Ted Bundy: The Making of the Bundy Myth — Part 5

Once Ted Bundy was permanently in custody, the murders stopped.

But the mythology exploded.

Cameras entered the courtroom. Reporters discovered a defendant who could talk, joke, argue law and perform for an audience. Words like handsome, charming, intelligent and brilliant were repeated so often they became part of the Ted Bundy story.

In Part Five of this six-part series, we follow Bundy through his Florida trials for the Chi Omega murders and attacks and the murder of Kimberly Leach. We look at what prosecutors could actually prove, the evidence used against him — including the now deeply controversial bite-mark evidence — and Bundy's determination to turn his own murder trials into a performance.

The murders made Ted Bundy a killer.

The courtroom made him a celebrity.

And while Bundy smiled for cameras, argued with lawyers and enjoyed his newfound audience, the families of Margaret Bowman, Lisa Levy and Kimberly Leach were forced to sit through the spectacle.

This is how Ted Bundy became the Ted Bundy people think they know.

Everybody remembers Ted. It's time we remembered his victims.

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