Infamous serial killer he idolised
AMERICAN mass murderer Ted Bundy killed 30 young women across numerous US states in the 1970s.
He would often approach victims in public places and fake a disability to get them to help with a task, such as loading his car parked nearby.
Once alone, he would batter them unconscious with a blunt weapon before moving them to a secret location where he would rape and strangle them. He twice managed to escape jail, but was finally recaptured in February 1978.
Bundy’s initial trial in Florida was one of the first to be broadcast live on television. Across several trials he was found guilty of murdering multiple women, and later confessed to 30 in all.
He was executed by electric chair in 1989, aged 42.