Conversations with A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes dropped on Netflix this week, reigniting discussions and interest around infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.
The four-part docuseries brings viewers deeper into the mind of Bundy, through the use of exclusive never-before-heard interviews from the man known as “Jack the Ripper of the United States”.
Conversations with A Killer focuses on a man whose personality, good looks and social graces defied the serial killer stereotype, allowing him to hide in plain sight as he committed the brutal sex-crime murders of more than 30 women before being caught in 1978.
While he was on trial, Bundy actually received extraordinary adoration from American women, a fact which made his gruesome crimes even more haunting, and his name even more infamous.
And while there’s compelling information contained within this new Netflix offering, there’s a name that deserves our attention and interest so much more than that of Ted Bundy.
Carol DaRonch.
That is the name of one of the few women to survive an attack by Ted Bundy, the woman who became a critical witness in the case against him and who was largely responsible for putting the killer behind bars.
In The Ted Bundy Tapes, Carol recounts in great detail what unfolded on that horrific fall day in 1974 when she first came into contact with Bundy. It was in Salt Lake City, Utah, and despite the 18-year-old being aware of the recent string of abductions and killings in the area, she insisted she still felt safe there.
Safe enough to get into the car of Ted Bundy, who told her he was a police officer and lied to her by saying that someone had been trying to break into her car, before offering to drive her to the police station so she could make a complaint against the suspect.
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It's really getting sickening to me that EVERYTHING I read about Ted Bundy is about how good looking, intelligent, charming, and just all the other crap! What about the VICTIMS!!!! Like this women who luckily got away, but got instead of sympathy she got grief for saying it was him. I look at him an see an evil, disturbed, serial killer! That and all his victim's! Thankfully this women got away or she would no doubt be dead right now.