this is "nightline." >> tonight, the double life of ted bundy. a face of evil. >> your honor, i'm here today because he assert my innocence. >> now the unsuspecting mother and daughter who once loved the sadistic killer. breaking their silence after nearly 40 years to amy robach. >> i still believed he was innocent at that point. >> behind the facade of doting father figure. >> never in my dreams did i st and eventually abducting and murdering women. >> why were they spared by one of the most infamous murders in history. "nightline" will be right back.

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>> we came up with 30. >> but the man she loved. >> is it fair to say that at first ted bundy was a gentleman? >> oh, completely. my parents loved him. he was really it in my opinion. and i really wanted to maybery hi ma marry him. >> bundy secretly began his descent. >> there were two bupdys. the only people who ever saw the diabolical bunldy were his victims. >> at first she didn't want to believe that her smart, charming and charismatic boyfriend could be a serial keller. now ted he is seen through the eyes of liz and molly. the women who knew him best. they're breaking their silence after nearly 40 years, in a

dond acuries book, "the phantom prince." >> i hate to say this, because it make me seem normal. i think he loved us. >> bundy was in his early 20s when he met liz kendall at a ball in seattle, washington. >> i was pretty smitten from the get-go. >> she was young, recently singled mother from utah who met the man who was considered by virtually everybody in society and culture in the 1970s as the dream date, the perfect husband material, a preince charming. >> but there were two sides to bundy. >> this is what makes 1974 so extremely different. unch himlf into full-time murder and w doing it until he was captured or killed. >> one of his first-known

victims was 21 year old linda ann healy, a senior at the university of washington. bundy spotted healy at a bar, followed her home and strangled her in her bedroom. >> can you describe what your relationship was like in 1974? >> just subtle changes where i felt like maybe i was losing him. >> you felt maybe worst-case scenario, he's seeing somebody else. >> yes, never in my dreams did i think he was out stalking well and eventually abducting and murderering women. >> over the next four months women in the pacific northwest started to go missing. >> there were no clues. it's remarkable nobody saw anything. >> but that changed on july 1974. bundy went to the state bapark looking for his next victim. >> a number of brepeople were st being film, little did they know the police would want to see this footage.

>> ted was able to meld into the crowd. he was able to convince denise and janice to help him with the ruse that he had a sailboat, that he had his arm in a fake sling. >> if anybody has seen the silence of the lambs, where the killer had that, tried to get that couch into the van, and he's got a cast on, that all came from ted bundy. >> can i help you with that? >> would you? >> sure. >> he kidnapped and killed the two young women. >> those abductions were very brazen and in front of literally thousands of witnesses. >> police asked the public to send in any photos or videos taken that day. police knew the suspect drove a volkswagen and were able to produce this composite sketch. your co-workers brought over the

sketch to show to you. was it because they thought the sketch looked like ted? >> yes e the >> yes, there was something about it that grabbed my attention, something about the jaw line. wow. >> and you called seattle police? >> yeah. a tip line that they had set up. >> there was something like 3,000 potential teds who may or may not drive a volkswagen, and he was one of them. but he had this terrific, spotless, clean record. >> you have to understand that detective work was organized in a very different way in the '70s. there was no dna evidence. police departments didn't even have factix machines, let alonee internet. >> did you ever ask ted, are you concerned about the similarities? >> in the very beginning, i said did i read this? people will be looking at you,

kind of making a joke out of it. but once i started to wonder, could this be true, i didn't feel safe, i didn't want him to know what i was thinking. >> as the police investigation intensified, bundy realized he had to leave the seattle area. >> he had to find a new killing ground. his excuse of going to the law school. >> liz and molly stayed behind. bundy drove away. 12 hours later, he killed a hitchhiker in idaho. in law school, bundyarytto clas. >> he's like a kid in a candy store. he upped it in utah and killed around four women in a matter of weeks. >> but one woman escaped. carol, who managed to get out of his cash aft his car after he lured her in, pretending to be a police officer investigating a cream. >> this is the first time we have an eyewitness of somebody who survived a bundy attack.

>> i don't want to scare you, but it's happening down there now. >> what did that feel like? >> oh, my god, like the bottom of my world was falling out. this is too much after coincidence. so i did call the police, and i did meet with the detective. i gave him some pictures of him and showed them. and she pulled his picture out of the stack that the detective had given her. and she said no, he's too old and put it back in the stack. >> she had multiple contacts with the police. but it kept coming back, he's not your guy. >> it's the winter of 1975, and ted bundy's got to find a place where there's not a lot of talk about missing women. so he heads up the mountains of colorado. >> first aspen where he finds his next victim, karen campbell, a nurse from michigan. >> 36 days later, her nude body

was found almost three miles away. >> two months later, he heads over to vail and ends up killing 26ear-old ski instructor julie cunningham. >> he was not going to stop. he had more relationships by now with dead women than living women. the hunter was about to become the hunted. in utah later that year he got stopped by a local cop. in his car, a ski mask, handcuffs and panty hose with the eyes cut out. >> we took him in and booked him. i said there's something wrong with this guy. >> that put him on the radar of utah law enforcement. and they had this unsolved abduction of carol. >> carol came to the police station, was shown a lineup and was able to identify bundy as the person who attacked her. >> he was arrested.

