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THE POTTY BOOTCAMP

Waiting till your child is ready

There's no magic age for being ready to start learning to use the potty. Most toddlers develop the necessary physical and mental skills between 18 and 24 months, while some kids aren't there until closer to age 3 or even 4. Keep an eye out for physical, cognitive, and behavioral signs that your toddler might be ready to give it a try.

If your toddler is facing changes such as a new school, a new sibling, or travel, you may want to wait till the seas are calmer before taking the plunge. Once you do start, if you've been trying for several weeks without success, that's a sign your toddler's not ready. Wait a few more weeks - or until you see signs that the time is right - and try again.

Making a plan

Before you even buy your toddler a potty seat, it's important to have a plan for the training process itself. Decide when and how you want to start, how to handle accidents, when to back off, and so on.

At the same time, prepare to be flexible. There's no way to know how your child will respond to potty training attempts or what techniques will work best. Keep in mind that as with most developmental milestones, success doesn't necessarily happen in a linear fashion - your toddler may make initial progress only to regress at one or more points along the way.

Discuss your plan with your child's pediatrician and daycare provider. They'll probably have plenty of experience and advice to share. Once you've decided on a strategy, be sure you and everyone else who takes care of your child sticks to it - barring unexpected setbacks and other potty training challenges, of course.

Taking it slow

Mastering the various steps of potty training can take a long time. Yes, some children will have it nailed in just a few days, but most need weeks or even months, especially when they're working on staying dry at night.

Don't push your toddler (or let others push him) to get through potty training faster than he's ready to. Let him take his time and get used to this new, multipart process. He'll move from one stage to the next at his own speed.

Of course, it's perfectly all right to try to motivate with gentle reminders and encouragement. If he balks, though, ease up.

Praising your child

Throughout potty training, your toddler will respond to positive reinforcement. Whenever he moves on to a new step or tries to use his potty (even when he doesn't quite succeed), tell him he's doing well and that you're proud of him. Compliment him now and then on his dry underpants or diaper.

But be careful not to go overboard: Too much praise might make him nervous and afraid to fail, which can lead to more accidents and setbacks.

Accepting that there will be accidents

It's likely your toddler will have numerous accidentsbefore being completely potty-trained. Don't get angry or punish him. After all, it's only recently that his nervous system has matured enough for him to perceive the sensation of a full bladder or rectum and that his muscles have developed sufficiently to allow him to hold in his urine and stool - and that's if he's on the early end of the developmental spectrum.

He'll get the hang of the process in due time. When your toddler has an accident, calmly clean it up and suggest (sweetly) that next time he try using his potty instead.

EARLY SIGNS OF PSYCHOPATHY: TODDLERS

A NEW STUDY OF TODDLERS IDENTIFIES ANTECEDENTS OF ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

Study published in August 2007 issue of The Journal of Abnormal Psychology indicates that some traits correlating to adult psychopathy may be present as early as age 3. 

A twenty-five year study, published this month in The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, demonstrates that, as early as the age of three, there are temperamental and physiological difference between those who show psychopathic tendencies as adults and those who don't. 

What Is a Psychopath? 

Psychopathy, also known as Antisocial Personality (APD or ASPD), is a psychological personality disorder. Not only do psychopaths lack emotions of conscience and empathy, but research has shown that these individuals consistently display certain aspects of temperament including a lack of fear, lack of inhibition and stimulus seeking behavior. Psychopathic adults have also demonstrated physiological idiosyncrasies, such as a reduced physical response to negative stimuli, and indifference to the threat of pain and punishment (Hare 1999). 

Traits Predictive of Psychopathy 

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology (Glen 2007) recently published the first long-term study to examine very young children for traits predictive of adult psychopathy. The team of researchers hypothesized that psychopathic adults would, as young children, be expected to show less fear and inhibition and more stimulus seeking/sociable behavior than adults who did not develop psychopathy. The researchers also predicted that, since adult psychopaths show reduced sensitivity to negative stimuli, this response would also be apparent at an early age. 

Psychopathy Assessment of Children 

Between 1972 and 1973, 1,795 three-year-olds, from the island of Mauritius, were enrolled in the study, and each observed and rated on several variables related to inhibited/disinhibited temperament, stimulation seeking/sociability and fearfulness/reactivity. Physiological reaction to stimuli was also assessed by monitoring skin conductivity (SC) in response to both neutral and aversive noise. 

