Ted Bundy, an American serial murderer who murdered up to 100 women in the 1970s, was killed by electric chair in Florida in 1989, at the age of 42.
Theodore Robert Bundy (born January 24, 1989 in Cowell) was an American serial murderer who abducted, raped, and killed a number of young women and girls in the 1970s and maybe earlier. He confessed to 30 killings committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978 after more than a decade of denials. His real number of victims is unknown, although it might be far more.
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