We're back talking about Rhonda Stapley, who escaped notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.

Now while Rhonda spent the next decades grappling with this alone, Bundy continued waging his war of evil against women.

Between 1974, when he attacked Rhonda, until 1978,

Bundy blazed a trail of violent destruction through multiple states. Utah, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and then all the way down to Florida.

FBI profiler Bill Hagmire would later describe Bundy as, quote, probably the most efficient

killing machine we've seen amongst the serial murderers that we've studied.

Let's look at the timeline and methodology of Bundy's crimes.

They largely correspond to his rape and attempted murder of Ronda and establish his pattern.

Some examples of his earlier crimes, like the 1974 attack and attempted murder of Ronda,

included luring women into his car, taking them to a secluded location,

raping and subsequently strangling, or bludgeoning them to death.

Now, in this regard, he's not all that unusual from other serial killers.

We'll talk more about how he does differ, but in terms of this, it doesn't differ that much. I mean, think about it.

They have a pattern, an M.O. of how they get their victims into a vulnerable position,

take them to a secondary location, and do what they do.

On other occasions, he broke into homes at night and bludgeon, maimed, strangled, and sexually assaulted his victims in their sleep, again, when they're vulnerable.

They're asleep.

He leaps upon them when they have no ability to defend themselves and immediately puts them into

an altered state of consciousness.

He hits them in the head or something where they're dazed and confused and they can't

fight back.

He gains the upper hand through the element of surprise.

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