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* AFoolForAClient: Despite the judge sincerely saying that it would have been a pleasure to see him practice in court under different circumstances, he frequently engaged in clownish antics and stall tactics and pursued lines of questioning in court that sabotaged his own case. He may have been acquitted or been able to get a lesser sentences if he had kept his mouth shut and let legitimate attorneys handle his case.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ted was rather fond of his late grandfather. He also expressed regret to his stepson Jamey about lying to him and deceiving him.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ted was rather fond of his late grandfather. He also expressed regret to his stepson Jamey reportedly felt something that approximates remorse about lying to him and deceiving him.his stepson Jamey.
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* AFoolForAClient: Subverted. Bundy did a genuinely decent job of representing himself in court. Enough for the judge to sincerely say that it would have been a pleasure to see him in court under legitimate circumstances. His loss stemmed from the fact that the evidence against him was overwhelming.
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* AFoolForAClient: Subverted. Bundy did a genuinely decent job of representing himself in court. Enough for Despite the judge to sincerely say saying that it would have been a pleasure to see him in court under different circumstances, he frequently engaged in clownish antics and stall tactics and pursued lines of questioning in court that sabotaged his own case. He may have been acquitted or been able to get a lesser sentences if he had kept his mouth shut and let legitimate circumstances. His loss stemmed from the fact that the evidence against him was overwhelming.attorneys handle his case.
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* SuicideByCop: Bundy's last slew of crimes were committed in Florida, a known death penalty state. Indeed, he was sentenced to death when convicted. Ann Rule suspects that he was fully aware that this might happen.
** He attacked the cop who pulled him over in Florida and tried to make a run for it. When the guy caught him, he outright said, "I wish you'd killed me.", indicating that he was trying to invoke this.
** He attacked the cop who pulled him over in Florida and tried to make a run for it. When the guy caught him, he outright said, "I wish you'd killed me.", indicating that he was trying to invoke this.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: The two times Bundy was caught, it was for a thoroughly mundane reason. The first incident was because he was driving without his headlights on (it has been speculated that he may have been looking for a victim). The cop didn't buy his explanation and found alarming things in his backseat--handcuffs, a ski mask, a crowbar, etc. The second time, the cop felt his Volkswagen Bug was out of place in the posh neighborhood. Bundy might still have gotten away had he not attacked the cop in an effort to get away (it has been speculated he was trying to invoke SuicideByCop).
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** Bundy also never got physically violent with his girlfriends, even telling one that he made sure to stay away from her when he felt the urge to kill building up.
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* AFoolForAClient: Subverted. Bundy did a genuinely decent job of representing himself in court. Enough for the judge to sincerely say that it would have been a pleasure to see him in court under legitimate circumstances. His loss stemmed from the fact that the evidence against him was overwhelming.
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* ManBitesMan: Bundy bit two of his last victims. Casts of his teeth confirmed this and was used as evidence against him.
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* BlindWithoutEm: Two of Bundy's victims were nearsighted and not wearing their glasses or contacts when they were abducted. While not completely blind, their vision was likely impaired enough to not have noticed anything suspicious.
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* LovingAShadow: Rule tried to offer some counsel to the infatuated young women who would write to her asking about Bundy, with limited success,, given how convinced they were that he was somehow a "good man" who simply needed some TLC. Several girls she was able to snap out of their delusions by telling her she was actually crushing on ''Harmon'' (the release of the miniseries resulted in a new onslaught of such letters).
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Creator/MarkHarmon, described by basically everyone who knows him as an all-around nice guy, combined this with PlayingAgainstType (he's built his career on playing honorable men such as doctors and law enforcement officers) with his bone-chilling performance as Bundy in the miniseries ''The Deliberate Stranger''.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Creator/MarkHarmon, described by basically everyone who knows him as an all-around nice guy, combined this with PlayingAgainstType (he's built his career on playing honorable men such as doctors and law enforcement officers) with his bone-chilling performance as Bundy in the miniseries ''The Deliberate Stranger''.
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* LovingAShadow: Rule tried to offer some counsel to the infatuated young women who would write to her asking about Bundy, with limited success,, success, given how convinced they were that he was somehow a "good man" who simply needed some TLC. It got even worse when the miniseries was released, thanks to the casting of heartthrob Creator/MarkHarmon as Bundy. Several girls she was able to snap out of their delusions by telling her she was actually crushing on ''Harmon'' (the release of the miniseries resulted in a new onslaught of such letters).
them that ''that's'' who they were infatuated with.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Creator/MarkHarmon, described by basically everyone who knows him as an all-around nice guy, combined this with PlayingAgainstType (he's built his career on playing honorable men such asdoctors [[Series/StElsewhere doctors]] and [[Series/{{NCIS}} law enforcement officers) officers]]) with his bone-chilling performance as Bundy in the miniseries ''The Deliberate Stranger''.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: An especially gruesome example. While in college, Ted's heart was broken by a young woman named Stephanie. Ann Rule noted that the majority of his victims bore a a strong resemblance to her--young, pretty, long-haired, brunette--and suspected that he was taking out his murderous rage on them.
