:01wellmaintained he even briefly works for
7:03the Seattle crime commission and writes
7:05a rap prevention pamphlet for women
7:08Bundy knows exactly how to not leave any
7:10evidence DNA tests were not yet invented
7:13and even if the police would find
7:15something departments at the time rarely
7:17shared information across state
7:20borders but on November 8th 1974 Ted
7:24Bundy makes a crucial mistake he leaves
7:28a witness
7:32[Music]
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8:34Carol Donan is 18 years old she's
8:36driving her 1974 maroon Camaro onto the
8:39parking lot of a Sear's Mall she Parks
8:42under a light and walks into the
8:43building Carol is looking for books and
8:46stands just outside of won's bookstore
8:48when a man approaches her he introduces
8:51himself as officer rosand from the
8:53Murray Police Department he is polite
8:56and well-dressed someone was trying to
8:58break into your car he says then asks
9:01the woman whether they should check if
9:02anything is missing she agrees and they
9:05both go back to the parking lot Carol
9:08looks into her Camaro but everything is
9:10there the police officer tells her that
9:12the suspect is back at the police
9:13station if she joins him they could file
9:16a complaint Carol smells a slight whiff
9:19of alcohol and starts feeling uneasy but
9:21the officer shows her a badge and she
9:23agrees to come with him they go to the
9:25officer's vehicle but it's not a police
9:27car it's a 10 Volkswagen Beetle maybe
9:31he's undercover Carol thinks she feels a
9:34bit nervous but gets into the car anyway
9:38a few minutes later the man stops the
9:40car at an elementary school he suddenly
9:43grabs her arm and handcuffs her Carol
9:45starts screaming when he pulls out a gun
9:47Carol is terrified luckily she realizes
9:50that her handcuffs aren't attached to
9:51anything so she grabs the door and
9:53quickly jumps out of the car the man
9:56chases after her and pulls out a crowbar
9:58he hits the woman once twice but Carol
10:01holds up her arms in defense fighting
10:03for her life another car is approaching
10:06Carol manages to break loose runs away
10:09and jumps into the other car she goes
10:11straight to the police and reports the
10:13man who introduced himself as officer
10:14rosand and his Volkswagen 10
10:20Beetle Bob Hayward is so unsettled by
10:23the man he arrested the next day he
10:25mentions him to his brother Captain Pete
10:27Hayward a homicide detective
10:30the detectives at the Salt Lake County
10:31Sheriff's office immediately recognized
10:33the car a year ago a woman in Seattle
10:36reported suspicious Behavior by her
10:37boyfriend she saw an eyewitness drawing
10:39from a kidnapping that looked just like
10:41him the woman's boyfriend also had a tan
10:44Volkswagen 10 women have gone missing
10:47and the man is on the list of
10:50suspects the detectives start connecting
10:52the dots and invite Carol to police
10:54lineup eight suspects in total are
10:57standing in line including the man Bob
10:59were arrested a few weeks ago when Carol
11:01Dean sees them she immediately
11:03identifies the fake officer on March 1st
11:061976 Bundy is sentenced to 15 years in
11:09prison for the attempted kidnapping of
11:11Carol
11:12Donan the investigation picks up pace
11:15and the police managed to connect him to
11:17another case 23-year-old Karen Campbell
11:21in October 1976 Bundy is sent to
11:23Colorado to stand trial again this time
11:26for murder if only his story ended here
11:29[Music]
11:36here in his second trial Bundy decides
11:39to defend himself in court he is a law
11:41student after all and a very confident
11:43one for that Bundy receives slightly
11:45more freedom from the judge than other
11:47prisoners a typewriter a desk unlimited
11:50and untapped phone calls and access to
11:53the law library in the courthouse there
11:55you can move freely without shackles or
11:57handcuffs
12:00Bundy's trial is in full swing during a
12:02recess he goes to the library his guard
12:04is in the hallway smoking a cigarette it
12:06is a sunny day the sky is blue and Ted
12:09Bundy jumps from a secondstory
12:11window the fall is hard but after
12:14landing he immediately runs across the
12:16street over a fence and into an Alleyway
12:19from there he Sprints to a river and
12:20from there straight to the
12:22mountains Bundy planned his Escape for
12:25weeks jumping from his bunk bed to
12:26strengthen his ankles going through his
12:28exact Escape Route again and again
12:30putting on a second layer of clothes
