Every few years or so, there is a resurgence in the passion of serial killers, with Ted Bundy most often showing up. But how was Ted Bundy caught?

By the time Ted Bundy reached Florida in January 1978, he had already killed at least 13 women and attacked two in four different states. One of America's maximum notorious serial killers would move directly to take the lives of three more girls in addition to brutally attacking two others, before finally being arrested in February 1978. Prior to his seize, Bundy escaped police custody two times prior to making his approach to Florida. How was Ted Bundy caught?

How was Ted Bundy finally caught by police?

In Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Bundy describes one in every of his final days as a loose man. "That day in Pensacola [Florida] had been one of the best I'd spent," he said. "I'd gone to the ocean, laid on the beach. I remember saying to myself that day, 'Boy you've got it whipped.' This is the way to start out 1978, laying on the beach."

Maybe Bundy knew his days have been numbered and was soaking up as much as he may. Perhaps he just didn't care.

It was February 15, 1978, and Bundy had already been evading authorities for Forty six days. According to a timeline of his crimes, he escaped from a Glenwood Springs, Colo. jail on Dec. 30, 1977, and was ready to get to Florida in two weeks. That day in February, Bundy was carefully driving his stolen orange Volkswagen Beetle in Pensacola when he was stopped via Officer David Lee of the Pensacola Police Department. Once Officer Lee ascertained the vehicle was stolen, he attempted to arrest Bundy.

"He grabbed my wrist and we had a struggle for control of my revolver," Officer Lee told a reporter, by means of Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Story. "After several minutes of fighting, I did manage to subdue him by striking him with my revolver."

Bundy advised police his title was Kenneth Misner from Tallahassee, Fla., however that didn't remaining long once the true Kenneth Misner noticed his photo in a paper. He called government to let them know he had done not anything flawed and that was no longer him.

While police were trying to identify Bundy, he was refused bail and was charged with "possession of stolen property: an automobile, possession of a stolen television, possession of stolen credit cards (21 counts), possession of stolen automobile tags, battery of a police officer, and resisting arrest with violence." With not anything to head on from Bundy, authorities looked to his stolen car for proof.

How was Ted Bundy known via Florida police?

Authorities couldn't to find any traceable evidence in Bundy's automotive. The simplest factor they might move on was the truth that the vehicle was stolen from somewhere close to the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University, the place 4 women were attacked on January 15, 1978. Two of those girls survived. Police started to suspect that Bundy was behind those attacks.

Detectives Steve Bodiford and Don Pachen decided it was time to interrogate Bundy about the Chi Omega assaults.The interrogations had been overseen by way of then-Leon County Sheriff Ken Katsaris. "He started playing games," stated Katsaris in Conversations With a Killer. "He's a very careful thinker and from what I understand from the men who have been questioning him, he says what he wants to," Katsaris informed reporters at the time.

"I was being interrogated by the police in Pensacola... and I said I wanted to talk to somebody," Bundy shared in tapes by means of the docuseries. "I needed a friend. I needed somebody close," he stated. Bundy alleged that he was traumatized via the enjoy of being arrested and interrogated via police and legal professionals. The very act of being "back in custody" was deeply frightening for him.

In order to make a telephone name to his female friend Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundy told police his real name. He made the decision on February 16, 1978, one day after being arrested. In a taped interview with police, Kloepfer mentioned that Bundy kept repeating, "This was going to be really bad when it broke." If handiest he had that degree of concern for anyone other than himself.

Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is currently streaming on Netflix.

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