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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

He'd sometimes wear a sling or a cast and go up to women as this, you know, charming man asking, can you, can you please help me put something in my car?

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

Can you help me do this?

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

And he was actually just luring them to their deaths, getting them inside his car, driving them to remote locations such as up in the Utah mountains, places like that, where he then would sexually assault them, strangle them, beat them to death and

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

So really, really horrific sort of M.O.

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

One of the big cases that, you know, one of the final crimes that he committed was at the Chi Omega sorority house in Tallahassee at the Florida State University.

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

where at that time he was actually on the run.

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

He was on the run for crimes across the West Coast, but he'd somehow made his way to the East Coast, where people weren't really as familiar with the fact that there was this killer on the loose.

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

He was on the FBI's most wanted list at the time, but even so, you know, students over in Florida aren't aware that this has been happening over in Utah and Idaho and Washington State.

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

And it was a Saturday night.

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

He broke into the sorority house and went room to room while these girls were sleeping, beating them to death with, you know, just whatever objects he could find.

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

He murdered two students, two survived after suffering horrific injuries.

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

And, you know, his attack only came to an end because he was interrupted by another sorority girl coming home after going out.

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

And he got startled by the headlights, so he ran off, broke into another apartment where he attacked a third student.

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

She also luckily survived as well.

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

And it was not long after that that he was finally arrested for the last time, by which point he'd also murdered a 12-year-old girl who is the last known victim.

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

and that was the kind of end of his killing spree as we kind of know it but when it began the FBI says it's hard to know was it when he was young was it when he was a teenager we just don't know and possibly never will we're taking a quick break after this

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

Yeah, so Kimberley Leach, the last known victim of Ted Bundy, she was just 12 years old, which again is a bit of a differentiation to most of his other victims.

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

Most of them were women with dark hair.

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

They were kind of college age, young women who he could kind of lure in by being charming.

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

She is quite different in that she was just 12 years old and he snatched her from her school just days after the attack at the sorority house.