12:32under his courtroom outfit practicing
12:33how fast he can change getting a haircut
12:36shaving his
12:38beard a woman rushes into the courthouse
12:41and informs a guard that she saw a man
12:42jumping from one of the windows the
12:44guards immediately sweep the floor from
12:46the moment Bundy leap from the windows
12:48it takes them 10 minutes to realize he's
12:50gone the police set up roadblocks they
12:53send blood hounds into the mountains and
12:54tell the residents to lock their doors
12:57radio stations and newspapers quickly
12:59cover the Escape 150 policemen are now
13:02hunting a killer on the
13:05loose Ted Bundy wanders through the
13:07mountains he has nothing with him no
13:09money no food no plan only a light shirt
13:13and his pants and since he defended
13:14himself in court a map of the area that
13:17was used in the trial a whole day he
13:19hikes up the grassy Hills and by
13:21Nightfall manages to cross the aspen
13:23Mountain the next morning however is
13:25cold and rainy so instead of wandering
13:28further south he tracks back and finds a
13:30small cabin where he stays for the
13:33night on day three Bundy leaves the
13:35cabin now better equipped he has some
13:38food warm clothes and a rifle on this
13:41day the FBI joins The Manhunt bringing
13:43in
13:45helicopters despite the map Bundy gets
13:47lost when a rainstorm hits he becomes
13:50even more disoriented the cold is doing
13:52the rest he eventually starts walking in
13:54circles and lands back at the cabin
13:57there he finds tracks of the search part
13:59they're on to him for 5 full days Bundy
14:02is hiking through the hills with his
14:04ankles swollen and his food running low
14:06he finds himself back in Aspen his only
14:09chance of Escape is to find a car at a
14:12golf course he finally finds an old
14:13Cadillac with the keys
14:16inside it's the morning of the sixth day
14:18of Bundy's escape two police officers
14:21see a Cadillac zigzagging on the road
14:23they stop the car assuming it's a drunk
14:25driver instead they find a sober but
14:28weak Ted bunny
14:29he lost over 20 lb and barely managed to
14:32steer the car his nose is wrapped in
14:34band-aid and he wears glasses but the
14:36officers easily recognize him he is
14:38arrested only two blocks from where he
14:40jumped out of the window back in custody
14:43Bundy now also faces charges for escape
14:46he has to wear shackles and handcuffs
14:47when in court it matters little to him
14:50almost immediately he starts planning
14:52another Escape
14:59a guard brings Ted Bundy a warm meal to
15:01his cell and leaves but Bundy doesn't
15:03touch it instead he lifts himself up
15:06into a small hole in his ceiling in the
15:08weeks prior he used a hacksaw he got
15:10from another inmate on an already loose
15:12light fixture to cut open a hole to fit
15:15in there he had to lose weight so he
15:17reduced his meal sizes by constantly
15:18complaining about the food as a cover
15:21Bundy is prepared he accumulated $700
15:24from donations for his defense in the
15:26weeks before his Escape he used the
15:28trapo Reg regly searching for a way out
15:31and he found one the vent leads to a
15:33small apartment of a prison
15:36guard Bundy crawls through the tight
15:38shaft when he reaches the apartment he
15:40hears
15:41voices the guard and his wife are eating
15:43dinner Bundy just sits there waiting for
15:45his opportunity the woman says let's go
15:48to a movie tonight sure why not the
15:51guard replies a few minutes later the
15:53door slams shut and Bundy drops into the
15:56apartment's bedroom he puts on a pair of
15:58blue jeans a gray turtleneck and blue
16:00tennis shoes then he walks out of the
16:02street through the front door this time
16:04it takes the guards 17 hours before they
16:07realize what just
16:09happened Bundy has long
16:21vanished it is a quiet night on campus
16:24the parties have mostly ended and the
16:25local nightclub is closed for over an
16:27hour now Nida Neri comes back from a
16:30date with her boyfriend when she tries
16:32to enter her sorority house chai Omega
16:35she notices that the door is
16:37unlocked she enters and finds that the
16:39lights are still on a few seconds later
16:42she hears a loud noise from upstairs
16:44followed by footsteps a man comes
16:46rushing down the stairs he's holding
16:48some kind of Club in his hand he hastily
16:50opens the front door and runs outside
16:53Nita wakes up the others and they soon
16:55realize a monster has been in their
16:57house four young women have been
16:59assaulted two of them will
