| Show Mother Says Last Goodbye To Her 'Precious Son’ TACOMA Wash (UPI) — ‘‘You’ll always be my precious son” were the last words serial killer Ted Bundy heard from his mother only hours before he was executed in Florida Tuesday Louise Bundy a slightly built woman with short gray hair and glasses talked twice by telephone with her son late Monday night according to a copyright story in Tuesday’s Tacoma News Tribune ‘‘He sounds wonderful” she said when the call was over “He sounds very much at peace with himself He said ‘I’m so sorry I’ve given you all such grief but a part of me was hidden all the time’ And then he said ‘But the Ted Bundy you knew also existed’ ” call During their first the time allowed by prison officials in Starke Fla Louise Bundy told her son “We just want you to know how much we love you and always will” Much of the first conversation was taken up with messages Bundy 42 asked his mother to relay to friends and family members A short time after the call ended the phone rang again Bundy had been permitted to make a second call to his mother “We’re all praying for you” Louise told her son later telling reporters “He said God’s spirit was with him He kept saying how sorry he was that ‘there was another part of me that people didn’t know’ At the end of the second call Louise Bundy told Ted “You’ll always be my precious son” Calling Ted the “light of our lives” Louise Bundy said she and her husband Ted's stepfather had managed to get through the past week because “we are surrounded by love in this house” “What he says he did — those are awful things — but I believe God forgives I feel so very very sorry for them the victims’ families I think of my own girls and I feel such Associated Press Writer STARKE Fla — In the end Ted remorseful deparBundy's low-keture Tuesday was as puzzling as the sharp contradiction of his outgoing personality and his murderous troubled depths After he was executed in Florida’s electric chair Bundy's steel-blu- e eyes stared straight ahead — with scores of questions remaining unanswered about his motives and unsolved cases even after his confessions law school Bundy a dropout had defied the state of Florida for 11 years exuding wit and Although Louise and her husband friends neighbors and reporters at she expressed anger when asked about her son’s death sentence “I think it is barbaric” Louise Bundy said “What good does it do? It’s legalized murder is all It’s not a their home deterrent They've been killing people for thousands of years and what good has it done?” Bundy was executed ending 10 years of legal battles for the murder of Kimberly Leach of Lake City Fla He also had been sentenced to death for murdering two coeds at Florida State University Over the weekend Bundy gave extensive interviews to law enforcement officials from a number of states eventually confessing to more than two dozen of three dozen murders he was suspected of committing in Washington Idaho Utah Colorado and other states in the 1970s y last-minu- Associated Press newsman Ron Word who witnessed Tuesday’s execution of Ted Bundy has covered executions in Florida since 1984 and has been a witness at sev- eral previous executions charm as he maneuvered his way through the legal system But when the state finally cornered him in the death chamber for the murder of Kimberly Leach a frightened Bundy went to his death quietly Bundy paused when he entered the freshly painted gray death chamber soon after 7 a m EST and appeared startled his eyes betraying fear His head and right leg were shaved for the electrodes and each wrist was manacled to a guard He walked over and was seated in the massive oaken electric chair built by inmates in 1923 While thick leather straps were tightened around his legs arms waist and chest by four prison officials Bundy looked around the room and mouthed some words to attorney James Coleman and the Rev Fred a Methodist minister Lawrence from Gainesville Lawrence had spent the night outside Bundy’s cell “Part of the time they spent in prayer” said Bob Mac- - Bundy’s Spouse Elsewhere in His Last Hours Orlando Sentinel STARKE Fla — One person noticeably absent at Florida State Prison during the last week has been Carwoman ole Boone the auburn-hairewho married Bundy in a bizarre courtroom ceremony in Orlando nine years ago Boone 42 first met Bundy in 1974 when the two worked in the Washington State Office of Emergency Services in Olympia Boone has refused to discuss her relationship with Bundy She said during his Florida murder trials that she firmly believed in his innocence “I've never seen anything in Ted that indicates any destructiveness toward people” she said in February 1980 testifying before a judge at a sentencing hearing in the Kimberly Leach case She added that he was a "warm kind patient man” It was during that hearing shortly before a jury recommended the death sentence that Boone and Bundy married The judge in the case had turned down Boone's request to marry Bundy So in a plot worked out during visiting hours Bundy acting as his own attorney questioned Boone when she took the witness stand to plead for his life “Do you want to marry me?" Bundy asked “Yes” she replied “Do I want to marry you?” d “Yes” “1 do hereby marry you” he re- plied It was legal Boone often visited Bundy on death row In early 1981 Boone became pregnant She gave birth to a daughter Oct 24 1981 Boone has never revealed the identity of the child’s father Boone’s son James from a previous marriage now in his 20s visited Bundy on Sunday Neither Boone nor her son exercised their right to watch Bundy's execution Great Salt Lake o N V’ Tooele Salt Lake City Midvale IDAHO Provo CONFESSED TO: Nancy Wilcox Salt Lake City Debi Kent Bountiful PRIME SUSPECT: Melissa Smith Midvale Laura Aime between SLC-Prov- o Nancy Baird Layton Debbie Smith Salt Lake City UNSOLVEDCONNECTED TO BUNDY THIS WEEK: Sandra Weaver Tooele Sue Curtis Provo Kathy Harman Salt Lake City Johanna Leatherbury Salt Lake City Unidentified woman siteyear not released $ umb'eSoL5uspectFdiyictims pejsstatej WA on Bundy who had never been linked to any killings in the state confessed to killing two people in Idaho: — Lynette Culver 12 was abducted from her Pocatello junior high school on May 6 1975 Her body was never found Idaho authorities said Monday they are reasonably certain girl Bundy killed the — An unidentified girl between 16 and 18 years old about with light brown hair Bundy confessed that in 1974 while traveling from Seattle to Salt Lake City he picked up a young woman at a freeway exit near Boise killed her and threw the body into a river presumed to be the Snake River COLORADO Bundy confessed Sunday to the slayings of: — Caryn Campbell 24 a nurse from Dearborn Mich who was vacationing in Aspen and disappeared Jan 12 1975 from Wildwood Lodge near Snowmass Her body was found five weeks later Bundy had been charged in this slaying — Julie Cunningham 26 a p employee in Vail Disappeared March 15 1975 in Vail Bundy is suspected in slayings or disappearances of: — Denise Lynn Oliverson 24 of Grand Junction Disappeared April 6 1975 while riding her bicycle near her home — Melanie Suzanne Cooley 18 Disappeared April 15 1975 in Nederland Body found May 3 in Coal Creek Canyon — Shelley K Robertson 24 Denver Disappeared June 30 1975 Body found in Berthoud Pass mine shaft ski-sho- Bundy Said His Death Won’t Stop the Killings Carter Tribune Staff Writer STARKE Fla — Ted Bundy’s llth-hou- r warning is ominous if only for its source — grim predictions of murder from a man who knows what he is talking about In an interview 17 hours before he was executed in Florida Bundy told California crusader Dr James C Dobson serial killers like himself will continue to prey upon society as long as permissive attitudes toward violent pornography exist Bundy who acknowledged that he had killed “many many women and girls” to feed an insatiable addiction to violence and sex said just because he will die doesn't mean anyone is safe “There is no way in the world killing me is going to restore those beautiful children to their parents and correct and soothe the pain” Bundy told Dr Dobson “But I’ll tell you there are lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next month because other young people are reading things that are available in the media today” heart this warning born of personal experience “I can only hope they will believe that there is loose in their will take to Bundy was referring to pornography particularly the “wedding” of violence and sex “which I know only too well brings about behavior that is just too terrible to de- towns and their communities people like me today whose dangerous impulses are being fueled day in and day out by violence in the media in particular sexual vio” lence Graphic violence and sex on cable TV today wouldn't have been allowed in theaters 30 years ago Bundy said And today young children are home alone watching it perhaps unaware “that they might be a Ted predisposiBundy who has that tion to be influenced by that kind of violence” he said scribe” Bundy was executed for the sex Lake City Fla schoolgirl in 1978 Bundy granted Dr Dobson a r interview A video excerpt was made available to the media Tuesday Dr Dobson was not available to discuss what was