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What Makes a Killer

S4 Ep13: Ted Bundy

What Makes a Killer

Audioboom Studios

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Florida State University, Tallahassee. January 15th, 1978. Around 2:45 am, a man broke into the Chi Omega Sorority House and attacked four women. He was a known serial killer, and was on the run after breaking out of prison for the second time. Within four years, one of America’s most prolific killers– Ted Bundy– kidnapped, raped, and sadistically murdered at least thirty young women during the mid 1970’s. Initially convicted of only kidnap and assault, it is suspected that he may have actually raped and slaughtered up to a hundred young women.


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Original music by Ben Krejci, Lee Rosevere, Kai Engel, and Daniel Birch. Additional music provided by Epidemic Sound.

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0:00.0

What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences.

0:07.0

Listener discretion is strongly advised.

0:12.0

Florida State University, Tallahassee, January 15, 1978.

0:17.0

Around 2.45 a.m., a man broke into the Kaya Omega sorority house and attacked four women.

0:24.0

He was unknown serial killer and was on the run after breaking out of prison for the second time.

0:29.0

There's rape, he beats people, he knocks people's teeth out, he bites the butter of one of the victims.

0:38.0

Within four years, Ted Bundy kidnapped, raped and statistically murdered at least 30 young women during the mid 1970s.

0:48.0

A scant few survived to tell their terrible ordeal.

0:53.0

He leaned in, so I thought he was going to kiss me. Instead, he said, do you know what? I'm going to kill you.

0:59.0

Initially convicted of only kidnapped and assault, it is suspected that Bundy may have raped and slayed up to 100 young women.

1:08.0

This is what makes a killer, a series that chronicles the lives and crimes of the world's most notorious killers.

1:16.0

I'm your host, Jennifer Natoso. In every episode, we'll trace a killer's origins, examine their behavior and follow their path to bloodshed.

1:26.0

In this episode, we'll discuss Ted Bundy.

1:30.0

Seattle, Washington

1:45.0

Ted Bundy began his reign of terror in the Pacific Northwest, spreading across seven states.

1:53.0

Between 1974 and 1978, he would confess to the kidnapping, rape and murder of 30 young women.

2:01.0

Two of the victims were just 12 years old. Forensic psychologist Rex Bieber details Bundy's style of attack.

2:09.0

This is a man who killed in the most violent, the most terrifying way he would, before death, he would break bones, he would rip parts of the body off.

2:21.0

He would keep parts of the body mutilated after he did it. This is a person who ravaged his victims, intending to cause pain.

2:29.0

Rhonda Stapley was a college student in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1974.

2:35.0

He was a monster because he just enjoyed killing. One of his interviews, the interviewer asked him, point blank, he said, Ted, why did you kill?

2:45.0

And Ted kind of raised one eyebrow and kind of smiled and says, to the liked it.

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