Not many really knew about Ted Bundy and suddenly after the release of Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, there is a whole new level of curiosity among people to know a lot more about the guy.
Thirty years ago today, Florida executed Ted Bundy, one of America’s most horrific villains. Ted Bundy was sat upon the electric chair on 24th January 1989. Thirty years later, Ted Bundy’s execution, the same day marks the release of the Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.
Ted Bundy, having birth name Theodore Robert Bundy was born November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont. American serial killer and rapist, Ted Bundy go into history as one of the most notorious criminals of the late 20th century. He was well active in the ’70s and has committed very gruesome crimes during those days.
Ted Bundy has confessed to 36 murders but it isn’t accounted how many murders did he actually commit. He was a necrophiliac who raped many young girls. He used to slice his victims throats and then rape those young girls dead body. After he was done with his heinous and monstrous crime he used to leave the victims dead body naked.
His crimes and life story have been documented many times for video dramatization but the journalists who covered his time throughout the jail to his execution have seen many more details which have been omitted from the previous dramatizations of his life.
“I don’t remember any moment like this in my life,” Wilson said. “This was a serial killer in front of you unlike any we’ve known in our time… He was confident. His demeanor was puzzling to all of us and I’m sure what was going through everybody’s head in there was, ‘Why is he smiling at us?’”
“The best way I could describe his demeanor in the room was almost like a performer on the closing night,” Panaccio noted.
“It was all about him. He wanted as much attention as he could possibly have,” Dekle said. “He wasn’t right, but he wasn’t mentally ill. He knew the difference between right and wrong; he just didn’t care.”
“The scene outside, it was like a carnival. People were jumping up and down, people were yelling, people were applauding — especially when his hearse went by. We were all glad to get rid of him… but it was a different tone for those of us who were inside,” said Wilson.
“There are others who did this, who have been serial killers and mass killers. Very few like Ted Bundy, but there are others who have killed many people,” Wilson continued. “I think we need to know more about our society and who we are and what makes us what we have become. We don’t know nearly enough about that.”
Bob Dekle was the state attorney who prosecuted Ted Bundy and Wilson is a reporter who works for Wilson Media.
