Ted Bundy

Yes, yet another documentary about Ted Bundy! This one is unique though because it includes the reunion of the Chi Omega Sorority House Massacre forty years on. Not widely known is that Bundy actually targeted two premises that night. Even less widely known is the fact that this trial was the first to be televised nationwide in the US, and not known at all is the claim - almost certainly true - that it was also the first time a search warrant had been issued for a suspect's mouth, as it was put here. In fact, Bundy had bitten the buttocks of one of the sorority house victims, and it was ordered by the court that an impression be taken of his teeth.

Exactly how compelling that particular piece of evidence was, remains to be seen, but there was plenty more where it came from. After that trial, Bundy was tried for the murder of his final victim, a schoolgirl, receiving the death penalty for that also.

We meet many people herein including Bundy's public defender, but there is no mention of Carole Ann Boone the airhead who actually married this monster in the courtroom, nor is there any showing of Carol DaRonch, the woman who was once said to be the only person to survive Bundy, and without whom he might conceivably never have been brought to book.

The consensus appears to be that Bundy was lucky rather than some kind of criminal mastermind, that he made a lot of mistakes, but that the police made many more. While there was absolutely no excuse for either of his escapes, wisdom in hindsight is always a wonderful thing. Four decades and more on, advanced forensics including DNA profiling and not least CCTV would have drastically shortened his murderous career.