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    Workers remodeling Ted Bundy's childhood home report strange occurrences
    May 8, 2017 — Tacoma (Washington) News Tribune

    A Washington state contractor said his workers remodeling Ted Bundy’s childhood home experienced a handful of strange occurrences during their time at the house.

    Casey Clopton, the contractor, told The News Tribune that a plea for help appeared on a window as his crew worked in the basement and heavy furniture mysteriously toppled over.

    “I’m not one to believe a lot of this stuff, but this house made me a believer,” Clopton told the paper in an interview that ran Monday.

    Bundy was born in Vermont. In 1955, when he was 9 years old, his family moved into the Tacoma home.

    He grew up to be one of the most notorious serial killers in history. He had been linked to disappearance of an 8-year-old girl when he was 14, but denied killing her. The paper reported there was no evidence he committed any crimes in the home.

    David Truong bought the house in September with the intention of redoing it and flipping it for a higher price. The News Tribune reported that neither Truong nor the real estate broker knew the house’s history.

    Clopton said he first visited the home in October and brought his 11-year-old daughter along with him. He said that his daughter got an eerie feeling about the home and started to cry.

    “She said she felt weird. She didn’t like it there,” he said.

    When Clopton returned with a few workers the next week, one crew member got the same uncomfortable feeling.

    “Periodically, throughout the course of the job, we had weird things keep happening,” Clopton said.

    He said there was one time they re-entered the house, which had been locked, to find that every cabinet was open. He said one worker spotted the words “Help me” scrawled across a basement window and while the crew was working downstairs they heard a dresser in the upstairs hallway fall. Cellphone and other electronics would also occasionally get unplugged and immediately die.

    Clopton said he started to ask neighbors about the house and learned that the Bundy family had once lived there. Clopton said he called two pastors to bless the house and even wrote a Bible verse on the wall.

    “Everything in that house fought us, and I was kind of weird about it,” he said. “But I go to church and I have God with me.”

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    Carole Ann Boone: Where is the wife of Ted Bundy now?

    By Film Daily

    Ted Bundy is one of the most notorious serial murders of all time. A rapist & necrophiliac, Bundy is known to have abducted and murdered at least thirty-six young women through the 1970s – but his number of victims could be even higher. Bundy was sentenced to death by electric chair for his sadistic crimes in 1989.

    One of the most terrifying aspects of Ted Bundy is that he was known to be considerably handsome & charismatic – making it all too easy for him to lure in his victims and make them trust him. One woman in particular, Carole Ann Boone, believed his innocence until the very end – even becoming his wife and bearing his child, Rosa Bundy.

    The strange relationship between Bundy & Boone is confounding. How did she believe in someone sentenced for such horrible crimes? Who would tie themselves to someone on death row?

    How did Boone & Bundy meet?


    Boone & Bundy met in 1974 when they were working in the Department of Emergency Services in Olympia, Washington. Boone was going through her second divorce and taking care of her son, James at the time.

    Boone & Bundy were also both in separate relationships – Bundy dating his long-term girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer. Because of this, Boone initially denied Bundy’s attempts to date her but over the years they eventually grew close and started a romantic relationship.

    A courtroom marriage


    No doubt in her mind that Bundy was innocent, Boone was by his side the whole time he was in court, consistently fighting to support him. Boone even served as Bundy’s character witness and helped Bundy with his plan to escape prison and flee to Florida (where he murdered three more young women).

    In order to appeal to the jury’s softer side, Bundy proposed to Boone in the courtroom and the two declared themselves married in front of a judge. When Bundy was given the death penalty Boone moved nearby the prison so that she could regularly visit him.

    Boone would even sometimes smuggle in drugs for Bundy in her vagina. Somehow the two of them managed to have sex during these visits which conceived their child Rose Bundy who was born in 1982.

    The truth comes out


    It wasn’t until 1986, just three weeks before Bundy’s execution, that Carole Boone decided to divorce him and move back to Washington with James & Rose. As Bundy neared his execution day, he became more willing to confess to his horrific crimes – ultimately revealing that he had raped, killed, and dismembered over thirty women.

    Utterly shattered to learn the truth about Bundy’s sadistic acts, Boone never spoke to him again, even rejecting him when he tried to contact her on the day of his execution. Undoubtedly traumatized by
    Bundy’s psychological manipulation and abuse, Boone and her family went off the grid, trying to move on.

    Carole Boone’s life after Bundy


    Doing everything she could to start anew and build a peaceful life for her and her children, Carole Boone changed her name and hid her location from anyone searching to find her.

    No one knew where she was until January 2018 when she reportedly passed from septic shock in a Washington State retirement home at the age of seventy. No one there knew anything about her past or her previous identity. Her friends knew her as someone who “enjoyed knitting” and watched “nature programs.”

    https://filmdaily.co/news/carole-ann-boone-now/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Ted Bundy cried, prayed and refused to touch his death row meal before he was executed

    The 42-year-old, known to have murdered at least 36 women and girls, uttered his final few words before meeting his end in the electric chair

    In the space of just 4 years, Ted Bundy raped and murdered dozens of women and girls in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida. While it is estimated that he was responsible for 100 deaths, one of the 20th century’s most notorious criminals confessed to just 36.