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** Harmon claims his own dogs were afraid of him while he was filming the miniseries.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: In 1986, a miniseries (which inexplicably changed its name to ''The Deliberate Stranger'', which was ironically, the title of ''another'' book about Bundy) was released that was based on this book. Aside from starting InMediaRes (it began with the abduction and murder of his sixth known victim, Georgeann Hawkins, thus eliminating his first five killings), and changing the name of every victim, it was a very accurate depiction of both the book and the investigation into his crimes.
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* FinallyFoundTheBody: The remains of Bundy's Pacific Northwest victims turned up on Taylor Mountain (where he liked to hike) roughly a year after they disappeared.
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* AdultFear: The kidnapping and murder of one's child.
* EnfantTerrible: Ted displayed disturbing behavior even as a young boy--at age 3, he collected knives and placed them around his sleeping aunt. As he grew older, he engaged in voyeurism and theft, and he is strongly suspected of having begun his killing spree at [[http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/burr_ann.html only 14]].
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* EvilDetectingDog: Rule notes that her dog always shied away from Ted and growled whenever he tried to pet him, despite being friendly to everyone else. And one of the sorority sisters who survived his attack on the house notes that the house cat ran away the day of attack, as if he sensed the impending danger.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Rule notes that her dog always shied away from Ted and growled whenever he tried to pet him, despite being friendly to everyone else. And one of the sorority sisters who survived his attack on the house notes recalled that the house cat ran away the day of attack, as if he sensed the impending danger.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: In 1986, a miniseries (which inexplicably changed its name to ''The Deliberate Stranger'', which was ironically, the title of ''another'' book about Bundy) was released that was based on this book. Aside from starting InMediaRes (it began with the abduction and murder of his sixth known victim, Georgeann Hawkins, thus eliminating his first five killings), and changing the name of every victim, it was a very accurate depiction of both the book and the investigation into his crimes.
* ForWantOfANail: When profiling Ted's victims, Ann noticed that on the day of their disappearance/murder, all of them were preoccupied with something (a breakup, death/illness in the family, an exam, etc), and speculates that had it not been for this, their intuition would have kicked in and warned them of the danger they were in.
* HasAType: Ted's victims were typically young, pretty girls in the late teens--early twenties age range with long dark hair. He also had a fondness for light-colored Volkswagen Bugs.
** At least one victim, Susan Elaine Rancourt, was known to be afraid of the dark and was painfully shy. One night, she ventured out to a movie by herself to force herself to get over both of these fears. . .and basically had them confirmed when she encountered Bundy.
* LovingAShadow: Rule tried to offer some counsel to the infatuated young women who would write to her asking about Bundy, with limited success,, given how convinced they were that he was somehow a "good man" who simply needed some TLC. At least one girl she was able to snap out of her delusions by telling her she was actually crushing on ''Harmon'' (the release of the miniseries resulted in a new onslaught of such letters).
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Creator/MarkHarmon, described by basically everyone who knows him as an all-around nice guy, combined this with PlayingAgainstType (he's built his career on playing honorable men such as doctors and law enforcement officers) with his bone-chilling performance as Bundy in the miniseries ''The Deliberate Stranger''.
* LovingAShadow: Rule tried to offer some counsel to the infatuated young women who would write to her asking about Bundy, with limited success,, given how convinced they were that he was somehow a "good man" who simply needed some TLC. At least one girl she was able to snap out of her delusions by telling her she was actually crushing on ''Harmon'' (the release of the miniseries resulted in a new onslaught of such letters).
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Creator/MarkHarmon, described by basically everyone who knows him as an all-around nice guy, combined this with PlayingAgainstType (he's built his career on playing honorable men such as doctors and law enforcement officers) with his bone-chilling performance as Bundy in the miniseries ''The Deliberate Stranger''.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: The girls who went along with Bundy, believing that they were doing a favor for an injured man. As one other crime writer sadly put it, "The cost of their altruism was their lives."
* SurvivorGuilt: For years, Rule received letters from women swearing that they had had an encounter with Bundy, several of whom expressed this sentiment.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The ''other'' half of his MO. Very often, after a woman disappeared, witnesses in the area would recall a man using crutches or wearing his arm in a sling, asking for help in carrying things to his car. At least one of his confessions specifically stated that this was how he would entice his unsuspecting victims to come away with him.
