Victims were white females with middle-class backgrounds and most were college students.

Ted Bundy decapitated some of his victims, and kept the severed heads in his apartment for a period of time as mementos. He spent hours grooming and having sex with  the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made further interaction impossible.

Was an assistant to Ross Davis, Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, Graduated with Psychology Degree then went to law school.

Ted Bundy was Initially incarcerated for aggravated kidnapping but he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed further assaults, including three murders, before his recapture. He received three death sentences and died in the electric chair.

He may have been fathered by his mother's own violently abusive father who then raised him with his grandmother.  His grandfather was a tyrannical bully and a bigot who hated blacks, Italians, Catholics, and Jews, beat his wife and the family dog, and swung neighborhood cats by their tails. He once threw his daughter down a flight of stairs for oversleeping. His grandmother was a timid and obedient woman who periodically underwent electroconvulsive therapy for depression. 

He was an unusually organized and calculating criminal who used his extensive knowledge of law enforcement methodologies to elude identification and capture for years. He was unusually skilled at minimizing physical evidence as well.

Bundy confessed to 30 homicides, however the true victim count remains unknown, and may be much higher.

Would employ various ruses designed to lure his victim to the vicinity of his vehicle where he had pre-positioned a weapon, usually a crowbar. In many cases he wore a plaster cast on one leg or a sling on one arm, and sometimes hobbled on crutches, then requested assistance in carrying something to his vehicle. or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them at more secluded locations.

Bundy was regarded as handsome, likable and charismatic by his friends and many of his young female victims.

He occasionally exhibited disturbing behavior, even at that early age. His aunt recalled awakening one day from a nap to find herself surrounded by knives from the kitchen and her three-year-old nephew was standing by the bed, smiling.

Biographer Ann Rule described him as "a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after". He once called himself "the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet". Attorney Polly Nelson, a member of his last defense team, agreed. "Ted", she wrote, "was the very definition of heartless evil."