Skin conductivity startle response is a well studied physiological reaction caused by sympathetic nervous system activation. This response corresponds to measures of emotion, arousal, and attention. In this study, skin conductivity was painlessly measured, with leads on the first and second fingers of the left hand. 

Psychopathy Assessment of Adults 

Twenty-five years later, the researchers were able to complete follow-up assessments on 335 of the adults who had been originally evaluated as children. The subjects were tested for psychopathic traits using the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRP-II), a 60 item modified version of Dr. Robert Hare's Psychopathy ChecklistRevised (PCL-R). 

Born to Be Psychopaths? 

The investigators found that adults with higher psychopathy scores had marked differences as 3 year olds, being significantly less fearful/inhibited and more stimulus seeking/sociable than those adults who had lower psychopathy scores. With respect to physiologic response, the group with higher SRP-II scores had significantly reduced sensitivity to negative auditory stimuli as toddlers. 

Fear and Morality 

Kochanska (1993) has suggested that the normal fearfulness most children experience contributes to development of moral emotions like guilt, empathy and shame. Children who are more fearful are prone to remorse after doing wrong and are more concerned about the consequences of their behavior; a concern that typically deters them from future wrongdoings. The results of this study suggest that children with a low level of fearfulness may be more likely to develop antisocial personality as adults. 

Sociability and Psychopathy 

Sociability and seeking stimulation are traits often associated with the glibness, charm and manipulation shown by adult psychopaths, and this study did indicate that individuals testing psychopathic as adults had higher stimulus/seeking and sociability scores as three year olds. 

Negative Stimuli and Psychopathic Traits 

Lastly, the physiological reaction of longer skin conductivity recovery time, in response to negative stimuli, has been linked to impairment in a person's inclination to avoid harm or physical danger. This reduced sensitivity to negative stimuli is characteristic of adult psychopaths, and, in this study, was significantly more pronounced in the 3 year olds who developed psychopathic traits as adults (Glenn 2007). 

Therapist suggests: 

1. Look for a history of mental illness, especially if it is untreated, not medicated, and the child is destabilized. 

2. Watch for a pattern of violent acts, especially if they escalate from minor to severe over time. 

3. Thought, plan, intent: Have they verbalized thoughts about the violent act? Do they have an actual plan for said act? Do they intend to actually carry it out?

Psychiatrist suggests: 

1. Watch for mounting anger and behavioral aggression with a history of acting out.

2. Keep an eye out for increasing isolation, with disturbed thoughts and fixation.

3. Is your child not able to see things from another's point of view? Do they lack empathy? This is especially troubling when seen together with #1 or #2.

Mental Health Advocates suggest:

1. Intuition is perhaps the most often ignored indicator of whether a child suffers from mental illness. Parents frequently ignore their intuition, because they don't want to believe that their child is "different" or struggling with a mental illness. 

2. Communication is key. It's up to parents to communicate with their children, to know their children, so that they can recognize when things are off.

3. Watch for changes in behavior, dress, grades, friends, sleep-wake cycles, etc. 

If that is not sufficiently complicated, psychopathy has also been linked with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD or ADD). This diagnosis has changed somewhat over the years and new research is continuing to refine it. In many respects, it represents two separate problems, although they appear to be linked. Children may have ADHD—primarily inattention, ADHD—primarily impulsive/hyperactive behavior, or a mixed type incorporating attributes of both. Inattention is usually identified in children for whom almost anything will prove distracting. Disorganization is common and the child may lose personal items regularly. Even when spoken to directly, the child may not pay attention and will be unable to provide feedback when asked. Hyperactive children frequently get into minor difficulties in school.

Donald R. Lynam seems to have done the most extensive work with this population. He showed that psychopathy has much in common with ODD, CD, and hyperactivity. He believes there is a neurological deficit that manifests as a lack of behavioral restraint, such as with hyperactive and impulsive children. Those with psychopathic personalities were shown to be stable offenders who were prone to the most serious offenses. Childhood psychopathy has also proven to be the best predictor of antisocial behavior in adolescence. Lynam advocates the need to continue to work on the concept of childhood psychopathy because if there is a stable construct, then it can be measured reliably and can offer more predictive value.

EBOLA VIRUS- SOUTH AFRICA

Ebola VIRUS: SA airports equipped with special

Scanners

Stringent measures have been put in place at South African airports to identify passengers displaying symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus and help prevent its spread, The National Department of Health has said.  

