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Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

S2 Ep74: Survivor Stories: I Survived Ted Bundy - Rhonda Stapley

Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

A young woman is offered a ride by a nice looking man in Salt Lake City in 1974. By the end of the day she would be attacked and almost killed by the infamous serial killer, Ted Budy.

My special guest, Rhonda Stapley, is the author of "I Survived Ted Bundy: The Attack, Escape and PTSD That Changed My Life". You can find it here on Amazon.

Rhonda can be found on Facebook here.

If you are someone you know would like help and/or information about post-traumatic stress you can go to www.ptsd.va.gov.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This podcast details true crime cases.

0:03.0

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

0:06.8

It is not intended for children.

0:08.8

Listener discretion is advised.

0:15.0

Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

0:18.2

We're in the series Survivor Stories,

0:20.4

where I share cases of people who are targeted by some very dangerous criminals.

0:25.2

But because of their strong will to survive,

0:27.8

somehow escape their fate.

0:29.9

In this chapter, we'll hear the story of one woman's incredible story of survival.

0:34.6

She didn't know it at the time, but she was selected to be the next victim

0:38.8

of one of the world's most prolific serial killers,

0:41.7

Theodore Robert Bundy.

0:44.0

Ted Bundy, it can be said, was the killer who introduced the term serial killer

0:48.9

into our collective consciousness.

0:51.8

Rhonda's staplies story of her encounter with Ted Bundy is chilling.

0:56.0

While you may have heard a red numerous accounts of his crimes against women,

1:00.0

you have never heard it straight from someone who found herself in the presence

1:04.1

of the evil figure that was Ted Bundy.

1:07.1

She is one of the few people who lived to tell about not only encountering,

1:11.4

but being attacked by the infamous serial killer.

1:14.4

It's a story you will have to hear to believe,

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