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Evil notorious serial killer Ted Bundy 'probably killed over 100 girls and women'

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Published date10 April 2023
Publication titleDaily Star: Web Edition Articles (England)
He eventually admitted a killing spree that claimed 30 victims across the US from 1974-1978

But author and criminologist Matt DeLisi believes Bundy probably started killing in adolescence.

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He says in his book Ted Bundy and the Unsolved Murder Epidemic: The Dark Figure of Crime: “Bundy drops a lot of clues that there were way more murders than the official victim account of around 30 young women and girls.

“The pacing and confidence with which he’s killing between 1974 and 1978 indicates there’s no way he could have just started.

“To me, it reflects someone who had been doing this for years.”

He says the lack of DNA and fingerprint evidence at the time made it easier for murderers like Bundy to evade detection.

Law student Bundy, of Burlington, Vermont, raped and murdered young women and girls before dumping their bodies.

He was executed by electric chair in Florida in 1989, aged 42.

In his new book, DeLisi says stories from those who knew Bundy in his younger years indicate early signs of his psychopathology and fascination with inflicting pain.

At just three years old, the killer is said to have placed knives around his sleeping aunt and watched her until she awoke.

“Bundy wasn’t just some normal, law-abiding citizen who just snapped and went on a murder spree," he...

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