This follows concerns that the deadly Ebola virus is spreading beyond West Africa and is at risk of becoming the latest disease to be spread by international air travel.

Once identified, the travellers will be assessed by medical officials at the necessary facilities available, with special attention being given to patients with a travel history to West Africa.  

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as well as the health ministry were alerted to the outbreak of the disease in West Africa as early as April and started addressing the challenges posed immediately.  

An alert was circulated shortly after the outbreak, prompting all Port Health officials to be aware of the EVD outbreak and have a high index of suspicion for travellers displaying symptoms.  

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has confirmed that necessary steps have been taken to detect and treat the disease should it arrive in the country, and that South African citizens had no need to panic.

 The deadliest outbreak of Ebola to date has been exacerbated by the death of a 40-year-old Liberian Finance Ministry employee Patrick Sawyer after he was able to board a flight from Liberia to Nigeria while clearly displaying various viral haemorrhagic fever symptoms. 

Authorities say Sawyer, who boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria - died a few days later from Ebola. 

International Civil Aviation Organization Secretary General Raymond Benjamin said, "Until now (the virus) had not impacted commercial aviation, butnow we're affected."

Earlier this week, Airports Company South Africa spokesperson, Unathi Batyashe-Fillis confirmed that The National Department of Health is monitoring all ports of entry into South Africa.

Here's what travellers need to know about the Ebola Virus as detailed by WHO  

- Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.  

- EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%.  

- EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.

 The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. The disease is not spread through the air like the flu virus but through bodily fluids.  

- Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus.  

- Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. No licensed specific treatment or vaccine is available for use in people or animals.  

- Containing the virus is extremely important as a single case can quickly turn into an epidemic.  

- Symptoms will develop about 21 days after infection and include fever, headache, muscle pain and weakness.  

- Other symptoms may involve a rash, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Internal/external bleeding occurs in some cases, which can lead to shock and massive hemorrhage.  

- Travellers heading to this area should keep abreast of where the affected areas  are and avoid direct contact with people who are sick.  

- Administer strict hygiene conditions by regularly washing hands and avoiding contact with infected humans, if necessary were protective clothing and gloves.  

Ebola Virus

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on its website that given the frequency of travel between southern and western African countries, risk of Ebola being imported into South Africa is possible, “but overall it is low”.

Currently there are no special WHO precautions or directives for commercial flights, passengers or crew departing on flights bound for or returning to Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone – other than a yellow fever vaccination medical certificate.

“We are confident that the Port Health officials based at our airports are monitoring the situation and processes are in place,” said Batyashe-Fillis.

The department of health has advised its officials to strengthen its surveillance for viral haemorrhagic fevers, particularly Ebola.  

“There needs to be a high index of suspicion for viral haemorrhagic feversfor persons who have travelled to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and surrounding countries, including: malaria, dengue fever, Lassa fever and other endemic diseases (e.g. typhoid fever).”

If necessary health workers have been instructed to do the appropriate tests and institute appropriate therapy as a matter of urgency.   

TED BUNDY

Ted Bundy was attractive, smart, and had a future in politics. He was also one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history

Ted Bundy" was born as Theodore Robert Cowell at the Elizabeth Lund Home For Unwed Mothers, in Burlington, Vermont, on November 24, 1946.  The home was originally built as a "Home for Friendless Women"in 1890.  

Actual photograph of babies a the Lund Center

Today it is known as the Lund Center. His mother's name was Eleanor Louise Cowell, always referred to as "Louise".  It is interesting to note that his he was not raised by Eleanor, and was brought up believing that she was his older sister.  

Ted with his mother, Louise

Eleanore Louise Cowell

Bundy's maternal grandparents posed as his parental guardians.  He did not learn his mother's true identity until he was in college, and presumably, this deception was ultimately to protect the child from the social stigma attached to unwed mothers.

The identity of his father has never been determined with certainty. His birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman and Air Force veteran named Lloyd Marshall, but Louise later claimed that she was seduced by "a sailor" whose name may have been Jack Worthington.

Later, Louise moved to Pennsylvania  and became involved with a man and changed Ted's surname from Cowell to Nelson.  During his high school years, Louise then relocated to Tacoma, Washington and met Johnny Culpepper Bundy during a church function.  After they were married, Johnny adopted Ted, which changed his name yet again to Theodore Bundy.  

