How Ted Bundy escaped from prison and murdered three other women

Ted Bundy is one of the most notorious serial killers in the world.

The psychopath murdered at least 30 young women in a frenzy that was spreading in the United States.

But three of the murders were possible only after a brutal escape from prison, which left him free to kill again.

New Netflix Documentary Series Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes tells the story of the killer and his vicious violence campaign.

But his escape despite his murder trial shocked viewers.

Here's how he managed to escape twice under the nose of police and guards and deadly consequences.

Ted Bundy arrested

Bundy was arrested on 16 August 1975 by a road police officer who had doubts about his presence in a residential area early in the morning.

The police found a ski mask, a crows bar, wrists and an ice pick in the car.

Shortly after, he was linked to Carol DaRonch's brutal kidnapping attempt several months earlier.

Bundy was pretended to be a police officer before attacking the 18-year-old in his car. She had managed to escape and was one of the few victims to have survived the murderer's attack.

In November, an investigative summit in Aspen, Colorado, linked him to a series of murders in five states.

They continued to gather evidence to file a murder case against him while Bundy was on trial for kidnapping Carol.

On March 1, 1976, Bundy was convicted and sentenced to one to fifteen years' imprisonment in the state prison of Utah.

In October of the same year, he was caught hiding in the prison yard with an "escape kit" including a social security card, road maps and airline schedules. He was placed in solitary confinement.

A few weeks later, the authorities decided to have enough evidence and he was charged with the murder of Caryn Campbell, 23 years old.

Ted Bundy's first escape

Caryn Campbell had disappeared on January 12, 1975 while strolling down a well-lit hallway at an inn located in a ski resort near Salt Lake City. His body was found next to a dirt road a month later.

On June 7, 1977, Bundy was taken to the Pitkin County Court House in Aspen for a preliminary hearing for his murder trial.

He acted as his own lawyer during the trial and, during a suspension of hearing, he was asked to use the court's legal library for research purposes.

After being left alone in the library, without handcuffs or handcuffs, he opened a window and jumped from the room on the second floor before he ran away.

As law enforcement forces sought to block roads to and from the city, Bundy changed clothes and climbed Mount Aspen.

He would be away for six days.

After being introduced into a hunting hut to steal food and a rifle, Bundy wandered into the forest. He lost himself and his ankle hurt.

Finally, he returned to Aspen and stole a car. The police spotted his erratic behavior and he was arrested and caught.

Ted Bundy's second escape

With the help of visitors, including future wife Carole Ann Boone, Bundy has raised more than $ 500 in cash in her cell in six months and has begun planning her next escape.

He also obtained a detailed plan of the Garfield County Jail where he was detained and a hacksaw blade from another inmate. When night fell, he used the blade to punch a hole in the roof of his cell.

In the months leading up to his escape, Bundy lost 2.5st position (16kg) and managed to sneak through the hole in the crawlspace above.

On the night of December 30, 1977, he fled, while there was only one skeleton of staff at the jail for the Christmas period.

He piled books on his bed under the covers, so that from the outside he seemed to be sleeping, then climbed through the hole in the ceiling.

He managed to get into the personal apartment of the Chief Jailer who had gone out for the evening. There, he stole clothes and simply walked out of the prison's entrance door.

After stealing a car and then catching a bus, he managed to get to Denver, where he took the plane.

By the time the prison staff realized that he was gone at noon the next day, Bundy was more than 1,000 km away in Chicago.

The murders of Ted Bundy in Florida

On January 8, 1978, nine days after his daring escape, Bundy had arrived in Tallahbadee, Florida.

A few days later, on the 15th, he led a series of nauseating attacks against women in a sorority house.

Around 2:45 am, he entered through the back door into Chi Omega's house and went from room to room, brutally attacking dormant students.

Her first victim was 21 year old Margaret Bowman, who beat him with an oak log before strangling him.

In another room, he attacked Lisa Levy, 20, by hitting her unconsciously before strangling, biting, and badually badaulting her. The two women died as a result of their injuries.

He then went to another room where he attacked Kathy Kleiner and Karen Chandler. Both were left with broken bones. He then fled the scene.

The series of senseless attacks had taken less than 15 minutes.

The same night, eight blocks away, he broke into the apartment of student Cheryl Thomas. He also attacked him, leaving him a fractured jaw and skull in five places.

The police were puzzled and, at a time when the Internet and communications were plentiful, police services had no connection with escaped Bundy.

A month later, on February 8, Bundy attempted to kidnap Leslie Parmenter, the daughter of a 14-year-old police chief in Jacksonville, 150 miles from Tallahbadee.

He introduced himself to her as a firefighter, but fortunately, his older brother challenged him and escaped.

The next day, 60 km from Lake City, he abducted Kimberly Leach, 12, from his college. His remains were found seven weeks later in a pig shed 35 kilometers away.

Bundy was finally taken back on February 15 after a policeman took him into a stolen car.

After a televised trial in June 1979, he was convicted of the murders of Chi Omega and sentenced to death. Six months later he was convicted of murdering Kimberly Leach and sentenced to death again.

Bundy spent nearly ten years on death row before being executed on an electric chair on January 24, 1989.

Conversations with a killer: Ted Bundy's tapes are available on Netflix now.