Nov. 18, 2025
"OLD SPARKY: THE EXECUTION OF TED BUNDY AND THE LEGACY OF AMERICA'S CHARMING KILLER" (Part 4 of 4)
Reid Carter concludes the Ted Bundy series with his January 24, 1989 execution at Florida State Prison. Bundy spent final night chain-smoking, refusing last meal, meeting with his mother for last time. 7:00 AM: Strapped into Old Sparky—Florida's electric chair. Last words: "Jim and Fred, I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends." 7:16 AM: 2,000 volts sent through his body for one minute. Pronounced dead. Outside prison, crowd of 500 celebrated with signs reading "Burn Bundy Burn" and "Tuesday is Fry-Day." Victims' families watched, some relieved, others still haunted by what he took from them.
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Callaroga Shark Media, Good morning, I'm reed Carter. November eighteenth,
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twenty twenty five. January twenty fourth, nineteen eighty nine, Florida
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State Prison, Stark, Florida. Seven am. Theodore Robert Bundy, forty
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two years old, was led from his death row cell
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to the execution chamber. Walked down the hallway, hands cuffed
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behind his back, legs shackled, guards on either side. No
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last minute stay, no reprieve from the governor, no miracle,
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just death. The execution chamber was small, cinderblock walls painted yellow.
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In the center. Old Sparky, Florida's electric chair solid Oak,
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built in nineteen twenty three, had executed two hundred thirty
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nine people before Ted Bundy. Ted would be number two
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hundred forty twenty two. Witnesses sat in chairs behind a
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glass window. Victim's families, law enforcement, prosecutors, media, all there
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to watch Ted die. Some came for closure, some came
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for justice, some came to make sure he was really dead.
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Outside the prison, five hundred people gathered, some protesting the
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death penalty, most celebrating, holding signs. Burn Bundy. Burn. Tuesday
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is Friday. Thank god it's Friday. Vendors selling T shirts.
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A carnival atmosphere. People cheered. When the prison lights flickered,
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signaled that electricity had been administered. Ted sat in the chair.
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Guards strapped his chest, arms, legs, placed a leather mask
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over his face, attached electrodes to his head and right leg.
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Soaked the sponges in saline solution to conduct electricity more efficiently.
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Seven six a m. Superintendent Tom Barton asked Ted if
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he had any last words. Ted's voice, muffled by the mask.
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Jim and Fred. I'd like you to give my love
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to my family and friends. Jim Coleman, Fred Lawrence, his
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attorneys the only people Ted acknowledged at the end. Seven
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o seven am. The executioner, identity hidden behind a hood,
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pulled the switch. Two thousand volts surged through Ted's body
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for sixty seconds. His body stiffened, strained against the straps.
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Steam rose from the electrodes. The current stopped. Doctor checked
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for vital signs. Ted was still alive, heart still beating.
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Seven thirteen a m. Second jolt another two thousand volts.
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Sixty more seconds. Ted's body convulsed again. More steam smell
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of burning flesh filled the chamber seven sixteen a m.
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Doctor checked again. No pulse, no heartbeat, no brain activity.
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Theodore Robert Bundy was pronounced dead. Outside. The crowd erupted cheer, applause, fireworks,
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burn Bundy, burn chants, people hugging, crying, tears of relief. Finally,
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after ten years, Ted Bundy was gone. I'm reed, Carter.
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This is Celebrity Trials Day four, The execution of Ted
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Bundy and the legacy that still haunts America. January twenty third,
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nineteen eighty nine, Ted Bundy's last full day alive. Death
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warrants set for seven am the following morning. No more appeals,
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no more stays, no more delays. Sixteen hours left. Ted
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spent the day in his cell Q three South, six
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by nine feet, same cell he'd lived in for nine years.
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Guards watched him constantly. Suicide Watch. Couldn't let him cheat
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the executioner. Ted's mother, Louise visited. She'd flown in from
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Washington State, brought his half siblings. They sat in the
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visiting room, talked through reinforced glass, picked up the phone.
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Last conversation, Louise told reporters later she begged Ted to
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tell her the truth asked him directly, did you kill
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those women? Ted's answer wasn't recorded, but Louise left crying.
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She knew maybe she'd always known, but hearing it from
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her son, the boy she raised, the man she defended,
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shattered whatever denial she'd maintained. Ted also met with his attorneys,
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Jim Coleman and Fred Lawrence, discussed final options. None existed,
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the legal system was finished with Theodore Bundy. They talked
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about his legacy instead. What he wanted people to know,
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what message to leave. Ted wanted people to remember the
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pornography angle, to blame society for creating him, to see
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him as a cautionary tale, not a monster. His attorneys nodded,
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took notes, knew nobody would remember it that way. Reverend
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Fred Lawrence stayed with Ted for hours, prayed with him,
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read scripture, talked about salvation and forgiveness. Ted said all
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the right things, claimed to have accepted Christ asked God's
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forgiveness sounded sincere, but Lawrence later admitted he couldn't tell
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if Ted truly believed or if it was another performance.
