“As I write these recollections of women who survived, I hope my readers are taking careful note of why they did.
They screamed.
They fought.
They slammed doors in a stranger's face.
They ran.
They doubted glib stories.
They spotted flaws in those stories.
They were lucky enough to have someone step up and protect them.”
Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
“Yet, in reality, Ted loved things more than he loved people. He could find life in an abandoned bicycle or an old car, and feel a kind of compassion for these inanimate objects, more compassion than he could ever feel for another human being.”
Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
“Some people hate the smell of hospitals. I hate the smell of jails and prisons, all the same: stale cigarette smoke, Pine-Sol, urine, sweat, and dust.”
Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
“I ended that letter, 'There is nothing in this life that is a complete tragedy - nothing - try to remember that.' Looking back, I wonder at my naiveté. Some things in life ARE complete tragedies. Ted Bundy's story may well be one of them.”
Source: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
“The angels fell spiritually and physically in love with earthly creatures.”
“He was a shadow man, fighting to survive in a world that was never made for him.”
“In court the next morning I sat at a table in the judge’s chambers. On the other side of the table, close enough for me to reach across and touch him, sat Ted Bundy. He’s adorable, I thought, surprised at my first impression, because I’d pictured him in my mind as brooding, dark, intense disdain (p. 83).
(Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976, Bundy was found guilty of aggravated kidnapping)”
Source: Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial
“Have you ever been in a great mood, or at least a good one, then decided, “You know what, I’m going to troll through Facebook and see what’s happening with my friends.”? I have.
I shouldn’t though. It’s a disco strangler of good days. It’s the Ted Bundy of good moods. One minute you’re cruising along and the next you’re chained in a moldy hole in someone’s basement, waiting to be transformed into some psycho’s personal Halloween mask, metaphorically speaking, mind you.”
“Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?”
Source: The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
“The thought had occurred to me as I was flying to Salt Lake City earlier that day that Ted Bundy might offer to let me stay in his apartment” (p. 74).
(Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976)”
Source: Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial