- Escaped twice from prison.
- Fathered a child while incarcerated in Florid'a death row. Shortly before his execution his wife divorced him and secretly moved away with his daughter. It's uncertain to this day where they reside, and the identity of his daughter remains unknown.
- Had a daughter (Rose) with Carole Ann Boone in 1982, during his years on death row. This was highly unusual, as death row inmates are not permitted conjugal visits.
- According to Bob Hayward, the police officer who approached Bundy during the early-morning hours of 8/6/75, he was positioning his gun on Bundy. Years later, when Bundy was being tried for murder in a Florida courtroom, Hayward expressed guilt and remorse for not killing him. "I didn't want to shoot the guy," he said. "[Now] I wish I did.".
- Married Carole Ann Boone during his second trial, in which he was condemned to death row. Acting as his own attorney, he called her as a witness. He phrased a question such that an affirmative answer in front of a judge and recorded by the court would legally bind marriage.
- When his murders and attacks started surfacing in 1974, true-crime author Ann Rule began writing the first chapters of " The Stranger Beside Me", the book that would be about her good friend and co-worker, Bundy. According to Rule, when he was first suspected of the killings, she offered him the opportunity to write his own chapter. He refused.
- He and Ann Rule worked together as volunteers at a suicide prevention hot line. Rule later wrote "The Stranger Beside Me" about Bundy.
- Had a measured IQ of about 124, signifying superior intelligence (but not quite on the genius level).
- His last interview was with Dr. James Dobson in which he discussed the events that led him to the murders.
- The term "Serial Killer" was invented and first used for him as a description of his character.
- He decapitated at least four victims and kept the severed heads as shrines and mementos.
- Declined a last meal.
- When told that he was believed to have killed 36 women in six different states, he suggested that they "add a digit, then you'll have it".
- Following his execution, in an unusual twist his remains were cremated at the request of his family and spread over the mountains in Washington, where the bodies of several of his victims had been discovered.
- Years after his execution, guards reported seeing a figure sitting in the electric chair, smiling. Many have said they believe it to be Bundy's ghost.
- Although he was only proven to be responsible for the deaths of 28 women, it is it widely believed that he killed at least 33. According to Bundy himself in a taped confession, he killed more than 100.
- The only survivor, whom he attacked, but was fortunate enough to escape physically unharmed was Carol Daronch. The remaining 5 or 6 victims that were fortunate to survive; were either bludgeoned or strangled; but ultimately survived.
- Was to have been executed in February 1986 but was granted a stay of execution.
- Was often able to evade capture due to a remarkable ability to change his appearance with minor alterations such as growing a beard or cutting his hair.
- Towards the end of his trial, he began to cooperate with the authorities by giving invaluable insights into the psychology of serial killers. He tried to help in the capture of the Green River Killer (Gary Ridgway) as in the 1995 book: "The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt For the Green River Killer" by Bob Keppel with Bill Birnes.
- In his final day, he claimed that pornography was to blame for his desire to murder women.
- Was an honors student. Attended the University of Puget Sound (WA) by way of scholarship. He took courses in psychology, law, and Asian studies, but after attending just two semesters, he transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received a Bachelor's degree in psychology.
- Was considered a strong suspect in the 1961 kidnapping of eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr, who vanished from her Tacoma, WA, home one stormy night and was never seen or heard from again. Many experts believed that this was his first abduction and murder. However, recent DNA analysts was unable to link him to the girl's disappearance. As of April 2015, the case remains unsolved.
- Movies that have been produced about him: The Deliberate Stranger (1986) with Mark Harmon starring as Bundy; Ted Bundy (2002) with Michael Reilly Burke as Bundy; The Stranger Beside Me (2003) with Billy Campbell playing Bundy; Bundy: A Legacy of Evil (2009) with Corin Nemec starring as Bundy; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) with Zac Efron as Bundy; and No Man of God (2021) with Luke Kirby as Bundy.
- His father has never been definitively identified. While his birth certificate lists an Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall as the father, his mother later claimed that she was impregnated by a sailor whose name may have been Jack Worthington.
- Was sentenced to death three times in two separate trials; twice for two Chi Omega sorority sisters killed in Tallahassee, FL, on 1/15/78 and once again for the brutal kidnapping, rape and murder of a 12-year-old middle school student on 2/9/78 in Lake City, FL.
- Was a Republican delegate from Washington state at the 1968 convention for Nelson Rockefeller.
- Son of Louise Bundy. he grew up believing that Louise's parents were his parents, and that she was his sister.
- Serial killer who murdered at least 28 women.
- One of the most feared and prolific serial killers in US history.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 139-141. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Grandson of Samuel Cowell and Eleanor Cowell.
- Subject of the song "The Ted Bundy Song" by the band Macabre.
- Nephew of Virginia "Ginny" Bristol.
- Before being executed in Florida's electric chair on Jan. 24, 1989, he confessed to 30 homicides across seven states between 1974 and 1978. His last words were: "I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends".
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