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He was so good at mimicking genuine emotion, Lawrence said
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years later, even at the end I wasn't sure who
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the real Ted was. Ted refused his last meal, didn't
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want anything special. Received the standard death row meal instead,
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medium rare steak, eggs over easy, hash browns, toast with butter,
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and jelly coffee juice. He ate some of it, not
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much appetite. Chain smoked cigarettes instead. Prison allowed unlimited cigarettes.
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On execution day, Ted smoked constantly, hands shaking. Around midnight,
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Ted's attorneys left, prison officials began final preparations. Measured Ted's
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head for electrode cap shaved his right leg where the
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second electrode would attach. Standard execution protocol necessary for proper
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electrical contact. Ted was moved to a holding cell near
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the execution chamber, six feet from death. He could hear
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workers testing old sparky electric hum, mechanical sounds, guards walking
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back and forth, final equipment checks. Two am, Ted tried
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to sleep, couldn't too much adrenaline, too much fear. For years,
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he'd maintained he wasn't afraid of death, said he welcomed it,
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that dying would end his suffering. But when death arrived,
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when it was real and imminent, Ted was terrified. Guards
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heard him crying, whimpering, talking to himself. The mask slipped,
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the charming confident Ted Bundy disappeared. What remained was a scared,
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desperate man who knew he was about to die painfully.
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Six a m. Guards came for Ted time to prepare,
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gave him a fresh set of clothes khaki shirt and pants,
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new underwear, socks, slippers. Every would be burned after the execution,
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contaminated by death. Ted dressed slowly, hands trembling. Guards watched
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made sure he didn't try anything. Some condemned men fight
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at the end, try to hurt themselves, or guards force
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the execution to be delayed. Ted didn't fight, just moved
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like a zombie, mechanical defeated. Six thirty am. Superintendent Tom
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Barton visited Ted's holding cell, asked if he had any
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final requests. Ted asked to speak to his attorneys one
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more time. Coleman and Lawrence came. Ten minute conversation. Ted
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gave them messages for his mother, for Carol Anne boone
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for his daughter Rosa. Asked them to make sure Rosa
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knew he loved her, that he was sorry, that she
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shouldn't be defined by his crimes. Six forty five am,
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witnesses began filing into the execution chamber twenty two seats.
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Twenty two people chosen to watch Ted die. Victim's families
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Jerry Blair, brother of Lynda Anne Healy, Carol Deranch, the
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woman who escaped Ted's abduction attempt in nineteen seventy four,
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the only living victim families of Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy,
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families of other confirmed victims. Law enforcement Bob Keppel from Washington,
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Jerry Thompson from Utah, Mike Fisher from Colorado, Detectives who'd
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hunted Ted for years, who'd interviewed him, who'd gotten confessions,
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all there to see the end. Prosecutors Larry Simpson, who
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convicted Ted, and Florida Dan McKeever, Others who'd built cases
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against him. Media reporters from major newspapers, television networks, journalists
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who'd covered Ted's trials, who'd interviewed him, who'd made him famous,
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All sitting in rows behind glass, watching an empty chair,
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waiting for Theodore Bundy. Six fifty five am guards entered
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Ted cell. It's time. Ted stood, hands cuffed behind his back,
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legs shackled, walked from the holding cell toward the execution chamber.
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Twenty feet longest walk of his life. The door opened,
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Ted saw old, sparky, solid oak chair, brown, leather straps,
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metal electrodes, death waiting. He hesitated. Guards pushed him forward.
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Ted shuffled toward the chair, sat down. Guards immediately began
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strapping him in chest strap, arm straps, leg straps tight,
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no movement possible. Attached electrodes one to his shaved head,
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metal cap with wet sponge inside, conductor for electricity. One
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to his right calf. Copper electrode, also with wet sponge.
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Electricity would enter through his head, exit through his leg.
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Cook him from inside, placed leather mask over his face,
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chin strap secured. Ted could see witnesses through small eye holes.
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Saw familiar faces Carol de Ranch, detectives, prosecutors, people who'd
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spent years trying to stop him, now watching him die.
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Seven o six am. Superintendent Barton, Theodore Robert Bundy. Do
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you have any last words? Ted's voice muffled, Jim and Fred.
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I'd like you to give my love to my family
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and friends. That was it. No apology to victims, no remorse,
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no acknowledgment of the women he'd murdered, just a message
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to his attorneys to his family, about himself. Classic Ted Bundy,
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self centered until the last breath. Barton nodded to the executioner,
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hidden behind a partition, anonymous wearing a hood, hand on
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the switch. Seven o seven am. The switch flipped. Two
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thousand volts surged through Ted's body. His hands clenched, body
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went rigid, strained against leather straps, head pushed back, leg flexed.
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Smoke rose from the electrodes, smell of burning flesh, sizzling sound.
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Sixty seconds, the longest minute of Ted Bundy's life. Every
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nerve on fire, brain shutting down, heart trying to beat
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against electrical assault, body dying, current stopped. Doctor approached, checked
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vital signs, pulse present, weak, but there. Ted survived the
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first jolt seven thirteen am. Second jolt, another two thousand volts.
