It was the first murder trial to be fully televised, and featured Bundy front-and-center acting as one of his own defense attorneys. When Bundy was finally apprehended while driving a stolen car a week after his last murder, his trial quickly became a media sensation.

He moved to Florida, where he killed several members of a sorority and his final victim, a 12-year-old girl who he raped and murdered. Despite being convicted of kidnapping, he managed to escape police custody not once, but twice, while awaiting trial in Colorado. He continued on to Utah and Colorado, killing several more women before being arrested. Focusing primarily on attractive college co-eds, Bundy committed a series of murders across the Pacific Northwest. His attempts at presenting an insanity defense failed, and he was convicted on 33 counts of murder and executed by lethal injection in 1994.įollowing a difficult adolescence, Bundy graduated from the University of Washington-and soon embarked on his murderous spree, killing his first victim in Seattle in 1966. In addition to the bodies found at his house, Gacy admitted to killing several additional men, disposing of their bodies in a nearby lake. Law enforcement also came under criticism, as the family members of several of the victims had previously pointed to Gacy as a possible suspect.

Gacy’s ex-wife had complained about the odor for years, but Gacy had chalked it up to moisture-causing mildew. In a 4-foot crawl space beneath the house, where a penetrating odor was present, they were shocked to find the decomposing bodies of 29 boys and teenagers that Gacy had raped and murdered. There they found a class ring and clothing belonging to several young men previously reported missing. In 1978, when a 15-year-old boy who had last been seen with Gacy (whose construction business the teenager was hoping to work for) went missing, police obtained a search warrant for Gacy’s house.

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