contained on the other 31 minutes of the tape Bundy told the psychologist that he developed an addiction to pornography when he was an adolescent that escalated until he acted out fantasies fueled by the material Even when he was hunting and killing women he said he was “normal” in almost every other aspect but had developed a “black hole" where the guilty and remorse over his crimes disap- murder of a one-hou- peared He said the availability of ever more graphic material in books and on cable television "scares me” the serial killer said “It’s scary” he continued “When I happened I’m scary into stuff Ted Bundy Full Range of Remorse? And while the families of his many victims might not believe him when he says he is sorry for what he has done he hopes they think what would have to me if 1 had seen — enough and I just ran outside the home” in de- tective magazines and other sources he said Bundy said he didn’t want to die but he said he felt he deserved the most “extreme punishment society has and I deserve and I think society deserves to be protected from me and others like me that’s for sure” Bundy Was a Manic Depressive Says Psychiatrist SEATTLE (AP) — A psychiatrist who examined Theodore Bundy as attempt to save part of a him from execution concluded he ille suffered from a ness and his mental problems likely began at an early age Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis a New Haven Conn psychiatrist interviewed Bundy on Monday as his attorneys unsuccessfully tried to prove he was mentally incompetent to be executed Bundv was electrocuted Tuesday at the Florida State Prison in Starke The examination and Lewis’ extensive review of Bundy's records offer a possible glimpse into the mind of a man linked to as many as three last-ditc- h manic-depressiv- i dozen killings of women in the West and in Florida The Seattle Times published a detailed account of Lewis' findings in its Tuesday editions Lewis determined Bundy suffered from a “bipolar mood disorder” or a e illness At a moment's notice Bundy could switch from euphoria and compulsive talking to anger followed by long periods of sullen silence she said One example occurred when an investigator was in Bundy’s cell in Tallahassee Lewis said The investigator told her that during a normal conversation Bundy suddenly “became weird on me did a metamorphosis a bit of a body and facial manic-depressiv- Ptess lasefphoio for hiding terrible secret but insisted that “the Ted Bundy you knew also existed” Continued From A-- l — Johanna Leatherbury 18 Salt Lake City who disappeared in August 1971 — Police also may add the name of an unidentified woman to the list of suspected Bundv slavings Layton k Bountiful Utah Lake i : List of Murders Bundy Is Associated With black-hoode- By Mike By Bob Levenson — As&octoied Louise Bundy wipes away tear as she talks to her son for the last time He apologized BundytslUtahTT rail master prison spokesman Coleman and Lawrence were seated on the front row separated only by a window from Bundy about three feet away Forty-twpeople witnessed the execution They included 12 official witnesses among them a state representative and three state attorneys 12 reporters and 18 others mostly corrections officials When Florida State Prison Superintendent Tom Barton asked Bundy if he had anything to say the inmate’s voice broke slightly as he spoke looking at Coleman and Lawrence “Jim and Fred I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends” he said Bundy’s eyes widened when the chin strap was tightened He closed his eyes tightly for several seconds then opened them looking straight ahead A black leather hood was lowered in front of his face and prison officials attached a metal electrode to the top of Bundy’s shaved head Barton walked to a telephone on the back wall of the death chamber and spoke briefly with Gov Bob Martinez in Tallahassee Then he walked a couple of steps d executiontoward the er partially visible through a slit behind a partition and nodded The executioner an anonymous individual paid $150 in cash pressed a button at 706 a m sending 2000 volts at 14 amps surging through Bundy’s body Bundy pressed backward into the chair unlike the violent jerking motion of inmates in many executions His fists clenched The power was on for about a minute half the time normally allowed to execute an inmate A paramedic checked Bundy’s pulse at his wrist for four minutes before unbuckling the strap and unbuttoning the inmate’s shirt to listen to the final beats of Bundy's heart A3 John Bundy calmly talked to Enigmatic Killer Was A Puzzle to the End By Ron Word The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday January 25 1989 almost an odor emitchange and ted from him” She said Bundy probably started having mental problems as an infant when he lived with his mother Louise in her parents' home in Philadelphia Lewis described Bundy's maternal grandfather as "an extremely violent and frightening individual" who would kick dogs swing cats by their tails and beat people who angered him She said a cousin of Bundy's told her that when Bundy was a preschooler he used to sneak into a greenhouse to look at pornographic material stored there by his s Bundy said hours before his death that pornography fueled his violent thoughts toward women Lewis said Bundy's maternal grandmother had been hospitalized more than once for psychotic depression and had undergone electroshock therapy U S District Judge G Kendall Sharp who heard Lewis’ findings also heard some strong dissent Dr G Jorgenson a University of Utah psychiatrist who talked with Bundy in a Utah jail in 1976 de-" scribed Bundy's hostility as “mild He said Bundy was “intellectually efficient and flexible” had a good relationship with women and was a "normal person” OREGON He had been suspected in the slayings of— Rita Lorraine Jolly 17 who vanished from West Linn in June 1973 Her body was never found — Vicki Lynn Hollar 24 who disappeared from Eugene in August 1973 Her body also was never ' found WASHINGTON Bundy confessed to the slayings of 11 people: — Roberta Kathleen Parks 20 who disappeared May 6 1974 from Oregon State University in Corvallis Ore Her body was found a year later east of Seattle authorities said she had been bludgeoned — Lynda Ann Healey 21 a University of Washington student whb vanished from her basement bedroom near the Seattle campus Feb 1 1974 — Donna Gail Manson 19 who left her dorm room at The Evergreen State College near Olympia about a month later to attend a campus jazz concert and never returned — Susan Rancourt 18 of Anchorage Alaska a student at Central Washington State College in Ellens-bur- g who left a meeting of prospective dorm counselors April 17 1974 and disappeared — Brenda Ball 22 was last seen leaving a Seattle tavern on June 1 1974 looking for a ride — Georgann Hawkins 18 a University of Washington student who vanished June 11 1974 as she walked down a brightly lit alley to her sorority house — Janice Ott 23 and Denise Nas-lun19 who disappeared July 14 1974 from Lake Sammamish State Park east of Seattle — A young hitchhiker near Olym pia in 1973 But Robert Keppel a Washington state attorney general's investigator said Bundy did not provide her name — Two other women who Bundy did not identify or give times of death or say where the bodies were ! left according to Mr Keppel Thurston County authorities in Olympia Wash said Bundy might have been referring to two last seen alive hitchhiking One was Katherine Merry Devine who vanished Nov 25 1973 after being seen in Seattle and whose body was found 11 days later at a campground near Olympia The other was Brenda Joy Baker a runaway from Maple Valley south of Seattle last seen near Puyallup on May 27 1974 and whose remains were found 31 days later in Millersylvania State Park Other cases: Carol Valenzuela 20 disappeared in August 1974 from Vancouver Her remains were found near Yacolt in Clark County along with the remains of a young woman in her late teens or early 20s whose identity was never determined Authorities are uncertain whether Bundy is connected with the murders and Mr Keppel said Bundy denied he was to blame Authorities questioned Bundy in the death of Ann Marie Burr an girl in Bundy's hometown of Tacoma Wash who disappeared when Bundy was 14 Bundy denied killing the girl Mr Keppel said d In May 1966 two air- line flight attendants Lonnie Trum-bel- l and Lisa Wick were attacked and beaten in their Seattle apartment Ms Trumbell died while Ms Wick suffered skull fractures but lived Bundy lived nearby and worked at the supermarket where the women shopped Bundy also denied this attack Mr Keppel said Whitman County authorities say they also still consider Bundy a suse pect in the 1971 death of Joyce 21 of Pasco a student at Washington State University in Pull man Bundy denied he killed her but Mr Keppel urged authorities to keep him on the suspect list Bundy is also a suspect in murders of one in California one in Vermont one in Pennsylvania and one in Michigan In Vermont and Michigan Bundy killed while apparently trying to track down his real father Bundy was a bastard child born in Burlington Vt in 1946 He also confessed to the murder of a Temple University coed in Philadelphia in the "early 1970s" a law official said |