    In 1979, he was sentenced to death 3 times, one of which was for the horrific rape and murder of Kimberly Leach who was just 12 years old when he stole her life from her. Her murder came just one month after the killings of Florida State University students Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman.

    Here, Express.co.uk reveals the final moments of the heinous killer’s life before he finally sat in the electric chair on January 24, 1989, to jubilant celebrations outside the jail.

    The notorious serial killer, who is believed to have reigned terror over several states from 1974, would keep trophies from his victims, in some cases decapitating their heads and taking them back to his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. There he would wash their hair and cover them in makeup.

    Bundy was finally arrested in 1978, and following a well-publicised trial, he awaited his death on Florida State Prison’s death row in Raiford where it was alleged that he was gang-raped by four prisoners in 1984, according to prosecution lawyer George R. Dekle in his 2011 book The Last Murder.

    Although the Bundy interview tapes, recorded while he was on death row, revealed that the serial killer was terrified of being sexually assaulted, it appears he had no fear of his imminent death. He said: “It’s an eye for an eye — it’s no deterrent. It does not and never will restore any measure of compensation to the victims' family or the state.”

    On his final day, January 24, 1989, Bundy refused to touch his last ever meal. He had refused to choose a death row meal.

    Bundy, who once bragged that he was the “most cold-hearted son of a b**tch you’ll ever meet”, had spent the night before his death weeping and praying with the Methodist minister Fred Lawrence, according to a Los Angeles Times article, written in 1989.

    On his final day, Bundy, who had worked on a suicide prevention hotline, called his mother before he sat down on the chair that would end his life. No family was there as neither he nor his mother wanted her to go through the “agony” of watching it.

    With his arms and legs strapped to the chair, he surveyed the 42 witnesses, including those who had prosecuted him. When asked if he had anything to say, he hesitated before “quavering”, turning to his attorney Jim Coleman and the minister, Mr Lawrence, and saying: “Jim and Fred, I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends."

    Both men nodded. Bundy had married Carole Ann Boone in 1980, while he was on trial for the murder of 12-year-old Kimberly. While Bundy was locked up, the couple even conceived a child, Rosa, who was born in October 1982.

    A strap was pulled over his mouth and chin, and the heavy black veil of the metal skullcap covered his face before an executioner pressed the button. 2,000 volts coursed through his body, ending the life of one man who had caused pain and suffering to so many.

    The “lady killer” was pronounced dead at 7:16am — news that brought relief to many. Hundreds gathered outside the prison singing, dancing, and setting off fireworks while chanting “burn, Bundy, burn”. When his body came out in a hearse, it was met with cheers.

    For some of those affected, the punishment did not go far enough. Eleanor Rose, mother of 19-year-old Denise Marie Naslund who was kidnapped and murdered by Bundy in 1974, said: “For everything he did to the girls — the bludgeoning, the strangulation, humiliating their bodies, torturing them — I feel that the electric chair is too good for him."

    Exactly when Bundy began his killing spree is not known for definite as he embellished the truth following his arrest. However, in early 1974, women in Seattle and Washington began to disappear and in February of that year, he claimed his first confirmed victim.

    Within the space of just six months, Bundy took a total of eight women’s lives, before venturing further afield. He used his charisma and good looks to earn the trust of his victims — and later the public — luring them by asking for help, feigning an injury or impairment, before kidnapping them.

    The former law student had sex with the corpses and claimed he was addicted to murder, describing how his acts made him feel as though his victims became a part of him.

    But after his death, the story was not over for Bundy — scientists resolved to establish what had made Bundy, a seemingly upstanding citizen, into such a monster. So following his death, his brain was removed and examined, undergoing a series of experiments.

    When he had been alive, experts suggested that Bundy — who had compared his desire to rape and kill to drug addiction — had been manipulative with poor judgement, a sociopath, a narcissist, or had multiple personality disorder.

    Witnesses described Bundy’s switch in his mood as being terrifying. Dr Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who examined Bundy prior to his death, spoke to an investigator who interviewed him in his cell in Florida and was left feeling as though he was about to become the serial killer’s next victim.

    Dr Lewis told how the investigator said Bundy had become “weird”, adding: “He did a metamorphosis, a bit of a body and facial change, and… almost an odour emitted from him.”

    The incident lasted 20 minutes with the investigator stating that there was a change of personality with extreme tension. They told Dr Lewis: "I was afraid of him… it was very scary."

    Researchers have in some cases connected brain injuries with criminality, but when they took a closer look at Bundy’s brain, it was completely normal. There were no deformities, injuries, or legions.

    (saource: express.co.uk)
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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