Ted Bundy: A Disturbed Individual

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Ted Bundy A Disturbed Individual
Kate Finkboner Elizabeth Faul
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Who is Ted Bundy?

• Appearances
• Well mannered and shy
• Highly educated
• Attractive man
• Actual Disposition
• Dynamic and Inconsistent
• Uneasy
• Childhood
• Romantic Relationships

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Nature of the Crime
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Crimes (continued)
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Bundys M.O.

• Reign of Terror (1974- 1978)
• Traveled from Washington to Florida
• Victims resembled his ex-girlfriend
• Long hair, parted in the middle
• Similar build
• Dressed in pants
• Consistencies
• Cast on arm or leg and required help
• Impersonated police officer

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Bundys M.O.

• Often women were beaten
• Iron crowbar or similar heavy weapon found at
  scene
• Subsequently dragged into his car and taken to a
  remote location
• Raped and killed

The VW driven by Ted Bundy, found abandoned
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Initial Arrest

• Officer pulled over Bundy
• Police arrested him under suspicion of burglary
• Passenger seat of car had been removed
• Ski mask, rope, handcuffs, crowbar, wire, and ice
  pick

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Bundys First Trial (Utah)

• Carol DeRonch escaped from Bundys VW bug on
  11/8/1974
• She identified Bundy in a police line up as the
  man who attacked her
• Handcuffs in the car were the same make and brand
  as those found on DeRonch
• Convicted of aggravated kidnapping

Carol DeRonch testifying against Ted Bundy in
court
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Other Incriminating Discoveries

• While serving time for his conviction trace
  evidence was found in his car linking him to two
  other victims
• Hair fibers
• Examination of Caryn Campbells remains
• Impressions on her skull matched the crowbar
  found in Bundys car
• Decides to represent himself in the new trials
• While preparing his defense he escapes police
  custody by jumping out a window

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Bundy, The Fugitive

• After being recaptured, Bundy escapes a second
  time
• Moves to Florida and tries to live a normal life
• Until the night of January 15, 1978

Ted Bundy, arrested after his escape
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Chi Omega Murders

• Tallahassee, Florida
• Four girls were brutally attacked, two suffered
  fatal injuries
• Lisa Levy (left)
• Margaret Bowman (right)

Pictures from Levy and Bowmans room (crime scene)
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Evidence found at the Crime Scene

• Eye witness Nita Neary
• Ski mask
• Bite Marks on the breast and buttock of Lisa Levy

Nita Neary
Bite Mark on Buttock
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Forensic Odontology

• Human dentition is unique to each person and has
  been accepted by the courts as an identifier
  since 1954
• Methods of documenting bite mark
• Photography
• Excision
• Linking the bite mark to the suspect
• Transparent Overlay
• Cast the subjects teeth to match to the bite mark

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Documenting the Bite Mark

• Important because the mark fades in decedents as
  quickly as 1 day post-mortem
• Photography
• Take a picture to determine the orientation of
  the bite
• Take samples of saliva from the bite to test for
  amylase and for ABO typing (if applicable)
• Wash the area of blood/hair and photograph with a
  ruler (same vertical plane as the bite)
• Camera lens held perpendicular to the bite and
  fine-grain print film used
• Bite mark photographed with skin positioned as it
  was during the attack
• Excision
• Placed in formalin, which causes immediate
  shrinkage and other distortions

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Linking the Bite to the Suspect

• Skin is not a good impression material
• Unusual characteristics of bite are most telling
  (arch size/shape, tooth size/alignment are easily
  distorted)
• Rotations, Spacing, Chips, Sharp edges, Etc.
• Casting teeth with wax impressions
• Transparent Overlay

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Wax impression of lower front teeth
Digital representation of the front teeth
Transparent Overlay (two nearly super imposed
bites)
(a)
(a) Outlines of Bundys lower teeth are placed
below a corresponding portion of the bite mark
(b) The bite marks with the outline of the lower
teeth digitally superimposed on the lower most
injury pattern
(b)
The arrangement of five of Bundys lower six
teeth coincide with the reddened bruises
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Court Room

• Bundy faced three trials (1) Chi Omega murders
  in 1978 (2) The attacks on the surviving Chi
  Omega sisters in 1978 (3) The murder of Kimberly
  Leach in 1980
• He was sentenced to death on three different
  occasions, two of which were for the Chi Omega
  murders.

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