17:02[Music]
17:06die in the following weeks Ted Bundy
17:09tries abducting multiple women but
17:10always fails until he finds 12-year-old
17:13Kimberly leech the girl is out in the
17:16rain she is running across a basketball
17:18court to another classroom at her school
17:20when Bundy signals the girl to come over
17:22she does
17:28David Lee a patrol officer from
17:30Pensacola sits in his car when an orange
17:33Volkswagen passes by with its lights
17:35turned off Lee knows his area well and
17:38realizes this car is most likely not
17:40from here he follows the driver and
17:42checks the license plate the car is
17:44stolen Lee turns on his police lights
17:47and the car starts to speed away but
17:49David Lee has no intention of letting
17:51the man escape a few minutes later the
17:53beetle finally stops Bundy must have had
17:56a strange feeling of deja vu at this
17:58point
18:00this time Bundy will not just get out of
18:02the car with his hands up he will not
18:04say he's a student who watched a movie
18:05and got lost on his way
18:07home this time Bundy decides to fight he
18:11gets out of the car the officer points a
18:13gun at him when the officer tries to
18:15Cuff Bundy he hits him in the face kicks
18:17him off his feet the officer fires a
18:19warning shot and Bundy runs Lee now
18:22running right behind Ted fires another
18:23shot and the man falls to the ground but
18:26Bundy hasn't been shot it's a trick to
18:28grab the the officer's gun he fails the
18:31officer hits Bundy with his pistol and
18:33manages to arrest
18:34him the hunt for America's most infamous
18:37killer has finally
18:49ended Bundy's trial began for the
18:51murders of the chai Omega sorority house
18:54soon after he went to court for
18:5512-year-old Kimberly leech Bundy tried
18:58to defend himself and in both cases
19:00pleaded not guilty one month later on
19:02July 23rd Ted Bundy was sentenced to
19:06[Music]
19:08death a few days before his execution
19:10Bundy confessed to a total of 36 murders
19:13newer DNA samples show that Bundy might
19:15have murdered over 100 people starting
19:17his killings at the age of
19:2114 what makes the trial of Ted Bundy
19:23stand out is not only his charming and
19:25likable demeanor the ruthlessness of his
19:27murders or even the fact fact that he
19:29managed to escape from prison twice what
19:31makes Bundy's trial Stand Out was the
19:33trial itself it was the first ever in US
19:36history to be shown on National
19:37Television threee murders but is
19:39believed to be the killer of perhaps 40
19:41women just another death row inmate
19:48convicted since he defended himself in
19:50court he had many opportunities to show
19:52his Charming personality to the public
19:55and many people were fascinated by him
19:57especially young women
20:00are you a little scared when you look at
20:02him yes it scares me to be in the same
20:04room with him but I know there's other
20:06people in there I'm not afraid of him he
20:08just doesn't look like the type to kill
20:09somebody every time he turns around I
20:11kind of get that feeling no no you know
20:14going to get me next but yet you're
20:16fascinated by him very very why do you
20:18do it I don't
20:21know from all those women in the
20:22courtroom there is one who stood out she
20:25believed in Bundy's innocence almost to
20:27the very end
20:29Carol and Boon Bundy's girlfriend he
20:32proposed to her during court after his
20:34conviction they even had a child
20:36together Carol do you want to marry me
20:40yes and I want to marry you
20:43yes
20:46I Bundy's trial became an unprecedented
20:49media sensation people all across the
20:51country could watch a killer fighting
20:53for his life trying to evade his death
20:55again and again for years
20:59[Applause]
21:03on the last day before his execution
21:05television Crews from all over the
21:06country came to Florida State Prison
21:09thousands of people gathered they had
21:11signs with them and fireworks at one
21:13point the celebration got out of hand
21:15t-shirts were sold with a phrase you
21:17could hear people chanting burn Bundy
21:20burn
21:28January 24th 1989 after spending 10
21:31years on death row Bundy was executed
21:34via electric chair the person who
21:36flipped the switch was a woman Bundy
21:40even in death
21:48hatred slow down my young friend you
21:52think you can touch the
21:54sky where did it all go wrong where did
21:58it all go wrong slow down my young
22:02friend you think you can touch the
22:07sky It Go

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