and charged with the kidnapping of carol. >> at one point, police did show you a photo of the items they found in ted's car. how could he have possibly explained that away to you? >> he tried to just brush it off, you know, i need the crowbar if i get in a wreck, i need to pry cars apart. i need the ski mask when i'm shoveling snow. >> his friends raised money for bail. he returned to seattle to see liz. what was that teime like? >> well, when he first showed up at my door unannounced i was taken aback. this is ted. >> because of our placement in his world, it's the only reason we're still alive, i'm quite certain, because people had their eyes on it. >> did that thought ever cross your mind? >> that he was going to kill us? no. >> did you think he was capable of murder? >> no. i mean, i still believed he was

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putting him behind bars. >> hairs in his volkswagen bug were of victims from colorado and utah. and that gave them enough evidence to file on him in colorado. >> it was a first degree murder and kidnapping charge. >> he was transferred to a jail in aspen where he was allowed access to a law library. >> the jump decreed he didn't have to wear shackles or handcuffs, so he walked back and forth to the law library as a free man. >> i didn't know if i had the guts to do it quite frankly. >> he had a sweater underneath. he was planning to go that day. >> the guard went out for a smoke. the windows were open and the fresh air was blowing through and the sky was blue, and i said i'm ready to go, and i walked to the window and jumped out. >> he was gone about ten minutes before any wone realized. reali.

>> bundy was quickly picked up by police. >> you can see him grinning when he's been captured. >> he always acted like he'd pulled one over on everybody. >> back in custody, he was moved to a new, allegedly more secure facility. >> there was a light fixture that was due to be welded. it had not been welded. >> bundy had succeeded in carving a big enough opening in the ceiling of his cell. >> he crawled through the ducting, just like in a movie. he knew the jailer wasn't there. >> he put on civilian clothes and gets out and is free again. >> once he escaped, he had an opportunity to go somewhere and disappear, but he couldn't even do that. he had to kill again. >> bundy made his way to tallahassee, the home of florida

state university and the sorority. >> i had joined the sorority, my parents felt it was much safer living there than to live in the dormitory. >> being in khai owe maichi omes wonderful time in my life. it was like living with 40 friends. >> on january 15, 19broke in an the young women with a wooden club. police arrived to a scene from a horror movie. >> the girls were yelling upstairs, upstairs. and there was a lot of crying. and at the top of the stairs was a girl named carrie chandler, and she was down on the floor. she was bleeding quite badly from head injuries. >> pretty much every bone in my face was broken. my front teeth were mostly gone. >> i remember then laying on my bed and trying to talk, and i

couldn't make any noise, because my jaw was broken in three places. >> they were the lucky ones. >> i knocked on the door for margaret bowman's room and didn't get a response. i opened the door and i pulled the covers back, and i could see she was strangled and beaten about the head. you could tell she was dead. i stepped across the hallway, and there was another body in the bed. >> lisa levy was beaten severely about the head and was severely strangled. >> it's so hard to see those girls like that. i'm so sorry for their parents. >> four blocks from campus, he attacked again. the neighbors heard his victims' screams and called the police, saving cheryl thomas' life. >> i think it was a couple of

days before i woke up. and i didn't know what had happened. i could not go to the funeral. i was in the hospital. so i >> it would take four weeks for authorities to find bundy and arrest him. in that time he had killed his last victim, a 12 year old girl. >> a month after the chi omega attacks, this man is arrested on a traffic stop. he spends a couple of days stonewalling the police. >> who is this man? he refused to give his name to authorities, and then told his arresting officer that he would probably get a promotion for nabbing him. >> he says to the police, i'll tell you who i am. just let me make a phone call. and he calls his old girlfriend. >> he told me that he was sick and that he was consumed by something that he didn't

understand. and he just couldn't contain it. >> was that the moment that you knew the man you loved was a serial killer? >> yes. it took him telling me himself that he, he had something wrong with him, that he knew he couldn't be around a certain thing. that he was addicted to something and he meant young women and causing them harm. >> wanted for murder in multiple states, bundy was ultimately put on trial in florida for the chi omega murders. >> they told me he was going to confess and make it right for the people he'd hurt. and then he went on to this show of saying i'm innocent, i'm innocent, i'm innocent. >> your honor, i'm here today because i assert my innocence. >> verdict. we the jury find the defendant guilty as charged. >> he was sentenced to death. in a separate trial, he was convicted of murdering 12 year old kimberly leach.

>> the murder you felt most connected to was bundy's last murder, because you were 12. >> yeah. i mean, it's hard to find words for how devastating it is, the loss of this girl and the things that he did to her. >> bundy was executed by the electric chair on january 24, 1989. >> that's it. that's signal. [cheers and applause] >> before his death, ted bundy confessed to killing 30 young women. >> could have been well over a hundred, but we'll never know that. if you've been dreaming abt tender wild-caught lobster, dig in to butter-poached, fire-roasted and shrimp & lobster linguini. see? dreams do come true. or if you like a taste of new england without leaving home, try lobster, sautéed with crab, jumbo shrimp and more, or maybe you'd like to experience the ultimate surf

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to still have a sense of disbelief that this man that i loved seemed to be such a great guy, could go out and do such horrific things, it's so hard to accept. >> i'm sure there's guilt. >> guilt about causing this in my daughter's life. guilt about what he had done. guilt that i had loved this man

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