Ted seemed like an ordinary child

Ted remained distant from his stepfather. During high school, Ted was often isolated from other kids his age. He couldn't seem to understand teenage social behavior but was skilled in "faking it", indicating a propensity towards psychopathy.

Ann Rule, Bundy's biographer and true crime writer that personally knew him and worked with him, believes that he discovered his own original birth record in Vermont in 1969.  Apparently, it is recorded that Bundy expressed "a lifelong resentment toward his mother for lying about his true parentage and leaving him to discover it for himself"

Some strange facts about Ted Bundy:

✳He showed violent tendencies as young as three years old:   His mother's sister, Julia, awoke from a nap while babysitting the child, only to discover that little Teddy had surrounded her with an array of kitchen knives, raising her eyes to see the smiling toddler looking back at her.

✳It is reported that his grandfather Samuel (known to Bundy as his father, at the time) abused the family dog, swung local cats around by their tales, and tortured animals.

✳Bundy' grandmother was described as a shy woman who underwent electro-convulsive therapy for depression and was most likely agoraphobic, fearing to leave her own home. 

✳As a child, Ted tormented animals with knives.  He mutilated them with the knives which seemed to fascinate him so much.

✳Young Ted served as Vice President of the Methodist Youth Fellowship.

✳He was a  Boy Scout. 

✳His criminal activities began before he finished high school.

✳He was a constant and habitual liar.  

✳He compulsively shoplifted.   He was arrested (at least twice) as a juvenile for automobile theft and burglary, but upon reaching the age of 18, Washington State laws expunged the records.  

✳He was involved voyeurism from a young age and peeped into unsuspecting windows.   In college, he was known to "canvas the community" in search of open windows into which he could observe women undressing. 

✳He majored in Psychology in University and graduated with a degree in 1972 and graduated with honors.

✳Eerily, part of his psychology studies involved volunteering at a Suicide Crisis Center; where he became friends with his future biographer, Ann Rule, who wrote the book "Stranger Beside Me", detailing Bundy's crimes.  Ironically, at this time, she was unknowingly researching crimes that had been committed by Bundy.

✳He started taking classes upon his graduation from high school in 1965 in Psychology and Oriental Studies.  
He volunteered at a suicide crisis center alongside his now biographer, author, Ann Rule.

✳Ted was a staunch Republican, and in 1968 managed Seattle's Presidential campaign for Nelson Rockefeller, during which time he attended a Republican Convention in Miami, Florida.  Later, he was caught spying on and taping speeches by the Democrats, then later reporting back to his Republican peers.

✳He was a necrophiliac, often revisiting the murdered bodies of victims to engage in sexual activities with their corpses.

During the summer of 1974, Bundy secured employment in Olympia, Washington at the state Department of Emergency Services where he met Carol Ann Boone, whose personal life was in shambles, having recently lost a close uncle; she was a single Mother trying to raise a son, (named Jamey) and was involved in a sloppy love affair.

Ted Bundy and Carol Anne Boone with their daughter who's identity and location is protected to this day

During the penalty phase of the trial, Bundy took advantage of an obscure Florida law providing that a marriage declaration in court, in the presence of a judge, constituted a legal marriage. As he was questioning former Washington State DES coworker Carole Ann Boone—who had moved to Florida to be near Bundy, had testified on his behalf during both trials, and was again testifying on his behalf as a character witness—he asked her to marry him. She accepted, and Bundy declared to the court that they were legally married."

Another site tells that "Carole Boone, whom Bundy cruelly encouraged to believe him innocent until just before his 1989 execution. Boone married Bundy after he was condemned to death we helped engineer [a] courtroom coup." 

Incredibly, in October 1982, Boone gave birth to a daughter (whose name and current location, thankfully, are not known) and Bundy's name was given as the father.  

Bundy was suffering from relationship woes, as well, with his long-time, long- distance girlfriend, Liz, (Elizabeth Kloepfer) who lived in Utah, and whom he met in 1969.  They had been together for some time, and she wanted a deeper commitment from him, and their geographical barriers made Liz feel insecure and questioned his truthfulness concerning the possibilities of external, sexual affairs.  

