Over time, survivors came forward with eerily similar accounts: deception, sudden violence, restraint, and disappearance. His victims—at least 30 by his own later admission—were predominantly young white women, many of them college students.
Capture and conviction
Bundy’s spree began to unravel in August 1975 when a police officer stopped him for speeding and discovered suspicious items in his vehicle, including a ski mask and crowbar. The name on his license—Theodore Robert Bundy—would soon dominate national headlines.
Though he was ultimately convicted of only three murders, Bundy later confessed to killing dozens of women across seven states between 1974 and 1978. Many experts believe the true number is significantly higher.
In Florida, he was sentenced to death in two separate trials. As appeals failed and execution neared, public reaction was intense. Some viewed his impending death as justice long overdue; others criticized the spectacle that formed around it.
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