Ted Bundy: Part 1
Killer Psyche
Audible | Treefort Media
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the first half of this two-part episode, retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong explores the disturbing case of Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. In the early 1970s, young women began vanishing from college campuses and sunlit streets across the Pacific Northwest. When the truth finally came to light, it revealed a killer unlike any other: a handsome, charming law student who weaponized trust itself, approaching his victims in broad daylight with a smile and a request for help. By the time investigators across multiple states connected the disappearances, the body count stretched from Washington to Utah to Colorado and beyond. Candice examines how a childhood built on secrets and identity deception, a devastating romantic rejection, and years of escalating paraphilic fantasy converged to create one of history's most organized and methodical predators, and how for Bundy, getting caught was never the end of anything — it was just the beginning.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Killer Psyche |
| 0:04.0 | ad-free right now. |
| 0:06.7 | Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app. |
| 0:11.8 | A listener note, this episode contains adult content |
| 0:15.9 | and is not suitable for everyone. |
| 0:18.4 | Please be advised. In the earliest versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf does not burst through the door. |
| 0:35.6 | He waits and he watches. He studies the path through the |
| 0:41.1 | woods and learns its rhythms. He understands that fear is loud, but trust is quiet. So he does not |
| 0:50.8 | frighten the girl. He speaks gently. |
| 0:55.6 | He lowers his voice. |
| 0:58.0 | He asks for help. |
| 1:03.8 | And when he slips into the grandmother's bed, the horror is not just that he is there. It is that he fits. |
| 1:06.6 | He looks almost right, almost safe. Better to see you with, better to hear you with, better to eat you with. |
| 1:17.6 | The wolf has always been a story we tell children to prepare them for danger. |
| 1:23.6 | But in the 1970s, America met a wolf who did not need a forest. |
| 1:29.2 | He walked on college campuses in broad daylight. |
| 1:33.4 | He wore a cast. |
| 1:35.1 | He carried textbooks. |
| 1:37.2 | He asked young women to help him load something into his car. |
| 1:41.4 | He said, please. |
| 1:44.1 | His name was Ted Bundy. And over time, that name stopped describing a man |
| 1:51.1 | and started describing a type of evil. Bundy, not just a killer, the killer, the one who looked like the boy next door, the one who volunteered on |
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