Katie Ring

Tragically, the experience only made him more determined to try again.

After only a couple months at Temple University, Ted moved back to Washington with a new scheme.

By day, he would work hard to appear as normal as possible, to seem like he was above suspicion.

Once that image was in place, he could unleash his dark side at night, a persona he called the entity.

That was the real Ted Bundy, the one he'd been struggling to contain all his life.

And now he was ready to embrace it.

The first step of Ted's plan was to find another steady girlfriend.

In September of 1969, he met a divorced single mother named Elizabeth Klepfer at a bar.

24-year-old Elizabeth was smart and mature.

She had to be to take care of her three-year-old daughter all on her own.

From the moment they started dating, Elizabeth was clear she was looking for something serious.

So if Ted expected to stay with her, he would need to get his act together.

That played right into Ted's hands.

He told Elizabeth he was planning to go back to college, then law school after he graduated.

And Elizabeth took him at his word.

She had so much faith in him, she even paid his tuition when he went back to the University of Washington in 1970.

Ted's twisted plan had finally given him the motivation he needed to succeed.

He became an honor student, got involved in local politics, and was seen as a rising star in the community, which was exactly what Ted wanted people to think.

Nobody suspected that this clean-cut, respectable young man was going out at night, watching young women in bars and following them home.

Sometimes he went up to his targets while they were still at the bar and took them out on dates if they were interested.