Title: How Ted Bundy Got Away With so Many Murders
Headings: How Ted Bundy got away with so many murders, according to a forensic psychologist
How Ted Bundy got away with so many murders, according to a forensic psychologist
Janaki Jitchotvisut
Ted Bundy died in Florida in 1989 in the electric chair.
Even as a child, Ted Bundy showed some signs of disturbance and may even have started killing much earlier than investigators first thought.
Experts believe Bundy exhibited forewarning behavior as a child.
Bundy confessed to murdering 30 women between 1974 and 1978. Five women are known to have survived his attacks.
It is not entirely known how many people Bundy murdered but experts believe it could be more than he confessed to killing.
Meanwhile, Bundy's longtime girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer was one of four people who had suggested Bundy's name to police as a suspect.
Lily Collins plays Ted Bundy's girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer in "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile."
Investigators of the time didn't have the powerful technological advances we have today.
Richard L. Stephens, a technician for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, shown July 12, 1979, shows the jury a pair of pantyhose made into a mask and found at the house of Tallahassee ballet dancer Cheryl Thomas in Miami.
Bundy got pulled over by a Utah Highway Patrol officer on August 16, 1975, and then police searched his car.
Handcuffs were one of many suspicious things found in Bundy's car.
This led to a warrant to search Bundy's apartment, where police found even more circumstantial evidence.
Pictured is the walkway where Caryn Campbell met Ted Bundy on the night of January 12, 1975. Location is the Wildwood Lodge (then the Wildwood Inn), Snowmass Village, Colorado.
On March 1, 1976, Bundy was found guilty of the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch.
This was the first of many convictions for Bundy.
That's when Bundy escaped from prison for the first time.
Bundy escaped from the Pitkin County Courthouse in 1977.
On December 30, 1977, Bundy managed to escape from prison a second time.
After losing weight, Bundy was able to fit through a ductwork and escape from prison for a second time.
Bundy fled to Florida, where he committed his final murders.
Portrait of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, a victim of serial killer Ted Bundy.
Bundy was executed in the state of Florida via electric chair on January 24, 1989.
The body of Theodore Bundy is taken to the Alachua County Medical Examiner's office following his execution at 7:16 a.m.
Now that you know what he did, it's important to understand why he succeeded.
Bundy was one of the FBI's most wanted.
Bundy was able to manipulate people easily to gain their trust, and that's how he got away with so much.
Turner told INSIDER: "A psychopath is, by nature, a cunning individual."
Although we want to know what drives a person to do such horrible things, most of the time, all we have are theories.
"When Bundy was able to act on his sexual urges to hurt, torture, kill, and rape women, he felt good about himself," Turner told INSIDER.
Like many experts who have studied this case over the years, Turner has some thoughts about the ultimate number of murders that Bundy may have committed.
Turner believes that Bundy's victims numbered in the hundreds.
Ultimately, what drove Bundy to rape, murder, and defile the corpses of his victims defies simple explanations.
"In all serial killers, I think the formative factors are both genetic as well as acquired," Turner told INSIDER.

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Ted Bundy died in Florida in 1989 in the electric chair. Anonymous/AP
The serial killer Ted Bundy was convicted of one kidnapping and three murders before being sentenced to death in Florida. Before his death, authorities say he confessed to murdering 30 people across the US. Some experts believe that number could be much higher. Bundy was a master manipulator, in part because he was able to blend in. Forensic psychologist Darrel Turner believes that one of the most important takeaways from the Bundy case is that to be a successful serial killer one must be able to blend in and earn people's trust by appearing ordinary.