Inside the Mind of Ted Bundy

Ted Bundy, a failed law student and lone drifter, was one of the most notorious serial killers of the twentieth century, also a rapist and necrophiliac.

In spite of his apparent charm and intelligence and seemingly normal relationships with women, during a killing spree between 1974 and 1978, he raped and murdered at least thirty girls and young women in five different US states.

This was the decade during which ’criminal profiling’ was initially developed and the term ’serial killer’ was first used by law-enforcement agencies. Bundy’s trial was the first in the United States to be nationally televised. His resulting ’celebrity’ has spawned many films and TV dramas, including Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, in 2019, starring Zac Efron. His many victims have received rather less attention.

Bundy was sentenced to death in 1979 and executed in Florida in 1989, in the electric chair.

Jeremy Daniel is an author, scriptwriter, digital marketing specialist and musician. He isthe author of nine sports biographies for Jonathan Ball Publishers, including SiyaKolisi: Against All Odds which spent months on the bestseller list in South Africa in 2020, and he has written for television, stage and print media forover two decades.

Tanya Farber has worked as a journalist for two decades and specializes in narrative non-fiction. She has won four international journalism awards and many others in her home country of South Africa. She is author of two non-fiction books, Alf Kumalo: Through My Lens, and Blood On Her Hands - South Africa’s Most Notorious Female Killers. She has a masters degree in journalism, and is currently working on her first fiction novel.