Ted Bundy
"Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s, and possibly earlier." Wikipedia
He killed a girl in Pocatello. He kidnapped a girl at the mall in Murray, UT and she miraculously escaped (I think she was the only known survivor). He killed a girl who went to Midvale Jr. High with my sister Julene. One day shortly after that, Julene was was riding her bike to a friend's house, and she saw a man she is sure was him driving a police car. The man was driving toward her and turned around and followed her but he didn't stop her. Dennis was pretty sure Ted lived in the apartment above him for awhile in Provo. I'm not sure if he was a regular tenant or just someone's guest for awhile. It was a frightening time because it was so close to us.
If you want to learn more about him I recommend the book, The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.
"Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle."
He killed a girl in Pocatello. He kidnapped a girl at the mall in Murray, UT and she miraculously escaped (I think she was the only known survivor). He killed a girl who went to Midvale Jr. High with my sister Julene. One day shortly after that, Julene was was riding her bike to a friend's house, and she saw a man she is sure was him driving a police car. The man was driving toward her and turned around and followed her but he didn't stop her. Dennis was pretty sure Ted lived in the apartment above him for awhile in Provo. I'm not sure if he was a regular tenant or just someone's guest for awhile. It was a frightening time because it was so close to us.
If you want to learn more about him I recommend the book, The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.
"Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle."
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