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Ted Bundy

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“I have known people who ... radiate vulnerability .... Their facial expressions say 'I am afraid of you.' These people invite abuse ... By expecting to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it?”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a 1977 letter to girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer, quoted in Kendall, Elizabeth (September 1981). The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy (Hardcover, 1st ed.). Seattle: Madrona. page 167
“I'm the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During this interrogation after his arrest in Pensacola, Florida. (1978). Quoted in Hare, Robert D. (1999). Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopath Among Us. New York: The Guildford Press. p. 23
“Okay, you've got the indictment, that's all you're gonna get... I'll plead not guilty right now.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As Leon County Sherriff Ken Katsaris reads him his indictment for the murder of the Chi Omega Sorority girls (July 27, 1978) video.
“I'm not gonna be in this room when that jury walks in. I'm not going through this and you knew that, your honor. You know how far you can push me..... You wanna make a circus? You got a circus. [points to prosecutor] I'll rain on your parade Jack. You'll see a thunderstorm. This will not be the pat little drama you've arranged.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During an angry outburst after he learns of the judge's choices for the jury for the Kimberly Leach trial. (1980) video
“Tell the jury they were wrong.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After being sentenced to death for the murder of Kimberly Leach. (February 10, 1980). video
“I didn't know what made things tick. I didn't know what made people want to be friends. I didn't know what made people attractive to one another. I didn't know what underlay social interactions.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing his high school years. Quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press. pg.…
“Guilt. It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our body.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ultimate possession was, in fact, the taking of the life. And then … the physical possession of the remains.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1989) Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer New York: Signet. pg. 124–26
“Well, had he been cautious, he would’ve probably killed the first individual before leaving to get the second girl, but in this instance since we’ve agreed he wasn’t acting cautiously, he hadn’t killed the first girl when he abducted the second.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Which one do they pick? Do they pick the law student with no criminal background, who was probably even known by some of the prosecutors working the case? Or are they going to go after the types, you know, the guys in the files... the real weirdos?”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're like a fisherman who fishes for years and catches a small fish. Sometimes a medium fish. [You] get lucky and get a big fish. But you know that there's a real big fish under there that always gets away. You and your group are going to get a lot of serial killers and they're going to help you. But with the real good ones, the only way you're going to know what goes on under the water is to go under the water. The fisherman drowns going underwater. But I can take you there without drowning. If I trust you. And if I decide.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To FBI agent Bill Hagmaier. Quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press. pg. 334
“.....murder is not just a crime of lust or violence. It becomes possession. They are part of you … [the victim] becomes a part of you, and you [two] are forever one … and the grounds where you kill them or leave them become sacred to you, and you will always be drawn back to them.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Bill Hagmaier. Rule, Ann (2009). The Stranger Beside Me (Paperback; updated 2009 ed.). New York: Pocket Books pages 380–96.
“When you feel the last bit of breath leaving their body, you're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just said that the Hawkins girl's head was severed and taken up the road about twenty-five to fifty yards and buried in a location about ten yards west of the road, on a rocky hillside. Did you hear that?”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing the murder of Georgann Hawkins to Detective Robert Keppel, days before his execution. Quoted in Keppel, Robert (2005) The Riverman, Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer. Simon and Schuster, pp. 29
“One of the things that makes it a little bit difficult is that at this point she was quite lucid, talking about things. It’s not funny, but it’s odd the kinds of things people will say under those circumstances. And she said that she had a Spanish test the next day, and she thought that I had taken her to help tutor her for her Spanish test. It’s kind of an odd thing to say. Anyway.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not looking for anything. I understand now a lot of stuff about myself that I didn't understand then. It makes me realize what was going on. The senselessness of it appalls me although I'm sure not so much as those who were so close to it.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think anybody doubts whether I've done some bad things. The question is: what, of course, and how and, maybe even most importantly, why?”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's why it's so much easier for me to try to locate the bodies than it is to talk about the actual thing. It's so much more positive such as it could be.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jim [Coleman, his defense attorney] and Fred [Lawrence, his minister], I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last spoken words as he is strapped to the electric chair. Quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Tex…
