This podcast details true crime cases.

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

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

We're in the series Survivor Stories,

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

But because of their strong will to survive,

somehow escape their fate.

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

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

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

Theodore Robert Bundy.

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

into our collective consciousness.

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

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

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

of the evil figure that was Ted Bundy.

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

but being attacked by the infamous serial killer.

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

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