Bundy with Elizabeth Kloepfer

Liz had reason to be uneasy, as over the course of time, Bundy had left strange things in her apartment that included, among other things, a container of Plaster of Paris, surgical gloves, and crutches.  While with her, his sexual drive waned, and his bizarre behavior began to really frighten her.   Bundy confirmed that he had dated at least a dozen women outside of his relationship with Liz.

VW bug he famously kidnapped victims with

CHANGELING~ The Chameleon

Posted on an Internet forum by a "man who used to work with him" (the natural assumption would be a prison guard):  "He also was like a chameleon in that he seemed to be able to frequently change his appearance. One day his hair seemed curly or parted on this side, then the next day it seemed straight or parted on the other side, or his eye color seemed different etc. I have also seen him make the scary eyes and face that some of his living victims told of. He seemed to like to manipulate people a lot, and very much enjoyed the celebrity status he had. He worked out a lot in his cell (push ups, sit ups and rapid pacing). He smoked, and solicited money for canteen and smokes from people who wrote him."

"Significant obstacles for law enforcement were Bundy's "generic", essentially anonymous physical features, and a curious "chameleon-like" ability to change his appearance almost at will. Early on, police complained of the futility of showing his photograph to witnesses; he looked different in virtually every photo ever taken of him. In person, "... his expression would so change his whole appearance that there were moments that you weren't even sure you were looking at the same person," said Stewart Hanson, Jr., the judge in the DaRonch trial. "He  really a changeling." Bundy was well aware of this unusual quality and he exploited it, using subtle modifications of facial hair or hairstyle to significantly alter his appearance as necessary. He concealed his one distinctive identifying mark, a dark mole on his neck, with turtleneck shirts and sweaters."

KILLINGS, CONVICTION & EXECUTION

Shortly after midnight on January 4, 1974, Bundy first attempted murder. He broke into the basement bedroom of a female student at the University of Washington, bludgeoned her in her sleep and sexually assaulted her. She survived, but suffered permanent brain damage. Over the following four months, he killed three students; another from the University of Washington on January 31, one from Evergreen State College on March 12 and one from Central Washington State College on April 17. After more abductions and murders, the authorities became aware that the same man, who a number of witnesses had said called himself "Ted", was responsible for the disappearances. 

Among the people who reported Bundy as a potential suspect were his ex-girlfriend, one of his psychology professors, and Ann Rule. Because of his reputation as a clean-shaven and well-mannered student, the police paid no attention to their tips. During this time, he also killed women in Oregon. Bundy then moved on to Salt Lake City, Utah where he attended the University of Utah College of Law and became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, though he never really attended any gatherings. During the first semester, he killed four more women, one of which was the daughter of a police chief. The next semester, 1975, he killed four more women, three of which were taken in Colorado. 

The fourth was 13-year old Lynette Culver, who was abducted from a school playground in Pocatello, Idaho, taken to a hotel room, and raped and drowned in a bathtub. As with a number of Bundy's victims, her body was never found. He killed another girl, 15-year old Susan Curtis, during his summer break. On August 16, he was pulled over when he wouldn't stop for a police officer. Inside his car, the officer found balaclavas, gloves, a crowbar, handcuffs, and other items he suspected to be burglary tools. On March 1, 1976, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the kidnapping of Carol DaRonch, whom he had tried to abduct in Utah in 1974 by pretending to be a police officer.

In 1977, investigators had found enough evidence to charge Bundy with the January 1975 murder of Caryn Campbell, who had disappeared while on a ski trip, and managed to extradite him to Aspen. At the Pitkin County courthouse, Bundy was allowed to visit the courthouse library. From there, he escaped through a window but was pulled over in a stolen car for having dimmed headlights and arrested again. He was placed in a jail in Glenwood Springs, from which he escaped on December 30, 1977, by somehow getting his hands on a hacksaw and $500 and getting out through a crawlspace. 

By the time the jail staff realized that he was missing, he had already made his way to Chicago. After then spending some time at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in Atlanta, he settled at Tallahassee, Florida on January 8, where he supported himself through shoplifting and purse snatching. On January 15, 1978, Bundy committed his first murders in almost two-and-a-half years. He broke into the Chi Omega sorority at the Florida State University, raped, strangled, and bludgeoned students Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Two other students were also attacked but survived. The same night, he attacked another woman eight blocks away; she also survived.

On February 9, 1978, Bundy committed his last known murder. He abducted 12-year-old Kimberly Leach outside her school, raped and killed her and tried to hide the body in an abandoned hog shed. On the morning of February 15, he was arrested for driving a stolen vehicle and was quickly linked to the sorority murders. 