“Sure, I get angry. I get very, very angry and indignant. I don't like being locked up for something I didn't do, and I don't like my liberty taken away, and I don't like being treated like an animal, and I don't like people walking around and ogling me like I'm some sort of weirdo, because I'm not.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not guilty? [Laughs] Does that include the time I stole a comic book when I was five years old? I'm not guilty of the charges which have been filed against me.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't know all of what you're speaking about Lucky [Severson, reporter interviewing him] it's too broad and I can't get into it in any detail. But I'm satisfied with my blanket statement that I'm innocent. No man is truly innocent. I mean we all have transgressed some way in our lives and as I say, I've been impolite and there are things I regret having done in my life but nothing like the things, I think, that you're referring to.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to become a part of my defense because I am such a part of it. Obviously I'm going to bear the consequences, so why not bear the responsibilities?”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People say "Ted Bundy didn't show any emotion, there must be something in there". I showed emotion. You know what people said? "See, he really can get violent and angry".”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think I stand as much chance of dying in front of a firing squad or in a gas chamber as you do being killed on a plane flight home. Let's hope you don't.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my opinion, the best chance you have of catching this guy is to get a site with a fresh body and stake it out.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...just like anybody else with an obsession, whether it be fishing, bowling or skiing, he has ways he can vicariously satisfy it. Maybe he is going to peep shows and reading detective magazines. I think there's an excellent chance that one way he gets off is by going to look at what they call the slasher films.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This guy doesn't want to be caught. He doesn't want to play around. He's not Son of Sam and he's not even the LA Hillside Strangler. He doesn't want notoriety. That's why he's going to all these length to dispose of these people in the way that he has.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Listen, I'm no social scientist and haven't done a survey. I don't pretend to know what John Q citizen thinks about this. But I've lived in prison for a long time now and I've met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence just like me. And without exception, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography. Without question, without exception. Deeply influenced and consumed by an addiction to pornography.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those of use who are, who have been so much influenced by violence in the media, in particular pornographic violence, are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families. And pornography can reach out and snatch a kid out of any house today. It snatched me out of my home twenty, thirty years ago.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't want to die. I'm not going to kid you. I'll kid you not. I deserve certainly the most extreme punishment society has...I think society deserves to be protected from me and others like me.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...well meaning decent people will condemn [the] behavior of a Ted Bundy while they're walking passed a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send young kids down the road to be Ted Bundys.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was like coming out of some kind of a horrible trance or dream, I can only liken it to, after, I don't want to dramatize it, but to have been possessed by something so awful and alien, and then to next day wake up from it and remember what happened and realize, basically, in the eyes of the law and certainly the eyes of God that you're responsible.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A factor that is almost indispensable to this kind of behavior [serial killing] is the mobility of contemporary American life. Living in large centers of population, and living with lots of people, you can get used to dealing with strangers. It's the anonymity factor, and it has a twofold effect. First of all if you're among strangers you're less likely to remember them, or care what they're doing or what they should, or should not, be doing. If they should or shouldn't be there. Secondly, you're conditioned almost not to be afraid of strangers. Mobility is very important here. As we've seen...the individual's [himself in third person] modus operandi was moving large distances in an attempt to camouflage what he was doing. Moving these distances, he was able to take advantage of the anonymity factor.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But he found himself with this girl who was struggling and screaming. Uh, not screaming, but let’s say just basically arguing with him. There were houses in the vicinity and he was concerned that somebody might hear. And so, in an attempt to stop her from talking or arguing, he placed his hand over her mouth. She stopped and he attempted to remove her clothes and she began to object again. At this point, he was in a state of not just agitation, but something on the order of panic. He was fearing that she would arouse somebody in the vicinity. So, not thinking clearly but still intending not to harm her, let’s say, he placed his hands around her throat… Just to throttle her into unconsciousness so that she wouldn’t scream anymore. She stopped struggling, and it appeared that she was unconscious. But not, in his opinion, to a point where he had killed her... Then let’s say he removed her clothes and raped her and put his own clothes back on. At about that point, he began to notice that the girl wasn’t moving. It appeared, although he wasn’t certain, that he’d done what he had promised himself he wouldn’t do. And he had done it, really, almost inadvertently. Uh, so he took the girl by one of her arms and pulled her to a darkened corner of this little orchard and then, in a fit of panic, fled the scene. He got back in his car and drove back to his house, still not knowing if the girl was alive or dead. But once he returned to the house, upon reflection he began to wonder. He didn’t know if he’d left anything at the crime scene. He hadn’t thought about publicity and physical evidence. So he decided to return to the scene and if the body was there to recover it and take it somewhere else where it wouldn’t be found.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...this guy is responsible for twenty or thirty more deaths at least, and there's a certain aspect of possessiveness in that. I think that's one way of describing it in rather bland terms, a possessiveness where the corpse could easily be as important as the live victim, in some respects. I mean, it's that physical possession and ownership, a taking, if you will, that is just part of the syndrome. I think that sense of power and ownership is one of the reasons why I think in some cases—not all, certainly—is why I think he might be individually intending to return to the scene to either view his victim, or in fact, interact with the body in some way.”
Ted Bundy (1946–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source