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Ted's body convulsed again, more violent, this time, more smoke,
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more smell. Witnesses covered their noses, some looked away, others stared,
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watched Ted die. Current stopped again. Doctor checked, no pulse,
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no respiration, no corneal reflex, no response to pain stimuli.
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Seven sixteen am. Doctor turned to Superintendent Barton. This man
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is dead. Theodore Robert Bundy dead at forty two, executed
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by the State of Florida for the murders of Margaret
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and Lisa Levy, suspected of killing at least thirty more women,
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probably many more than that. Guards removed the electrodes, unbuckled
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the straps. Ted's body slumped, skin red and blistered where
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electricity had burned him. Face contorted, eyes open behind the
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mask death mask of a serial killer. Witnesses filed out,
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some crying, some stone faced. Carol Deranch told reporters, I'm
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relieved it's finally over. He can't hurt anyone else. Jerry Blair,
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Linda Ann Healey's brother. This doesn't bring Linda back, but
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at least he's gone. At least he can't kill anyone
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else's sister. Outside the prison, the crowd erupted when news
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spread Ted was dead. Signs waved, burn Bundy, burn chants, fireworks,
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people hugging, celebrating a festival of death. Some people were
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disgusted by the celebration, thought it was in appropriate, disrespectful.
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Death penalty opponents used the footage to argue against executions.
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Look at this bloodthirsty mob. This is what capital punishment creates.
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But victim's families didn't see it that way. They saw justice.
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After ten years of appeals, ten years of Ted giving interviews,
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ten years of him manipulating the system, he was finally gone,
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finally silent, finally couldn't hurt anyone. Louise Bundy, Ted's mother,
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released a statement. I loved my son, I always will,
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but I understand why this had to happen. I pray
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for the victim's families. I pray they find peace. Carol
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Anne Boone never commented. She divorced Ted, disappeared with rosa.
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Wanted nothing to do with his execution or his legacy.
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Ted's body was cremated, ashes spread in Washington's Cascade Mountains.
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His request. Wanted to return to the place where he'd
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killed his first victims, even in death, claiming them, possessing
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them his forever. Make it make sense, We'll be right
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back with Ted Bundy's legacy. Why we're still talking about
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him thirty six years after his death, and what his
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case taught us about serial killers. January twenty fourth, nineteen
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eighty nine. Ted Bundy died, but his impact didn't. Thirty
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six years later, we're still talking about him, still making
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documentaries still writing books, still analyzing what made him tick why.
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Part of it is the sheer horror at least thirty
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confirmed murders, probably many more, the brutality, the necrophilia, keeping
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severed heads as trophies, returning to corpses for sex. It's incomprehensible.
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We study it trying to understand it. Part of it
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is the facade. Ted wasn't a monster on the surface.
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He was handsome, charming, educated law student, political volunteer, crisis
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hotline counselor the kind of man parents wanted their daughters
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to date. That's terrifying. Evil doesn't always look evil. Sometimes
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it looks like the boy next door. Part of it
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is the system failures. Nineteen seventy five, arrested with a
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rape kit in his car, released on bail, kept killing,
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nineteen seventy seven, escaped from custody twice, kept killing. The
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system had multiple chances to stop him, didn't. Women died
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because police, courts, and prisons failed. But mostly we keep
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talking about Ted Bundy because he changed how we understand
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serial killers. Before Ted, the public image of serial killers
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was monsters, social outcasts, obvious creeps. Men like ed Gean
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who lived in isolated farmhouses, men like Albert at Fish
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who looked disturbed. Ted shattered that image. He was successful, attractive,
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socially skilled. He dated women, had friends, worked normal jobs,
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fit into society seamlessly. Nobody suspected him because he didn't
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fit the profile. FBI profiler Robert Wrestler interviewed Ted extensively,
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use those interviews to develop modern criminal profiling techniques. Ted
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helped law enforcement understand organize serial killers, killers who plan meticulously,
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who blend in, who manipulate and deceive, who target strangers
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without obvious motive. Ted taught investigators to look for patterns,
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similar victim types, similar methods, similar disposal sites, to connect
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seemingly unrelated cases across jurisdictions. Before Ted, police departments didn't
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communicate well, didn't share information, didn't realize the same killer
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might be operating in multiple states. After Ted, everything changed.
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VCaP Violent Criminal Apprehension Program was created, national database for
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tracking violent offenders, cross jurisdictional communication improved. Serial killer task
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forces formed all because of lessons learned from Ted Bundy.
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But Ted's legacy isn't just investigative techniques. It's cultural. He
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was the first serial killer to become a celebrity, the
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first to give TV interviews, the first to defend himself
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in a televised trial, the first to marry his girlfriend
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in court, the first to manipulate media so effectively that
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some people still defend him even today. Ted has fans,
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women who write him love letters posthumously, people who create
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fan art, social media accounts dedicated to him. True crime
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enthusiasts who romanticize him, call him attractive, excuse his crimes
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because he was charming. This is dangerous, glamorizing serial killers,
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making the famous, giving them platforms, creating entertainment from their atrocities,
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focusing on the killer instead of the victims. We know
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