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Rachel Sharp

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
289 total appearances

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The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

And that is quite important because that delayed how quickly people began looking for her.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

So it was the night of Halloween and she was at a friend's house at a Halloween party, like a lot of 17-year-old girls obviously would be at that time.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

And she told friends she was leaving to go and buy some cigarettes and she just never returned.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

And as I say, it took a little while before she was reported missing and searched for because she was staying with friends at the time.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

And it would be a month before her body would then turn up.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

Yeah, so it was around a month later and it was on November 27th, 1974.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

Her body was found in an embankment up in the mountains near American Fort Canyon Road, so a really remote area.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

She was naked and she'd been raped and strangled.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

And her body had obviously been there for some time.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

Her father could only identify her remains because of the scars that she had on her back from when she fell off a horse when she was younger.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

So really horrific.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

And, you know, her sister has said that that's something that stuck with her dad and she never really got over.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

Yeah, so that does fit his MO for some of his victims.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

But Bundy also killed and preyed on his victims in many different ways.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

He bludgeoned some to death.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

He strangled some.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

He beat some to death.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

He was very violent and on one of the victims there was really distinctive bite marks and that was how they actually identified him to that victim by leaving this horrific bite mark on their body.

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

So one of the things that he did was he, as you mentioned, he was very charming, he was quite good looking and he would drive around in his VW Beetle

The Trial: USA
The Ted Bundy Murder That Took 50 Years to Prove

And he often approached women under the guise of being injured.