How they caught serial killer ' TED BUNDY'

A young woman walks down an alleyway on her way home from college, illuminated only in small puddles of light by the lamps above her. Little does she know that a man will be waiting for her as she emerges into the carpark.

“Poor soul,” she thinks, after seeing that the well-dressed man is struggling to carry books to his Volkswagen Beetle - especially as one of his arms is in a sling. She walks over to him and offers assistance, to which the polite and softly spoken man gives her his utmost thanks.

As she takes some of the books and leans down to place them in the passenger seat, he hits her over the head with a tire iron. He gets in the driver’s seat and leaves the scene. He will strangle her like he did many others. He will do unspeakable things to her. He’s a quintessential maniac. His name is Ted Bundy.

The scene we have just described to you was the modus operandi of this particular serial killer, well, when he had planned his murders. Bundy’s thing was to use his good looks, his speaking skills and his educated demeanor to lure people into his trap. At times he’d put his arm in a sling, or even walk on crutches, to give his victims a false sense of security. How harmful could a man on crutches be, one dressed in a suit driving a cute car?

This is why he was so hard to catch, he just didn’t fit the profile of a serial killer, one who did absolutely disgusting things to people, at the moment they died and after they died. He probably should have been caught much earlier than he was.

After all, when young women went out and never came back, on a few occasions witnesses came forward and said they had seen a man lurking around, a man with one arm in a sling, a man that drove a VW Bug. 22-year old Brenda Carol Ball was last seen talking to a guy in a carpark who had brown hair and an arm in a sling. Soon after, Susan Elaine Rancourt went missing, never to return. Two people came forward after that and said they’d been approached by a man who wore a sling. He’d asked them for help putting some books into his car, a VW Beetle.

Then on June 11, 1974, University of Washington student Georgann Hawkins went missing. Her body would never be found. We know that she’d been with her boyfriend and she’d left him after midnight. On her walk home to her sorority house, she was spotted by a male friend who was driving a car. He shouted out of the window, “Hey George! What's happening?” She chatted with him for a minute or two and expressed that she was a bit nervous about her upcoming Spanish exam.

Later, witnesses told the cops that they’d seen some guy skulking around in an alleyway close to Hawkins’, a guy whose arm was in a sling. One woman said he’d asked her to help him load a briefcase into a light brown Volkswagen Beetle. Little did she know at the time how close she was to being murdered. Hawkins wasn’t so lucky. She fell for the trick, as any helpful person might. We know what happened to her because Bundy later talked about it. When she was close enough to his car, he hit her over the head with a crowbar, which knocked her clean out. When she came around, she was obviously confused, although to Bundy’s surprise she seemed to think that he’d turned up to help her with Spanish. She was evidently in shock. This is what Bundy said about that, “It's odd