Surviving Ted Bundy | Full Episode

"48 Hours" Live to Tell: Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy targeted three young Florida women in one of his final attacks. They survived, and share their terrifying ordeal and long road to recovery.”48 Hours” correspondent Tracy Smith reports. Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.

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[RogerKnull-dn]

Around 2005 I was on a service call to an elderly man's house. I was there for a few hours and we got to talking. Turned out his daughter had been attacked by Bundy as a young woman. She got away but not before he bludgeoned her over the head with a metal pipe. She suffered permanent brain damage. For years they never knew who it was until he was captured the first time. His daughter had a mental breakdown after recognizing his face and car from a TV report.

[mondoenterprises]

Brave women. Stood up for Bundy's victims. To have to stare him down in court and be deposed by him too. Wow. Courage.

[tammyhall]

As a mother of 5 boys it deeply touched my heart when Michael was tearing up over his mother in protecting her❤That’s a TRUE SON!!!!

[Ftsojune]

The son is literally a miracle, a miracle he was even born. I love how this was turned into a story about the survivors and their beautiful life after the storm that hit them once.

Good job, 48 hours

[CatJabZ]

The fact that Bundy took these women's depositions and basically got his jollies out of reliving his attacks is just sickening but they showed such resolve and courage towards this monster.
Finally the survivors' voices are heard. Well done.

[QueenSugar]

He had the nerve and audacity to beg for his life when he mercilessly took many others

[nani.]

Excellent! Its one of the few times that Bundy's victims has a voice. So many victims can not tell their story.
🙏

[starsparklemonkey]

Screaming when he saw the dentist? What a coward.

[infidollady]

To all of his victims known and unknown ❤ 🙏

[justinharris]

I strongly recommend Kathy Kleiner's memoir. It's amazing. Finally we get to learn about the victims and survivors. Far more interesting and meaningful than learning about the little coward who destroyed their lives. Honestly, I also think FSU should give Kathy her Bachelor's degree.

[welshwitch]

I was a college student in KY during Ted’s crime spree. We were just his type. Long brown hair, parted in the middle or the side. It was a time of trust and innocence, as far as believing people were good and nobody would hurt you. We hitchhiked and picked up hitchhikers and didn’t bat an eye. Nobody worried about locking doors or windows, or helping somebody out when they were struggling. He used all that to his advantage. I remember when Fryday came for Ted. I was glad he was gone. Nobody will miss him.

[VioletJoy]

I'm so impressed with all of the women. They are truly amazing:

Kathy looked him in the eye on the stand, took a job at a lumber yard to work through her fear of men, watched all of the documentaries about his life, etc.

Karen looked him in the eye on the stand, moved back into the Chi Omega House, and went on to lead a happy life.

Cheryl got her master's, had a family, and went on to teach dance to the hearing impaired.

Bravo, ladies!!!

[heatherdixon]

I feel the Bundy case became so infamous because he was a good looking, easy going, and highly intelligent. That was what made him the most dangerous. He took advantage of the times.

[hannahstephens]

Kathy just released a book a few months back called A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy. I haven't finished it yet, but so far her words have moved me to tears. She shines a light on the victims and what they liked doing and little things about them that are not usually shined upon because more times than not it's about Bundy and not the girls and families that have been utterly destroyed by such a POS. Kathy is a fantastic writer and I highly recommend this book if you're interested in her story.

[saraha.]

I really can't see the "good looking and charismatic" in this monster.

[heathermetz]

The victims, survivors, their families, and the first responders have my prayers 🙏 and respect. 🕊️

[teveson]

What really stands out to me, watching the way he behaves in court, is this - if he was an innocent man, why would he be so blasé, sitting there smirking at people who've been attacked and traumatised. Who would do that? Only a psychopath. Most people would feel upset for themselves as well as the victims....
What kind of person thinks that nauseating 'charm' is going to really work in his favour? A deluded psychopath.
He wasn't charming, he was creepy and intense through and through.

[ceebee-cee]

My aunt survived Bundy. She was about 19 and driving from Olympia, Wa to Vancouver BC when a guy in a tan colored Volkswagen bug pulled alongside her car as they were travelling on I-5. He was gesturing to her to pull over and pointing to something on her car as if to imply something was wrong with the car. My aunt is still with us today because she ignored him and did not pull over. A few weeks after that, she was watching tv with my grandmother when he was caught and it was all over the news and she couldn't believe it - she recognized him right away and the car too. It makes me think there must be hundreds of women who had close calls with him, not realizing until later once he was caught how lucky they were

[ThanaBrunges-mxji]

The use of the bite mark and dental impressions was shear genius! 😅

[wandawalters]

I was living in a sorority house, over 10 hours away and the news of the Chi Omega murders threw many campuses into chaos. My parents were so alarmed that my father came to my campus to check out my house- unbelievably, he was met by a few other fathers. It was scary. It changed life on many campuses.