Ted Bundy confessed to 30 murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown. Some estimates range from 29 to over 100, the general estimate being 35. Typically, Bundy would bludgeon his victims, then strangle them to death. He also engaged in rape and necrophilia.
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Bundy Confirmed Victim List
(Many unknown victims not listed) WASHINGTON Lonnie Trumbull; Seattle (6/23/66) Kathy Devine; Seattle (11/25/73) Lynda Ann Healy; University of Washington (2/1/74) Donna Manson; Evergreen St. College, Olympia (3/12/74) Susan Rancourt; Central Washington St. College, Ellensburg (4/17/74) Brenda Baker; Seattle (5/25/74) Brenda Ball; Burien (6/1/74) Georgeann Hawkins; University of Washington (6/11/74) Janice Ott; Lake Sammamish St. Park (7/14/74) Denise Naslund; Lake Sammamish St. Park (7/14/74) OREGON Kathy Parks; Oregon St. (5/6/74) UTAH Nancy Wilcox; (10/2/74) Melissa Smith; Midvale (10/18/74) Laura Aimee; Lehi (10/31/74) Debbie Kent; Bountiful (11/8/74) Susan Curtis; Brigham Young University (6/28/75) Nancy Baird; Layton (7/4/75) Debbie Smith; Salt Lake City (2/?/76) COLORADO Caryn Campbell; Aspen (1/12/75) Julie Cunningham; Vail (3/15/75) Denise Oliverson; Grand Junction (4/6/75) Melanie Cooley; Nederland (4/15/75) Shelley Robertson; Golden (7/1/75) IDAHO Lynette Culver; Pocatello (5/6/75) Jane Doe; Boise (9/21/74) FLORIDA Lisa Levy; Tallahassee (1/15/78) Margaret Bowman; Tallahassee (1/15/74) Kimberly Ann Leach; Lake City (2/9/78) |
There is no consensus on when or where Bundy began killing women. He told different stories to different people, and refused to divulge the specifics of his earliest crimes, even as he confessed in graphic detail to dozens of later murders in the days preceding his execution. He told authorities that he attempted his first kidnapping in 1969 in Ocean City, New Jersey, but did not kill anyone until sometime in 1971 in Seattle. On the contrary, though, he told a psychologist Art Norman that he killed two women in Atlantic City in 1969 while visiting family in Philadelphia. Circumstantial evidence also suggests that he abducted and killed eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr of Tacoma in 1961 when he was 14.