Who was Ted Bundy?
A: Ted Bundy was an
American
serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist.
He assaulted and
murdered numerous young
women and girls during what decade?
A: The 1970s and possibly earlier.
What was Ted Bundy's birth
name?
A: Theodore Robert Cowell.
On what date was Ted Bundy born?
A: November 24,
1946.
Where was Ted Bundy born?
A: Burlington,
Vermont.
On what day did Ted Bundy die?
A: On January 24,
1989.
How did Ted die?
A: In
Florida's
electric chair.
What age was Bundy when he was executed?
A: 42.
Where was Ted Bundy executed?
A:
Florida State Prison, Bradford County, Florida
Just before his execution he confessed to how many
homicides?
A: 30.
The murders were committed in seven states between what
years?
A: 1974 and
1978.
Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic by whom?
A: His young female victims.
Where did he typically approach his victims?
A: In public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an
authority figure.
What would he do then?
A: He would overpower and assault them at more secluded locations.
He sometimes revisited his
crime scenes for hours at a
time, doing what?
A: Grooming and performing
sexual acts with the decomposing corpses.
He would do that until putrefaction and destruction by wild
animals did what?
A: Made further interaction impossible.
How many of his victims did he decapitate?
A: At least 12.
He kept some of the severed heads in his apartment for a
period of time as what?
A: Mementos.
A few times he just broke into dwellings at night and did
what?
A: Bludgeoned his victims as they slept.
In 1975, he was incarcerated in
Utah for what?
A: Aggravated kidnapping and attempted
criminal assault.
Bundy became a suspect in a progressively longer list of
what?
A: Unsolved homicides in multiple states.
Where was Bundy born?
A: At the Elizabeth Lund Home For Unwed Mothers.
Where did Bundy live for the first three years of his life?
A: Bundy lived in the Philadelphia home of his maternal grandparents, Samuel
and Eleanor Cowell.
They raised him as their son to avoid what?
A: The
social stigma that accompanied birth outside wedlock at the time.
Family, friends, and even young Ted were told that his
grandparents were his what?
A: Parents and that his mother was his older sister.
Bundy expressed a lifelong resentment toward his mother for what?
A: Lying about his true parentage and leaving him to discover it for himself.
In 1950 Louise abruptly changed her surname from Cowell to what?
A: Nelson.
At the urging of several family members, she left Philadelphia with her son to live where?
A: With cousins Alan and Jane Scott in Tacoma,
Washington.
In 1951 Louise met what hospital
cook, at an adult singles night at Tacoma's First Methodist Church?
A: Johnny Culpepper Bundy.
They got married later that year and Johnny Bundy did what?
A: Formally adopted Ted.
Bundy's only significant athletic avocation was what?
A:
Snow skiing, which he pursued enthusiastically using stolen equipment and forged lift tickets.
During high school he was arrested at least twice on for what?
A: Suspicion of burglary and auto theft.
After graduating from high school in
1965 Bundy spent a
year at what University?
A: The University of Puget Sound (UPS) before transferring to the University of
Washington (UW) in 1966 to study
Chinese.