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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: While not as prevalent as today, still invoked in both the race and the "good girl" character of his victims.
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* BadSamaritan: Inverted, in that Ted would fake injuries to get help from unsuspecting young women. But also played straight--he admitted to picking up several hitchikers under the guise of helping them, then killing them.
* DaylightHorror: Ted's abduction of two women from Washington's Lake Sammamish Park took place in the middle of a glorious mid-summer day.
* EvilDetectingDog: Rule notes that her dog always shied away from Ted and growled whenever he tried to pet him, despite being friendly to everyone else. And one of the sorority sisters who survived his attack on the house notes that the house cat ran away the day of attack, as if he sensed the impending danger.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: At some point, Ted learned what he'd always suspected--that his "older sister" was in fact his mother. Even worse, she may have still been his older sister, due to the heavy speculation that he was the result of ParentalIncest.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: At some point, Ted learned what he'd always suspected--that his "older sister" was in fact his mother. Even worse, she may have still been his older sister, due to the heavy speculation that he was the result of ParentalIncest.
* ILoveTheDead: Bundy confessed to engaging in necrophilia with some of his victims.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Half of Bundy's MO. At least two would-be victims who managed to get away stated that he approached them in this mode.
* {{Irony}}: Ted spent some nights stalking, abducting, and killing women. . .and others saving lives while working on the suicide hotline. Additionally, Ann Rule has repeatedly stated that she never feared for her safety while alone with him (though this was likely because she did not fit the demographic he preferred).
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: While not as prevalent as today, still invoked in both the race and the "good girl" character of his victims.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Sadly, the fate of many of Ted's victims.
* ReplacementGoldfish: An especially gruesome example. While in college, Ted's heart was broken by a young woman named Stephanie. Ann Rule noted that the majority of his victims bore a a strong resemblance to her--young, pretty, long-haired, brunette--and suspected that he was taking out his murderous rage on them.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Half of Bundy's MO. At least two would-be victims who managed to get away stated that he approached them in this mode.
* {{Irony}}: Ted spent some nights stalking, abducting, and killing women. . .and others saving lives while working on the suicide hotline. Additionally, Ann Rule has repeatedly stated that she never feared for her safety while alone with him (though this was likely because she did not fit the demographic he preferred).
* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome: While not as prevalent as today, still invoked in both the race and the "good girl" character of his victims.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Sadly, the fate of many of Ted's victims.
* ReplacementGoldfish: An especially gruesome example. While in college, Ted's heart was broken by a young woman named Stephanie. Ann Rule noted that the majority of his victims bore a a strong resemblance to her--young, pretty, long-haired, brunette--and suspected that he was taking out his murderous rage on them.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: The ''other'' half of his MO. Very often, after a woman disappeared, witnesses in the area would recall a man using crutches or wearing his arm in a sling, asking for help in carrying things to his car. At least one of his confessions specifically stated that this was how he would entice his unsuspecting victims to come away with him.
* WouldHurtAChild: Bundy's last victim was a 12-year old girl. And the girl believed to be his [[http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/burr_ann.html first]] (never proven, but strongly suspected), was only 8.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: The ''other'' half of his MO. Very often, after a woman disappeared, witnesses in the area would recall a man using crutches or wearing his arm in a sling, asking for help in carrying things to his car. At least one of his confessions specifically stated that this was how he would entice his unsuspecting victims to come away with him.
* WouldHurtAChild: Bundy's last victim was a 12-year old girl. And the girl believed to be his [[http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/burr_ann.html first]] (never proven, but strongly suspected), was only 8.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Ted was rather fond of his late grandfather.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Ted Bundy grows from a college student who can't keep a job for longer than a month at a time to one of America's most prolific serial killers.
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* BastardBastard: Ted is an illegitimate child who is also a serial killer.
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* TheAtoner: Ann joins the crisis hotline because she failed to convince her brother to not commit suicide.
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* FireForgedFriends: Ann speculates that she and Ted became close friends because they constantly had to deal with crises at the call centre they both volunteered at.
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* TheCharmer: People always got along with Ted.
* HowWeGotHere: We start off with Ted Bundy moving to Florida after having escaped prison.
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* TheSociopath: Ted Bundy was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.
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* AbsenteeParent: Bundy's father deserted his mother.
* TheCharmer: People always got along with Ted.
* HowWeGotHere: We start off with Ted Bundy moving to Florida after having escaped prison.
* SerialKiller: Ted
* TheSociopath: Ted Bundy was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.
* VillainPrptagonist: The boom focuses on Ted Bundy, SerialKiller.