In the end, Bundy received two death sentences; one for the sorority murders and one for the murder of Kimberly Leach. Two pieces of evidence proved crucial: a set of bite marks on Lisa Levy's buttocks and the testimony of a Chi Omega resident who hadn't been present at the killings and saw Bundy leave the building. Bundy spent the better part of the 1980s fighting his sentence. 

Ted in captivity

During this time, he was interviewed by FBIprofiler Robert Ressler, who found him uncooperative, and married Carole Ann Boone, a former co-worker, and had a daughter, Tina, with her in October 1982. When Bundy talked about the murders, he always did so in third-person and speaking hypothetically. 

As the execution date came closer, Bundy confessed to more murders for which he hadn't previously been conclusively linked to. In October 1984, Bundy contacted the Green River Task Force and offered personal insights on the case, which hadn't been solved at the time. 

REMEMBERING TED'S VICTIMS

Victims: A so-called charming man, he earned the trust of his victims before luring them to a secluded place to murder them. He preferred female victims with long, dark hair, parted down the middle

Modus Operandi

Bundy's method of obtaining victims varied; sometimes he would burglarize their homes and bludgeon them in their sleep, sometimes he would use an elaborate ruse, and sometimes he merely relied on his looks alone. The latter method was successful for Bundy because of the fact that women considered him to be good-looking and charming. 

In fact, this characteristic even allowed him to successfully abduct women in broad daylight, even if they were aware that a serial killer was present in the area. His facial features were also "unremarkable"; that is, though attractive, not especially memorable. 

This allowed him to completely change his appearance with only minor adjustments; a mustache, different hair style, a hat, etc. Sometimes, Bundy would use a fake cast to play on a potential victim's sympathy. He would ask them for assistance of some kind, such as helping him put something in his car or asking for directions. Whatever the method, his initial attacks were typically blunt force trauma to the head with a crowbar. He would later kill his victims by strangulation and would sometimes decapitate them. In one case, he cremated the severed head in a fireplace.

Bundy would often visit his victims, whom he dumped at a site in Taylor Mountain. He admitted to applying makeup to the corpses, having sex with them, and would lie with them for hours afterward. Bundy also kept a collection of photos of his victims.

