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Today is Friday, January 24th, 2020.

On this day in 1989, serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy

was executed via electric chair in a Florida penitentiary.

Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original. Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes,

listener discretion is advised. Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13. Today we're covering the execution of 42 year old Theodore Ted Bundy,

the serial murderer responsible for the rapes, assaults, and deaths of numerous young women during the 1970s.

Let's go back to Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989, early in the morning.

The sun wasn't even up yet in Northeast Florida. When it did finally rise, 42-year-old Ted Bundy

wouldn't be outside or alive to see it. He'd been waiting on death row for almost 10 years. The smell of eggs

and buttered toast entered his Spartan cell a little before 5 a.m.

Bundy stared at the plate but didn't move to touch it.

Maybe he knew that the night before

just 45 minutes west, dozens of college students had feasted in celebration of his impending execution.

One of Florida State University's fraternities organized a cookout.

It was a twisted but fitting memorial to the women of the Chi Omega sorority

that Bundy had sexually assaulted and killed in 1978.

But the FSU homicides weren't all that had led Bundy to death row,

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