Despite his dozens of murders, Bundy was so adept at his craft that police never found his fingerprints at a single crime scene. But he was such a meticulous killer, no one at the sorority house heard a thing. When evidence began compiling against Bundy, he fled the state and left a trail of blood all the way to Florida, where on a single night in January 1978 he entered a sorority house and attacked four women within the span of 15 minutes, killing two of them. In a sickening twist of fate, at the time Bundy had been working for a government agency that was searching for the missing women. In 1974 female college students in Washington State began missing at the rate of around one per month, many of whom were later verified to be Bundy’s victims. Treating his victims as fetish items, he gave one corpse a shampoo and applied makeup to another’s face. He also often returned to the murder scene to perform sexual acts with their corpses until their rotting state of putrefaction made it impossible. His usual MO was to rape his victims before either bludgeoning or strangling them to death. “Ted lured females,” wrote Bundy biographer Stephen Michaud, “the way a lifeless silk flower can dupe a honey bee.” To appear vulnerable rather than murderous, Bundy would often approach victims with his arm in a sling and ask their assistance in carrying items to his Volkswagen Beetle. Charismatic and preternaturally manipulative, he is suspected of killing at least 30 women in the 1970s, many of them young college students.

Self-described as “the coldest motherfucker you’ll ever put your eyes on,” Bundy is one of the most infamous of American serial killers.

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