VICTIMS

• 1974:January 4, Seattle, Washington: Karen Sparks^[1] (bludgeoned in her bed and sexually assaulted with a speculum; survived)
• February 1, Seattle, Washington: Lynda Ann Healy, 21 (bludgeoned while asleep and abducted from her house; her skull and mandible were found)
• March 12, Olympia, Washington: Donna Gail Manson, 19 (abducted and killed; body was never found)
• April 17, Ellensburg, Washington: Susan Elaine Rancourt, 18 (abducted and killed; her skull and mandible were found)
• May 6, Corvallis, Oregon: Roberta Kathleen "Kathy" Parks, 22 (abducted and killed; her skull and mandible were found)
• June 1, Burien, Washington: Brenda Carol Ball, 22 (abducted and killed; her skull and mandible were found)
• June 11, Seattle, Washington: Georgeann Hawkins, 18 (abducted and killed; her skeletal remains were found)
• July 14, Issaquah, Washington (both abducted and killed four hours apart in the same location; their skeletal remains were found):Janice Ann Ott, 23
• Denise Marie Naslund, 19
• September 2, unspecified location in Idaho: An unidentified teenage hitchhiker (confessed to killing; her body was never found)
• October 2, Holladay, Utah: Nancy Wilcox, 16 (assaulted and strangled; her body was never found)
• October 18, Midvale, Utah: Melissa Anne Smith, 17 (abducted and strangled; her body was found)
• October 31, Lehi, Utah: Laura Ann Aime, 17 (abducted and bludgeoned with a crowbar; her body was found by hikers)
• November 8:Murray, Utah: Carol DaRonch (abducted and intended to kill; she escaped by jumping out of his car)
• Bountiful, Utah: Debra "Debby" Kent, 17 (abducted and killed; minimal skeletal remains not positively identified to hers were found)
• 1975:January 12, Snowmass, Colorado: Caryn Campbell, 23 (abducted, raped and bludgeoned; her body was found)
• March 15, Vail, Colorado: Julie Cunningham, 26 (abducted and killed; her body was never found)
• April 6, Grand Junction, Colorado: Denise Oliverson, 25 (body was never found)
• May 6, Pocatello, Idaho: Lynette Culver, 13 (abducted, raped and drowned in a bathtub; her body was never found)
• June 28, Provo, Utah: Susan Curtis, 15 (abducted and killed; her body was never found)
• 1978:January 15, Tallahassee, Florida:Two killed and two injured in the Chi Omega killings (all of the following were bludgeoned with a log as they slept):Margaret Bowman, 21 (also strangled with a pair of pantyhose)
• Lisa Levy, 20 (also raped, bitten and strangled)
• Karen Chandler, 21 (survived)
• Kathy Kleiner, 21 (survived)
• Cheryl Thomas, 21 (bludgeoned in her bed just a few blocks away from the above killings; survived)
• February 9, Lake City, Florida: Kimberly Leach, 12 (abducted, raped and killed; her skeletal remains were found)
• PossibleEdit
• August 31, 1961, Tacoma, Washington: Ann Marie Burr, 8 (disappeared; was never found)
• June 23, 1966, Seattle, Washington (both were bludgeoned with a log as they slept):Lisa E. Wick, 20 (survived)
• Lonnie Trumbull, 20 (killed)
• May 30, 1969, near Somers Point, New Jersey (both were stabbed to death; their bodies were found in the nearby woods three days later):Susan Davis, 19
• Elizabeth Perry, 19
• July 19, 1971, Burlington, Vermont: Rita Curran, 24 (raped, strangled and bludgeoned)
• 1973:June 29, West Linn, Oregon: Rita Lorraine Jolly, 17 (disappeared; was never found)
• August 20, Eugene, Oregon: Vicki Lynn Hollar, 24 (disappeared; was never found)
• November 24, near Olympia, Washington: Katherine Merry Devine, 14 (disappeared; her body was found; the murder was later attributed to one William E. Cosden in 2002)
• 1974:May 27, near Puyallup, Washington: Brenda Joy Baker, 14 (disappeared; her body was found a month later)
• July 1, Salt Lake City, Utah: Sandra Jean Weaver, 19 (disappeared; her body was found near Grand Junction, Colorado)
• August 2, near Vancouver, Washington: Carol L. Valenzuela, 20 (disappeared; her body was found two months later along with that of another victim)
• 1975:April 15, Nederland, Colorado: Melanie Suzanne "Suzy" Cooley, 18 (abducted, bludgeoned and strangled; her body was found)
• July 1, Golden, Colorado: Shelly/Shelley^[2] Kay Robertson, 24 (disappeared; her body was found a month later)
• July 4, Farmington, Utah: Nancy Perry Baird, 23 (disappeared; was never found)
• February 1976, Salt Lake City, Utah: Debbie Smith, 17 (disappeared; her body was found two months later)
• Unspecified date and location: An unidentified victim (her body was found alongside that of Carol L. Valenzuela)
• Notes:

• Minutes before his execution, Bundy was questioned about unsolved murders in New Jersey, Illinois, Texas, and Miami, Florida. Though he denied involvement in any of the cases, Bundy previously stated that he didn't want to talk about certain murders he committed, leaving the cases still open.
• After his capture, Bundy was suspected of committing the so-called Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders, in which at least seven female hitchhikers were all murdered in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa in 1972 and 1973. Bundy had spent some time in neighboring Marin County, but was ruled out by a Sonoma County detective. In addition, it was proven that he was Washington on the dates of some of the victims' disappearances.
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FINALLY

At 7:06 a.m. on January 24, 1989, Bundy was executed by electric chair. 

His last words were "I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends." In May of 2012, John Henry Browne, who defended Bundy during his final trial, claimed in a memoir describing his conversations with Bundy that he claimed to have killed over 100 people and that his first victim had been a man.

Scary....

TED PLAYING THE BLAME GAME

Hours before his execution, Ted Bundy conducts his last interview with Dr James Dobson and this is what he says:

"I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence just like me. And without exception, without question, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography."

“Well-meaning, decent people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy, while they’re walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send young kids down the road to be Ted Bundys.” 

“There lots of other kids playing in streets around this country today who are going to be dead tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and month, because other young people are reading the kinds of things and seeing the kinds of things that are available in the media today.”

“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.” 

In his interview he seems to blame his deviant ways on pornography, but then again, he he was an avid republican..