Five "extremely evil" facts about Ted Bundy | Editorial

Like it or not, Ted Bundy is once again a celebrity … and he is now at home.

With the sudden influx of real documentaries about crime, movies and, of course, podcasts, it's no wonder that Netflix is ​​getting into the movement and feeding our love of the macabre by getting deeply involved in the murderer. transnational.

In January, they delivered the documentary Conversations with a killer: tapes of Ted Bundyand they are back this friday with Extremely nasty, incredibly bad and vile, a feature film based on the memoirs of former Bundy girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer.

In order to get ready for the first – and ready to accept America's darling, Zac Efron, one of America's worst nightmares – here are some little-known facts about everyone's favorite Republican.

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05. No, it's not Herbie fully charged

The famous Volkswagen Beetle from Bundy, in 1968, is available to crime enthusiasts at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. This is part of a new exhibition that opened on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its execution last January. Curiously, the car became as infamous as he was in the years following his convictions, linking him to important forensic evidence. Exhibits include letters between Bundy and his wife and defense attorney at trial, as well as photos, maps and a radio given to him by his mother. The show will only be available for a limited time, so other murderers might want to have a leg on it.

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04. "And I'll be shot too, if you do not mingle with the police!"

Bundy was arrested for the first time and charged with badault and kidnapping with badault after being intercepted by an Utah officer who had found "handcuffs, a ski mask and a tights with holes "in the trunk of his car. After his trial in 1976, Bundy was later sentenced to one to fifteen years' imprisonment. Not surprisingly, he was quick to escape by jumping through the prison window while a nearby guard had gone out to smoke. He even managed to avoid being caught; that is to say until he was again arrested several days later for driving with a stolen car irregularly.

Once captured, Bundy was later transferred to Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Obviously, lasagna was not as good as its name suggests because it was starting to lose a lot of weight (think: Christian Bale in The machinist). Of course, it was for a purpose, as he then managed to break through an opening in the ceiling above, enough for his new malnourished body to pbad. To help escape, he arranged books and pillows to make him a body. From there he found himself in the jailer's apartment, stole civilian clothes and escaped into the darkness. You know, a bit like Andy Dufresne in The acquisition of Shawshank … except that he was actually guilty of killing dozens of women.

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03. Buffalo Bill or Theodore Bundy?

It's no secret that Thesilenceofthelambs He has been influenced by numerous serial, fictional and non-fictional killers, but a major "Bundy-ism" has been used to help bring to life the crimes that sting the skin of Buffalo Bill.

Similar to the film, Bundy was known to simulate a disease in order to gain the trust of his potential victims. In fact, witnesses at Sammamish Lake described a handsome young man holding a sling from his left arm to ask for help when unloading his sailboat. Most of the women, seeing no sailboats, fled to safety, but the young Janice Ott volunteered to help her and was never seen again.

Sounds familiar? It should. In the iconic scene where Buffalo Bill kidnaps Catherine Martin, just after singing "American Girl", he feigns sympathy by using a sling in a trick straight from Bundy's help book.

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02. "Hello, that's Ted.

Many serial killers find that keeping someone else's life in your hands is the closest thing to the "divinity" that a person can hope to obtain. With that in mind, it makes sense that Bundy participated in a hotline for suicide prevention as an extracurricular activity during his college years. What's even more fascinating is that many of Ted's colleagues would continue to say he was really good at his job.

Nevertheless, this is where Bundy meets Ann Rule, who would profit from this chance encounter and become the best-selling author of The stranger next to me. She, along with many others, has been truly resumed by her crimes, claiming that he "has taken lives, but he has also saved lives. You must ask yourself though: did Bundy take this concert to explore his darkest fantasies?

Or did he simply delay the inevitable itch that he was going to continue scratching?

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01. Will Ted Bundy's real father get up?

Like many killers, Ted Bundy did not have a modest start. At the time of his birth, Lloyd Marshall, an Air Force veteran and salesman, was the father of Bundy. However, her mother later claimed that her father was actually a sailor named Jack Worthington, despite new inquiries into the matter, finding no trace of the name in the Navy's archives.

These investigations have hardly been relegated to the authorities. His own family even badumed that his mother's abusive father, Sam Cowell, was perhaps his real father. Cowell was a well-known church deacon who might even have introduced Ted to violent badgraphy as a child, which may have influenced his heinous crimes later in life.

So who is the real father? At this point, we will probably never know.

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The path to becoming a serial killer in the 70's had not been paved yet. What we now know about the human behavior and psychology upon which serial offenders are based has grown exponentially over the last four decades (see: Netflix's Hunter of spirit). Hoping that this huge craze for real crime leads us to even more discoveries in the minds of killers, why they do what they do, and if nature against food really plays a role.