Katie Ring
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That night, Linda and her housemates had left their front door unlocked and Ted was able to enter without anybody noticing.
He made his way to Linda's room and beat her until she was unconscious.
But he learned from his experience with Karen Sparks.
Instead of continuing his assault in Linda's room, he dressed her in a blouse and jeans and cleaned up the evidence as best he could.
including making her bed.
Then he dragged her out into the night.
Ted managed to get Linda in his car and drove to a secluded spot where he knew nobody would find them.
There, he sexually assaulted and murdered her.
Afterwards, he dismembered her body, scattering the remains off to the side of the road on Taylor Mountain, about 18 miles from Seattle.
He raced back home to his girlfriend, Elizabeth, and climbed into bed like nothing was wrong.
Linda Ann Healy was officially Ted Bundy's first confirmed murder victim, but she wouldn't be his last.
For this show, we're going to be doing a Q&A at the end of each episode.
So if you have any questions or comments, make sure to let us know on social so we can talk about them at the end.
To preface this, I'm not a forensic psychologist, but I do love forensic psychology.
And the hard thing with Ted Bundy's story is that there are a lot of conflicting accounts.
As I said earlier, Ted claims that his childhood was completely normal, that he had no abuse, and that nothing in his childhood affected the crimes he did later in his life.
There are, however, other accounts that
from family members and biographers that his grandfather was abusive.
So we have that conflicting thing.
But when it comes to serial killers, we see a lot of abuse earlier in life.