Lynda Ann Healey second known victim of serial killer Ted Bundy is abducted - 1974

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Bundy

Ted Bundy

by Michael Thomas Barry

On January 31, 1974, the second known victim of serial killer Ted Bundy, Lynda Ann Healey disappears but there is no real consensus to when he actually began his murder spree. She had been bludgeoned while asleep and abducted; her skull and mandible were eventually recovered at the Taylor Mountain site. Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell on November 24, 1946 he was an American serial killer who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier.

After more than a decade of denials, he confessed shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978; the true total remains unknown, and could be much higher. 

Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims, traits he exploited in winning their trust. He typically approached them in public places, feigning an injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them at a more secluded location. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made further interaction impossible. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads in his apartment for a period of time as mementos. On a few occasions he simply broke into dwellings in the dead of night and bludgeoned victims as they slept. 

Initially incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault, Bundy became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states. Facing murder charges in Colorado, he engineered two dramatic escapes and committed multiple additional assaults, including three murders, before his ultimate recapture in Florida in 1978. He received three death sentences in two separate trials for the Florida homicides. Ted Bundy died in the electric chair at Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida on January 24, 1989. 

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