In 2013 James Whitey Bulger was sentenced to two live sentences plus five years by a federal judge. His case is currently under appeal. ibid.
You don’t understand, we’re taking the fucking liquor store. Whitey: United States of America v James J Bulger, Bulger to owner, CNN 2014
After 16 years the FBI finally has its man. Boston mob boss James Whitey Bulger was captured in southern California. ibid. news
A man so dangerous he joined Osama bin Laden at the top of the FBI’s most wanted list. ibid.
Bulger routinely met with FBI agent John Connolly and gave him information. ibid. court transcript
Weeks was one of the government’s star witnesses. ibid. news
Everybody can be corrupted. ibid. Weeks
19 alleged murder victims. ibid. news
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Bit by bit I was beginning to see a very different story in Bundy’s family life. One that would upend the myth of pure evil. Alex Gibney, ‘Crazy, Not Insane’, Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis, psychiatrist, Sky Documentaries 2021
I think that there is a ‘Bundy state’ where he did not do any of those murders. In fact, he referred to the person who killed, he called that ‘the entity’ … He did at times seem to become his [abusive] grandfather. ibid.
1978: On 15th February a man is arrested in Florida who eventually confesses to twenty-three murders. Nearly all the victims were young and pretty with a strong resemblance to each other and to a girl who once turned him down. The police were fairly sure he had killed at least fifteen others as well. Great Crimes & Trials s1e12: Ted Bundy – The Serial Killer, BBC 1993
He was a classic psychopath: internally raging and able to kill without remorse. ibid.
Bundy was an intelligent but lonely child. ibid.
Bundy was in Salt Lake City, and women started disappearing there. ibid.
There followed almost nine years of appeals. ibid.
Bundy finally confesses. The Sunday News Tribune
They are the world’s most infamous series killers. But what drove them to commit their horrific crimes. Was it Nature or Nurture? Born to Kill? s2e1: Ted Bundy, Sky 2005
Ted Bundy would savagely snuff out the lives of America’s brightest and most beautiful. A charismatic killer who fooled even his closest friends. And ran rings around law enforcement. He’s become the most infamous serial killer in American history. But was Ted Bundy born to kill? ibid.
It was in this environment of half-truths and uncertainty that Ted Bundy grew up. ibid.
Over the next six months the Seattle police wrestled with the mystifying disappearance of the twenty-one-year-old. Then one after the other more young female college students began vanishing. ibid.
Each victim had centre-parted long dark hair. Each was slim, attractive and bright. Each resembled Bundy’s dream girl. ibid.
He headed to Salt Lake City ... Over the next three months four young girls were found sexually assaulted and murdered. ibid.
Over the next seven months six more young women were abducted in Utah and neighbouring Colorado. ibid.
Ted Bundy had been caught. He was charged and convicted of the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, and sentenced to between one and fifteen years. But Ted Bundy was about to pull off an extraordinary feat that would see him free again to kill at will. ibid.
Ted Bundy was in custody again ... Bundy would be tried twice ... Found guilty beyond reasonable doubt. ibid.
Just days before he was due to be executed Ted Bundy began admitting the hideous murders of at least thirty-six young girls across America. He had dumped many of the bodies in the mountains or in woods, and he had often returned to them to commit necrophilia. He had sometimes brought the heads home. Ted Bundy was electrocuted. ibid.
Was he damaged as a child by the lie that his mother was his sister? Was his later rejection by his dream girl the catalyst for his crimes? ibid.
They knew there was a killer on the loose. But they didn’t know how to catch him. The smooth talking serial killer eventually slipped up. Deranged Killers s1e2: Ted Bundy, Discovery 2008
Ted Bundy: he charmed his way into the lives of attractive young women from Oregon to Florida, and brutally attacked them. He was truly a deranged killer. ibid.
More young women, mostly university age, were also reported missing in the area. They all vanished without a trace. ibid.
At least seven earlier disappearances of students in the state. ibid.
Women were missing in Colorado as well. ibid.
Bundy escaped again. ibid.
On his last night Ted Bundy confessed to dozens of murders. ibid.
He confessed to thirty murders; some estimates put the figure as high as one hundred. ibid.
Volunteers searched the neighbourhood for Ann Marie [Burr] … 8-year-old Ann Marie Burr was taken from her family home in Tacoma, Washington [August 1961]. Killer Kids s3e8: Peeping Theodore & The Six, LMN 2014
Theodore Cowell was an evil child but he grew up to become one of the most infamous serial killers of all time: Ted Bundy. ibid.
I went into the prison with my tape-recorder. And I asked him, What sort of a person could have done these things? He [Bundy] insisted that he was innocent. I wanted him to tell me who he was. Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes I: Handsome Devil, opening comments, Netflix 2019
I am looking for an opportunity to tell the story as best I can. I mean I’m not an animal. I’m not crazy. I don’t have a split personality. I mean I’m just a normal individual. ibid. Bundy
Clean cunt, good looking, articulate, very intelligent, just a handsome young mild-mannered law student. ibid. commentary
From January to June of this year [1974] the King county area was engulfed in a wave of fear as young women vanished with alarming regularity. ibid. news report