When it comes to American serial killers, Theodore "Ted" Bundy (pictured above) is one of the worst. Charming and intelligent, he was able to sweep young women off their feet before raping and beating them to death across several states in the 1970s. His victims typically looked like a college girlfriend who dumped him while he attended the University of Washington (attractive students with long, dark hair), and he captured many by pretending to be injured and in need of their help.
He was eventually caught by police but managed to escape custody and drive to Tallahassee, FL. It was there he broke into the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University and killed two female students. He then kidnapped and murdered Kimberly Leach, a 12-year-old girl, which was his last kill before being captured for good. Although some say his kill count is around 100, evidence only linked him to 36 murders, which led to his execution by electric chair in Florida in 1989.
In 1986, his crimes were turned into a film starring Mark Harmon, The Deliberate Stranger, which earned Harmon a Golden Globe nomination and prompted Bundy's defense attorney to call it "stunningly accurate." There is also 2002's straight-to-DVD Ted Bundy, 2003's Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me, and 2008's Bundy: An American Icon.
